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We're nearing the end of the school year, and I've got to be honest: I am SO ready. I've been ready since November. This year has been incredibly difficult, and while I'm proud of myself for managing anxiety throughout, I'm ready for a break. This shit is hard, guys, and I'm working really hard to … Continue reading What I've learned from Lenny
Weekly Roundup 5.28.17
Weekly roundup is back! Sorry I haven't done it lately - some friends got married, there's a lot happening at school, etc, etc. But here we go! This article about why bad moods are good for you This dog and baby playing because nothing is better than baby screeches This dachshund who wants all of … Continue reading Weekly Roundup 5.28.17
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Y'all. Can you believe that tomorrow In honor of the fact that we are thismuch closer to summer break, here are some rad things that have been entertaining me: @goats_gone_grazing_acres, THE BEST instagram if you love goats. This puppy in his duck pajamas. This magic cube, which could be a nice fidget toy And this baby … Continue reading Weekly roundup 4.30.17
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I've been on spring break for a week, and it has been GLORIOUS. Spring is here, there's so much sunshine, I get to be outside all the time, I've seen a lot of friends I was neglecting and got to hang out with my nephew and sister. It's been 💯. Here are some of the … Continue reading Weekly Roundup 4.16.17
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Can we just talk about how maybe, just maybe, spring is here? I mean: sun. My feet aren't cold if I wear sneakers. I don't have to wear my winter coat to stay warm. YES. Here are other things I'm loving: This girl who thinks a water heater is a robot. Donate a year of school … Continue reading Weekly Roundup 4.2.17
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I'm in the middle of making my weighted blanket (post coming soon!), but I took a break to stuff my face with Chipotle, watch an episode of The Mindy Project and share these awesome things with you: This baby otter trying to find a comfortable sleeping position, which is basically my every night. This video about … Continue reading Weekly Roundup 3.26.17
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How is it past the halfway point of March already?! This is - wait for it - madness. (I'm sorry. I had to.) This week, a special collection of adorable animals and other ephemera. This baby otter. These happy goats. This dog, who is just sliding down a mountain, living his best life. And this … Continue reading Weekly Roundup 3.19.17


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Its been a while since I've actually made anything Fire Emblem related but yeah... Heres a mug and a custom sprite of Ike - Lord from Path of Radiance.
Mugshot and sprite - Yeah I know it doesn't really look like Ike haha.
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which starts today, always makes me stop and reflect on how fortunate I am to have my friends in my life. That's because 10 years ago last month, one of my favorite people died of breast cancer. Jeri loved chardonnay and baseball and steak and Louisiana. But most of all, she loved her friends — and we loved her.
Jeri was diagnosed with breast cancer after her partner found a lump. A few of her friends went with her to her biopsy, and I will never forget hearing the words none of us expected: "It's cancer." That cancer turned out to be more persistent than the surgery and chemo and radiation and various holistic health regimens Jeri tried. And five years later, it took her life at age 36.
For Ellen DeGeneres, breast cancer is personal, too. Her mom, Betty, had a mastectomy 30 years ago.
Ellen knows that she's more vulnerable to breast cancer because it's in her family, so she gets a mammogram annually. Those of us in lower-risk groups probably don't need one every year. But most experts agree that, starting at age 40, every woman should have an annual clinical breast exam by a doctor or nurse practitioner. And every woman, regardless of age or risk, should do a breast self-exam every month. It's easy, only takes a few minutes and may save your life. If you've never done it, you can download illustrated instructions here.
To kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Ellen is devoting today's show to breast cancer. The entire audience will be survivors and their families, and the show will launch Ellen's personal campaign, Ellen for the Cure. If you haven't thought much about breast cancer, this is an entertaining way to get the facts.
Ellen also has teamed up with One A Day to provide a clever way for you to participate in breast cancer awareness. The "One A Day Women's Wake-up Call" program lets you register to have your friends and family get a prerecorded call from Ellen DeGeneres sharing some simple ways they can support their breast health.
Just go to the site and enter your friend's name and phone number, along with your own, to help Ellen spread the word during the month of October. You can also opt to have the message sent via email.
I know breast cancer still is a bit awkward to talk about. But I think every lesbian and bisexual woman can get behind the concept of preserving the health of breasts. So, do what you can to take care of yourself and encourage your loved ones to do the same. I'll never know if a timely reminder to Jeri could've saved her life. But I sure wish I'd tried.


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Noise Blanker Mod for Power Line Noise on the FT1000MP Mark V:
I have been experimenting & comparing the circuitry on various radios over the
past weeks. The FT1000MP MK5 does not seem too good with power line noise
especially on weak signals. The Kenwood TS940 was found to have the best noise
blanker compared to many other radios. I have come up with a very simple
modification that may be useful to many that have very bad power line noise but
don't mind blanking it & putting up with slight distortion on strong signals.
This mod will however only make NB A work & NB B will have very bad distortion
on all signals. The modification greatly improves the ability of receiving weak
signals using NB A. The mod will reduce most S9 power line noise to S1.
1/ Short out Diode D2009 with a wire link ( Located on the IF-Unit PC Board )
The diode is a glass type & is accessible between the IF Noise blanker coils
T2001 & T2002. Just solder a wire link across the diode.
2/ Make sure that coils T2001 & T2002 are adjusted for maximum as per the
service manual. ( My unit was not optimum )
This is an initial modification & further experimenting needs to be done with
the NB AGC feedback circuit to reduce the strong signal distortion with the
noise blanker on.
I hope that this help some that require better noise blanker performance.
Regards Mark VK5EME
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There's a German style Christkindlmarkt in downtown Chicago this time of year. Because it's on public property and somebody set up a Nativity, equal time, or something, requires this.
I'm not sure what's sillier, the invocation of what we now understand as an astronomical event, but what was a religious ritual when there was Sun-worship rather than Son-worship (oh, to New Age nutters, there is still Sun worship, although it's usually summer solstice only), or the obeisance to a Founding Document that people of this ilk interpret narrowly, e.g. a creche in public view is not free exercise, and if I recall my Orwell correctly, you're likely to find sympathy for a narrow reading of the Second Amendment as applying to the militia, not the people, and the Tenth Amendment might as well be a dead letter to these folks. "One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England." Applies to the Organized Atheists as well. Have a nice day.
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Name: iPhone User Interface Design ProjectsAuthor: VariousPublisher: APressPrice: $39.99Pages: 252Reviewed by: Pete GoodliffeBook homepage: hereVerdict: OK
This is another book in APress' iPhone development series. Like all the later books in the series, it's produced in black and white, which is a shame given that the book focuses on user interfaces.
It is a collection of essays from ten different authors. Each chapter stands alone. Some of the authors are clearly programmers, and their descriptions of interface design come from a techie viewpoint. Others authors are domain experts or people who hired in programmers to get their job done. These discussions are far less technical in nature.
I've read quite a few of the APress iPhone books now, and although they are good, I'm starting to get tired of each chapter starting with a gushing "the iPhone is great" section before getting into the meat of the topic. I'd like to see a little heavier editorial control if this series continues. The chapters are personal in nature, and that is part of the charm of these books. However some of the lengthy intros add nothing of value to their chapters.
The material in this book is not as strong as others in this series. This opinion does reflect my bias as a coder rather than an UI designer, but experienced UI designers won't find much essential or new information in this book. In general, good iPhone UI design requires an understanding the native iPhone idioms and of how to create compelling touch-based interfaces for small screen sizes. Some chapters go a way towards describing this; but sadly the book is by no means a compelling or thorough discourse on the subject.
I will admit my favourite chapter was a very interesting one on the Font catalogue application FontShuffle. The UI material here was somewhat thin, but it was a really interesting insight into the world of typography.
If you're starting off on some iPhone UI design work, know nothing about the topic, and fancy a chatty, but brief, introduction to subject this book is OK. If you are a UI designer then you'll probably not find much of value here.


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LOS ANGELES — Scientists have discovered a double ring system around a dark, icy asteroid in the outer solar system.
LOS ANGELES — Scientists have discovered a double ring system around a dark, icy asteroid in the outer solar system.
The discovery marks the first time that rings have been found around any object that is not a planet. The findings were published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
"It is amazingly cool — until now, we had no idea that anything but the giant planets could have rings," said Amy Mainzer, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who was not involved in the study.
Observations made with seven different telescopes in June 2013 suggest that the two rings are dense and thin. One is about 2 miles wide. The other is about 4 miles wide. They are separated by a gap of about 5.5 miles, and they are likely made of water ice.
The two rings circle a large asteroid known as Chariklo that is 155 miles across. Chariklo is a type of asteroid known as a centaur — a class of objects that orbit the sun between Jupiter and Neptune. It is shaped like an M&M, and its surface is darker than asphalt.
Because Chariklo is so far away and so dark, it is very difficult to image from ground-based telescopes. The discovery of the rings was made when the asteroid was observed passing in front of a distant star. By taking careful measurements of how long the light of the star was blocked by the asteroid, an international team of scientists led by Felipe Braga-Ribas of the Observatorio Nacional in Rio de Janeiro was hoping to get a more precise idea of Chariklo's size.
But something unexpected happened. The star's light went out briefly twice, and then for a long time, and then briefly twice again. Something around Chariklo was clearly blocking the light too. The only explanation for the symmetry? Rings.
"It is a similar technique to how the rings of Uranus were discovered and the ring arc of Neptune," said James Bauer, a planetary astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who was not involved in the study. "This is a great technique for finding faint rings, and the evidence is very credible."
Nobody knows exactly how these rings formed, but the authors of the Nature paper suggest their origin is likely tied to some sort of collision.


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Onondaga Nation Leaders and Parents Pull Children Out Of School in Protest LaFayette School District Perpetuates Historical Trauma
Published June 16, 2017
ONONDAGA NATION —In a strong show of sovereignty and solidarity, Onondaga Nation parents escorted their children from the Onondaga Nation School today. The Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs issued the following statement, addressed to LaFayette Central School District Board Chair Stephanie Dow. It was meant to be handed to Principal Diane Ellsworth, but she was not at work.
"The Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs has decided that our children's last day of school for the 2016-2017 school year will be Friday, June 16, 2017. This decision was reached with consultation with our Clan Mothers and community due to the lack of collaboration, respect, and communication by Principal Diane Ellworth, Superintendent Laura Lavine, and the LaFayette Central School Board."
By noon on June 16, only five students of the over 130 that attend the school remained at school.
On June 7, over twenty Onondaga Nation Clan Mothers, Chiefs, Faithkeepers, and citizens met with representatives of the LaFayette School District, including outgoing Superintendent Laura Lavine, to discuss with good minds the problems around the management of the Onondaga Nation School, including the hiring process. While some members of the school district appeared to be listening, the official response received by the Onondaga Nation's attorney on June 14th makes it clear the district, under the leadership of Syracuse mayoral candidate and current Superintendent Laura Lavine, still does not understand the harm they are perpetuating.
At the heart of the issue is a cultural disconnect about whose school it is. The LaFayette School District treats the Onondaga Nation School like they own it, despite its unique situation. The Onondaga Nation School for grades K-8 is one of three schools in New York State located on sovereign Indigenous territories. The schools are provided by the state via contract with local districts, an arrangement stemming from obligations created by treaty agreements. It is the only school on the Onondaga Nation territory. The school's land is owned by the Onondaga Nation, and they have the right to contest the State's contract and choose a different district, an option that is looking ever more appealing to some.
"The LaFayette Central School District seems to think they have the ultimate authority over the school," observes Tadodaho Sid Hill. "This is our school, with our children, on our Nation. The ultimate decision on who will be Principal here, who the teachers are in our schools, needs to come from the Onondaga Nation, to ensure our children are being taught well, in a culturally appropriate manner. To do otherwise just perpetuates generations of injustice."
It takes a history lesson to really understand what is at stake. In 1887 Colonel Pratt started the "Indian" boarding school system. Children on indigenous territories across North America, including the Onondaga Nation, were taken forcibly from their parents and sent to these schools, to "kill the Indian, and save the man." Forbidden to wear their traditional clothing, keep their culture, or speak their language, students suffered emotional and physical abuse and some were even killed at these schools. The intergenerational impact of this trauma is well-documented and continues today. In 2008 the Prime Minister of Canada apologized for their Indian Residential Schools. The United States has yet to do so.
"The choice of a new principal who is a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve was a big red flag to us, it threatened to continue that trauma," noted Onondaga language teacher Sue Parsons in the June 7th meeting, referring to the appointment of Warren Smith by the school district.
This is not the first boycott of the Onondaga Nation School over how it is run. In the 1970s the Onondaga Nation boycotted the school, ultimately gaining better control over the school's curriculum, encouraging the teaching of language and culture and traditional arts. An Onondaga principal was hired at that time. Community members were asked to come in and teach their knowledge and skills.
More and more Onondaga teachers were hired, reflecting a greater awareness throughout North America of the importance of culturally relevant education.
"Education provides much more than information. It also provides an opportunity for our youth to see their instructors as role models," writes Deborah Sanchez (Chumash/Tohono-Akimel O'odham), Professor of American Indian Studies at California State University, Long Beach. "It is not just what is taught but who is doing the teaching. It's evident that mainstream education has systematically omitted the brutal actual history of this country and the many contributions of the indigenous people. The systematic erasure of our existence compels culturally appropriate education. This gives our young people more of what they need to navigate this modern world, provides the very necessary opportunity to see themselves as successful and, most importantly, to see themselves as valuable, relevant participants in this complex society."
"There are a number of issues going on at the school recently that we have been trying to address," said Tadodaho Sid Hill to the assembled parents at the school. "It took far too long to get the boiler replaced, for example. But not hiring one of our people from the Nation was the last straw."
The newly hired principal, Warren Smith, declined his appointment on June 2, sparking renewed hope that the woman chosen by the Onondaga Nation to be principal, and who was one of three finalists considered, would now get the position. Simone Thornton grew up at the Onondaga Nation, attended the school, and has served as a teacher there for over 20 years. She knows the culture and its people intimately. She went back to school at SUNY Oswego to gain the necessary credentials to serve her community as an administrator and leader in its educational system. Her appointment as Principal would continue the healing of the past and support the educational engagement of Onondaga Nation youth.
In the June 14th letter, the LaFayette School Board uses absurdly unyielding adherence to policy to provide excuses why they cannot hire Simone Thornton. They use the same lines about lack of experience and proper credentials they were giving before the meeting with Nation leaders, demonstrating they have not listened at all to the Onondaga Nation leadership's input.
"Experience with our school, our language, our culture, and our community is far more valuable experience for being a good Principal of our school than a few years' experience as an administrator of an affluent suburban school," noted Awheñheeyoh Powless, whose son is in Kindergarten at the school. "Simone's experience is the most valuable there is; the kind it takes being part of a community your whole life to know."
There is recent precedent for a teacher becoming principal at Onondaga Nation School: prior principals Carol Erb and Ken McCaffery followed the same advancement track.
LaFayette administrators also point to the lack of a particular NYS certificate as the reason they could not hire Ms. Thornton, a mere technicality as she has completed all the necessary coursework. Ironically, the certificate Ms. Thornton holds instead – School District Leader- qualifies her for Ms. Lavine's job as Superintendent. The incoming Superintendent, Jeremy Belfield, graduated in the same class from SUNY Oswego as Ms. Thorton. Ms. Thornton has since submitted the necessary paperwork to the state for the School Building Leader Certificate and expects no difficulty in obtaining it.
"Ms. Lavine and the school board are operating under an antiquated assimilative philosophy that is not new to us," explains Clan Mother Jozetta Skye. "It is damaging and does not belong in our education system today. The LaFayette Central School District needs to follow our priorities, rather than impose their own. We acted together today as a community to emphasize this point, and are looking closely at other issues with the operation of the school."
"The apparent unwillingness of the LaFayette School Board to listen and find creative solutions or change their policy is telling," said Amy Gibson, who has a child in the district. "They do not understand the importance of having Ms. Thornton as principal of the school, to the well-being of our entire community. I ask Ms. Lavine: can you hear us now?"
Onondaga Nation School students are being provided with alternative activities and lunches at the Onondaga Nation's sports pavilion for the rest of the school year. The District's last day of school is June 30th. A special graduation for the 8th grade is being planned by the community.


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The emergence of Grid computing infrastructures enables researchers to shareresources and collaborate in more efficient ways than before, despite belongingto different organizations and being geographically distributed. While the Gridcomputing paradigm offers new opportunities, it also gives rise to newdifficulties. This thesis investigates methods, architectures, and algorithmsfor a range of topics in the area of Grid resource management. One studiedtopic is how to automate and improve resource selection, despite heterogeneityin Grid hardware, software, availability, ownership, and usage policies.Algorithmical difficulties for this are, e.g., characterization of jobs andresources, prediction of resource performance, and data placementconsiderations. Investigated Quality of Service aspects of resource selectioninclude how to guarantee job start and/or completion times as well as how tosynchronize multiple resources for coordinated use through coallocation.Another explored research topic is architectural considerations for frameworksthat simplify and automate submission, monitoring, and fault handling for largeamounts of jobs. This thesis also investigates suitable Grid interactionpatterns for scientific workflows, studies programming models that enable dataparallelism for such workflows, as well as analyzes how workflow compositiontools should be designed to increase flexibility and expressiveness. We today have the somewhat paradoxical situation where Grids, originally aimed tofederate resources and overcome interoperability problems between differentcomputing platforms, themselves struggle with interoperability problems causedby the wide range of interfaces, protocols, and data formats that are used indifferent environments. This thesis demonstrates how proof-of-concept softwaretools for Grid resource management can, by using (proposed) standard formatsand protocols as well as leveraging state-of-the-art principles fromservice-oriented architectures, be made independent of current Gridinfrastructures. Further interoperability contributions include an in-depthstudy that surveys issues related to the use of Grid resources in scientificworkflows. This study improves our understanding of interoperability amongscientific workflow systems by viewing this topic from three differentperspectives: model of computation, workflow language, and executionenvironment. A final contribution in this thesis is the investigation of how the design ofGrid middleware tools can adopt principles and concepts from softwareengineering in order to improve, e.g., adaptability and interoperability.
We present algorithms, methods, and software for a Grid resource manager, that performs resource brokering and job scheduling in production Grids. This decentralized broker selects computational resources based on actual job requirements, job characteristics, and information provided by the resources, with the aim to minimize the total time to delivery for the individual application. The total time to delivery includes the time for program execution, batch queue waiting, and transfer of executable and input/output data to and from the resource. The main features of the resource broker include two alternative approaches to advance reservations, resource selection algorithms based on computer benchmark results and network performance predictions, and a basic adaptation facility. The broker is implemented as a built-in component of a job submission client for the NorduGrid/ARC middleware.
We present the architecture and implementation of a grid resource broker and job submission service, designed to be as independent as possible of the grid middleware used on the resources. The overall architecture comprises seven general components and a few conversion and integration points where all middleware-specific issues are handled. The implementation is based on state-of-the-art grid and Web services technology as well as existing and emerging standards (WSRF, JSDL, GLUE, WS-Agreement). Features provided by the service include advance reservations and a resource selection process based on a priori estimations of the total time to delivery for the application, including a benchmark-based prediction of the execution time. The general service implementation is based on the Globus Toolkit 4. For test and evaluation, plugins and format converters are provided for use with the NorduGrid ARC middleware
The problem of Grid-middleware interoperability is addressed by the design and analysis of a feature-rich, standards-based framework for all-to-all cross-middleware job submission.The architecture is designed with focus on generality and flexibility and builds on extensive use, internally and externally, of (proposed) Web and Grid services standards such asWSRF, JSDL, GLUE, and WS-Agreement. The external use providesthe foundation for easy integration into specific middlewares,which is performed by the design of a small set of plugins for each middleware. Currently, plugins are provided for integrationinto Globus Toolkit 4 and NorduGrid/ARC. The internal use of standard formats facilitates customizationof the job submission service by replacement of custom components for performing specific well-defined tasks.Most importantly, this enables the easy replacement of resource selection algorithms by algorithms that addresses the specific needs of a particular Grid environment and job submission scenario.By default, the service implements a decentralized brokering policy, strivingto optimize the performance for the individual user by minimizing the response time for each job submitted. The algorithms in our implementation perform resource selectionbased on performance predictions, and provide support for advance reservations as well as coallocation of multiple resources for coordinated use.The performance of the system is analyzed with focuson overall service throughput (up to over 250 jobs per minute)and individual job submission response time (down to under one second).
We propose a multi-tiered architecture for middleware-independent Grid job management. The architecture consists of a number of services for well-defined tasks in the job management process, offering complete user-level isolation of servicecapabilities, multiple layers of abstraction, control, and fault tolerance. The middleware abstraction layer comprises components for targeted job submission, job control and resource discovery. The brokered job submission layer offers a Grid view on resources, including functionality for resource brokering and submission of jobs to selected resources. The reliable job submission layer includes components for fault tolerant execution of individual jobs and groups of independentjobs, respectively. The architecture is proposed as a composable set of tools rather than a monolithic solution, allowing users to select the individual components of interest. The prototype presented is implemented using the Globus Toolkit 4, integrated with the Globus Toolkit 4 and NorduGrid/ARC middlewares and based on existing and emerging Grid standards. A performance evaluation reveals that the overhead for resource discovery, brokering, middleware-specific format conversions, job monitoring, fault tolerance, and management of individual and groups of jobs is sufficiently small to motivate the use of the framework.
We present a generic and light-weight Grid workflow execution engine made available as a Grid service. A long-term goal is to facilitate the rapid development of application-oriented end-user workflow tools, while providing a high degree of Grid middleware-independence. The workflow engine is designed for workflow execution, independent of client tools for workflow definition. A flexible plugin-structure for middleware-integration provides a strict separation of the workflow execution and the processing of individual tasks, such as computational jobs or file transfers. The light-weight design is achieved by focusing on the generic workflow execution components and by leveraging state-of-the art Grid technology, e.g., for state management. The current prototype is implemented using the Globus Toolkit 4 (GT4) Java WS Core and has support for executing workflows produced by Karajan. It also includes plugins for task execution with GT4 as well as a high-level Grid job management framework.
We examine some issues that arise when using both local and Gridresources in scientific workflows. Our previous work addresses and illustratesthe benefits of a light-weight and generic workflow engine that manages andoptimizes Grid resource usage. Extending on this effort, we hereillustrate how a client tool for bioinformatics applications employs the engine tointerface with Grid resources. We also explore how to define data flowsthat transparently integrates local and Grid subworkflows. In addition, the benefits of parameter sweep workflows are examined and a means for describing this type of workflows in an abstract and concise manner is introduced. Finally, the above mechanisms are employed to perform an orthology detection analysis.
We investigate interoperability aspects of scientific workflow systems and argue that the workflow execution environment, the model of computation (MoC), and the workflow language form three dimensions that must be considered depending on the type of interoperability sought: at the activity, sub-workflow, or workflow levels. With a focus on the problems that affect interoperability, we illustrate how these issues are tackled by current scientific workflows as well as how similar problems have been addressed in related areas. Our long-term objective is to achieve (logical) interoperability between workflow systems operating under different MoCs, using distinct language features, and sharing activities running on different execution environments.
We present an approach for development of Grid resource management tools, where we put into practice internationally established high-level views of future Grid architectures. The approach addresses fundamental Grid challenges and strives towards a future vision of the Grid where capabilities are made available as independent and dynamically assembled utilities, enabling run-time changes in the structure, behavior, and location of software. The presentation is made in terms of design heuristics, design patterns, and quality attributes, and is centered around the key concepts of co-existence, composability, adoptability, adaptability, changeability, and interoperability. The practical realization of the approach is illustrated by five case studies (recently developed Grid tools) high-lighting the most distinct aspects of these key concepts for each tool. The approach contributes to a healthy Grid ecosystem that promotes a natural selection of "surviving" components through competition, innovation, evolution, and diversity. In conclusion, this environment facilitates the use and composition of components on a per-component basis.


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While clear skies and sunshine go a long way in establishing good energy at The Rooftop, our amazing happy hour specials bring the fresh ocean vibe to a new level. Monday through Friday, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., we offer great deals on beer, wine, well drinks, and mojitos. After a day at the beach, come on by and unwind with a great drink (or three) and prepare yourself for an epic Orange County sunset. Please note there is no happy hour on holidays.
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- Margarita Mondays: $9 Spicy or Skinny with Patron Silver Margarita - $11 Cadillac Patron Margarita
- Industry Tuesdays: Happy Hour pricing all day - with proof of employment in hospitality industry.
- Wags and Wine Wednesdays: ½ off select wine by the glass and bottle. Bring your dog and get 25% off food purchases.
- Locals Discount Thursday: 25% off all menu items and $2 off any item on the live like a local menu - with proof of OC residency.
- White Claw Fridays: $7 White Claw specials
- Brunch Sundays Brunch Specials, Champagne Mimosas & Bloody Marys 10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
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You know what makes the Rooftop even better? We're pet-friendly! So if you're out walking the dog and have the irresistible urge for a refreshing cocktail, bring your pupper along. Good doggos love the views too.
Suggested Attire
- Prepare for lots of Sunshine! Sunglasses, hats or visors are always recommended. While we do offer umbrellas, shade is limited. We also must keep our guests safe when the winds exceed eight miles per hour.
- Layers are the best choice! Bring a sweater or jacket for your visit, especially after sunset. It can get chilly, so get ready for the occasional cool breeze.
- We ask that our guests to cover swimsuits appropriately; shirts and shoes are also required.
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For non-hotel guests, The Rooftop is available on a first come, first serve basis. While we don't currently accept reservations, guests are able to purchase tables of 4 people for a non-refundable, non-applicable fee to F&B purchases of $150 Friday, Saturdays and Sundays and a fee of $50 Monday through Thursday. A credit card to secure the reservation is required 48 hours in advance. We allow up to three tables per reservation. Reservations over 12 people will be referred to the Catering Department. Pricing excludes holidays and is subject to change based on availability.
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Stunning coastal views? Chill vibes? Killer fresh fruit mojitos? You better believe that The Rooftop at La Casa del Camino has got you covered on all fronts. With clean ocean breezes, awesome happy hour specials, and a delicious menu of fresh-made SoCal fare, The Rooftop is the place to be.
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We're also open for brunch on Sunday, so stop by for some fresh air, a Bloody Mary, and a bacon breakfast burrito to wash away everything that ails you. Looking for a more formal (but not too formal) dinner? Check out the K'ya Bistro Bar for Mediterranean-style shared plates, great drinks, and a cool Spanish atmosphere.
Planning a meeting, private party, or social function in Laguna Beach? Rent out the Rooftop Lounge, Cress Room, or Catalina Room for a picture-perfect, oceanfront event!
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The Rooftop is located atop the La Casa del Camino at 1289 South Coast Highway in Laguna Beach. While we don't have our own lot, street parking is available. We are located a block from the Brooks Street and Mountain Street Laguna Beach Free Trolley stops. When you arrive, just enter through the hotel's main lobby, head up to the roof, and order yourself a cold beer or a fresh fruit mojito. If you have trouble finding your way up, just ask our friends at the front desk. They're extremely nice and will be happy to help.


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Two Media Activists Killed, and Five Injured in December 2016
SNHR has published its monthly report documenting the violations by the various conflict parties in Syria against media activists who play a prominent role in the civil movement and the armed conflict.
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Google strengthens its encryption
Google has been working to strengthen its encryption in order to create problems for governments attempting to penetrate it, according to executive chairman Eric Schmidt.
On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum at Davos, the former chief executive said that the improved encryption technologies should be able to overcome countries with strict censorship rules in the next decade.
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Singling out one country at the World Economic Forum, Schmidt commented that the strengthened encryption will create a problem for governments like China's, who he believes are responsible for the majority of industrial espionage. He continued: "80 to 85% of industrial espionage is thought to be done by China. It's a real problem. No other country comes close."
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) � Sara Jane Moore, who took a shot at President Ford in a 1975 assassination attempt, was released from prison today.
Moore, 77, had served about 30 years of a life sentence when she was released from the federal prison in Dublin, east of San Francisco, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said.
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Friday, August 7, 2009
Buah Pala residents reject new homes
The chairman of Kampung Buah Pala Residents' Association, M. Sugumaran, said the residents would not move out from their home no matter what. He said they did not want to accept the offer because they found everything presented to them to be unsubstantiated and there was no guarantee they would receive the house if anything bad were to happen to the project.
"If the project does not take off, the row of houses offered to us is not given and the compensation would be cancelled. Is this fair?" he told reporters here today.
Apart from that, Sugumaran said the developer also failed to state the new area where the residents would be relocated. "There were 65 families living in the village but the developer's offer was only for 24, leaving 41 families without a home," he said.
At a meeting between the state government, the residents and the developer on Tuesday evening, Nusmetro Ventures had agreed to share the 2.6ha plot with the residents by offering each of them a double-storey terrace house for each of the house demolished.
Nusmetro Ventures had given the resident until midnight tonight to accept the offer, failing which, the compensation would be cancelled. The residents had asked the state government and the developer to give more time for them to consider the offer. However, their plea was turned down by the state government. — Bernama
Buah Pala villagers reject Nusmetro's offer - Anil netto
In a just concluded press conference, they cited numerous reasons for their rejection. They claimed that Nusmetro's offer letter was itself illegal as the temporary title to the land in the Koperasi's name prohibited any transaction.
They also said that the offer of cluster houses was itself dependent on the developer securing all necessary approvals from the relevant authorities, and there was no guarantee that it could. No buyer in a normal property development project would accept such a condition, they argued.
They also pointed out there were 65 families in the village and only 24 cluster homes were offered.
The press conference was held at noon, the deadline given by Nusmetro for the villagers to accept the offer. Earlier, the developer had warned in a letter that it would execute the writ of possession if the residents failed to leave the village by the deadline.
The villagers had faxed a letter to the Chief Minister yesterday asking for more time to consider the offer. They only received the detailed house drawings after 5.00pm yesterday.
Meanwhile, a small group from Pas, including Kelantan politicians, visited the villagers yesterday evening.
Kg Buah Pala: Face of anguish
Earlier, Muniammah had come up to a few visitors to the village, her hands clasped as if pleading with us for help: "Where will we go after this?" she asked, almost in tears. "We don't have any money for rental."
Her parents arrived from India decades ago – she doesn't know exactly when – and her mother lived in Kampung Buah Pala until she was 90.
She showed a couple of us around her family home, her back hunched as she struggled to walk up the steep path leading from the lane to the front door.
Perhaps those who are coveting the land on which her home stands – and can only see real estate $$$ – and those who allowed and facilitated the land grab will look deep into her eyes and understand the anguish they have caused.
She could be your grandmother or mother.
PRESS STATEMENT- LGE sanctions fraud against the Kg Buah Pala residents
Why are you sanctioning a fraud when you should have acquired the landand return what is rightfully belonging to the residents of Kg BuahPala instead of making a deal and short changing them?
If you look at his press conference read out by his mandore ProfRamasamy, it is nothing but gloating about the achievement of DAP andcondemnation of the fraudulent transaction started by the UMNO led BNand gladly completed by the current government.
If LGE can talk so much about the fraudulent transaction, what did hedo about it? He sat by and watched it to be completed. When did heappoint an investigation committee to address the transaction when hewas well aware of this fraudulent transaction even before he came into the
power? Yes, it did not happen until the 1st week of July 2009 and whatwas the result of the investigation committee as nothing has been revealed so far.Was he really serious in assisting those residents with the investigating committee or it just another political game?
Many legal avenues, were available for him to pursue the fraudulenttransfer of the land starting from March 8, 2008, yet he sat on ithoping that it will pass by for poor and defenceless Kg Buah Palaresidents who are insignificant for him as oppose to the Developersand the rich and mighty.
Section 340(2) of the NLC clearly spells out.
The title or interest of any such person or body shall not be indefeasible
(a) in any case of fraud or misrepresentation to which the person orbody, or any agent of the person or body, was a party or privy; or
(b) where registration was obtained by forgery, or by means of aninsufficient or void instrument; or
(c) where the title or interest was unlawfully acquired by the personor body in the purported exercise of any power or authority conferredby any written law.
Now show us the public what efforts had you undertaken to challengethe fraudulent land transfer other that clamouring that it was KSK'sfraudulent act and you can't do anything about it. Doesn't the lawprovide it for such acts? Well you are the CM, you have the power andauthority to challenge the transaction yet you positioned yourself withdevelopers against those poor and defenceless Kg Buah Pala residents.Nowhere does it exist in law that fraud is acceptable, when youyourself claim it is a fraudulent transaction. Is this the example you are setting for the rakyat?
In total you have just sanctioned fraud and acted just like anothercorrupted UMNO led BN government that is only interested in their own individualwelfare as opposed to the public benefit.
Don't even talk about the so-called $150 million compensation. LetHINDRAF enlighten you, the land was sold for RM3.2 Million and now you claim it is worth RM150 million. That means the price has rocketed to 2,343.75%. That even beats the property hike price of some high-end properties in New York and London before evenconstruction had began. This can only happen in the BOLEHLAND.
Where is the logic that a RM10 per square feet increases by 2,343.75% in15 months since the project was launched? Mind you if all the land wasutilized notwithstanding the basic amenities such as community hall,tennis court, tadika, administration office, clinic, landscapeand so forth. Then I guess the price is even higher per square feet?
LGE is definitely sounding like a broken record because we all knowthe malfeasances and that is why the rakyat elected you to power.Unfortunately it is very clear that you play the same game that BNplays by blaming everything on BN without addressing the real issue beingyour inaction and your inability to initiate an action for thefraudulent land transfer against public benefit.
You admit fraud was committed, and then what did you do about it otherthan playing politics with the residents of Kg Buah Pala at the 11thhour when you have been in power for the last 17 months to initiateproceedings for the fraudulent land transfer.
The latest proposal that you put forward to the residents on behalf ofthe Developer is so ludicrous.You think that you have negotiated the best deal for the residentswith a gun onto their head. HINDRAF is totally disappointed with yourcontinues drama that only appears to be that you are actually themouthpiece for the Developer rather than the plight of the Kg BuahPala residents. Is it reasonable, just and fair that, within oneday 41 families needs to make a decision, uproot and move on theunreasonable conditions of the Developer? People at least have choiceto make, but what happens to all the innocent animals, sent to theslaughterhouse?
HINDRAF feels LGE is a CM for the Developer and their mouthpiece notone who have been transparent at least in his dealing with the Kg BuahPala issue for reasons known best to himself.
HINDRAF feels this is clear hypocrisy on the part of the DAP ledPakatan government in Penang for their lack of political will tosafeguard the interest of their citizenry in Kg Buah Pala.
HINDRAF cries with those Kg Buah Pala residents who have been deceivedand blackmailed to be deprived from their ancestral homes for a simplereason that with the change and the promises given to them, they hadfaith in you and your government blindly on the basis of trust thatyou would be just and fair for the truth in this matter.
P. WaythaMoorthy
HINDRAF –Chairman
Kg Buah Pala: Koperasi and Nusmetro must be more accommodating and reasonable
By P. Ramakrishnan (President, Aliran)
Aliran is glad that there is some kind of offer and an attempt to reach a compromise with the beleaguered residents of Kampung Buah Pala.…
By P. Ramakrishnan (President, Aliran)
Aliran is glad that there is some kind of offer and an attempt to reach a compromise with the beleaguered residents of Kampung Buah Pala. It is good that the Koperasi and Nusmetro have finally come out with an offer in trying to reach a settlement with the residents. While it is commendable, unfortunately the offer does not go far enough to be acceptable to the residents.
A two-storey house promised in exchange for the roof that they would be losing would seem to be a reasonable proposal but this proposal is very vague and uncertain because it lacks crucial details, e.g.:
- There is no guarantee when these houses would be ready for occupation.
- There is no indication on which part of the land these houses would be located.
- There is no indication of the cost of these houses.
- There is no mention whether these houses would be built first to allow the residents to move in at the shortest possible time before the commercial project takes off.
- There is nothing mentioned regarding the rental that would be incurred when the residents are forced to look for alternative accommodation upon the demolition of their houses.
- To add to these uncertainties, there is also a condition that states if the amended layout plan to accommodate these houses is rejected by the approving authority, the deal would be off and the residents would not have any hold on the Koperasi and Numestro for any compensation. If this were to happen, the residents would have lost their homes and would be entitled to nothing whatsoever – not even a sen. In that eventuality, they would have been exploited and deprived of everything that they have had on this land: their lives, their homes, their history, their heritage.
Considering the fact that the Kopersai had obtained the land below market price, it has benefited tremendously and stands to reap huge profits from the land that has been home to these unfortunate residents and their ancestors for nearly 200 years. It would, therefore, be reasonable to expect the Koperasi to be forthcoming and generous in its offer.
Being a Koperasi, it should understand what social justice is, it should be aware that exploitation is wrong and unjust.
It is because of this that Aliran expects the Koperasi to understand fully the dire situation of the residents of Kampung Buah Pala. It is because of this that Aliran expects the Koperasi to act in a humane manner befitting its status and responsibility.
Aliran earnestly hopes that there will be no forced eviction, that there will be no violence tomorrow. There is no need to resort to sledgehammers and bulldozers to evict these helpless residents.
Aliran would like to appeal to the Koperasi to defer the demolition and hope that it would sincerely engage in dialogue with the residents so that a just settlement can be arrived at as soon as possible to the mutual satisfaction of both the parties.
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The Gunasegaran 'death in police custody' case : An update
Thank you all so…
Following my 'Why is Gunasegaran dead?…" post, so many of you wrote in with offers to help with the cost of the proposed second post mortem.
Thank you all so very, very much. You are proof that, notwithstanding the rot that has taken root in our country, there is still hope.
I have not responded to your e-mails because as it turned out, consent was needed from the police authorities for a second post mortem to be carried out, and I did not want to embark on a fund collection exercise until I was certain that a second post-mortem could proceed.
I've just been informed that the police have today given their consent, in writing, to a second post mortem.
I'll be sending those of you who wrote in earlier with offers to help the requisite details so that you can send in your contributions.
God bless.
Kg Buah Pala: More questions - Anil Netto
Let's go back a bit and look at the timeline:
3 October 2005 – Nusmetro enters into a joint venture with the Koperasi.
5 October 2006 – Planning permis…
Let's go back a bit and look at the timeline:
3 October 2005 – Nusmetro enters into a joint venture with the Koperasi.
5 October 2006 – Planning permission is given by the local authorities.
27 March 2008 – Temporary title (Borang 11AK) (99 year lease) is registered in the name of the Koperasi. The title contains a restriction saying that there can be no transfer, lease, sub-lease or any transaction.
There are also two caveats shown on this temporary title document:
1) Caveat by Nusmetro – registered on 14 April 2008. (Nusmetro had agreed to pay the land premium on behalf of the Koperasi in return for the joint venture agreement.)
2) "Kaveat Pendaftar atas Tanah" – registered on 22 December 2008. (This appears to be in connection with some loan to a borrower. The Housing Loans Section of the Malaysian Treasury applied for the caveat.)
Can planning permission for a plot of land be given before the title is even registered in the name of the applicant? How did this happen?
And what is the final outcome of the state investigative committee's probe into the land deal. There is no point revealing the results when the houses are already demolished, is there?
No more talk of land scams now?


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Weatherford, Carole Boston Gordon Parks : How the Photographer Captured Black and White America, illustrations by Jamey Christoph. NON FICTION. Albert Whitman & Company, 2015. $16.99. Content: G.
As a young schoolboy, Gordon Parks' teacher said he's wind up as a waiter or a porter. At age 25, he was struggling to get by and bought a camera which changed everything. Moving to Washington D.C. Parks turned his focus to photographing the conditions in the black community, showing racism and inequity in our nation's capital and our country.
This biography is simply told and well illustrated, and would make a good introduction to a longer study. It is, sadly, missing any source material, links to Park's work, or sources for further reading.
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The Orb's 1997 single Toxygene is a blast of uptempo brilliance, almost a pop song, and their biggest hit (number 4). It began life as a remix of a Jean Michel Jarre track, Oxygene-8. Jarre didn't like it and dumped it. Further pissing Jarre off, The Orb released it themselves as a single, adding insult to injury by claiming that 'the French are always 5 years behind anyway'.
This version starts with ambient noise, voices and found sounds before passing traffic and the sample 'now wait a minute' bring it to life.
Across 2 cd singles and a 12″ there were a myriad of remixes, including ones from Thomas Fehlmann, Steve Hillage, Fila Brazillia, Way Out West and Kris Needs. This is the longer of the two Kris Needs versions. Unapologetic, pumping techno- it may not get replayed too many times.
Toxygene (Kris Needs Up For A Fortnight Remix)
The Top Of The Pops appearance is a another occasion where, like the famous Blue Room 3D chess game, The Orb took a different approach, this time spinning around on the waltzers in silver spacesuits while fiddling with keyboards and computers…
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Assembly Speaker Finds Fall Guy: Another Sheldon Silver
By RUSS BUETTNER MAY 22, 2014
To Sheldon Silver, the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, it was nothing but a simple case of mistaken identity.
In the 1970s, Mr. Silver, a Democrat, worked with a new nonprofit group, the United Jewish Council of the East Side, to block low-income housing on a large, barren site in his district on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the beginning of a decades-long effort that was described in a recent article in The New York Times.
From that article describing the ancient alliance between Speaker Silver and William E. Rapfogel of the publicly-supported Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty:
The long-ago walk [in 1977] was the first public display of an alliance that became central to the lives and careers of both Mr. Rapfogel and Mr. Silver. They worked together across the decades while climbing parallel ladders: Mr. Silver to Assembly speaker and Mr. Rapfogel to leadership of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, a large, publicly financed charity.
But their long affiliation came to an abrupt end last year when Mr. Rapfogel, 59, was arrested and charged in a scheme that had allegedly looted more than $7 million in kickbacks from Met Council's insurance broker over the years. He is due back in court in April.
The arrest cast new light on a relationship about which little was known beyond the obvious: Mr. Silver has funneled millions of public dollars to the organization that Mr. Rapfogel led, and he employs Mr. Rapfogel's wife, Judy, as his chief of staff.
A primary focus of their alliance had been a struggle to preserve the Jewish identity of the neighborhood they delivered for Mr. Koch all those years ago.
Their battleground was some 20 barren acres along the southern side of Delancey Street, where, in 1967, the city leveled blocks of rundown apartment buildings. More than 1,800 low-income families, largely Puerto Rican, were sent packing and promised a chance to return to new apartments someday. Now, nearly 50 years later, the land is still a fallow stretch of weed- and rat-ridden parking lots, though in the waning days of the Bloomberg administration, the city announced that the land would finally be developed into a complex called Essex Crossing, to include retail markets, restaurants, office and cultural space. And new apartments. ...
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But an extensive review of the archives of four mayors and more than two dozen interviews show Mr. Silver and Mr. Rapfogel diligently working behind the scenes to promote specific plans and favored developers. Mr. Rapfogel made clear that the goal was to maintain the area's Jewish identity, seemingly at the expense of other communities.
Mr. Silver and Mr. Rapfogel steadfastly opposed any mention of affordable housing, which would have altered the demographics of the neighborhood and put Mr. Silver's political base in question. And Mr. Silver appears to have occasionally misrepresented the desires of his Chinese and Hispanic constituents in conversations with city officials to quash housing plans for the site.
"They're the reason that this site has been empty for 50 years," said Edward Delgado, known as Tito, who was a teenager when the city cleared the blocks and his family was evicted. He has been advocating for affordable homes at the site in the decades since.
From today's follow-up article:
Those actions, Mr. Silver insisted after the article was published, were actually taken by another man: Sheldon E. Silver, a Minneapolis-born lawyer who moved to Brooklyn in the early 1970s and died in 2001.
"I was forever confused with this guy," Mr. Silver said at a breakfast he hosted on Thursday at the state Democratic Party convention. "Even after he left there, I got phone calls from people who I knew."
Mr. Silver's spokesman, Michael Whyland, said in an email that the other Mr. Silver "was a counsel to U.J.C. in the '70s and early '80s."
"You can understand why he would be upset," Mr. Whyland said in a subsequent telephone call.
But the documents cited in the article make clear that Speaker Silver — a master at distancing himself from controversies and scandals in his chamber — was in fact the person who pressed New York City officials to allow an international mall to be built on the site, instead of low-income housing. The letter quoted was written on his official stationery from the Assembly. And minutes of the meetings with city officials clearly identify Mr. Silver as the lawmaker, not the similarly named lawyer from Brooklyn.
After Mr. Silver's office saw those documents, it dropped its request for a correction on which Mr. Silver pressed for the mall in the 1970s.


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I found this cover the other day and couldn't resist buying the book. It shows Bishop Selwyn in the middle of a conversion, telling spellbinding bible stories to a clearly entranced Maori audience.
The only doubter seems to be the man standing behind him, his arms symbolically crossed. He seems to have devil's horns in his hair and he is the only one standing 'outside the circle' - the doubter in any audience.
Selwyn, dressed in clean clothing, is speaking Maori and his audience, silent and observant, are listening carefully. It could be a car salesman describing a new form of tyre.
But the light of the fire suggests something other. Light stands for illumination, understanding, belief, knowledge while the encroaching darkness represents lack of Christian knowledge, the darkness of 'barbarism' or traditional beliefs.
So it is a heavily coded message, in some ways laughable, in some ways touching in its naivety. (It dates from the 1940s, when things seemed 'simpler'.)
Bishop Selwyn was seen in many different ways in his own lifetime.
This is a cartoon dated 21 November 1861 and is from the Taranaki Punch. In it Bishop Selwyn with his well known profile and hooked nose, stands in between a Maori (who literally thumbs his nose) protecting him from the soldier trying to shoot him. It is during the NZ Wars.
One of the interesting things is the way a cross is formed by the rifle and a baton the bishop is holding - but the cross is in an ambiguous area - right by the gun of the soldier.
Selywn got too close to colonial and racial politics.
By the 1860s Maori were disillusioned by Selwyn because he seemed to be on the side of the British army.
Pakeha settlers disliked him because he seemed an apologist for all things Maori.
'Oh, how other things have changed!' Selwyn wrote about this time. "How much of the buoyancy of hope has been sobered down by experience! When, instead of a nation of believers welcoming me as their father, I find here and there a few scattered sheep, the remnant of the flock which has forsaken the shepherd!'
It was dangerous being a shepherd on his own, distrusted by both sides.
Below is a Maori cartoon but again it shows Selwyn as being in the middle (this time of two devils, both representing Governor Grey.)


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Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. (born October 20, 1958) is an American-Danish actor, poet, musician, photographer and painter. He made his film debut in Peter Weir's 1985 thriller Witness, and subsequently appeared in many notable films of the 1990s, including The Indian Runner (1991), Carlito's Way (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), G.I. Jane (1997), A Perfect Murder (1998), and A Walk on the Moon (1999).
Mortensen made his major breakthrough in 2001 with the epic film trilogy The Lord of the Rings. In 2005, Mortensen won critical acclaim for David Cronenberg's crime thriller A History of Violence. Two years later, another Cronenberg film Eastern Promises (2007) earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Other well-received films in recent years have included Appaloosa (2008) and the 2009 film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road.
Aside from acting, his other artistic pursuits include fine arts, photography, poetry, and music. In 2002, he founded the Perceval Press to publish the works of little-known artists and authors. Mortensen is politically active. He campaigned for Dennis Kucinich in the 2008 United States presidential election, and later endorsed Barack Obama for President. Mortensen has one son from his previous marriage to musician Exene Cervenka.
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Red Bean Kee Chang (Alkaline water rice dumplings) 红豆沙鹼水粽*makes 26 dumplings30pcs bamboo leaves, soaked for 2 days, washed and change water in between for one time500g Glutinous Rice3tsp alkaline water1tsp salt1tbsp cooking oil
360g red bean paste ( I used homemade , this time cooked with skin and sweeter)some grass strands to tie the dumplings, soak in water to softenMethod
- Wash glutinous rice and add enough water to cover the rice (not too much over). Add alkaline water and mix with rice till evenly. Leave it soaked for 4 hours or preferably overnight.
- Discard away alkaline water and wash glutinous rice for few times until water runs clear. At this stage, the colour of rice still look pale yellow (colour get deeper after cooked).Drain the rice using colander. Once rice well drained, add in salt and cooking oil and give a good stir.
- Then you can start to wrap the dumpling. First add a small spoon of rice then followed by a small spoon of red bean paste. Top with rice to cover the red bean paste then wrap accordingly.
- Once dumplings are wrapped, trim off the excess grass strands and bamboo leaves. Then using a big pot, cook ¾ pot of water. Once water is boiled, add 1tbsp cooking oil then lower down the rice dumplings in hot water and hot water must fully cover the dumplings, let it cook (water must boiled ) for at least 1 ½ hr to 2 hours (in between add hot water when necessary).
- Once dumplings are done, remove from the water and hang it up to air dry at least for 1hour before enjoyed. Store in room temperature if consume within 3 days otherwise store in the fridge for longer storing period.
Recipe by Sonia a.k.a Nasi Lemak Lover
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Red Bean Kee Chang (Alkaline water rice dumplings) 红豆沙鹼水粽
10 comments:
- Happy Flour said...
Oh yum yum... I am craving for dumpling already. :P
- June 16, 2015 at 9:13 PM
- Small Kucing said...
yummy,,,, long time have not eaten kee chang. mostly make bak chang
- June 17, 2015 at 11:07 AM
- Joceline Lor said...
sonia,这道粽子是非常考功夫的。你真是很 pandai ~
- June 17, 2015 at 10:25 PM
- Unknown said...
Hi Sonia, like to consult you on bread making. I have managed to make breads that are soft but can never be fluffy. Is it possible to have fluffy homemade bread without using bread improver? I don't have friends who made bread so unable to taste any other homemade bread
- June 19, 2015 at 8:03 AM
- Swee San said...
My mom loves to eat this cause she's vegetarian... I gotta learn how to wrap T__T
- June 23, 2015 at 3:48 PM
- Sonia ~ Nasi Lemak Lover said...
Wendy, maybe you should knead it till achieve window pane, dough can be pulled thin and translucent layer.
- June 24, 2015 at 8:04 PM
- Unknown said...
Hi Sonia,
Where can I get Alkaline Water and what is the alternative name for it? I live in Perth.
- June 9, 2016 at 8:28 PM
- Fluffy81 said...
Justina you can get it as Lye water in Asian grocer shop in Perth.
- June 14, 2016 at 11:04 PM
- Samvid International said...
Looks very tempting. Thanks for sharing nice information with us. alkaline water best in quality.
- August 29, 2016 at 2:42 PM
- Unknown said...
hai guys!
apakah kamu tau,80% tubuh kita terdiri dari air.Jadi air juga menentukan kesehatan kita,Perusahaan jepang telah mengemukakan mesin canggihnya yang dapat merubah air anda menjadi air kesehatan.KanGen Water adalah merk dagang yang mereka pakai untuk mesin ini.info lebih lanjut klik > kangen water.
thank you very much!
- November 6, 2017 at 12:19 PM


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Trump Wants to Deal With California Homeless CrisisNewser — Rob Quinn
President Trump is taking a strong interest in California's homelessness crisis—but some of the state's politicians don't trust his motives. Officials have confirmed that the administration sent a team to Los Angeles for a "fact finding" tour Tuesday, CNN reports.
Sources tell the Washington Post that Trump, who has often used the issue to attack the state's Democratic lawmakers, wants the federal government to be more involved and is considering moves including demolishing homeless camps and moving people into government facilities.
Trump "has taken notice of the homelessness crisis, particularly in cities and states where the liberal policies are combining to dramatically increase poverty and public health risks," says White House spokesman Judd Deere.
A spokesman for Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized the administration's policies, but said the state is "ready to talk" if Trump is offering "real investment" in housing.
Mayors of cities with rising homeless populations also said they were wary of the president's motives, but they would be glad to receive resources from the federal government to deal with the crisis, Politico reports.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf accused Trump of "pre-election political posturing at the expense of our most vulnerable residents." But she added: "We've been asking for federal assistance to address homelessness for years, and certainly I would welcome a change in heart from the president on this issue." (The crisis in Los Angeles has been called a "disaster of epic proportions.")
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This article originally appeared on Newser: Trump Wants to Deal With California Homeless Crisis


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text: Create your own holidayJune 9, 2012Ericamedium Create you own special holiday! Pick a date and come up with something random to celebrate every year on that date. Come up with traditions and games and what ever else you want to do on your holiday. Go to the store and get ready to party. Take lots of pictures and let us know what your holiday is. Oh and don't forget to mark your calender for next year!