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The writer of the article Irene made a point to show the so called Urdu words in Hindi language. What she failed to share was that the Urdu dictionary has almost all the "Hindi" words listed as Urdu words which I have checked, however I have not checked the Hindi dictionary if it has all the words known as Urdu words. That is the way to go forward to be inclusive of the other.
I have always called it Hindustani, the only language in the world with three scripts – Devanagiri, Farsi and Roman. Indeed, our website is UrduHindi.net to reflect that Unity.
There was a song which talked about, " choro urdu hindi ka Jhagda" cannot think of the whole song but there is another one that speak about kids " bhasha ki takrar nahin mazhab ki deewar nahin" from the song in Do Kaliyan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95tEfX9pNE
In 2012 we introduced a new stream of Pluralism in the poetry to seed the idea of one language that reflects the larger culture of the subcontinent. Thanks to so many poets of Dallas for beautifully re-blending the cultures in their poetry.
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Such uninterested, defeatist "Urdu-is-dead-who-cares" attitude among Muslims will ensure the language continues to be denied the credit it deserves. In such times, it is good news that social media, and Pakistani serials are doing their bit for the Urdu cause. But here too, it would be great to see if praise for Urdu is not limited to just its poetry, but also extends to its simple, humble words that we use in our everyday lives. Ummeed hai hamari khwahish poori ho.
The young generation of Muslims can not read Urdu script although they speak Urdu at home. They were educated in Hindi medium and are comfortable with it. Unless parents teach their children Urdu at home they will not be comfortable with Urdu script. Although state governments have given some help to urdu schools their standards are low. There are no science and mathematics books in Urdu hence the emphasis on learning Urdu is on language and poetry rather than science and mathematics.
'Finding' the 'lost' Urdu: But did the language ever really go away? http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/finding-the-lost-urdu/99/
A large number of mushairas and qawwalis are being held in metropolitan cities, thus further helping Urdu make a "comeback".
A large number of mushairas and qawwalis are being held in metropolitan cities, thus further helping Urdu make a "comeback".
Written by Irena Akbar | Posted: February 17, 2015 5:39 pm | Updated: February 17, 2015 5:47 pm
There is Faiz in the air. Urdu, the "lost" language of the poets, the hopeless romantics and the ardent idealists, is "re-emerging". Several online Facebook groups are dedicated to varied Urdu poets, and Urdu learning websites such as Rekhta and Urduwallahs are becoming popular. Pakistani soap operas, broadcast on Zindagi channel, too are helping "revive" the language that "got lost due to Partition". A large number of mushairas and qawwalis are being held in metropolitan cities, thus further helping Urdu make a "comeback".
The question, however, is, did Urdu really go away? If anything, it has stayed on, through Bollywood songs, and since the 1990s, through Hindi news channels. Hindi news channels relay "khabrein", not "samachar", as was by Doordarshan. Reporters talk of a "shakhs", not a "vyakti", and use "adalat" instead of "nyayalaya", for example. So, since the 1990s, the use of Urdu in popular media has gone beyond just Hindi cinema and extended to television news. Certainly, the language has not been "dying" as Urdu "revivalists" claim.
What has been dying is not the language, but the credit given to the language. Most people don't know that many of the words spoken in Hindi films or news channels are Urdu. This is not a case of war between Hindi and Urdu. Both languages are closely linked to and depend on each other for their survival. After Partition, Urdu came to be identified with Muslims. "Muslim" Urdu became the state language of Pakistan and was imposed on native Punjabi, Sindhi and Pashtun speakers. In northern India, the land of Urdu and Hindi, the language lost its popularity among non-Muslim Hindi speakers because of its "Muslim" label. Publishers of Urdu books began focusing only on religious literature, further making it less attractive for the non-Muslim audience. In sad contrast, there was a time when Hindu poets like Firaq Gorakhpuri added so much to Urdu heritage.
After Partition, and even now, it is Hindi cinema and news that have ensured Urdu its space in popular culture. But let's not get patronising here. Urdu writers such as Salim Khan, Javed Akhtar, Sahir Ludhianvi and Shakeel Badayuni have contributed immensely to Hindi cinema. In fact, many Hindi film titles are in Urdu, like Mohabbatein, Kurbaan, Dil, etc. Most Hindi film singers and actors take classes in Urdu diction. Had it not been for Urdu, would we ever have timeless Bollywood dialogues like "Mogambo khush hua" or "Kitne aadmi the" or "Main tumhara khoon pee jaaoonga"?
Yes, "khush", "aadmi" and "khoon" are Urdu words. And here is the flipside to the Hindi-Urdu marriage. Urdu has so often been used in Hindi cinema — which is a good thing — that Urdu words are now mistaken as Hindi — which is a bad thing. Hindi has helped Urdu grow in popular culture, but in the process, it has stolen (for lack of a better word) many Urdu words and added to its lexicon. How many of us know that "paani", "duniya", "gussa" and "baad" are Urdu words? In Hindi, these words are translated as "jal", "jag", "krodh" and "pashchaat". Some people, thankfully, call this mixed lexicon "Hindustani", thus acknowledging the frequent use of Urdu in Hindi. In fact, even as the government goes overboard in promoting Sanskrit, its ministers use Urdu words like "Ram-zaade" or "Haraam-zaade" to put their messages across.
But it's neither the fault of Hindi or Urdu for the dying acknowledgment of the use of Urdu. Languages are used by people, and it's only people who can make them thrive, survive or perish. So, for the sake of acknowledgment of the the use of Urdu, Hindi and Urdu speakers need to put in their efforts. Sadly, that's not how it is. Take Zindagi channel. Despite garnering critical appraise and TRPs not just for broadcasting better content but also for "bringing back Urdu to the living rooms", it has adopted a new tag line: "India's premium Hindi channel". When everyone is loving the Urdu being spoken in its serials, why not call itself "India's premium Urdu channel"? Some say it is a way to attract more viewers. But how will Urdu in its tag line repel viewers? My sad guess is the channel's decision is probably because of the language's "Muslim" association.
And here comes the responsibility of Urdu speakers, primarily Muslims of north India. I am not getting into how governments, Muslim political leaders or organisations need to go about Urdu's cause. I am talking about ordinary Urdu speakers. Here's a small but telling example. I follow a Facebook page called "Lucknow". A year or so back, the page would share posts which would display a word, its origin and its use in a couplet. The word, and the couplet, would be displayed in Roman and Devnagri scripts. The origin of the word would invariably be mentioned as Persian or Arabic. It was clear the word belonged to the Urdu language. But why no mention of Urdu? I asked the administrator of the page if, alongside the Roman and Devngari scripts, the word could be written in Persian script, so that people know it's Urdu. The administrator, a Lucknow-based Muslim, said he had a "space problem" and "nobody understands Urdu". It's when other followers of the page, mostly non-Muslim, started demanding that they would like to read the word in Persian script, that the administrator agreed to my suggestion.
At the launch of an Urdu daily in the capital about two years ago, prominent Muslim businessman Sirajuddin Qureshi had said that he had started an Urdu newspaper some time back but no Muslim family he knew subscribed to it and so he had to shut it down. Also, when the Census was being conducted sometime in 1999-2000, some of our Muslim neighbours had said their native language was Hindi, even though they spoke Urdu at home. Their explanation: "Who cares about Urdu now".
Such uninterested, defeatist "Urdu-is-dead-who-cares" attitude among Muslims will ensure the language continues to be denied the credit it deserves. In such times, it is good news that social media, and Pakistani serials are doing their bit for the Urdu cause. But here too, it would be great to see if praise for Urdu is not limited to just its poetry, but also extends to its simple, humble words that we use in our everyday lives. Ummeed hai hamari khwahish poori ho.


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Are chick flicks dangerous?
Love is all chemicals. We know that. And yet we crave it. We love to get lost in its magical aspects. Pondering over those never changing questions: Does he like me? Am I his type? What should I say? What should I wear? We're addicted to romance. Walking hand in hand, receiving sweet text messages and accepting flowers on anniversaries. It fills our stomach with butterflies that flutter either briefly, for quite a while or forever. And we just can't get enough. What is it about this fairy tale that makes it so desirable? Are we stuck in some phase that makes us believe we're a princess about to be saved by a knight in shining armour? And if he arrives, on horseback naturally, how do we recognise him? How are we to know he's not the villain of our fairy tale? Men do not speak their mind (like we do). They hate that one question: What are you thinking? Their motives are only discovered too late.
So when our princess is locked up in a tall tower with only her long, curly hair for a rope, what are we to do? We wait for our Prince Charming. But we're not patient. We give in to temptation and settle for the Prince's understudy. A handsome, nice enough chap who's fun to be with. But something's missing. It's that "thing". That spark – whatever the Hell that is. And the longer we fool ourselves into thinking he's worth staying with, the more flaws we notice. It might be something as insignificant as a loud, embarrassing laugh or bad table manners. But small flaws are soon magnified and they stomp over our hopes and dreams like an elephant in a rage. So we part ways. It's what we do. And the search continues. But how many people find their own Mr. Darcy or even their own Hugh Grant (in Notting Hill mind you, not Bridget Jones)?
We've seen too many chick flicks. Our kisses aren't accompanied by an Oscar-nominated musical score and our sex scenes don't end with the morning-after euphoria of breakfast in bed – at least most of us don't get that lucky. Our kisses are more of a "what the hell is he doing" and we awake the next morning thinking; where did he go? And love at first sight, that most dangerous myth of all, exists only in fiction. We tell ourselves the men we go out with share our hopes and fears, but do they? When all is said and done, how can we separate the perverts from the princes? How do we know they don't just want to get in our pants? We talk to them. And then there's the smooth ones. The ones who've had the most practise – the masters of seduction. At least Casanova was interesting. Most of his successors shouldn't even be allowed to stand in his shadow.
Fan-favourite Spike: the suitor we face in real life.
And still….we don't give up. Why? Because we've been fed the myth of romance since childood. How did it get started? With Barbie (an anatomically perfect blonde babe) and Ken (a sexually challenged surfer dude). And then there's the inescapably sweet Disney classics. So in retrospect, there's only one thing we can do to forget about our singleton woes: we should sue Disney and hit the town with our girlfriends. It's time for a good rant. Until our next victim stops by that is. Love is pain. Even more so when we realise the love we felt was a fantasy. They say chocolate causes the same effect in the brain as an orgasm. So perhaps we should stock up on sweets until Mr. Right sweeps us off our feet.


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JOHNNY FULLER/ West Coast bluesman and rocker
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Thanks again Gerard for an excellent 2 Cd collection of Johnny Fuller's work. It's great to have it all in one place.RépondreSupprimerRéponses
Thank to you Gyro for the Johnny Fuller's missing tracks that you so generously gave me.Supprimer
- Anonyme18 mai 2013 à 23:12
Incredible cuts, specially Vol.1. Thanks a lot for all the trouble making it! And also at 320 Kbps, wow!RépondreSupprimer
Thanks for posting this and filling in some gaps, but 50 "No More Loving" and 54 "No More" seem to be the same recording but with different equalization and slightly different speeds. By the sound, I suspect this version is from the "She's Too Much" session. Does a unique Art Tone version actually exist?RépondreSupprimerRéponses
You are rising some very interesting discographical mystery. And you certainly might be right. I took those two sides (the same reused by Geddins, as he so often did?) from original 45s whose pictures I've now included in the post.Supprimer
- Anonyme19 mai 2013 à 14:24
Gerard, I thought I was having a senior moment when I came back to your site and noticed those two 45s. Couldn't remember seeing them earlier...lolRépondreSupprimer
As always thanks very much for these most interesting recordings.
Bob Mac
Looks like the links are dead. Can you please re-post?
- Anonyme23 février 2018 à 07:48
I found out it was too late to encounter your site and this great collection.RépondreSupprimer
Could it be possible to re-up?Réponses
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I set up a you tube channel (kassandramovingimage) to start uploading media that is moving image hence the name of the channel. I have opted for the expression moving image for those times when the media is not technically a video.
The first ever moving image that I have uploaded to you tube is from the Woodford Folk Festival Fire Event. As the description says I took this video because it is a very unique viewpoint as the 80-180k or so people watching are sitting up on top of the hill where they cannot actually see the stage or performers but they can see pretty lights, feel the atmosphere and watch the fireworks or the fire (2011/12 there was no actual fire at the fire event).
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Nest. In St. Louis, Mrs. F. W. Duenckel found a newly built robin's nest, a slip of paper hanging over the side, reading: "Please leave an extra quart of milk."
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Out of Control. In Danville, Va., lightning struck the home of H. M. Watkins, the weatherman.
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NEA has been a member of the Age Action Alliance (AAA) since it was established in 2011. The AAA is an independent alliance of organisations with a very clear vision to improve the quality of life through partnership working between member organisations and older people.
NEA chairs one of the many working groups of the AAA, the Safe, Warm Homes Group. The Group uniquely brings together a range of partner organisations covering the energy, health, safety and housing sectors. The Group intends that its work will reduce the level of excess winter deaths in the UK, and tackle issues of morbidity linked to living in cold and poor housing conditions, while identifying and promoting good practice for wider dissemination and adoption.
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Gay unions and the tale of the emperor's invisible clothes
Almost two centuries ago, Hans Christian Andersen wrote a short tale about a very vain emperor who hired two tailors, who were in fact swindlers, to make him new clothes. The two promised to make for him the finest suits made of special fabric. They told him the cloth they would use would be invisible to those who were not worthy of their position and to those who were stupid. The emperor's ministers could not see any cloth but they feared saying so, lest they be deemed unworthy of their position or be considered stupid. Finally, the swindlers pretended to put on the new clothes on the emperor who also pretended that he saw the cloth, lest he be deemed unworthy of being emperor. As he paraded down the streets, a child from the crowd, who was too young and simple to keep up with any pretense, cried out: But he does not have any clothes!
After two centuries, it seems to me that this story is being repeated with the issue on "gay marriage." This time I would seem to be the child who simply cries out what he sees.
My initial observation about the debates surrounding this issue is that anyone who declares his opinion against gay marriage is right away labeled a bigot. This term is understood as a person who obstinately sticks to his own opinions and is intolerant of other contrary opinions. Another label attached to those who disagree with gay marriage (and the gender ideology accepted and promoted by the LGBT groups) is "homophobic." This term is understood to refer to an attitude that includes hatred, antipathy, contempt, prejudice and rejection of the persons who practice the lifestyle of the LGBT ideology.
It may happen that because people do not want to be called bigots or homophobic, they are moved to support the LGBT lifestyle and gay marriage. But why the pretense? Why pretend that gay "marriage" is marriage when it really is not?
Now, having said that, I might be labeled by the LGBT groups as a bigot and homophobic. But am I?
If by bigot we mean one who obstinately sticks to his own opinion and is intolerant of others', I would say the issue at hand here is not a matter of opinion but a matter of scientific truth or fact. That the emperor in the tale was naked was not a matter of opinion but of fact. That marriage is between a man and a woman for the purpose of having children and establishing a family is also a fact, a given of nature. I'm just sticking to the facts. Of course, people can deny the facts or can invent their own. But doing so does not change the truth. Now following our definition, could it be that the LGBT ideologists are the real bigots?
If by homophobic we mean one who hates or has antipathies toward the LGBTs, I have to say I do not have such feelings or demeanor. As a priest I have always welcomed them with open arms.
The adjective "homo" has two meanings. One is from the Greek word that means "similar"; and so homosexual means same sex. The other is from Latin, and it means "man." Using this latter meaning, could it be that the LGBT ideology is really homophobic, that is one that shuns or rejects the true nature of man?
Just like Pope Francis, I do not judge the persons who follow and practice the LGBT ideology. Who am I to judge, he said? What I condemn is the error and the tyranny of that ideology. Gay marriage is not marriage. And like the little child in the tale who cried out that the emperor was naked, I must say, homosexual acts are shameful.
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The United Way is known for helping to fund agencies that support the less fortunate in Beaver County. What Mike Rubino didn't know when he took over as United Way Executive Director in 2014 is how much one local company would support the efforts of his organization.
Lincoln Learning Solutions notified Rubino in October that its board had approved another $50,000 gift to the United Way of Beaver County. Over the past four years, the Rochester-based nonprofit online curriculum provider has given $250,000 to the local United Way branch.
Rubino explained that the contributions of Lincoln Learning Solutions are so important because they are non-designated, meaning they are not earmarked for specific charities.
"By not designating the contributions, it allows us to underwrite specific programs for the 17 partner agencies we serve," Rubino said.
Specifically, Rubino explained that a portion of those funds has been used to help local boy scouts and girl scouts go to summer camp, and another has allowed the Beaver County Association for the Blind to provide preschool eye screenings throughout the county at no cost. The funds have also been used to support the YMCA's summer food program, which provides free and reduced lunches to children at 65 sites. Rubino said that the program has provided 72,000 meals to date.
When Rubino remembers receiving the call regarding Lincoln Learning Solutions' initial gift of $100,000 in December 2014, he said he still gets teary-eyed. His organization was struggling at the time, he said, and it had raised only $650,000 for the year, the lowest funding campaign in the history of the Beaver County branch.
"That gift was able to change the trajectory of the United Way in Beaver County," Rubino said. "Our goal was $700,000 that year, and we ended with $785,000." This year, their campaign goal is set at $800,000.
"We believe that the United Way of Beaver County is a sound organization that fits into our philanthropic mission," Lincoln Learning Solutions CEO Bob Clements said. "They provide needed services to the community we serve and live within. This is why the board is proud to partner with the United Way of Beaver County."
Lincoln Learning Solutions' support of the United Way doesn't end with its monetary gift. The nonprofit also created a payroll deduction campaign last year whereby employees could elect to donate a portion of their pay to the United Way. The company matched all donations and raised another $6,300 through the campaign.
The Lincoln Learning Solutions Board and executive team also encourages employees to support the United Way on their own. In September, eight employees volunteered for the United Way Day of Caring, contributing to a record 137 event volunteers from 20 companies who served at 22 different sites.
Marie Myrlie, LLS senior manager of student support services said she recommends that other employees volunteer for the event next year. "The feeling of satisfaction and seeing the faces of those you are helping is amazing," she said.
Ashley Chambers, HR assistant at Lincoln Learning Solutions, volunteered to sit on the United Way's Allocation Committee. Chambers explained that this committee determines the funds each partner agency receives from the United Way. Volunteers vet all agencies to make sure they are good stewards of the money they receive.
Rubio and Clements agree that the partnership between the United Way and Lincoln Learning Solutions is important for both organizations and for the county.
"We try to make our partnerships a win-win and continue to find common goals that we can help each other achieve," Rubino said. "We are very good stewards of the dollar. [The money] helps so many people in Beaver County, and no money leaves the county."
Clements said, "We choose very carefully who we align ourselves with and are very proud to stand beside the character and good work the United Way is involved with."
The LLS employees agree. Chambers explained why she continues to support the United Way.
"It's not a charity that helps just the poor, or just the blind, or just kids. They're a general organization that helps fund our other charities to be able to accomplish their missions. They each do their own fundraising, sure, but it's simply not enough, so the United Way helps fill those funding gaps."
The United Way volunteer committee at Lincoln Learning Solutions will meet soon to plan this year's fundraiser.


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Brent Borough Plan 2019-2023
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Towards the end of 2018 we asked what things that mattered most to you, and what suggestions you had for making Brent an even better place to live and work.
We listened closely to what you said and we've put together the new Brent Borough Plan.
This plan sets out how we can build a better Brent together.
It's an ambitious plan which will be led by the Council, working with our partners and with you.
The five overarching themes in the Borough Plan are:
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Shooting at night or for surveillance may require capturing subjects outside the range of lighting, or where no lighting can be used. Normal video cameras produce too much noise in these conditions when the gain is increased. In contrast, cameras designed for ultra high sensitivity keep subjects visible under faint lighting. Even when it is too dark to see, subjects are clear and well defined.


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This topic seems the easiest to post right now since I haven't had much time to do much around the house.
Since my post about starting pots with newspaper, I've had a couple mishaps with the starter pots - but no fault of the pots themselves ! First, Stout thought it would be fun to pick out and munch on about half of the labeled popsicle sticks (maybe I shouldn't have left them on the ground...oops). Even though they were not labeled, most pots survived the canine attack. But then a drought and heavy heat came upon the surviving sprouts. While I was away and left the hubs in charge of watering my little sprouts, they got
So I planted the survivors (with paper pots) into the garden and started the rest with seeds (not pots, just garden) on April 21, 2012. I planted eggplant, broccoli, beans, bell peppers, tomatoes, and lettuce.
Update: May 20, 2012 - beans are growing like crazy! Eggplants did not sprout. I planted them again with the seeds. Broccoli sprouted ! A little tomato plant sprouted, but no luck with the bell peppers. Basil is in a pot up on the deck with some more spinach and beans. All are growing well.
Update: May 28, 2012 - Eggplant is still a no go, as well as bell peppers and other tomato plant. Bugs have eaten all the leaves off the broccoli and one of the bean plants. Lettuce is also being eaten by bugs :( I gave in and went to Lowe's and picked up some already started plants. I figured if I wanted some fresh veggies, I had to get them somewhere because it was too late to start from seed now. I also picked up some pesticide, but will be making my own organic soon (Look for an update on that later).
I also added some old tomato cages around the beans so that they could vine their way up the cage and added two round tomato cages around the tomato plants. Hopefully these guys actually all stay healthy and produce some yummy veggies !
And since this post, I've also added more pots. I have a (ceramic) pot obsession ! I've picked up some dirt cheap pots at stores like Ollies, Tuesday Morning, Home Goods, and Big Lots. Along with the veggie purchase at Lowe's, we picked up some flowers and potted plants.
One of the first things my husband and I did was line all the pots with coffee filters. This ensures that the plants still get drainage without the soil falling out of the bottom of the pot.
Then we transported the plants from their plastic pots to some new and gorgeous ceramic/pottery/terracotta-type pots. I still have a few more pots to fill with flowers, but until then, we're enjoying what we have. And if you can't tell, I LOVE cobalt blue !
I also love succulents and have added to my succulent garden. For whatever reason, this one chicks-and-hen has been growing like crazy ! The soil for this pot has sand mixed in it. My friend told me that sandy soil is better for succulents than regular garden soil. I suppose that makes sense since most of these plants grow in hotter places.
So that's that with my garden. I've been working on a flower bed that will go in the far right hand corner of the patio. It's coming along.
I hope that your gardens are doing well !
What did you plant in your vegetable/flower garden this year? How is it doing?
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Being a huge fan of Action Sports, photographing it was always a dream since i was a kid....there is nothing i would rather do for the rest of my life other then photograph my friends and strangers doing what they love as well...here is a slide show from trips i have been on, events, and friends....
PERSONAL NOTE: To everyone i have or will photograph, thank you...you are my heroes!
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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I get a random phone call from my old friend Clayton asking if i could come up one day to photograph his son Zack and catch up since it has been a super long time since i have seen his family. So of course my response was yes...more so because clayton is never short handed with beer. So i spent the day at their house shooting Zach and his mother Jamie (when she was not looking). Here are two images i shot as i was leaving...as i walked out the door i turned around and Jaime was holding Zach in the window and i shouted at her not to move and grabbed my camera...These are my favorite shots from the day...It is always amazing getting to catch up with old friends...thanks for the phone call!
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UPDATE! (v10.0)
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I'm very pround to finally rease a feature that I was working on for more than 1 year! It was really long road and I am very happy to show you the results!
+ Added AI
+ Added Singleplayer Scenarios
+ Added damage numbers to attack menu
+ Added unit path map for enemy units (should not respect gasoline and units in fog!)
+ Fixed panel bug
+ Fixed crash with landmine
+ Fixed bug with fog of war on fast replay
+ Fixed bug with exploding buildings under planes
+ Fixed bug with target highlighting ovrlay that did not appear sometimes
+ Surveyor is always available
+ Improved replay tracking by keeping tracking state after user did minor action
+ Remove unit from map instantly fixes logic bugs in replay
+ A lot of minor main menu improvements
Few words about AI. So:
0. AI cannot build complex and cannot play in custom game. So sad. It (He?) can kill your complex, can use turrets. He cannot build/research/upgrade and so on. Looking forward to add it in future, steb by step.
1. He still cannot capitulate. Its not a problem and hopefully will be added soon.
2. He cannot use tools, such as repare/rearm/refuel. If you play with gasoline enabled, it will refuel his units on-the-fly. This can give him some advantage in scenarios with enabled gasoline. Playing with gasoline he will consider refuling units with little bit higher priority, with expensive tools - with much higher
3. He cannot use stealth units. In future I will add disabling ability, but for now it is not implemented. If you will disable/steal his unit, he will try to find your infiltrator and kill it ofcourse.
4. He cannot use transports and depots but he will consider such units with little bit higher priority.
5. Mines. He cannot use and do not search for mines. If he will accidentally found it - he will kill it.
6. He don't care about Low priority units. Road, Connector, Bridge, Platform - he doesn't care.
Scripting API doc explain details about how to write your own scenarios and publish it to the community. We have a chat about scenarios where you can ask any questions and show your scenarios to community.
Happy Christmas everyone!
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Polar Bear publiserte et emne i Kano, kajakk eller packraftThis was a once in a lifetime awesome outdoor adventure in Dovrefjell in winter & summertime. Seeing the winter mountainviews from Amotdalshytta for so many times, I got the idea that it would be nice to paddle on Amotslake in the summer and try to paddle down the river from the lake. So last winter and summer this did happen. Allthough the start of the summer part did not happen as I planned but it did make this trip more special. It was something like: No matter what happen, ........ don't give up 😄 Below you see 3 pictures: 2x Amotdalshytta and one picture of the biggest waterfall in the Amotsriver, 8 km down streams from the hytta. That waterfall is better to look at, then to paddle it. That waterfall gives so much rain droplets that I had to place my camera 150 meters from the waterfall and place a stone cover on top of my video camera to protect the lens against drops. For anyone who is interested in the pictures/video's: I placed 5 video's on you tube about this trip, with a total lenght of 20 minutes. But I think you will see many special pictures/video shots. This is certainly not "just another day in the office". During this 11-12 days summertrip i got a lot of sun and many short heavy rain/hail showers every day. But Lucky for me, some sun when I was paddling on Amotslake and Snohetta was visable almost every day 😊. Here are some small notes which explain a bit what you see in the 5 video parts:: Part 1: Skiing the kayak in 2 days from Kongsvold to Amotsdalshytta (end of April). Skiing 2 days with the wind against me, knowing that the 3rd day (skiing back to Kongsvold) with the wind in the back would be really fun. Lucky for me, their was snow on the ground every where. Part 2: One week before I planned to go out on this trip (begin July) the engine of my bus got got a serious problem and could not drive. So I was stucked in Otta. What to do now? I did have a "pulk on wheels" with me to use when I walk in the first part into Amotsdalen (the first part of the the track is an old mountain road track). So I got the idea to take the "pulk on wheels" behind me bike. This was the new plan: Get every thing on the train in Otta. Get out at Kongsvold, bike the E-6 down to Amotsdalen and bike into Amotsdalen. On the way back: Bike from Amotsdalen over the E-6 down to Oppdal trainstation. I knew I could not bike up any hill with this "pulk on wheels" behind me. The E-6 goes down all the way from Kongsvold to Oppdal, so that was good. This was the way I started, you can see this on the video, and it did work out well. What a way to start a trip.............😊 I did transport a lot of equipment and food, needed for this trip, in my backpack and "pulk on wheels". So in Part 2: You can see me on the bike, walking in Amotsdalen, Pitching my tent halfway (as a kind of base camp), Walking to Amotsdalhytta, Kayaking on the lake, Walking from Amotdalshytta and following the special track over the river (the first part from the lake, the water is streaming under and beside the rocks before it becomes an open river). Part 3: Kayaking on Amotselva. The first part with less water but soon the water comes from every where into the river. At some lakes in between the rapids., the rocks are just under the waterline. Hail coming down. Great kayak views on Snohetta. Finally the first ww rapid in the river. Part 4: More ww rapids. Carry over the kayak by walking. Repairing a broken paddle by using sport tape and the aluminium angle parts (which I use for placing my camera on the kayak), very happy to have them 😊. Rapelling down a waterfall, Surching for shelter under a plastic cover against a heavy rainshower. More water coming down the waterfall after the rainshower. Part 5: Kayaking under the waterfall, Walking back to my basecamp on the otherside of the river, what a track was that 😊. Drying kayak clothes. Sleeping the last night in a nice cabin, beside the track. Nice weather the next day. Walking & biking to Oppdal. I had to secure one wheel (pulk on wheels) with a tyrap and make the axle wider (using 2 stones as a hammer) End of this 11-12 days summertrip. Sadly I am missing one sd card with pictures/video's of this trip, still hope that it might show up somewhere............ You Tube page part 1: (the other parts will show up when you see part 1)


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OP ED COLUMN: OPINION ON PAGE ONE – GMA can still save DU30 from himself
THE vulgarization of Malacañang's "information campaign" on "federalism" has diverted public attention from the illegitimacy of President Rodrigo Duterte's federalism project, and allowed a sexy dancer from the Presidential Communications Operations Office to take the hit for — and the heat away from — the President. Yet all those who felt their sense of taste had been violated by the offensive burlesque on "pepedederalismo" sadly missed the point. The song and dance number certainly deserved censure for being objectively degrading, but the real outrage was coming not from the song and dance, but from DU30's heedless attempt to ram through his federalism project, in violation of the Constitution and right reason. This is what should be censured before any vulgar song and dance number associated with it is.
Why is DU30 involved?
For the nth time it must be stated that the President has no official role to play in proposing any amendment to or revision of the Constitution. This is made more than abundantly clear in Article XVII (Amendments or Revisions) of the Constitution. Only the Congress, through a constituent assembly, or a constitutional convention, called by two-thirds of all the members of Congress, or by the electorate at the call of a majority of all the members of Congress, may propose revisions or amendments. The people may also propose direct amendments not oftener than once every five years, upon petition of at least 12 percent of the total number of registered voters, of which every legislative district is represented by at least three percent of the registered voters therein.
This is the only relevant provision of the Constitution. It provides no role for the President. But the President is the one at the top, center and front of the push toward federalism. He has created a constitutional consultative committee to draft a proposed constitution for a federal republic — at what cost to the Filipino taxpayers, we do not know — and the members of this committee continue to occupy public space and newspaper space even after they have submitted their draft to the President, which should have rendered their positions functus officio.
We need to hear the President, or at least one among his eminent legal advisers, beginning with former Supreme Court chief justice Reynato Puno, former Senate president Aquilino Pimentel Jr and other so-called luminaries, say that our reading of the Constitution is incorrect, and that the President is, in fact, empowered by the Constitution to intervene in proposing constitutional amendments and revisions. This requires no more than a simple declarative sentence, and yet not one of them has had the courage to say it.
Will they then declare that the President can do whatever he wants, and that nothing he does can ever be unconstitutional or illegal — to borrow an infamous quote from former US president Richard Nixon in his celebrated interview with the legendary David Frost? Not one of DU30's defenders has had the courage to say so either.
So, we have the sorry spectacle of the entire nation trying to grapple with the issue of federalism at the behest of a president who has no right or duty or power to propose it to our people. And every political player who, by the sheer number of years alone has earned the right or duty to say that wrong is wrong, tries to pretend that nothing is happening to disturb the constitutional order. Or the intellectual order.
This is no federalism
Just because DU30 says he wants to convert the Philippine unitary state into a federal republic, even pedigreed intellectuals who can break down the most complicated and minute ideas have failed to note that the proposal involves an inherent and irrevocable contradiction.
Again for the nth time, it has to be pointed out that what DU30 is proposing is not federalism but balkanization.
Federalism requires putting together separate autonomous or independent or semi-autonomous or semi-independent territorial units (states, regions or provinces) into one federal whole; it never entails breaking up an integrated unitary whole into 18 different parts, in the hope of putting them back together again. No one can declare a circle a square, a camel a horse, and even the emperor's horse a Roman consul. Words need to keep their own meanings, and DU30 is no Humpty Dumpty who can, by executive fiat, make words mean whatever he wants them to mean.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the authors of the draft federal constitution are not totally unaware of the contradiction, except that they do not have the heart to tell DU30 about it. Thus, there is no clear attempt to really define the structure of the proposed federal system in the draft document. I am not alone in reporting this observation. Some pro-DU30 commentators who are apparently reading the draft constitution for the first time have arrived at the same conclusion. They do not find the metes and bounds of the federal system, nor the political alchemy that will produce the system. More evident in the document are what appears to be initial preparations for a possible shift to a parliamentary system.
Making it work
Nor does the draft constitution contain anything to show how the component units of the proposed federation, with their additional layer of government, will support themselves, and how the central government itself will work, after a huge chunk of its traditional income is siphoned off to the component states or regions. Making the unitary system work, before any proposed redistribution of income among the component federal units occurs, is already a monumental problem for the center, as we are witnessing while the government tries to cope with a 5.7 percent inflation. Balkanization will make this problem worse.
Because of the self-contradictory elements in the proposed project, I have serious doubts it will work, even if those aware of its offenses to right reason and to the Constitution do not say one word about it, but pretend that the law and right reason are scrupulously being followed. DU30 has painted himself into a corner from which he can no longer back off. It is a question of ego or super ego: because of his serious narcissistic disorder he can no longer back off; someone will have to save him from the certain political catastrophe that is the only possible outcome of his rush to this ill-conceived system of government.
Arroyo's role
This is where Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo comes in. Without saying that DU30 has made any wrong moves, she could effectively help reset the direction of government simply by assuring the Senate that the House will work together with the former as an equal, in proposing constitutional change. By filing a resolution calling for separate voting by the Senate and the House of Representatives if ever they convene a constituent assembly, Arroyo has shown that she would like the two houses to work together as one, without the House trying to exploit its numerical superiority over the Senate.
This was a welcome departure from the position of the ousted Speaker, Pantaleon Alvarez, who at one time suggested that the House propose constitutional amendments by its lonesome, or with the members of the Senate sitting with the congressmen and voting together as one. In all previous Constitutions, Congress when exercising its constituent powers to propose constitutional amendments, always did so with the two Houses sitting together, but voting separately. Thus, the vote of the 24-member Senate carried as much weight as the vote of the 292-member House.
In the present Constitution, the 50-member constitutional commission failed to specify that whenever the Congress decides to propose constitutional amendments, the two Houses should sit together as one but vote separately to approve any proposal by three-fourths of all the members of each House. It was a plain oversight, which happened after the Concom decided toward the end of its deliberations to adopt a bicameral Congress, although all its discussions from the beginning were premised on a unicameral Congress.
Nevertheless, there is no way to interpret the present wording of the Constitution other than in favor of separate voting by the two Houses. Section 1 of Article XVII reads: "Any amendment to, or revision of, this Constitution may be proposed by: (1) The Congress, upon a vote of three-fourths of all its Members; or 2) A constitutional convention."
The provision does not specify that the two Houses should sit as one. So, the presumption is that they do not have to sit together to propose amendments, in which case they have to vote separately. But they are not barred from sitting together as one, so they could decide to do so by concurrent resolution in order to exercise their constituent powers. This does not mean the much smaller Senate has to be absorbed by the much bigger House; the two Houses should sit together as equals.
Respect for the Senate
In filing that resolution on separate voting, Arroyo demonstrated full respect for the Senate. This was underscored by her instruction to the appropriate House committees to leave all matters related to any proposed constitutional amendment to the proposed constituent assembly (ConAss). This bodes well for the ConAss.
Under Arroyo's joint leadership with Senate President Vicente Sotto 3rd, the ConAss could operate, and should operate, as an independent and "omnipotent" body, free to disregard DU30's unconstitutional intervention, and free to discard the draft constitution which has no valid constitutional provenance. With the proper dose of intelligence and courage, the body could perhaps banish the bogus federalist temptation and work earnestly for a much-needed shift to parliamentary government.


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Advance word of mouth hasn't been good, but we're curious nonetheless to see what Shimizu is bringing us. In addition to the trailer, we have a photo gallery that is now open.
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NCIN scholars indicated a need for a more diverse faculty. Based on these comments, the college of nursing recruited faculty at national meetings of the Association of Black Nursing Faculty, Hispanic Nurses Association, and the National Alaska Native American Indian Nurses Association. In three years, full-time minority faculty increased from 12 percent to 22 percent. The strategies adopted due to the NCIN grant provided faculty with tools to assist students. A retention program, the 'Heart-Math' curriculum, is now used to teach students resilience, improve testing skills, and enhance clinical decision-making and performance so nurses are better able to provide safe, compassionate, patient-centered care. Florida Atlantic leveraged its NCIN grant for additional funding, which will support the progression of NCIN scholars into a graduate program.


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Hi everyone. It's been a while but I've added a new kit and some cards to my shop. I've been collecting these 1970-something inspired items for a while now and just couldn't resist putting them into a kit any longer. There's a hand sewn bag that can be tied up with the handmade pom poms.....gingham tags made from vintage gingham ribbon....gingham fabric paperclips.....
March 24, 2015
It Was 1970-Something Kit.....new to shop
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What a cute kit! Love the bright colors. And I heard Mark Wills in my head as I read the title of your post. LOL "It was 1970 something
in the world that I grew up in,
Farrah Fawcett hair-do days
Bell bottoms and 8-track tapes
Lookin' back now I can see me
And oh, man did I look cheesy
But I wouldn't trade those days for nothin'
Oh, it was 1970-something
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Earth Day marks its 35th year of a day to reflect and act upon ways to promote positive citizenship and environmental stewardship around the world. Learn about Earth Day or find tips, events and activities to participate in:
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Teens 4 Peace and Amnesty International will hold a rally that will begin in Dupont Circle in Washington DC and progress to the Embassy of Sudan. The rally is intended to increase awareness and protest indifference regarding the events taking place in Darfur, Sudan.
Teens 4 Peace aims to promote teen and public understanding and action toward social injustices. Amnesty International is a global organization focused on research and action for global human rights.
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UK supermarket has become the first in the world to let shoppers pay for groceries using just the veins in their fingertips with Fingopay.
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." Revelation 13:16-18 (KJV)
EDITOR'S NOTE: Advances in computer technology are coming so fast and close together that even people who pay attention to this sort of thing are hard-pressed to keep up with all of it. The human body is rapidly become the main point of contact for controlling buying and selling. First step was getting you in front of a computer (1994-2004), the second step was making your computer mobile and travel in your pocket (2004-2014), the third and current step is adding biometrics to your device (2014-2017), and the next step will be implanting your device inside your body. We are 75% of the way to the Mark of the Beast, so that means the Beast must be getting ready to make an appearance.
Customers at the Costcutter store, at Brunel University in London, can now pay using their unique vein pattern to identify themselves. The firm behind the technology, Sthaler, has said it is in "serious talks" with other major UK supermarkets to adopt hi-tech finger vein scanners at pay points across thousands of stores.
It works by using infrared to scan people's finger veins and then links this unique biometric map to their bank cards. Customers' bank details are then stored with payment provider Worldpay, in the same way you can store your card details when shopping online. Shoppers can then turn up to the supermarket with nothing on them but their own hands and use it to make payments in just three seconds.
It comes as previous studies have found fingerprint recognition, used widely on mobile phones, is vulnerable to being hacked and can be copied even from finger smears left on phone screens. But Sthaler, the firm behind the technology, claims vein technology is the most secure biometric identification method as it cannot be copied or stolen.
Forget Fingerprints: Meet Vein Scanning From Fingopay
Shaler said dozens of students were already using the system and it expected 3,000 students out of 13,000 to have signed up by November. Finger print payments are already used widely at cash points in Poland, Turkey and Japan.
Vein scanners are also used as a way of accessing high-security UK police buildings and authorising internal trading at least one major British investment bank.
The firm is also in discussions with nightclubs, gyms about using the technology to verify membership and even Premier League football clubs to check people have the right access to VIP hospitality areas.
Finger vein-scanning is a proven technology in Japan #biometric #payments https://t.co/S4WOvAxdTh pic.twitter.com/eKfsThfPPO
— Sthaler (@SthalerLtd) July 12, 2017
The technology uses an infrared light to create a detailed map of the vein pattern in your finger.
It requires the person to be alive, meaning in the unlikely event a criminal hacks off someone's finger, it would not work. Sthaler said it take just one minute to sign up to the system initially and, after that, it takes just seconds to place your finger in a scanner each time you reach the supermarket checkout.
Simon Binns, commercial director of Sthaler, told the Daily Telegraph:
"This makes payments so much easier for customers. They don't need to carry cash or cards. They don't need to remember a pin number. You just bring yourself. This is the safest form of biometrics. There are no known incidences where this security has been breached.
"When you put your finger in the scanner it checks you are alive, it checks for a pulse, it checks for haemoglobin. 'Your vein pattern is secure because it is kept on a database in an encrypted form, as binary numbers. No card details are stored with the retailer or ourselves, it is held with Worldpay, in the same way it is when you buy online."
Nick Telford-Reed, director of technology innovation at Worldpay UK, said: "In our view, finger vein technology has a number of advantages over fingerprint. This deployment of Fingopay in Costcutter branches demonstrates how consumers increasingly want to see their payment methods secure and simple." source


text: I met up with some college friends this week. We hadn't seen each other for around 10 years but it took us 0.0001 nanoseconds to get back to our old friendship. It was a perfect day in Salisbury - tea and lunch, lots of laughs, tons of memories. I loved what little I saw of Salisbury but I'm sure I'll go back for a proper look round as it was so pretty.


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Free speech is a cornerstone of representative democracy. Abuse of free speech is one of the biggest threats to that cornerstone.
This week we have three examples of the dangers of the abuse of free speech: Alex Jones of Infowars, English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson, and former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
Let's start with Alex who is currently in a Texas court defending the indefensible. On December 14, 2012, mentally disturbed 20-year-old Adam Lanza broke into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut and shot dead 20 six and seven-year-olds and six of the school's staff.
This is a fact. The police verified it. Inquests have been held. The bodies have been seen, grieved over and buried.
Wrong, according to Alex Jones. The children never died. The grieving parents are actors hired by the anti-gun lobby to deny Americans their gun-toting Second Amendment rights.
It seems incredible, but a proportion of Jones's audience actually believe him. Enough that grieving parents have been forced to move house because of harassment and even death threats from Infowars viewers. Those parents are now suing Jones for defamation and slander.
Sandy Hook is not the only wild conspiracy theory peddled by Jones. According to him: The UN is about to flood America with 600 million immigrants, Michelle Obama is a man, Hillary Clinton is a demon-possessed extra-terrestrial, Robert Mueller is at the centre of a child sex ring, 9/11 was staged by the federal government, The US government controls the weather and uses it as a weapon against alt-right political opponents, Supreme Court Justice Antonin, Scala was murdered and many more.
It is easy to dismiss Jones as an irrelevant crackpot conspiracy theorist. The problem is that he is a crackpot conspiracy theorist followed by six million people who has been publicly endorsed by the president of the United States.
Alex Jones must know that he is lying. Why does he do it? The answer is simple: To make money. The more outrageous the lies the more people who watch his show which he uses to sell dubious pseudo-medical products which, according to Celebrity Net Worth, have helped him accumulate assets in excess of $10 million and a drawerful of Rolex watches.
Jones justifies his false and vitriolic broadcasts with America's First Amendment. I am certain that the founding fathers did not intend their groundbreaking free speech law to be used for the propagation of lies.
Britain also has free speech laws, although the international alt-right is claiming that the treatment of Tommy Robinson demonstrates that the UK is pressure from the political correction lobby is forcing the country to jettison that traditional English liberty. But let's be clear. Tommy Robinson was not locked up for racist comments or hate speech. He was sent to prison for contempt of court. His Facebook reports of a gang rape and sexual grooming involving Pakistani men were threatening a mistrial and breached laws protecting the identity of minors.
Furthermore, he has not been found innocent of contempt. He has been released on bail pending a retrial because the Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett said that his sentence was "rushed and flawed". He did not rule Robinson not guilty.
The case of Boris Johnson is different. His is not so much a case of what he said as who said it. It is an open secret that the Brexiteering former British foreign secretary wants to be prime minister and is busily plotting to achieve that goal as soon as possible.
Last week Denmark followed France, Belgium, and Austria in banning the Burqa—the head to toe shapeless black cloth worn by some Muslim women. Johnson actually defended the right of Muslim women to wear it, but then went on to insult them by saying they looked like bank robbers and letterboxes.
I think he is right. But he is wrong to have said it. Elected officials are elected to serve the entire community—not just those who voted for them. Boris Johnson's comments—under the guise of free speech—have exposed him as divisive and thus unfit for high office.
Tom Arm is editor of LookAheadnews.com


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Suspended Ceiling or Drywall
Drywall can offer your ceiling a swish, finished look. Some folks assume suspended ceilings look cold and institutional; but, there are blessings and drawbacks to every sort of ceiling. Here are some thoughts on the professionals and cons of every choice.
Ceiling Height
Ceiling height is a difficulty, significantly during a basement renovation. Since drywall is hooked up on to the most floor joists you may lose less that 1-inch of ceiling height if you put in drywall. Suspended ceilings need anyplace from 3-6-inches of house below the ground joists, though some makers claim their tiles need as very little as 2-inches of clearance. Either way, they're going to lower your ceiling.
In newer homes, the additional house a suspended ceiling desires is rarely a concern; but, in older homes basements are shallower and a suspended ceiling might not be a viable choice. instead, if there are electrical wires or plumbing pipes running on the face of the joists, it's not possible to put in drywall before relocating the wires or pipes. It add additional price to your ceiling.
Suspended Ceilings permit Access
Since it's against building codes to for good cowl electrical junction boxes with drywall, suspended ceilings have a precise advantage Covering junction boxes or plumbing with a suspended ceiling isn't against any codification since access is easy.
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Water flows downhill. Basement ceiling is significantly in danger to water coming back from the most floor. associate degree overflowing sink, a insured rest room, or maybe a awry icebox will all send a deluge of water onto your basement ceiling, for good staining it.
Water stains on a drywall ceiling usually mean giant sections of the ceiling can got to be removed and therefore the entire ceiling can need to be refinished. Instead, a stained suspended ceiling tile is repaired by substitution the one stained tile.
Acoustic Properties
Do you arrange to have a TV on your lower level for your kids to play video games? Drywall hooked up on to floor joists can have little or no sound obstruction capability, therefore noise from the basement can return right up through the ground. You'll be able to obtain special sound obstruction drywall or mount the drywall onto a "resilient" channel designed to dam sound transfer; but, each choices can add additional price to your project.
They're going to conjointly minimize one advantage of drywall since they're going to lower your ceiling. Suspended ceilings are usually made of sound fascinating materials that cut back sound transfer, serving to keep basement sound faraway from the most floor.
Concerned regarding the Appearance?
Ceiling tiles are currently ordinarily on the market in several sizes further as variety of various colours and finishes. Some even resembling associate degree quaint tin ceiling. You've got several choices with a suspended ceiling.
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But you cannot deny the power of the classic wooden block ; which in fashion would be the timeless item – a plain white tee.
The simplest thing is the best, and I am about to promote its magic.
Here is me wearing a plain white tee which I got from Monki.
Their size L can fit my 44″ bust (yes, there I said it, I
expose my privacy for your convenience). It is round neck with shorter
hem that sits just on my muffin top, it is made in 100% cotton, in a
thin body hugging material but apparently it's not too sheer. I wear a nude
colour bra underneath, and even the bra themselves has a subtle jacquard
on them, somehow it doesn't show much, which is good. The best of it is I can
style it in many ways I want.
The Plain white tee is also just a "new idea" in the plus size world,
we for a long time believe that we cannot wear any thing white, white
is such a colour that shows all the rolls and bumps we have compare to
black or any dark coloured clothing. In fact, if you know how to choose
the right shape and material that suits you, it will be the best weapon
you have in your closet.
Lately I have been struggling between the two –
A. following trends, playing with new toys
B. Keeping it real and classy.
shopaholic and the environmentalist in me are having a power battle,
but of course for the love of the earth, eventually "green peace" will
There are these brands that offer the plain white tee, and i have no idea which one is best.
I guess I need people to tell me in the comment section as it's not easy to find a very good quality one which you can wear for years. One thing though is I do recommend a medium round neck which is closer to your collar bone, it brings out the best feature on your body.
As for which shape is best for you, this is very tricky. You need to
know yourself first. Which shape do you want? Do you want a boxy tee for
a street style feel? or a feminine style that shows your curve? Higher or
lower crew neck, V neck, off shoulder? So many different styles.
If you have no
idea which one suits you the best, you can always email me at curvasian (AT) gmail dot com with a
photo of you and I can give you free consultancy about it.


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Saturday, 4 April 2015
Cookin' it real
So, after a not abnormally busy week, I have finally got to sit down and write the post I wanted to write initially. Since starting this blog, I've been keeping a notebook next to me to write down ideas for posts and features, because, believe me, my mind has been flooded with ideas. I was skyping a friend in South Africa this week and I told her I'd started a cooking blog. This drove her to hysterics, since, readers, I already have a craft blog which has been sorely neglected since children arrived into our lives, and she found it hilarious that, in order to cure this blog neglect, I would see fit to begin a new blog; I take her point!
The thing with being a blogger, especially one who writes about something they make or create, is that you are constantly reading other peoples blogs, and making judgements about yourself based upon what you see in them. I am at the stage with my children where I am usually just shattered when bedtime has been taken care of, and the "me time" I have been so craving all day, so I can make and create, is craftily usurped by "sitting on the the sofa and staring into space because I am so mentally exhausted." This is hard when one is creative, because you are constantly being inspired by the productivity of others, and you know you could also be as productive, but tiredness from looking after two small boys always takes over. So, after chastising myself for quite some time over my lack of creative output, it occurred to me that there is something very creative I do every day, but because it is a necessity as well as a hobby, I hadn't realised its potential. I am speaking, of course, of cooking.
After a couple of months of consideration, various moments of thinking how ridiculous an idea it was, interspersed with the thought that I'm already doing the cooking so I won't actually need to produce any work which I won't be producing anyway, I finally reached a decision to take the plunge and go for it. But with the previous paragraph in mind, and also the post title (!) the premise of this blog is:
- To show that anyone can cook from scratch every day if they want to, even with small children around
- How it's possible to get your children used to trying any new ingredient simply by giving them everything you eat yourself
- To get people excited about trying new and unusual ingredients and techniques, and getting your family interested too
- The importance of using your own intuition when following a recipe (for example; a recipe you are following says to roast a butternut squast for 20 minutes until golden. Everyone who's ever roasted a squash will know it takes 40 - 50 minutes)
- To show that you don't need a plethora of equipment to be creative in the kitchen, and the tools it is useful to have
This blog, although I would like it to be aesthetically pleasing, is really about the reality of cooking in a family kitchen. I shall endeavour to give you pretty photos, but there will be plenty of real life progress shots with all the utensils and detritus of cooking in the background. I would love to say I'll post every week, but, let's be honest, this is likely be an endeavour at best. However, I shall try my utmost to keep give you something inspiring to read and look at.
For me, being able to cook is a gift, and definitely the way in which I like to make people feel special. I am very blessed to be able to do this for my family every day, and even more blessed because my husband arrives home from work around 5.20pm, which certainly does help facilitate things. I'm really looking forward to sharing my cooking with you too, and I really hope you can take some inspiration from it, and in turn, inspire me too!
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I have a confession to make.
I choose right now to boldly step out of the closet and admit my dark secret infatuation for Lady GaGa. There, I did it and I am not ashamed. Yes true BONEZ believers, that strange ... nee, Bizarre sexy nymph over-the-top songstress has captivated my sweaty music video psycho-sexual fantasies. In doing so, Lady GaGa has accomplished what no other pop diva could have hoped for and dethroned the Material Girl Like a Virgin Madonna who reigned over my deeply buried fetish urges for the last twenty-something years. I do not care how un-Biker-like it may be to come clean with this confession. I do so with full understanding that I may well become a marked man for ridicule and derision in the Biker Community at large. DILLIGAF? Of course not. Ride your own ride, Baby, and mine is Lady GaGa ... at least for this post.
I do not know what attracts me so much to her art (yes, I believe it is ART and superb showmanship). Maybe it is the combination of psycho-sexual innuendo, classic glamor infused with fantasy and science fiction anime-like qualities ... every fanboy's fetish wet dream? Her songs get caught up in my head and I find myself mentally singing,
"I want your love
I want your love"
over and over and it actually makes me feel good and light spirited in my stressful corporate shark infested world. And if it makes me feel good then it is good for me and true to my real nature. Thus, I am going with it and openly confessing my devotion to Lady GaGa here in front of the whole multitude of BONEZ fanatics... all three or five of them.
"I want your ugly
I want your disease
I want your everything
As long as it's free
I want your love
I want your love"
Hell, I do not even know what most of the words really mean, but it is so much fun in my brain and it makes my heart leap. The wicked vision she creates through her videos makes it all such a wonderful escapist excursion into her questionable manipulated reality and I do not care that others know I Live there for brief moments. It helps me cope with the steaming pile of feces that my own reality sometimes becomes and gives me renewed hope and strength that I will turn that pile of crap into a better tomorrow ... tomorrow. Isn't that what ART does? Inspires us to better tomorrows?
Just to show that I am not totally GaGa over the Lady I give you Caught in a bad BROmance created by some sick brethren that will have you singing
Want your bad " BROmance.
Ra Ra Ooo Rah Rah a Bad BROmance Part Deux with an even sicker version of just plain outright Wrongness. I Don't Wanna be Friends!


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Linux Commands
rpn command line calculator @ Will's Really Useful Engines
syntax similar to hp rpn calculators
Will's Really Useful Engines
Bash subshell creation with curly braces
bash – automatically capture output of last executed command into a variable
Bash: Preserving Whitespace Using set and eval
- visudo
- advise not changing sudoers file, in favor of config files in /etc/sudoers.d
- files in /etc/sudoers are processed in lexical sort order
- visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/some-config-file
- sudoers system seems to find first entry that "matches" selection criteria
- default security_path doesn't include /usr/local/bin, forcing commands to go into /usr/bin, which you may not want to do
- modify the path
- disable the feature
If set, sudo will run the command in a minimal environment containing the TERM, PATH, HOME, MAIL, SHELL, LOGNAME, USER,
USERNAME and SUDO_* variables. Any variables in the caller's environment that match the env_keep and env_check lists
are then added, followed by any variables present in the file specified by the env_file option (if any). The default
contents of the env_keep and env_check lists are displayed when sudo is run by root with the -V option. If the
secure_path option is set, its value will be used for the PATH environment variable. This flag is on by default.
Path used for every command run from sudo. If you don't trust the people running sudo to have a sane PATH environment variable you may want to use this. Another use is if you want to have the "root path" be separate from the "user path".
Users in the group specified by the exempt_group option are not affected by secure_path.
This option is not set by set default.
However, Centos 7 dist does set it by default:
Defaults secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
This, in a file in /etc/sudoers.d, does not work to unset the secure_path set in /etc/sudoers:
Defaults secure_path = /bin
So, it can only be disabled by modifying /etc/sudoers:
# Defaults secure_path = /bin
Nope, looks like the seucre_path is hardcoded
==> use the -(i)nteractive login option, e.g. sudo -i which remote-chrome
sudoers documentation
- official docs suk
- very good: http://cavepopo.hd.free.fr/wordpress/linux/sudo-command-sudoers-file-concepts-and-practical-examples/
visudo options
visudo parses the sudoers file after the edit and will not save the changes if there is a syntax error. Upon finding an error, visudo will print a message stating the line number(s) where the error occurred and the user will receive the "What now?" prompt.
At this point the user may enter 'e' to re-edit the sudoers file, 'x' to exit without saving the changes, or 'Q' to quit and save changes. The 'Q' option should be used with extreme care because if visudo believes there to be a parse error, so will sudo and no one will be able to sudo again until the error is fixed.
If 'e' is typed to edit the sudoers file after a parse error has been detected, the cursor will be placed on the line where the error occurred (if the editor supports this feature).
The options are as follows:
-c Enable check-only mode. The existing sudoers file will be checked for syntax errors, owner and mode. A message will be
printed to the standard output describing the status of sudoers unless the -q option was specified. If the check completes
successfully, visudo will exit with a value of 0. If an error is encountered, visudo will exit with a value of 1.
-f sudoers Specify and alternate sudoers file location. With this option visudo will edit (or check) the sudoers file of your choice,
instead of the default, /etc/sudoers. The lock file used is the specified sudoers file with ".tmp" appended to it. In
check-only mode only, the argument to -f may be '-', indicating that sudoers will be read from the standard input.
-h The -h (help) option causes visudo to print a short help message to the standard output and exit.
-q Enable quiet mode. In this mode details about syntax errors are not printed. This option is only useful when combined with
the -c option.
-s Enable strict checking of the sudoers file. If an alias is used before it is defined, visudo will consider this a parse
error. Note that it is not possible to differentiate between an alias and a host name or user name that consists solely of
uppercase letters, digits, and the underscore ('_') character.
-V The -V (version) option causes visudo to print its version number and exit.


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There is so much for us to feel guilty about.
I feel guilty that I had a glass of champagne on that New Year's Eve before I knew I was pregnant. I feel guilty that I got impatient (really ugly-impatient, not just mildly irritable, more along the spectrum to dementedly pre-murderous) with my infant child when he wouldn't sleep or feed according to whichever baby expert's scheduling system I had just read or been told about.
I feel guilty that I couldn't simply be that relaxed, serene mother you see in adverts, with her child calm and chilling in an ergodynamically designed body sling
At least I am not alone.
Mothers I see in my practice tell me they feel guilty about about what they ate during pregnancy, how they fed their baby with bottle or breast, where their baby slept or not, whether they did sleep training or not, which discipline strategies or lack of strategies they used, or how they delivered their baby – a Caesarean section that medically speaking may not have been strictly necessary, or not.
Recently I bumped into an old friend and we chatted about sun block and how hard it is to get your children to put it on every day, not to mention trusting they will reapply it later in the day for sport when you're not there.
She said what I had been feeling, but it felt too heretical to say: "I feel relieved that the recent fuss in our press showed how inaccurately sunblocks are labelled and how some of them don't really make much difference. It cured some of my guilt about being a sloppy mother straight away."
I regret I've been a grumpy mom, a tired mom, an intrusive mom, a clingy, anxious mom. I even feel guilty about feeling guilty because, as I tell my clients, guilt that is undeserved can be self-indulgent and even destructive.
But there is at least a place guilty people can go to pretend they're being productive while actually just maintaining a proud personal tradition of work avoidance and procrastination. I'm sure you've been there many times yourself – the internet.
And it was there that I came across a short blog on the Huffington Post website by a man called Dr Kris Jamsa, titled Learning and Development Starts at Age Zero.
"From the moment of conception," he says, "a child's wellbeing and development is dependent upon the mother's actions and behaviors." No pressure, then.
He goes on to say that between birth and the first year of formal schooling a child's future success largely depends on the mother's ability to inculcate 400 child-development skills in the child.
Now Dr Jamsa has written "over 110 books on computing and education" and I am still struggling to get my first book written. He has an impressive six college degrees, I on the other hand only need one or two to have decided that this kind of advice should be strongly resisted. Parenthood is hard enough without experts (and yes, I'm one of them) turning parenting into mission impossible.
Dr Jamsa emphasises the importance of teaching mothers to improve their child's early learning development, and of course I agree with him. Parents need to engage with and interact with their babies, hold their babies, talk with them and play with them and yes, also give them space just to be. And certainly this is vital in developing countries and is something that parents should take extremely seriously.
But what I take issue with is his all-or-nothing tone in sweeping statements like "Every action a mother takes (or fails to take) with respect to developing her child's learning skills, directly affect the child's ability to succeed in the future."
It's this kind of prescriptive comment, with it's erroneous implication that there is no room at all for mistakes or lapses by mothers in particular (he interestingly makes no mention at all of fathers in his short piece) which is monumentally unhelpful to us mothers (and fathers.)
As an aside it also reads to me like an unconscious extension of the mother blaming of the past – remember the "schizophrenogenic mothers who where thought to have induce schizophrenia in their children, or the "refrigerator mothers" who were blamed for making their children autistic? Both guilt-inducing theories that have been thoroughly disproved and discredited.
My thinking is that you need not be concerned about the single wasted learning opportunity that may make the difference between your daughter being a high school drop-out or Nobel prize winning economist.
Child development and learning, like parenting, is a process that necessarily and inevitably involves making mistakes, getting it wrong and failing. Ordinary, good-enough parents help their children deal with these mistakes and failures and through these experiences we all learn that we can learn, that we are adaptable, resilient and can tolerate frustration and delay gratification.
While we should feel less guilt, we really do still need to keep on applying that sunblock.


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It's been a long, long, long wait for fans of Madlib's insane alien alter ego, Quasimoto. But it looks like we'll be hearing a follow-up to 2005's The Further Adventures of Lord Quas sooner rather than later. The Facebook page for Quasimoto indicates that he's listening to a test pressing of a new LP called Yessir Whatever and a Google search of that album brings up several results with a release date of June 2013. Please let this be true, rap gods.
Click over to Quas's Facebook page for proof.
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UPDATE: Below is a picture of what appears to be a Quasimoto test pressing from his Instagram.
UPDATE 2: It appears there might be a chance that this album is just a compilation. We haven't received official word on that yet, but if you look here it seems as if that might be the case. We will keep you posted as we look for more reliable sources.