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Tools and Testing Equipment for DIY Audio
Tools and Testing Equipment for DIY Audio, Electronics and Speakers
Dummy Speaker Load Box - 5 March 2015 NEW!
Matt shares with us his build of a fantastic looking dummy speaker load box. The dummy speaker load box is reconfigurable to 2-ohm, 4-ohms, 6-ohm, 8-ohm, 16-ohm and 32-ohm loads. TMC050 wire wound power resistors from Vishay mounted to heatsinks to increase power dissipation are used for the load. The speaker load box is simple to build and will look great on the workbench.
Vacuum Tube Testers
|EICO 667 Tube and Transistor Tester
|EICO 628 Tube Tester
|EICO 625 Tube Tester
Speaker Testing Equipment
|Radio Shack 33-2050 SPL Meter
|Low Resistance Test Jig [external link]
|Dayton Audio Test System (DATS)
Electronic Testing Equipment and Tools
|DIY Speaker Dummy Load
|DIY Valve Prototyping Board [external link]
|Telequipment D52 Oscilloscope
Discontinued Testing Equipment and Superseded Projects
The following Testing Equipment pages are of products that are now discontinued or projects that have been superseded.
- Telequipment D52 Oscilloscope - 9 February 2006
- DIY Speaker Dummy Load - 10 December 2007 - Superseded, see Dummy Speaker Load Box.
- DSO-2150 USB Digital Oscilloscope - 4 June 2008
- Dayton Audio Woofer Tester 3 - 24 March 2008 - Replacement: Dayton Audio Test System (DATS).

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The National Asian Artists Project (NAAP) is presenting Discover: New Musicals on Monday, May 23 at the 47th Street Theatre, 304 West 47th Street in New York at 7pm.
The 3 one-act musicals to be presented are BIRTH DAY, written by J. Oconer Navarro and directed by Diana Glazer; CROSSING OVER written by Timothy Huang to be directed by Dev Bondarin; and THE TRAIN TO CHICAGO written by Tom Kenaston and Tom Paitson-Kelly directed by Michael Perreca. The projects were selected through the National Asian Artists Project's inaugural Discover: New Musicals program, by a panel of industry professionals who chose from 21 projects submitted for consideration. Discover presents a forum for talented performers of Asian ancestry to gain exposure and experience; by having artists of Asian descent performing roles not strictly Asian, with the mission to expand casting.
Cast members include Nathan Atkinson, Lori Tan Chinn, Nathaniel P. Claridad, Ryan Cusino, Kimiko Glenn, Christine Toy Johnson, Deborah Lew, Jose Llana, Kelvin Moon Loh, Jaygee Macapugay, Amanda Morton, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Jon Norman Schneider, Herman Sebek, and Hansel Tan. Casting is by Michael Cassara. The evening is produced by NAAP in association with Ellen Rusconi and Nikole Vallins.
Reservations can be made by email to email@example.com. There is a suggested donation of $10 per ticket to defray some of the costs of production, payable in cash or by check at the door.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Discover: New Musicals
47th Street Theatre
304 West 47th Street
New York
This project is supported by grants from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council through their programs Fund for Creative Communities and Manhattan Community Arts Fund.
About NAAP:
NAAP was founded by Baayork Lee, Steven Eng, and Nina Zoie Lam to be a leader in educating, cultivating, and stimulating audiences and artists—current and future—through showcasing exceptional work by vibrant artists of Asian descent. NAAP supports artistic growth of theatre artists of Asian descent; presents forums for them to gain exposure to industry professionals; expands opportunities for Asian theatre artists; cultivates new audiences to encourage arts patronage and involvement, including Asian communities unaccustomed to participating in the arts dialogue. http://www.naaproject.org/
Others articles by Lia Chang
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Meshach Taylor talks Wigger on Wendy Williams Show
Photos: Willie Reale, Frances McDormand, Lewis Black, Bela Fleck, Renee Goldsberry, Duncan Sheik, Lisa Benavides, Abigail Washburn, Tim Blake Nelson at The 52nd Street Project Benefit
Artwork by Asia Flores on display in Mercy High School Annual Art & Soul Art Exhibition in SF
Photos of AEA's Asian Heritage Celebration, featuring the Leviathan Lab Asian American Women Writers Workshop
Photos: Samrat Chakrabarti, Soham Mehta and Shiva Shankar Bajpai at the New York Indian Film Festival
Sixth Annual Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival – Ajay Naidu's Ashes Screens on May 11 & May 15 in Edgewood, PA
Victory Gardens appoints renowned director and playwright Chay Yew as its new Artistic Director
André De Shields stars in Chicago Premiere of Charles Smith's The Gospel According to James at Victory Gardens 5/14-6/12
Up Close and Personal with Darren Pettie, Star of The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
House of Payne's Denise Burse on the 2011 NAACP Image Awards & Season 7
Marva Hicks and the Columbus Jazz Orchestra light up the Southern Theatre with a "A Night at the Apollo"
Photos: David Duchovny, John Earl Jelks, Amanda Peet,Tracee Chimo opening night of Neil LaBute's The Break of Noon
Multimedia: Exclusive photos and video of Disney's The Lion King Las Vegas -In the Makeup Chair with Thom Sesma
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Lia Chang is an actor, performance and fine art botanical photographer, and an award-winning multimedia journalist.
As a photographer and videographer, Lia collaborates with artists, organizations and companies in establishing their documentary photo archive and social media presence. She has been documenting her colleagues and contemporaries in the arts, fashion and journalism since making her stage debut as Liat in the National Tour of South Pacific, with Robert Goulet and Barbara Eden. Lia currently plays Nurse Lia on "One Life to Live". She has appeared in Wolf, New Jack City, A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon, Taxman and "New York Undercover".
Selections of Lia's archive of Asian Pacific Americans in the arts, fashion, journalism, politics and space are now in the newly created LIA CHANG THEATER PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO in the ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION housed in the Library of Congress Asian Division's Asian American Pacific Islander Collection.
Lia's portraits and performance photos have appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, German Elle, Women's Wear Daily, The Paris Review, TV Guide, Daily Variety, Interior Design, American Theatre, Broadwayworld.com, Life & Style, OUT, New York Magazine, InStyle, Timeout.com, Villagevoice.com, Playbill.com, Theatermania.com, thelmagazine.com, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, New York Times and Washington Post. A former syndicated arts and entertainment columnist for KYODO News, Lia is the New York Bureau Chief for AsianConnections.com. She writes about culture, style and Asian American issues for a variety of publications and this Backstage Pass with Lia Chang blog.


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Volume 6-Harry & His Bucket Full of DinosaursSKU:HBD006
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Harry is a typical five-year-old with a healthy imagination who seeks to resolve his conflicts and frustrations through the use of fantasy. He lives with his mother, his Nana and his older sister. His best friends are his toy dinosaurs whom he keeps in a bucket- but he and his Nana know that his dinosaurs can come to life! Harry's bucket leads to Dino World, where he can creatively and fancifully find solutions for real world situations that are hard to handle.
The episodes in Volume 1 cover the traits of friendship, health, confidence, and teamwork.
DVD includes the English and Spanish versions of all four videos as well as a PDF Teacher's guide.
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Storm Aileen
Storm Aileen left 9,000 without power as winds of up to 83 mph (in the Isle of Wight) brought down trees and power lines. Aileen was the first storm to be named this season and brought strong winds to central parts of the UK on Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th September. Heavy rain also caused flooding in North Yorkshire.
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Corporate Sustainability – Board, Management, Market, and Stakeholders
I am carrying out research on the adoption of Triple Bottom Line Sustainability (TBLS) in business companies, and I am pondering the question "Is it all about financial return?" In this regard I am interested in tapping into the wisdom of readers of this Blog.
I define TBLS as the outcome of the activities of an organization, voluntary or governed by law, that demonstrate the ability of the organization to ethically maintain its business operations (including financial viability) whilst not negatively impacting any social or ecological systems.
As I understand it, the Board of Directors of a company is responsible to the shareholders for optimizing shareholder value, making sure profit compares favorably with businesses in comparable industries, being competitive relative to challengers, and guiding the company's strategic management by controlling and monitoring the activities of the company's management. The CEO and management team in theory only design and run the company to satisfy the Board. This looks to me like a directive tailored for 'Financial' not 'TBL' Sustainability.
The Board and/or the CEO and the management team may be wise enough to envisage enhanced profits and market position by taking advantage of the uniqueness of products and services tailored to TBLS; however, this approach is still financially, rather than ethically, motivated.
It would be encouraging to see large numbers of companies embracing TBLS for ethical reasons, but that may not be realistic given the Board mandate highlighted above. It seems to me that the ethically driven leverage for introduction of TBLS comes from the marketplace, the shareholders and the stakeholders – we the people!! In other words, if enough consumers, shareholders and stakeholders are sensitive to ethical concerns and place pressure on companies to operate in a TBLS manner or else risk earning lower company profits and reducing shareholder value, then the relevant Boards have a responsibility to make appropriate changes to introduce and sustain TBLS, and must ensure the changes take place (or risk the corporate consequences). Indeed under these circumstances the CEOs and management strategists ought also to be pressing for change based on strategic imperatives. However, even if corporate action is based on the ethical concerns of "we the people", the outcome is still based on a Board's financial obligations.
The only other option for introduction of TBLS that I see is by Government intervention through a change in Corporation law – not likely to happen I think.
Your thoughts and comments on the general thrust of this Bog would be most welcome and thanks in advance for taking time to consider the thoughts expressed here …
PETER A.C. SMITH is President, The Leadership Alliance Inc. (TLA), a wholly "complex adaptive systems" based consortium of Associates. As a TLA Associate, Peter maintains a worldwide consulting practice assisting leading public and private sector organizations enhance performance and profitability. Peter has proven expertise in the development of innovation and leadership in traditional business environments as well as in currently emerging networked contexts. He has unique understanding of the fundamentals of knowledge sharing, social learning, and informal leadership, including methods for the identification of informal Opinion &/or Innovation Leaders &/or Sustainability Champions – "the people who really get things done" – in order to facilitate the exploration and utilization of their ideas and influence.
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Telecom Unleashes Super Fast Broadband Across North Island
Telecom Unleashes Super Fast Broadband Across North Island with Ultrafast Fibre
Telecom, soon to be Spark, announced today that it is launching Ultra Fibre Broadband for residential and business customers across Tauranga, Hamilton, Te Awamutu, Cambridge, Tokoroa, New Plymouth, and Hawera.
To bring the super fast broadband to homes and businesses across the Upper North Island regions, Telecom has partnered with infrastructure provider Ultrafast Fibre – adding broadband to the Corporate and School solutions launched earlier this year.
Telecom Ultra Fibre customers can choose from simple, competitively-priced, ultra-fast broadband plans. These range from an entry-level 40GB residential plan starting at $85 per month, right up to the "Giganaire" plan - offering unlimited broadband from $99 a month when bundled with one of Telecom's Ultra Mobile plans.
Telecom Retail COO, Jason Paris said he was confident that residents in the UltraFast Fibre regions will be very happy with the experience UFB will give them.
"Customers who've made the move love it because it delivers a better quality internet experience than they receive on a standard copper line. With the best available consistency of speed to your home, this means a better gaming, TV and video streaming, downloading and uploading experience for users – particularly for families with multiple devices.
"For businesses, Ultra Fibre opens the door to greater use of cloud-based applications to improve business productivity. Other business applications such as video conferencing between offices or customers are a smooth as butter on Ultra Fibre. By adopting UFB, New Zealand business are also future-proofing themselves for technologies we can't even imagine yet but that will come out over the next 5, 10, 20 years. After all, 15 years ago, how many of us had email access on our phones?" says Paris.
Jason Paris says that that the speeds Telecom offers fulfil the needs of most fibre customers and today's residential offer complements the business fibre solution that Telecom launched to their corporate clients last year.
"Customers on Telecom's Ultra Fibre can choose the speed range that suits them best from either our Ultra Fibre 30 or our Ultra Fibre 100 plans" says Paris.
Residents of streets where fibre infrastructure has been installed by UltraFast Fibre can sign up for Ultra Fibre online at Telecom.co.nz/addresschecker or by calling 123.
Wanganui residents who live in an Ultrafast Fibre area can expect Telecom Ultra Fibre Broadband to be available to them soon.


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Gents, buy your girl a gold jewel. She'll think it is heavenly – and she will be correct.
Journal Reference: The tungsten isotopic composition of the Earth's mantle before the terminal bombardment. Nature, 2011; 477 (7363): 195 DOI: 10.1038/nature10399
When the earth coalesced from unstructured materials (it was 'gathered together' from 'waters' Gen.1:9) it was an agglomeration. The heat of particle impact and of various chemical processes resulted in the newly formed body becoming plastic. This plasticity allowed heavier elements to sink whilst lighter substances, such as water, proper, floated to the top. Hence, ", …let the dry land appear…. And God called the dry land earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he seas." (Gen.1: 9&10). Lest any should think this is robbing God of his glory by attributing creative power to gravity; gravity itself is a manifestation of divine power. "The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars thereof" (Ps.75:3). This work was done by God alone, man as a physical being not yet existing. Therefore the time taken refers to God, not man. God works according to his own sovereign time and purpose. "Are thy days as the days of man?"(Job10:5). It requires more than twelve hours for multiplied megatons of conglomerate to plasticize and differentiate. The third day was therefore of great duration in terms of human, or created, time. Even if we wish to doubt the physics, the Scripture cannot be doubted : "Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth" (Ps.102:25). The 'everlasting' hills.
As lighter substances such as water proper rose to the surface, heavy elements (and which is the heaviest element of all?) sank to the bottom – the core. The upper regions were denuded of metal ores. The metals of our core – mostly iron, but including precious metals – are sufficient to cover the world to a depth of kilometers.
Those precious metals of the early earth are not adorning any person's person but they are not lost to the larger economy.
Their weight helps stabilize the fast-spinning earth.
Their unique properties, made even more unique by extreme pressure, are probably a factor in the earth's magnetic field and in the interaction of the living realm with the mechanical realm. "I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them." (Ps. 139:14-16). Evolution, anybody? Divine evolution? Perhaps with gold as a factor? But that is another story. If anything is 'wonderful', and the 'soul' [intellect/emotions] 'knoweth it right well', it is quantum physics – the mechanism by which pre-existing life was revealed –as the Scriptures demand.
The life that was yet to be revealed would not have a gold ring to place on its finger. The 'cunning' workmanship of the tabernacle would have the blue, speaking of Heaven; the scarlet, speaking of Earth, the purple, speaking of One who is Heaven and Earth; but not the thread of gold, speaking of Eternity.
"The gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts" (Hag.2:8). There is at least one planet out there (not in the solar system) thought to contain diamonds. Theoretically there could be planets of gold. There are even vast bodies of ethyl alcohol!
If man was to be placed in the earth, the earth needed ores and precious metals in its surface layers. They literally rained down from heaven. A few geologists had speculated along those lines and now measurement of tungsten isotopes shows that the metal ores do indeed post-date the oldest bedrocks. The only possible source of supply is from above. Of course this answers one straightforward question — and poses another question which relegates the first to the trivial. Given that the unstructured materials of Space ('waters') which coalesced to form the bulk of the earth were not exceptionally metals- enriched, why, but, why, would materials enriched in metals then suddenly rain down, after the earth had been in existence for some time?
The answer was predicted years before this recent isotope analysis published in Nature and before it was accepted that anything much at all was added to our planet, subsequent to its coalescence. It has to do with the origin of our own moon – which is exceptionally depleted in anything metallic. Neil Armstrong did not stub his toe on any gold, silver, nor yet, iron, nuggets.
The planet that was divided or denuded to give us part or all of our moon, was divided intelligently, to also give us our valuable ores. But that is yet another story. It all stems from – the Holy Scriptures.
When you get that gold ring, ladies – look up to the heavens. And there was absolutely nothing the earth could do to earn it or deserve it. In fact, we were never anything but a desolate wasteland, before we were restored and given not only 'beauty for ashes', but life, itself.
For the geologically minded: there is of course geologically young gold as well as old gold, (exactly the same) and this has to do with the restless earth re-cycling crustal materials, including gold. There is an element on earth more mystifying than gold, silver, or any valuable metal — oxygen! Oxygen is so active, it bonds to anything it can possibly 'grab'. Roughly half the rock beneath our feet is – oxygen! Theoretically there wasn't any free oxygen remaining after the earth coalesced. We should not have free oxygen! Here is a theory not found in any science text. Electrolytic decomposition of water breaks water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. (Hydrogen is the lightest of elements and as a gas frets away into Space.) The early earth was at least partly shrouded in water and mists.
Would electrically charged raw metal falling through those waters possibly cause electrolytic breakdown of the water?


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New Governor, New Web Presence
Many newly-elected governors have revamped their web strategies in order to open dialogue between government officials and constituents.
Previously, if citizens wanted to know what their governor was up to, they could visit his or her website. And if citizens felt compelled to voice an opinion on an issue the governor was evaluating, they can always call, fax, or write a note via snail mail or e-mail. While these are tried and true ways of connecting government to the people, many of 28 new governors now in office are expanding the methods by which they communicate with their constituents.
With the increase in Internet use and mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, staffers realize that constituents want to access and interact with their leaders in ways similar to how they interact with friends online. One of the initial actions these new governors and staffers took was re-assessing their Web presences, aiming to provide more opportunities to interact and better serve constituents. I spoke to staffers in the governors' offices in Vermont, West Virginia and Iowa to find out what they are doing and how those efforts are working so far.
When Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin was elected, an initial point of discussion was the need to improve his office's ability to interact with citizens, says Special Assistant to the Governor Susan Allen. Constituent communication previously consisted of how to handle traditional media: the newspaper and TV reporters. "The governor himself was just so keenly aware that is just not the way it is done anymore," she says. "In fact, during the campaign, he had been very active in new media and reaching out to people in different ways to get the message across."
One of the first things Shumlin staffers did was create a social media presence for the new governor.
When the Shumlin administration came into office and took over the previous administration's webpage, Allen says they set up a Twitter account (@VTGovernor) and a Facebook page, which she described as "kind of the easy stuff." That "easy stuff" is proving popular: Shumlin has more than a thousand followers on Twitter and more than 600 people "like" him on Facebook.
Shumlin's office doesn't stop there -- they're producing photo galleries with contributions from staff photographers and constituents. "We didn't intend for this to happen, but we were posting our photos and people at the same events are sending us lots of their photos. It has been, accidentally, a two-way street, which is fantastic," says Allen.
Next up for Vermont is creating more video. Staffers already post press conferences on Shumlin's website and on YouTube, and the office is now taking Vermonters' questions. Consitutents submit questions online, and then the governor is recorded while answering the question. "That has been extremely popular," Allen says. "It's just a way for him to actually address the things that people are really talking about -- not the things we think people are talking about -- which are not always the same thing."
In Iowa, Gov. Terry Branstad's administration also prominently features its social networking aspects on its website. It uses both Facebook and Twitter (@terrybranstad) to converse with constituents, says Communications Director Tim Albrecht, noting that there's definitely a place for social networking in government. "It's just a matter of ensuring that our public information officers in all of our agencies and departments do have buy-in, understand what's going on, and we can move forward together with two-way component that works for these websites," he says.
Via social networking, Albrecht says the Iowa governor's office has solicited questions, such as, "What would you do to improve the business climate in Iowa?" which he says generates comments, as do questions like, "What would you do to improve education?" or questions about specific bills. Posts about press conferences and announcements about local investments receive multiple "likes" and comments.
Branstad's communications team also monitors the Facebook and Twitter comments (in addition to phone calls and e-mails) and then evaluates the responses to get an idea of the perception of the overall policy strategy. "We hope that Iowans understand that whether it's the Department of Corrections and Appeals or the Department of Natural Resources, that their voice is being heard," Albrecht says. He points to one problem brought to the administration's attention -- that many people thought communication with the Department of Natural Resources has been a one-way street. "Well maybe this is something we can work on in terms of getting feedback and input from the people of Iowa prior to the department making any particular decisions," Albrecht says.
In Vermont, Allen says that if the administration starts noticing a trend in responses (versus one isolated concern), it lets the appropriate agency know that it might have a problem so that they can remedy the concern. "Or if we get great suggestions, we pass those along too," she says. "For example, we are working -- like every state -- on a very tight budget, so we have asked people, 'Do you have thoughts about ways we can save our money?' and if a good idea came along, we would pass it along to that secretary of that agency."
In West Virginia, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's staffers also have embraced social media to be more interactive -- but they've taken it further as well. Tomblin's office incorporated a visitor survey on the state portal. "We encourage portal users to provide feedback or complete a survey by providing consistent forms across every website and application on the portal," says Communications Director Jacqueline Proctor via e-mail. "We aggregate these results, which gives us an enterprise view of how we're doing."
Proctor says that West Virginia utilizes citizen feedback in part to drive changes, improvements and new services on the portal. "We regularly evaluate feedback that is received to ensure that we're doing a good job of meeting citizen needs and expectations."
The flag status icon on Tomblin's site was a direct request from a constituent in Clendenin, W.V. and using Flickr for photo galleries was recommended by a site visitor, says Jason Johns, general manager at West Virginia Interactive, which runs the state's portals. "On WV.gov, most of the 'How Do I' questions come directly from feedback that we receive," he says. "Also, a lot of online services that are developed come from citizen requests. In 2010, we launched a suite of services for the Board of Accountancy (CPA License Renewals, Online Verifications, etc.) based on requests to the agency. We've upgraded that system in 2011 with a 'shopping cart' type function based on feedback from last year's users."
Though these new governors have received an online makeover, there's more on the horizon -- Iowa anticipates gathering input from Iowans in other ways, which Albrecht says he thinks will be a major component for agencies and departments. "We just don't know what that will look like yet." On the whole, Iowa is revamping all state agency websites so they all share a common look and feel. The ultimate goal, Albrecht says, "is to expand two-way communications with the people of Iowa."
West Virginia will continue to broaden its ability to have open dialogue with citizens, and the portal will continue evolving to more effectively brand the public sector in the state. "For instance, we offer various spotlight topics at the top of the portal to help constituents find the latest information about occurrences or annual events," Proctor says. "We'll continue to work with our partner, West Virginia Interactive, to ensure greater access to government information and savings."
In Vermont, Allen says the "Ask the Governor" tables will turn, and the administration will begin asking questions of its citizenry. "That it is definitely in the cards shortly," she says, adding that she finds the new media options a lot of fun because they're so much more interactive than talking out to people in a newspaper article or TV program. "You're actually in a technological world, having a conversation back and forth. You're getting their input and you're responding much more promptly to their concerns or misperceptions."
We invite you to discuss and comment on this article using social media.


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Eagles to Perform at the Walden Woods Project's 2014 Global Environmental Leadership Award Event
The Eagles will perform at the Walden Woods Project's 2014 Global Environmental Leadership Award event honoring Robert Redford and hosted by Don Henley at the Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre in Boston, MA on Tuesday, September 16, 2014.
Proceeds from the event will support the mission of the Walden Woods Project, the Massachusetts-based charity founded in 1990 by Don Henley. The organization protects Thoreau's Walden Woods and applies Thoreau's philosophy through educational programs that address the global environmental challenges of the 21st century.
Tickets are on sale Monday, August 4 at 10 a.m. online at citicenter.org, via ticketmaster.com, by phone at 800-745-3000 or in person at the Wang Theatre Box Office, Tuesday through Saturday 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
For information on VIP packages, call 781-259-4701 or go to walden.org.


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Rev. Anthony Dickson will lead a celebration of the Feast of St. Leonard, Patron Saint of prisoners, on Friday 8 November.
St. Leonard of Noblac is a Frankish saint closely associated with the town and abbey of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, in Haute-Vienne, in the Limousin region of France. In England no fewer than 177 churches are dedicated to him.
According to the romance that accrued to his name, recorded in an 11th-century vita, Leonard was a Frankish noble in the court of Clovis I, founder of the Merovingian dynasty.
The actual date of his birth is not certain, but he was converted and baptised along with the king by Saint Remy, Bishop of Rheims, on 25 December 496 AD.
On reaching adult life he gave up his very considerable riches and entered a monastery at St. Mesnil, not far from Orleans. Then, according to his legend, Leonard became a hermit in the forest of Limousin, where he gathered a number of followers.
St. Leonard is known as the Patron Saint of Prisoners, having caused the release of many, and of pregnant women. Through his prayers the queen of the Franks was safely delivered of a male child, and in recompense Leonard was given royal lands at Noblac, 21 km (13 mi) from Limoges. There he founded the abbey of Noblac, around which a village grew, named in his honour Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat.
Leonard asked Clovis to grant him personally the right to liberate prisoners whom he would find worthy of it, at any time. Leonard secured the release of a number of prisoners. He gave them work, to support them as they led a new life of honesty.
According to legend, prisoners who invoked him from their cells saw their chains break before their eyes. Many came to him afterwards, bringing their heavy chains and irons to offer them in homage.
A considerable number remained with him, and he often gave them part of his vast forest to clear and make ready for the labours of the fields, that they might have the means to live an honest life.
When St. Leonard died his body was buried in the little Church at Noblac which he had built with his own hands. He died 6 November 559.
He taught his disciples that the captivity of sin was greater than any physical internment – and preached strong doctrine that each would live honest and productive lives.
He was a pioneer in addressing social issues that many would turn away from, understanding that confronting barriers was the only way in which true transformation could be achieved.
He performed many miracles of healing – delivering people from the shackles of illness and physical deficiency; he cast out demons and delivered emotional freedom; he encouraged work and productivity to free the people from poverty and social deprivation.
Father Anthony Dickson will lead a celebration of the Feast of St. Leonard at St. Leonard's Church in Marston Bigot on Friday 8 November from 10am.
This replaces the regular Friday Holy Communion in All Saints Church in Nunney for this week only.
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St Leonard's Church
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Top executives from 19 commercial real estate companies met with U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) officials in New York City today to discuss plans to dramatically reduce the sector's energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The meeting officially launched DOE's Commercial Real Estate Energy Alliance (CREEA), a partnership of commercial real estate owners and operators who have volunteered to work together with DOE to make lasting change in the energy consumption of commercial real estate buildings in the United States. Currently, commercial buildings account for 18 percent of the nation's energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions.
"The deployment of new energy efficient technologies and adoption by both public and private sectors are vital to achieving substantial change in building energy use throughout the U.S.," said Scott Hine, acting program manager of DOE's Building Technologies Program. "This collaboration will help speed the adoption of high-performance, energy-efficient buildings by the commercial real estate sector."
CREEA links building owners and operators with applicable research and technologies being developed at DOE's National Laboratories. It is the second energy alliance launched by the Department of Energy in the commercial buildings sector. The Retailer Energy Alliance, with members such as Walmart, Target and Macy's, was launched in 2008.
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War Movie #4
Synopsis: It's basically two hours of combat training set to an endless repetition of "You're In the Army Now" that's occasionally interrupted with some of the most unconvincing love scenes ever filmed.
Blurb From the VHS Jacket: "James Garner leads an elite force into valorous battle."
What Did I Learn?: Apparently, American Jews will make a sign of the cross when they hear upsetting news. [Who wrote this movie?]
You Might Like This Movie If: You can't get enough of "You're in the Army Now."
Really?: 1) See: "What Did I Learn?" 2) Ok, those are NOT English, Scottish and Italian accents. Holy shit, who cast the actors in this movie? 3) So, what's the deal with the slapstick barroom brawl scenes? Did some movie studio hotshot decide this film needed a bit of levity?
Rating: Garner and Jack Warden do their best with a sub-standard script, but even Garner's inherent likability can't salvage one of the most incompetently-directed (and written) films I've ever watched (See: "What Did I Learn?", "Synopsis" and "Really?"). The action scenes aren't exciting, the love scenes are treacly and unwatchable, and by the end I simply didn't care about these characters. I cannot recommend this movie. 3/10 stars.
Would It Work For a Bad Movie Night?: Maybe. Take a drink every time an English, Scottish or Italian woman instantly falls in love with one of the Rangers.


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Our client wanted a demo version of their Ember app to take to trade shows, use for sales demos, etc. Ideally, it would run on a laptop with no internet connection and not require the use of any developer tools. We decided to run the Ember app against a mocked backend.
After briefly surveying available options for demo backends, we selected Ember CLI Mirage, for a couple reasons:
- It runs entirely in the browser, with no actual server required.
- It doesn't depend on Ember Data (which our app doesn't use).
Alex and I spent a couple days spiking out whether it could do everything we needed, and then integrated it with our app. The documentation is pretty good, so I won't go into all the setup. Instead, here are some highlights from our implementation.
Keep a Tidy Configuration
For starters, in order to isolate demo mode from our existing development, test, and production environments, we disabled mirage globally, and put its configuration behind an environment variable:
ENV['ember-cli-mirage'] = {
enabled: false // off everywhere but demo
if (process.env.DEMO_MODE) {
ENV['ember-cli-mirage'] = {
enabled: true
ENV.APP.FEATURE_X = false;
ENV.APP.FEATURE_Y = true;
This enables us to run with
DEMO_MODE=true ember server, or after placing the command in package.json's scripts section,
yarn demo.
Test It
We have Mirage disabled by default in our test environment in order to not interfere with our large suite of existing tests, but we start it manually for two new types of tests:
Demo Acceptance Tests: These click around the app as it runs against the mirage backend with its fixture data, proving that it works as desired.
Data Validation Tests: As the primary backend changes over time, demo mode's fixture data could easily fall out of sync. To detect this granularly, we walk over all the demo data, serialize each record, and verify that it produces a valid client model. (We happen to have strict models, generated from backend types.)
Rarely-used demonstration features can easily be neglected and rot; these tests will help protect ours from breaking as the rest of the app evolves.
Make a Portable Build
When configured correctly, an Ember app can run from disk, with no webserver required. It's a little tricky to get routing and asset paths to work correctly with
file:// URLs; here's the magic incantation to drop in the demo config section:
ENV.rootURL = '';
ENV.locationType = 'hash';
- rootURL "identifies the path at which an Ember application is served so Ember's router can know which path segments to ignore."
- locationType governs how Ember interacts with the browser URL.
You may find that these changes break some hardcoded
<a hrefs, especially if they were pointing at routes within your app. Now's a great time to switch them over to link-to, which references routes symbolically and is immune to these configuration changes.
With these in place, running a demo is as simple as double-clicking index.html!
Do More Cool Things
Relevant miscellany:
- Hook into Pretender's handledRequest to execute code on each request, but be warned that Mirage relies on it for logging.
- Add records "live" in the background with e.g.
setInterval(() => server.create('record'), 25000);
- Deploy your demo build within your development build:
ember build && DEMO_MODE=1 ember build --output-path dist/demo
- Use
window.navigator.onLineto approximate whether the app is online, in order to handle special cases around other network dependencies.
- Create an electron app!
Try it Out!
I encourage you to try mirage in your Ember project, even if you have no need for an offline demo. It makes a pretty great development API. The documentation is good, the maintainer is responsive, and the slack channel (
#ec-mirage on the Ember Community Slack) has been very helpful.


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Please seriously consider my case before you do the SCJD. Why would you waste 80 hours of your life and a whole lot money for something you may never get?
Raf Szczypiorski wrote:Hi,
Roel asked me to comment on this topic as I sent my assignment very recently (last Thursday).
So, really, I have nothing to say, I just used the email mentioned here, add an attachment jar to it, the topic and the jar had my prometric Id included, and right after I did this I got an automatic response so I guess it got past their filters.
Sorry I couldn't be of much help, but I really didn't have any problems.
Raf Szczypiorski wrote:I am also in Germany and I sent the email from Germany, from home. The file name was scjda-<my prometric id>.jar. Try this email: firstname.lastname@example.com - this is the lady that really helped me - she forwarded my email to all saints in Oracle (I complained a lot about how they had handled me up to that time) and I had my quesitons answered within a week. Maybe this will be of help to you?
Roel De Nijs wrote:Here a user trying to contact Oracle had the same error message. Changing the extension to something different from jar, zip or exe did the job (apparently).
And please watch your language: shouting, screaming, calling people names,... will not help you any further.
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If you didn't know already, TokBox provides a live video streaming API called OpenTok that lets you put live video chat into your website. We have a javascript library, iOS, and Android SDKs. To get a taste of how our API works, get started here!
If you have any questions with our API, feel free to reach out to us @tokbox or to me directly @songz or ask on stack overflow!
Heres a list of other sponsoring APIs and how they can can help you with your hack:
Mashery: Powers a lot of APIs, including Rovi, Klout, Netflix, Rdio, etc. If you need data (geolocation, music, video, etc), you will probably find an API for that in Mashery's network.
Rdio: An easy and legal way to access and play music across web and mobile devices. They have an iOS/Android API, as well as web API for getting music data and playing music
Spotify: Lets you build apps directly into the Spotify desktop or mobile app. You can also use their API to retrieve music data or access their player for integration with your own website.
Twilio: Gives you an API to buy phone numbers, make and receive phone calls, or send and receive SMS messages. They have a web API as well as mobile SDK
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Klout: API for you to integrate with klout, a platform for users to recognize and understand their areas of influence. My klout score is 62, whats yours?
Sonos: API provides an easy way for content to be delivered by web-based streaming music services and consumed by the Sonos Wireless HiFi System.
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Hope to see you there!
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An almost five-and-a-half hour standoff with an armed man who barricaded himself inside a home in Bozrah ended with the man in custody, but no injuries, according to state police.
Police responded to 98 Fitchville Road around 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday after the man's roommate called and reported that the man was drunk, despondent over breaking up with his girlfriend and had a gun, according to state police.
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He was taken into custody just before 2 a.m. Thursday.
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This study examines the similarities in the historical development and stated values of the American literary journalism and modern storytelling movements within the framework of communication and narrative theory. In addition, the techniques and subjects of oral storytelling and literary journalism, as described in professional publications and manuals for storytellers and reporters, are compared for similarities.
Storytelling and literary journalism have grown apart and come together to peak again during times of social upheaval, first at the turn of the century and again in the 1960s. In addition, the two professions are related by the common goal of celebrating individual experience, the life of the common folk, and the birth of interactive communities that offer an alternative to mass media and mass culture. Overlapping techniques include the use of simple slots, the personal "voice" of the narrator, character development through dialogue and scenes, and an emphasis on theme.
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Recommended Citation
Duncan, S. Heather, "A Comparison of the Origins, Goals, and Techniques of Storytelling and Literary Journalism." (2001). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 147. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/147
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Help with lipid peroxidation assays - (Aug/24/2011 )
Anyone in the forum with experience with lipid peroxidation? Would you say that lipid peroxidation occurs as an early or as a late event following ROS production?
Thank you.
Hi Cardosopedro,
Lipid oxidation is quite a complex event, but the peroxyl radical commonly generated during lipid oxidation is one of the slowest reacting radical of all type of radicals, but at the same time it has the longest half lives.
It also depends on the fatty acid composition in question, thus what kind of lipid material you are trying to oxidize. Samples containing higher level of unsaturated fatty acids will oxidize faster as opposed to that containing more saturated fatty acids.
In addition, the type of lipid oxidation end point measure will also make a difference. As you most probably know, lipid oxidation begins with lipid oxidation initiation, followed by propagation and termination. Different assays will measure lipid oxidation at different stage of lipid oxidation. So whether it is early or late will also depends on how you are measuring them.
I am not sure if this helps.. but I hope it does.
Sure it helped! Thank you.
I am using two methods: the TBARS assay (reaction with thiobarbituric acid) and free MDA assay (reaction with 1methyl-2-phenylindole).
I see production of ROS very early after drug treatment (I am using a cell death-inducing drug). However, I don't seem to find lipid peroxidation even trying very different time points of analysis... I tried from 2h to 24h of treatment. Maybe... it simply does not happen??
Thanks again.
I tried TBARS as well before on my cell extract and it wasn't working so well. It is likely because TBARS is not a very sensitive method. I have seen however some people being successful in using the assay. If you are working with cell extract, may be you might want to concentrate your samples or try something else more sensitive? You might also want to use positive control that you know for sure will oxidize your samples. AAPH for example is a free radical generator that is reported to induce lipid oxidation.
For me I eventually resorted into using a probe called DPPP that will be incorporated in cell membrane and react with lipid hydroperoxides. The assay eventually worked but looking for instruments that measure the specific fluorescence for the probe wasn't easy. Another way I was thinking of trying but never got around to do was to try gas chromatography for the secondary oxidation product such as hexanal.
Thank you for joining the discussion. I actually did a positive control. I used H2O2 and it worked. So, the method is working... The problem is that I can't see differences in my samples of interest (both with TBARS and free MDA assay), although I see production of ROS...
Just wondering, what is the magnitude of ROS generation in your drug treatment as opposed to H2O2? And compared to H2O2, is it produced slow and steadily or in an instant?
I never measured ROS after H2O2 in these cells...
Mmmm... but regarding stimulation of ROS production by my drug, I would say that it happens quickly. I already see a very significant difference when comparing with the control after 30 mins of treatment.
The earliest time point I tested for lipid peroxidation was 2 hours after treatment. Now I am wondering if it can occurs very early (I mean, before 2 hours) and I am missing it because of that.
If this is true that would mean that lipids "loose" its peroxidation state (because I don't see peroxidation at 2 hours)?
Thanks for the nice discussion.
HI Cardosopedro,
I am wondering of how did you measure the ROS?
I think measuring the lipid oxidation at 30 min might be a good idea but then to me it does not seem like it makes sense that you would 'lose' lipid peroxidation. MDA are secondary product of lipid oxidation so the lipid oxidation likely has gone all the way passing the propagation stage. Once it is there, unless if there is additional antioxidants, it seems that observing continuous generation of MDA is more likely.
Also, I wonder of what is the longest incubation time that you have tried?
I measured ROS by flow cytometry using two probes: dihydrorhodamine 123 and dihydroethidium.
For the lipid peroxidation assays, the longest treatment with the drug was 24 hours. I will try this week one of the assays after 30 mins.
Hi Cardosopedro,
just an idea, do you think it would be a good idea to compare the ROS generation pattern of your drug as opposed to H2O2? Another question is whether you know if your drug compound fluoresces at nearby wavelength that your probes are fluorescing at? A reason to look at the ROS pattern of your drug vs H2O2 is that cells have their own defense system that can neutralize the radicals, so if they got neutralized quicker than H2O2, I thought may be it prevent lipid oxidation from occurring. My two cents.


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May I ask, what board game? I don't remember the last time I've played a board game, probably when I was 12
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After quietly piloting the concept for months, BuzzFeed officially launched its own native ad network this March. The mechanics of the network are bizarre, yet intriguing: Participating publishers allow BuzzFeed to serve story previews on their sites which, when clicked, bring visitors to sponsored stories on BuzzFeed.com. The network, whose ads resemble real story teases, is brash and a bit risky, but it may just help publishers circumvent the abuses of today's established, banner reliant, ad network ecosystem.
The current ad network model, or indirect sales model, is a mess. It functions based on an oversupply of simple display ads and is rife with inefficiencies, opening the door for middlemen to reap profits while devaluing publisher inventory. BuzzFeed's native ad network, along with others in a similar mold, has the potential to minimize these drawbacks by giving publishers a simple, safe way to make money through indirect sales channels.
How We Got Here
The ad networks we know today came about as a result of the poor economics of the banner ad. A little history: In the early days of Internet publishing, the banner ad seemed to make sense. Just as many publishers began figuring out the Internet by taking content produced for print and slapping it on the web, they took the standard print ad format — selling advertisers designated space on a page — and brought it online too. Instead of selling these ads by the inch though (a measurement suitable for edition-based print publishing), digital ads were sold by the impression, or view, a better fit for the unceasing nature of online media.
Over time, the acceptance and standardization of the banner ad brought a number of side effects along with it, the most important being an incentive for publishers to pack their pages with as many banners as possible. For publishers, the decision was easy: The more banner ads they placed on a page, the more money they stood to make. So instead of running a more manageable (and more user-friendly) three or four banner ads, publishers cluttered their pages with 10, 15 or even 20 of them.
Placing ads on a page was only half the equation though; publishers still needed to sell them. As they soon found out, selling premium, above-the-fold ads was a lot easier than getting advertisers to pony up for the glut of below-the-fold, low-quality inventory. A significant percentage of ads thus went unsold, and into the void stepped ad networks. Even at a heavy discount, publishers figured, it was better to get some money from remnant inventory via ad networks as opposed to making nothing. This would prove to be a poor calculation.
The Dark Side of Ad Networks
Rather than question the logic of creating more inventory than it was possible to sell, publishers stuck with the model, growing their audiences along with their inventory and watching the original ad networks evolve into a multibillion-dollar tech industry fed largely on remnant inventory. Soon, publishers found themselves exposed to more drawbacks than they perhaps initially bargained for, and the original premise of making more money with more ads came into question.
As it grew, the indirect ecosystem not only enabled advertisers to buy publisher inventory at cheaper prices, devaluing even premium inventory, it also allowed them to buy premium publisher audiences on non-premium sites, thanks to the third-party cookie. The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal zoomed in on this problem in a long piece about the tough economics of the online publishing industry.
"Advertisers didn't have to buy The Atlantic," he wrote. "They could buy ads on networks that had dropped a cookie on people visiting The Atlantic. They could snatch our audience right out from underneath us." The indirect system, in other words, commoditized his audience, leaving his impressions as valuable, in some ways, as those on third-rate sites.
Recognizing these and other abuses as endemic to the system, publishers today are starting to fight back. Many are trying to limit their dependency on banner ads either by cutting them out of their business completely or by constricting supply. David Payne, the chief digital officer at Gannett who oversaw a major USA Today redesign which dramatically reduced the site's supply of banners, put it this way when I spoke with him for an article for Digiday: "I think we've all proven over the last 12 years that the strategy we've been following — to create a lot of inventory and then sell it at 95 percent off to these middlemen every day — is not a long-term strategy."
Publishers have started looking for alternative forms of revenue to fill the gap and, so far, the hottest alternative is the native ad. Everyone from The Atlantic, to Tumblr, to the Washington Post, to Twitter is giving it a try and BuzzFeed, perhaps the extreme example, is all in. It sells only native ads, no banners.
BuzzFeed Susceptible to the Same Problems?
Which brings us to BuzzFeed's ad network. At this early point, it seems like the network should indeed be free of many of the abuses listed above. Its simple nature, for example, ensures that most of the value won't be siphoned out by a group of tech middlemen and will be largely shared by BuzzFeed, participating publishers and minimally, the ad server. Participating in the network, furthermore, should not devalue publishers' existing inventory since it will not provide advertisers access to the same inventory at cheaper prices.
BuzzFeed also claims its networks steers clear of third-party cookies, the audience-snatching culprit that The Atlantic's Madrigal railed against.
"We believe the ultimate targeting is real human-to-human sharing, digital word of mouth, so we don't do third-party cookie targeting," BuzzFeed advertising executive Eric Harris told me via email. "We're not collecting individually identifiable data and will not sell any data."
The approach should help participating publishers breathe a bit easier — and they may just want to consider demanding the same from any network they engage with, not just BuzzFeed's.
"It's cleaner; it's more straight up," said Fark.com CEO Drew Curtis of BuzzFeed's network. His site, which is one of the partners participating in the launch, embeds BuzzFeed sponsored story previews on its home page, marking them as sponsored. "I just like the fact that there's no screwing around," Curtis explained in a phone interview, "It's exactly what it appears to be, no more no less." Rates from BuzzFeed's ad network, he added, are significantly higher from other indirect channels. "Advertisers," he said, "are willing to pay for less bulls#*t."
Of course, one question participating publishers might ask themselves is why they are helping BuzzFeed profit from sponsored posts instead of selling them on their own sites. The answer might worry BuzzFeed — at least until it can get its traffic up to the point of advertiser demand — but if publishers decide to go that route and withdraw from the network, they may be able to pull themselves away from the bad economics that brought them into the network game in the first place.
Alex Kantrowitz covers the digital marketing side of politics for Forbes.com and PBS MediaShift. His writing has previously appeared in Fortune and the New York Times' Local Blog. Follow Alex on Twitter at @Kantrowitz.


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Australian-born Robert Geneid, Managing Director of the Royal Mulu Resort in the Malaysian Sarawak Province on the island of Borneo, is currently engaged in major renovation of the hotel following the Company's decision to place it under the management umbrella of the Marriott Hotel Group. The Marriott will have its first nature resort and the Royal Mulu Resort will become a top echelon destination for the discerning traveller, who will appreciate and respect the Resort's naturally beautiful setting in the Gunung Mulu National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Area.
Robert Geneid is keen to protect the beauty and ecology of the Mulu Valley area, while at the same time acknowledging that some development is essential if the local people are to thrive. In allowing the Royal Mulu Resort to be added to the Marriott portfolio, he feels he will achieve these aims by attracting ecotourists who care about the environment yet expect all the frills of a luxurious, world-class, service-oriented venue.
Robert Geneid has long contributed to the Sarawak area, helping, as a private businessman, to build a sustainable tourism industry and create employment and a future for the indigenous people of the Mulu Area. At the macro level, Geneid is also active in protecting Malaysia's natural beauty and promoting it as a preferred destination for investment, business and tourism. He does so through his membership in and Board position with Malaysia's main government tourist boards.
Before entering the tourism sector in Sarawak, Robert Geneid had a successful career as a civil engineer and as a solicitor/business consultant. Throughout the 70s and 80s, he was engaged in large-scale construction projects in his native Australia and adopted country, Malaysia. It is here that he lives with his wife and their large family. The Geneids have seven children and live in Kuching, the capital city of the Sarawak Province, where his main business interests lie.
In the mid-80s, as a construction lawyer with Freehill, Holingdale and Page's Major Project Division, he was a member of the team that tied up the legal aspects of some of Australia's most important public transport and energy projects. In 1990, having joined Australian Law Firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques as a Partner, he held responsibility for major infrastructure construction projects in Indonesia, including coal mines, a television station, and hotels.
Today, in addition to being MD of the Royal Mulu Resort, he is also Managing Director of the Kumpulan Construction Company, which has an excellent record of completing major development projects on time and to budget. Examples include a new port and a new stadium in Kuching, as well as the Taman Tunku Township, developed by Kumpulan Parabena Sdn Bhd, of which Robert Geneid is an Executive Director.
Before setting off on his successful career - and again during a career break, Robert completed two degrees at the University of New South Wales. As a very young man, he gained an Honours degree in Civil Engineering and was one of the youngest ever Fellows of Australia's Register of Civil Engineers. A decade later, he returned to his alma mater to do a degree in Law.
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Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
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University of New South Wales
Bachelor of Law,
University of New South Wales
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Author of the Month: Julie Van CampPublished: February 15, 2010
Applying Ethics: A Text with Readings
Julie C. Van Camp, Philosophy (with Jeffrey Olen and Vincent Barry)
Published in 2010 by Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, this 10th edition of Applying Ethics: A Text with Readings represents the publisher's best-selling text in applied ethics. The current edition has been updated extensively by Van Camp to include an all-new chapter on globalization and social justice with readings and case studies on sweatshops, illegal immigrants, health care and female mutilation. She has also added new readings on the ethics of care, gay marriage, women and euthanasia and class discrimination as well as new readings by such philosophers as Dan Brock, Virginia Held, John Rawls, Michael Sandel and Michael Walzer. The text features numerous case presentations so students can apply theoretical philosophical material to contemporary issues. New cases in this edition focus on stopping the sweatshops, the right to health care, the right of illegal immigrants to education, asylum for victims of female mutilation and punishing child rapists. Other units in the text address abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, genetic engineering, animal rights, environmental ethics, discrimination and computer ethics. The first seven editions of this text were prepared by Jeffrey Olen and Vincent Barry. When they retired, the publisher invited Van Camp to take over the editing responsibilities. She produced the eighth edition in 2004, the ninth edition in 2007 and this new 10th edition. She is also the author of Ethical Issues in the Courts: A Companion to Philosophical Ethics (2000, 2005, Wadsworth/Thomson). She is one of four winners of the 1998-99 Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award. Her Web site, "Freedom of Expression at the National Endowment for the Arts", has been online since 1996 thanks to funding from the National Endowment of the Arts. She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980 and to the State Bar of California in 1986 and remains on active status with both. She received an A.B. cum laude in philosophy from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Temple University in Philadelphia, specializing in philosophy of art. She holds a J.D. cum laude from Georgetown University, where she specialized in art law. The Huntington Beach resident joined the university in 1990.


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It emerged at the Commercial Court division of the High Court yesterday that one of the developers being pursued through the Irish courts by NAMA was in fact declared bankrupt in London on 29th August 2012. Reginald Stuart Tuthill, aged 63, currently resident in an upmarket part of London but formerly resident in Clondalkin is described as a "self employed property consultant" on the bankruptcy record shown above. His current address is given as 147 CRANMER COURT, LONDON, SW3 3HF but according to the Irish Times, his former address was Tower Road, Clondalkin, Dublin.
Along with his business partner, Derek O'Leary – coincidentally also a former Dublin resident but currently resident a stones throw away from Reginald at an address on Gatliff Road in Westminster, London SW1 – and three of their companies, they were being sued by NAMA on foot of loans and guarantees involving AIB.
In the end, judgments of €24m apiece were granted against Messrs Tuthill and O'Leary and €91m against two of the companies – Sandyford Forum Developments Ltd and Blackthorn Securities plc – and a third judgment is in the offing against Maycombe Developments Limited once some bureaucratic issues are addressed. The judgment against Stuart Tuthill was adjourned "because [he] was adjudicated a bankrupt a day before proceedings were served on him". It is not clear from the Irish Times piece why this would be an impediment. In fact NAMA made the application in the High Court on 28th August 2012, one day before the bankruptcy order was obtained in London.
Reginald's bankruptcy brings to 18 the number of UK bankruptcies of NAMA developers recorded on here comprising Ray Grehan, Danny Grehan, Tom McFeely, John Fleming, Bernard Doyle, Patrick Fitzpatrick, Tony Fitzpatrick, Paddy Shovlin, Michael Doran, Martin Doran, Alastair Jackson, Fergal McAlinden, Peter McDaid, Mervyn McAlister, Peter Dolan, Sam Thompson, Sean McWilliams. It should be said that Tom McFeely's bankruptcy was overturned in the UK and he was subsequently declared bankrupt in Ireland.
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This card was made for both the color challenge and for Teapot Tuesday. The colors are artichoke, mustard and burgundy, and the dessert is birds. The teapot challenge was to use mosaic, and I could even find the mosaic I made from scraps of rubber (eons ago!). This will go to someone who needs some cheering up. I think this will work.
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Few happy things are going on behind the scenes at print magazines these days, but December's fashion books didn't show it -- they were delightful. There are resort ads and resort clothes to drool over. An avant-garde British Vogue editorial showcased the pieces of our wildest fashion fantasies. Model Karlie Kloss channeled her dark side for a brooding, eerie spread in i-D. And Vogue presents some mighty fine male ballerina ass. Literally. On the downside, Gisele disappointed in Elle, albeit through no fault of her own, and Duncan Quinn has a rather disturbing ad. Click through to see all that and much more.
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Joints allow us to move freely and support out bodies so every damage caused by injury or a disease, can impede our movement and result with pain and harder movement .
Rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, gout, bursitis, sprains, strains, and other kinds of injuries can cause pain and the most common are ones in the knees .
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- remove the outer layer of the cabbage leaves and wash it
- dry the leaves and cut out the hard stems
- bruise the leaves with a rolling pin to release the juice
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- put the cabbage leaves on the painful place and secure with a bandage or gauze.
- let it sit for an hour and repeat this on every 2-3 hours
- use different leaves each time.
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- Cabbage allergies are rare and can appear like itching or swelling so remove the cabbage if this symptoms appear.
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Yogi Bhajan: A Teacher for the Ages
Born: August 26, 1929, Gujranwala, Pakistan
Died: October 6, 2004, Española, NM
Born Harbhajan Singh Puri, August 26, 1929, in the part of India that became Pakistan in 1948, Yogi Bhajan left India in 1968 and came to Los Angeles later that same year to teach Kundalini Yoga. When he became a United States citizen in 1976, Yogi Bhajan changed his name legally to Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji. Many of his students simply referred to him as the Siri Singh Sahib. And they still do!
At Guru Ram Das Ashram we celebrate both his birth and passing with meals, chanting and yoga. We invite you to join us in the celebration of the legacy of Yogi Bhajan.
Yogi Ji's Birthday Celebration
Birthday Meditation & Sadhana
It has been our tradition for many years at Guru Ram Das Ashram to celebrate Yogi Bhajan's birthday.
Please join us for our annual celebration!
Annual Event Details
July 22 – August 30: Forty Day Morning Sadhana
4:00 – 6:30AM Morning Call Chant
6:00 – 6:05AM Ardas and Hukam
August 15 – August 25: Evening Chanting
Start times vary each evening so check our schedule
August 15 – August 25
~7:15PM Chanting to Guru Ram Das
7:45PM Light dinner
August 26: Birthday Sadhana
Birthday Sadhana
August 26
3:20 – 5:50AM Morning Call Chant. Long Ek Ongkar meditation
6:00 – 6:11AM Guru Ram Das chanting
Event Descriptions
July 17 – August 25: Forty Day Long Ek Ongkar Sadhana. We at Guru Ram Das Ashram are celebrating the Siri Singh Sahib's birthday with our morning sadhana. From July 17th to August 25th we are chanting the Morning Call (Long Ek Ong Kars) for two and a half hours.
Each morning from 4-6:30AM we chant the Morning Call followed by five minutes of chanting to Guru Ram Das, then an Ardas and Hukam (6:35-6:50AM).
August 15 – August 25: Evening Chanting. Each evening for the eleven days before the Siri Singh Sahib's birthday, we meditate by chanting Guru Guru Wahe Guru, Guru Ram Das Guru. Our evening mediations begin on August 15th. Here at Guru Ram Das Ashram we celebrate in community by chanting each evening in one another's homes. Evening meditations are 31 minutes long and are musical recitations of Guru Guru Wahe Guru Guru Ram Das Guru. This is a special time for family and friends to connect, share food and stories, and celebrate the life and legacy of Yogi Bhajan.
Join the global spiritual community in connecting with the spirit of Yogi Bhajan, by chanting with us — or in your own homes — and offering thanks for all the blessings he so generously shared with us.
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August 26: Birthday Sadhana. On August 26th, the morning of the Siri Singh Sahib's actual birthday, we celebrate with a special sadhana. We will chant the Morning Call (Long Ek Ongkar) for 2.5 hours followed by 11 minutes of chanting to Guru Ram Das. This last chant begins at exactly 6:00AM Eastern Daylight Savings Time joining our worldwide community in this powerful chant for 11 minutes.
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The 145-ton turbine runner was accepted by the customer's representatives, i.e. SoyuzExpertiza Autonomous Nonprofit Organization of the RF Chamber of Commerce and Industry fully authorized by RusHydro to supervise equipment production externally.
Power Machines have produced, tested and handed over to the customer's representatives the first set of two hydraulic turbine runners for SSh HPP's hydraulic units Nos 1 and 7 this year.
So far Power Machines have manufactured and shipped hydraulic turbines and hydraulic generators equipment designated for the SSh HPP's first two hydraulic units to the site. Production of the equipment for hydraulic units Nos 3 and 4 is in progress; assembly groups are dispatched as completed.
Transportation of the first set of heavy-weight equipment (incl. three new runners produced in 2011 plus three sets of large-size generator equipment) to the SSh HPP's site is scheduled for summer 2011.
These new large-size and heavy-weight machines are to be transported to the SSh HPP the only possible way - by water during the 2011, 2012 and 2013 summer navigation periods. Total length of the route is about 5,900 km. The heavy-weight assemblies designed for the SSh HPP's hydraulic units will be taken aboard a river-sea vessel at the pier adjacent to Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod (branch of Power Machines Group) in St. Petersburg. The vessel carrying the cargo will pass along the Ladoga Lake and the Onega Lake. It will sail through the White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal to enter the White Sea and will further pass along the Northern Sea Route and the Yenisei River to reach Krasnoyarsk. At the Krasnoyarsk River Port the cargo is to be reloaded to a river-craft that will bypass the Krasnoyarskaya HPP's boat lift and ship the cargo to the pier (transfer point) at the Mainskaya HPP's tailbay. Following that, the new hydraulic unit assemblies are to be shipped to the SSh HPP's erection site by automotive vehicles.
The contract to produce basic power equipment for the overhaul of Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP was signed by Power Machines and RusHydro in November 2009. Under this contract, Power Machines are to manufacture ten hydraulic turbines and nine hydraulic generators rated at 640 MW each, as well as six excitation systems. Power Machines' specialists will also provide installation services for the supplied equipment,, including supervised installation and commissioning. The contract value amounts to RUR 11.7 bln (exclusive of VAT). In the current year, Power Machines are to produce hydraulic power equipment for five hydraulic units of the plant under restoration.
The new hydraulic units' service life will be extended up to 40 years, with the maximum turbine efficiency of 96.6%. Its power and cavitation characteristics will also be enhanced. The turbines will be equipped with an advanced process safeguard system, which automatically shuts down a unit in case of unacceptable mode deviations in parameters being monitored.
As part of activities aimed at renewing those hydraulic units that remained relatively undamaged after the accident at the SSh HPP, Power Machines have previously manufactured and supplied to the power plant excitation system equipment sets for hydraulic units Nos 6, 5, 4 and 3 as well as a new hydraulic generator to replace that of damaged hydraulic unit No 3. Hydraulic units Nos 6 and 5 retrofitted and were put into service ahead of the established schedule – in February-March 2010. In compliance with the SSh HPP Overhaul Program approved by the RF Ministry of Energy, hydraulic units Nos 4 and 3 were launched in August and December 2010.


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One summer we had two wedding invitations displayed side-by-side on our mantlepiece.
The first was to a wedding of wealthy friends. It arrived in an envelope sealed with stamped wax. The invitation itself was made of thickly textured card with gold engraved type. It was surrounded by a band of lace, secured by an artificial rose.
The second was to a Quaker wedding. The invitation was on a sheet of typed A4 paper (recycled).
The first wedding directed us to a wedding list registered at one of the major department stores. The second had a note saying that if anyone would like to buy a gift, the couple would very much appreciate the following… There was then a list of items which included (without any reference to branding) a cheese grater, a sieve and a wooden spoon. I don't remember, but I strongly suspect there was also a suggestion to contribute to a chosen charity, as well or instead of giving a present.
The weddings themselves were the embodiment of their invitations. At the first wedding, the bride wore Pronovias. Waiters in black tie circulated with champagne cocktails and intricately-constructed canapés, after which the guests sat down to a 5-course meal in an elegant hall. Each table had a flower display worthy of a design award.
At the second wedding, the bride wore a purple dress that could be used again in future. The guests carried the vases of flowers from the Meeting House to the party venue. There was a delicious vegetarian buffet after which we danced outside on the grass (it was a warm evening). At the end, we waved the bride and groom off as they cycled away on a tandem. It was perfectly clear that the couple would have embraced these choices however much money they happened to have in the bank.
So what to make of this? Both weddings featured a loving couple who wanted their friends and family to celebrate their union with them. I don't think one was morally superior to the other.
It must be said that our own wedding was much closer to the first than the second – far less showy and less opulent it's true, but it still had all those trappings on a more modest scale. Yet I admire the anti-materialistic impulse. I like the purity of it – the way it gets you away from the surface of things to focus on what really matters.
The problem is, I really like pretty stuff. And kitchen gadgets. And Apple products. I could definitely forsake most wordly things so long as I could still shop at Lakeland. And my Cath Kidston handbag is going to need replacing soon. And I'd need to keep my iPhone, iPad and iMac…
Maybe I don't have a Quaker soul.
If I get fed up with Judaism and can't become a Quaker, I might consider Sikhism. They really have the right idea, the way every service ends in a shared meal. Yes, I think I will become a Sikh. I don't know what their weddings are like, though…
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