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The premises of Lagos Sheraton Hotel & Towers Ikeja will be abuzz on Monday, November 2, 2015 as Nigeria's best brains, legal scholars and the stars of the nation's creative industries gather for the 2015 COSON Lecture, one of the key events of the much talked about COSON Week holding from November 1 to 7. The theme of this year's lecture, which is attracting significant interest, is "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY".
A major highlight of the event will be the presentation of the Copyright Grand Medal to the nation's elder statesman and unsurpassed legal luminary, Prince Bola Ajibola. Prince Ajibola, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association distinguished himself as a Judge of the World Court at The Hague. Prince Ajibola was Attorney-General of the Federation in Nigeria and during his tenure played a pivotal role in the promulgation of the Nigerian copyright law which has formed the bedrock of the immense activity in popular music, movies, programming and similar creative endeavors in the country.
81 year old Prince Bola Ajibola who will be the Guest of Honour at the COSON Lecture will be the first individual to be presented with the Copyright Grand Medal.
This year's COSON Lecture will be chaired by IT guru and business mogul, Chief Leo Stan Ekeh who is chairman of Zinox Technologies, Task Systems, Technology Distributions Ltd and several other ground breaking companies in the technology sector.
Speaking about the upcoming COSON Lecture, Chairman Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), Chief Tony Okoroji said, "I am highly elated. The arrangements for the COSON Lecture are going on very well. For a living legend like Prince Bola Ajibola who is rarely seen in public, to accept to honour us with his presence at the COSON Lecture is mind blowing. If you read my book, 'Copyright & the New Millionaires', you will see the historic role played by this great nationalist to shape the future of the Nigerian creative community. I cannot think of any other Nigerian more deserving of the Copyright Grand Medal than Prince Ajibola.
"I am also excited that we will have as Chairman another exceptional Nigerian. Chief Leo Stan Ekeh has used technology to shape our country in ways which many people are unaware of. To have him chair the COSON Lecture dealing with the digital economy is a privilege. The COSON Lecture is being organized to the very high standards for which COSON is known. We will have a great panel of discussants whose names we will announce in the coming days. I also wish to express our appreciation to First Bank, the nation's No. 1 bank for its support of the COSON Lecture. Already, we have a huge demand for the IVs to the COSON Lecture. It will clearly be an unforgettable day on November 2".
The COSON Lecture is one of the seven major events of the roaring COSON Week which begins on Sunday November 1 with COSON in the Church, the red carpet National Day of Prayer and Invocation to the Almighty which will hold at KICC Prayer Dome in Maryland, Lagos. Other events of the much awaited COSON Week include COSON in the Streets all over the streets of Lagos; the COSON Green Ball at the MUSON Center, Lagos; COSON All Stars Table Tennis Blow Out at Teslim Balogun Stadium Surulere and the massive COSON Song Awards at the Expo Hall of Eko Hotel & Suites.
The COSON Week will end with a big bang on Saturday, November 7 as COSON Storms the Beach with an armada of 100 of Nigeria's 'A' list stars with high octane music who will take over the Atican Beach Resort, off Abraham Adesanya Estate, Ajah for what is billed to be Africa's biggest beach concert ever.


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Earlier on it was reported on the blog that there will be a new Vocaloid by AH-Software together with collaboration from Sanrio. And now more information have finally been made available on her, so just continue reading for the news on that~ (more…)
First of all I would like to apologize on the misinformation brought about by the article earlier regarding the new Vocaloid which will be released by AH-Software and any inconveniences resulting from that. I am sorry about that.
Update on Aug 21st: Further clarifications made, Rio is NOT the official name of the Vocaloid, her name is still not known currently.
An interview was recently carried out with a staff member from AHS in which the following information was corrected and listed as below.
1) The YouTube video showing the new Vocaloid's song demos over at the Comiket 78 event is only an image, KEI's kittyler Rio is NOT the official illustration for the new Vocaloid. Kittyler Rio is part of another collaboration known as "Kitty to Issho!".
2) The new Vocaloid's official illustration will NOT be done by KEI but by another illustrator who's not yet announced at the moment.
3) The reason for the collaboration between Sanrio and AHS is simply due to Sanrio having its 50th anniversary and AHS choosing Sanrio in a random selection for the Vocaloid collaboration.
Additional information to add: The new Vocaloid's public showing is officially set to be in September with the sales of the software starting in October.
Thanks so much to Aster for pointing out on the clarifications.
The original article has since been edited accordingly to reflect the corrections. >____<;;
Update on Aug 16th: A song demo video for the new Vocaloid has been included in the article.
Update on Aug 20th: Edits made to correct all relevant information in the article.
Update on Aug 22nd: More clarifications made, "Rio" is NOT confirmed to be the Vocaloid's name as from what we know.
Yes, we will be having another Vocaloid joining the family and this time round it's from AH-Software Co. Ltd., in which the news was announced during this year's summer Comiket. For more information just continue reading after the break! (more…)
After AH-Software announced the upcoming arrival of the three new Vocaloid, it seems they aren't completely done yet. Information from their official website has pointed out that they are also planning the release of a new speech synthesizer software called VOICEROID which will be out on December 4th, the same day as their Vocaloid software. For more information just continue reading after the break~ (more…)

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A bittersweet moment for one California mom was captured by local news cameras as she listened to the beat of her son's heart for the first time in three years. It just happened to be in somebody else's chest.
It was an emotional meeting Jan. 29 at Phoenix Children's Hospital in Phoenix, Ariz., as Heather Clark met with Esther Gonzalez and her four-year-old daughter, Jordan Drake, for the first time.
"That's your son," Gonzalez told a sobbing Clark as she listened to Gonzalez's daughter through a stethoscope – and listened, in turn, to her own son's heart beat, years after his death.
Clark lost her son Lukas in 2013 at just seven months old. In the midst of her grief, she says she was determined to make something positive out of her loss, and agreed to donate his organs.
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"I knew if Lukas could prevent another family from experiencing the loss that I felt, that's what I needed to do," Clark told CBS News.
Last November, she learned Lukas' heart had been donated to Drake, and got in contact with the family of the young girl whose life her son had saved.
"This beauty is the girl who has Lukas' heart beating in her," Clark wrote in a Facebook post. "One day I will meet her and squeeze her so tightly! Thank you to her mom and dad who allow me to be a part of their lives. This is the best Christmas present I could have asked for."
Born with a congenital heart defect, Drake spent much of her young life in hospital. After undergoing six heart surgeries and suffering seizures, a stroke and brain hemorrhaging, it doctors decided she needed a new heart.
That's where Lukas Clark's heart enters the picture. Drake was one of three lives the non-profit group Donate Life Arizona says the boy's organs helped save.
"Amid the unthinkable grief of losing her son Lukas, Heather made a decision that saved three lives," the group said in a press release. "Jordan received Lukas' precious heart when she was just 18 months old. Yesterday, Heather heard her son's heartbeat for the first time in nearly three years."
For Gonzalez, the emotional challenge of thanking the woman who saved her daughter's life – even though she lost her son in the process – was nearly overwhelming
READ MORE: Heart failure rates rising in Canada: Heart and Stroke Foundation
On the day of their meeting, in front of a bevy of local news cameras, the emotions brought both women to tears.
"It was magical, it was crazy, it was sad," Clark told CBS News. "There's absolutely no word, no explanation for it besides just magic and wonderful."
Clark says she plans to attend all the major milestones in Drake's life such as her graduation and her wedding.


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Board Printing: Quality Is Key
- Published: March 01, 2010, By Edited by Claudia Hine, Managing Editor
Brazilian packaging printer Brasilgrafica offers a model of how a comprehensive quality policy can be implemented in a printing company. Managing director Nilo Cottini Filho explains his philosophy: "A rigorous quality focus leads to in-depth knowledge of the process chain, which is essential to good customer consultation. This is how we find optimum solutions for our customers."
The converter's production process complies with quality management standards, which are inspected and improved by internal audits. Investments in new technology that meet internationally recognized quality standards recently have been made for the pressroom, including the acquisition of a new large format press.
This latest addition is a six-color ROLAND 900 in Format 6 from manroland. The press offers a maximum output of 14,000 sheets/hr. Maximum printing area is 990 mm × 1,400 mm (39 in. × 55.1 in.).
The large format press includes a board printing option. It will be used on long packaging runs for food, hygiene, and cleaning products for such well-known customers as Kraft Foods, McDonald's, Melitta, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Bauducco, and Unilever. Brasilgrafica worked with manroland do Brasil, which handles sales and service in Brazil for the Germany-based supplier.
Quality Policy Pays for Itself
Brasilgrafica's quality measures cover not only the production process, but the environment and company management as well. Personnel development is extremely important. The printing company hires qualified, motivated employees and works to support their professional development.
Sustainability is a key issue. Printed, FSC-certified board from Brasilgrafica is recyclable and biodegradable. The inks are environmentally friendly, and the varnishes are water-based. Adds Filho, "With just-in-time delivery, we are able to fill requests quickly while keeping costs low. These conditions are the primary prerequisites for our company's success."
Supplier Info
manroland | www.manroland.com
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Converter Info
Brasilgrafica S.A. | Alameda Tocantins 490, Alphaville/Barueri-São Paulo, Brazil | +55 06455-920 | www.brasilgrafica.com.br


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300 Dollar Trade Scam Review
300 Dollar Trade Scam Review! Honest Review!!
When conducting this 300 Dollar Trade review we were not sure about what this app would reveal. The 300 Dollar Trade is such a random name for a binary options autotrader that we had to find out what this 300 dollar trade app is all about. This is not your usual auto-trading scam we review but rather a very clever marketing tactic by using the branding of Olimp Finance, a newly formed binary options broker.
The 300 Dollar Trade auto-trader is a scam. This review is no endorsement of any kind but more of a 'heads up' on this so called app that has recently been launched in the trading world. It is more likely or not that you would have heard about the 300 dollar trading app through email marketing or via some biased article review. Unlike this forums we prefer to operate under a https status . This way you can be certain that all our pages are safe for browsing unlike some of the other reviews you may have read on Google.
The 300 Dollar Trade Scam review in detail
Naturally, associating oneself with a scam software does not bode well for any new company. In fact, it makes us doubt even more. But what's worse is that this Jack Emery guy who is a supposed account manager at Olimp Finance is nowhere to be found other than online at 300dollartrade.com
The basic premise of this 300 Dollar Trade scam app is that it helps you to trade the markets by using Binary Options. The 300 Dollar Trade scam app claims to help you determine the direction of the market, within a specified time. If the trader is on target in picking the direction of the underlying asset in a given time-span, then he or she will win a certain percentage as profits.
300 Dollar Trade Review Summary
Annoying Browser Pop-Ups: Yes
Fake Scarcity Counter: Yes
Paid Actor Testimonials: Yes
Impossible Revenue Gains: Yes
Comes Across As Authentic: No
Convincing Proof of Profits: No
Possibility of Being a Scam: Yes
The video claims that a man named Jack Emery is the creator behind the 300 Dollar Day scam. No picture or other proof is provided. What we found incredibly confusing about this scam is that Jack Emery doesn't care to explain anything about his software. He doesn't tell us how it works, what it's based off or show us any real trades to see how it all works.
The 300 Dollar Trade website was only registered on the 7th March 2016, and yet when you chat to 'Jack' online and ask him how long this service has been operating, his reply is ''This trading platform was funded two years ago'' – So we caught them in another lie! I, Jack Emery, Account Manager at Olimp Finance hereby grant you a magical 300 dollars! This is a bold statement but in our understanding this basically means is that with your investment you are ginven a $300 dollar bonus which has certain redemption criteria before the bonus can be unlocked.
Unfortunately it gets worse for the 300 Dollar Trade scam system, because users like "Adan Kasinsky" below is not only surrounded by fake trust badges, but he is actually Clem Karl from the University of Boston! The marketing team from 300 Dollar Trade simply stole a picture right off the university's website! Similar Alan Godwin is another fake image that we have seen that is photo that has been used for the purposes of this promotion
Review Verdict: 300 Dollar Trade Scam CONFIRMED!
Avoid 300dollartrade.com and safe your hard earned money!
Protect yourself before you fall victim to this nasty scam, because the creators , the conspirators to this app aka the email marketeers, the biased reviews aren't taking any prisoners. We pride our selves in giving as much information as we can about new products that hit the market. When we endorse products you can be sure that at least we have done some basic groundwork on the app even sometimes we have not tested the app ourselves, we will observe real testimonials and find out about whether the app is worth testing. Take the Bina Droid app that we recently recently. We were amongst the first to review this app and now it has gone viral. If you have not heard about this app we encourage you to check out our review and watch the free video by clicking on the banner below.
We encourage you to comment below this review and if you need help with any matters, related to disputes and complaints, don't hesitate to contact us directly. If you would like to have a go at manual trading without having to risk funds with an auto trader please be sure to check out our Alternatively please visit our Top Trusted Brokers New Comer To binary options industry? Don't forget to check our scam list, it can prevent you from signing up with scams! For decent alternatives we invite you to check out our trusted binary options signals. Thank you for reading this review on the 300 DOLLAR Trading App.


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Vintage Mustard Pattern Scallop Bread & Butter
Vintage Mustard Pattern Scallop Bread & Butter
Produced by the now defunct Shenango China Company of New Castle, Pennsylvania, our Bread & Butter Plate has a charming scalloped silhouette and is decorated in a mid-century modern pattern in mustard gold.
6 1/2" diameter. Microwave, Dishwasher and Oven Safe. Limited quantities and subject to prior sale.
Rescued from a long-shuttered restaurant supply warehouse in Chicago, we are proud to offer a limited collection of unused American-made china. Produced from the 1920s to the 1960s, these nostalgic pieces are about as honest and pure as dinnerware gets. Clean, simple shapes decorated with the colors and patterns reminiscent of their era. And above all, these pieces are of a quality that is near impossible to find today at any price.
Founded in 1901, Shenango China was a major producer of quality restaurantware and even provided china for the White House during the terms of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson. The kilns of Shenango China no longer produce their beautiful wares as the company was closed in the late 1980s.


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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Modest clothing for Preteen/Teen Girls
I don't know about you all, but I'm really frustrated, angry, fill in the blank about finding modest clothes for my preteen soon to be teen daughter. I have no desire for her to look like a _________ sorry can't even type it. I have researched the internet and found either clothes that are so modest they cover from head to toe or the other way. When we go shopping we have to look really hard to find modest clothing. So, I'm turning to you for help. Do you know where to find modest clothes for girls and where do you go shopping? Can't wait to hear from you all.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Breaking News on CWM Bible Study
While I was trying to go to sleep one night it hit me that we could put the Bible Studies on a Blog. Blogspot is great for not having porn posts and like I said in an earlier post I was spending hours deleting those posts. You will also notice that I pulled down Lesson 6. So, go to http://www.cwmbiblestudy.blogspot.com/ and you will see all the lessons posted. I will taking down the other discussion forum.
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Monday, July 16, 2007
Christian Working Mom Bible Study
Hello everyone. I really need your help. We have been putting the CWM Bible Studies on a discussion forum. Unfortunately, there are numerous porn posts which I am literally spending hours deleting. I thought about posting the Bible Study here on the Blog. You will see Lesson 6 below. Unfortunately, there is not an easy way to not see the whole post on the blog. I'm trying to figure that out, but so far extremly complicated. So, let me know if you like the old way better, if you like this way, or don't like the long post. I really need your ideas. Also, let me know if you are using the Bible Study. Thanks in advance for your help.
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Friday, July 13, 2007
Advice for New Moms
We have many new CWM's joining us every day with precious new gifts from God, newborn or young babies. Share any advice you may have in how to manage work and home. Also, difficulty in leaving your child with someone else for the first time. You seasoned Moms are the experts, so share away.
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Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Open Comment Section
Feel free to post any comments here or ask questions. The CWM community is great at supporting and encouraging one another.
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What Does the Bible Say About CWM's?
Hi everyone. At least once a month or more I receive emails asking me exactly what does the Bible say about CWM's. I finally decided to write an article about that subject. The article is posted on the home page of www.christianworkingmom.com. Read the article and let me know what you think.
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While shopping at a farmers' market in my daughter's new hometown, we came across a couple of bushels of some beautiful, striped squashes and were about 6-8 inches long. I'd never seen this type before -or at least hadn't really noticed them – so we asked about them and decided to get a few to try. (in retrospect, I wish I had bought a lot more!) Their size just screamed "stuffing!" so that is the way I decided to go.
[ In a bizarre coincidence, a local food blogger was on our NPR station talking about Delicata squash the other morning and she said that the skin is edible and the flesh is very sweet. She cuts them into rings and roasts them, brushed with olive oil and sprinkled with salt & pepper on baking sheet. Simple! ]
This recipe used two Delicata Squash, making 4 servings. First I made the stuffing – about 4 c. cubed sourdough bread, 6-8 oz. ground pork sausage (cooked & crumbled), 1 tsp sage, 1/2 tsp thyme, 1/2 c vegetable broth, 1-2 tbl dried onion flakes. I cooked the sausage and threw everything else into the pot without draining – I had used a low fat version of Jimmy Dean sausage and it had surprisingly little fat. You could use Stove-Top stuffing, but this really did not take all that much time and definitely had less sodium!
I washed the squash and cut it in half length-wise and then scooped out the seeds and goop. There wasn't a lot and it wasn't really goopy like some squashes. In order for a couple of them to lie on the baking sheet without rolling, I shaved a few slices off the back to
give it a flatter surface. I didn't oil my baking sheet because I use the silicone baking mats – I've mentioned these before! Have you bought some yet? What are you waiting for?!?! Go on – I'll wait…
I brushed oil on the edges of the squash and divided my prepared stuffing between the 4 halves. After grinding some sea salt, fresh pepper and a little cinnamon over them, I dotted the stuffing with butter (about 2 tbl between the 4) and baked them for 45-50 minutes at 375 degrees. At about the halfway mark, I covered them with foil to keep the stuffing from getting too crunchy. Poke them with a fork to make sure they have the right amount of tenderness – your fork should slide easily into the flesh.
[ Another bizarre coincidence: my daughter cooked her squashes the same night with a similar stuffing, only she added dried cranberries and goat cheese – yum! ]
The squash was sweet, but not overly so and the sausage in the stuffing gave the whole dish a nice kick. We both ate the skin – which had no discernible taste and did not detract from the dish in any way – although I skipped eating the very end bits (blossom & stem). Both my husband and I found that one half squash was plenty to fill us up so now we have some "delicata" leftovers! I'll definitely make this again and – if I could find some smaller ones – it would make a lovely side dish for a holiday meal or to a dress-up leftover turkey dinner.


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Thanks for coming back – this is the second part in a series of posts around combining my hobbies and my career. Here I will be tracking and monitoring my Destiny 2 gaming performance using the PowerPlatform! Part 1 can be found here.
Where to begin?
Firstly, I need somewhere to build. This is just for fun and personal development, so where can I do this work? Introducing the "PowerApps Community Plan". I'd not heard of this until I stumbled on it from a random YouTube video – but it's fantastic entry point into the world of the PowerPlatform. The more in depth details on what it is can be found here but the most simple criteria is you just need a "work or school account" (i.e. not a gmail!) and to have a license around Dynamics or PowerApps. I'll hold my hands up here – I've VERY much on purpose stayed away from learning the Dynamics licenses, so my suggestion is just see if you can get a Community Plan on your account.
Data structure & storage
I come from a CRM background way back in CRM2011 (I avoided CRM4 and earlier – woohoo!) so I'm not going to stray too far from home at first and then slowly venture out of my comfort zone as time goes on.
I've started nice and simply by creating a brand new model-driven app that I'll initially use to store all my data but thanks to the joys of the CDS, I intend on extending this same data set into canvas apps, PowerBI and beyond. Coming from a CRM background, I have a good knowledge of things like lookup fields, option sets and those other elements I've taken for granted for years so I'll be using that to my advantage.
In my previous post, I've got a rough idea of what I need so I've built the basic data structure which will consist of two separate but linked parts. Part 1 is all around a person and will contain membership and character details and part 2 is all around the games themselves so will contain a record for each game, as well as a related "entry" for each person playing the game. If I'm making the effort to track myself and because storage isn't an issue on a project so small, I'll dynamic store other peoples statistics who are in my games – you never know where you'll spot a pattern or when I'll find a new in-game rival!
With the model driven app experience being so strong, I already have my own custom app and have the initial data structure (I'm sure tweaks will be needed as I'm designing on the fly) within literally minutes!
Where next?
I would like as little human input as possible and thanks to Flow, I think I can achieve that. The total amount of input I wish to do manually is make an initial new "membership" record. From there, I would like the PowerPlatform to enrich the data and keep a constant track of my playing time.
Now I have my data structure in place, it's time to jump across to Flow and build a custom connector. Building the custom connector could take some time, so that will be my next post coming soon!
Thanks for reading and please check back for Part III!


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Bye Bye blogspot. Hello Shiny New Website !
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It's time!!! My brand-new website--you know, the one I've been teasing you with for months now--is live! All entries on the blogspot will end at Friday, Sept 11, 2009. So Friday's entry will be my last one on this blogspot site.
All of my old blog posts have packed up and moved to the new site, but they will also stay here in case you just feel nostalgic. (Wouldn't you like to be in two places at once?)
The website and blog are combined in one handy location, so I hope you will take the time to click around and see what cool surprises you can find. Be sure to bookmark the new site, and you can also sign up for RSS Feed so you'll get updates when I post.
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The Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus) is a small (31-35 cm) bird in the grouse family. It is a sedentary species, breeding across subartic Eurasia on rocky mountainsides and tundra. There are isolated populations in the Pyrenees, the Alps and the mountains of Scotland.
It also occurs in Alaska, and northern Canada, where it is called the Rock Ptarmigan, or colloquially as Snow Chicken. This is the official bird for the territory of Nunavut, Canada.
The Eurasian spring male has greyish upperparts with white wings and underparts. North American birds are more variable, being generally browner, but with Aleutian birds almost black. The North American females are brown. In winter, both sexes become completely white. They can be distinguished from the winter Willow Grouse (Willow Ptarmigan in North America) by habitat, smaller size, more delicate bill and, in the winter male, black between the eye and bill.
The male's song is a loud croaking.
These are hardy vegetarian birds, but insects are also taken by the developing young.
The female takes all responsibility for nesting and caring for the chicks, as is typical with gamebirds.de:Alpenschneehuhn eo:Monta lagopo ja:ライチョウ nl:Alpensneeuwhoen sl:belka


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By Julius Odeke
Ex-president Idi Amin's self-styled British advisor Major Bob Astles dies.
Astles is reported to have died and cremated three weeks ago, however, it's surprising that even the British press never reported anything about his death.
It's said that only five people attended Astles' cremation ceremony but could not divulge any information to that effect.
Astles was labeled the "The White Rat" because of his allegiance to the dictator who murdered about 300,000 people of his fellow citizens over his eight-year rule.
When Amin fled to exile in 1979, Major Bob was imprisoned for six years but later returned to Britain. He stayed in touch with Amin until the tyrant's death in 2003.
Henry Gombya, editor of the London Evening Post says, Major Bob remained a fixture with UK Ugandans but never regretted his time with the blood soaked president, Amin.


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Well I see this first one is blurry- but they are from a workshop and still need a little more to bring them together. The workshop started with painting as a base and then we added papers and stamped some with assorted things.
I used some papers with gestural writing on it in the green one as the base coat with the paint and then built up with more textural papers. It was a fun workshop!


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25 May 18
This week we split into two groups from the start of the session. Key Stage 2 spent the morning walking to Dunstanburgh Castle, whilst Key Stage 1 and Early Years became pirates on the beach.
On the walk to Dunstanburgh Castle, the children investigated the flora and fauna that the good weather had brought out. They looked at the different habitats, noting the similarities and differences between each. Once they got to the castle, they learnt about who lived there, and why it fell into disuse. They explored the castle grounds, imagining what it would have been like when it was habitable. They also spent some time observing the different sea birds nesting in the cliffs.
Back on the beach, pirates were marauding. The session started by playing some pirate games, including running to different points of the compass. After finding out about some famous pirates, each child made up their own pirate name, were given scars, beards and eye patches before making their own treasure maps for others to follow. The maps had to be carefully followed, counting out the correct steps in the right direction to hide the treasure. They then swapped maps, and another team had to find the treasure.... with mixed success! This was then followed by playing more pirate games, such as tug of war, skittles (with a coconut) and pulling in the fish.
After lunch we were all back together. We went down to the river to make cork sailboats and see who would win. There were some interesting discussions about the relative strength of the wind v the current - and we discovered that the boats all sailed upstream. Before coming back up to school, we made our own sand sculptures. We are all starting to get better at thinking about what sort of sculptures work best in sand, and how we might reinforce our structures to give them more stability.
Back at school, we were all rewarded with ice-creams that the Early Years children had made earlier in the week - delicious!


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Christopher Testani
While the late, great Julia Child was cooking in the kitchen, her husband, Paul Child, put his mind to creating cocktails behind the bar. Falling between a tiki drink and a Rum Collins, this highball by Paul Child originally called for Tom Collins mix, a sweet-and-sour carbonated mixer popular in midcentury cocktails. We've updated it with contemporary ingredients.
How to Make It
Pour rum, lemon juice, sweetened lime juice, and apricot liqueur into a mixing glass; fill with ice. Using a bar spoon, stir until outside of glass is frosty, about 30 seconds; strain into a chilled highball glass filled with crushed ice. Top with a splash of club soda and bitters.


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"Late last night I had me a dream,
I was out fishin' in a whiskey stream…"
–Talking Fishing Blues, Woody Guthrie
Welcome to whiskeystream.com, the official website for Stephen Stanley and for Whiskey Stream Productions.
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This was selected as one of the Northumberland Fell Runners championship races and was located in an area which I hadn't visited before. The hills were akin to the Cheviots. Rolling, grassy, heathery and deceptively gentle looking.
The drive up took a good two and a half hours. With little traffic on the roads, Emma Bain and I made good progress and arrived with plenty time to spare to get sorted and hop on the bus to transport us to the start at Traquair house. It was a lovely setting complete with a marquee tent, it felt like we were gate crashing a wedding. We hung around for a while before the start having a chinwag, good crack with the NFR's. The kit check was rather regimental but good to see the rules being enforced.
The first couple of miles were a chance to stretch the legs before the first climb up Birkscairn. The legs were heavy already, probably from last week's race at Thropton and no let up in training during the week. Stupid mistake.
|Nice hillage - Cheviot-esque
Last road section was quite nippy, although legs were like jelly. I managed to cross the line on 3:30. Emma Bain was the star of the day finishing in 3:34. She's in fine form and strong! I got the points needed to secure the NFR champs so I'm well pleased. Time to ease off the gas before the British Fell relays, feeling goosed.
The catering was top notch at the village hall. Soup, salad, cakes and all the beer you could want! Good crack with JT, Paul et al. Also with the men's V70 winner, legend! There were some saying it was tougher than Borrowdale, I'd probably agree with that. Having a climb so steep just two miles from the finish is cruel.
A brutal race but in a lovely place. It really did kick my arse. I will return.... one year!
Well done to all NFR!
|Team NFR


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maybe i actually do like colour …
Sorry I've been a bit quiet of late. Life has just been a bit busy. No that's a lie. I think I've just been uninspired. But I'm back and feeling more inspired than ever! Here's some of the things that have caught my eye … and you may notice that there is some actual colour going on, not something I usually like … but it's hard not to love the new season shades.
Garnsis, Elizabeth Arcade
Sass & Bide, QueensPlaza & Myer Brisbane City, The Myer Centre
Zimmermann, QueensPlaza
Blak from The Bunker Boutique
Karla Spetic from The Loft, Broadway on the Mall
Dion Lee from Violent Green, Elizabeth Arcade
in all its splendour
Yes it's that time of year again, Splendour in the Grass is nearly here. And if you are going then it's time to start thinking about what to wear … here's some looks that are inspiring us …
Faithful top from Garnsis, Elizabeth Arcade
Wildfox tee from Princess Polly, Adelaide Street
Stylestalker leather top from David Jones, QueensPlaza
Sass & Bide from Myer Brisbane City, The Myer Centre
House of Harlow from David Jones, QueensPlaza
The Bunker Boutique – this jacket will keep you warm!
home sweet home
A lot of people that live in Brisbane tend to think it's not a great place to live and that there isn't much on offer. But I don't think that's true. I've just returned home after travelling to London, Mykonos, LA and Las Vegas (and I've been to many other cities previously) and I couldn't be happier to be home. Whilst I loved many of the places I visited, each place only offered one or two things that I think are important to making somewhere a great place to live, whereas Brisbane truly offers a bit of everything, the things that are really important (well to me anyway).
A good selection of restaurants, bars, shops, markets, nightlife, galleries (we do have them here, you just have to know where to look), nice weather (where it's not too cold in winter and not too hot in summer), close proximity to some of the best places in the world (beaches, rainforests, cities etc), a relaxed lifestyle (where it's not a day to day struggle to do simple things), space (we are really spoilt and should cherish it more), choices (where we aren't restricted to too few or too many options – yeah we don't have a Zara on every corner but is that really a bad thing – we don't want to all dress the same do we? But we have so many choices for crucial things, like coffee!), a unique culture (where we have our own style that isn't mass produced), and we have freedom (the most important thing).
We really have it good here everyone, and we can make it an even better place by embracing it. Let me know what you love about Brisbane?
I hope these images inspire you …
Local designer Miss Unkon
Winter sky in Brisbane
Locally owned store Garnsis @ Elizabeth Arcade
Bessie Head, Broadway on the Mall – one of the all time favourites
Saw this on The Loft's blog – how sweet
The Bunker Boutique – just opened on George Street
Local designer Soot
It may not be 'fashion' but how cool does Organic Char @ Eagle Street look. It just opened in June
friday delights
I'm off overseas for all of June lovelies, so this will be my last post for a month … But when I return I will have even more fashion inspiration and stories for you all!
Here are a few Friday delights that I'll leave you with … until next time xo
From Garnsis, Elizabeth Arcade. Just in and only $60!
Princess Polly, Adelaide Street
Maurie & Eve – from David Jones, QueensPlaza
Karla Spetic from The Loft, Broadway on the Mall
happy easter
Happy Easter lovers! Most stores are open on Saturday and Tuesday over the long weekend so it's the perfect time to take a breather, get inspired, then find what you are dreaming of … Plus don't forget the other fashionable things going on … QueensPlaza's Avant-Garde Design Competition, Broadway on the Mall's Blogger Competition, Garnsis e-boutique launch next Thursday at Zuri, and on a different note we wanted to let you know about Together Brisbane – it's all about letting the world know that Brisbane is better than ever after the floods (including some of our favourite boutiques that were affected). You can make your own image and post it on your Facebook page. So start spreading the love!
We'll be back on Wednesday with more fashion goodness xx
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the cold shoulder
I know I've already said it, but it really is starting to cool down in Brisbane. What to do? Well you don't have to bring out the jackets, stockings and scarves just yet, instead opt for a longer sleeve and it will keep you warm while you still look damn cool. Here are our fave options from our fave city stores …
Garnsis, Elizabeth Arcade – Love this!
Camilla and Marc from David Jones, QueensPlaza
Manning Cartell from Myer Brisbane City, The Myer Centre
Garnsis, Elizabeth Arcade
Neon Heart from General Pants Co. Albert Street
Rachel Gilbert from Bessie Head, Broadway on the Mall
Therese Rawsthorne from The Loft, Broadway on the Mall
elizabeth arcade
We have two words for you – Elizabeth Arcade. This is where you need to head gals (and guys) if you want fashion from some of the best designers around, or if you just want an on-trend item without spending much cash. Violent Green, Little Lace, Garnsis and Verge are just some of the boutiques you will discover in the arcade, and they all offer their own unique look. Here are our favourites at the moment …
Low Luv by Erin Wasson from Violent Green, Elizabeth Arcade
Yen dress from Verge, Elizabeth Arcade
Garnsis label top & skirt from Garnsis, Elizabeth Arcade
Seduce from Little Lace, Elizabeth Arcade
stiletto in the ghetto
Stiletto in the Ghetto is set to take over Hynes Street in the Valley next Friday night 18 March. Showcasing a street style catwalk, visual exhibitions, a designer auction, pop up bars, chill out lounge areas, live performances, and local designers and boutiques including – SOOT, Kini Bikini, Garnsis, Subfusco, Neon Heartache, Fallow and City Dweller – this FREE event is a first for Brisbane. Proceeds raised will be donated to the flood relief appeal, so make sure you head along and show your support. Click here for more info.
the big dry out
'The Big Dry Out' will bring together the best of Brisbane's music and fashion scene to raise money for Queensland flood victims. They want to show Brisbane what a great city it is by bringing together the community and showcasing its creative talents. It's on tomorrow night from 6 (sorry about the short notice!) at Lightspace in the Valley, and will feature fashion from Karen Neilson Collection, Garnsis Boutique, Vanguard, Drobe and Always Habit, combined with music from Bobby Flynn, The Videomatics and more … Click here for more details.
the GARNSIS label
The much loved Garnsis boutique at Elizabeth Arcade in the City has just launched its very own label – the GARNSIS label. Featuring some of the seasons best trends – leopard print, floaty skirts and lots of white dresses, all at a great price points – you are bound to find something you will love and wear all summer. Head in-store today to be one of the first to own a piece of this new local label.


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Adventures of Chuck and Larry
October 31, 2007
It's been a while since I've read Gilbert Arenas' blog, and found this a little ways down the page. It's probably one of my favourite postings of his. Imagine you were in the league, how would you not want to play on this guy's team?
Check it out!!
I have a little problem. His name is Nick Young and he has a sidekick named Dominic McGuire. Our two little rookies. There's always a rookie who comes in and challenges for the goofball of the year. Well Nick's already won that. By far. This is one of the funniest kids I've ever met. The problem isn't that he's funny, but that he challenges me in pranks. For the past week, he's been getting a taste of what I'm about. I made him bring me some McDonald's, I wanted a chicken sandwich at like 12 o'clock at night when we were in Philly. I actually didn't want the sandwich, I just wanted him out of his room. I went into his hotel room and messed with all his stuff.
Then before that during the Philadelphia game I took the keys from his car and shipped them back to Washington D.C. so my friend could take his car. We're going to paint it pink and it's going to say "I Love Dominic" on it. You know, his little sidekick.
We've been going back and forth, but for some reason he doesn't get it. He likes to play. On Thursday we had an off day and he went in my locker and took my iPod and a pair of my shoes. So I went over his place and I gave him one chance and one chance only to give me back my iPod and shoes and he didn't act fast enough so I got him good. Him and Dominic. Both. So they start threatening me like, "You'll see what happens, you'll see what happens. We're going to the store right now."
They went to the store and got paint ball guns. They got the paint ball guns, the masks, the gear, everything.
So I was sitting in my house playing Halo and I'm looking at my surveillance camera and I see Dominic and Nick creep up to my property all decked out. They parked across the street and they're running towards my house wearing masks and helmets. They came around the side of the house, jumped the wall, and came in through the garage. But by the time they did all that, I already was out of the house and jumped the other wall. They were in the house looking for me and I was across the street flattening their tires so when they decided to leave they'd be on flats. They looked around the house and couldn't find me so they came outside and saw me across the street flattening their tires. I called my friend and had him come pick me up and take me back to the house.
When they left the house, they stole my daddy's toaster! I like making toast! So I told them, Since you don't want to give my toaster back, it's war. He wanted his stuff back, I wanted my stuff back so I told them that we were going to have a paintball shootout.
We all went to the store like Sports Authority and bought all these paintball guns, like eight or nine new ones (because I already had three), then we bought the CO2 cartridges and like 12,000 paintballs and I even bought a couple paintball grenades.
We tried to make the teams fair.
It was Nick and Dominic and then Nick recruited last year's rookie, Andray Blatche. I thought Andray had enough of the pranks, but I guess he didn't. Andray brought his two friends, to make it five on their team.
My team was me, my friend John and three guys who were at my house hooking up stereo equipment.
So we finished buying everything and were in the store parking lot and Nick was mad that I had all the CO2 so he started to take some of mine. I was like, "Put the CO2 down or I'm going to shoot you with the paintball gun." But then he realizes I'm really going to shoot him with the paintball gun, and he puts it back. "You see what happens when you follow directions" But as I'm closing the trunk with the CO2 in it, he takes some and tries to jump in Dominic's car. I said, "Dominic, do not close that door." Nick is screaming, "Close the door Dominic! Close the door!" So Dominic left the door open. I go to Nick, "You have three seconds to put the CO2 back. One! Two!" He started to scramble to put it back and I got him anyway. I got him like six times. So he's laying in the car all mad saying, "I don't want to play no more."
So the war is still on.
I tell them that the shootout is planned for 12 o'clock midnight in my backyard because it's pure black back there. You can't see nothing. So I tell them, "12 o'clock, be in my backyard and we're going at it five on five."
We're putting all our stuff together at my place and they're putting their stuff together at their place but they are having trouble with it so I have my boy John and my other teammate Adam to go over to their place and have them help them fix their guns. And when John and Adam showed up at their place they tried to ambush them, thinking that I was going to come too. But I wasn't. So John and Adam had to run out of there.
So it's like 11:10 at night and all you here are paintball hitting the windows. POOM. POOM. POOM. POOM. POOM. They were already in the backyard. They showed up an hour early.
So we hurried up and put on all of our gear and snuck outside through some of the vents in the house.
And then we had a nice, good old paintball shootout in the dark.
They ran out of CO2 pretty quick because my team had most of it so one of Andray's friends yells, "Aww, it's not fair!" and they started to bail and jumped back over the wall. But one the kids was a little too heavy. His name is Jamar. That's 'Dray's cousin. Jamar couldn't get over the wall because Jamar has been eating one too many Twinkies.
So Jamar got stuck in my yard with the five of us. We gave him the chance to walk out like a man, or cry like a girl. He did both. He cried like a little girl while he was walking and running while we were shooting paintballs at him. I told him, "Hey, come in the lion's den, you're bound to get hit."
They said that he got hit so many times that he had trouble putting his clothes on the next day.
We played for about an hour and a half. I haven't had that much fun in a long time. What people don't realize is that when you're in the NBA, you lose stuff like that. You're not in there with kids, you're in there with grown men that have families. By having these young kids on the team, it's fun for me because I get to have that childhood that I lost. I lost it when I came into the NBA when I got picked No. 31 because I was so determined to be the best that I didn't get to actually have fun having fun, if that makes sense.
That's the moral of the story: I had fun.
A Few Things to Get Excited About
October 30, 2007
- The Rooks
This year has a very exciting rookie class that will be sure to entertain. Who won't try and watch Kevin Durant? Can this guy play at the NBA level? He couldn't take Texas too far in the NCAA tournament, but now the Sonics are building around him. I'm expecting him to be an 18 and 7 guy this year. Beyond Durant, there's the Mike Conley Jrs, Yi Jianlian and who knows, maybe even a little Greg Oden at the end of the season.
- Kobe to Explode
I've said it a few times, but I don't expect Kobe to go anywhere until the trade deadline. But when that deadline arrives, it will be more of a blockbuster than KG himself (if that's even possible). As we know, Kobe is a man of the spotlight, and once the season starts, there's only one way to stay in the light…produce! I know the likes of Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson would agrue that this isn't true, but to a real NBA fan, it's all about who puts on the best show ON THE COURT, and Kobe will be the man, again.
- The Denver Nuggets
I've probably been overdoing this a bit, but I'm a firm believer that the Nuggets have serious potential this year. The West is still strong, even without KG, but the Nuggets field a team that has the proper weapons. Since Allan Iverson headed to Denver, he's gone under the radar. After the half season of learning to play together (AI and Melo), I feel these two will FINALLY figure it all out and form a chemistry that will be second to none. Wasn't it just a couple years ago that everyone thought AI was the best player in the league? He's not that old yet, and he's still one of the quickest players with the ball. How can you deny these two?
- The BIG 3 in Boston
Kevin Garnet, Paul Pierce and Scott Pollard…..I mean Ray Allan. Three of the leagues best players somehow ended up on one of last year's worst teams. There's no doubt that the Celtics will be this year's most improved team. It's just a matter of how far they go? I think its obvious that it all comes down to injuries. If they can all stay healthy, the sky's the limit. With an injury to one of them, there's not much to watch in Boston. I say Conference Finals at max.
- The New York Knicks/Mafia
This would have been even more interesting of a point if Ron Artest was picked up by the Knicks. Either way, they still acquired Zach Randolph. Along with Eddy Curry, the two form a pair of the scariest looking guys you could ever pass on the street or on the court. On the court, if these guys can get it together, they have potential to be one of the best turnarounds in the league. With the East still wide open, how can you deny these guys a playoff spot. I'd take them right now (before the season starts) to finish the season ahead of Orlando.
- The Season Starts Sooo Soon!!!!
I couldn't be more excited, and I know you can't either. Unfortunately for me, I started writing Clutch 3 in the offseason. At times, material was limited and creativity started minimalizing ( although the Hottest Hoops Wife series was a smashing hit, and I will be doing my research for Episode 4, so watch out!) but I kept writing with the excitement in my mind, knowing that once the season starts, I won't be able to stop writing. This season promises to be one of the best in the past couple years, and I'll be watching the opening tip off Wednesday night. Will you?
Pistons In A Stuckey Situation
October 26, 2007
Okay, terrible joke. I was going to write about how Piston rookie guard Rodney Stuckey broke his hand in last night's exhibition win against the Wizards, and how I think he's going to be one of this year's top Rook candidates, and now the Pistons are not in as great shape to start the season although ultimately will be one of the top teams in the East still, BUT due to me realizing that my title joke was brutal, I'm going to forget it.
I Can't Believe the Heat Just Stole Ricky Davis
October 25, 2007
I'm sure you all know by now that Ricky Davis was traded to the Heat today. How did this happen? In the process, the Heat got rid of Antoine Walker. Did the TWolves still think that Walker was in his prime? I hate to bring a glimpse of reality to the TWolves, but Ricky Davis still has game. He actually made my list of potential sleeper picks in my fantasy draft. He was bound to be the go-to guy in Mini this season, probably average around 20 points a game. Now the Heat have what I like to call All-Star security. With Shaq and Wade constantly being in injury problem, the Heat now have a guy that can take on a leadership role when those two are out. Beyond that, they'll have Davis coming on the floor instead of Antoine Walker. This is a total win for the Heat! As for the TWolves, what the hell were you guys thinking?
On a side note, doesn't Ricky Davis look a lot like Ludacris?
On another side note, Kevin McHale is probably the worst GM I've ever seen!!
The Return of Penny!!
October 20, 2007
FINALLY! Penny Hardaway is back! He's older, he's slower, and deffinitely not as good. Why I'm a so excited? I'm hoping Penny shows up all the critics, and has at least one game where he scores about 20 points. I know it'd make mine and all other long-time Penny fans extremely happy.
He participated in his first preseason game. Read all about it here
Maybe Lil' Penny's on his way back to????
Welcoming Some of the Best: Preseason Roundtable!
October 19, 2007
After a long time of chopping this thing together, I can finally say I'm proud to release to you, the readers, the best preseason roundtable out there. Why the best? Because it involves the best. I selected the panel based on bloggers who I've always enjoyed reading, and with their generous participation, we have a masterpiece! Below you'll find everyone's take on all thats on every basketball fan's mind! Finally, I'd like to introduce the table:
Clutch 3 (myself of course!)
1) What's you're take on the Shawn Marion situation? Will he be traded? Where?
The Marion Situation has me more depressed than anything else. Outside of Nash, losing him is the worst possible thing that could happen to the Suns. And the only other place Matrix would work this well is Golden State. Just an unfortunate happening all around. I don't see him getting traded right now since Amare is hurt for a minute. Hopefully he gets traded to the Jazz. Then the Suns get Kirilenko (which is PERFECT) and Marion realizes that he now plays 41 games in Utah.
My initial, general reaction to the Marion situation can be found here:
As for whether or not Marion will be traded, two factors lead me to believe that a Marion for Odom deal has a decent shot of happening: 1) the Suns want to reduce payroll and a Marion for Odom deal is permissible under league rules yet enables the Suns to reduce their payroll; 2) this deal is attractive to the Lakers as well because Marion is a better defender and rebounder than Odom, plus Marion is more durable.
Taking It To The Rack:
Check out my column "Shawn Marion: Loco" for my extended thoughts on Marion. He won't be going anywhere this season though.
Clutch 3:
I personally think the guy is an idiot for wanting out of Phoenix. I've even written exactly on this topic on my blog, and as I was writing, I kept getting more and more fed up with his selfish wanting to be "The Guy". He is a fantastic player that any team would love to have. I don't really see Phoenix making any move ( a la Allen Iverson style), but rather wait for one that would give them something equivalent to Marion's abilities. I don't expect anything to go down until the trade deadline. At that point, I'm sure that's when we'll see the Kirilenko and Friends for Marion deal go through.
2) Who's going to win the East? West? Championship?
As a Bulls fan, I have to pick the Bulls in the East. Thankfully, the Bulls really are good and don't still have Dragan Tarlac and Fred Hoiberg getting consistent tick. I think they'll make the jump this year. In the West, I'm going Spurs. Last time I checked, Duncan was still alive. With those two teams, I can't see the Bulls taking 4 of 7 from the Spurs so I'm picking San Antonio.
Chic pick Boston is not deep enough to win the East. Detroit and Miami are both in decline. I'm torn between Cleveland and Chicago. Cleveland has the edge in playoff experience, plus the advantage of having a true superstar in LeBron James; Chicago has a deeper team and a gritty, defensive mindset. I'll take Cleveland right now but I may change my mind by the time I post my season preview. I expect a San Antonio-Dallas showdown in the Western Finals; Dallas' loss to Golden State was an aberration–which is not to say that Golden State did not play well: the point is that Dallas has won 60 and 67 games the past two seasons and I fully expect the Mavs to win around 60 games and make a deep playoff run this year just like they did in 2006. The Spurs and Mavs are very evenly matched but since the Mavs beat them in 2006 I'll say that the Spurs will win the rematch–a year delayed–in 2008. The Suns, as usual, will be right in the mix but fall short in the playoffs. The dark horse is Houston: if T-Mac and Yao stay healthy and Scola quickly adapts to the NBA game then the Rockets can be very dangerous. New coach Rick Adelman will have that team passing and cutting people to death.
Taking It To The Rack:
I'll be ridiculous and take my beloved Celts to top Dallas in the Finals.
Clutch 3:
Things are a little more interesting in the East this year. As much as the easy answer would be Boston, I just don't see these guys winning the East final. I still see my boys, the Pistons coming through. They have some young talent that will hopefully explode out of the gates, which will finally give their bench enough depth to get back to the championship. As for the West, we can now count out Minni now that KG's in the East (just kidding..obviously). But for real, I would hand it to the Suns. I've also been saying the Suns for the past two years and they have yet to break through. As long as Marion has a change of heart sometime soon, the Suns are my pick. Adding Grant Hill was a great addition for them, and with him and Barbosa coming off the bench, they'll be the feared team this year. In the Pistons vs. Suns series, I give it to the Pistons, based on finals experience. It'll be Mr. Sheed's time to shine!
3) Who would be your number one pick in a fantasy draft?
Scarlett Johannson or LeBron James. Depending on what kind of fantasy draft it is.
I analyze real NBA games and players and pay very little attention to fantasy games. I suppose that one could not go wrong by picking LeBron number one in either a fantasy draft or a real draft.
Taking It To The Rack:
LeBron James — man can do it all.
Clutch 3:
Kobe! Kobe! Kobe! I'm not a huge LeBron guy when it comes to fantasy, and Kobe being pretty much the lone everything on the Lakers leads me to believe he's, yet again, going to put up fantastic numbers. How can you argue with that?
4) Who is due for a breakout year?
Depends on what you consider a breakout. Here's three thoughts-
All-Star raising his game: Zach Randolph
Dude making THE JUMP: Luol Deng
Coming out of nowhere: Amir Johnson
With Iverson gone, Iguodala will make a run at being an Eastern Conference All-Star. Look for him to average about 22 ppg, 7 rpg and 6 apg. He showed flashes of this kind of production down the stretch last year and I expect him to keep it up for the whole 2007-08 season. Daniel Gibson played very well for Cleveland in the playoffs and could easily double his modest regular season production (4.6 ppg).
Taking It To The Rack:
LaMarcus Aldridge is going to be incredible in Portland in his
sophomore season.
Clutch 3:
I'll go again the grain here and say a guy like Corey Maggette will finally get the attention he deserves. I feel he'll get the shots he needs to produce and will finally have the spotlight. On a smaller scale, I see Rajon Rondo having a somewhat breakout year. How can this guy not average at least 9 or 10 assists per game when he's feeding The Big Three in Boston?
5) Which team will surprise everyone this year?
I'm jumping hard on the Grizzlies bandwagon. They're this year's Warriors. They'll be the second best team to watch after the Suns. Plus their roster is hilarious: Darko, Pau, Mike Conley, Kyle Lowry, Stro Swift and Hakim Warrick (who are the same person), Navarro, Stoudemire is there somewhere, and Brian Cardinal. It's like they combined every single rebuilding strategy in to one team.
I'm not sure what "everyone" is predicting, so this question could be answered a lot of different ways. With a healthy Gasol I expect Memphis to do much better this year. I suspect that Charlotte will be better than a lot of people may think.
Taking It To The Rack:
The Memphis Grizzlies will be at or above .500 and could make the playoffs.
Clutch 3:
Denver Nuggets! These guys a due to make some noise in the West. They went on a tear at the end of last season, showing AI and Melo might be able to work together. Both of those guys want a championship, and AI will definitely do whatever it takes. If K-Mart (when was the last time you heard that name?) and Marcus Camby can stay healthy, these guys will be trouble!
6) Who's you're early pick for MVP?
Kevin Garnett. He's going to be insane this year. Playing for a title and playing in the East is going to make him seem even better.
Kobe Bryant. He's been knocking on the door the past couple seasons and is already widely acknowledged to be the "best" player, a sentiment reinforced by his performance at both ends of the court in the FIBA Americas tournament. It is difficult to believe that he will go his entire career without winning at least one MVP. If the Lakers are a little healthier this year and do not fade down the stretch then they will amass enough wins for voters to feel comfortable selecting him.
Taking It To The Rack:
Hard not to like LeBron right now.
Clutch 3:
This question really made me think. It would be Kobe, except the entire team's performance usually has something to do with the votes, so he's clearly out of the question. With team performance in mind, I'll give it to KG in Boston. The team's record will inevitably turnaround and KG will be leading the pack. His scoring will probably stay the same, but his assists will forsure increase, producing an impressive stat line.
7) Name a basketball blog that you read, that some probably don't know about. Blowtorch:
NBA Basketball and Other Unrelatedness aka thehypeguy.com. Howie is my boy. Not only is he hilarious and a huge source of inspiration, he gave me my first big link that got me started. Big up, Howie!
http://20secondtimeout.blogspot.com/ (shameless plug). I don't know if this counts as a "blog," but I love http://www.remembertheaba.com/
Taking It To The Rack:
We Rite Goode — it's not all basketball, but they have a lot there.
Lotta unique content.
Clutch 3:
I'd have to say Give Me The Rock is one that I frequently read and thoroughly enjoy, that maybe not everyone in the blogosphere knows about. Enjoy the plug!
It's Time For Some Fantasy Ball!!!!!
October 17, 2007
Recently I took part in one of my favourite events of the whole year. Fantasy Basketball Draft! This will be my third year in a league with some friends. This year we have 14 people, and it seems like a tradition now that I have a terrible position in the draft, the 12th pick overall. With my hopes of finally getting a Kobe, KG or LeBron, that obviously quickly went down the drain. Even worse off, I felt I just had to take Tim Duncan with my first pick. I hate Tim Duncan (watching him play=boring. It's like watching an elementary coach teach his team the fundamentals of how to hit a jump shot off the backboard). Beyond that though, I was really happy with my 2nd to 6th picks. Below is my team in order of which round I drafted them in. I think Mikki Moore will have a 10 and 10 year, and Grant Hill promises to be extremely solid if he can stay healthy. What about Yiiiiiiiiiii? Someone please tell me this guy's going to be a star this year! As for J. Maxiell, I know I could have probably grabbed him off of waivers early, but hey, I love this guy and hopefully he gets a lot of minutes off the bench with McDyess starting at an older age. Either way, I think I'm in great shape for another exciting season of Fantasy Basketball
1. Tim Duncan
2. Andre Iguodala
3. Baron Davis
4. Tyson Chandler
5. Mike Miller
6. Mo Williams
7. Mike Dunleavy
8. Mikki Moore
9. Grant Hill
10. Yi Jianlian
11. Brevin Knight
12. Jason Maxiell
Houston Back With Knicks…Probably
October 10, 2007
It appears that the New York Knicks will likely ink old timer, veteran, grampa (whatever you want to call him) Allan Houston. After being out of the league for quite a while now due to injuries, Houston will attempt a comeback with the team he last played with. It wasn't thaaaaat long ago that Houston was tearing up the courts in New York. He established himself as one of the purest shooters in the game during his prime. Although long out of his prime, Houston brings a lot of veteran leadership to the table that is greatly needed in the big apple. I still remember when Houston played for Detroit. He formed an amazing backcourt with non other than current Pistons President and legend, Joe Dumars. Together, those two knocked down every shot. Unfortunately, the Pistons didn't have much success during those years and are much better off nowadays. For Houston, coming back to the Knicks gives him a chance to finish his career on the court, rather than finishing due to causes out of his control. It really is a win-win situation for Houston and the Knicks. Hopefully the old man will last.
Lakers In Need
October 5, 2007
Apparently the Lakers are in need of a couple of players. They might even be desperate. So, if you're interested in joining the Lakers this season, please submit a comment to this post with your name and why you think you'd be the best addition to the Lakers. Also, you can add your favourite current or past Laker, and the number you would take if chosen. All will be taken into consideration by Lakers management, as there is a desperate need for ANYONE!
Fantasy Sleeper (#2): Tracy McGrady
October 3, 2007
Although this isn't as significant as yesterdays article about Joe Johnson, I would still consider Tracy McGrady overlooked by some experts in the wonderful world of fantasy basketball. According to some of the boys over at Yahoo.com Fantasy Basketball, they collectively have McGrady ranked as the number 11 small forward. Again, with so much talent in the league, this doesn't seem too far off, considering McGrady's injury woes. Why I consider him a sleeper is because of a few guys that they have in front of T-Mac in their rankings. The three guys in front of T-Mac are Caron Butler, Gerald Wallace and Paul Pierce. Don't get me wrong, these guys are quite deserving of a high rankings, but in my mind, not ahead of my man T-Mac. Firstly, Caron Butler had his best season last year, only to lose it to an injury. With averages of around 19 pts, 7.5 boards and 4 assists, these are quite impressive numbers that will put you near the top of any rankings. When comparing to T-Mac's 24.5 pts, 5 boards and 6.5 assists per game, how can you overlook the statistics. Fantasy ball is very much about stats, but also about taking into consideration injuries. Both these guys are susceptible to injury this year, which obviously lowers both their rankings. If you cancel that fact out, statistically, you'd want T-Mac ahead of Butler. Moving onto Gerald Wallace. I haven't seen someone move up the ranks so quickly from such a large contract signing. There is a lot of hype and hope for this guy to have the season of his career, but I just don't see it happening. He isn't a huge risk for an injury, so that obviously adds some value. The one reason why I don't see him putting up his 18, 7 and 2.5 this year is because his team just signed another scorer in Jason Richardson. Gerald Wallace isn't the go-to-guy anymore (or not necessarily). His assists will probably increase, but his points will likely decrease slightly. Again, I'd give the upper hand to T-Mac. Finally, Paul Pierce. This one is a little more borderline, and if your faced with this dilemma of either T-Mac or Paul Pierce, it will really come down to your personal preference. The reason why I choose T-Mac is because he will remain the go-to-guy in Houston (sharing this privilege with Yao, of course). As for Pierce, he will enter the season with two brand new all-star scorers in his lineup. Will his assists increase this year? Absolutely! Will his scoring average decrease? More than likely! The offense will obviously be ran through KG, therefore, Pierce isn't your go-to guy anymore in Boston, but rather he's now a great option. Overall, I see T-Mac having a monster season, along with the Houston Rockets as a team. I would say he's capable of putting up 25, 6 and 6 this year. As Yao usually gets injured, McGrady's numbers could even grow larger. I don't think T-Mac will get injured. I think he's hit a point in his career where he's probably taken every precaution possible to prevent it from happening. So, if your going to take anything from my ramble, make sure you don't overlook McGrady in your fantasy draft, because this guy is coming to play!


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Re: Testing Paternal Aunt's DNA
In Response To: Testing Paternal Aunt's DNA ()
>I want to know about my father's ethnic ancestry,
Yes, assuming your father and his sister had the same mother, your aunt's mtDNA results will apply for your paternal grandmother as well.
Did your father or grandfather have brothers? If so, and if they had male descendants, that's another possibility.
>My father and aunt's maternal grandmother was
Maybe. If their maternal grandmother was Chinese (and her mother Chinese, and her mother Chinese, etc.) that could show up in the mtDNA. Now if she was half-Chinese, that depends on whether the Chinese ancestry is maternal or paternal. If your aunt's maternal grandfather was the one who was Chinese, it will not show up in your aunt's mtDNA test.
>My father and aunt's father was English,Black and
Yes you need the 3rd type of test, the one that says you are x% of this and y% of that, but doesn't tell a location or what ancestor contributed the various ancestries.
>I am anxious to get started immediately, given my
African Ancestry may connect you to a group of living people by identifying a population group that matches your DNA. If that is what you want, I definitely recommend African Ancestry.
Check out Familytreedna.com also, but they don't give you a current populaton group to identify with.
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The bird in question is the Slavonian Grebe which most birders see in its drab winter plumage and then stuck out to sea but in its breeding plumage is a little corker! Well all of the Grebes are little corkers.
There are 22 breeding pairs in Northern Scotland, the lowest level since monitoring records began.
This year has been a good one with for breeding with a total of 17 chicks. There six at Loch Ruthven where there were none in the previous two years.
According to Stuart Benn, RSPB Scotland's conservation officer for the south Highlands
What is clear is that while populations are thriving in Iceland and Norway, things aren't going so well here.
It would be good to find out why that is and what things we, as conservationists, could be doing to turn around the fortunes of Scotland's Slavonian grebe population.
To do this we'll need to focus our research on key areas such as the role of weather and climate, when and why chicks die and compare our results with other countries whose populations are faring well.


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Now that the dust has settled, here are my thoughts about some of the fighters and what the impact is on future UFC betting.
Chuck Liddell– As Rogan was said, Chuck had problems "getting off," that's a boxing phrase that's used a lot when describing old fighters. Liddell is going to have big problems with any strikers that are quick and crisp punchers. Look to bet against him if he gets matched up with anyone but submission fighters.
Keith Jardine- Continues to improve. His loss to Alexander did little to slow down his development. He is playable as an underdog against anyone in the division, but I would not lay odds with him (he will be overvalued if he faces some lesser opponents. He gets hit a lot still and anyone with power can rock him at any time. Not sure how would handle some of the submission guys, but there are not many at 205 anyway.
Forrest Griffin- Similar progression to Jardine. Although he looks like a better all around fighter to me. His ground defense is better than I thought and he's improved on his mental skills. His style is always going to put him at risk, but thats his game. Can compete with anyone and deserves consideration anytime he's a dog. I feel better play him as a favorite than Jardine, but not at a high price.
Shogun Rua– His performance was bad. He was soundly beaten by Griffin. I'm not betting his next fight under any circumstance, although I expect him to get things sorted out and come back strong. I'm giving him a pass on this fight and will re-evaluate after his next bout.
Thiago Tavares-Ran into Tyson Griffin, whose fight very well. Tavares is a very good ground fighter that is constantly looking for submissions. Tavares should struggle with Sherk, Griffin, Stevenson but he's good enough to handle all the other guys at 155. Watch for betting opportunities, he's still fairly unknown and coming off a loss, he could have some value.
Tyson Griffin– Fits in the top contender status, no doubt. He is a solid all around fighter that should be considered playable as a sizable favorite. Looks like he's damn near unchokable and the only way I see him getting in real trouble is from a top quality puncher that can land some heavy combos then sub him, maybe Gomi? Hansen?


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From Slogans to Mantras, by Stephen A. Kent
Historians have generally avoided the topic of religion in the 1960s, while sociologists often treat religion with charts and graphs but with curiously little understanding of what it's like actually to believe in God. From Slogans to Mantras makes the typical secular assumptions--Stephen A. Kent never considers that religion might occasionally stumble onto the truth--but it has a concise, lucid argument: "The combined experience of growing frustration over the perceived failure of political and countercultural protests to end the Vietnam War was the predisposing factor for the massive youth religious conversions that took place in the late 1960s and early 1970s." As young people saw that rallies would neither end the war nor topple the capitalist power structure, they turned to religion to achieve those goals.
This is an important twist to an old argument. Sociologists have argued that people look to religion for structure or meaning; according to this argument, burnt-out activists, bereft of purpose, would find a guru to worship in order to have a new reason to wake up in the morning. But Kent is suggesting that ex-activists who turned to alternative religions like Hare Krishna, Scientology or Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church were simply looking for new means to carry out the same radical politics. They turned to chanting or yogic meditation not because they had lost their political ideals but because they wanted to try all possible means of achieving them.
Kent's evidence comes mainly from alternative press articles and from 20 interviews with activists who, 30 years ago, turned to religion. The most persuasive passages show how the swamis and gurus themselves used the rhetoric of radical politics to attract disaffected activists. It's fascinating to read, for example, how Scientologists planted articles in a Los Angeles alternative newspaper attacking the IRS and the FBI; by attacking "the Man," Scientology made itself attractive to frustrated radicals. The Unification Church, "the Moonies," were anticommunist and pro-Nixon, but their emphasis on world peace made them, like the Hare Krishnas, appealing to antiwar activists tired of shouting at a Pentagon that would not listen.
While Kent may be right that alternative religions played at radical politics to win converts, he's less persuasive in arguing that the politics are the reason that the converts joined. Some of his interviewees are just sad drifters who seem neither to have been very political nor to have become very spiritual. Harinam Singh Kalsa, for example, was a Toronto hippie who "discovered the free school movement, absorbing the progressive ideas of Vermont's Goddard College, which he hung around for a while but did not formally attend." In 1972, he returned to Toronto and joined a Maoist cell called Newsreel, which "distributed political films." He drifted into a group that sent literature into North American prisons to liberate "prisoners of war." After Newsreel disbanded, Khalsa "became a distributor of honey throughout the city, and he soon introduced Toronto to various nut mixes." In 1975, he discovered Yogi Bhajan's Healthy Happy Holy Organization, which in 1978 he formally joined.
Khalsa is supposed to exemplify Kent's model of political activists turning toward religion to achieve their revolutionary aims. But as we can tell from this short précis, Khalsa was never a real activist or much of a spiritualist: he was a flake. He flitted from one fly-by-night, improvised, storefront group to another. That some of his early dilettantism was political and some of his later dilettantism was religious proves nothing--especially since Khalsa seems to have a rather peculiarly narcissistic imagination, which Kent is happy to indulge: "he soon introduced Toronto to various nut mixes"?
While there don't seem to be factual errors in this book, it is a bog of fuzziness. Kent frequently uses equivocations like this: "Returning to Ann Arbor to finish her degree (in, I believe, fall 1971), she and a girlfriend lived in a teepee community outside the city." Couldn't Kent have called the woman to find out what year it was? Or called the registrar in Ann Arbor?
Kent does not muck about in the thorny question of just how many activists turned to spirituality; he's content to speak of "massive youth religious conversions." No good research exists to justify such a claim. But if we were, on Kent's behalf, to make a more modest claim--that many young activists did turn to religion, and we ought to wonder why--then we may grant that Kent offers a thoughtful new thesis, one supported by well-chosen, mostly accurate evidence.


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In editing and creating content for the website, I was reminded of the very bane of my writing existence:
I just have so little patience for it! I fully understand it is a failing and I make no excuses for it; I hate editing! I loathe it! I despise it! If only I could write on-point, directly, and succinctly every time...
But my real problem with structure is that I am something of a rambler. Not in that Bluesy, rock n roll kinda way; I like to rant. I like to drop spicy bits of information into the ongoing narrative, even though I realize they work better elsewhere, grouped with like-minded sentiments.
In considering outline form, where I understand topics A, B, and C all need to be grouped together and in linear order, I tend to write in a style that more closely relates to A, C1, B, C. While the piece often succeeds on a scholastic level when I edit it to read "correctly," the truth is that it reads better when written in my rambling fashion.
I fought it for years - and, since the content I am concerned with here is gaming (largely rules and other "dry" information) - am fighting it even now, because I realize the information I am disseminating is better communicated by holding to this essay structure. But in rereading it, I am haunted by the same problems: it is technically solid, but reads like a technical manual...
So how do you handle things like this? Do you find the creative aspects of writing to be more problematic or the structuring? Do you try to hold to the Golden Rules or throw them out the window when it serves your purposes?
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14 children from years 2-5 were invited to St. George's Hall to participate in 'The Alice Experience.' It was a special production to mark the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's famous book, Alice in Wonderland. St. George's Hall was completely transformed into Wonderland and the children were led through the story by actors and encouraged to take part in the singing. It was a fabulous chance to see a book transformed into a real production, guided through several rooms instead of on a stage.
I liked singing the songs at Alice in Wonderland experience and my favourite room was the forest. I made a new friend from St. Sebastian's.
Baracat, Year 2
I liked the Alice and Wonderland because we met the Queen of Hearts. My favourite part was the court, humpty dumpty and the Caterpillar.
Kieran, Year 2
I loved the Alice Experience. My favourite part was red roses. It was amazing! I made a new friend from St. Sebastian's.
Surya, Year 2
I think Alice in Wonderland was magnificent because they made a lot of costumes and they acted really well.
Ben, Year 3
I went to St. George's Hall to the Alice Experience and we went to a lot of colourful rooms. My favourite was the trial and I think everyone had a great time.
Jack, Year 4
The Alice Experience was fantastic because you got to go around the area. First we went to the picnic then Alice shrunk. Next we saw the flowers and I thought that was funny. After that we went to the forest, it was great.
Callum, Year 4
The Alice in Wonderland Experience was really exciting and fun. We were not sitting in one place but moving around St. George's Hall's rooms. My favourite part was the Jabberwocky Forest because it was quite frightening but also really fun.
Amy, Year 4
When we went to the Alice Experience the whole of St. George's Hall was vibrant and colourful, especially when we visited the flowers and who could forget the wacky and wonderful mushrooms. In conclusion, the flowers and mushrooms were my favourite activities during the Alice Experience.
Sean, Year 5
I really enjoyed the Alice Experience. My favourite part was when the rabbit was growing small; it looked real. I also enjoyed peeking through the holes with the Mad Hatter to spy on the Queen of Hearts. The Jabberwocky Forest was decorated with giant mushrooms and every other rooms was a scene in the experience.
Rebekah, Year 5
I really enjoyed the Alice Experience because it was like we were actually in a Wonderland. It was fun following Alice because you got to see everything. My favourite part was when Alice drank the potion and then she shrank and went through the door.
Shea, Year 5
I really enjoyed the Alice Experience because it was full of surprises. It made me understand the meaning of life. I loved spying on the Queen of Hearts.
Tawonga, Year 5