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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
another Lorac FOTD
pretty much the same as before :
Just used all the colours from the Lorac Showstopper palette, except the grey shade. Used ELF Luminance bronzer to highlight instead since its more subtle than using that light but super shimmery shade in the palette. Lashes were coated with Blinc Kiss Me mascara.
Foundation was Buff'd original foundation in Sand, topped with Silk Naturals' Perfecting powder. Used the Couture blush from the palette, but skipped my usual contouring wiht MAC Emote. Lips were MAC Lip Erase, and a combination of MAC Mattene Poise and 40s Pink lipstick.
Don't mind that pimple...:S
Speaking of Lorac, I've always wanted the Snake Charmer palette since May did a post on it ages ago, but it was already sold out of stores. So I was surprised to find out from Jiejie that Sephora has it for sale again, though online only. But I'll never do an online Sephora order because its too much hassle for me with the customs, duties and courier delivery/pickup. Good thing its not in stores or I'd be really tempted to get it.
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- Christiana Divine @ Memoirs of A Shopping Addict said...
that sucks about the customs problems. i know that always discourages me from ordering out of the states. :( welcome back btw! :) glad you made back safely. ;) hehe. this is a very subtle and pretty look as always. i love how your looks are always so soft but still accentuate your features. i LOVE that lipstick combo on you! it's like the perfect shade of pink lipstick for you! no joke! have you tried buff'ds new concealer formula yet? i have and i'm in lurveeee... like utter and complete LOVE. LOL. :) then again, i'm a full coverage whore. LOL. i love how you play final fantasy music on your page... i love final fantasy piano music. my bf got me into it, my favorite is probably tifa's (sp?) theme. my boyfriend can actually play it on the piano so i always ask him to play it when a piano is around. LOLOL. :) anywho, i'm rambling. LOL. welcome back again! :D
- June 18, 2008 at 12:39 AM
- Stephy said...
hey welcome back blu3!!! i surely missed ur posts!! :)
the MAC F&F sale was just EVIL!! I usually think for a LONG time before I buy but then I just can't resist from their sale so... yup... u get my point... lol
- June 18, 2008 at 2:42 AM
- theChas said...
What a pretty, summery look. Very fitting indeed. :)
- June 18, 2008 at 4:36 AM
- ♡ Nic Nic ♡ said...
aww very pretty, prefect for the summer :) love the pinky lips too!
- June 18, 2008 at 8:38 AM
- fuzkittie said...
That color looks so elegant on you, it's amazing!!! You did a great job blending it too~ I've never tried LORAC but you've definitely got me interested!
- June 18, 2008 at 12:09 PM
- Aradani said...
very soft and pretty! I always want to get all the lorac palettes but I'm waiting for the perfect one because all of them aren't too different from one another, or at least I think so.
I'm the opposite. Because it's only online, it's more tempting. There's no sephora store anywhere near me. lol
- June 18, 2008 at 4:37 PM
I'm always amazed at how awake and bright eyed you look without having to wear eyeliner! If I didn't wear eyeliner my eyes would disappear :( I love the grey contacts on you!
- June 18, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Your eyes look gorgeous! Are you wearing contacts by any chance?
- June 19, 2008 at 12:08 AM
- jing said...
Oh bummer... Croc palette seems to be permanent and a bit more warmer, so no worries if you don't get snake charmer palette. Actually I like Croc more.
I love neutral looks. Very soft and versatile. I love my poise mattene, I rarely use it in fear of it running out. Wish I'd gotten 40s pink.
Do you use anything for your eyebrows? It looks like it's your natural brows. I think mine is like that too, and wonder if I really need something other than a sculpting gel/wax.
- June 19, 2008 at 1:57 AM
- na said...
Great neutral look! :) I haven't heard one bad thing about the Lorac palettes, and I can see why.
- June 20, 2008 at 3:57 AM
- Violet Honeybee said...
welcome back! I love you lips they look so pretty!! =D I've been hauling WAYY too much too so I know how you feel.. I'm happy I have so much.. but at the same time I get the feeling I have TOO much =/
- June 20, 2008 at 2:20 PM
- Chiara said...
YEahh, May made me want the Snake Charmer Palette alott too! But online??! Not I'm getting second thoughts.
- June 21, 2008 at 9:00 AM
- psychoexgirlfriend said...
Oh I'm in love with your lip colour! It's gorgeous. Great look.
- June 23, 2008 at 12:03 AM

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Archive for June, 2014
Why is there any Suprise?
Posted by BOTF in Uncategorized on June 13, 2014
Today I went to have lunch brunch and spend some time with some associates at my favorite restaurant. There was a local paper with the front page article that was all about the turnaround of events in Iraq.
It was filled with discussion that the Administration was caught flat footed and was surprised by the turnaround in Iraq. It's as if they could not believe this action by ISIS, it was not expected.
The single most surprising thing to me is that there would be any surprise on the part of our leadership. There is absolutely no surprise on my part. I seriously doubt if any Veteran of Vietnam, Veterans of Iraq or any incursion since is surprised.. More likely, they have been expectant and waiting for this to happen.
When the Commander-in-Chief (so-called) goes on a world-wide tour of apology, when he rejects the Christian values of this nation and he adversely affects the allies of the US in the middle east with obvious intent to change course and damage credibility what can one expect to happen?
We have broadcast to the enemies of America around the world that we are not willing to fight their efforts. We have abdicated our ideals and surrendered their value as wrong and destructive. We have stated on an international front that we have taken a footing of appeasement to win friendship with those sworn to our demise. How is it that you make friends by laying down your arms to those who have sworn to kill you? One only need look at current cases of American citizens condemned to death and in prison for the crime of being Christian to realize we gain nothing with this platform of acceptance and friendship. We are in a religious war. It is a nice idealism one holds to think all will embrace you but there are realities that wont tolerate your ignorance.
For years we've had a religious/government faction that is labeled "Extreme Islam" and many other names; which has stated time and time again it will bring about total destruction of the United States and Israel. They have publicly on a world stage declared war on us. They have captured hostages, taken embassy's, blown up warships, taken air planes, attacked the civilian population, just to remind you of a few things. I don't have to repost all the history, any thinking American knows to which I refer. Even as I write this ISIS is announcing that they have kidnapped three teenagers from Israel. One of these are reportedly American.
We have a neutered congress that has not stood up against the course the Executive branch puts us on. We have a President that is now being taunted by the Russian's as Putin allows two strategic bombers to threaten our cost. One near Alaska and one-off the Coast of California. The world sees a vacuum forming where American leadership used to stand firm.
I am just one little common man and I have seen this coming and prayed that our Senate and House would become a counter balance to the radical reversal of this government. Sadly it has not happened at this point. I believe there is an effort in place but I am fearful that most Americans are not yet concerned about the extreme danger we are in as a Nation. We the American people get tired of the political types pointing the finger at each other yet we do the same. We are the ones that elected them, that keeps them in office, and are too busy to vote, write letters, take part in local government and take the time to become informed. Our foundations, our freedoms, our very safety is threatened and we the people are the ones that have to respond.
I wish I could go to bed tonight and think I am just a radical conspiracy wacko but I cannot. We are seeing the stage set in a way that is more dangerous than any time in the last fifty years. We have a President that is actually doing more to enable our enemy then to shackle them.
I talked with a thirty-eight year old man a few days ago. We were discussing current events in the US. With out trying to relate the conversation I will comment on how it ended. His statement was that he was only thirty-eight years old. He had not lived through the things I had, He was not around for Vietnam. knew little about WWII and did not even understand how I thought. Sadly, the last seven words or too poignant as they are very accurate. I truly do fear for the well-being of America. This is after all why I take the time to write.
We can and shall overcome, but it cannot be in ignorance.
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this is paul, this is my first mail to the mailing list. i been using linux for a few years now. and linux is now my primary OS. i would like to install coreboot. i have installed coreboot seeing the documentation found in the wiki page for the ASUS motherboard. but i would also like to install it in my laptop. and to be honest i am less than -100 in electronics and the level of programming knowledge needed to run coreboot on my laptop. my laptop is HP Compaq c734tu and after going to freenode's #coreboot channel i found myself more miserable. isn't there a single way i can find to see and get coreboot run in my laptop. i did product my lspci output. the pastebin url of the detailed output is here http://pastebin.ca/1428226
 please take a look and tell me where am i? and also how far am i from installing coreboot in this laptop and also how far is coreboot from getting installed in this laptop.
thank you.
regards
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p.s. sorry for using the webmail interface. this is a temporarily setup on the laptop with debian squeeze, so haven't configured the mail client. appologise for the HTML form of mail sent. thanks again. newbie here so i guess errors will be excused if not forgiven, just too curious/anxious to run coreboot on laptop.


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Another Silicon Valley bidding war with a Chinese venture group is shaping up over an iconic valley company.
The prize this time is Fairchild, the mother ship that spawned more than two dozen companies during its heyday, including Intel and AMD.
A much different company than it was in the 1970s when it was spinning off future tech giants, Fairchild accepted a $20 a share, $2.4 billion acquisition offer from ON Systems in November.
Tuesday, Fairchild said it has received a $20.70 a share, $2.46 billion offer from an unnamed bidder. The company's board said it is sticking with ON's offer.
The counter-bidder is China Resources and Hua Capital Management, according to Bloomberg. The unnamed bidder improved its offer
Depending on ON's tenacity, this could be a repeat of the bidding war for Integrated Silicon Solution Inc. last year, in which Hua eventually bested Cypress.
That sale prompted concern in Washington from Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R. Huntington Beach, who worried that the Chinese acquirers's objective "has been to acquire important technology developed by U.S. companies, transport intellectual property and capabilities to China, and then deploy these capabilities for primarily domestic use."
Hua was part of a group that acquired another Silicon Valley chip maker, Omnivison, in April, for $1.9 billion.
The Chinese government about a year ago announced a massive plan to ramp up its domestic semiconductor industry through innovation and acquisition.
Hua Capital Management is an investment team founded with state-owned Tsinghua Holdings and China Fortune-Tech Capital Co. Tsinghua Holdings is funded by Tsinghua University, which is said to be overseeing China's drive toward semiconductor independence.
Photo: Fairchild Semiconductor logo (Fairchild, Mercury News Archives)
Tags: Cypress, Fairchild Semiconductor, Hua Capital Management, ISSI, ON Semiconductor


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Normally I think Kim Kardashian is a fashion icon. I love to watch Keeping up with the Kardashians just to see what she is wearing. When Kim K first reached a celebrity status I think her fashion was more of a don't, but the last few years she has reached icon status in my opinion. So imagine my surprise when I saw this picture circulating online this week of Kim K wearing a *gasp* arm warmer at a basketball game. An arm warmer, really? I definitely do not approve.
Do you think this arm warmer is couture or crazy? My vote is crazy.


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Thursday, June 21, 2012
Alexander: Nickname-Rich Name of the Week (June 21)
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I like Alexander a lot, but mostly because I love Alex. (I like Alex/Alix on a girl, too - the androgyny doesn't bother me at all). I've heard Lex for Alexander as well, and I suppose if you wanted to get creative you could use Andy.ReplyDelete
I really like the most obvious, Alex and Alec the best. I used to feel Alec was too similar to Alex to bother with, but I'm coming around to it. Of all the Alexander nicknames, Alec is the one I would like best as a given name.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 2, 2012 at 8:32 PM
I'd definitely go with Scottish Alec, although I really prefer Alistair to Alexander.ReplyDelete
Another one is Sandor, said SHAHN-dor. It's quite exotic.
I don't think I could pull off Sasha on a boy, but Ally or Ali would be very wearable.
I personally don't like Alexander at all, find it way too plain and overused. If I had to choose a nickname, it would be Sasha.ReplyDelete


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Impressionists- light & color Our next tour to the Met on May 24th Will have 3 groups at 12:30, 2:00 and 4:00pm Tickets: early birds $35, after may 15- $39. Sibling discount is available. For details email to firstname.lastname@example.com … Continue reading
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Category Archives: Chris Wallace is an idiot
Chris Wallace is a friggin idiot.
He opened his sunday show asking the following question:
Uncle Sam wants you driving one of his cars, writing checks at one of his banks, and using his health insurance. Are we saving the economy or headed toward socialism?
For this, he gets the Fucktard of The Week award. Gotta love the fact that Faux Noise is always unfair and very unbalanced mentally. Watch his dumbass below.
Thanks to C&L for this video find.


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Volunteering with the Children's Department
Volunteering with kids at Pawling Library will look very different this summer. At this time, we are only able to take volunteers for our virtual Book Buddies program. Other opportunities to volunteer are available in the teen department, and we hope to again return have teens working and volunteering in other children's programs next summer.
The Pawling Library is looking for volunteers ages 11+ to virtually assist children with their reading comprehension and fluency. As a buddy, the volunteers help an elementary age child who is still learning to read. Volunteers serve as a reading mentor, demonstrating how to stay calm while reading and how to conquer reading difficulties. Buddies, within a larger group, work one on one with younger partners.
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To begin the program on time, please apply by Sunday, June 28. Late applications welcome, though not guaranteed to be accepted. If you apply and do not hear from a library employee by July 1st, PLEASE CONTACT US!
Requirements: Volunteers must be available for the program, weekly on Mondays (7/6 – 8/15), 2:20-3:45 pm. Applicants who cannot attend at least three of the six scheduled classes will not be accepted, as consistency is a key part of serving as a mentor. Volunteers are expected to independently read alongside their buddy and be comfortable working with children. Intervention training on how to help their buddies be stronger readers will be provided, and volunteers are expected to complete the training independently before the first day of the program. The program will be held over Zoom, and both video and microphone access will be needed to participate. Interested applicants under 18 years old will need the electronic signature of a parent/guardian on this application in order to submit it.
Volunteer hours can be reported to other organizations (schools, churches, dojos, etc) at the conclusion of the summer.
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MIA's revolution
She's being sued for flipping the finger at the 2012 Super Bowl. She's threatened to leak her own album, and has a bone to pick with the music industry, the Sri Lankan government, Google and the US family courts. What's eating art-punk-rap superstar MIA?
MIA is having none of it. "I am not a conspiracy theorist," she says.
"Yes, you are," I say.
The great pop contrarian also known as Mathangi Maya Arulpragasam huffs. "What I said about the internet is what's happening now. It's on the front of your own newspaper. It's not a conspiracy theory, is it – unless your paper is supporting a conspiracy theory? Conspiracy theory is too much of a small pond for me to swim in." I feel suitably admonished.
It's been three years since MIA released her last studio album, Maya. Its first track was The Message, a 57-second discordant rap suggesting that social media companies were working hand-in-hand with the world's governments to spy on us ("Connected to the Google, connected to the government," she chanted repeatedly). A lot of people accused her of being politically naive. Now, following the Guardian's revelations about the spying capacity of America's NSA and Britain's GCHQ, it looks as if she was stating the obvious. Does she feel vindicated? "I do. I love it." She grins.
But after that third album, MIA decided she had had enough. She was bored with music, so made the gloriously titled mix-tape Vicki Leekx (a play on WikiLeaks) in two days, just to show she could, then quit. She moved to India with her baby son, Ikhyd, and wasn't heard of for ages. Now she's back, post-retirement, with a new album, so she can tell us about her retirement. Hard to get your head around? Welcome to Planet MIA.
We meet in east London, where she now lives. At 38, she still looks like a little girl: beautiful, garish, loud, a handful. She arrives with Ikhyd, now four, a sweet boy with huge brown eyes. The fact that he is here with her is a story in itself. For the past couple of years, MIA has been fighting a custody battle. Until recently, it looked as if she would lose her son to her former fiance, Benjamin Bronfman, unless she agreed to bring up Ikhyd in the US. As she says, tranquillity in her life tends to be transient at best, "the calm before the storm".
MIA prides herself on her normality. Her publicist tells me that she is one of the few stars who will turn up by herself, no fuss, just a regular civilian. But appearances can be deceptive. Sure, we're not far from the council flat where she grew up, but this is a fancy members' club with a pool on the roof and hipsters perched on sun loungers, cocktail in one hand, iPhone in the other. And she fits in perfectly: floral silk shorts, face-dwarfing shades, numerous bracelets, bags of confidence.
Within seconds, Ikhyd is crying. He has been told he can go swimming, but the pool has been divided into lanes for adults. She mops his tears and they strike a deal. Her mini entourage takes him off for a treat, while we're left to chat conspiracies, terrorism, even music, as if she's never been away.
MIA emerged on the music scene in the mid-2000s, the perfect antidote to confection pop. For a start, she wrote much of her own music, an unlikely, often inspired mash of rap, nursery rhymes, bhangra, electronic dance and punk. Music writers created a whole new lexicon to describe her sound, including the fabulous "gangsta shoegaze". But she railed against commercial success, and at the first sniff of a big hit – Paper Planes, which sampled the Clash's Straight To Hell, and made the US and UK top 20 – she recoiled. Yet she couldn't resist making headlines, whether for performing at the 2009 Grammys in a transparent dress when nine months pregnant, or giving the audience the finger at the 2012 Super Bowl. She is so much the perfect anti-pop star that sceptics have suggested her story is too good to be true: that in her own radical way MIA is as much of a brand as Madonna is. And, to an extent, this is true.
She says she grew up being told what she could do: as a girl, as the child of a single parent, as a musician, as a commodity. "If you're making music, don't talk about politics. If you're talking about politics, don't wear lipstick. If you're dancing in a club, don't talk about Sri Lanka." Sod that, she thought. "Actually, you can put the concept of freedom of speech next to rap music, next to my untouchable dad, who people talk of as a terrorist, next to random creative shit."
Which is exactly what she did. Her first album, Arular, named after her Tamil father, featured a song about refugees learning to say banana, which segued into the socialist dance track Pull Up The People, then into Bucky Done Gun, a boastful rap announcing her arrival. You could see her art school background in the attention to detail, in the way she dressed: the pastel green eyeshadow, fuchsia lipstick, neon prints. At times, she looked like a Fauvist painting. She has collaborated on a string of brilliantly cinematic videos: Romain Gavras (the son of film-maker Costa-Gavras) directed Bad Girls for her, with its high-speed car chases, and before that Born Free, which tackled the issue of ethnic cleansing by showing redheads being rounded up by police and taken to a desert to be shot. It was meant to stoke controversy, and sure enough YouTube refused to host it. She has had surprisingly few hits (Paper Planes is her only really successful single) and many have failed to chart, yet Jay Z, Kanye West and Madonna, all far more commercially successful artists, have wanted to collaborate and borrow some of her credibility.
We're sitting on a hanging sofa in the shadows, and MIA is swinging away happily, drinking coffee. It's the last thing she needs: she is talking 15 to the dozen about everything she's been doing, from stressful court appearances to painting and finding herself in India. She talks excitedly about how she became interested in Hinduism and explored the origins of her name, until everything began to make a weird kind of sense. Her music has always been about family: a search for identity that often raises more questions than it provides answers. Her second album was named after her mother, Kala. Her third album was Maya, the name she grew up with in England and still goes by (it's easier for English people, she says). And now Matangi, her birth name.
She was born in Hounslow, south-west London, in 1975. When she was six months old, the family moved to Jaffna, a Tamil town in Sri Lanka. She barely remembers her father Arul, even though she has read plenty about him. He left to join the struggle for Tamil independence, and she and her two siblings were brought up by her mother. They went into hiding from the Sri Lankan army, then moved to Tamil Nadu in India. Just before her 11th birthday, they came to England as refugees; her mother worked as a seamstress for the royal family.
She says that whenever she asked her mother why she was called Mathangi, she got a vague answer about being named after a newsreader. She didn't think any more about it until she became interested in Hinduism. "When I typed in Mathangi, I found out Matangi [without the h] was this goddess of music, and the second link was me, MIA, rapper. I thought, this is funny, and within an hour there were so many things that linked up all these things." She talks about these coincidences or not-quite-coincidences as if they were divine revelations. "Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin."
Did she shout, "Mum, I've worked out why you called me Mathangi: I'm the goddess of music!"?
She looks at me as if I've totally missed the point. "No, my mum and dad are Christians."
So why has Hinduism been such an influence? "It isn't. I Googled it." She goes off on one about Brahmins, untouchables and the caste system: all the reasons she could never embrace Hinduism.
What she has embraced instead is a homemade belief system, a potage of pyramids, squares and circles. "I devised this theory that the world is made out of three types of people. Squares are logical and scientific. They create tools, so Steve Jobs would have been a square. The pyramids are the money structure and the religious structure and the ideological structures built by human beings. It's always a pyramid: the guy at the top, billions of people on the bottom, and you have to claw your way to the top and kill a lot of people on the way. The circle is all the other stuff we can't explain. If you cut a tree, the rings are circles, your eyeballs are circles, cells are circles. Einstein discovered how to split a circle and it resulted in the most negative thing for humankind. You can't fuck with the circle. And to be a successful human being, you have to understand all three concepts."
Blimey. So she's created a new religion of squares, circles and pyramids? She swings away enthusiastically, and looks pleased with herself. "I did. I justified the world." Where does she see herself? She gives me a withering look, astonished at my stupidity. "No, I said you have to have knowledge of all three. I use my computers to make my work. I'm in the music industry, which is a pyramid, and I'm a human being. If you cut me, I've got round circle cells."
What she really wants to know is, who and what is at the top of the pyramid. "I don't have an answer. You can only ask the questions to the guy at the top." Why not go around the world, asking all the people at the top? "I'd probably get killed in the first 24 hours. They'd be like, 'Oh, yeah we'll show you!'" She's joking, and she's not.
Actually, she does have an idea about what's at the top. Space. "What is the promise? That we go to space? How many people will go to space and colonise another world? The person who gets to the top usually has to be a cunt to get to the top. So they are going to get on a spaceship and go to another planet and populate a world, so why would you want to live there?" My head is spinning. She's philosophised me into a state of confusion. She grins. "Confusion is good, isn't it?" In a way, she says, that's what all her work is about. "It's a landscape of confusion." Do friends find her pronouncements bewildering? Do they go… She's already laughing and answering the question: "'Shut up.' Yeah, that's the thing. Half the time people think I'm high, but I'm not."
If MIA thinks the powers that be are out to get her, it's not entirely surprising. When she criticised the Sri Lankan government in January 2009 for its alleged use of chemical weapons on Tamil civilians, the foreign secretary, Dr Palitha Kohona, said she should "stay with what she's good at, which is music, not politics".
If she is combative, it's because she feels she's spent her whole life fighting. She was turned down when she applied to study art at Central Saint Martins, but when she told them the decision would ruin her life and she'd end up a "crackhead prostitute", they let her in for sheer chutzpah. She started out making videos for her friend Justine Frischmann's band, Elastica. It wasn't until she went to Sri Lanka to make a film about her cousin Jana, who had gone missing in action, that she morphed into MIA. "The day I graduated, I heard about Jana. There was a story that he'd died. Then somebody said, no, he's alive, but he's a vegetable. Then somebody else said, no, he's just MIA. When someone in Sri Lanka joins the movement, you never know what happens to them. I grew up with him for 10 years; he was like my twin. So the first time I used MIA was when I was looking for him." The film turned into an exhibition, and then into her first album, Arular.
When she made Arular, she contacted her father and told him she was going to name it after him. He forbade her. Why? "I don't know." So what did she say? "I was like, it's the only thing you gave me: I'm going to fucking use it."
She sounds awestruck when she talks about her father. She says he was sent from Sri Lanka to the Soviet Union to study as a teenager, where he thrived in a harsh environment. "My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever – the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed and he slept on a table." It sounds like a novel. "He was tough because he was poor, and I can't imagine Russia being tolerant to brown people in the 60s or 70s. It can't have been a walk in the park."
Yet at times she seems to despise him, too. In the trailer to a fraught, much-delayed documentary about MIA, leaked this summer by its director, Steve Loveridge, we see footage of a younger, lisping Maya talking to a camcorder. "This is what happens to a kid whose dad went off and became a terrorist. And this is how it fucked up the family… He was one of the five original members who founded the most lethal terrorist organisation the Tamil Tigers." However much she condemns the hypocrisy of traditional marketing, she knows her backstory has cachet. She has denounced others for calling him a terrorist, saying he was a freedom fighter in Sri Lanka's non-violent revolutionary student movement Eros. Which is true? "He was a member of Eros. It was an intellectual movement." So why does she call him a terrorist in the film? She didn't know any better, she says: "How many 20-year-olds do you know who know of individual struggles, and the names of each group? The media brand every struggle against the state as terrorism." The reality is that she's not sure; there is often no simple demarcation between peaceful and violent protest within a revolutionary group.
Anyway, she says, the bottom line is he did screw up the family. In Sri Lanka, she was told that she wouldn't make anything of herself because she was raised by a single parent. There was more of this when she came to Britain. "At school, teachers said you're going to be fucked up, you're going to stack shelves at Tesco because you don't have a dad. And statistics say that 80% of kids from single-parent families are losers. So by the time we got to where we got to, we realised we had to fight 10 times harder." In the event, she and her siblings all did well for themselves; her sister, Kali Arulpragasam, is a successful jewellery designer.
Is she angry with her father, or proud of him? "Neither. Just curious." Where does she stand on Tamil independence? "I support Tamil people, of course. I always have. Whoever sticks up for Tamil people will have my support." Is she still in touch with her father? "No. No. I guess I'm like him a bit. A bit of a loner. I like to do my own shit, then set off." Look, she says, it's no big deal. "We don't come from a culture where we have to have group therapy. It's just a very dysfunctional modern family. That's what we are." As for her mother, they couldn't be closer. "She's taught me how to be creative, open-minded, loose and strong. Strength in a different way. Strength through endurance."
Given her relationship with her father, the thought of losing Ikhyd must have been terrifying. I ask about her custody battle with Bronfman, whose father ran Warner Bros. She says she can't really talk about it, but of course she does – and with some anger. "In America, it's not the mother who has the say. The legal system sides with money. It doesn't side with truth, it sides with who has the best presentation of truth. I guess it was a lesson I had to learn. So you just had to be really good at lying. And I'm not very good at lying. I just can't be bothered. When it comes to basic shit, like a mother and child, you have a huge judicial system that no longer backs them up."
If that's the case, why couldn't she have simply bought the best lawyer and won the battle with the best arguments? "I'm not going to go against the billionaire with my money. Ultimately, I'm a working mum. I don't have parents who have tons of money who can fund my shit for 20 years." Is that what it came down to, going up against a billionaire? "Well, it was the idea that I was wild, a rock star mum, versus a financial institution, and fighting it in a country where financial institutions ultimately have the power. As a mum, my experience of the law in America was disgusting, because mums don't have a say. And I'm not going to change that, because it's going to take a nation of mums to stand up for it."
She says the irony is that after 9/11, she found it difficult to get into America, because of her support for the Tamils. Then, after she and Bronfman split up, she and Ikhyd found it impossible to leave; there was thought to be a risk she would abduct him. A few months ago, she finally won her battle and her relief is still palpable. In June she tweeted: "FREEEDOM > ME AND IKHYD IN LONDON TOWN! HOOOOOOOOOO MMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! NICE TO BE OUT OF DARKNESS."
Has her experience put her off men? "No. I'm in a relationship and have been for some time, and I'm happy." In fact, she's more than happy: "I'm in a state of nirvana." Nothing is going to spoil her mood. Not arguments with her record company, who have delayed the release of the new album to the point where she has threatened to leak it herself. Nor fallouts between Loveridge, the director of her documentary, and her management ("Count me out," he told them. "Would rather die than work on this"). Now the NFL is suing her for $1.5m over her middle-finger at the Super Bowl, but she doesn't care about that, either. "It's a massive waste of time, a massive waste of money," she says in a video posted last month on YouTube. "It's ridiculous… a massive display of powerful corporation dick shaking." It's also an example of the hypocrisy of the music business, she says, pointing out that while she is scapegoated for her "display of female empowerment through punk rock", the NFL was happy to have cheerleaders "under 16… hips thrusting in the air, legs wide open… in a very sexually provocative position".
Misogyny and the exploitation of women are a recurrent theme in her music. What does she think about Miley Cyrus and her twerking? "It's a spectacle," is all she'll say. "I'm not talking about anyone else." She has more respect for Madonna's brand of self-exploitation, and tells me a funny story about a song she offered her from the new album, Sexodus. "I actually played that song to Madonna when I wrote it and said, 'Oh, you can have this.' She gave it back to me."
Madonna didn't think it was right for her, but MIA still wanted to know what she thought of the question behind it: when you have it all, what should you do with it? "So I was like, what d'you do? And she said, 'You spend it!' And I said, no, I don't think that's the right answer." Did it change her opinion of Madonna? "No, because Madonna is true to Madonna. She always said she was a material girl."
Is the delayed release of the new album down to conflict with her record company, Interscope, or the result of personal problems? Time for another conspiracy: "Both. I thought, it's funny the shit in my life started only when I handed my album in." The custody battle? "Yes, my personal life, and it's really hard for me to separate them."
My own experience suggests MIA is probably as responsible as the record company for the delays. In August, I was sent an early copy of the album, but after a couple of days had it whipped away from me, "for minor tweaking". I didn't get it back until two months later, and it was noticeably different. There's a bit of everything, from Hindi punk rap to the self-referential Boom Skit about her time in America ("Brown girl, turn your shit down… Let you into Super Bowl, you try to steal Madonna's crown"), to the gorgeous lushness of Sexodus, a collaboration with The Weeknd. Then it was whipped away again.
All she wants to do is get it right, MIA says. After all, so many things have turned out fine: she's back in London with Ikhyd, she has a new love, a new record and a better understanding of her place in the music industry. "Nirvana has nothing to do with making money, nothing to do with having a number one single on Billboard, nothing to do with me sucking anyone's dick." Was there a time when she thought she'd have to go down that route? "As a human being, you're bombarded with that image every day." Is it hard to resist? "Yes, of course it is. The only way I could do it was because I came from a fucked-up situation, so I knew how to survive on a fiver – I tasted real struggle. But if you're a kid that's grown up in England in a semi-OK environment, it's difficult. You're going to have the fear, aren't you? The assumption of darkness is scary, and that's what it works on."
Meanwhile, MIA is content to plough her own furrow. She fancies going on The X Factor in disguise. "I was thinking of wearing a burqa and auditioning." How far would she get? "First round? No, second round. They'd give me a second go, because I'd be in a burqa and they'd be politically correct. Then I would get kicked off." Does she think she's a good singer? "Course not. No! I'm just a… not really a singer, I don't know what I am." Is she a musician? "No, I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist." In her documentary, she has a pretty good go at defining herself: "I could be a genius, I could be a cheat," she says. "It's a thin line and I'm fuckin' with it."
By the time you read this, MIA may well have retired again. "I don't know what comes next," she says. "I guess I'll have to live a little before I decide." How would she feel if Matangi went to number one? "Matangi lives on the outskirts of the mainstream. It will never go in the charts." Would she be appalled if it did? "Pretty much, yeah."
• Matangi is released on 4 November, on Neet/Virgin EMI.
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Dear Cougar Families,
in order to provide a safe, healthy, allergy-free environment for all students we are adjusting our school policy on birthday treats.We are no longer allowing outside food to be brought in for birthday celebrations. We do have a safe option for parents to order birthday treats through the Cougar Cuisine (Billingsville's Cafeteria). The order form for the Cougar Cuisine birthday treats is included in the week's Monday Cougar Folder. The order form can also be found on our school webpage.I have also included some food-free ways to celebrate birthdays at school that are highly recommended:
I appreciate everyone's support for this new policy in advance!Alicia Hash


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How Manny Pacquiao beat Jessie Vargas round by round
LAS VEGAS — Manny Pacquiao, now a senator in the Philippines, made a triumphant return to boxing Saturday, outclassing WBO welterweight champion Jessie Vargas in a 12-round title bout at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of UNLV.
Pacquiao (59-6-2, 38 KOs) won by scores of 114-113 and 118-109 twice, retaking a belt he used to own. USA TODAY Sports scored it 117-110 for Pacquiao.
The 27-year old Vargas (27-2, 10 KOs), a decade younger than his opponent, won the vacant WBO title in April when he knocked out Sadam Ali in Washington.
With Floyd Mayweather sitting at Ringside, Pacquiao put on the type of show he was unable to put on against Mayweather in 2015. A raucous pro Pacquiao crowd of 16,132 at The Thomas and Mack Center chanted "Man-ny, Man-ny" almost every round.
Here is how the rounds unfolded:
Boxers are fighting in the center of the ring, Pacquiao decked out in black trunks with gold trim, Vargas wearing red with gold trim. Crowd chanting for Manny. A lot of feinting by both fighters but few punches thrown. Vargas jabbing with that stiff jab that Timothy Bradley talked about. Swings and misses by both fighters. A right by Vargas followed by more jabbing. Manny ties up Vargas. There was more action in the last 10 seconds than most of the rest of the round. Vargas is more active and I give him the round.
Pacquiao using his still spectacular footwork, but Vargas presses the action. Both fighters remain cautious. Pacquiao misses with a left. So much for early action. Vargas misses with a right, and Pac counters with a left. A sudden, straight left hand by Pacquiao drops Vargas. Wow, a lightning quick punch that lands right on the button. A 10-8 round for Pacquiao.
Vargas presses the action but Pac returns a flurry. The action is staying in the center of the ring for the most part. Pac attacks again, and his expression makes it look like he has this under control. Crowd chanting Man-ny! Man-ny! Vargas not getting much of Pac. Wild swing and his glove touches the canvas. They tie each other up as the bell ring. Another round for Pacquiao, who's up 2-1 on my card.
Vargas struggling to get his hands on Pacquiao, whose quickness seems to be back, if it ever left, and is making Vargas miss. Left by Pac connects, and Vargas misses with a right, then holds Pac's neck. Vargas tags Pacquiao on the chin with a stiff jab. He needs to use the jab more. Manny's left is returned by a Vargas right. Another tie-up. Short left by Pac is followed by a right by Vargas as the bell ends round 4. Very close round but have to give it to Vargas. Tied 2-2.
Several swings and misses. Hard left by Pac connects to Vargas' midsection. Vargas' right eye might be starting to close. Vargas goes back to the jab. Vargas comes in with a right hand then they clinch in the corner. Vargas misses with a right, and Manny returns a left that connects. Vargas ends the round with three or four lunges and misses. Good Pacquiao round and he's up 3-2
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More caution to start the round, as Vargas uses the jab to keep Pac away. Left by Pac misses and Vargas ties him up. Then Vargas connects with a hard right, which he's been trying land all night. Vicious exchange right in front of us that Vargas might have gotten the better of. Pacquiao lunges with a left that barely misses as the bell rings. Good round for Vargas. 3-3.
Pacquiao is using the right hand early in the seventh, to which Vargas didn't seem to have an answer. Ultimately it might have won him the round because Vargas seemed unable to counter. Vargas comes forward and throws a hard right that glances off. Pac is jabbing to keep Vargas away. A wild Vargas right goes over the ducking Pac's head. I give the round to Pacquiao and the lead 4-3.
Pacquiao throws some wicked combinations that all connect as Vargas is cut, and Pacquiao smells the blood. Vargas now bleeding heavily over his right eye. Straight right by Pac connects and snaps Vargas' head back. Pac dominates the round and leads 5-3.
Pac throwing hard lefts early as Vargas looks tired. Pac is relentless, comes in with a straight left, followed by another left. Vargas right hand misses as Pac ducks. Pac blocks a right hand shot. Pac's superior footwork is paying off, as Vargas throws and catches a lot of air with his last two rights. Another good round for Pacquiao and a 6-3 lead.
Hard lefts by Pac connect as Vargas seemingly has no answers. The fighting senator looks in great shape. Left and right, then another left by Pac leaves Vargas gasping for air. Vargas finally connects with a right hand but it seems to be a case of too little, too late. Pac stalks Vargas onthe ropes, and looks mighty confident with two rounds to go. Pacquiao wins the round, leads 7-3.
Pac charges and throws two hard lefts. Vargas comes back and connects with a right to the forehead of Pacquiao. Vargas hanging tough, but probably needs a knockout to win this. Pacquiao making it look easy. Hard right by Vargas glances off Pacquiao, then Pac comes back with a right that appears to knock Vargas down, his glove touches the canvas, but referee Kenny Bayless rules it a slip. He's a great ref, but I believe is wrong on that count. Pacquiao's round; we go to the 12th.
Pacquiao nails Vargas with a left on the chin; Vargas is game, but about to lose his belt. Combination by Vargas lands, but Pacquiao is being cautious. Does not want to get hit with a big punch. Vargas is trying though. Swings and misses by Vargas, and Manny counters with a left. Vargas touches the canvas and Bayless rules it a slip again. It's over. Should be an easy Pacquiao victory. He outclassed Vargas, who was unable to connect enough with the overhand right he hoped would catch Pacquiao.
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Mar 18, 2016
THE FOLLOWING PODCAST HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR ALL APPROPRIATE AUDIENCES. As we ease into spring Blockbuster season The Regular Joe's turn their attention to trailers and teasers of the films that loom ahead on the horizon. Tod continues maintain his newfound optimism about Batman v. Superman, Dave predicts Captain America Civil War will be the best comic based film of the year, and Barry admits to having watched the Ghostbusters trailers. This is followed by a discussion of the confirmation of, and general lack of information regarding, Indiana Jones 5. All this plus, What's in the Box and Regular Joe's Picks.


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It's easy to collect lavender seeds from your garden to start new plants, or to share with friends. Below I will show you exactly when and how to harvest lavender seeds, and also how to store the seeds for planting next year.
Lavender is one of my favorite perennial herbs to grow in the garden. I mean, who doesn't love lavender? Not only does it look gorgeous in the garden, it attracts tons of bees too. It also smells amazing, and can be used for so many things!
I love saving seeds from my garden so I can grow more of my favorites, or share them with friends. Harvesting lavender seeds is easy, and doesn't take much time at all.
Harvesting Lavender Seeds
It's very easy to harvest lavender seeds and save them to grow next year, or to share with friends! In order for the plant to form seeds, don't deadhead lavender. Instead, leave the flowers on the plant and allow the seeds to mature.
Once they're ready, collecting lavender seeds from the garden doesn't take much time. Lavender plant seeds form inside the flower heads, so allow some of the flowers to dry out on the plant.
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When To Harvest Lavender Seeds
After the flowers have faded, lavender seed pods will start to form in their place. Leave those seed pods on the plant until they are completely dried out. They will turn a light brown/grayish color. You'll know it's time to start collecting lavender seeds if seeds start to fly out when you gently shake the plant.
What Do Lavender Seeds Look Like
Lavender seeds are pretty small, but it's not hard to see them. The seeds are black, and they're about half the size of a sesame seed.
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How to Collect Lavender Seeds From Your Garden
To collect lavender seeds, I like to gently shake the seed pods over a container. You could also clip the seed pods off the plant and drop them into a paper bag. Then fold the top of the bag over and shake it to release the lavender seeds from the seed pods.
Lavender flower seeds usually come out of the pods pretty clean, but there will be some chaff (extra bits of seed pods and other plant material). If you want to separate the seeds from the chaff (you don't need to do this), dump them onto a flat surface, and lightly blow on the pile. The lighter pieces of chaff will blow away.
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What To Do With Lavender Seeds After Harvesting
Allow your seeds to dry out completely before storing them. Keep in mind that lavender seeds need a period of cold (aka cold stratifying) in order to grow, so you will need to refrigerate lavender seeds for a while before planting them.
Once they're dry, lavender seeds can be stored in plastic containers (film canisters work great!), a paper bag, or in small envelopes. I like to store my seeds in a plastic shoe box, but if you're more organized than I am, a Seed Keeper would be perfect. If you want to share your seeds with friends, try these custom seed envelopes. Learn how to make your own seed envelopes here.
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Where To Buy Lavender Seeds
If you don't already have lavender growing in your garden, you can usually find lavender seeds for sale at your local garden center mid-winter through spring. Otherwise, you can always buy lavender seeds online. Here are some great, quality seeds you can buy to get started… English Lavender Seeds, French Lavender Seeds, Provence Blue Lavender Seeds or Lavender Hidcote Dwarf Seeds.
Growing lavender from seed is rewarding, and it's easy to collect lavender seeds from your garden. Take a little time to collect the seeds, and you'll have lots of lavender seeds to share with your friends or trade for other garden seeds.
Now that you know how to collect the seeds, learn how to grow lavender in our detailed lavender plant care guide!
If you want to learn how to start seeds indoors, then my Starting Seeds Indoors eBook is for you! It's a quick-start guide to get you sowing seeds quickly, so that you can saving money by starting your garden plants indoors from seed. Download your copy today!
Otherwise, if you're looking for more help, then enroll in the Online Seed Starting Course! This fun, comprehensive course will show you everything you need to know to grow all of you own plants from seed.
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I must be honest when I first started reading author Kevin Hopson's book, The Resurrected, I jump to a conclusion. I'm not sure if was the well-done cover or the opening sequence of the book. I just know that when I read about the fire that was engulfing the woodlands and moving closer to the city, well, yep conclusion born. You see, I thought at first this could be a book dealing with a potential walking dead type of scenario. I didn't do my due diligence and read to much about the book up front as it was by Hopson, and I've enjoyed other books by the author.
I have to admit I was wrong, and for that, I do apologize to Hopson. I got to add that the opening did get me hooked and it was a very nice surprise to find that, The Resurrected, was not a medieval walking dead or cursed book.
Instead, readers will find a book set in a period of walled cities, broadswords, an Emperor, and political intrigue. You will find that those flames are actually those of an encampment of a group that wishes to oust the Emperor of the land. The head of the Emperor's guard, Asgall, had fought and killed for the man. Some of those were his friends, and those behind the attempted coup are called, The Resurrected.
As mentioned, the book will start informing readers of that fire as it moves closer and closer to the city walls. Those walls are protected by Asgall and his Emperor's guard. Their primary mission is to ensure the ruler is protected and at the same time, they must investigate threats from within. It leads one to ask who was the man who blackened the eye of an older male citizen of the city. All Asgall and the guards knew was that he bore that mark, the mark of the Resurrected.
As you read the story you will yourself meeting other key players that will have an impact on the pages. I will not name their allegiances as that may give things away. You will, however, get to meet them through Hopson's character development. These players are Colum, Owin, Nesta, and Berian. Again, I will not give away who they are but they are players that will have impacts on Asgall, and the kingdom.
The Resurrected is book 1 in the Emperor's Guard Series by Kevin Hopson. It is a good opening to a series as you will find when you read the story. I found it to be an engaging read considering its length and do hope to see more of this series.
Please enjoy the video book trailer below.


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This is a very strong tea with complex flavors, which I suppose is appropriate considering the character. This was the first time I'd used aniseed and I'm happy with the results because it enhances the taste of the gunpowder green. The orange peels and rose hips bring out the zest of the earl grey and the chai brings the spice. Definitely not what I would deem a hero's tea, but who needs heroes when you have Uncle Sassy Wolf?
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ROE 41 is sponsoring a free showing of Paper Tigers at the Wildey Theater in Edwardsville on April 25th and it's worth 2 PD hours. Reservations aren't needed, but the showing is limited to 325 people. View the trailer HERE: https://vimeo.com/110821029.
Doors open at 4:00 – showing at 5:00.
Sponsored by ROE 41 and the IEA.
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July 06, 2017
Did you know that the ArtStarts Gallery displays art from young people from all regions of BC? If you live far away from Vancouver and aren't able to visit in person, not to worry, you can now check out our new exhibition online, thanks to our new virtual gallery tour videos!
Watch all 10 videos about creative projects in the Cause + Effect exhibition online now. Just click on each project to learn more and watch the video. Or, watch all the videos below:
Thanks to everyone who helped put these videos together, especially students Maddy Mullett and Griffin Eggen who offered their talents to narrate the videos. Curatorial work was done by Juliana Bedoya and video scripts were created by Siobhan Rich. The voice-over work was recorded at Oakstone Sound Studios in Victoria, with additional support and coordination by Karen DeCicco and Dennis Ferbey. Photography of the gallery and video editing were done by Christopher Guy. And, of course, we want to thank all the students, teachers and artists from across BC who worked together to create the featured artwork!
Cause + Effect is open to the public at the ArtStarts Gallery until September 2, 2017. Visit the gallery at 808 Richards Street (at Robson) in downtown Vancouver, Tuesday through Saturday from 10am to 4:30pm. Admission is free and all ages are welcome!
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Between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, the Seamen's Church Institute (SCI) asks knitters to help increase awareness of mariners' contributions by making—and hiding in plain sight—mini mariners' watchcaps. The hats draw attention to the fact that mariners, whose work is often hidden in plain sight, deliver more than 90% of all imported goods.
SCI makes available a pattern for a miniature mariners' watchcap (along with an informational tag to attach) as part of a nationwide activity called #WATCHthisCAP. Knitters and their friends place completed knits in conspicuous places to educate the public about the world's maritime workforce. SCI's #WATCHthisCAP movement hopes these handknit creations will reveal a fact few realize: much of what shoppers purchase on a day-to-day basis comes courtesy of the men and women of maritime commerce.
The hats fit bottle tops—from olive oil to wine—but also can garnish other things like gas pumps or bicycles. People can track the placement of the mini hats and monitor their impact on Twitter and Facebook using the hashtag #WATCHthisCAP. The colorful wool on top of everyday items might draw some strange looks, but people examining the tag affixed to each hat soon understand: "From smartphones to blue jeans, cars to fuel, mariners bring us the comforts of our daily lives."
SCI designed the miniature cap to mirror a life-sized watchcap, a hat design that has protected mariners traveling on cold waters for hundreds of years. Annually, thousands of SCI volunteers handcraft these hats to keep mariners' heads warm. Knitters and crocheters send in their creations—hats and scarves, vests and socks, too—to SCI's volunteer knitting program, Christmas at Sea, which distributes the garments to mariners arriving into ports around the United States.
Anyone interested in participating in this project should visit http://seamenschurch.org/WATCHthisCAP to learn more. SCI supplies tags, patterns and project promotion materials free of charge.


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Carnegie Mellon University - Australia
Carnegie Mellon University is a private, global research university and stands among the world's most renowned educational institutions. Established in 1900 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it has been a birthplace of innovation and is a global leader in bringing ground-breaking ideas to market and creating successful start-up businesses. It is the university?s mission to utilise the research and education this platform enables to have a positive influence on the evolution of societies, economic systems, organizations and individual lives around the world.
Students graduate with Carnegie Mellon University degree and are taught by highly qualified faculty who boast extensive careers in teaching, basic and applied research, and leadership in their respective fields. Classes are taught by resident and visiting faculty from Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C. Overseas faculty teach remotely to Adelaide using sophisticated video conferencing facilities. Small student-to-faculty ratios ensure the faculty provide students with personalised attention to meet their individual needs.
Located in Adelaide, the fifth Most Liveable City in the world and Australia?s most affordable mainland capital city, Carnegie Mellon's Australia campus is home to students from many countries, creating wide-reaching networks of contemporaries, global experts and alumni.


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