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limoeiro1 wrote:I AM LIMEIRO ONE OF THE 1ST TO USE ZORIN OS . I don't remember the password of Limoeiro so I have created this user name limoeiro1. I come here to say my Opinion and It is EXTREMELY NEGATIVE....
First ... This is Zorin Lite not Zorin Core so why does it ahs so many freaking software? I don't want Libre Office, I don't want Gimp, I don't games games or Wine or zillion software blootware stufff.... If I wanted all that c*** I would have installed Zorin Core...
Second .. XFCE is freaking horrible.. annoying thing... THe minute I saw I couldn't put the pannel to the Top like I always do I was like .. creepy perverted XFCE c***... the screenschot utility is freaking annoying and absurd... It asks me if I want to save it and where and bla bla bla... it should be like zorin 9 lite where i just take a screenshot and it goes straight to the folder with the date and number ...
I tell you this.. Zorin 9 lite LXDE was freaking perfect... You don't change a thing that its perfect. Had the right software , the right size .. was lite and not heavy like this creepy XFCE is .. freaking heavy and full of software c***... WHY DO YOU CHANGE A THING THAT WAS PERFECT??? You know w3hat will happenn ?? The people who installed zorin 9 lite will not install this zorin 12 which isnt lite and will search for a Linux Distribution lite with LXDE and REALLY Lite....
I think Zorin has 2 core versions .. this one named zorin 12 lite but it is a core heavy version and the other zorin 12 core....
You ruined a fantastic version of Zorin with this XFCE creepy perverted stufff... Go back to LXDE .. If people want a core version they have already one Core Version... of Zorin 12...
I won't use this creepy version XFCE... I wish and desire the LXDE version... Was perfection !|!! 5 stars...and a really LITE version!!
I have to disagree with your outpouring of hate of XFCE - the problem with Lubuntu on which previous versions of Zorin were based had a limited timescale, with LTS maxing out at 3 years tops.
XFCE can be made to look just as good as LXDE - I like both LXDE and XFCE but Lubuntu is not the way forward - XFCE can become a 'roll-over' DE if applied as SolydX community have done - and don't forget Jacque Raymer's Makulu Flash running XFCE and Compiz! Don't forget users of older kit will need XFCE with a version of Office that will run with Accessibility Software - only LibreOffice meets that criteria. Zorin made a great choice of moving to XFCE for sustainability reasons - remember Zorin comprised just the Zorin brothers and 2 full-time devs.
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Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter
(Acts 13:26-33; John 14:1-6)
A university co-ed tells her roommates in the middle of a blizzard that her father is coming to pick her up. "How can you be so sure he will get here?" the roommates ask. They add, "It's impossible driving outside." "Because I am his favorite daughter," the young woman replies. In the gospel today Jesus means to instill such confidence in his disciples.
The passage is taken from the beginning of the second part of John's gospel, the so-called Book of Glory. Jesus gives a long farewell speech to his disciples among whom we should see ourselves. He does not want us to worry because he is leaving us. Rather, he assures us that things are better this way. "Why?" we may ask, with the same uncertainty as Thomas displays in the passage. He answers because he is "the way and the truth and the life." Jesus is the way, the one who leads us to God. He is the truth whose directions we can utterly rely on because he comes from the Father. And he is the life of which we partake in the Eucharist for strength on the journey.
We sometimes find ourselves in bleak situations. Perhaps we face job termination, mortgage foreclosure, or even terminal disease. We are not to cower but to be confident. Jesus sublimely demonstrates this trust on the cross. In John's crucifixion Jesus does not suffer but reigns when he is crucified. As he predicted, he has drawn the whole world – friends, foes, even the Roman governor to the scene. He completes his work on earth by forming the Church -- his family of brothers and sisters – when he entrusts his mother to his beloved disciple and him to her. And he dies only when he is ready, after everything has been accomplished. Believing in him, we can face our trials with the same surety of spirit.
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Sunday, 22 August 2010
Weekend Youtube Post: Flex-O-Ladder
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So funny, straight it was cut to show the advertisement instead of showing the host lol.
the host is flexible!
once u locked it, it is ok... XD
He kept on saying it is safe just to convince himself
they had to switch the screen to avoid ppl from seeing the host's nose bleeding! hahahah!
His last statement begins with a "but" i guess it is natural that he thinks it is not safe.. hahaha
"once you lock it, it is ok BUT.... it is very safe to operate" hahah :D
LOOOLLLL!!!! so not gonna make money eh... failure...
this blog is a joke.
i agree danny. Copying and pasting links to funny videos shows the lack of effort
Oh MY God!!! Anyone want to buy it???
wat happened to the funny kennysia.com we all know years ago??
lol fail!!
HAHAHAH the host is memper-xiasoi-kan!
Hahah! Very convincing. XD
Kennysia.com is gone.
Plese help They are running out of time
Please sign the petition to amend & revise 'Revised Animals Act 1953? and forward to your friends
disappointed with this post. bored one. sorry for being honest.
i can't stop laughing. indeed reading your jokes is a stress reliever. naysayers are envious dudes.
Nothing to post ?
Why don't you start something more meaningful ?
Is our Kuching City safe ?
cibai la you all... kenny is growing up and needs more time to spend with his family/ friends etc.. no time to write long post.. why can't you guys understand? You must be a nothing-to-do high school secondary student... hahaha
It's his blog, so i think he's entitled to post anything he feels like it bah. You want entertainment? Buy starcraft 2 bah.
Yeah guys... be considerate!
Even Kenny Sia has a life!!
Although it's just copy pasting a video link, you can see he is trying to blog consistently XD
It seems Jimmy Fallon is behind you. Just saw this video on his show like less than 5 minutes ago.
& the tv station or whosoever making the commercial's stupid enough to put it on-air like that... go figure...
oh...just saw you in tv with the lady and edric ong. you didn't finish your bowl of sarawak laksa but she did!
how come does the treatment cost?
hahaha funny =))
Thanks for the detailed sharing. Many people faced the same problem with the local docs.
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China's proposed tariffs on US petroleum imports, part of a mounting trade war between the two countries, would crimp sales to the shale industry's largest customer, adding new pressure on US crude prices, energy executives and analysts said in interviews this week.
China has said it would slap a 25% tariff on imports of US crude, natural gas and coal on July 6 if Washington went ahead, as planned, with its own tariffs on Chinese goods that day, Reuters reported.
Energy would be added for the first time to a burgeoning trade dispute that has hit imports of Chinese metals and solar panels, and exports of US medical equipment and soybeans.
Targeting petroleum puts the US administration's "energy dominance" agenda in Beijing's crosshairs, as American shale has grabbed the share of Middle East suppliers in Asia.
China is the largest customer of US crude, importing about 363,000 barrels a day in the six months ended in March. Thomson Reuters shipping data show those exports have increased since, rising to an expected 450,000 bpd in July.
"It is going to hurt everyone for the short term," said Ron Gasser, vice president at Mammoth Exploration, a west Texas shale producer.
While US crude will continue flowing to market even with tariffs, "it'll force you to put your oil somewhere else, and it'll cost you more" to line up other buyers.
US oil exports have steadily grown since the four-decade-old ban on crude exports was lifted at the end of 2015.
China's tariff threat caught US producers off guard because it had been discussing buying more US energy and agricultural products to reduce its $375 billion trade surplus with the United States. The levies could boost suppliers of West African crude at the expense of US exports.
The tariffs are "creating a whole new set of uncertainties on top of what's already there", Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of consultancy IHS Markit, said on Tuesday.
"The global oil industry didn't really worry or think about trade issues. Now, trade issues are moving really pretty fast up the agenda," he said. The impact likely would be temporary as US oil becomes less attractive to Chinese buyers. But the tit-for-tat expansion of tariffs has US oil industry officials and politicians calling on the US administration to move cautiously.


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South African mercenaries who allegedly took part in Moammar Gadhafi's failed escape bid are still taking care of his son Seif al-Islam, the Beeld newspaper said Thursday.
The South Africans were hired by a company with close ties to Gadhafi, training his presidential guard and handling some of his offshore financial dealings, the Afrikaans-language paper said.
South Africans have also reportedly been involved in transporting Gadhafi's gold, diamonds and foreign currency to Niger, and helping his wife and three of children flee Tripoli, the paper said.
Planes are waiting at a Johannesburg airport and in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to fly the South Africans out of Libya, the Beeld said.
The group of South Africans includes former soldiers and policemen. Some of them were killed one week ago in the attack on the convoy that left Gadhafi dead, it said.
"They are all seasoned operators abroad and apparently become involved only by invitation in operations for which they receive large sums in U.S. dollars," it said.
Some of the South Africans were also in the group of mercenaries that staged a failed coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea in 2004, it added.
Another Afrikaans paper, Rapport, at the weekend quoted one of the South Africans who claimed to be in the group as saying that their attempt to extract Gadhafi from Libya was a "huge failure".
Deon Odendaal, who described himself as a spy, said the group believed NATO wanted Gadhafi to leave Libya but the convoy came under attack as they tried to take him from his hometown in Sirte.
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Ethan came in for headshots for college applications. I'm so excited to see his future unfold! Such a talented guy.
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However, I have never even set foot in Holland. My name came to this country along with my Grandfather shortly after the second world war. A glassblower by trade, he eventually settled in England, working at a light bulb factory where he met my Grandmother and the rest is, as they often say, history.
On a strange and un-bidden whim, mainly due to the fact that someone sent me a link to this recipe, I decided to cook a few dutch dishes. I apologize if any Netherlanders should come across these recipes and find them wholly inaccurate. I'm doing the best I can.
The end result is less like deep fried gravy than you might imagine, but has a lovely golden fried crust around a creamy savory filling. For some reason it made me think of a really good quality scotch egg!
This recipe should make between 16 and 20 Biterballen
300g Minced Beef
250g Butter
120g Plain Flour
300ml Beef Stock
1 Medium Onion
1tsp Chopped Parsley
For the coating
2 Beaten Egg
Flour for dusting
Fry the minced beef to brown it, then set it aside for later. Next you need to make a roux. In a large pan, heat the butter gently and add the flour, stirring constantly over a low heat. Next, add the stock in small quantities, again, stirring all the time so that all the liquid is absorbed. Be careful not to get any lumps in the roux, it should be smooth and silky consistancy.
Next add the browned beef, finely chopped onion and parsley, then season with salt, pepper and a pinch of ground nutmeg. Finally, transfer the mixture to a container and put in the fridge, so it sets. This should take about 2 hours.
When the mixture is set, take it out of the fridge and roll into balls, then coat with flour, beaten egg and finally breadcrumbs. Once they are covered evenly, return them to the fridge whilst you heat up enough cooking oil to deep fry the balls.
Fry them until they are golden brown in batches of 5 or 6, then they are ready to serve. In Holland, it is apparently traditional to eat them with mustard, and possibly beer, which sounds like a great idea to me! Enjoy!


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The Uzbek immigrant accused of using a lorry to mow people down along a New York bike path, killing eight, did it in the name of the Islamic State group, police said on Wednesday.
Investigators, meanwhile, were at the hospital bedside of 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov, working to extract information about the attack on Tuesday afternoon near the World Trade Centre memorial that also left 12 people injured, a law enforcement official said.
The official said Saipov was lucid after surgery for wounds suffered when he was shot by police.
"He did this in the name of Isis," John Miller, deputy police commissioner for intelligence, said at a news conference, citing handwritten notes left by Saipov in his rented Home Depot pickup.
Mr Miller said the notes, written in Arabic, essentially said the Islamic State "would endure forever".
In the past few years, the Islamic State has been exhorting followers to use vehicles or other close-at-hand means of killing people in their home countries.
The UK, France and Germany have seen deadly vehicle attacks in the past year or so.
"It appears that Mr Saipov had been planning this for a number of weeks," Mr Miller said.
"He appears to have followed, almost exactly to a T, the instructions that Isis has put out in its social media channels before with instructions to its followers on how to carry out such an attack."
Mr Miller said Saipov had never been the subject of a New York police investigation but appears to have some links to people who have been investigated.
Governor Andrew Cuomo said the suspect was a "depraved coward" who tried to create terror.
"He was radicalised domestically," he said on CNN.
"It's not the first time. It's a global phenomenon now."
In a number of recent extremist attacks around the world, the assailants were found to have been inspired but not actually directed by the Islamic State, and in some cases never even made contact with the group.
On the morning after the bloodshed, city leaders vowed New York would be not intimidated, and they commended New Yorkers for going ahead with Halloween festivities on Wednesday night.
They also said Sunday's New York City Marathon, with 50,000 participants and some two million spectators anticipated, will go on as scheduled.
"We will not be cowed. We will not be thrown off by anything," the city's mayor Bill de Blasio said.
While the mayor said there have been no credible threats of any additional attacks, police announced the deployment of heavy-weapon teams and other stepped-up security along the marathon route, in the subways and other sites, and New York Police Commissioner James O'Neill urged people to be vigilant and tell police if they see "something that doesn't look right".
In Tuesday's attack, Mr Saipov hurtled down the bike path, running down cyclists and pedestrians, then crashed into a school bus, authorities said.
He was shot in the abdomen after he jumped out of the vehicle brandishing air guns and yelling "God is great!" in Arabic, they said.
Mr De Blasio called it "a cowardly act of terror".
The dead consisted of five people from Argentina, one from Germany, and two Americans, authorities said.
Nine people remained in hospital in serious or critical condition, with injuries that included lost limbs and head, chest and neck wounds.
A two-mile stretch of road in lower Manhattan was shut down for the investigation.
Authorities also converged on a New Jersey apartment building and a van in a car park at a New Jersey Home Depot.
President Donald Trump railed against the Islamic State on Twitter and declared "Enough!" and "Not in the U.S.A.!"
In NYC, looks like another attack by a very sick and deranged person. Law enforcement is following this closely. NOT IN THE U.S.A.!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2017
On Wednesday, the president took a swipe at the Senate's top Democrat, saying Saipov came to the US under a visa lottery programme,"a Chuck Schumer beauty".
The terrorist came into our country through what is called the "Diversity Visa Lottery Program," a Chuck Schumer beauty. I want merit based.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 1, 2017
Mr Trump urged tougher immigration measures based on merit.
Mr Schumer, who represents New York, said in a statement that he has always believed that immigration "is good for America".
New Yorkers woke to a heavy police presence Wednesday outside the World Trade Centre and at other locations around the city.
The slight, bearded Saipov is from heavily Muslim Uzbekistan and came to the US legally in 2010, police said.
He has a Florida driver's license but was apparently living in New Jersey, they said.
Records show Saipov was a commercial lorry driver who formed a pair of businesses in Ohio. He had also driven for Uber.
Mirrakhmat Muminov, 38, of Stow, Ohio, said he knew Saipov because they were both Uzbek lorry drivers.
He portrayed Saipov as an argumentative young man whose work was falling apart and who "was not happy with his life".


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Christian Jones
Christian Jones joins the Trine University Admissions team excited and ready to help students find their home. Christian graduated in May 2018 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Sport Management from Trine University.
While at Trine, he was very involved on campus, especially in the Ketner School of Business, the Ehinger Fellows and Sport Management Club. He was a member of the varsity basball team and vice president to the Student Athlete Advisory Committee. He also worked as a referee with intramurals, was active with new student orientation and worked in a supporting role to the campus athletic director.
Christian enjoys sports, but especially the Indianapolis Colts and the St. Louis Cardinals. You can find him working out and also playing basketball on the courts of Hershey Hall in his spare time.
Finding a college that is right for you is an exciting time, so please don't be shy. Christian would love to chat about life, sports, and the many opportunities that await you at Trine University.
Send us a selfie with your admission counselor or a quick snap of your acceptance letter. Tweet us or tag us on Instagram (@TrineAdmission) when you have decided that you are #TrineBound. We'll favorite and retweet!
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Okay, so it's now March, but this is my first post in the new year so bear with me. I'm not gonna lie, 2019 so far has not been my favorite. Our family has been perpetually sick since the ball dropped on New Year's Eve. We have had stomach bugs, diarrhea, pink eye, Influenza, sinus infections, Croup, ear infections, and chest colds!
Sounds like a party am I right? 2019's really not winning me over.
On top of the revolving door of sickness, this new year has presented a lot of changes for our family. All of them are good ones, but involve a lot of time and work. To be honest, I haven't even felt like writing, like AT ALL. So, that's why there has been a pretty big gap between my last post until now. Life has just felt a bit overwhelming because of all that's been going on, so writing wasn't really a priority to me. But now that I'm sitting down and putting these feelings into words I can tell you that I have missed it! I'm going to make sure I start writing more often again. So here is an update on all that has been going on:
First, Jess and I have been working our butts off fixing up the first home we owned, (which we have been renting out),and with the aforementioned sicknesses we have all been having this has been a HARD. Jess and I would often have to split up, and one stay home with the sickies, while the other went to go put a few hours in, and then we would switch. It was a long few months but I am happy to announce we officially listed it yesterday! I am so relieved it's done because even though it didn't initially seem like a lot of work, it WAS! We would think it would be done, and then another little project would appear. I'm a little sad to see this home go. We have so many memories attached to it, and being inside it so much recently made me nostalgic. But, we moved on to bigger and better!
The second big announcement is that I have chosen to go back to school! I got my Associate's degree in 2010, and would like to now get my Bachelor's degree. I have chosen to go into Social Work, with an emphasis on Human Rights. My dream is to work for the UN, but I know I need to start small and work my way up. I was so inspired by my trip to Rwanda and I have a very strong desire to help people. I would love to work abroad, but can do plenty of amazing things locally as well. So, for this momma, school is gonna be back in session! I'm a little nervous to be going back to school in my mid-thirties but I know I've got this!
The third announcement is that we are moving out of Utah to Tennessee!
I know, guys, this is huge news! I will do an entire post about our move soon, but for now all I can really say is that Jess and I have felt for a while now that we needed to get out of Utah and let our kids experience other parts of the country, and the world for that matter! But, we aren't made of money so picking up and moving to say Switzerland isn't exactly realistic. A girl can dream though! So Tennessee it is!
The hardest part, is that we will be far from family. It has been such a blessing to be close to everyone, but for now our own little family needs this adventure. Jess and I have discussed it, prayed about it, and slept on it, and we know it's the right decision. My twin sister Aly has no choice though, and is coming with us whether she wants to or not!
So, with a move looming over us (like in four months!) across the country, the packing up of our home has got to happen, and fast! Now that our other home is done being fixed up, I can concentrate solely on packing up our belongings and figuring out what's not going with us. Marie Kondo could not have come on Netflix at a better time! I am gonna have one heck of an amazing garage sale in a few months, so keep your eyes peeled local Utahns!
So, there you have it. That's pretty much what's been going on with us lately. Life has been very busy, and doesn't have any indication of slowing down. But here's hoping that the sicknesses at least can be done in our family so we don't end up having 2019 being the year of illnesses!
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Our Physicians
Howard J. Gross, M.D.
Certified as a Diplomat by the American Board of Ophthalmology, Dr. Howard Gross established Horizon Eye Care in 1994 and has since provided comprehensive eye care to patients of all ages, including the diagnosis and treatment of cataracts, glaucoma and diabetes. In addition to his over 20 years of practice experience, Dr. Gross is also a member of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and is a clinical research investigator for surgical product advancements seeking FDA approval.
He graduated from George Washington Medical School and completed his ophthalmology training at University of California, Davis. Dr. Gross served as an Emergency Room Director at Kirkland Air Force Base before beginning his practice in South Jersey. He has performed thousands of cataract surgeries and refractive procedures and was the first physician bringing LASIK to the area. In 2005, Dr. Gross took the lead in offering advanced multifocal lens implants, providing patients more alternatives for reducing their dependency on glasses and contact lenses.
Dr. Gross examines patients in the Margate, Galloway and Manahawkin offices and is proud to have constructed the area's first nationally-accredited ambulatory eye surgery center to help patients achieve clear, healthy vision. He often says: "The greatest gift is when a patient comes back ecstatic with how well their vision has improved!" He spends his leisure time reading, golfing, biking, pursuing his love of aviation and most importantly spending time with his family.
Matthew K. Perez, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Matthew K. Perez joined the practice in 2007 after completing his training at Thomas Jefferson Medical University and Temple University Hospital, where he was chief ophthalmology resident. Dr. Perez also holds a doctoral degree in pharmacology from the University of Pennsylvania.
As a board-certified general ophthalmologist and refractive surgeon, Dr. Perez treats all eye conditions from vision problems, to cataracts, glaucoma, and diabetic eye disease, as well as performing the most advanced laser and surgical procedures, including Advanced Intraocular Lens Replacement, Lasik and other types of refractive surgery. He cares for patients in the Egg Harbor Township, Ocean City and Margate offices.
Nicole M. Pritz, M.D.
Dr. Nicole Pritz is a cataract and refractive surgeon and a general ophthalmologist. She is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the New Jersey Academy of Ophthalmology. New to Horizon Eye Care, but not to the area, Dr. Pritz has strong family ties at the Jersey Shore, including being raised in Linwood, NJ. Dr. Pritz is very happy to be practicing close to home.
Dr. Pritz is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. She attended Medical School at Thomas Jefferson University, and served a general medicine internship at Cooper University Hospital. She completed her ophthalmology residency at Rutgers University College of Medicine and Dentistry and received the Rev. James F. Reilly Humanitarian Award "In recognition of the physician who best embodies outstanding qualities of compassion and dedication to patients".
Horizon Eye Care is very happy to welcome Dr. Pritz. She will be seeing patients in the Margate, Galloway and Manahawkin offices. Her areas of expertise include treating all eye conditions from general vision problems, to cataracts, glaucoma and diabetic eye disease, as well as performing the most advanced laser and surgical procedures, including Advanced Intraocular Lens Replacement, Lasik and other types of refractive surgery. When not treating patients, you may see Dr. Pritz playing tennis or spending time with friends and family.
John Patrick McLaughlin, M.D.
John Patrick McLaughlin, M.D. joins Horizon Eye Care on July 8, 2019. Dr. McLaughlin served as Chief Resident at Krieger Eye Institute at Sinai Baltimore after earning a medical degree from George Washington University. His experience in residency with advanced cataract procedures and surgical improvement techniques for glaucoma patients will continue the commitment of Horizon Eye Care to staying at the forefront of eye care in the Southern New Jersey Seashore area.
During his education Dr. McLaughlin was the chief clinical research assistant at Scheie Eye Institute of University of Pennsylvania on the oncology team. Dr. McLaughlin loves all water sports and outdoor activities which he plans to do with his wife and two young boys.
Robert F. Nunn, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Nunn is a general ophthalmologist who treats diseases of the eye, including caring for patients with glaucoma. He has been practicing with Horizon Eye Care since 1998. Prior to that, he maintained a private practice in Ocean City and Cape May Court House for more than 20 years.
A graduate of University of Pennsylvania and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Dr. Nunn maintains affiliations with Shore Memorial Hospital and Horizon Laser & Eye Surgery Center. He served as Chief of Ophthalmology services at Shore Memorial Hospital for many years.
Dr. Nunn cares for patients in the Ocean City and Cape May Court House offices. He is committed to providing the highest quality eye care to the people of Southern New Jersey. In his leisure time, Dr. Nunn enjoys being a private pilot and fly-fishing.


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That looks incredibly romantic / spooky! Are they the same thing? ;)ReplyDeleteReplies
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I'm tempted to step inside and find out more....ReplyDelete
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Very dark.ReplyDelete
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Today is the generation of selfies and perfect photos. A lot of apps are created to make it easier for users to get the perfect shot, especially for solo shots. But aside from taking advantage of technology, you can also do your part to make sure you show the perfect grin in every photo.
The best orthodontist in Dubai provided a list of tricks and hacks to achieve a flawless beam when you are being photographed:
- Fix your dental issues
No matter what apps or photo-editing software is available in the market, nothing can beat having a healthy set of teeth that can project a perfect beam. A healthy set of teeth and gums can help you achieve that camera-ready smile. If you are scheduled to do a photo shoot, be sure to make an appointment with a Hollywood smile dental clinic in Dubai for a dental checkup and a teeth whitening treatment weeks before your scheduled pictorial. These professionals can help on solving your dental issues and make your smile more endearing. But be sure to take care of your dentist's handiwork even after the shoot.
- Practice in the mirror
As an old adage says, "Practice makes perfect." This holds true when you want to achieve a perfect beam. In order to project a perfect smile, you need to try out breaking a smile and see how it looks like. This is important, especially if you have a photo shoot coming up. Look in front of the mirror, strike a pose and break out in a smile. You can even try doing your own photo shoot and see what pose, angle, and smile would look best for the occasion.
- Act natural
People can tell if you are faking it, especially in a photograph. When you are striking a pose, be sure to act natural. Relaxed and breathe in and out before they snap your photo. Being relaxed would help you to smile better and would make your grin genuine and flawless. Be sure to get enough rest before the big photo event so you won't feel stressed out and irritated during the pictorial. Being in a bad mood will make it harder for you to act natural and smile in a photograph.
- Ask help from your photographer
If you are having a hard time figuring out how to smile perfectly in a photograph, it would be best to ask tips from your photographer. Let him/her guide you on striking a pose and achieving the perfect smile needed for the photograph.


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The 1975's Matty Healy has spoken about the state of guitar music and punk and says that to him, women are the ones making it interesting.
The frontman was talking about the mini-beef with Idles back in August, when he said, in an interview, "There are no big bands who are doing anything as interesting as us right now".
Now in NME's Big Read, Healy has expanded on what he meant by that statement. "I don't want to try to do some truce between us because we are not battling with each other, but I know that some misrepresentation of where I come from has been presented to them, whether that's in my control or not."
Healy then discussed the state of guitar music. "The interesting things for me in, let's say 'guitar music', it's pretty much women now. Look at who's signed to my label [Dirty Hit, home to Wolf Alice, Japanese House]."
"People get confused, they can't understand why a lad their age wouldn't be wanting to be in The Courteeners or be in a punk band more than my band. It's because it's done, lads, it's done. We've done it. It was great but we've done it.
"It's like, white men shouting has been done so many times and the interesting perspective in punk is where women are. But that's why there are interesting bands like Idles who deal with stuff like fragility and toxic masculinity. If there's meaning, it'll resonate."
This week, The 1975's latest album 'A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships' was crowned NME's album of the year. IDLES' 'Joy As An Act Of Resistance' came in at number three.
Meanwhile, a previously unreleased song by The 1975 called '102' will go on sale this weekend in London. The band's label, Dirty Hit, will be be selling the song on cassette at the Independent Label Market which takes place at King's Cross' Canopy Market.


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How people can afford to travel round the world?
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The best two things to do are to save some amount of money and to find a remote job. For example, start with Asia, many (if not the most) travellers do the same as Asia is cheap. Find and rent a house for a month or two, make sure you have reliable internet access and start working. You can work as freelance copywriter, graphic designer, programmer, English teacher, proof-reader, social media manager, etc. Just start and get some experience while still at home. Then you can work several hours per day and get to know the country and its culture in your spare time.
Read some blogs and follow several world travellers to get the ideas and inspiration, they usually put it quite detailed. And think of your safety when you go as nothing can be worse than falling ill in a foreign country and spending everything on a treatment or getting in debt there. Don't save on travel insurance, choose World Nomads, Globelink.co,uk or Insure and go, depending on your preferences. Good luck! about 3 years agoAnswered by Anabelle via WorldNomads.com


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In this article, I will explain what is usually considered an AI chatbot.
To do that, we must first start with what ISN'T considered an AI chatbot.
The rules-based bot on my website
Recently, I ran a month long experiment where I installed a website chatbot using the collect.chat service to collect questions from website visitors.
Since the experiment is over, I have removed the chatbot from my website, but you can watch the video below to understand what the bot did.
This is NOT an AI chatbot.
It is a rules based bot. Sometimes people also refer to these as conditional logic bots, and other times they refer to it as scripted bots.
Because the bot doesn't actually try and understand the words the user says. At best, you give them a few buttons to click, and the button click triggers the next step in the conversation.
In other words, you "script" the conversation using rules and conditional jumps.
For example, the video below shows how a bot like the one above would be built using Collect.chat's bot builder.
Click here to read my review of the Collect.chat service.
Chatfuel and ManyChat
Just like the bot you saw above, you can also build chatbots for Facebook Messenger using tools like ManyChat and Chatfuel. Similar to Collect.chat, they also allow you to use rules to script the conversation flow.
These are also rules based bots because they cannot really understand the words the user says. (Note: They also have some rudimentary keyword matching, but it doesn't qualify as an NLU/AI bot and I will explain why later in the article).
What is an AI chatbot?
So what is an AI chatbot?
If your bot uses Natural Language Understanding (NLU) to try and make sense of what the user said or typed, it would be considered an AI chatbot.
Dialogflow Smalltalk
Let us consider the simplest example.
Dialogflow includes a prebuilt agent that you can import into your project called the Prebuilt Smalltalk Agent, and it can answer very simple questions (chitchat).
Here is an example conversation:
So what is so special about this conversation?
The bot seems to understand your question
- Depending on your question, you get a different answer each time
- Close variants of the same question will get you similar responses (this wasn't shown in the image, but you can try it out for yourself)
- There is a more natural, conversational aspect to this chatbot than the Collect.chat bot you saw in the first video
Turns out, seems is the correct word to use. Chatbots don't really understand speech the way humans do, which I will discuss later in the article.
Is an AI chatbot actually "intelligent"?
Sometimes people overestimate the ability of an NLU based chatbot.
For example, I was recently talking to a client and he was interested in figuring out the "limits" of a Dialogflow agent's capabilities.
So he asked: "Isn't it true that Dialogflow can learn and become smarter over time?"
Yes and No.
The extent of a chatbot's "intelligence" is its ability to map a user's utterance (spoken or typed) to the best match from a list of pre-defined training phrase groups. At its core, that's all it can do.
You can improve this mapping and make it look smarter by doing a few things: adding entities, introducing contexts, providing more training phrases as examples etc. (To learn about these concepts, take a look at my free Step by Step guide to Dialogflow).
But that is still very far away from building an "intelligent" chatbot because human intelligence consists of lots and lots of knowledge about the world, and bots don't have this knowledge. Ask it just one question outside the stuff you have defined in the training phrases, and it cannot answer that question.
For example, let us continue the previous conversation:
Why did it fail to provide a sensible response?
It's because a chatbot doesn't have the world knowledge that a human already possesses.
AI Bot Platforms vs Scripted Bot Platforms
Quite often, people group scripted bot platforms with NLU bot platforms and just club everything under the umbrella of chatbot. That may not be very helpful when folks hear that a "chatbot made $3 million in sales in just one hour".
It is important to understand that scripted bot platforms and AI Bot Platforms are not the same when it comes to capabilities.
I mentioned earlier that you can use services like Chatfuel and ManyChat to build scripted bots.
Someone asked me this question on Twitter:
@aravindmc Hello Aravind. I just read one of your DialogFlow Articles. Do you think it would be possible to build a full, robust bot only using DialogFlow? If I was building the same bot with ChatFuel vs. DialogFlow, could they have the same features? Can one do more?
— RankPull (@RankPull) April 20, 2018
Since Chatfuel isn't an NLU based bot framework, there are quite a few reasons why Chatfuel cannot do what a Dialogflow bot can.
Adding some rudimentary keyword matching isn't going to be enough to allow Chatfuel to match Dialogflow's capabilities.
For example, you cannot extract entities from the user's utterance if you use Chatfuel. This issue led a reader of this website to ask me how she could create a Dialogflow bot with 4000+ intents, because she needed one intent for each city on the planet!
If you understand how Dialogflow entities work, you know that that's not the right way to approach the problem.
How to create an AI chatbot?
There are many bot frameworks you can use to create AI powered chatbots.
(Note: I am using bot framework and bot platform interchangeably in this article.)
Here is a small list:
- Dialogflow (my preference)
- Amazon Lex
- IBM Watson Assistant
- Botpress.io
There are many other bot frameworks, of course.
So how do these bot frameworks work?
At a very high level, here are the steps to create a bot using NLU bot frameworks.
1 You will create a list of intents.
2 Each intent is a group of training phrases. Usually the training phrases are variations of the same "intention" and provide your bot hints about what the user wants the bot to do. For example, "Turn off the light" could be one intent, while "Play some music" would be another intent.
3 The AI bot platform will match the user's utterance to one of the intents.
4 If you are not happy with the match, you can tell the bot framework to match to a different intent the next time.
5 If a different user utters the same phrase later, your agent will be intelligent enough to match the intent based on your update. (This process is usually called "training" the bot. And this is what people usually mean when they say a chatbot can "learn and become more intelligent over time").
Limitations of AI bot platforms
So why would anyone choose a scripted bot platform when you could instead build a more "intelligent" chatbot using an NLU based bot platform?
There are quite a few reasons.
The NLU bot builder is not very intuitive
It is quite hard to create a bot "builder" tool for NLU based bots which are as easy to use as the scripted bots.
Here is the builder tool for Collect.chat. Everything is linear, and pretty much What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG).
Here is the visual builder for Dialogflow:
And here is how you might define a single Dialogflow intent:
My point is: to use a "builder" tool to build an NLU bot, you need to:
- Learn about many more moving parts
- Understand more basic concepts
- Have at least a basic knowledge of your bot framework's features
Sometimes, this can be daunting, especially if you don't have a programming background.
The iceberg problem
One of the most fascinating features offered by Dialogflow (and Amazon Lex) is slot filling.
Unfortunately, it is also a feature which is very hard to maintain. (In fact, I don't recommend that people use the feature).
In nearly all Dialogflow demos, you see someone typing out their complete sentence, marking a few parameters that Dialogflow can extract as "required" (slot filling), and Poof! You have a working chatbot. So you have a lot of folks coming in to Dialogflow looking at the 10% stuff which seems so "simple and easy".
And then they see the other 90% of the iceberg. 🙂
To be clear, I don't want you to think Dialogflow bots are too hard to build. In fact, I have created a system which can help you build Dialogflow prototypes very quickly.
But it is also important to understand that NLU bots are much more powerful, and there is a tradeoff between their power and their ease-of-use.
You can definitely draw some amazing art using Microsoft Paint.
But professionals usually reach for Photoshop.
And accordingly, Photoshop's menu bar is much more complex than the one in MS Paint. 🙂
Less control over your bot's behavior
Sometimes users use all the default settings in Dialogflow without understanding how they work. And then they feel like they have very little control over the bot behavior and stop using Dialogflow.
But once you start thinking about how to use the existing features to build better Dialogflow bots, you will notice that you can do a pretty good job of understanding why your bot works the way it does.
On the other hand, scripted bots are much easier to understand, and bot builders feel more in control when using them.
Combining scripted and AI bot platforms
In theory, you can integrate Dialogflow into your ManyChat or Chatfuel or Drift or Intercom bots.
Here is the high level overview of how you would do the integration:
- User types a message into the chat window
- This message is "relayed" (forwarded) to your bot platform, usually by calling an API provided by the bot platform itself
- Your NLU bot sends a response to the message
- The response is then relayed back to the user's chat window
The challenge, however, is that this process doesn't fit very well into the paradigm of either the scripted bot or the NLU bot platform. The main reason for this is that there isn't a one-to-one mapping between the conversation blocks in scripted bots and the conversation blocks of NLU bots.
I would recommend simulating the richer controls of scripted bots in Dialogflow, rather than force fitting NLU into scripted bots.
AI Bot Platforms
So you are perhaps convinced that you will go with an NLU bot framework. Which one should you use?
First, let us see the options you have.
What AI bot platforms can I use to build my bot?
While there are a lot of NLU based bot frameworks you could use, in my view your best options are the following:
Here are my top recommendations:
- Dialogflow - best low code tool
- RASA NLU - fully open source
- Amazon Lex - powers the most popular voice assistant (Alexa)
- Botpress.io - some people I trust recommend it highly
Which is the best AI bot platform?
In my clearly biased view (I am a Dialogflow consultant), Dialogflow is the best low code bot framework for technical non-programmers.
I have also written an article where I compare some of the popular bot frameworks.
Where can I use these AI powered bots?
Here are some bots that students of my courses have built.
Here is an email I got recently from a student who bought my courses.
Here is the link to the case study.
Another one I got recently:
And another one:
"Carson is a lead generation Chatbot for the Automotive Industry that assist Auto Dealerships manage their inbound lead and service requests through Facebook Messenger." - JP Martindale
In my view, many real world chatbots are somewhat "invisible". That is, they form a small part of a larger system (so the focus is on the task at hand, and not on the chatbot). A good example is the conversational interface created by Tempathic for their sensor monitoring.
While agents which can do "chitchat" are very engaging, that's not an actual bot use case. On the other hand, there are some chatbots built purely for the purpose of conversation, such as Mitsuku.
Can I see some online bot demos?
Here is a list of AI powered bots that I built for myself that you can interact with.
Cricket Stats
I created a bot which can answer questions about the statistics of cricket players based on the StatsGuru portal of the popular cricket website Cricinfo.
Chuck Norris JokeBot
On a lighter note, I developed a chatbot which will fetch a random joke from the Internet Chuck Norris Database.
This is clearly a super simple bot, because it can only answer exactly one question.
WordPress FAQ Bot
I created an FAQ bot which will suggest articles from this website based on your question (it displays some broken links as it is a little out of date).
Lesson Finder bot
I also created a bot which helps students find lessons in my video courses.
Do you have any comments or questions? Leave a comment below!
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McSherry Auction Fraud
In April 2013 I saw an ad for a Farm Clearance in Manitoba and decided it would be an excellent chance to buy a bunch of Wrought Iron and Cast Iron fencing and a nice big painted tin Sign.
I booked a flight for the auction which was to be on May 4th in Lorette Manitoba, for the Burak family.
A week before the auction it was cancelled due to the weather......major snow on the ground and flooding. I phoned Mr. Burak senior to get the 411 and he told me the snow on the ground in town was 2 foot deep....at the farm it was 4 foot!......No chance for the auction so it was postponed till June 29th.
While we chatted I asked about the two pallets of fencing and was told some of the items in the McSherry website photos were not going to be in the auction and he had told the McSherry people on multiple occasions that the photos should be taken off the website.One of the relatives had spoken for them.
Before re-booking my flight I phoned McSherry Auction services for clarification......they assured me Everything Pictured on the Website was indeed for sale at the auction.
I arranged a shipping company and got a local hauler on standby in case I actually won the stuff I was going for.
So...booked, flight over....June 28th I drove to the site to get my bearings and have a look at the offerings in person......to say I was not amused would be an understatement......Mr Burak Senior and one of the sons were on site and soon told me both the pallets of fencing I had come to buy were NOT in the auction!
That lying McSherry had been told multiple times to delete the photos of the things the family were keeping and had kept them on the webpage as a draw.....and, when I asked to see the painted tin sign.....Mr Burak senior told me McSherry had paid him top dollar for it.....and taken it off the farm...$40!
The son was pissed, I was almost at exploding level and the elder Burak was apologetic............but there was nothing he could do at that point.
So......I spent about $1500 going to an auction that I never actually attended on sale day.....what did I get for my troubles? Two Woodticks.
I submitted a complaint to the BBB in Winnipeg...they passed it along to McSherry and never got any response. I submitted two complaints to the Manitoba Auctioneer Association.......same response..........Nothing. When I did some research into the MAA site... I found the address is in Stonewall Manitoba.....oddly enough the same address as the McSherry Auction Service.............coincidence? I doubt it...............
Here are some of the auction photos from the McSherry site.
Here's the tin sign he paid 'Top Dollar' for..............
Looks like Sweet Cap to me..................
Here's the fencing I spent $1500+ to fly and LOOK AT!
The moral of this story is.....Don't, Ever, Believe ANYTHING that ANYONE at McSherry Auction Services of Stonewall Manitoba shows you...or Tells You.
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Another spectacular family-friendly folk-fiesta is planned, you are invited to attend. The annual event is open to the public, for Cantabrians to come along, relax, share, perform and enjoy a festival of acoustic music.
The Easter event has an emphasis on promoting Canterbury local and upcoming musicians including: The Swan Sisters, Adam McGrath, Yurt Party, The Songsmiths, (Christchurch based artists), Polly and the Minstrel, Nelson and Fables, Auckland and International musicians - Himmerland, Denmark; Mairi Campbell, Scotland and Diane Ponzio, New York who are chosen to add a unique cultural and educational experience for festival attendees.
We honour folk music by embracing the evolution of folk while also staying true to the traditions of our forty four year festival. We are again fostering both the youth and ukulele elements which were well supported and appreciated last year, alongside the much loved traditions.
The new and old sit comfortably together. We hope that there is something on the programme that offers you a new challenge, that you try something new and widen your potential.
The music festival provides concerts performed by invited professional guest musicians, and also multiple opportunities for festival attendees to perform while using professional equipment, guided by a professional sound technician, and in front of an appreciative listening audience.
This provides encouragement and experience for younger Canterbury musicians and artists, and a lifetime experience for many small children, who are encouraged to perform.
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Workshops that festival attendees can enjoy include:
How to Write Easy-to-Read music charts for (almost) Everyone with Charlotte Crone from Yurt Party
Vocal techniques Workshop - how to properly warm up your voice, and vocal performance tips – led by Diane Ponzio
Harmonica for Beginners led by Pete Royle
Straight from the Soundie's Mouth a Microphone Workshop led by Steve Barkman
Jess Bailey of Fables will present a workshop on songwriting including tips for beginners
Intermediate Fingerpicking: a general workshop with an accent on blues with Eric McEachen
Tales from a Working Musician with Adam McGrath from The Eastern
Eskil Romme from Himmerland will present a woodwind workshop for wind and brass instruments
Making Melodies Workshop join award winning vocalist and songwriter Sarah Conlan
Diatonic Harmony for String Plucker's Workshop with Nate Torvik
Uke Choir Workshop Come and join The Swan Sisters: Amy Grace and Amiria Grenell to learn a couple of wonderful uke songs
Communication within a rhythm section with Tom and Thomas from Yurt Party
Bass Workshop with Emil Ringtved Nielson, suitable for U bass
Improvisation with Bowed Instruments with Mairi Campbell Campbell (Himmerland) and Lorenz Weston-Salzer (Yurt Party)
Irish Dancing with Argene Flack all ages welcome, absolutely no experience necessary!
Song Writing Workshop with Gerard Manley
Steps, movements, clap, hand drumming and voice with Ayi Solomon, from Himmerland
String & Rope-making with kouka/cabbage tree leaves - Diana Hinterleitner
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Damage Rating 1-3: You either haven't met the right girl or you have a good therapist. You're too healthy for me. Sorry, and best of luck.
Damage Rating 4-5: You're on the right track, but honestly, I bet you're too young for me. Write me in a few years.
Damage Rating 6-7: Hold on, I have to get rid of these other guys first.
Damage Rating 8-10: Sorry, you're too fucked up, even for me. Ok, if you're in the damage rating are of a 6-7 we may have some damage in common.
First, please send me an email about the girl who damaged you. It's important that I know about my "competition" even though it's obviously over and you'll never get her back and I'm (sadly) your best hope right now.
Here are some things you should know about me: Yes, I will probably damage you too because.......well, because it's what I do. And, unlike Amy Winehouse, I won't tell you I'm bad....because I'm not (really). I have no tattoos or super kinky sexual fetishes; I have a job in the financial district and I sit next to you on Muni and you wonder what the hell a girl like me has on her ipod?
I am (told) I am cute and a have a "girl next door" vibe and I'm sweet and your mom will like me. That alone shoud have you worried. I have a four legged companion and it is important that you realize early on that HE will always be first in my heart. Always. Interests include food, music, art, travel, reading, hiking, . Ideally, you are 35-43 and live in the city.
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I resort to buying men's boxers and boyshorts for those butch days, but I'm not really liking the extra fabric between my legs. Since I saw Girls Will Be Boys online I just loved to try them. Because, that's me. I'm a cis woman, but I have my days off from lacy frills and cliché feminine style. Where I rather be lounging in a pair of boxers and a tank top then pretty lace - because, why should comfy cotton briefs be reserved for cis male people only?


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The current plan for addressing ground-water contamination at the former CTS of Asheville plant would cap the amount the company could be required to spend on the cleanup at $3 million—even if the ultimate cost were much higher. So says the CTS Citizens Monitoring Council, a group of seven residents living near the hazardous-waste site who were appointed by the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners to keep the board abreast of remediation efforts.
On May 30, Monitoring Council members drafted a resolution and submitted it to the commissioners, hoping the board would endorse it and send it along to Raleigh. Essentially, the resolution asks that the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources halt the "voluntary remediation" cleanup process that's now under way, because of the limited corporate responsibility implied in such a program.
Calling the current approach "privileged status and protection" for CTS Corp., the document also references another CTS plant, the Printex facility in Mountain View, Calif., where contamination from the same industrial solvent was detected and completely removed within five years—at the company's expense—by order of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Unlike Printex, however, the CTS of Asheville site is not on the National Priority List, so the responsibility for working with the electronics manufacturer to address ground-water contamination lies with the state, not the EPA. The state has asked the Elkhart, Ind.-based CTS Corp. to draft a plan for assessing the scope of the pollution problem, but an actual cleanup is still a long way off. Cost estimates, likewise, have yet to be determined.
Three weeks after the Monitoring Council submitted the resolution, it still hadn't been included on the agenda for a Board of Commissioners meeting. Assistant County Attorney Michael Frue told Xpress that this was because none of the commissioners had requested it. But according to an e-mail that Clerk to the Board Kathy Hughes sent to of the Monitoring Council members several days later, "Before the resolution could be officially considered as part of an agenda it had to be reviewed by legal."
When Xpress asked Board of Commissioners Vice Chair David Gantt about it, he said the resolution makes sense in principle but might not be altogether on solid legal ground. "First of all, I think there are some questions as to whether this is all accurate," said Gantt, an attorney by profession, as he looked it over. "We've got to make sure that everything in there is legal. … So that's my understanding why this wasn't just put on the docket.
"I like the concept, certainly," he went on. "If it costs more than $3 million, CTS ought to have to pay more. I don't have any problem with that. I think this is exactly what we asked the Monitoring Council to do: to bring the issues before us." According to Gantt, the resolution is now under review by the county's legal team.