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What is MINDSTORMS?
I will explain MINDSTORMS in the pieces that are inside the box. Click on each picture to go to where you can find it and buy it.
The Brick
This is the NXT Brick. It is the brain of the robot. It is the processor that processes the commands that are given by the computer that you made through NXT-G or lab view or whatever programming language you used. The NXT Brick has 4 import sensors and 3 output/input commands ports.The NXT has a 32-bit microprocessor and flash memory. It also has a 100×60 pixel monochrome LCD display and four buttons. The buttons are used to navigate through the NXT menus. The NXT is powered by six AA batteries or a rechargeable battery pack. It also has a speaker and can play sound files at sampling rates up to 8 kHz. The NXT has a firmware from 1.01 to the most recent up date 1.31. If you didn't have this, your robot would be as still as, well... a decoration. The NXT Brick also has a USB Port. You can either connect the NXT to the computer with a USB Cable or a Bluetooth chip. The NXT has via Bluetooth chip to allow wireless contention to another Bluetooth device (i.e.other NXT, Kinect, Wii, phone, computer...) . A black version of the brick was made to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Mindstorms System with no change to the internals. $177.99 at lego.com
The Black NXT
$344.28 at amazon.com but the only different change is that it is black.
DC Rechargeable Battery Pack
This is the NXT DC Rechargeable Battery. It replaces the 6 AA batteries that you need to power the NXT Brick. If you get this, you need to buy the charger too. $59.95 at Lego Education
LEGO Mindstorms Set #9833 Transformer/Charger
This Charger goes with the DC Rechargeable Battery pack it is $24.95 at Lego Education
The Retail Sensors
The Ultrasonic Sensor
The Ultrasonic Sensor (commonly known as US) comes with all the NXT sets and it has been By Far the best sensor added the the retail brand set. This is sensor has range of 0-100 inches but the closer the more accurate. We revealed two weaknesses of the Ultrasonic Sensor. The first issue is that it showed some areas where the sensor tends to measure 255 cm/100 in instead of the actual distance. The second even more important issue is the critical area in between 25 cm and 50 cm where the sensor has a high probability of returning the wrong value of 48 cm! But how does this sensor work? Well the sensor sends ulorta high pitch sound signals and records how long it takes them to reach and bounce back so you can see how there can be some problems. One the sensor can only tell the distance if the object is; hard with few jagged edges. that is really all it needs but that is a lot so cloth is a big one. But all in all this sensor is the best buy ever. $32.50 at lego.com
The Touch Sensor
The Touch Sensor is a true or false value sensor meaning that if it is pressed it is true and no then false. But on add on from the RCX is that it has a third value called bumped, what that is is if you tap the touch sensor it can tell. There is not much to this simple sensor it is compact and good to use only for machines not for a bumper. The Ultrasonic Sensor is what you need for a moving object, not a touch sensor. $18.99 at lego.com
The Light/Color/Distance sensor?
The newest sensor and the one with the most functions is the Color Sensor. But it is also a color lamp and light sensor. But how is it a Distance sensor? It is the most one that few people know about, well here If you think about the lego Light sensor, there are essentially three variables that determine the value The color or shininess of the surface. Since the LED is illuminating the surface, the more light that comes back the higher the value. White high, black low. The distance to the surface. If the surface is closer, more of the light from the LED makes it back into the sensor element so you get a higher value. And finally, the ambient light. This is especially true when the sensor is further away from the surface. In that case the illumination from the LED is usually relatively weak compared to the ambient light so the variation can be significant. So you can replace a ultrasonic sensor but this one will "see" the object around 3-4 inches before it encounters it. Color Sensor? The way it is a color sensor is a color sensor is it can't see the color like you and me but it measures the reflective light. It does this by having a tiny LED and when this LED shines the closest object will stop the light movement and the object will light up from the reflective light. So then the light sensor picks up how much red light is abundant and tell the color because each color object has a different reflective amount. Light Sensor? The light sensor is the basics that makes all the other sensors work. The light sensor takes the light from the outside world and tell it radiance. Color Lamp? if you notice there is R G B on the top of the LED well that big bulb is the LED with three different colors red blue green and those three colors can be programmed to light up but only one at a time. $34.95 at lego.com
The Sound Sensor
The sound sensor comes in the 1.0 set why? well really it didn't match expatiation, let me enplane. The sound sensor measures the sound not your voice so it can pick up readings of like; 23, 45, 67, 89 but no; yes, no, stop. so you can understand the problem but you can use it as a wait block such as " wait till sound is 50+ to make a right turn" but other than that there is not much else you can do. Why? this sensor has a lot of options i.e raw value, yes no... so on but why can't raw value help us? it is because if you want you robot to function even close to what you intended then you not going to plug in your raw value to motor power. Because the sound sensor measures the sound at very fast intervals so every .1 second your motor will be changing speed. so as you can see with out a modified version of this sensor it is not that helpful. $27.99 at lego.com
The Light Sensor
The light sensor is a one function sensor that came out before the 2.0 color sensor. It only does is measure light and reflective light. So users have tried to use this as a color sensor and have gotten it to work for the most part. But if you want to know how this works go to color sensor and look under light sensor and color sensor. $18.99 at lego.com
A Few New Sensors That Could Be Helpful
The Infrared Link
First all these sensors look the same. The Infrared Link sensor ( IR Link sensor) lets the Mindstorm NXT through this sensor communicate to the Powerfunctions IR receiver. The way you can understand this sensor is if only you know a little about the Powerfunctions items. Powerfunctions work by having a IR message sent by the IR remote. When the signal is reached it can be the blue or red motor, and which way it will go. But the NXT has Bluetooth not IR so this sensor lets the NXT use the IR signals and operate the motors. $54.95 at HiTechnic.com.
Gyro Sensor
The NXT Gyro Sensor is a sensor that measures gravity and orients the robot. Its good for balancing and that's about it. The accelerometer is probably a better buy because it puts the robot in an xyz plane and orients the robot from there, so it can tell where the robot is facing, and has more programing options than a gyro sensor. I have had the Gyro and accelerometer but the accelerometer is better. But this sensor has other ups as I said self balancing but also a remote like a Wii it does the same thing. Although the Accelerometer is about the same it is your distinction which one you want. It is $54.95 at HiTechnic.com.
dFlex Sensor
The dFlex sensor is a new one on all of you, but I have found it and it looks very nice and can come in handy. This sensor measures the bending of its cable such as the more you bend it the more different the number will be from the original. This sensor gives you a number from -90 to 180 such as -23 45 -3 89.... and backwards will give you a negative number and forwards will give you a positive number. It is $32.99 at Dexter industries
NXT Servo Motor/Rotation Sensor
If you are wondering why the Servo Motor is under the sensors category is because it is a sensor. This is a Rotation sensor it can measure -2147483647 - 2147483647 degrees/rotations NOT infinity because the NXT can handle only so much data and can get over loaded but this is not something you need to worry about. The motor has a torque of 16.7 N.cm well none of us know what that is (expect me) well that is right under four pounds! The rotation speed is 177 rpm unloaded with 12V but that is never true and impossible with the NXT so with 9V 117 rpm unloaded but that is never true so more or less 82 rpm and that is the average with little load. This is very big so it is hard to add (dd not ss) *none of you will ever get it* it to your models but over all it is the best motor LEGO has made.


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Earlier today, Friday, June 29, 2012, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection issued proposed regulations for its 2013 proposed legislative rules, including the long-awaited proposed rules implementing the Horizontal Well Act passed in December, 2011. Several important proposed rules relating to air quality and water quality were also issued, which are listed below. Written comments to the proposed rules can be filed by the deadlines indicated.
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CNSNews has a story about three Democratic senators who have recently changed their tunes on filibustering.
Sens. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) and Ken Salazar (Colo.) on Wednesday planned to express support for the judicial filibusters taking place right now. But in the past, each man has expressed a different view on the topic of filibusters and judicial nominees. ...
And Sen. Joseph Lieberman - speaking in January 1995, when Republicans were the majority party in the Senate - stood up for the "rights of the majority."
Lieberman called it unfair for Democrats to use the filibuster to "confuse and frustrate the will of the majority."
In January 1995, he and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) introduced a measure that would have eliminated filibusters designed to kill legislation or nominations that had majority support.
I don't have a problem with people changing their minds, but I really wish these senators would explicitly acknowledge their old positions and explain how and why they've changed. It's annoying to me that politicians in general think the public has no memory of the past, but now with the internet and blogs it'll eventually get harder to assume we've forgotten everything that's come before.


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Sunday, 26 April 2009
Where is my Reboot button?
I have just opened the novel document and Word tells me the last time I clicked it open was on the 17th April. Ok, so 9 days, not a complete disaster, but still a rather long time in-between visits. I've started (again) at chapter 4, as I have had enough good feedback with the beginning chapters to resist touching them again. So, chapter 4. Only 18 chapters left to go. And that new idea to fit in the middle. Right…. Let's go!
I start re-reading the first paragraph and my mum comes home. She starts talking to me as soon as she enters the house, and is still talking up the stairs, and into my room. Unsurprisingly my attention has gone by the time I get back to my computer. I get the feeling my mum thinks I am bonkers staying inside while the rest of London basks in sunshine. 'Haven't you been out, it's a nice day! Don't hide away from the world playing on your computer!'
Agh – it is the word 'playing' which ties me up in knots. When my brother lived at home, in ancient times long past, he played games on his computer – the sort of games that loaded in a cassette recorder, which you could crash and add extra lives by writing something clever into the script along the lines of: 'POKE=Extra lives!' Why it always seemed to be the word 'poke' I have no idea, but my mum got the idea from then on in that computers are for games, and it has taken a while for that viewpoint to shift.
I know she fully believes I can write a novel, but sometimes I don't think she realises how utterly serious I am about it. I have given up practically everything in order to do this over the last two years – financial security, owning property – and as I watch friends marry and follow a natural progression to have children, sometimes I worry about that, too. But I tend to think everyone follows their own path for a reason, and this is mine – good or bad! And so I sit inside when the sun shines, and 'play' with words – perhaps there is not much difference after all. Apart from my mum not knowing anyone else with an odd daughter like me, I guess.
And so I re-start again at chapter 4. My goal for today is to get that chapter sorted. In fact, if I can get a chapter a week done then I might be all finished by (runs to the calendar) August 22nd. Oh blimey...
2 comments:
- Aspiring Writer said...
You might surprise yourself and have it finished by then. :) I know the feeling about others thinking you're bonkers! My sister thinks I should be living it up in the big wide world - travelling, not kooked up in a little square gawking at a screen all day going blind. Haha. Yes, nine days without looking at or writing my novel I do find I have to re-read everything to pick up the momentum and maintain continuity. Sometimes that's a good thing. Happy writing.
- 28 April 2009 at 05:23
- Jayne said...
I love your optimism! And it is nice to know we are all in the same boat with other people thinking we are nuts! I try and explain to my mum that writing relaxes me, and that when I am not stressing about it then it is the best thing in the world. Sometimes I think only other writers would understand that.
And yes, re-reading is a good thing!
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A couple weeks back I wrote in my blog that I'm going to be cutting weight at the beginning of 2014. My goal–for the first time ever–is not tied to a specific body fat percentage. This time around my goal is a specific scale weight: 160 pounds.
My scale weight as of this past Sunday is 178 pounds, and I expect that I'll close out the year around 180 or so (I like to relax my diet a bit before a strict cut).
Yep, I said strict. I've been giving it some thought, and I've decided that I'd like to do an old school John Stone cut. It's been a few years since I've wanted or needed to cut weight, and so I thought it would be fun to revisit the halcyon days of JSF.
Many of you know what that means, but for those who don't know what a hardcore JS cut entails, these are the principles:
– Clean, all-natural foods. The only processed foods I'll consume are Nitrean protein powder, Clif bars and sauces like Sriracha. I'll also have energy gels and chews on rides.
– No cheat meals or snacks for the entire duration of the cut.
– All meals will be logged online (I'll probably use JSF BodyShop even though I think it sucks).
– No alcohol for the entire duration of the cut.
– Minimum of 8 hours sleep each night.
– No missed workouts. My workouts will involve less weight training than previous cuts and more cycling.
The above principles will be strictly adhered to until I reach my goal weight of 160 pounds. I will note that if my cycling power (watts/KG) begins to drastically reduce, I may stop short of my planned weight goal. I don't want this to be counter-productive. That said, I don't anticipate that will be a problem. At this point (almost 11 years since I started JSF) I'm very in tune with my body, and I feel I can cut down to 160 pounds while increasing my watts/KG.
I will be taking a couple weeks off at the end of December/beginning of January to relax and enjoy the holidays (December 21, 2013 – January 5, 2014). I will start my cut on Monday, January 6, 2014. This is a particularly cool date to start my cut: January 6th is the 11 year anniversary of the start of my initial transformation!
I encourage any of you who have fat loss goals to join me on January 6th. Start planning now, and let's do this together!
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One lives with one's neighbours, go to backyard BBQs, carpool, chat on the sidewalk....but one never knows what goes on behind the doors of one's neighbours. That's the storyline here.
There are some humorous lines and I enjoyed that Lilli, from the author's first book The Garden of Small Beginnings, has a cameo appearance but all in all, there isn't much happening in this story and large parts of it are repetitive and slow.
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This was a book I thoroughly enjoyed! It was a hilarious, realistic, and brutally honest look into modern day family life. I am in awe of how author, Abbi Waxman, managed to spin the everyday mundane happenings of child rearing, grocery shopping, and marriage into such a delightful story.
This book is about a group of neighbors whose lives are detailed after the main character, Frances, heads to one of her carpool kids' houses for a forgotten school item and walks in on her neighbor, Anne, having an affair on the living room floor. This effects not only the life of Anne and her family, but every family whose child rides in the carpool also.
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Manufacturers set new car franchises targets each month, and if a dealers target, for example is 10 new car sales.
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Breaking news: sometimes patients miss their appointments!! In this survey, the average
was about 10% for doctor appointments and 12% for hygiene appointments, which is a lot of empty chair time.
"It is the biggest headache of my career," said one dentist. "I've tried confirming twice… tried sending cards with cute pictures… tried recall cards with their handwriting scheduling the appointment… tried counseling patients… tried charging… I still have many multiple no shows EVERY DAY."
We asked, "What do you do with patients who miss appointments?"
Charge repeat offenders
- "Bill them the second time." (New Jersey dentist)
- "Call and reschedule. Charge if more than 3 times."
- "Fee optional at staff discretion." (Florida pediatric dentist)
Charge patients for missing appointments
- "$50 charge; sent statement showing charge & our write-off for 1st time. $50 charge for each succeeding 'No Show' apt." (Connecticut dentist)
- "Charge them." (Ohio pediatric dentist)
- "Charge a broken appt fee (PPO) or charge them more at their next appointment." (Florida dentist)
- "Patients of record are charged a $40 cancellation fee if they were confirmed in person the day before." (Virginia dentist)
Three strikes, you're out
- "First time they break an appointment, they get a notification of broken appt policy and fee. Second time, we charge $50/hour. Third time, exit patient from practice unless there is a good excuse." (Georgia periodontist)
- "1x nothing 2x fee 3x out" (General dentist)
- "Call within ten minutes and send series of BAP letters. If they miss more than 3 appointments in six months, we send a dismissal letter." (Pennsylvania dentist)
- "Cuss to silently to myself about their disrespect of our time and other patients – then try to reschedule. If this occurs 3 times we don't appoint again but will see them on a 'come in and wait' basis." (Kansas dentist)
Out after two strikes
- "Send letter the first time, dismiss after second time." (Maryland pediatric dentist)
Require pre-payment
- "We have them pre-pay for the next appointment." (California dentist)
- "Two consecutive no-shows (or 3 no-shows in 2 years) requires prepayment of the next appt." (Kentucky dentist)
- "Call, letter, then deposit." (South Carolina periodontist)
- "We give people a chance, but people are either reliable or not. If it is chronic, we require a prepayment or credit card." (Tennessee dentist)
- "We make them prepay after 3 broken appts. We don't include late cancelations, even though we should." (North Carolina dentist)
Charge a "reservation fee"
- "Ask them for a reservation fee." (Michigan dentist)
Just make *everyone* prepay
- "I don't waste a lot of energy on changing bad behavior. We let them slip out the door to other offices. All Doctor appts are prepaid so cancellations are honest problems." (Texas dentist)
Send them letters
- "First we send a letter explaining the consequences of missed treatment and how they're hurting themselves and another patient by keeping us from having that appointment for the patient that was waiting for a sooner appointment. The letter also states Next time YOU PAY. The second letter…PAY UP!" (New York dentist)
Acknowledge it happened
- "Attempt to get in touch with them by phone or mail or e-mail." (Utah dentist)
- "Call or letter." (Illinois dentist)
- "Ring them." (General dentist)
- "Send letter" (New Jersey dentist)
- "Reschedule" (Illinois dentist)
A major problem for some
- "Big problem for 20 years. I've tried confirming twice… tried sending cards with cute pictures… tried recall cards with their handwriting scheduling the appointment… tried counseling patients… tried charging… Now after 2 missed appointments, I put them in an extra column on my scheduler and see them anytime that there is space available (no set appointment time). I still have many multiple no shows EVERYDAY. It is the biggest headache of my career." (South Carolina dentist)
They're the kind of patients you don't mind losing
- "Try to replace them with better patients. That's not too difficult because the appointment-missers usually don't remember to call back for another appointment. If it's a long-time, reliable patient, we recognize that anyone might forget something just once, so we call them back and re-appoint." (California dentist)
- "New Patients First Time, we give them another chance, but then they are out of the practice. Existing patients if they don't show at all and don't call, we charge them $50. If they call with little notice, we give state our policy and give the one more time. They are out of the practice if they
don't pay the fee." (Texas)
Avoid charging fees
- "Call and say we are concerned and hope there is nothing wrong. Then determine our plan based on the answer and patient history with the practice. If misses are ongoing, patient is dismissed from practice. No missed appointment fees are ever charged, creates bad will." (Colorado pediatric dentist)
Make them sign a contract
- "Every new patient reads and signs the broken appointment policy at our office before their first appointment. Patients are reminded about their appointments several days in advance and the day before using the contact method the patient prefers. Those that break appointments without 24 hours notice are charged the broken appointment fee. We have very few broken appointments (approx. 5 to 8%)." (Ohio prosthodontist)
Make them feel guilty
- "Warn them that we cannot allow it to happen again, tell them we have patients who would have loved that time spot, that I had to turn away. Tell them if they had just let me know with a little notice I could have filled that spot." (California dentist)
React with peace
- "Say a prayer for them."
React with violence
- "We charge them $500 and send a hit man to their house and beat the sh*t out of them!" (California dentist)
- "Kill them. P.S. Suggested topic for future survey: how to dispose of dead bodies." (Connecticut dentist)
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The popular bird print! Recognised by many and used by all. Legend has it, this print was first developed by a Senegalese painter and depicts swallows in flight. This is probably true, but still we came up with our own fictional story...
This print was manufactured in northern Nigeria (this part is true) by African Textiles Manufacturing Ltd (ATML). It comes in a juicy palette of teal, yellow and navy blue, and features beautiful hummingbirds in flight.
The hummingbird feeds on honey and the yellow oval surrounding the bird is reminiscent of this. One of the smallest birds in the world, Wangari Maathai uses the story of the hummingbird to beautifully illustrate how playing our own little part in the best way, we make a huge difference collectively.
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Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo deny dating rumors again
Yonhap News via Naver: Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo caught up in another dating rumor... both sides clarification "separate schedules"
News outlets reported they were spotted together in Bali but Song Joong Ki's agency Blossom Entertainment explained that he went there on a trip with his friends before starting promos for upcoming film Battleship Island. Song Hye Kyo's agency UAA states "while it's true that she went to Bali, she was there for a project meeting and not to meet Song Joong Ki". The two were previously caught up in another dating rumor after they were reportedly spotted dining together in New York in March.
1. [+7,159, -366] Prisoner 503 is wailing ㅠㅠㅠ
2. [+5,650, -224] They're already in their mid-30s, so what if they're dating....
3. [+5,188, -197] Leave them alone
4. [+3,478, -120] It's all meaningless
5. [+3,259, -210] Don't you know there are many delusional tabloids in China. I thought Dispatch released something about them but it's just another article based off tabloids. Leave them alone, it's not like dating is a crime or something
6. [+1,745, -114] I think they're dating
7. [+1,545, -65] As if they're gonna admit and there are no photos to prove it. Even if they're dating, it doesn't affect your lives in any way
8. [+1,135, -74] Aren't these coincidences happening too often? Are they afraid they'll lose their popularity if they admit?
9. [+1,019, -54] They're in their 30s for crying out loud... who cares if they're dating? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
10. [+1,018, -60] They're dating for sure. Why do actors fall easily for Song Hye Kyo? I wonder how charming she really is


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» June 30, 2006
Shockwave 3D Has Balls:
Danny Kodicek (author of the fine book Mathematics and Physics for Programmers) noted this morning on the Dir-3d listserv that IBM is sponsoring a Shockwave 3D application right off the home page of the Wimbledon web site.
To see it in action, select a match that has already begun (or ended) that has the little PT lozenge next to the players' names. The Pointtracker application replays the games in the match, showing the serve and return speeds, the score, and the trajectories of the ball from just about any angle -- you can move around while the game is on and go back to manually play portions of the match. An interesting piece of recorded near-real-time data integration.
» June 25, 2006
Kos Twists My Arm:
As you can plainly see from this photo, Kos (on the right) has me in one of his dreaded KosLocks, which is how he enforces homogeneity on the liberal blogosphere.
David Brooks Pulls Up the Plank Behind Him: The Rude Pundit quotes David Brooks's scribbling on Markos Moulitsas Zuniga from Friday: "In just a few short years he has achieved a level of self-importance it took those in the pre-blog political class decades to acquire."
Well, I had a horrifying realization the other day when I saw that Brooks is just a couple months older than I am. According to Wikipedia, he was born in August, 1961, so -- despite evidence that he's an old fuddy-duddy --he's just about to turn 45.
He joined the Weekly Standard in 1995 at its founding, when he would have been 34. That's the same age Kos is now. At that point, Brooks had already been an op-ed editor at the Wall Street Journal, where he'd worked for nine years (since 1986). That means he was 25 when his "first post at the Journal was as editor of the book review section".
So somehow David Brooks, by the time he was Kos's age, acquired the innate knowledge of the American political landscape that gave him the perspicacity to edit the opinion pages of one of the nation's most influential papers then one of the leading magazines of conservative political opinion. But Kos -- for some undefinable reason -- cannot.
What the...?
Third Time's a Charm?: In two hours, I'm going to be sitting down for my third shot at getting on JEOPARDY! The first time was almost exactly ten years ago, and I didn't make it past the first screening, but they were still holding the tests in the studio where the show's taped. A couple of years back -- during the Ken Jennings reign -- I tried again and made it to the second round, but was never called to be on the show. The tests that time were held in a hotel in LA. This time, they had an online first round, and the second rounds (where you actually play a mock game) are being held around the country; in my case, Portland, in a hotel right across the street from where I used to have an office.
» June 21, 2006
Torque Game Builder Released:
GarageGames just made the official release announcement for Torque Game Builder, their 2D engine that includes delivery to Win, OS X (and potentially Xbox 360) as well as networking, physics, collision detection, etc.
They have a 30-day trial available.
I notice that they pitch it to people who know "Flash, Visual Basic, or other scripting language" with no specific mention of Director.
» June 13, 2006
McCaffrey: Slip of the Tongue or Slip of the Freud?: Retired General and former Clinton drug czar Barry McCaffrey -- a staple on NBC's networks -- subbed this week on Meet the Press when General George Casey, the current commander of US forces in Iraq, decided to just do FOX News Sunday.
My favorite point in the show was his response when Tim Russert asked him to explain a comment he'd made about unsustainable troop levels and public support for the war. The transcript reads:
GEN. McCAFFREY: Well, if we had 10 years to work the issue, theres a 99 percent probability well achieve our objective.
That leaves out a word he said, though, which you can hear clearly in the video clip linked from the image (Quicktime, 900K).
The actual quote was:
GEN. McCAFFREY: Well, if we had 10 years to work the issue, theres a point 99 percent probability well achieve our objective.Just an unintentional gaffe, I know, but there is a difference between 99.00% and 0.99%. A big difference. Out of the mouths of retired generals... Overall, McCaffrey said what he's been saying for a while. Sunday (June 11) he said:
Weve got a couple of years here to make it look like its going to work.Nineteen months ago on the same program (December 12, 2004) he said:
Give us another 24 months and we're going to start damaging the strength of the U.S. armed forces. The turning point is the coming 24 months.That should be coming right up, then.
» June 11, 2006
What the...?
For my family, 2001 is memorable for an entirely different reason than it is for most other Americans, and 6/11 is an earlier date we'll keep in our memory. Because that's the day a guy against whom police had refused to enforce a restraining order broke into the house of my 83-year-old grandmother's caretaker, dragged her from her bed, and killed her with a shotgun. Her name was Margaret Baker.
» June 9, 2006
Not the Last: So I guess I didn't take the last Director job ever to be offered in the Portland area, after all...
Successfull candidate will have the following well-developed expert-level skills: Extensive Scripting using various authorware especially LINGO. Expert working knowledge of Macromedia Director. Expert level scripting in MS SQL, PHP, etc.; Adobe creative suite and other Macromedia development software suites using BOTH Mac and PC Development platforms.
» June 8, 2006
MAX Announced: Shockwave and Awe Update: The dates and venue for the 2006 Adobe MAX conference have been formally announced:
When: October 23-26, 2006
Where: The Venetian, Las Vegas, Nevada
As some of you may know, I've been working on plans for a small, one-day Director conference (Shockwave and Awe) on the day before MAX begins as a way of plugging the gap left by the diminishing number of Director sessions at MAXs past.
What response I've had has been enthusiastic, but there hasn't been much so far -- in part because I haven't been able to make any kind of formal declaration before the MAX venue was announced (I've known the city for a couple of months but just found out about the hotel a week ago).
I'm looking for suggestions from you about what you'd like to hear discussed, what type of format you think a small Director conference should take, what you think a one-day conference tacked onto the beginning of MAX (but non-affiliated with MAX) would be worth, and -- most importantly -- whether you'd plan on attending either Shockwave and Awe or MAX or both. And if you think that the whole idea sounds stupid, or is doomed to failure, well, I'd like to hear your thoughts on that, as well -- I haven't signed a contract for any meeting spaces yet!
If you're in the Vegas area and you have some ideas of a good (i.e. one that's not going to bankrupt us if things go south) meeting venue near the Venetian, all the better.
Send any suggestions to dplant at moshplant.com!
And a big shout-out to Skip Kinkel at the Director Podcast for putting the name of my co-worker on show #18. I just caught up to it yesterday after being buried in stuff for a couple of weeks, and posted it on the company server, which made his day. I promise not to be so lacksadasical in the future.
» June 7, 2006
Russert Interview with Kos and Jerome: There's this little-known cable channel called CNBC, and -- like every other NBC property -- Meet the Press' Tim 'Punkinhaid' Russert has a show there. On Saturday nights he does the Charlie Rose thing and has a guest or two on in front of a black backdrop. It's all very low-key (and presumably low-cost -- except for Russert's salary -- because they don't provide transcripts on their site). Last week, though, Kos and Jerome appeared to promote Crashing the Gate, without much fanfare or advance notice at Daily Kos. A lot of people seem to have missed it and I haven't seen any clips posted anywhere, but I managed to catch it in time for the West Coast and plug it into the DVR with minutes to spare.
This clip is from the end of the first segment (Quicktime, 4.6MB), where Kos and Jerome discuss the relative success of the parties at maintaining a national presence.
Overall, I thought the interview went pretty well, although Russert was in his full-fledged "amuse me" mode and I just can't get my head around the fact that he couldn't manage to pronounce "Moulitsas" either correctly or consistently. It sort of reminded me of Glenn Beck's (and virtually every other wacko pundit's) mangling of the name of Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I say, if you don't know enough about the subject to pronounce the name correctly, you aren't well-enough informed to have a valid opinion. The same goes for "nuclear". Anyway, all of the pieces of the Kos/Jerome interview are up. They're Quicktime, 18-23MB each and about six minutes in length, commercials cut out.
» June 3, 2006
What the...?
Adventure in Marketing: Barbara and I were down in San Francisco the other weekend to visit Eric and Annie for Eric's 40th birthday. On our last day, we wandered around Grant Avenue in Chinatown picking up gee-gaws. I just got around to going through the receipts; apparently one of the shops we visited was called Sophia's Choice.


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Yahoo: Rather bland teaser for [CARIE] on Oct 15, 19:23
I think it effectively shows they're going for a bigger scale than the original. Looks like the climax will punch more too. Sweeeet. {nm} on Oct 15, 19:55
hmm...feels like the same scale (high school burned down, path of destruction on the way home). What bothers me is that it on Oct 15, 20:08
I don't remember her destroying more than the gymnasium in the original...unless my memory is failing me {nm} on Oct 15, 21:31
I remember doors slamming to keep people inside, fires in the gym and Carrie walking home covered in soot. on Oct 16, 09:29
Can't believe I'm forced to watch a 15 second TV trailer before the 60 second movie trailer. {nm} on Oct 15, 21:05
Just wait, they're working on the 5 second pre-pre-trailer ad before the 15 second pre-trailer ad. {nm} on Oct 16, 10:23


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Barely two days old, Firefox 3 has already been downloaded more than 12.3 million times at the time of writing. If you haven't downloaded it yet, you can grab it here for Windows, Mac, Linux, and a Portable Windows version.
The price of early adoption, even on a heavily-tested browser like Firefox 3, is early questions. Here are four you're likely to come across, and please add your own in the comments below. I'll do my best to answer them.
Question one: How do you kill the "awesome bar"?
Answer: A Howitzer, a crowbar, or concrete boots should do the trick nicely.
Joking aside, I actually like the new location bar. I was surprised at how fast it picked up my browsing behavior. If it's not your thing, or you share a computer and want to avoid your browsing history revealed to all, you've got a few options to keep it from returning any results. Users can also replace it with a reasonable facsimile of the Firefox 2 location bar. To stop listing results, check out CNET's Tom Merritt and his Insider Secret on one way to edit Firefox's config file.
Another config edit starts the same way, by typing "about:config" into the URL bar. No quotes, of course. Once you've gotten past the too-cute-for-words-so-I-won't-even-mention-it warning, paste "browser.urlbar.maxRichResults" into the filter and hit enter. Double-click the integer and set it to 0. Wipe your cache, restart Firefox, and you'll get to be "awesome" all on your own.
So I've given you the Howitzer and the crowbar. For the concrete boots, check out the Oldbar extension, which keeps the location functioning--but as it did in Firefox 2. If the awesome bar is an obnoxious teenager, then Oldbar will de-age it back to the precocious, helpful child it used to be. Keep in mind that the algorithm running it is the standard one in Firefox 3--so you'll get the same results list, just without all the extra drama.
Given the controversy surrounding this feature, there are sure to be more tweaks for it soon. If you're looking to come up with one yourself, it's not a bad idea to become a walking MozillaZine encyclopedia on the Firefox Config file.
Question two: Safari supports color management, but can Firefox?
Answer: Gloriously so, but caveat emptor: it might cost you in performance on huge images. However, if you're a photographer, this is a must-use feature.
The plug-in you want for this is called Color Management, but it's flagged as experimental. For the sure-fire config edit, type in "about:config" as you did in question one. Type "GFX" into the filter. For "gfx.color_management.enabled" the Value needs be set to "true". Double-click on it to change it, and check out this example to see what a difference a little config editing can make.
Question three: How do I find...?
Answer: By searching, naturally. You can't google your personal Firefox settings--yet--but now you can natively search the Downloads, Add-ons, and Bookmarks Managers--no extra plug-in needed. Forgot the name of an image you downloaded? As long as you haven't cleared your cache of them, type in JPG to see all downloads in that file format. Know you're looking for a bookmark with the letter Q? That's all it takes to parse that needle from the haystack. If you're looking for a particular add-on, download, or bookmark but you can't remember where you put it, the Manager for each of those categories comes with a search field. Unfortunately, they don't support Boolean terms, but the search tools are still remarkably useful.
Question four: How do I get that incredibly cool plug-in from Firefox 2 to work in Firefox 3 if it hasn't been updated?
Answer: With another plug-in, of course.
MR Tech Local Install has adopted a more descriptive name with a version upgrade for Firefox 3 compatibility. Now called MR Tech Toolkit, it's still the power user's all-purpose add-on. It comes with a Toolbar button for restarting Firefox, and can do just about anything--from modifying config behavior, to changing bookmark- and extension-saving locations, to disabling the throbber.
One of the best things it did in Firefox 2 was disable extension compatibility checking, and it continues to do that quite nicely. Be warned that not all your old extensions will work even with the compatibility feature turned off, but it went off without a hitch for TinyURL Creator--which hasn't seen an update since 2007.
If you have an FAQ you'd like answered or an answer you'd like to share, tell me in the comments below and I'll compile them in a future blog.


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Monday June 13, 2016 – Republican Donald Trump asserted Monday there are thousands of people living in the United States "sick with hate" and capable of carrying out the sort of massacre that killed at least 49 people in a Florida nightclub. "We can't let people in. … We have to be very, very strong," the presumptive Republican presidential nominee ...Read More »
Orlando Sees Worst Mass Shooting On U.S. Soil: What We Know Monday
Monday June 13, 2016 – One day after a depraved attack on an Orlando, Fla., nightclub left 49 victims dead and 53 more wounded, investigators are working to learn more about the man they say was the lone shooter: Omar Mateen, who was killed at the scene. Families and friends of people who were in the club have spent the ...Read More »
NATO Chief: 4 Battalions Going to Baltic States, Poland
Monday June 13, 2016 – BRUSSELS — NATO's chief announced Monday that the alliance will agree this week to send four multinational battalions to the Baltic states and Poland to boost their defenses against Russia. Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary-general, said alliance defense ministers will formally approve the deployment plan drafted by NATO military planners at a meeting that begins ...Read More »
Orlando Nightclub Shooting Leaves Loved Ones Waiting in Anguish
Monday June 13, 2016 – ORLANDO, Fla. — Dozens of bodies were removed overnight Monday from a popular gay nightclub here as investigators tried to piece together what had led to a shooting rampage 24 hours earlier that left 50 people dead, including the gunman, and 53 wounded. At hospitals and gathering spots nearby, relatives and friends of the clubgoers ...Read More »
Microsoft CEO's memo to staff about LinkedIn acquisition
Monday June 13, 2016 – Microsoft just surprised everyone with its plans to acquire LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in cash. While many financial analysts will be inspecting the details more closely, a lot of onlookers simply want to know… why? Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has sent an internal memo to staff about the LinkedIn acquisition, and it attempts to answer why ...Read More »
50 killed in shooting at Florida nightclub in possible act of Islamic terror
Sunday June 12, 2016 – A gunman who federal authorities say had possible ties to terrorism opened fire early Sunday morning in a packed Orlando nightclub, killing 50 people and wounding at least 53 more in a bloody scene that ended hours later when police stormed the building and killed the shooter. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer asked Gov. Rick Scott ...Read More »
Appeals court rules no constitutional right to carry concealed guns: Second Amendment at risk
Thursday June 09, 2016 – A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Thursday that people do not have a Second Amendment right to carry concealed weapons in public, in a sweeping decision likely to be challenged by gun-rights advocates. An 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the 7-4 ruling, upholding a state law requiring ...Read More »


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We are so grateful to Bali for all that it shares with us. Not a day goes by without wonder and thoughts about the practices we see here each day. As guests, we will never fully understand but are impacted deeply. We watch as things change and only hope to contribute positively to this magical island and its people.
Bali is one of the 17,508 islands in the Archipelago of Indonesia.
Balinese Hindus make up 84.5% of Bali's population.
Plants, flowers and incense play an essential role in the daily life of Balinese Hindus.
Flowers and other botanical materials are used to make daily offerings for the spirits and the gods as a symbol of their gratitude for peace.
Plants are a critical tool used in all traditional healing practices in Bali.
Jamu is a plant based drink made with local plants and used to heal and nourish the body.
Plants are used in traditional textile making for fibers and color.
Tri Hita Karana is a Balinese philosophy that explains 3 reasons for prosperity:
Harmony with nature
Harmony with humans
Harmony with the divine
Sekala Niskala
The seen/real world (sekala) and the unseen/spiritual world (niskala)
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Hi all,
struggling with the physical samples creation or maybe my understanding is just wrong.
I want to create physical samples, so I am able to print lables. If my inspection lot is 1 (UoM is PC), I will get 1 physical sample.
Now I changed my lot size to 3 but still get only one physical sample. My sample is also 3, as I set to 100% inspection.
Now I was looking into Sample-drawing procedure and set the Formula to P1, but nothing happens. In my understanding this should create 3 samples.
What I want is one physical sample for 1 PC, or in other words:
Sample Size3, 3 Physical samples (each contains 1 PC)
Looked at all customizing, master data, google, etc, but still can´t find the solution. Ayn suggestions?
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I'm on a roll and yesterday and todays' post are my favorite Singapore restaurants so far (in the almost ten months we've been here). Luke's has been around for some time with its' original location near hip and happening Club street well-loved by many for the food, the drinks, the ambience and the fact that the kitchen stays open till midnight. The new one opened a few months ago in a strange spot inside the renovated Robinson's department store at The Heeren building. Once you walk through the store and enter the doors of Luke's, you realize why the location was right all along. The place is sleek with black leather banquettes and cozy mini-booths for two lining the upper level and a long bar on the lower level with a floor to ceiling window overlooking busy Orchard road.
The menu is simple and spread out over two pages - one with items from the oyster bar, table snacks to be shared, a caviar service and starters then the second for chophouse classics, chops and side dishes and a listing of specialty beers and cocktails. The wine list is extensive with eleven of them, from sparkling to fortified, served by the glass.
As soon as the order is placed, a plate of warm mini-cornbread served with a dab of sweet butter is served. From the winter 2014 menu, we shared the smoked trout dip with crackers, celery and radish - a smoky almost dry shredded trout which we spread onto the accompanying extra-thin brown crisp bread and the oysters "lukefeller" (instead of Rockefeller) - baked oysters with spinach, Pernod and parsley.
It was hard to choose a main course from the selections offered but as I hardly get to eat steak tartar, its what I had even if it was listed as a starter. This one came perfectly seasoned and chunky with capers along with toasted slices of rye bread. A had a well-seared veal chop with anchovy marmite butter. We shared several sides - the extra crispy Old bay seasoned french fries, green asparagus and the creamy lobster mac and cheese topped with ritz cracker crumbs.
For lunch one day with the ladies, I had a delicious caesar salad topped with fried oysters. There are also a few specials (like their famous hamburger) not available for dinner. On another occasion, four of us dined on a couple of starters (tuna tartar and the smoked trout dip) followed by two orders of 400 gram USDA prime rib-eye "naked" (meaning just with salt and pepper) and a tableful of side dishes. Desserts are few and the two we tried were ok but nothing to write home about - it's the only thing they could improve on. Otherwise, the service, the atmosphere and the food are outstanding. At Luke's, there is always something delicious to eat with no surprises or gimmicks, just real good food served simply.
03-02, The Heeren (inside Robinson's department store)
260 Orchard Road
Singapore 238855
Telephone: +65 6733 4813
*Open Mondays to Saturdays from noon to 10:30 p.m.
Another one at:
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The Anatomy Mnemonic is a note found in the Otherworld version of Alchemilla Hospital in Silent Hill: Origins. Travis Grady can locate it in the second floor's ladies restroom. The note is a clue to the Anatomy Puzzle.
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- Find that getting them out is much easier than putting them back in?
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Saturday, July 4, 2009
Steve McNair: He earned Nashville fans' respect
The relationship between Nashville and Steve McNair is not just one of a town and a famous athlete. For those of you outside Nashville, let me explain a little bit about it.
I remember when the NFL's Houston Oilers first moved to Nashville to become the team that is now the Tennessee Titans. Back in those days, the team just wasn't very good. They had some potential, but they struggled constantly. This team we're getting from Texas, I thought to myself, they're not much to celebrate about.
I remember in particular that the team had two young men vying for the starting quarterback's job: Two guys named Neil O'Donnell and Steve McNair. They both had potential, but like their teams, they seemed to struggle constantly. I remember one particularly bad outing for McNair -- I can't remember whether this was in Memphis or at Vanderbilt Stadium -- but the home-field fans booed him for poor performance. I remember my friend and mentor Dwight Lewis wrote a column about it.
Today, it is hard for most of us to remember, or even believe, there was ever any doubt whether Steve should have been starting QB. And I don't recall the people of Nashville ever booing Steve McNair on the field ever again, as I recall.
Steve McNair earned the respect of the people of Nashville. And he didn't just do it by being part of a winning team. He worked his behind off for it.
Steve McNair wasn't one of those overpaid star quarterbacks who took off running for the first down and then slid toward it when a defensive player came within 20 yards of him. Steve would go running for that first down marker, and when those two defensive players grabbed him, he'd keep on running. He'd take those guys with him another 5 yards or so and just keep going. It'd take another defensive guy or two to pull him down. And even then, he didn't make it easy for them.
As a passer, Steve wouldn't ground the ball when the linebackers started to close in on him. I remember seeing linebackers grabbing him and hanging on to him as he looked around for a barely-open receiver downfield, and he'd still pull off some miracle completion.
Steve wasn't some athlete who made a zillion dollars a year and sat around on his behind and then whined about being disrespected. Steve worked. Steve earned his fans' respect by going out there and always giving his all, even when he was hurt and the odds were just unbelievable. Steve earned his pay every Sunday. Everybody knew who led that team on the field to all those just-barely and how-did-they-do-it victories.
Not only was he a really good quarterback, but Steve played hurt nearly every game in some of the Titans' best seasons, and I don't mean with some little small injury. Steve often played with serious injuries that would have sidelined most people. But he nearly always went out there, and if he went on the field, he played his heart out. It was as if you expected to read in the paper on Wednesday that he'd broken his back and was in traction but was expected to practice with the team Saturday for Sunday's game. Sometimes he was so hurt, as I recall, he wouldn't be well enough to practice with the team at all in the days before the next game -- but he'd still go out there on Sunday and pull off an incredible victory, usually at some great physical cost to himself.
And he'd go out there and he'd practically break his neck for the win. Just because he was hurt, he didn't give an inch. You'd see him limping sometimes, running back to the sidelines, and you knew he was in pain, but it never seemed to cause him to throw passes shorter, or to run slower, or to give it any less than he would physically than if he were healthy.
For all of that, Steve earned the Nashville fans' respect.
Now, Steve was not a saint. Very few people are, of course. As I recall, Steve got caught drinking and driving a few years ago. That's wrong. He shouldn't have done that. And when he was found to be drinking and driving, Steve may have gotten preferential treatment shown to him by local police officers because of his football hero status. That's also wrong. And, if what is being reported is true, it sounds like Steve was dating a woman while also still married to his wife. Also wrong.
But his achievements were still many. And that's why he's a huge sports hero to the people of Nashville.
We still don't know what happened. As of this writing, The Tennessean is saying that police say it appears to have been a murder-suicide -- Steve was shot several times, while the woman he was with was shot once.
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Thank you for this post. I was saddened by the news of his death. I never knew him personally, but thought he was someone who appeared to a professional and someone committed to youth causes I believe in. When he came to Maryland, I thought it was a major loss of Titans fans, but a coup for the Ravens. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and the thousands of fans who admired his athleticism and other qualities.
- July 4, 2009 at 11:58 PM
- Stacy said...
Thanks for blogging about this, Jennifer. McNair was a talented athlete and his name became synonymous with the TN Titans. Beyond the football field, he was an active citizen in Nashville. His generosity of time and money was far reaching.
I am gravely disappointed that he appears to have been dating/hanging-out with a 20 year old woman. I will withhold complete judgment until all of the facts are in-- he was human and therefore fallible. However, if it proves to be true that he was in a sexual relationship with a 20 year old woman outside of his marriage, I am not sure I will be able to maintain the respect I had for him on July 3rd.
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Women's Identity: A social, cultural and economic segregation
women as mail order brides
Filipino women migrated to other countries as nurses, teachers
and other professionals. In Canada, these women came to work as
nurses and teachers in the 1960s and 1970s. The nurses were very
visible and it was during this period when the Filipino woman
identity as a nurse came to be defined.
As the economy of Canada continued to expand and became more integrated
witheconomic globalization, the demand for more Canadian women
to participate in the formal sector of the economy also grew.
To replace their unpaid labourat home, the need for foreign domestic
workers also became a necessity. This need for domestic workers
was filled up mostly by Filipino women since the 1980s and it
was during this period when the social construct of the Filipino
woman as a domestic worker began to emerge.
But the relentless expansion and growth of globalization necessitated
further inroads of capital in all areas of human endeavor. Long
ago, Karl
Marx already saw this globalization when he said that the expansion
capital would compel it to chase markets "over the whole
surface of the
globe" and commodify everything that comes across its path.
This is precisely true in the trafficking of women today.
in women has become such a lucrative business that it ranks number
three after trade in arms and drugs. This is one major context
of the mail-order-bride business in the Philippines. Mail-order
brides are the latest sector of Filipino women to leave the Philippines.
According to the Philippine government, close to 150,000 Filipino
women left the country between 1989 and 1998, as fiancées
or spouses of foreigners. The top destinations of these women
are the United States, Australia and Western Europe.
Today, Canada
is becoming a new frontier for mail-order brides from the
Philippines. In our research published this year, we interviewed
Filipino mail-order brides in five provinces. We found out that
we have
only scratched the surface of this subject. More studies need
to be done.
But one thing that is slowly emerging is a new identity of the
woman as a mail-order bride.
and Segregation
While it is true that a large number of Filipino women may have
successfully into the mainstream of Canadian society, it is also
a reality
that our community continues to be marginalized and segregated.
nurses continue to do domestic work and they face systemic barriers
wheneverthey try to return to their profession. Besides doing
the traditional domestic work, they are also being used as 24-
hour home support workers to care for the affluent elderly and
people with disabilities. This is part of the slowly emerging
privatization of the health care system and cheapening of the
nursing profession. It also creates a division a between the nurses
from the South and nurses from the North where the former are
looked down as inferior to the latter.
The LCP,
which continues to be in place, has had a severe impact on the
community as whole and second generation of Filipino Canadians.
The long years of separation due to this program has created dysfunctional
and disempowered members of families. Filipino youth has the highest
drop out rate among high school students in the Lower Mainland.
This will only perpetuate further segregation of the community
and deepening of economic marginalization.
is to be done
Despite all the barriers and our marginalization, Filipino women
continued their resistance. We have always defined our work at
the Centre
within the context of our situation in Canada that uses us as
cheap labour,
in the Philippines that "forces" our migration and within
the global reality
that intensifies our dislocation and forced migration. Our presence
Canada has been largely shaped by our history of migration with
its roots
going back to the crisis in Philippine society and the need for
cheap labour
by advanced capitalist countries like Canada. This cheap labor
is often
provided by women from the South who end up at the bottom of the
economic ladder enduring class, gender and racial discrimination.
With this understanding, our work at the Centre involves three
components. The first one is in the area of education. We do
community-based research and education in order to fully understand
reality and root causes of our presence in Canada. The next component
our work is organizing. We organize in order that we can collectively
effectively present our issues both within and outside out community.
way we develop both our personal and collective empowerment. The
component is our mobilization work. We do not only educate and
ourselves. We mobilize ourselves and our community for action
to change our reality. We develop alliances and coalitions with
other women and their
organizations. We also do lobbying work with the government for
change and/or development of policies that are not oppressive,
anti-women and racist.
Thus, our work at the Centre involves mainly three key areas:
organization and action for social justice, genuine development
and just and lasting peace not only for this generation but also
for future generations.
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Ensuring the long-term sustainability of our business will benefit all our stakeholders, including our shareholders and employees, and the local communities in the places where we operate.
Besides working in close cooperation with the United Nations Global Compact, at the national, regional (Latin American) and international levels, since 2008 ASUR has been recognised each year as a Socially Responsible Company by the Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía (CEMEFI).
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- Providing reliable, stable sources of work
- Promoting positive labour relations and consensus-based solutions to any disagreements
- Guaranteeing total respect for workers' human rights
- Ensuring that our facilities adhere to the highest standards of safety in the workplace, to protect the physical wellbeing of our employees
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Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has today claimed that the government will never compromise the BBC's independence or the quality of its output.
In his first major policy speech, Hunt confirmed that Ofcom will investigate ways to relax the rules governing cross-media ownership in the UK.
He also announced an independent review of local television services, which is partially designed to foster a more viable localised alternative to the BBC's output.
The new Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition has already signalled its intention to open up the BBC's accounts to the National Audit Office to increase levels of transparency.
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"Nothing that this government does will compromise either the independence of the BBC or the quality of its output.
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Yesterday, veteran broadcaster John Simpson expressed his belief that the BBC is "no longer doomed" following the formation of the UK's new coalition government.