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My first blurb book! This is an insight into my world. A collection of a few of my photographs taken over the past 2 years. Hope you like it!
About the AuthorLily Lau
yeeley London
Publish Date November 14, 2009
Dimensions Standard Landscape 68 pgs Standard Paper
Category Arts & Photography
Tags London Walks, Lily Lau, canary wharf, Thames path.River Thames, Far Away, Hong Kong, abstract, flowers, action, music, sport, images, photography, photographs, London, Streets, Musicians, Art
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yeeley says
Monica and John
Thank you so much for your kind words, I really appeciate your feedback, it really means allot and yes I certainly will keep on taking photos!
warm regards
posted at 04:52am Nov 19 PST
monicabraun says
I really enjoyed your book, Your book has been an inspiration to me.
You are very good at this,keep on doing it,!!!
Monica Braun
posted at 11:31am Nov 17 PST
johnu says
Hi Lily,
Just a comment on your fine work. I encourage you to continue in your art. Your photos show a varied array of subjects, all within different avenues of life experiences. Such a feat! I feel, respectfully, that your compositions are very unique. You also have a special sense of what you take - what is important, tender, exciting, interesting, and colorful. That is a gift and you have it. Congratulations!
John Ulatowski
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Going back to school after a three day weekend is so hard. I could barely get out of bed which does not usually happen.
Anyway... KNITTING!!
I have gotten up to the heel flap on the Roza Socks. These should be done by the end of the week and then it is on to Clapotis.
I feel great finishing up all these projects. Maybe I will do it more often.
If you are wondering how I am getting so much knitting done, it is because I am reading archives of all my blogs. I always do this and am reading Yarn Harlot for the second time. It gives me so much knitting time.
That is all for now.
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- Sarah said...
And here I thought I was the only one who goes back through old blog archives to read while I knit! Can't wait to see all your completed knitting!
- May 28, 2008 at 6:10 AM
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LAS VEGAS — Listless for the first half, UCLA Bruins recovered barely in time to advance in today's Pac-12 Tournament quarterfinal against Arizona State, 80-75.
The Sun Devils led by 15 points with 16:42 to play, buoyed by center Jordan Bachynski and point guard Jahii Carson, but watched as the Bruins chipped away at the lead before finally catching up.
The Bruins trailed by eight with 7:46 to go, before Shabazz Muhammad rattled off the next six points. The Pac-12's co-Freshman of the Year made a tip-in and two layups to pull within one.
With 4:58 to play, Larry Drew II — who finished with 20 points on 8-of-10 shooting — made a three-pointer to give the Bruins their first lead since UCLA was up, 7-5.
Carson, who scored 21 points on 8-of-14 shooting, tied the game at 74. Evan Gordon made two free throws with 1:43 left to go up two, but Travis Wear matched him with two of his own.
Gordon made one of two free throws with 1:19 to go, but two jumpers by Wear gave the Bruins a three-point edge with 12 seconds to play.
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"African Americans are 13% of the population, with about 49% of the epidemic, on a nationwide scale. So it's very important that we raise the awareness, and get people tested for HIV, so they know their status," said Kenneth Johnson of the Ga. Dept. of Community Health.
The AIDS testing tour will be at Fort Valley State Wednesday, Paine College Thursday, and Morehouse College Friday.
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"Wait a half hour after eating before you can safely go swimming." That seem to be the universal rule for children wanting to swim after eating a meal. Dr. Keith Borg,. an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina says the myth involves the possibility of suffering severe muscle cramping and drowning from swimming on a full stomach.
"It depends on how much you eat. You can eat a full meal and it can be in your stomach for hours and hours and that's why the thirty minutes is really a myth." Dr. Borg says.
Aan episode of drowning caused by swimming on a full stomach has never been documented. Neither the American Academy of Pediatrics nor the American Red Cross makes any specific recommendations about waiting any amount of time after eating before taking a swim. Dr. Borg says remember when you are swimming you are exercising. The same rules apply.
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Camperdown High consolidated their second place position in Zone B of the ISSA/Digicel/Gatorade Manning Cup football competition yesterday after their 2-0 win over Waterford High at Bellevue field.
Ackeem Anglin in the first half and a Kevon Deacon own goal in the second half boosted the Christopher Bender-coached team, who came into the match one point ahead of Waterford. Jamaica College lead the group on 12 points, two more than Camperdown High.
However, Waterford stayed third on six points, after the group's other game between St Jago and Mona was not played because of a waterlogged field.
At Bellevue field, the home team took an early lead when Anglin fired them in front after only two minutes of play. But Waterford gave a good account of themselves afterwards and could have forced an equaliser.
However, 66 minutes into the contest the host extended their lead when Henry headed home from six yards.
Bender said the result was the one they had hoped for as it put distance between themselves and their opponents, who were hot on their heels coming into the match.
"This is three valuable points... they were a point behind us and we wanted to put a little distance between us and them," he said.
Waterford's coach, Michael Williams, thought his team could have taken something from the game had they not lapsed in concentration in vital areas of the field.
"We played well in the first half coming into the second half... but we started making mistakes in crucial areas and it cost us," he said.
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The Blazers have been active, but unsuccessful in the offseason in trying to attract outside talent, offering a max contract to center Roy Hibbert only to have the Indiana Pacers match, reportedly being in the mix for Brook Lopez's services (he's expected to return to the Brooklyn Nets as well). In fact, the only talent they've been able to pry away from another team is new general manager Neil Olshey. They have two lottery picks in Damian Lillard and Meyers Leonard coming in, and bringing Batum back means the team they had at the end of last year that tanked out of the playoff picture remains largely unchanged, other than the rookies.
There are still some free agents available, but their hopes of adding a veteran center to pair with LaMarcus Aldridge might not come to fruition, as the talented big men left on the market — Kris Humphries (restricted) and Elton Brand (amnestied, likely) and JaVale McGee (restricted) — are either power forwards or unlikely to leave their current teams.
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"LOCOG has said that accredited tickets which are not being used will be made available for military personnel, teachers and students. But I do hope they will also extend this to police officers and their families. Thousands of officers are working immensely hard to deliver a safe and secure games and have had no leave this summer as a result. Many of those same officers had no leave last summer because of the riots. Given that many officers have not had family summer holidays for two years in a row it would be great to recognise their hard work by offering them and their families some of the extra tickets too. Many officers have told me they would not be able to take up tickets because of the shifts and cover they need to provide for the Olympics but they would love their families who are also making sacrifices this summer to have the chance.
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in attempt to pacify the shakes, a byproduct from hockey withdrawals, ive been conducting mildly-to-meduim extensive research on select Colorado Avalanche prospects and started paying very much attention to the Lake Erie Monsters as well as the upstart local CHL team. the story of Denver Cutthroats defenseman Sean Zimmerman, i found particularly intriguing. having never played a single game in the NHL, he has been a member of six different big league organizations, and has been traded among those six teams SIX TIMES IN JUST TWO YEARS. in his nine year professional career, he has played for nine different minor league teams in four different leagues.
he is the only Denver native on the team and took the longest possible route throughout his career to end up right back where he got started in the bigger journey we call life. lets take the trip with Sean and examine his transaction timeline;
*FOR THE PARTY ANIMALS!* drink everytime the kid gets traded, signed or reassigned...
2003: SPOKANE CHIEFS - Sean took the major junior path in his bid for the pros. he got it started in the WHL with Spokane and played in 210 games before being drafted to the NHL.
2005: NEW JERSEY DEVILS - New Jersey would take Zimmerman with the 170th overall selection in the sixth round of 2005 NHL entry draft.
2005: ALBANY RIVER RATS - the Devils assigned Sean to their top farm club, Albany of the AHL. the 18 year old Zimmerman would only see six games at the triple-A level before being reassigned to his junior team.
2006: SPOKANE CHIEFS - Sean gained 60 more games worth of experience at the WHL level before his play earned him his second call up to the AHL.
2006: LOWELL DEVILS - new club, same parent affiliate. Zimmerman found his next home in Massachusetts playing for the Devils' new AHL partner for parts of the next couple of seasons, defending his team for 67 games.
2007: TRENTON DEVILS - BONUS HISTORY LESSON!! in 2007, the New Jersey Devils purchased the Philadelphia Flyers longtime ECHL affiliate the Trenton Titans and renamed them the Trenton Devils. Zimmerman found himself being reassigned to Trenton that year, and added a sweet rare hockey jersey to his private collection, playing in eight games for the short lived crest. note: under new ownership in 2011, the Titans restored both its original name and original affiliation with Philly.
2008: PHOENIX COYOTES - Sean is traded by the New Jersey Devils to the Phoenix Coyotes in exchange for prospect Kevin Cormier in September of 2008.
2008: SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE - Phoenix reassigns Zimmerman to their top minor affiliate San Antonio. Sean continued his development in the AHL in Texas, playing in 36 games for the Rampage before being reassigned, yet again.
2008: ARIZONA SUNDOGS - Zimmerman gets his first taste of CHL brand hockey, playing 20 games for the double-A Pheonix affiliate.
2009: SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE - Zimmerman was fortunate enough to play his entire 2009-10 season with one club in San Antonio. Sean recorded 72 games, 9 pts, and 105 PIMs for the Rampage.
2009: VANCOUVER CANUCKS - at the trade deadline of 2009, Phoenix traded Sean and a 2010 6th round pick to the dastardly Vancouver Canucks in return for Mathieu Scheinder. He resigned with with the Canuckle-biters in the offseason.
2010: FLORIDA PANTHERS - shortly into the season and before ever playing a game for the organization, stinky Vancouver trades Zimmerman to Florida for Nathan Paetsch.
2010: ROCHESTER AMERICANS - the Panthers reassigned Zimmerman to the Amerks where he played 7 games.
2010: BOSTON BRUINS - two months after acquiring him, the Panthers send Zimmerman back to Massachusetts in a deal with the Bruins for Jeff LoVecchio and Jordan Knackstedt.
2010: PROVIDENCE BRUINS - the Bruins reassign Sean to their top affiliate, Providence of the AHL. He played 23 games for the organization before being traded for a third time in one season for the second consecutive season in his young career.
2010: ANAHEIM DUCKS - Boston trades Zimmerman and Brian McGrattan to the Anaheim Ducks for David Laliberte and Stefan Chaput.
2010: SYRACUSE CRUNCH - Anaheim reassigned Zimmerman to their top affiliate Syracuse where he played 21 games. Sean split the 2010-11 AHL season between three teams, defending 51 games for the Americans, the Bruins and the Crunch. He played 42 more games for Syracuse next season, before moving on...
2012: DENVER CUTTHROATS - Sean Zimmerman signs with the upstart Denver Cutthroats of the CHL and returns to his native land with a stick in his hand and more than a few baggage claim tickets stuck to his luggage. Sean opts to make Denver hockey history and become a member of the inaugural club of a brand new franchise and become a local home town hero for the first time in his career. October 19th. ten bucks? hell yea. ill be there to watch it happen for sure.
theres no place like home, theres no place like home, theres no place like, et cetera...
the point of the story is, Sean Zimmerman is still a very young player. hes only 25 years old and more traveled than most pros. will this most recent relocation be where he finally drops anchor and builds on something a bit more permanent? or is this just the next blip on an ever growing timeline? the CHL isnt as good as the AHL obviously, but he really could make a satisfying living here as a fan favorite and native son in a genuine hockey town. besides, not every CHL team is so closely tied to a major league club. he has a foot in the door many CHLers would bend over frontwards to have. Zimmerman is just one of many elements that will make the Fish fun to watch this season.
thank you for your accompanying me on this minorly interesting journey into a minor-league journey-man's journey through life. now that we're all caught up, im sure itll be more interesting to watch it unfold from here on out.
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Al-Qaida builds low cost weapons from volunteers.
The number of victims of robbers, highwaymen, rapists, gangsters and other criminals at any period of history is negligible compared to the massive numbers of those cheerfully slain in the name of true religion, just policy or correct ideology. - Arthur Koestler
How can we begin to understand those individuals who continue to strap on bombs and blow up restaurants, and mosques killing thousands of innocent bystanders? President Bush constantly referred to them as evil people, but that label might hide more than it explains.
Saint or devil?
Osama bin Laden and his collegues do not see themselves. Years ago in an interview on the program "Frontline," bin Laden said, "They rip us of our wealth and of our resources and of our oil. Our religion is under attack. They kill and murder our brothers. They compromise our honor and our dignity, and dare we utter a single word of protest against the injustice, we are called terrorists."
Contrary to seeing himself as evil, bin Laden and his fellow leaders of al-Qaida believe they are working hand in hand with God. In another interview, this time with John Miller for ABC, bin Laden said, "I am one of the servants of Allah, and I obey his orders. Among those is the order to fight for the word of Allah … and to fight until the Americans are driven out of all the Islamic countries."
He has affirmed that he sees terrorism as an act of vengeance against the United States, "the Great Satan." The leaders of al-Qaida are men to whom the murder of thousands is seen as a rational way, supported by Allah, to send their message.
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Obviously, they couldn't strike without volunteers on the front line who are eager to give up their lives. We must be careful not to get too caught up in seeing the members of al-Qaida as irrational, insane and evil. That thinking can lead to underestimating their danger to us. Al-Qaida followers have their own rationality, and none of them would agree that they are in league with the devil.
What can we say about his followers? Some insight is given in a book written in the 1950s, "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" by Eric Hoffer. He said zealots go through an emotional process of renouncing their individuality and finding identity in a violent cause.
Hoffer believed the fanatic is an insecure person who cannot create his own self-assurance and can find it only by becoming passionately attached to what he sees as a holy cause, one for which he would sacrifice his life. This kind of fanaticism leading to suicide is not new: Remember the 900 followers of the Rev Jim Jones at Jonestown, Guyana; the 70 Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas; and the 30 Heaven's Gate members in San Diego? All these people saw themselves as aligned with right, and in most cases, with God. It is just the consequences that are different.
Hoffer wrote, "Dying and killing are easy when they are part of a ritual, ceremonial, dramatic performance or game. There is the need for make-believe in order to face death. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn, dramatic performance."
Brain-washing is a concept we got from the Chinese during the Korean War. It appears al-Qaida is using similar techniques to build fanatical followers. First, when they join, their trainees already are alienated from society, angry and ripe to find new beliefs. They then live in a group with little outside information or influence. Radios, television, newspapers and books are forbidden. Their leaders' paranoid or delusional system is all they encounter. This approach is calculated to cause the trainees to be disconnected from any system we might consider more rational.
Whatever the system of indoctrination, it works. What we have learned about terrorists over the years indicates that they have a high wall of belief that shields them from facts and our reality. There appears to be no way correct information can dent their logic. Because they already know the absolute truth, they are impervious to information that contradicts their beliefs. Even living among us and seeing our way of life was not enough to stop the terrorists of Sept. 11 from carrying out their mission.
Why suicide?
Why commit suicide? It's a low-cost method that guarantees extensive damage. Extensive escape plans aren't needed. In addition, if you get your followers to commit suicide, they won't be questioned afterward and give up valuable information. In the case of al-Qaida, they redefine their actions so it's not suicide, it's martyrdom.
Ariel Merari, a psychologist at the University of Tel Aviv, studied 50 Muslim suicide bombers and found that several types of individuals are willing to sacrifice themselves for a cause. Al-Qaida's task isn't to create a readiness to die; that already exists. His recruiters' task is to identify this predisposition and find some way to reinforce it. For some, the promise of paradise is enough; for others, it takes reinforcement of patriotism, hatred of the enemy, a profound sense of victimization or a perceived ability to contribute to the creation of a new world order.
People without meaning in their lives are offered a sense of importance by dedicating themselves to a cause larger than themselves. In their minds, they are turned into good guys, and the rest of us have become the bad guys.
Ramadhan Shalah, secretary general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, has said, ''Our enemy possesses the most sophisticated weapons in the world. We have nothing except the weapon of martyrdom. It is easy and costs us only our lives. Human bombs cannot be defeated, not even by nuclear bombs.''


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