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Singapore is not good model for developing country
When Myanmar's reforming President Thein Sein visited Singapore in January, officials there offered lessons on how to modernize and attract foreign investment. Singapore's eagerness to court Myanmar's ruling generals has been a diplomatic feature of the international community's two decades of trying to crack open the reclusive country.
Now that Asia's "next economic frontier" has started to open up, Singapore – where Myanmar's senior generals bank and seek.
hospital treatment – is keen to offer itself as a dazzling example of how to become a first-world economy within a couple of generations.
It's a siren call that should be resisted, said Rodney King, the Australian author of the controversial book Singapore: Myth and Reality.
"Singapore is not a good development model and not one a developing country should follow. Singapore has basically conned the world about its nation-building achievement," said King. "It is frightening that they should regard Singapore as a good model to follow."
Years of robust growth in Singapore were driven initially by waves of foreign capital into the city-state and more recently by the import of foreign workers, who now make up one-third of the population. The government's jealous husbanding of much of the economy, meanwhile, has rendered impotent much of the nation's faculty for creative business.
"Its entrepreneurial, innovative capacity is quite small. It's got a very small local private sector, unlike say South Korea and Taiwan, where there are vigorous entrepreneurial cultures. In Singapore, they don't really have that," said King, who spent many years working in the island-state.
It is unlikely that Singapore says this in its diplomatic and commercial outreach to Myanmar. Ashfaqur Rahman, chairman of the Center for Foreign Affairs Studies in Bangladesh, had no doubt what Singapore hopes for when he noted how it shunned the previous Western policy of making a pariah of the ruling junta.
"The basis of this strategy was to gain from a relationship which was essentially economic. Singapore invested heavily in Myanmar and traded with her. It even pushed other [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] members to allow Myanmar to join the regional organization."
Myanmar citizens, who for decades have been mired in corrupt economic lethargy, are no doubt dazzled by Singapore's success in turning a former modest British trading hub into a confident modern nation with a per capita income among the highest in the world.
Remarkably an island state with just 1% of Southeast Asia's population still attracts nearly half of its foreign direct investment. Yet this success has come "at considerable costs in terms of independent development, human rights, freedom, and workers rights", according to an academic paper published last year.
That part of the economy not in foreign hands is dominated by government-controlled institutions run by the local nomenklatura. Keeping an every present watch is the People's Action Party (PAP), which has run virtually a one-party state since independence.
"One of the key features of the Singapore model is that the commanding heights of the economy are controlled by the state – directly or indirectly. Burma [Myanmar] had all its state enterprises taken over in 1962 by [the late general] Ne Win, which has just dragged the economy into the ground," said King.
"If they were going to follow the Singapore model they would be just repeating the mistakes that they have already made. Singapore crushes individual enterprise but [Myanmar] is going to need all the enterprise it can possibly muster to get over 50 years of chronic warfare and political repression."
King's criticism might have less sting given Singapore's wealth were it not also echoed by an increasing number of complaints rising from within the city-state. Indeed, many now question whether the "Singapore model" is still valid. In last year's general election the ruling party won its lowest share of the vote since independence.
Productivity gains have been notoriously weak for decades, hardly what the casual observer might imagine from a country regularly ranked as one of the most competitive.
The American economist Paul Krugman infuriated Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew 20 years ago by claiming Singapore's growth could be explained by more of everything – capital and labor – except efficiency.
Ever since the launch of the "Teamy the Productivity Bee" campaign three decades ago, the government mantra has been to focus on generating greater added value. Despite myriad training initiatives, worker productivity has barely grown by 1% a year in the new millennium.
Growth has been sustained by an inflow of foreigners that has doubled the island's population since 1980, with foreigners and non-Singapore born citizens now representing three-fifths of the population. "We've grown in the last five years by just importing labor," said Lee Kuan Yew himself in 2010.
The country arguably hasn't maximized that influx. "They imported all these scientists and technicians from all over the world but the outcome has been fairly modest. These people have found working in a bureaucratic structure quite stifling," said King. The authorities "spend tons of money on resources but the ambience isn't there really. They seem to be able to attract talent, but when they get them they can't operate the way that they want."
Equality gap
Singapore shone in the headlines again recently when one of Facebook's founders, Eduardo Saverin, was revealed to have given up his United States passport in favor of residency in Singapore to "invest like crazy."
Saverin joins an elite of super-rich floating on top of an ordinary public, many of whom struggle to make ends meet in an increasingly expensive city. The bottom half of the population experienced either falling real income, or no gain in income, over most of the last decade.
High inequality levels have combined with falling social mobility, reinforcing the grip of the privileged upper class to the point where even the government recognizes this threatens the social compact.
One of the city-state's most respected economists, Professor Lim Chong Yah, said in April that the city's Gini coefficient (a measure of equality) of 0.47 was approaching the "danger level" of 0.5 when typically income inequality starts to tear at a country's social fabric. He has advocated a "shock" therapy of pay rises for workers and tax penalties for the rich.
King estimates one-fifth of the population lives in poverty as measured by Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development standards. "They have been able to attracts lots of foreign direct investment … at the cost of Singaporean living standards."
Singapore may now have passed some sort of inflexion point. The first two generations of PAP leaders have faded from the scene – aside of course from the Senior Lee himself – and the younger leaders do not seem to hold the power to cow the population as in the past.
"This has been a country of frightened, intimidated people. In the 1950s and '60s, Singaporeans were feisty, gung-ho people but Lee and co killed their spirit," said King.
This past timidity in the face of authority permitted a series of policy mistakes followed by awkward U-turns. One notable quirk came in 1970 when Lee discouraged big families after deciding the population was too high, only years later changing his mind to beg (rather comically) Singaporeans to breed more freely.
Over the years, careful observers have pointed out that Singapore's "success" owed much to being a small, compact island that made political and social control relatively easy, so enabling it to experiment with robust but effective national development strategies.
By contrast, Myanmar is an infinitely more complicated jigsaw of ethnic, geographic, economic and historic problems in a space that is one-thousand times bigger. "Vast, sprawling countries like Indonesia, (Myanmar) and Thailand … would find such strategies a great deal harder to implement," said King.
To be sure, Singapore's founding myth as a mosquito-infested swamp of palm plantations and kampong dwellers in 1965 is a compelling one for underdeveloped countries like Myanmar eager to learn the secrets of rapid enrichment.
Nothing could be further from the truth, however. In 1965, Singapore was one of the most developed cities in Asia in terms of industrial development, living standards and literacy of the population, argues King.
"Singapore's nation-building success, such as it is, was based on a set of highly favorable circumstances that are unlikely to be found elsewhere," he said.
Singapore surely must be praised for many things, not least its relatively clean dealings in a region benighted by corruption. But, if King's assessment is correct, then Myanmar might be wise to examine carefully the advice from an authoritarian state of growing inequality struggling with low productivity and rising social unhappiness.
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Inside the minds of others
When our genes could not store all the information necessary for our survival, we slowly invented brains. But then the time came, maybe tens of thousands of years ago, that we needed to know more than could be conveniently stored in brains. So we learned to stockpile enormous amounts of information outside our bodies. We are the only species as far as we know to have developed a communal memory, and the warehouse of that memory is called the library.
Something extraordinary has been happening on the planet earth. Rich information from distant lands and peoples , has become routinely available. Computers can now store and process enormous amounts of information extremely rapidly. In our time a revolution has begun. A revolution perhaps as significant as the evolution of DNA and nervous systems and the invention of writing. Direct communication among billions of human beings is now made possible by computers and satellites. The potential for a global intelligence is emerging, linking all the brains on earth into a planetary consciousness.
The above words were spoken 29 years ago by Carl Sagan (in Cosmos 1980). Well before the personal computer revolution, the graphical user interface, before the internet had left military installations and Universities. Carl was a prophet, with great insight. He's just described our world so poignantly, well before it arrived.
It makes me excited to be able to share my thoughts so easily, like Carl said we would all this time ago. It makes me want to ensure my digital contribution is positive and leaves a valuable legacy. It makes me want to make sure we all know how important this gift of omnipresent communication is, at a time when our species needs to collaborate so strongly for our survival.
Now that we can so quickly enter the minds of others, we should all make sure our contributions are positive, that we add something of value to this collective consciousness.
When technology makes you obsolete
I once heard an interview with drummer Rob Hirst from the rock band Midnight Oil. It was in reference to one of their most critically acclaimed and best selling song, Power and the passion. Rob was asked about the infamous drum solo in the middle of the song, which not only doesn't sound indulgent, but fits the rhythm and meaning of the song. What I find most interesting from an entrepreneurial perspective is how it all came about, this is what Rob had to say:
"It was 1982 and drum machines were entering the music scene and replacing drummers very quickly. They were cheaper and more reliable. It was a time when drummers were throwing themselves off cliff tops. Rather than fear the technological advancement, I thought it might be better to embrace it. I wondered how I could use it to supplement what I was already doing to make it better. So for the Power and the Passion, I decided to have a drum machine playing in the background on the entire track. By doing this it freed up my arms and legs to add some color to the song, and ultimately allowed for the drum solo which is often sited as the catalyst that makes the song so great."
The story above is one for all the Luddites out there. for the technology fear mongers, and those who worry about being replaced. The truth is, we should be happy when technology replaces labour for the simple reason that it opens the door to creativity. It opens the door to opportunity, for a better use of our time and resources.
You can watch / listen the drum solo at 2.35 minutes on the clip below. Be sure to listen for the drum machine track quietly providing the beat underneath.
PS – the smashing sound at the end of the solo is a florescent light tube Rob brought into the studio for a dramatic industrial effect, not a pane of glass. Awesome.
Why scoreboards matter
Humans are compelled to count. We count everything. Days, weeks, months, years, birthdays, money in the bank, salary levels, years of experience. It's part of the human condition, maybe it helped us evolve to a civilised existence .
As startup entrepreneurs we need to let our people count something. Whether it's the savings they made or they friends they have, there needs to be a way for them to keep track. So our people know they have made progress. Commerce is an anthropological game of football. So we must keep score. But it must go beyond the corporate scoreboard of profit, share price, turnover, number of employees… it has to be an audience focused score. Like followers on twitter. It has to be about them, not us, it's how humans roll.
The white collar underclass
Before the Industrial Revolution the average number of hours worked in the western world was less than 6 hours per day. Some say we worked less than two and a half days a week.
I won't quote what the average number of hours are today, but it's more for everyone I know personally. I'm certain many people reading this would work in excess of 12 hours on certain days.
So what happened?
We got stooged. The industrial revolution made it possible for a larger segment of the population to work year-round, since this labor was not tied to the season and artificial lighting made it possible to work longer each day. Peasants and farm laborers moved from rural areas to the factories and work times during a year has been significantly higher since then the important innovation of piece labour. That is, the ability to earn income based on output. Think bolts in car doors.
Over time longer hours lead to greater amount of industrial accidents and workplace injuries. Unions formed and laws changed on the factory floor. But, the office was a different place altogether.
Office workers – salary based workers who where historically in management worked for salaries. A fixed wage for a fixed number of hours. My father constantly reminds me that in his day office workers only worked from 9am until 4.30pm. That tradesman and factory workers were the only people who did extra hours. And they did this to make up for the pay discrepancy which was favour of salary workers.
Clearly times have changed. If you are working in a large corporate, cubicle farm, in front of a screen or any place where you don't get your hands dirty then chances are your are part of the ever growing white collar underclass. Here's the some of stuff that defines members of the White Collar Underclass:
- A fixed salary with no overtime (factory workers, tradesman, retail staff all have overtime)
- Regularly working beyond the 'official hours' including weekends.
- It is expected that you arrive before and leave after your official hours.
- No representation in your industry to protect employment conditions.
- No tax benefits or uniform allowances, because your work clothing doesn't have a logo on it. Even though it is in real terms a 'uniform' and costs you 10 times what hands on workers wear to work.
- Your annual performance review is based on the subjective assessments of your direct manager who may or may not like you.
- You work in a large building full of people who look and act like you do, and no one really knows what anyone else does.
- In an economic downturn, you panic, because you know what you do is essentially expendable.
- Large parts of your day are dealing with procedure, invented by other workers to justify their own existence.
- You look at a screen for large parts of your day, but have restrictions on what information you can bring onto the screen from the outside world.
- You feel as though your rarely use the skills acquired in the formal education you needed to get that job.
- You can work for days, weeks and months without any physical evidence of tangible outputs of what you have done. You don't make or fix anything real.
If some of the above apply to you, chances are you are part of the white collar underclass. A group of people who have been victimized by efficiency. A group of people who don't do anything real. Which is why there will be a significant value shift and higher pay going to people (like tradesman) who make stuff. Simple supply and demand. In the past 50 years companies have became so good at what they do, that very few people really do anything, including you. But you are giving so much of your time… you know it, and it eats at your soul.
Startup blog advice: Earn your living. Do something that adds value, not takes up space. Even if it must be done at nights and on weekends. Even if it provides no income. The human soul feeds on real activity, not simple economic existence. Feed your soul in 2010.
Why iterations matter
When it comes to startups iterations matter a lot. They are evidence of the business pulse. They mean we are progressing and building momentum.
But there are some deeper reasons why iterations matter so much. Iterations give us a reason to go back. To go back to the market 'our people' and re-engage in a conversation. It gives us something to talk about, stimulate interest and demand. To glean feedback from, regardless of who this conversation happens to be with. Our business is essentially a large complex set of conversations, and the changes we make facilitate them.
So who can we go back to with our iterations?
- Our customers who want to know how these iterations help them out
- Our employees who can get excited about the cool stuff they have been / will be working on
- Our suppliers who can get excited about the prospect of more business
- The media want to report on innovation, updates and the industry
Pic via Alex Figueroa
All of these conversations stimulate our business, our industry and ultimately the market place. Our iterations have a much bigger impact than we think. It's far more macro.
Iterations are social, and we are social creatures. If nothing has changed or improved, then we move on. It is human nature.
Entrepreneurs must change
I am a fan of the rock band Talking Heads. Not only their music, but their lyrics. Some of which I find incredibly provocative to this day. Actually – most of them are ahead of their time and almost only starting to make sense to me now almost 30 years on.
One song called Seen & not seen is almost spooky. At no time in history have we been able to transform ourselves like we can now. Both socially and intellectually. As entrepreneurs – that's our journey. Becoming an entrepreneur is all about social and economic evolution as a person. it's about unlearning the lessons of school and previous jobs we've held. But more so it's about having a vision and transforming our mind, and maybe, just maybe our physical disposition.
Read these lyrics – and just think about it. I'm not trying to be weird – rather to open your mind.
He would see faces in movies, on t.v., in magazines and in books….
He thought that some of these faces might be right for him….and
Through the years, by keeping an ideal facial structure fixed in his
Mind….or somewhere in the back of his mind….that he might, by
Force of will, cause his face to approach those of his ideal….the
Change would be very subtle….it might take ten years or so….
Gradually his face would change its shape….a more hooked nose…
Wider, thinner lips….beady eyes….a larger forehead.
He imagined that this was an ability he shared with most other
People….they had also molded their faced according to some
Ideal….maybe they imagined that their new face would better
Suit their personality….or maybe they imagined that their
Personality would be forced to change to fit the new appearance….
this is why first impressions are often correct…
Although some people might have made mistakes….they may have
Arrived at an appearance that bears no relationship to them….
They may have picked an ideal appearance based on some childish
Whim, or momentary impulse….some may have gotten half-way
There, and then changed their minds.
This song is worth a listen to as well if you can find it on itunes or the net.
Competition is eternally existential. We compete for love, money, attention, fame, wealth, recognition, and sometimes, we even compete for food. Turns out humans aren't the only species who must to compete to survive. All living things must do it. Even trees in a deep forest compete for sunlight by growing as quickly as possible forgoing width for height.
What I find most interesting about competition is how we or any being chooses to do it. When a competitor catches us unaware, they usually achieve this through using some form of subterfuge. Like growing in a smaller segment of the market. Focusing on a neglected geography. And the really smart competitors disguise what they are doing so you don't even see them coming. A little like Google has done to Microsoft who was overly focused on the 'desktop', while the world was moving to web app's and gathering and storing of information externally.
I noticed this phenomenon first hand recently. My business was moving along swimmingly (which in this case is my tomato plantation). As you can see from the photo below. My Roma's looked healthy and almost ready for the picking:
But upon closer inspection a competitor had been eating away at my market for quite a long time without me noticing. Once I turned around the tomato to inspect the back side of them – I was devastated to find my competition. They caught me napping and had a very big impact on my market share. As can be seen here:
How did they manage this?
- The caterpillar was smart enough to attack on the reverse side out of view.
- His color is exactly the same as the tomato proving an excellent camouflage.
- He waited till the market was already developed (by me) and the tomatoes had a reasonable size and were worth attacking – in this case risking his life over!
- In true terrorist fashion he penetrated the market at one entry point and ate it inside out. That is, the caterpillar was so deep inside the market, he was completely out of view.
None of this was by mistake. It has been driven by millennia of evolutionary survival and subsequent genetic coding. Nature is smart.
The implications for startups are many. When we start out to compete, the best thing we can do is replicate what nature does. Stay out of harms way. Stay small and unseen. Try and gain some momentum and size. If we're lucky will have built our share of the market and be ensconced before anyone notices.
(FYI – I picked the tomatoes, and placed them in another location of the garden to let the caterpillars fight another day – they may just leave some seeds which will flourish next season!)

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Experience suggests it doesn\\\'t matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.Lois McMaster Bujold
There is only one way to learn It's through action.Paulo Coelho
All the terms discussed in Part Two are evidences of this abstractness, simulacra of thought and experience, hardly better than slogans, which take the place of reflection.Allan David Bloom
An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.Niels Henrik David Bohr
At the end of a person's life that's what they are looking at. What happened inside? How did that experience change me, and how did I change it?Vanna Bonta
Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.Anthony Burgess
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Although I am not averse to wasting a few hours playing computer games, I have never tried my hand at Doom. Judging by sales figures and testimonials, playing the game has to be an infinitely preferable experience to watching this pathetic excuse for a movie.James Berardinelli
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run and often in the short one the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.William Clark
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.Elizabeth Bowen
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
My experience with first-time directors is that theyre all extremely prepared, because I guess theyre worried. They spend weeks preparing everything, and they have to get used to the fact that once you get there, everything goes wrong and you have to make everything up.Matthew Broderick
When we get there, We're going to fly so far away Making sure to laugh while we experience Anti-gravity.Brandon Boyd
Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we try.Lois McMaster Bujold
If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.William Frank Buckley Jr.
Only a personal experience of it, or a prolonged study of men who have passed into the new life, will enable us to realize what this actually is; but it has seemed to the present writer that to pass in review, even briefly and imperfectly, instances in which the condition in question has existed would be worth while.Richard Maurice Bucke
So long as you have yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.Martin Buber
Participant. A participant is active, a part of the process, and a necessary component of the magical experience. This is how it should be. No magic happens unless the participant perceives it as magical, so she can never be a mere spectator.Derren Victor Brown
I know this in no way alleviates the enormous amounts of pain and loss experienced by those who have suffered from the tsunami, but I hope it can make a difference.Sandra Bullock
I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus


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The Spartan is the main character and main protagonist of Spartan: Total Warrior.
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On Mount Olympus, there was a handmaid of Aphrodite who meddled in the affairs of the Gods of Olympus, who revealed the affair between Aphrodite and Ares to Hepheastus. Discovering this, the Gods of Olympus banished Ares, who killed the handmaid in revenge. Suspecting that Ares would seek revenge on the handmaid's son as well, the Greek pantheon blessed the boy with immortal powers and great warrior skills, and, for his safety, erased all knowledge of his past. After the boy was sent to live with the warriors of Sparta, Ares desired to exact vengeance onto the boy, creating a dark plan which he would initiate in later years. The boy knew none of this, and grew up with no memory of his past, his family, or his name.
Attack of RomeEdit
In later years, the forces of Rome would threaten the city of Sparta, being led by the emperor, Tiberius, and commanded by his general, Crassus. The boy became a novice Spartan warrior, and, in need of more soldiers, King Leonidas allowed all novices to aid Sparta in their war. Ares then contacted the Spartan and presented himself as an ally. The God promised to aid him in his quest for discovering his past; in return, the Spartan would have to deliver the vengeance Ares desired. After this, the Spartan and his allies, Castor and Pollux, fought the Romans, who were attempting to enter the city. The Spartans were able to fight off a massive army of Romans, but then the Romans unleashed the mechanical man known as Talos. Even as the Romans attacked one of Sparta's gates, the Spartan fended off the Roman invasion and defeated Talos by using catapults.
After which, Castor and the Spartan invaded a Roman camp after being sent by Ares, who told the Spartan to capture the Blades of Athena from the camp. After entering the camp and killing many Romans, the duo free the prisoners, grab Athena's Blades, and ally themselves with the Amazonian princess, Electra. They escape the camp, only to encounter Pollux and other Spartans who were sent by Leonidas to find the two runaway Spartans. After Pollux revealed that explosives were placed under a nearby bridge, and set to blow in a short time, the Spartans were then assigned a task: hold off the Romans and protect the prisoners until the bridge explodes. They succeed in this, and Electra then commanded the Spartans to take her to Leonidas in order to reveal information concerning a new war machine the Romans intend to use on Sparta.
The Last Stand and Battle Against the BarbariansEdit
The battle against the Spartans and the Romans would then continue, with the Romans revealing their weapon: a massive machine which can turn men to stone powered by the Gorgon Medusa. After facing many enemies, overcoming many obstacles, and avoiding the attacks created from the deadly weapon, the Spartan finally found himself face to face with the Roman general, Crassus. After defeating him, the Medusa weapon was destroyed , due to Crassus' tampering of the machine. Ares then sent a message to the Spartan, telling him to go to Troy in order to obtain the Spear of Achillies, a weapon which would supposedly save Sparta.
The Spartan then journeyed to Troy along with Electra, Pollux, Castor, and an army of Spartans, keeping their journey unknown to Leonidas. As the Spartans rested, Barbarians suddenly attacked, but were repelled by the Spartans, who also managed to free several prisoners held captive by the Barbarians. The Spartan and Electra then saved an entire village from the grasp of the Barbarians, defeating their leader, Beowulf, while Castor and Pollux were elsewhere.
Ruins of TroyEdit
The Spartan journeyed into the depths of Troy alone, where he encountered Sejanus, a necromancer and Praetorian Prefect, who summoned an army of undead legionaries. After fighting through Senanus' army, skeletons and Romans he found the Tomb of Achilles. Upon finding the corpse of Achilles, along with his spear, Sejanus created the Spartan's Nemesis, a clone of the Spartan which took the spear beforehand. The Spartan and his Nemesis battled, and the Spartan emerged victorious, claiming the spear from his defeated foe. His companions returned, and they all escaped Troy, but not before discovering that while they were journeying to Troy, the Romans crushed the city of Sparta and took control of it. After escaping the ruins, the Spartan had to battle the Hydra, who was awakened by Sejanus in an attempt to kill him. The Spartan killed the beast, and moved to Athens along with his companions.
The Spartan journeyed to Athens to watch Archimedes give out a speech to his fellow Athenians. However, due to Roman presence in the area, the Spartan protected Archimedes from various assassins placed around the location. Afterwards, Archimedes spoke to The Spartan and told him about these lights which would rid the Roman presence. After protecting Archimedes some more, The Spartan reunited with his allies and began to set a plan to turn these lights on.
Afterwards, The Spartan, Castor, Pollux and Electra stopped a group of Romans from executing a group of prisioners that had grabbed on the way. Afterwards, they tried to get to the temple where more would be discussed, but Praetorian Leigonaires blocked the way. The Spartan used a few women to distract the guards, and they discussed more at the temple. Afterwards, after activating the city beams, they had to reach one more, which was guarded by Sejanus and groups of Romans. They ambushed a group of Romans and grabbed the gate key, and charged to the last beam. Sejanus destroyed the gate, making it impossible for anyone to escape. Athenians who opposed the Romans and Spartans charged from the rubble, and after a long fight, Sejanus retreated and the last beam was activated.


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sermon commentAlfred Kerr of Faith Assembly Of God
September 27, 2014
Sermon: Stand on Guard for TheeGreat Sermon Brother!
sermon commentJames Lotilla
March 6, 2014
Sermon: The Blind Chapterthis story inspires me a lot, but i want to say here that the day of sabbath is not sunday but saturday. the seventh day is the sabbath day,exodus 20:8, sunday is the first day of the week and never in the history of the world became seventh day (sabbath). in the bible days are called with there corresponding number in our calendar, sunday is the first day, followed by monday the second day,etc. until friday called in the bible the preparation day and saturday followed called the sabbath day and return to sunday the first day of the week. when Jesus died, he died in the preparation day, and resurrected on first day of the week, and it is sunday.
sermon commentMark Aarssen of New St. Andrews Presbyterian Church
March 15, 2014
Sermon: The Blind ChapterYou are correct James to clairify the distinction between the Sabath day and Sunday as it is used by modern Christianity. Thanks for pointing that out.
sermon commentMark Aarssen of New St. Andrews Presbyterian Church
May 23, 2013
Sermon: Negotiating with GodThanks for your comments but I maintain it is a negotiation as clearly Abraham makes repeated appeals but lowers the body count with each attempt. There is No one righteous not even one Romans 3:10 Thanks for your insights.
sermon commentDonald J Schutz
May 2, 2013
Sermon: Negotiating with GodThis sermon incorporates a traditional misunderstanding of this verse. This passage has been misunderstood for years, and will be misunderstood for years. A steadfast eternal God does not need a human to calm him down to do the right thing. This is not a negotiation. Abraham jumps to the wrong conclusion that God intends to destroy the innocent with the wicked. Abraham asks if he will destroy 50 and works his way down to 10. At ten, it dawns on Abraham that God will not destroy even one righteous person, and will allow the wicked to exist in order to allow the righteous to exist. This discussion shows that God will not destroy even one innocent person, and it takes Abraham many questions to come to that realization. It dawns on him when he asks about 10, and then stops asking. This is not a negotiation, it is an epiphany that comes to Abraham when Abraham realizes that a steadfast, just, and eternal God will allow wicked people to live in order to preserve the righteous.
sermon commentMark Aarssen of New St. Andrews Presbyterian Church
July 19, 2012
Sermon: The Spider and the WebThis message could be used to address the current issues with the popular novel "50 Shades of Grey" I would add these verses. Philippians 4:8 NIV Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things. Colossians 3:5-6 NIV 5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.
sermon commentCharles Wilkerson
December 11, 2008
Sermon: Brown Paper Bags for ChristmasI''d like to quote the section on your father''s making the bags in my sermon, if you don''t mind. I wish I''d thought of that when my kids were younger. Perhaps I''ll do it with grandchildren. Peace and have a great Holy Day. Alan
sermon commentMark Aarssen of New St. Andrews Presbyterian Church
April 8, 2014
Sermon: Brown Paper Bags for ChristmasThanks Charles feel free to use what you need. Thanks for encouraging me.


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Well, folks, my patience has run out. I log in, tell it to keep me logged it and then when I go back later, it shows me logged in, then drops me and I have to start over. And this is just one of many issues. I post and no one is here. I feel like I'm talking to myself. Everyone has given up. I promised Suzi I'd stick around until Christmas which I've done. Now, because of her fall, broken leg and no WiFi, I doubt if she'll be back any time soon. Kim hasn't been able to post either. She said she would try this week but it doesn't look like she made it either.
So, I give up and I'm leaving. I MAY check in later to see if anything has changed but it won't be every day, several times a day, as I've always done.


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Document Type Master's Dissertation Author Monageng, Selina Nonkambule URN etd-11052007-121604 Document Title Tetraplegia : the psychosocial problems encountered by black patients once discharged from the hospital Degree MA (SW) Health Care Department Social Work and Criminology Supervisor
Advisor Name Title Dr J Sekudu Keywords
- ondersteun
- spinal cord injury
- black
- caregiver
- family
- versorger
- gesin
- lesion
- intervention intervensie
- letsel
- multidisciplinary team
- paraplegia
- support
- spine
- rehabilitation
- social worker
- tetraplegia
Date 2007-01-21 Availability unrestricted AbstractThe purpose of this study was to explore the psychosocial problems encountered by Black patients with tetralpegia once discharged from the hospital. Phenomenology as a research strategy was used with the aim of understanding the worldview of patients.
The medical aspects of spinal cord injury were discussed, firstly with emphasis placed on the incidence of spinal cord injury, causes of spinal cord injury, different levels of tetraplegia and the management of patients with tetraplegia.
The psychosocial problems encountered by black patients with tetralpegia once discharged from the hospital were discussed. The emphasis was placed on the patients' emotional reaction to the injury, adjustment towards the injury and the guidelines for social work intervention with regard to the patient with tetraplegia.
Ten respondents participated in the study after they were selected by using availability sampling and the study revealed the following.
Tetraplegia results in a variety of psychosocial problems for both the patient and his/her family, which are:
Negative marital relationships and desertion by the healthier spouse. Disturbed family relationships. Negative self-esteem and lack of self-confidence due to physical limitations. Poor quality of life, stigmatization by the community and inaccessibility in as far as public transport is concerned.
Tetraplegia triggers psychological, social and financial problems. It is therefore concluded that social work intervention in the initial phase of the injury will ensure that the patients' psychosocial problems are explored and attended to, to prepare the patients for the difficult life thereafter.
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I play video games at daytime and watch animes at night. Don't judge me! Formerly: Sheikah_Stone, Miss_Pixelheart
Nine metroids menacing
Because metroids don't like dancing and neither do I...
This or new clothes :/
Yeah, I made my decision...
Characters that need to be nerfed the most:
1. Little Mac
2. Link
3. Bowser
4. Olimar
But seriously, if you have trouble beating a certain character, Be a man and adjust yourself!
Same here, Monster Hunter is definitely a game for the big screen
This was to be expected... My local retailer also does this a lot, I expect them to release it tomorrow. I got Paper Mario: Sticker Star a week in advanced.
Well, If that's how it works, then nobody will eat pizza ever again except for me... Anyway, the second and third are pretty funny ^^
Here is some advice from me: Take your time, this might sound weird. But you shouldn't attack someone just because they're right next to you. Focus! If your playing against one take your distance. If you're up against many go for the one with the highest percentage.
Wow, I don't even care about Cha-Cha and Kayamba anymore. Isabelle for the win!
Jigglypuff! Thank goodness you're in the game! I'm sad Magnus and Professor Layton are not in the roster but whatever
Ok, so Watson will be an 8 year old little girl. But what does Sherlock Holmes do in an Ace Attorney game in the first place? Can't they just make their own detective like always?
I'm hyped! for something...
I played most of these already, and the others don't interest me at all. Good thing I live in europe
Yesterday I spend 7,- trying to get a Yoshie plush from a claw machine. If I knew this sooner, I would've just bought another 5 Nintendo games. (Seriously, How do people save so many stars? -_-)
Well, no treasure chests for me then. I don't ever want to deal with Mimicuties ever again! ...Ghirahim is charming as always
Anyone got any idea of how this person got his hands on this footage? And what do you think Sakurai will have to say about this?
As a lance user, this is terrible news! Dodging lasers while holding a shield is nearly impossible.
@ThomasBW84 Yeah sure
Thomas always seem to know things we don't. Animal Crossing: New lead XD. But with this many news I can't blame him.
Too bad they don't sell these in sticker form.. I think this is the best 3DS XL design to date
He looks awesome! but I already have so many mains!
@ Late
Uh..? How did I overlook that? I even double-checked >.> Anyway that's great news
It would be cool if you could use playcoins. I have to many of those!
It should've looked like this!!
I love the Zelda franchise. But this just looks like a really bad Zelda entry to me. The environments are empty and boring. Enemies stand around doing nothing. They took some Zelda ost and pretty much ruined it. The only thing I like is Midna ( Probably because that's the only character they did not change ) This does not look like my kinda game.
If it receives a really good review (9/10?) Maybe I'll reconsider
''In Tomodachi's life, Everything is possible''
''After even another boring day on NLife Island, Aonuma and Watts decided to break the laws of gravity.''
''Come on inside'' /Closes door
Ok then.
Even here (Samus) Boba Fett has a more honorable dead...The last part will be great
Why didn't they choose the Magnus club instead of the Ore club. Magnus sword is a much bigger icon for Kid icarus Uprising... Maybe they're still planning to make Magnus a Playable character?
I don't get why everybody always likes the 3DS screentshots so much, They look pretty ugly compared to the Wii U pictures if you ask me... I do like the Kotake and Koume one. But I would still prefer them in HD.
King of red Lions was hilarious Good read!
I hated this game the first time I played it... And not only because I was really really bad :/
I really like the new music. Much better than Monster hunter Tri's in my opinion.
That's it. I'm going to kill my router now >:
Hmph. Why must this happen now? Sigh didnt have hot drinks with me anyway
Aww man I've been disconnected I'll join Nluserhr if possible
I see all rooms are full already... I'll make one free for all, Password: 1188 My hunters name is Sir Anton, Hope to see soms of you soon!
I hope I can make it!
Haha, my second favourite weapon is the hammer! Mainly just because of the crazy attack. But it can't shoot and for that reason I like gunlance more
Gunlance for life <3 Seriously most awesome concept for a weapon ever
Can't wait! Looking forward to let people see some real skills, Just kidding. But no voice chat for me though, It feels kinda awkward in my opinion...
I just recently got to HR34 So helping others won't be a problem
You can probably buy some really cool figurines there... Sigh
I'm going to wait at least a half year longer in case there is a Wii U announcement. I'm pretty excited
So ugly... This looks like some cheap game not worth playing, But it's definitely not! You should play the original if you haven't yet
Ace Attorney, Monster Hunter, Pokemon X Y, A Link between Worlds, Super Mario 3D world, Professor Layton 6... What am I supposed to choose? T_T
Looks Smashing!
Definitly getting this!
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Hi, girls,
I have my mock transfer and biopsy next week and I know the mock transfer is not supposed to be painful but what about the biopsy? I've heard mixed reviews. What was your experience with it?
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Dx: DOR, Endo, APA+ (really high beta 2 glycoprotein antibody and high everything else tested), heterozygous MTHFR mutation, positive for lupus anticoagulant, high FSH, low AMH and both tubes blocked (per HSG on 3/8/11)
IVF #1 - long lupron (with HGH, intralipids, lovenox and BA); 4 retrieved, 3 fertilized; ET 2 blasts and 1 frozen = BFN
IVF #2 - a version of antagonist with EPP (with HGH, intralipids, lovenox and BA); 6 retrieved, 4 mature, 3 fertilized, 2 blasts and 1 frozen blast transferred on day 5 = BFN.
IVF #3 April was postponed to May, May was canceled. June/July was canceled. Had a cyst aspiration and then began IVF #3 in August. ER on 8/22; ET on 8/24 with AH. +HPT on 9/5. Beta #1 (11dpo) = 3; Beta #2 (15dpo) = 29; Beta #3 (17dpo) = 60; Beta #4 (19 dpo) = 118. Heartbeat at 6 weeks 6 days =132. Lil is here!
TTC#2: Trigger + TI = BFN; Clomid + +Trigger + IUI = BFN.
IVF #4: BCP + MDLF + Lovenox = 7R, 1F = Transferred 1 6-cell embryo on day 3 = BFN
IVF #5: MDLF + Lovenox = 4R, 1F = Transferred 1 10-cell compacting embryo on day 3 = BFN
IVF #6: (New RE): Long Antagonist November 2014
I've had the mock transfer but not the biopsy. The mock transfer felt like an IUI, no trouble at all.
Good luck, hon!
I won't lie, the biopsy was not fun. But it's very short-lived pain. Take the ibuprofen beforehand and then take it easy after. I will say though, the experience is very different, so maybe you'll be lucky and it will be a breeze.
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I've gotten into the habit, before cooking fish or shellfish, of having a quick chat with my buddy Paul Joubert, fishmonger par excellence at Southern Cross in Tokai.
Paul has fresh farmed mussels for sale everyday.
I adore mussels, always have. But I'm very picky about the way I like them cooked.
My preference is to eat wild mussels. In South Africa, as I understand it, an individual is allowed to pick 25 wild mussels. Outside of that you have to buy farmed.
The centre for mussel farming in South Africa is Saldanha Bay on the West coast.
The majority of mussels harvested in South Africa are exported.
Saldanha excellent for mussel production because of its fertile waters from the Benguela current with its high concentration of plankton.
The mussel seeds are grown on ropes which are suspended vertically in the water. It takes between
Four and six months for the mussels to grow.
The main variety of mussels cultivated here is the European Blue Mussel.
This variety originated from the Mediterranean and only started to proliferate in Saldanha Bay in the last two decades.
Ok, I think that's enough detail, here goes with the recipe.
Serves 4
2kg mussels
2 onions finely chopped
2 cloves of garlic, smashed
1 cup of white wine
2 sprigs of thyme
1 cup of double cream
1 knob of butter
Splash of olive oil
Freshly ground pepper to taste
Chives chopped for serving, Paul fishmonger likes to add coriander, and I like that idea.
Heat oil and butter together
Fry onions until soft.
Add thyme, wine and cream.
Bring to boil and let bubble for 3 minutes.
Add garlic.
Prepare mussels for cooking by rinsing in water. Pulling any beards from mussels
Discard any mussels which are open.
Add mussels and stir. Within 3 minutes they should be cooked. But cook until they open, discard any that are still closed.
Sprinkle with chives and serve.
Or indeed any herb you fancy.
Serve with crushy French style baguette available from Cassis.
Drink a Sauvignon Blanc from Cape Point Vineyards. My favourite.


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Also, there should be a measure of whether Islamist and more westernized "facebook generation" groups are in alignment or not. If their interests are opposed, as in Lebanon or Palestine, they wind up fighting each other; only where they have a common cause is critical mass going to congeal as in Egypt.


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Operator: Hello?
President Nixon: Yeah.
Operator: [White House Chief of Staff] Mr. [H.R. "Bob"] Haldeman∇. There you are.
Bob Haldeman: Hello?
President Nixon: Henry [Kissinger∇] just told me that [Clark] MacGregor∇ was disappointed in the speech because I didn't announce more withdrawals.1 Now, if he's going to be that kind of a guy, we got to shuck him off goddamn fast. If he can't see this. Is that what he told you?
H.R. Haldeman: No. What he told me was [that] he was very enthusiastic on presentation and that he had hoped that we could, that we would withdraw, you know, a larger amount. But he's said that all along.
President Nixon: Yeah. But he really doesn't—has shown he doesn't have much guts.
Haldeman: [Unclear.]
President Nixon: You haven't heard from [Donald] Rumsfeld∇.2 You haven't heard from [Robert] Finch∇.3 And this is all you heard from MacGregor, so we've now found out who's who, haven't we? Right?
Haldeman: I don't know where Rumsfeld and Finch are tonight.
President Nixon: That's all right. They'd call if they felt—
Haldeman: I have heard from [John] Ehrlichman∇, who was very enthusiastic. And it was interesting, because he especially liked the close and he generally is one that's opposed to doing that kind of thing.
President Nixon: I know. Ehrlichman will be all right because he's with us, but I just—but Ehrlich[man]—but it seems to me, Bob, that MacGregor, Finch, Haldeman [?], and they've been under great pressures, I know, but goddamn it, if they don't stand up now, you know, I ain't going to talk to them. Screw them. I am not going to do it. They aren't going to come sucking around after they read the polls. You understand?
Haldeman: Yeah.
President Nixon: Or don't you agree?
Haldeman: Yeah, I do. I do. But let's, let me see what the story is on them, you know. They—
President Nixon: Yeah. All right. MacGregor, actually, should have stood up on this sort of thing. He should stand up and talk it up, rather than screw around. Jesus Christ, "we wish you'd announced a few more." Well, goddamn it, he should say "this is the right thing; I'm for it." That's what MacGregor's job is.
Haldeman: Well, that's what he is saying externally. He's trying to—he's playing it honest inside, though, and saying what he thinks.
President Nixon: I know. And what he thinks is that we haven't done enough.
Haldeman: And he understands why, though. He had hoped not, not because he wants an out but because he thinks it would do us more good, which, you know, with his—
President Nixon: Yeah, I understand. Yeah.
Haldeman: —area it would.
President Nixon: Rumsfeld you haven't heard from, right?
Haldeman: I haven't, no.
President Nixon: Well, nobody has. So he's playing his own little game. He may have—
President Nixon: I'm sorry.
Haldeman: He may have called in. Chuck [Colson∇] called—
President Nixon: No, I've checked it around. No, Rose hasn't heard from him and neither has Kissinger, so he hasn't called. It's all right. Did you get a hold of [John] Connally∇ yet?
Haldeman: No, he was at the F Street Club or somewhere and had left, so he's going to call me as soon as he gets to his house.
President Nixon: Fine. Let me know what he thinks.
Haldeman: Right.
President Nixon: Fine.
1 Clark MacGregor was White House congressional liaison. (↑)
2 Donald H. Rumsfeld was counselor to the president. (↑)
3 Robert H. Finch was counselor to the president. (↑)
Original tape courtesy of the Nixon Library. This transcript is a working draft. Please let us know if you find important errors.


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|Teams of two to six children and one adult are invited to participate in Kidventure, a scavenger hunt to be held on the City Green during the 2012 Fireball Run road rally in Waterbury on Sept. 27. Contributed
WATERBURY -- The Fireball Run Adventurally is first and foremost about kids. Since its inception in 2007, the scavenger hunt road rally has helped find 38 missing children nationwide.
So inviting children to participate in the event offers some appropriate symmetry.
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