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Made of marine plywood, the kit-of-parts entry pavilion was fabricated in Los Angeles and assembled on-site.
Courtesy Belzberg Architects
Seating, a fire pit, pool, and spa extend the main living space outdoors.
Sliding glass panels open the pavilions to the gardens.
The living rooms CNC-cut glulam ceiling evokes a grass skirt.
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The living room's CNC-cut glulam ceiling evokes a grass skirt.
A detail shot of the living room ceiling.
The living room continues out to the lanai, where a dark lava-rock pool reflects light and Hawaiian sunsets.
The infinity-edge pool is an extension of the living room.
Walls dematerialize in the master bedroom.
An outdoor hallway connects the pavilions, culminating in a zero-edge reflecting pool.
Recycled teak timbers join the garage/guest pod, living pod, and media pod across an outdoor hallway, which slopes gradually into the reflecting pool.
The powder room wall features a pixilated photo of the clients favorite orchid, rendered in ceramic tile.
The powder room wall features a pixilated photo of the client's favorite orchid, rendered in ceramic tile.
Each pavilion has a private place to wash up outdoors.
An alfresco tub beckons outside the master bath.
Digitally milled glulam beams suggest the structure and movement of palm trees.
The pods are clad in recycled teak planks and local basalt, or lava rock, which adds thermal mass and helps anchor the structures during tropical storms.
The basket pavilion welcomes visitors entering from the motor court and harks back to the island's basket-weaving traditions.
The basket pavilion welcomes visitors entering from the motor court and harks back to the island's basket-weaving traditions.
Architect: Belzberg Architects, Santa Monica, Calif.; Builder: Tinguely Development, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii; Landscape architect: Belt Collins, Honolulu; Photographer: Benny Chan
A custom home is abstract at heart, a repository for the values and ideas that make the owners who they are, and a reflection of the local culture, flora, and history. But on Hawaii's Big Island, such references often become clichés. Think kitschy Colonial-esque architecture, Hawaiian shirts, and the leis given to tourists getting off the plane. This house and garden, designed by Santa Monica, Calif.–based Belzberg Architects, doesn't so much assimilate the island's history as allude to it. As principal Hagy Belzberg puts it: "There were a series of architectural-language icons we worked toward, and away from."
The landscape is the center of attention here, and the owners had envisioned living the indoor-outdoor life in a series of pavilions. But when zoning codes put the kibosh on separate structures, Belzberg and his team mapped out a scheme that beautifully displays the ocean view, cooled lava pools, a volcanic mountain range, and mango and papaya groves. Upon entry from the motor court, an outdoor hallway connects four pods—the garage and guest rooms, a kids' pavilion, a theater, and the living areas and master suite—before slipping into a zero-edge reflecting pool that points into the distance. The pavilions' giant sliders erase the lines between inside and out and allow for passive cooling.
The outdoor hallway and pools are off-axis on the 1-acre lot, oriented toward a volcano in one direction and the ocean in the other. That shift inspired the sawtooth plan and string of side gardens. Each pavilion has an outdoor bathtub or shower, a covered seating area, and fruit trees. "It's the idea of sitting in your own garden, picking a mango, and creating a private fantasy world between the pavilions," Belzberg says.
Materials are spare, consisting of local and recycled resources. The house is clad in teak planks (repurposed railroad ties) and stacked basalt lava rock, which also covers the patios, reflecting pool, and swimming pool. The dark pools, too, create otherworldly images, reflecting a sky swirled and askew. "Hawaii has beautiful sunsets and clouds, and the pool is a giant mirror," Belzberg says. "In the evening when you throw open the living room doors it expands the sky two-fold. The black pool reflects the images into the room, like a horizontal periscope."
The design of a new house asks the question: How does the architecture acknowledge its context? For Belzberg, the entry sculpture is a figurative take on an ancient Hawaii tradition in which the host presents arriving guests with a gift, usually in a basket. The elliptical, upside-down basket is made of about 1,200 woven strips of marine plywood. The kit of parts was digitally scripted in-house, CNC-fabricated in Los Angeles, and shipped to the site.
"Their cabinet maker erected it with a screwdriver in a day and a half, but a framer could have done it," Belzberg says. He describes the ribbed piece as "a place to pause and reflect before walking into the house. It says 'welcome' and celebrates the threshold." A fitting gesture for a house that frames the world around it.
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Historic bridge, grassy flats and old chimneys stacks. These, along with small stand of exotic trees which mark the sites of settlers homes are revealed to visitors of these valley settlements.
The popular Mangapurua and Kaiwhakauka tracks provide an interesting three day tramp through the area.
Visit this valley where a rehabilitation farming settlement was established for returned serviceman.
Both the Mangapurua and Kaiwhakuka valleys were rehabilitation settlements where land was offered to returned soldiers following World War 1. The endeavours of these pioneers have provided a unique historic quality to this area. The pioneer settlers cleared the land of its forest and transformed it into farmland. At the peak of settlement there were 30 farms in the Mangapurua and 16 in the Kaiwhakauka.
Problems such as poor access, bad erosion and falling prices for stock during the Depression years forced most of the settlers to abandon their farms. The few remaining farmers were forced to leave in 1942 when the government, short of money, refused to maintain the flood damaged road.
Today this isolated valley is regenerating in native forest, but there are still signs of the original settlement for visitors to the area to see.
Bridge to Nowhere, Mangapurua Valley
This large concrete bridge is an icon within the Whanganui National Park and a major visitor destination.
The bridge was constructed in the mid-1930s to provide road access to the lower and middle valley farms known as the Mangapurua Valley Soldiers Settlement.
By the time it was completed these areas of the Mangapurua Valley were deserted, the bridge rarely used and the construction of the road to the Whanganui River abandoned.
The "Bridge to Nowhere" is the largest and most intact structure relating to the former Mangapurua Valley Soldiers Settlement and has an Historic Places Trust Category I listing. The bridge remains as a trampers' bridge at the southern access point to the Mangapurua Valley.
There are two ways to access the bridge site, either by a gentle 40 minute walk from the Mangapurua Landing on the Whanganui River, or by a two day tramp from Whakahoro Hut to the north via the Kaiwhakauka and Mangapurua Valleys.
History of the Bridge to Nowhere.
The Mangapurua/Kaiwhakauka valleys are located in the Whanganui National Park.
The best way is to take a jet boat from Whakahoro down the historic Whanganui River to the Mangapurua Landing and begin the walk up the Mangapurua Valley from here. At the end of the valley follow the Kaiwhakauka Valley back to Whakahoro.
Today these valley are regenerating in native forest, but there are still signs of the original settlement for visitors to see, including the Bridge to Nowhere.
High numbers of goats, low to medium numbers of fallow deer, red deer and pigs are present. Special restrictions apply and a permit is required.
This section is part of the unique heritage Mountains to the Sea cycle trail. A highlight of the trail is to cycle across the Bridge to Nowhere.
The 2-3 day Mangapurua/Kaiwhakauka Track travels through the historic Mangapurua and Kaiwhakauka valleys and crosses over the historic Bridge to Nowhere. Alternatively, the track can be cycled in 1 day.
The 3 km Bridge to Nowhere Walk takes about one and a half hours return. It follows the Mangapurua Stream to the bridge from the Mangapurua Landing on the Whanganui River.
This is a 10-bunk bunkroom associated with Whakahoro Campsite located on the Whanganui Journey in the Whanganui area.
Whakahoro Hut at the northern end of the Kaiwhakauku Valley is the only hut in the locality.
Although no there are no other huts in these valleys, there is an abundance of ideal campsites on open grassy flats and small side streams provide ample water.
Where practical and to minimise impacts we recommend camping at sites where DOC has provided toilets.
This area only has one hut so you need to be equipped for camping and weather changes.
If you are accessing or exiting walks from the southern end, you will need to make arrangements with one of the jet boat operators for transport.
Before you go into the outdoors, tell someone your plans and leave a date to raise the alarm if you haven't returned. To do this, use the New Zealand Outdoors Intentions process on the AdventureSmart website. It is endorsed by New Zealand's search and rescue agencies and provides three simple options to tell someone you trust the details about your trip.
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Find businesses that are DOC-approved to provide activities and services in Mangapurua Kaiwhakauka valleys.
Follow the Outdoor Safety Code:1. Plan your trip2. Tell someone3. Be aware of the weather4. Know your limits5. Take sufficient supplies
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This edition of Open Friday letter is something that I recognize myself as a problem but I fall victim to it myself. We always talk about black images in film, media, and music. But, what about theater support? This week a reader wants to know about theater and the black community.
Dear D,
I have a question or want to know why Black people and people as a whole don't support the theater?
And the Academy Award goes to… At this moment in time, I find myself on the edge of my seat waiting to hear, if not both at least one of the names; Viola Davis or Octavia Spencer following that heart palpitating phrase. I also find myself scratching my head a bit. You see, I've watched the interviews with Spencer and Davis and I've seen the scrutiny over the characters they played in "The Help". It seems that the general consensus is disdain that Black women are still playing maids in the 21st Century. I, however, wonder the validity of these judgmental remarks for you see, before Davis ever set foot on a film set, she was first an actor of the stage. She was portraying those rich roles , some written by the late, great August Wilson that contained depth and the flaws of the human spirit. As a student of the theatre, I find myself attending the productions of many different theatre companies, yet there is a huge deficit in the support from the Black , 40 and under crowd.
The audience for the Black Theatre is on life support and we are missing the voice of the younger generation. Why are we so quick to judge the images that we see portrayed on TV or film by Black actors yet we fail to support the more complicated, sometimes heroic and real characters that are presented on the stages of Black theatres, Black theatres built and established in spite of innumerable obstacles. If you already are a consistent supporter of the theatre, then I applaud you and yet encourage you to bring more people to the theatre . There is no greater joy as a performing artist than to see the reflection of you in the audience or hear the age old custom of " Call and Response" in a "MMM..Hmm Girl", or "You betta sing, boy! "However if you are not a constant patron of live theatre, then I ask " Why not"? What will make a date to the theatre just as appealing as a comedy show ,movie night, or buying out the bar with your friends? In the meantime, go see a play, preferably one in which the characters represent you!
I encourage you to start with supporting the theatre in your area. If you're in the St. Louis area or visiting , you can start at the St. Louis Black Repertory company, a company in it's 35th season currently presenting talented Black artists in many of Shakespeare's major roles. If you're not in the area, check http://www.jacneed.com/African_American_Theatre.html to locate more theatres in your area.'
So I ask again why don't we support black theater?
Frustrated Theater Supporter
Your question is a complex cultural dynamic but I will do my best to try and give you my opinion. I fully understand and have spoken about the need to provide more diverse images in film. I have (gasp) have defended Tyler Perry in saying it is not all his fault when it comes to film. And black culture as a whole being responsible for the images shown but, one thing I honestly neglected was the black theater. I mean one of favorite plays is August Wilson's Fences and I can't even remember the last time I saw it performed.
With all of that being said I will be the first one to admit that I have NOT support black theater as much as I should. I will say at the same token that I really haven't support much theater period and that's where I feel the issue lies. Society as a whole has turned away from the idea of theater. We have 300 TV stations and over 100 movies being released weekly. Then there is the issue of the arts not being pushed in public schools anymore. They are cutting art budgets daily to the extent that some students don't know anything art as a whole let alone theater/drama. We are living in a society now that celebrates the lowest common denominator with easy access. Some people just want to have their entertainment to be mindless (see Basketball Wives, Housewives of Atlanta, etc. Let's keep it real the sad thing is that theater is hurting period unless it is Broadway.
We have to remind ourselves that we have a consorted effort of keeping many Black traditions rich and live. Many traditions and parts of history haven't been passed along for whatever reason across American society so why would it be any different in the Black community? But, to answer your question simply…many look at theater as ancient because they have so many other things to occupy their time. But, I do challenge myself and my readers to step outside their comfort zone and check out a play at their local theater.
*Playa Tip* Think about how much you can set yourself apart from other men in a woman's mind by taking her to theater? And if she isn't open to checking out a play. Is she a woman you would want to even deal with?
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Feeling a desire to reconnect to the Bible, award-winning author Bruce Feiler set out on a perilous, 10,000-mile journey retracing the Five Books of Moses through the desert. Traveling over three continents, through five countries, and four war zones, Feiler is the first person to complete such a historic expedition. He crosses the Red Sea, climbs Mt. Sinai, and interviews Bedouin and pilgrims alike, as he attempts to answer the question: Is the Bible just an abstraction, or is it a living, breathing entity?
Both a pulse-pounding adventure and an uplifting spiritual quest, Bruce Feiler's Walking the Bible is a stunning and elevating work of courage, scholarship, and heart that revisits the inscrutable desert landscape where the world's great religions were born and uncovers fresh answers to the most profound questions of the human spirit.
©2001 Bruce Feiler; (P) and ©2001 HarperCollinsPublishers, Inc.
"Feiler's prose carries the narrative through. This book belongs on the shelves next to classics such as Wendy Orange's Coming Home to Jerusalem." (Publishers Weekly)
"This is a genuinely inspiring and thought-provoking travelogue and a candid disclosure of the author/narrator's own spiritual growth." (AudioFile)
"An instant classic...A pure joy to read." (Washington Post Book World)
"Evocative, descriptive, emotionally honest, and often funny." (Christian Science Monitor)
"[Feiler] is an excellent guide...He has...invested [this book] with a keen intellectual curiosity." (The New York Times)
"Good Book, Terrible Reader"
This is why authors shouldn't read their own books. Bruce write a great book, but the way he reads it is very annoying. He emphasises at the wrong times and his tones are just plain annoying at times. Overall though, the book was very interesting.
"Neither Here nor There"
I had the impression this would be an archeological exploration and examination of the Bible's stories. It is that, in part; but it also about the author's travels, his variou thoughts on life, long winded passages read aloud..... I simply thought the theme was washed out by his many distractions.
"Pastor's Perspective"
This book was outstanding. As a pastor and one who preaches from the OT, this book brought the OT alive, and gave me a great deal of insight into the narratives of OT stories. Thanks.
"Thoughly Enjoyed"
However personal in his feeling on the "biblical text", I have always believed there is not one person who I cannot learn something from. As a testimony to a personal journey of the spirit, I have enjoyed and found profit in the things this author has to write about. It is simply well done.
"A Fantastic Book!"
This book is absolutely great! I enjoyed the author's sense of wonderment as he walked through the history of the Bible and stood in the places we've all read about. There is also a sense of sadness to this book because of current events, but that doesn't deter from the book's underlying sense of spirituality. The only downside is Feiler's narration. A more professional reader would havve been better.
"Walking the Bible"
The book is an exceptional venture. Seldom is such a vivid picture of the Biblical setting portrayed in the written word.
"Interesting but not too insightful"
I chose this book expecting a Christian perspective, but instead received a more worldy book. It comes from the perspective of a person trying to understand God. There are some interesting points raised, but not extremely insightful. It is a good read for anyone interested in the early books of the Old Testament, though, especially for people interested in the geographic history.
"The Bible as Literature?"
This could have been a really good travelog -- the author/narrator does a good job of describing local color as he visits various Biblical locations. Unfortunately, my enjoyment of the book was spoiled by the author's cavalier treatment of the Biblical text. Time and again he dismisses the Bible as "stories" or "allegories" -- even the foundational histories of his own "faith" This book would have had a broader appeal if the author had at least pretended to remain neutral by simply reading the biblical text and highlighting both modern and historical culture and geography without being so heavy-handed with his personal philosophies.
"A Man Walk with his spiritual self"
We are taking a trip to the holy land and the first 5 books of the Bible are of great interest to me.
The author himself.
This is not a relevant question to the book
A great walk through the desert.
I enjoy reading the Bible and this added to my enjoyment.
"Walk away from this one"
The authors nasal tone chafes as does his insistance on referring to time as BCE vs BC and refering to the 5 books as "the Bible"
I did not find the content gripping, concluding that this is but a marketing exersize and not worth my time.
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My experience with the MODEL Scholars program was phenomenal. I became acclimated to the campus of ECSU before the school year even began, which was awesome. In the program, I took two GE college courses (College Algebra & English). I received two B's from those two classes. Not only was the MODEL Scholars Program helpful academically, but socially as well. I was able to meet many new people that I am still friends with until this day. The MODEL Scholars Program was a great experience. I would advise any incoming freshman to participate in this program, to help them start their college experience the right way.
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As a student in the program, I enjoyed the program and bonding experience. It helped me to handled playing college football and mastering my work my freshman year and throughout. As a mentor, I really enjoyed watching each new student find and retain something positive through my leadership. The mentor/mentee bond is one that will always be an uplifting one. Working for Ms. Turner, Mr. Eure and Dr Dutch has truly been a pleasure. Thank you for dedication to student success.
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Charming Valentine's Day Card
This frog won't turn into a prince, but this Charming Valentine's Day Card from I Love to Create will surely bring you lots of love and good wishes! Silly Valentine's Day cards like this are great for friends, family, and school parties.
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- Punch holes along bottom edge of large green circle. Thread embroidery floss through holes several times to make sure it stays together, tying at ends.
- Spray bottom edge on front of green part of eyes with Tacky Spray and place on top back of body. Refer to photo for placement.
- Spray back of black circles with Tacky Spray and press in middle of green eyes. Refer to photo. Spray back of frog with Tacky Spray and place onto front of card.
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On a day like today, it seems little has changed for Pastor Smith since his arrest in early 2008. That night, he returned to the church after posting bond to find parishioners waiting, the women holding home-cooked meals. The next Sunday, dozens of fellow pastors joined the packed Friendship Missionary sanctuary to show their support for Smith, all cheering when his lawyer Guy Lewis pumped a fist and declared him "100 percent innocent!"
At a church service today, it's hard to mention his name to Friendship Missionary members without hearing why their support will never waver — and what the pastor has done to earn such devotion.
Talk to skinny, gold-toothed D'Andre Dawkins, 23-year-old assistant minister at the church, and you'll hear how Smith took a chance on a troubled teenager with a violent rap sheet. Dawkins, a Liberty City native, says he barely knew his criminal father, and his mother was a prostitute. He attended Friendship Missionary as a kid, dragged to services by an aunt. As a teenager, he was "selling drugs, robbing people, stuff like that," he says casually. He was homeless, living in his PT Cruiser, carrying a gun, and itching to use it. But when he got locked up for an attempted carjacking in 2007, the only person he could think to call was Pastor Smith. The reverend quickly posted a $1,000 bond and put Dawkins up for a few months in a church-owned apartment behind Friendship Missionary. Today, Dawkins has his own apartment and a new wife — Smith performed the marriage — and works at Publix as he trains to be a pastor. "He's the greatest man I've ever met," Dawkins says. "Sometimes I wish he was my real father."
Smith shrugs off the bond, saying the church has funds for such emergencies. "I have a saying that everybody in the church knows," he says in reference to his young assistant minister. "You have to catch the fish before you can clean it."
Chauncett Riley also tells a story about the reverend showing up during one of her most difficult moments. In May 2006, she and her husband Horace gave birth to Kiera, a girl born severely premature at 25 weeks. After two months of the baby struggling to breathe, doctors told the Rileys she had no chance to survive. Chauncett called Smith, and he showed up within minutes to counsel Horace, who couldn't bring himself to sign papers taking Kiera off life support. "He was there when my child took her last breath," she says, sitting in a church pew on a Wednesday night, fending off sobs. "Do you have any idea what that means to somebody?"
Asked about the theft accusation, Chauncett doesn't hesitate. "I'm not concerned about that. Whatever he's going through has nothing to do with his work here."
But isn't stealing a violation of a commandment? "So is 'Thou shalt not lie,'" she replies indignantly. "So is 'Thou shalt not covet.' He's human."
Smith doesn't talk about his legal troubles in church. "They don't come to hear about my problems," he says. As a result, he's become something of a silent martyr — and race has been brought into the equation. "Anybody who tries to do something to help the community and to make a difference suffers this persecution," says Rev. George McRae, a Liberty City institution as pastor of the Mt. Tabor Missionary Baptist Church. "In my own mind, if he had been of another race, we wouldn't be going through this."
But Smith doesn't play that card. He doesn't lose his cool with bombastic declarations of persecution. He remains calm even when it's suggested that — if the accusations are true — he insulted Dr. King's legacy. "I would never do anything to bring harm to that name," he remarks, sitting in his SUV in the parking lot of his church. "I consider him to be my mentor, and his older sister is like family. Does it hurt to have his name associated with this? I guess it does, but after the vindication, the pain will be relieved. We've not done anything wrong. The good I do for my church and my community, my life story, it all speaks for itself."
"We all make mistakes; we all exercise poor judgment," says Rev. Joaquin Willis of Church of the Open Door. "In the end, God's will shall be done. This whole thing has tied him up in too many ways to be as effective as I hoped he could be, and that's a shame."


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if there is one existing in school, below your void deck, at the shopping mall.. will you queue?
lets take a look at the bubble tea industry.
sweet talk
each a cup
there are still many smaller shops, but we are just going to look into one of the popular ones: koi. some people say koi is overrated, but face it, there are still many who are willing to queue for a cup or two.
so why koi is so popular in singapore?
koi is easy to pronounce. you learn marketing right? its so easy to go like, hey lets buy koi! lets koi. lets drink koi. koi leh. koi lah. koi koi koi. theres no way you can pronounce it wrongly because theres only one pronunciation for it. KOI.
you get to choose your sugar level:
its like drinking one flavour that tastes different everytime you change your sugar level. i always hear people saying, next time im going to try 70%! after having tried the 70%, they go "im gonna try 50%!" this way, koi already has their customers coming back 5 times just for the same flavour.
if they have 50 (for example) flavours,
50 flavours x 5 sugar level = 250 times
siao so many times!! time to get diabetes liao! hahahaha
having a queue number? honestly? we can do without that. but why do people like the idea of having one? because its DIFFERENT from the rest. its like SO COOL for the first timers.
during my virgin trip to koi i swear i felt it was damn cool to have a queue number, NOW I HATE IT WHEN I HAVE TO WAIT TO ORDER, AND THEN WAIT AGAIN TO GET MY BUBBLE TEA -.-
heres something i learned in econs. inferior goods are things you choose when you have lesser income, on the contrary, normal goods are those you can have if youre richer.
inferior: public transport
normal: personal car
now in the bubble tea industry
inferior: sweet talk
normal: koi
a cup of milk tea in sweet talk costs $1.50
a cup of the same size milk tea in koi costs $2.50, and $3.50 for a bigger cup
it kinda makes you more "high class" drinking koi than drinking sweet talk. the reason we go for sweet talk is probably because of convenience(?). if koi and sweet talk open their shops side by side, both with no customers at that time, i think i will choose koi despite it being more expensive.
why ah? nicer mah. actually also cuz its more high class la.
its like eating steak at a coffeeshop or a restaurant. you get the drift?
(and koi damn crazy one lor some are so expensive till like $10?? can really eat steak liao leh!)
now i have to admit i like their concept of having a bigger cup, it makes you think that youre paying for something more at a cheaper rate. but lets analyse that again
medium cup: 500ml
big cup: 750ml
sweet talk: $1.50 for 500ml
koi: $2.50 for 500ml // $3.50 for 750ml
at $3, you could have gotten 2 cups from sweet talk, and that ll be like, 1000ml?
the thing i like so much about koi is the taste (yumm some really damn nice teehee) and we get to choose our sugar level!
WHAT IF we get to retain all the customization ideas, yet cut away the waiting time. will you still buy?
heres the idea.
when you crave for a cup of bubble tea, you wish for a bubble tea delivery. but what if, the delivery hotline closes, the ice melt by the time it reaches you, and many many more.
what if you have a bubble tea VENDING MACHINE below your house. this way you can get a cup ANYTIME you want. that saves the shop rental, labour, the wages and stuff like that. if its not space consuming, we can place it in SCHOOLS, SHOPPING MALLS, HDB ESTATES, EVERYWHERE!
my idea is WE WILL HAVE A VENDING MACHINE that looks something like the general ticketing machine (but not exactly)
^ heres a picture of the GTM (the one at mrt station you use to top up your ezlink)
the vending machine will be touch screen like that,
first you choose your flavour:
your sugar level
amount of pearl
then order shows, you can choose to add more order, or confirm.
then it will direct you to the page where you get to choose your mode of payment. (ps. i dono the difference between the 2 nets, so i just put the 2 LOL)
lets say you chose cash/coins
you are given 10 seconds to insert the money. if within that 10 seconds nothing is inserted into the machine, your order will be considered void. if you put in money within that 10 seconds, it will be restarted to 10 again, aiya dono how to say, i think you get what i mean.
i know some kids and adults (lol) very itchy hands one. maybe never see the machine before, press here press there, in the end dont want to buy so never pay. what will happen? dont worry, this machine starts to make the bubble tea only after paying.
while you wait at the side for your bubble tea to be completed, the next person can actually start to use the machine too!
so the overall will look like this.
LOL I KNOW ITS DAMN UGLY HAHAHAHA I LAZY TO MAKE IT NICE. so its like you stand at the side to wait for your bubble tea to come out! you wont block the next person whos using the machine, and it will not take long for it to complete because MACHINE IS ALWAYS FASTER THAN HUMAN.
so the summary is
- 1 machine that caters to 2 person at the same time
- 4 cups can come out at the same time
- you see the board with words? thats the flavour and prices of the bbt. so the people queuing at the back can decide what they want to get
dont tell me you dont think its feasible. dont take it as its my idea. i know some people think im always full of crap hahaha but hey, lets take it as its already existing and its right below your house / in school / at the mall.
will YOU buy?
any engineering students interested to help me design this machine? contact me! HAHA


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"Everything went really well, we did tyre evaluation and race preparation and it all went according to the programme," Panis said cheerfully. "The car was pretty competitive in the conditions, and I just hope that we don't have a repeat of yesterday's weather problems."
Schumacher was equally happy and described his Williams as being "almost perfect, apart from a slight degree of nervousness." With team mate Juan Pablo Montoya third on 1m 31.366s, the team is feeling very cheerful. "We are very confident for qualifying and the race," chief operations engineer Sam Michael said.
Montoya began the day unhappy with his FW25's degree of understeer, which grained the front tyres, and a bottoming problem, but set-up changes mainly centred on the rear suspension prompted him later to describe the car as "almost perfect," just as his partner had.
McLaren took fourth and fifth place, with David Coulthard ahead of Kimi Raikkonen. The Scot lapped in 1m 31.608s, the Finn 1m 32.021s. "We did a lot of valuable preparation work and I'm quite happy with that," Coulthard said, before freely admitting that he dies not enjoy single-lap qualifying. "One lap defines whether you are quick or not," he said, "and I don't like that."
Raikkonen said he preferred the way his car was set-up yesterday, and that he would revert to that for qualifying.
Rubens Barrichello was sixth for Ferrari, and Michael Schumacher 10th, neither of them completely happy. The Brazilian lapped in 1m 32.039s, the German 1m 32.652s. "We are well set for the race," the world champion said, "and as for qualifying, the amount of fuel will be decisive."
Cristiano da Matta was relatively happy with seventh place, albeit troubled by more understeer than Panis who had a similar set-up, and the Renaults were eighth and ninth with Jarno Trulli again fractionally ahead of Fernando Alonso. Both said that though they had cut down yesterday's understeer the balance of their cars was still not perfect, which prevented them from getting the best out of their Michelin tyres.
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With rain expected this afternoon, there is a good chance that the slower runners in qualifying will benefit from a dry track while the quicker drivers may find themselves hamstrung by the expected deluge.
NOTE: Saturday morning's two 45-minute practice sessions at the Nurburgring were timed separately. The above report uses cumulative times (see timesheet below) from the two sessions in order to determine a definitive order.
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Old analog televisions had controls called horizontal and vertical. One kept the picture from falling over sideways, while the other kept the picture from sliding off the top or the bottom of the screen.
I think we need similar controls in our heads when we look at the product categories we call markets.
In the world of free software and open source, we mostly care about the horizontal: creating code, standards and other means for expanding markets sideways, toward the horizons. We work to keep both developers and users free from capture in the vertical markets we call silos, so they can do more stuff in more ways. We don't often ask "Where would we be without silos?" because we know. We would be free to build and use anything we want, out in the market's wide-open spaces.
Still, innovation happens in silos too. Many of the technical graces we take for granted would not have happened outside the walls of silos built by Apple, Canon, IBM, Intel, Sony and other large companies with ample and hardened intellectual property portfolios. Linux itself was developed originally (and still primarily) for Intel's x86 CPUs. Much of what we take for granted in chips from Intel and other makers is thick with intellectual property protections we would hate to see applied to our own software work. Every large maker of original electronic products (including all the companies listed above) produces between dozens and thousands of new patents every year, adding to portfolios that muscle licensing income and deals of many other kinds. Occasionally, companies do battle in court, but most of the time the dealing is quiet. If revealed, it is only through pro forma small-print disclosures in documentation.
What matters is that these portfolios give large makers the confidence and security they feel is required to produce original and appealing goods for which there is little or no competition. This is an ideal to which Apple, for example, constantly aspires. Back in 1997, not long after Steve Jobs returned to lead Apple after a long interregnum, he killed off cloners of the company's computers. Here's what I wrote about it at the time in an e-mail to Dave Winer (which Dave later published):
To Steve, clones are the drag of the ordinary on the innovative. All that crap about cloners not sharing the cost of R&D is just rationalization. Steve puts enormous value on the engines of innovation. Killing off the cloners just eliminates a drag on his own R&D, as well as a way to reposition Apple as something closer to what he would have made the company if he had been in charge through the intervening years....
Now Steve is back, and gradually renovating his old company. He'll do it his way, and it will once again express his Art.
These things I can guarantee about whatever Apple makes from this point forward:
It will be original.
It will be innovative.
It will be exclusive.
It will be expensive.
Its aesthetics will be impeccable.
The influence of developers, even influential developers like you, will be minimal. The influence of customers and users will be held in even higher contempt.
The iPod, iPhone and iPad each not only fulfilled all six of those requirements, but also redefined their market categories in the vertical dimension. That is, they grew the range of things that could be done with a given device, and the size of its marketplace. The iPhone in particular redefined the smartphone market and enlarged it far beyond the narrow range of possibilities allowed by combinations of mobile phone makers and mobile phone companies. New kinds of applications by the thousands burst out of the ground like a geyser. But all are contained inside Apple's silo, where they move only through the company's sphinctered approval and sales processes.
In fact, far more can be done on Linux (notably Android) and Symbian OSes than on iPhone's, just given the open nature of the former and the closed nature of the latter. But, thanks to Apple, there is much more to imagine doing outside that company's closed and private silo.
This is the point at which some suggest that open-source goods are derivative, rather than original. But that's not the case. We still happen to live in a time when investment in closed, and original stuff is greater than investment in the open and original kind. As long as that's still the case, we'll have the Apples of the world aiming for the heights while the rest of us build out the widths and the depths that characterize wide-open marketplaces.
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COLUMBIA, SC — At this point, if you're paying attention at all to politics in Virginia, you've heard at least some of the stunning revelations about undisclosed gifts that a wealthy, well-connected businessman has lavished on Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican, and members of his family.
Jonnie Williams, the CEO of a nutritional supplement company called Star Scientific, has bestowed gifts amounting to nearly $150,000—including a Rolex watch, a Bergdorf Goodman shopping spree, a five-figure corporate payment, even wedding catering—on McDonnell and his family, as CNN's Peter Hamby wrote in a solid state-of-play piece this week. State and federal investigators are now looking into the relationship. It's a scandal, a Loudoun Times-Mirror reporter wrote on July 16, that "is not fading anytime soon."
The standout investigative work on this story has come from The Washington Post, which first exposed the cozy relationship between the governor and his benefactor in March and has been dropping bombshells ever since. (The paper's reporting is collected in an attractive archive here.) And almost from the time the first story appeared, reporters and commentators at the Post and elsewhere have put the scandal in the context of the commonwealth's "notoriously" or "embarrassingly" relaxed ethics laws.
The headline on an April article by the Post's Laura Vozzella, who along with colleague Rosalind S. Helderman has most of the key bylines on the McDonnell story, declared: "Virginia has one of nation's most lax ethics laws for politicians." Officeholders are allowed to accept "personal gifts of unlimited value," Vozzella reported—McDonnell's predecessor, Democrat Tim Kaine, received an $18,000 Caribbean vacation from a supporter. And they don't have to disclose gifts to immediate family members, like the catering bill Williams picked up for McDonnell's daughter's wedding.
In another strong April piece, editorial writer Shawn Day of The Virginian-Pilot observed that Virginia earned an "F" on last year's State Integrity Investigation, an analysis of the risk for corruption published by the Center for Public Integrity, Global Integrity, and Public Radio International. (Disclosure: I was the project's reporter-researcher for South Carolina.) Day also noted an irony in the report that underscores just how weak ethics oversight is in the commonwealth:
Virginia's score last year on the corruption risk report card was established through a grading rubric involving multiple categories. One of those concerned executive-branch accountability. Although it, too, drew a failing grade, the category held one of the commonwealth's few bright spots: "In practice, the regulations governing gifts and hospitality offered to members of the executive branch are effective." Virginia's score: 100 percent.
The reporter's notes offered this detail: "The only regulation governing gifts is that of disclosure, and there is no evidence to indicate that the executive branch is failing to disclose gifts. However, no one audits the disclosure forms or enforces the regulation."
That detail is critical to understanding the weakness of Virginia's system. As McDonnell's ties to Star Scientific have shown, the system provides only part of the picture. There is nothing in law that prohibits an elected official's spouse, or any other immediate relative, from reaping a windfall, whether through cash or goods or services, from a political donor. And there is nothing that requires a governor, or an attorney general or a lawmaker, to report such an arrangement.
For his part, McDonnell's defense is that he's just playing by the rules that are in place. Larry Sabato, who leads the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, succinctly pointed out why that's not very satisfying. "For a moment, forget partisan politics," he tweeted July 13. "Under VA's very lax gift laws, our pols can be wholly owned subsidiaries of one or few rich."
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So as the gift scandal has unfolded, the coverage has given readers a solid sense of how toothless Virginia's ethics laws are, and how McDonnell has exploited them. But as an outside observer reading the coverage, I hadn't been able to get a clear understanding of what exactly it is about the commonwealth that has allowed for such weak oversight and regulation. (Virginia is one of only a handful of states without a statewide ethics commission and one of even fewer in which campaign contributions are not capped, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.)
Recently, I caught up with Day of The Virginian-Pilot to talk about his April piece and the broader set of issues. The current state of affairs, he told me, largely has to do with attitude. In Richmond, Day says, the mindset is that the legislature is a genteel chamber where lawmakers conduct themselves above board, and therefore there is little reason to spend much time hashing out new ethics rules. And while reform proposals might sometimes get discussed, he says—as they were after a different scandal a few years ago—they're rarely followed through with legislation.


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