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Cape Town Cycle Tour cuts route to 47km
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#J&BMet 2015: Pictures
J&B Met 2015 lovers were #MadeInTheMix in their finest - offering a spectacular display of Glitz and Glam and everything in between.
Snippets of the day, by Nicole Biondi and Sherise Dreyer.
Hot in Cape Town: 20 Photos of the new Watershed at the V&A Waterfront
The new Watershed at the V&A Waterfront is officially the coolest place to buy Christmas presents this year.
With over 150 trendy stands selling more than 365 different brands, you will definitely be your family and friends' favourite person by buying them something super unique and truly Capetonian.
5 Epic Images that will make you want to stay at the Southern Sun Waterfront
By now you all know I've got a thing for amazing mini-breakaways in #lovecapetown… if it's got a cool pool, delicious buffet, soft beds and breath-taking views, I'll stay there. That's exactly what the newly renovated Southern Sun Waterfront hotel on the Foreshore offers and it's amazing!
Your #lovecapetown weekend:What's on from Friday 31 October to Sunday 2 November, 2014
Are you ready for an incredible weekend in our beloved Mother City?
5 Super Cool Summer Productions to see in Cape Town
Summer is on its way to Cape Town and how better to celebrate the sunny season than by taking in a super cool theatrical production at one of the Mother City's amazing theatres?
Your #lovecapetown weekend: What's on from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 October,2014
Hello, #lovecapetown! Your awesome weekend is on its way!
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Woohoo, it's the weekend, baby!
6 Ways to Rock Your Year- End Party in Cape Town
Sure, the December break is two months away and you cringe every time someone sends out one of those annoying "Countdown to Christmas" emails but admit it, you're excited that your year-end party is just weeks away, right?
Your #lovecapetown weekend: What's on from Friday 10 to Sunday 12 October, 2014
Let's hear it for the weekend, #lovecapetown!
Michael Bublè to Return to the Mother City at New-Look Cape Town Stadium in 2015
Start spreading the news, Michael Bublè fanatics – the legendary, sweet-voiced crooner is returning to the Mother City at an all new-looking Cape Town Stadium on Thursday 19 March, 2015!
5 Spring School Holiday Events in Cape Town
School's nearly out, #lovecapetown, and our fun-loving third semester break is just waiting to be enjoyed with a refreshing line-up of amazing events and activities.
4 Stunning Images of Places to Stay in Sea Point
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Your #lovecapetown weekend: What's on from Friday 26 to Sunday 28 September, 2014
Gear up, folks, because 72 hours of unbelievable fun and activities await in the gorgeous Mother City – from delectable seafood festivals to thrilling arts celebrations and side-splittingly funny comedy shows, we've got it all and so much more!
3 Reasons the 2014 Loerie Awards Rocked in Cape Town
They came, they partied, they won gold… South Africa's most talented artistic souls ended Creative Week on a spectacular note at the 2014 Loerie Awards on Sunday 21 September,2014.
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Facebook Feedback Fridays: Top Sunrise Viewing Spots in #lovecapetown
Guess what, Mother City lovers? It's Facebook Feedback Fridays once again!
With Spring bringing the most spectacular sunrises to #lovecapetown, we wanted to know where the best spots to watch the sun rise in the Mother City were and boy, were you guys forthcoming with your answers:
One Night in the Winelands: 5 Reasons why my stay at the Wild Clover Farm in Stellenbosch rocked
I'm a city slicker kind of girl every day of the week and Cape Town's bustling City Centre with its never- ending nightlife and shopping hot spots certainly keeps me entertained but occasionally, I like to escape to the beautiful Cape Winelands for a tasty, relaxing respite…I found that and so much more on a weekend getaway at the gorgeous Wild Clover Farm in Stellenbosch recently.
Run free in the wild with SANParks Week in #lovecapetown
It's one of our favourite Spring events here in #lovecapetown: South African National Parks (SANParks), where entry to our city and province's most gorgeous parks are FREE!
What's New in Cape Town: The Top 5 Places You Must Eat at this Spring
Cape Town, the gorgeous Mother City, has never been a shrinking violet when it comes to being the trendy gourmet capital of Africa and as such, there is never a shortage of hot, new restaurants to feast at.
My Township Tour Experience in #lovecapetown
If you ask a young black man to go on a Township tour, the answer you'll get is usually a NO. 'I got out of the hood, why do you want to send me back"? That's the sentiment shared by most young black men such as myself. We aspire for a different reality and one with lavish surroundings at that, you know "the good life". I'm grossly exaggerating here but you get my persuasion, right?
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It's the freakin' weekend, baby!
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Spring is officially upon us and what better way to spend it than outside, and near the water in #lovecapetown?
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That's public education for ya.
That's public education for ya.
Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys."
The "Biblical God" kills kids for being kids. This is so stupid it's beyond words. Does one even need to go any further after reading this?
event_horizon wrote:Apparently Christians think it's perfectly okay for their "God" to unleash bears on helpless children.
Bottom line is that anyone who reads the Bible thoroughly does not really want to be involved with it, because there are just way too many appalling/ridiculous things in it. Things like this, for example:
event_horizon wrote:Apparently Christians think it's perfectly okay for their "God" to unleash bears on helpless children.
event_horizon wrote:The "Biblical God" kills kids for being kids.
humphreys wrote:Jesus Christ as if there is even much of a difference between death and a mauling from a bear. You are one sick individual orangetom. If you have kids and they are disrespectful, I shudder to think what you may deem suitable punishment.
qmark wrote:event_horizon wrote:Apparently Christians think it's perfectly okay for their "God" to unleash bears on helpless children.event_horizon wrote:The "Biblical God" kills kids for being kids.
You assume much. First you assume these so called kids were killed. It doesn't say if they were killed or not. Then you assume they were helpless. Why? Nowhere are we told they are helpless. Then, again, you assume they are children. Maybe, but when you do a word search, maybe not. Maybe they were children in comparison to Elisha. My sons are in their late thirties, almost middle aged, yet they are children to me. They're my kids.
The Hebrew word used for children in the KJV is na`ar. This word is used 238 times, young man 76 times, servant 54 times, child 44 times, lad 33 times, young 15 times, children 7 times, youth 6, babe 1, boys 1, young 1. They could have easily been young men or servants which would also make sense because the word used for little is qatan, meaning young, small (which can also mean small in societal stature), insignificant, and or unimportant (which would clearly fit the bill according to the society standards at the time).
The biggest mistake people make when reading the Bible is reading it through the lens of the twentieth or twenty-first century eyes. One needs to take into account the history, the background, the society and the surrounding societies. What was the message that God was imparting to the Israelites at that time and what can we take from that spiritually today.
What can we learn from those young men being torn up besides sometimes you get the bear and sometimes the bear gets you? Elisha had just taken up the mantle from Elijah, he was untested and most likely unaccepted, and God let the Israelites know, along with anyone else, that there are no hindrances to His will.
Too excessive you say? We don't know that to be true because the whole incident is summed up in two verses. The truth is, we don't know the whole story since we are only given the highlights.


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A few years ago, Owen Brown came up empty-handed in his search for an easier way to handle small bales. So he decided to design and build his own labor-saving machine.
The result is a bale accumulator making 21-bale packages that are easy to handle and transport.
"I wasn't interested in being in the hay business unless I could find a mechanical way to handle small bales," says Brown, Pittsfield, IL.
The "Hay Machine" made its public debut at last month's Mid-America Alfalfa Expo in Hastings, NE, where it placed first in the invention contest.
Brown field-tested it on straw, alfalfa and grass hay last year.
Pulled behind the baler, the machine stacks bales three high and seven deep. Two 1/2"-wide metal bands, with rounded edges that won't cut through twine, keep bales in a solid package.
Here's how Brown's machine works: Upon leaving the baler, the first bale is laid flat on the accumulator's elevator. As it approaches the top of the elevator, it's rotated on edge. Next, an apparatus that Brown calls the kicker pushes the bale into position for a vertical plunger. After two more bales have joined it, the plunger moves downward, stacking the three bales on edge.
Next, a horizontal plunger moves the three stacked bales into the main chamber where the strapping is applied. Then six more three-bale sets are moved into the chamber.
When the last set is in place, the 21-bale package is compressed and the strapping is sealed and cut.
As the next package is started, the first one is pushed out of the main chamber and onto a 'floating' floor. That floor is lowered and the package slides off onto the ground, where it can easily be loaded onto a wagon, trailer or truck with a front-end loader.
The bands are pressed 3" deep into the hay so users don't have to worry about bale forks breaking them when they're transported, says Brown.
"It's a durable bundle. The straps stay right where they're placed."
The patent-pending, hydraulically powered machine is designed to handle a bale every six seconds. A computer and sensitive photo eye are programmed to tell the machine which bale number it's handling.
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Brown plans to begin building and selling accumulators this summer. For more information, contact: Brown Genetic Farm, RR 2, Box 136, Pittsfield, IL 62363. Phone: 217-285-6487.


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Lovely Molly (2012)
Movie Info
When newlywed Molly Reynolds returns to her long-abandoned family home, reminders of a nightmarish childhood begin seeping into her new life. A malevolent force, whether her own haunted past or some supernatural 'thing,' tirelessly seeks to overwhelm her. Alone and isolated in a centuries-old manor, she soon begins an inexorable descent into depravity. Somewhere in the house, in the terrible space between psychosis and possession, lies an evil that will pull Molly and all those around her into … More
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- Genre:
- Mystery & Suspense , Horror
- Directed By:
- Eduardo S�nchez
- Written By:
- Eduardo S�nchez , Jamie Nash
- In Theaters:
- May 18, 2012 Limited
- On DVD:
- Aug 28, 2012
- Box Office:
- $18.0k
- Runtime:
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I don't think I've ever been so bummed out by a horror flick as I was by writer-director Eduardo S�nchez's Lovely Molly. And I've seen every single Friday the 13th.
If the people in it behaved in a logical way, then there wouldn't be a movie.
Silly Molly.
Gretchen Lodge constantly rises above the film and the material. She alone provides good reasons why younger film-goers who are inexperienced in this type of horror might well find it gripping, shocking and enjoyably nasty.
Sanchez has not had an easy time since Blair Witch - and this hand-held rerun is unlikely to make it any better.
The film presents us with too many unearned revelations, and it unravels.
Depressing and lazily nonsensical...
as perhaps befits a film about moving house, this mixed-media mindmelt requires a lot of unpacking.
This succeeds thanks to Lodge's extraordinary central performance, a terrifyingly mesmerising study of a woman in diabolic torment
[Its] cynical hedging of its psychological/supernatural bets seems mostly designed to breed sequels.
Lovely Molly leaves plenty to talk about, but it gives so little firm information that one wonders if there are really any coherent answers to be found.
The script lacks focus, the to-camera element doesn't add anything new and the film ultimately fails to provide any scares, beyond the odd soundtrack-assisted jump.
Impressive, if messy, the film combines kitchen-sink drama with found-footage horror, perjuring itself with too many plot possibilities.
Blair Witch veteran Eduardo Sanchez moves away from found footage to create an effectively creepy haunted houser with a strong central turn by Lodge.
Some of the shock effects in Lovely Molly are successfully disorienting, but too many of its ideas are reductive and histrionic, such as those concerning the male victimization of women, vengeance and mental illness.
Sanchez ratchets up the tension incrementally - things heard and not quite seen - creating a mood of unease that graduates in stages into full-blown horror.
I can't say Molly is lovely enough to recommend.
An effective little shocker anchored by newcomer Gretchen Lodge's remarkable performance as Molly.
Sanchez ... is not making his debut here, and after more than a decade he should be willing to do something besides jerking the camera around and making noises offscreen.
The movie's young lead, Gretchen Lodge, making her big-screen debut, demonstrates a natural star presence.
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*** out of ****
The secret to enjoying at least 75% of the smaller, independent horror films released today lies in the ability to suspend disbelief and forgive a lack of true solution. I feel that's what makes a lot of films - both horror and not - fascinating in the sense that they don't provide us with all the answers and essentially force us to think for ourselves (gasp). Is it such a crime that a filmmaker aside from David Lynch (who's famous for doing this) to ask us to play detective for a few hours? I don't think so. If you've been following Eduardo Sanchez since the beginning, you'll know that he's no newbie to ambiguous horror that is open to a number of different interpretations. "Lovely Molly" keeps the tradition going with plenty of pizazz and intrigue. I'll admit that it's more of a while-it-lasts type experience than a film that delivers substantial payoff, but it hits you and it hits you hard.
The titular Molly (Gretchen Lodge) is a newlywed who is just settling down in her parent's house, the same house where she grew up as a kid, with her husband Tim (Johnny Lewis). Molly is a recovering drug addict with a sister named Hannah (Alexandra Holden) who also lives nearby. The film begins with the triggering of a downstairs security alarm in the middle of the night that could not have possibly been triggered, since Tim is so sure he locked it before the couple went to bed. By day, he's not around and neither is Molly since she has found work at a local superstore (with Hannah). Sometimes he must go off on business for a few days, leaving Molly all alone. Business unfortunately lands on Molly's birthday, and beyond.
Molly begins having strange experiences around the house. Child-like voices are heard coming from the closet, unseen forces are communicating directly with her, and she's starting to pick up her old habits (drug abuse) yet again. When not high on the drugs, Molly is almost psycho-sexual and obsessive. Her behavior bothers Tim, provoking him to call in the local priest (Field Blauvelt), and we all know how reliable he will be. It seems that Molly might be possessed by something. Footage taken from her handheld video camera indicates that the house might have a dark past hidden somewhere in the cellar, although nothing is said for sure. This is another one of those downwards spiral horror films; although by now you should be aware of what I sucker I am for those.
Sanchez doesn't bring anything particularly "new" to the multiple genres he's tackling; we've seen this all before and indeed it's been done both better and worse. But once again, I succumb to the fact that he's able to successfully do so many things at once. It proves that he possesses (no pun intended) a natural talent for merging drama with horror. While it's not as much an emotional knock-out as it is an exhausting genre exercise; "Lovely Molly" still packs more of a sucker punch to the gut than most horror films I've seen of recent. Some scenes, like one involving Molly discovering drugs and the tools that one would use to utilize them hidden inside a teddy bear from her childhood in the attic, are absolutely ominous. I might like it even more than I did Sanchez's "Altered", which I gave the same rating. They exist on somewhat different grounds but share similar traits nonetheless.
But "Lovely Molly" harkens back to the film that made Sanchez a filmmaker to watch; "The Blair Witch Project". That's a film that I love no matter what the naysayers might say, and while I feel it will always be his baby, "Lovely Molly" utilizes similar slow-rising tension with effective bursts of absolutely animalistic terror. To tell the truth, I thought this movie was disturbing. Not just in what it shows, but what it implies and expects us to create within our minds. I dug the elaborate visual style, the spooky sound design, the themes (I like the aspect of the men who surround Molly in life), and the overall mood of the picture. I believe it will go on to be one of this year's most prized genre possessions, since there don't seem to be THAT many other worthy contenders. This is thoughtful, entertaining genre filmmaking. It's not the best for its kind, and again I will say that it's going to upset those who want straight endings and answers; although I'd rather something choose to be ambiguous and engaging rather than conventional. "Lovely Molly" says no to the easy way out; which is precisely why it lingers for so long afterwards and is more experience than narrative.
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I didn't had any expectations for this one thanks to the amount of bad press this has been having but I've always followed Eduardo Sanchez movies with interest. Blair Witch was super great (I haven't seen it since it hit the theatres dunno if it aged well) and Altered was a fun little alien invasion gory comedy.
Lovely Molly has something of Blair Witch going on with the uncertainty of what's going to happen next and why. Surely, we know right from the start that the main character is a troubled one but the director skillfully blends many genres to make the viewer unconfortable thanks to that uneasiness it creates right from the start. Is it a haunting? A psychological thriller? A possession? An indie character study? It doesn't matter for it pays in visceral effect without being explicit.
The themes it approaches on the "men" surrounding Moly's life is smart and shares something similiar like last year's also fantastic Martha Marcy May Marlene.
It's nothing you haven't seen before on the genres I mentioned early on but the approach is spot on.
Add a great, convincing and tough performance by the lead, smart cinematography that like the genres it approaches, uses different techniques to make it work, a haunting dronish soundtrack by Tortoise, smart sound design and this is a little success that unfortunently went unnoticed.
Don't expect easy answers of a "resolution", just experience it and it might affect you like it did to me.
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NBC NATIONAL NEWS — Police say a Kentucky father trying to load three young children and a cart full of groceries into his vehicle forgot one thing - his 6-month-old baby.
It happened around 4 p.m. at a Kroger grocery store in Nicholasville.
Officers said the child was alone for about three minutes, but is fine thanks to a couple of Good Samaritans.
They spotted the baby still in the shopping cart, still outside and brought the baby inside the store to wait for police.
"This was an unfortunate accident, but the citizens of this community did a great thing by picking up the child and immediately calling 911," Kevin Grimes, a Nicholasville Police Department officer said.
Officers said Steven Wilcox drove three blocks, figured out what he forget and called police.
He flagged down a squad car on his way back to Kroger.
"He was totally distraught about it. He realized he had made a huge mistake, as well as we realized in this situation that people do make mistakes. It was an accident and fortunately it turned out very good this time and in this situation," Grimes said.
"As a parent, you have to be aware and you always have to be with them," Janet Hodges, a mother of four and day care worker said.
Police said they will not file charges against the father.
The case has been turned over to Social Services.


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How much traffic does it take in your industry to reach 1000 a day?
What type of site do you have?
over 10k unique visitors and 200k hits per day.
This guy's got 10k unique per day and if hes earning $1k per month, he's doing something really wrong.
10000 visitors per day assume average click was 0.30$ you need 3333 clicks to earn 1K$
thats CTR of 33%....
i doubt it.
Sorry for being blunt and straight to the point but each site is different there is no way to tell and you are "assuming" too much.
> 10000 visitors per day > assume average click was 0.30$ > you need 3333 clicks to earn 1K$
> thats CTR of 33%....
> i doubt it.
Yes but you calculate it the wrong way! The CTR is not "unique visitors over clicks". It's "pageviews over clicks". Very different numbers. He doesn't say anything about his pageviews. I believe it could be true. Sounds realistic to me.
i can tell you my page ecpm is between $30-50.
I can only dream about numbers like that just now.
I've been using Adsense since the beginning of june and started with a couple of dollars a day tops. All this week has been over $10 a day and one day I made $25. I'm pleased to have grown the site and content to make this happen over the last few months, but I can see I still have sooo much work to do!
$1000/10k=$0.10 per visitor.
My apologies.
i also have 10000 uniques a day, but 1000$ a day and ecpm 30-50$, thats absolutely incredible. you beat me by a factor of nearly 10!
what an extremely well paying niche and visitors clicking your ads like crazy..
Thats awesome newbs - im in the same range of ecpm but im maxing at about 4000-4500 visitors - i broke $300 in a day for the first time (and only time unfortunately) last week.
Im working to get to 10,000 uniques a day - i think i will need about 12,000 uniques to hit $1000 - its a very competative space but were gaining market share daily :)
now i just need 10 more sites and i can go hang on the yacht all day :D - ill buy the first round!
Statistically speaking you are correct for small samples and wrong for large numbers. The bigger the sampling the closer your results would likely be to the general earnings per unique visitors per your niche would be.
I beg to differ
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The grownups fast from before dawn to after sunset, arise for Sehri at the dead of night, as do the children occasionally to record their first, second, or fifth roza. From mid-morning to late afternoon they usually go through a difficult time, but their faces light up at hearing the adhan at Maghrib. Even if they are not fasting, they emit the greatest delight and perhaps noise at the Iftar table. It is because the Eid that follows Ramadan has always been for the children.
The adults go for shopping from mid-morning to often late night, taking a break to allow the shopkeepers to break their fast, but they all shop for their children. Here are some who will have five sets of clothing or more, and there will be some who will at best get one, some none. But still it is their Eid.
After the Eid prayers, they are the first to hug you; their faces a reflection of the jannat that we seek.They may not know the text of the prayers by heart, but they can tell Allah swt their wants, they can convey their demands by their feelings,just by standing not even in line in the same qatar with their elders. It is indeed their Eid.
As children in most countries fight with sleep despite telling their parents a dozen times to wake them up for Sehri, as some of them wonder why fasting cannot be from 10am till 12 noon, as they gulp down that extra glass of fruit drink, there are children caught in the war in Syria, schoolgirls apprehended in Nigeria, babies slaughtered in Gaza, children perishing with MH370 and MH17, many more drowned in the Korea ferry disaster. At perhaps no time in history have so many children spread over such a wide area suffered from such a varying causes of conflict and mishaps.
The Syria conflict has its roots in long-term discontentment with the al-Assad dynastic regime, but the present crisis triggered off on 6 March 2011, when some children (yes children) who painted anti-regime graffiti were killed in detention, which led to public protests which again snowballed across the country.
Now we have had children killed in detention in other countries, but there was never any collective demonstration. Can we conclude then that the Syrians have a greater sense of obligation to their children than people elsewhere? Snowball? Come off it, those are hot countries; no snow there. Or here!
In northeast Nigeria, 276 girls were abducted from the town of Chibok, in Borno state, by Boko Haram, an Islamist militant group, whose name roughly means "Western education is a sin". A ray of good news has been that some 63 of the abducted women and girls managed to escape. But, some of the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram may never return home, and this is according to Nigeria's former president Olusegun Obasanjo because he says, (incumbent) President Goodluck Jonathan's administration had taken too long to respond to the April mass abduction. Boko Haramsince 2002 is seeking to establish an Islamic State in Nigeria.
See the image Islam is getting. Hopelessly derailed humans, if you can call them that, claiming to be Muslims, are hurting the interest of the religion they identify with by stealing children from supposedly one of their safest places, and to many their happiest. There should be some law or system of expelling notorious and harmful elements from any religion.
The 'brave' Israeli Army killed a five-month old baby with their tank assault on Gaza about a week back, and did not spare hospitals, schools, sea beachesand markets where dozens have been killed. Despite a placard that read, "I am a Jew. Stop Killing Babies in Gaza", the number of children killed, maimed for life, and critically injured had been on the rise since the beginning of boastful Netanyahu's genocide on the Palestinians in Gaza. Children have been born, had lived a short life, and had died without ever knowing what freedom from Israel meant. But, as the futile stone throwing continues, they seem to yearn for it.
This is Israel's second ground invasion of the Gaza Strip in six years in which till the filing of this report (31 July 2014), about 1400 Palestinianshave been killed in over three weeks of shelling. According to a United Nations estimate 70% (others say 80%) of the dead are civilians, and 21% of the casualties are children with over 250 youngsters losing their lives in what the Israelis call 'Operation Protective Edge'. In the 2008 'Operation Hot Winter' and the 2009 'Operation Cast Lead'Israel's war on Gaza, about three hundred children died during the military operations; total dead about 1400.In their attack on Gaza in March 2012, playfully called 'Operation Returning Echo' and about nine months later another offensive called 'Operation Pillar of Defense', about two hundred people had been killed, many of them children. Seems the only way the unarmed Palestinians will be saved is when the Israelis will run out of names.
The Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was carrying 283 passengers,including 80 children, and 15 crew members on 17 July when it was allegedly brought down and destroyed by an 'act of terrorism' on the Russia-Ukraine border by some group (pro-Russian or pro-Ukrainian, anti-Russian or anti-Ukrainian, Russian or Ukrainian, no one knows even a bit), which fired just 'one' surface-to-air missile.With such deadly accuracy, wars will become cheaper in the future. Flight MH370, another Malaysia jet which went mysteriously missing earlier on 8 March and which remains missing supposedly somewhere in the Indian Ocean, or the Atlantic or the Pacific, was also carrying children.
On 16 April 2014, the Japanese-built South Korean ferry MV Sewol sank while ferrying 476 people from Incheon towards Jezu. More than 300 people died or are still missing. A vast majority of the dead were secondary school students from the Danwon High School in Ansan City.Last week, at a trial, surviving students testified in a courtroom of adults that they were repeatedly ordered over the loudspeaker to stay in the sinking ship ("Danwon High school students, do not move!") but when their cabins were flooded and the ferry listed so much that the wall became the floor, they had to leave, in which effort they helped each other. Video footage of the disaster showed that adult crew members were abandoning the ship while the children were ordered to stay put.
So many young buds lost. The lives of so many parents windswept forever. The candle burning in the innocent child has been snuffed at dawn, and yet there was so much night left to cover.
As we don new clothes, as we embrace each other, as we hand out Eidees and receive, as we rejoice with family and friends over tables bursting with food and drinks at the end of the month of good practice, this Eid-ul-Fitrour prayers must have been for the children of the world.
P.S. In mid-July, The Arab League documents said that the Israeli attacks "have become a matter that cannot be met with silence any more".Orey Baaps! That is hard talk indeed. Clap clap! So, the Arab neighbours have been meeting the attacks with 'more' silence.Shhh! Do not disturb! The only sound outside of Gaza should be that of the hookka pulling the burning shisha.


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The new season of Muzik Muzik, it's 28th year is kicking off 2 February 2013.
The promo for the season has just rolled out with new hosts, a new look... and more importantly - upcoming in the third week will be Penghibur Jalanan from our talent Amir Jahari.
If that's not enough, Amir was invited to do a cameo! Enjoy!


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Archer, Scott K. Discipline: Photography
Scott has always enjoyed photography, but really didn't explore using his artistic background and the possibility of being creative with the camera until just recently. At over 50 years old, he has been teased with the artistic juices that once was so strong so many years ago as an Art student at the University of North Dakota and Valley City State University. He was raised and spent most of his life in North Dakota until employment took him away to various parts of the country for more than 10 years. Upon returning, he gained a new appreciation and eye for the unnoticed and hidden beauty of North Dakota. It may have taken unknown hours on the expressways of New Jersey and Chicago to fully appreciate the joy of returning to North Dakota. After a long absence, he was grateful he could see the beauty in all that he had missed before. It seemed every town, every road, had the potential for a great photograph that he simply took for granted before. He hopes you will see this appreciation and enthusiasm in his work.
Artist Statement:
I like to think of my photography as "Found Artistry." I frame and compose my shots of everyday objects and their surroundings, which by themselves seem blended and without significance. In using my eye for patterns, contrast and texture, I strive to turn these objects into a great photograph.
I enjoy the mystery of the abandoned homesteads. In refusing to say goodbyes, they stubbornly stand still. When I walk these hallowed grounds, I am reminded of the families that played and toiled these same grounds. I hope my photos bring some respect and life back into this ban on dreams.
In North Dakota, I find the best photo opportunities in a faded industry combined with the richness of the North Dakota landscape. I try to combine these two elements to bring an interesting element to my photos.
Scott K. Archer North Dakota Images by WheatStock Photography 107 1/2 Roberts Street, Studio 1 Fargo, North Dakota 58102 701-238-3677 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Web site: http://scottarcherphotography.wordpress.com


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Kim Steutermann RogersTuesday, March 16, 2010
A few weeks ago, I managed to fire off a few emails to Jim Darling in the height of the humpback whale research season. For the past 30-some years, Jim has spent his winters in Hawaii—off the shores of west Maui, in particular—studying humpback whales. Jim's primary field of research is humpback whale song. Through Jim's research, as I shared last week, we know that only the male whales sing and they do their primary singing in and around the breeding season. While Jim has studied gray whales off Vancouver and humpback whales throughout the North Pacific, he returns to Maui annually to focus on humpback singers and their song. Here, he answers a few questions I asked him.
How did you get started in this research? And was there a moment or an encounter with a whale when you knew this would become your life's work?
When I was in university I spent the summers on the west coast of Vancouver Island surfing, and we often saw whales just outside the surf breaks. One year I drove a charter boat, which took people to see sea lions, and we kept finding whales. One thing just sorta led to another. I was in a place where whales were seen daily, nothing was really known about them, some opportunities came up to look at them, and I guess I was curious. I don't know if there was a single encounter or moment--it probably had to do with spending a lot time close to the animals, realizing they could be individually identified (by photos of natural markings), and then realizing we could actually study them in the wild--something that was not really considered possible at that time.
Will you describe a typical research day?
First thing each morning is a check of the weather--specifically the wind, as it will determine if we go out and what we can do. A lot of what we do with singers requires calm. The boat(s) need to stay stationary (with engine turned off) near the animals without being blown off. Supposing we are working on singers (which is most common for me), the first step is to find one. This is done by moving--more or less randomly--and listening with a hydrophone at each stop. When we hear a relatively loud song we stay and wait for a single whale to surface nearby. Once we have confirmed who is singing we can begin to record or do whatever work is planned for the day.
Unique challenges: the wind. If it's blowing our job is do-able but much, much harder. I guess the next biggest challenge is number of whales present in Hawaii. Singers sing until they are joined by another male and often there are so many whales around that this happens within minutes and before I can get a full song recorded. (It would be easier if there were fewer whales.) Besides this, I guess it's just trying to have all the ingredients work at the same time--good weather, stationary singers, and all the electronics and other equipment including boat actually working.
What does a whale song sounds like?
I think novelist Chris Moore had most best description in his book Fluke. He said something like the song sounds like an ambulance in jello. The song is about a 15 minute sequence of sounds in a specific arrangement which includes everything from the lowest throbs to highest whistles and squeaks. Once a whale as worked its way through its sequence of sounds, it starts again, continuing until joined by another male or stopping itself to join other whales.
The song gradually changes in composition as its being sung, yet all the singers in a population sing the same version of the ever-changing song at any one time.
I have not analyzed the current song to compare in detail with last years, but I will say this year's song shows a full range of what the whales are capable of--that is, a wide range in sounds from one theme to another.
After 30 years, what keeps you coming back to Hawaii to research the humpbacks?
I have worked on whales in many parts of the world, and explored many others looking for the best study locations. We want calm, clear water, enough whales that you don't have to spend all your research time just trying to find one, good access, support facilities, and no wars. Hawaii really is one of best places in world to study whales.
Jim provides a wealth of additional research in his recently published book Hawaii's Humpbacks: Unveiling the Mysteries.


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London 2012: Swimming Draws the Royals In
As it usually is, the Olympic swimming competition has been the place for royal spotting.
Yesterday saw members of the Danish, Dutch, Luxembourgish, Norwegian and Greek royal families in the stands for the morning heats. Sitting together in the VIP section, it was a kin to a family reunion of sorts.
Queen Margrethe, Crown Prince Frederik, Crown Princess Mary and Princess Benedikte of Denmark were on hand to cheer Jeanette Ottesen Gray into the final of the women's 100m butterfly (she would finish sixth in the final that night). Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit were sitting behind the Danes, while King Constantine, Queen Anne-Marie and Prince Philippos of Greece were further down the row.
They were joined by a heavy turn-out from Luxembourg's Grand Ducal Family, everyone was there except for Prince Sebastien. Grand Duke Henri shook hands and spoke with the US Republican Presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, during the event.
During the heats, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh also stopped by the Aquatic Centre for a quick tour of the facilities, and a brief look at the men's 4x100m freestyle relay heats. The Queen was given a rapturous cheer when she was spotted on the walkway above the pool.
The Dutch royals – Prince Willem-Alexander, Princess Máxima and their three daughters Amalia, Alexia and Ariane – were present that night for the finals, where the Dutch team took home silver in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay. Princess Máxima and the girls took home the winner's bouquets, which the Dutch swimmers threw up to them.
Today, the Danish Crown Prince Couple were back for more heats – Mary wearing patriotic red-and-white striped wedges. Prince Albert and Princess Charlène of Monaco attended by the morning heats and the evening finals, where the Prince presented the medals for the women's 400m freestyle. Prince Henrik of Denmark also attended the finals, where Lotte Friis came in fourth in the 400m freestyle.
Filed under British Royals, Danish Royals, Dutch Royals, German Royals, Greek Royals, Luxembourg Royals, Monaco Royals, Norwegian RoyalsTagged Albert II of Monaco, Constantine II, Crown Prince Frederik, Crown Prince Haakon, Crown Princess Mary, Crown Princess Mette-Marit, Elizabeth II, Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, Grand Duke Henri, Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume, King Willem-Alexander, London 2012, Margrethe II, Olympic Games, Prince Félix of Luxembourg, Prince Henrik the Prince Consort, Prince Louis of Luxembourg, Prince Philippos, Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg, Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, Princess Ariane, Princess Benedikte, Princess Charlène, Princess Tessy, Queen Anne-Marie, Queen Máxima, Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Sport, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Princess of Orange.
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Standards inject certainty into your working life. Last week I wrote about how the development of standards goes and the easiest pathway to adoption of them. Adherence to standards is an integral part of successful engineering. The most attractive standards:
- lack complexity – are easy to understand – clear and straightforward for a person like you
- turn out to be robust for the niche in which you operate – not a multi-purpose "all-things-to-all people"
- possess clear and open documentation - you can see a path to easy adoption
- meets a basic need - you know why you want it, what efficiency is brought to your business processes.
In short – there's a lot of "what's in it for you" in the standards hits – less so in the misses, the ones which do not get widely adopted.
The Design System Interface standard (.dsi hereafter for short; refers to the file name extension used) is an example of a niche standard which hit some sweet spots and has been popular as a design to manufacturing transfer format.
- The simple documentation to back up the ASCII format explains the concepts of data capture such that you don't have to have post-doctoral research experience to make head nor tail of what is going on.
- You can look at a file in a text editor – it is plain text after all – and if the data is your data you can recognize pretty immediately what is going on in there – 'oh look – there are the wires, down there are the terminals and down there are the bundle coverings for the harness and so on'.
- If you are a harness maker you struggle every day to take costs out of your manufacturing by harmonizing the way you treat customer's data and this rather plain aggregation of data into sections contained the prospect of taking out a lot of manual steps and data rework. The need was obvious and the viability of this standard to be the solution to a lot of the problems was tempting.
Early adopters were followed by many later adopters.
Over time the format grew – the specification progressed to Version 11. The record descriptors were extended including to accommodate new sections covering the so-called modular or feature-based method of designing composite harnesses. Some sections of the format had fields added to the rows (you got the chance to express tape and tune coverings as part numbers for example). Those changes extended the number of fields expected in some records if you identified the version of the format as a later one. The sixth section in the format – the description of the components on the harness was by convention sorted into sub-sections for ease of use and ease of debug of the data – main node components comment lines then cavity components then comment lines and then splice details and then comment lines etc.
Oh, I didn't mention already that this is a Mentor Graphics proprietary standard – openly available and widely transmitted and published. So it is time to do that now.
Not all rosy in the garden.
Such format changes as described above were reasonably well handled in the Mentor Graphics import and export capabilities associated with this format. Customers who had written in-house custom code predicated on the format had to take on the task of validating their utilities still worked. Adherence to any standard comes with a little maintenance here and there.
With the release of new improved products in the CHS family to supplant the CapH Classic offerings, the way in which .dsi files were accepted into the new design tools is somewhat different. The use of the various Capital Harness Bridge techniques to interface from MCAD design systems superseded the need for a flat file transfer of data. With change management control becoming locked into the tool the old way of doing things began to look, well a little behind the times – even though CapH Classic was updated to contain a .dsi merge and change control capability. Capital Bridges has more advanced flattening capability from 3D data and the CHS suite uses xml formatted data to import/export operations. The X2ML format was developed as a next generation offering going beyond .dsi descriptor capabilities into the realm of 3D to 2D MCAD-ECAD data transition.
So why is .dsi so stubbornly holding on as a standard. Well, it is simple, widespread and known. It is good. A number of customers have written code to take advantage of the interchange format to standardize acceptance of customer data. Once you have invested in home-grown hand-coding it is hard to get off the habit. Especially if coding was done 7 years ago and all the programmers have since moved and nobody has a clue what the utility code you seem to rely heavily on actually does or how it does it! You might inadvertently be deciding based on inertia rather than benefits.
DSI is a good format but not absolutely pure. Remember the name "Design" System Interface – a format for transferring design information to manufacturing. Another debate I have had with customers is about using a design-side format to express not detailed design intent but manufacturing releasable bill of materials. DSI is close to a bill of materials format but there is a shortfall in a few key areas. Stay away. When wanting to extract BOM details into manufacturing tools – automated wire cutting machines and test equipment (for continuity and hi-pot tests for example) this straightforward format is tempting to use – however you have to realize the compromise involved.
Perhaps it is a sign of a good standard that it is misused a little here and there. The boundaries are pushed. However I feel compassion for the people who are making the square peg of the .dsi format fit into the various round holes. There are generally easier ways to acheive better results now – what with technology moving on apace in the last ten years. Even if you want to stick with carrier formats in external files – there are plenty of opportunities to improve the bridging capabilities of data.
But like with many opportunities to change there's that question again – "what's in it for me?" Unless you have a seriously broken process you might stick with what you are comfortable with for a long time before you realize your competitors moved away five years ago.
Web services based updates. Software as a Service. SOAP. Yes, things have moved quickly indeed. The latest technologies in CHS are impressive.
With a few deft touches the noodly appendages are made to look more like a harness manufacturing layout.
A good standard loses ground after some better way of working comes along. Perhaps you are never home and dry because the competition in your industry changes so rapidly, and IT technologies re-invigorate the tools so frequently.


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