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Motorola & Nokia Summer Kickoff
Intro Motorola E895 Nokia GSM Nokia CDMA Comments
Top message: N Series coming US! WOot by Ludio
Replying to: misplaced frustration by eric Lin
Re: misplaced frustration
Ah interesting, thanks for clearing that up. Now of course the question begs what exactly has the FCC got planned for the 900/1800 frequencies then? The point I was making (if a little acerbically as I'm having a bad day) is that there seems to be all this space available, while both the GSM and TDMA companies are all trying to use the same frequencies, I mean even AT&T used UMTS on 1900 mhz I do believe. So Perhaps the carriers could talk to the FCC about freeing up the 900/1800 frequecies so they'rd be more space available for future expansions, and as Ludio commented, quicker rollout of the latest phones for the US and Canada. I'm sure others think likewise.
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Makerbot Thing-O-Matic
From VoidWarranties - Hackerspace Antwerp, Belgium
|Makerbot Thing-O-Matic
|3D printer
|Yashiko, Oddly
|Den Bunker
Who is "Vettige Swa"
Building the printer
How does this thing work
Turning it on
- Turn the printer on
- Turn on the computer
- Open the map 'Replicatorg' on the desktop > replicatorg > Run in Terminal (shortcut will be coming up soon)
- The program normally connects automatically with the 3D-printer. If it doesn't: Machine > Connection (Serial Port) > /dev/ttyACM1
- Now we're ready to do the calibration of the 3D-printer.
This must be done every time you turn on the printer
- Machine > Control Panel (Ctrl +J)
- You can play with the axis to put the printer nozzle in the middle of the heated bed. Place it about 1 cm above the heated bed, but in the middle of the x- and y-axis.
- Click the 'Disable' button to turn of the steppermotors so you can turn the z-axis manually until the extruder head gently touches the heated bed. Be careful not to move the x- and y-axis.
- Now make the current position zero
- Close control panel
- File > Scripts > Calibration > Thing-O-Matic calibration.gcode
- Gcode > Build (Ctrl+B)
- Option halt: Continue build? > yes
- Unconditional halt: build ended > ok
Printing a testmodel
- File > Examples > 20 mm calibrationbox stl
you'll see the model
- GCode > Generate > /usr/bin/python2 > Ok
- the settings: do not touch until we figured the optimal settings
- Plastic: 1,82mm
- Extruder 0,4mm
- Extruder temperature: 230C (It appears that the temperature safety switch for the extruderhead gets tripped sometimes on this temperature, the extruder stops extruding and starts to cool down), we'll try it on 220 next time (3/6/2013)
- Generate
now the different steps will be shown, you can see the different layers click buttons on the bottom of the page now wait.................... here's your gcode
- GCode > Build (Ctrl+B)
- The machine will first heat up and then start building automatically
Progress Log
- gcode> gcode generator> skeinforge (47) works much better then skeinforge (50). Printing results are much smoother and nicer (3/6/2013)
- Regulary clean the extruder head with a fine sandpaper to remove the build up and burned abs.
Di 4 Juni
As we came out of hyperspace with spaceship Thing-O-Matic we immediately began with the upgrade of the Arduino Mega 2560 inside.
Our findings:
- Updated the firmware of the Thing-O-Matic from Marlin 3.1 to Sailfish 4.4(support for accelerated en 5D printing. After this, I updated ReplicatorG to 0040.
- Played a little bit with the settings, the printer head kept touching the printed piece while printing. This was because of the small dent in the middle of the board. Calibrating the Z axis a bit out of the middle of the board, gave very nice and smooth print results. Please don't change and save the settings, the "default Thing-O-Matic" slice settings in ReplicatorG should work. If you do want to test with changing settings, duplicate the profile and rename it to "Test" or "yournamehere".
- Started to print a upgrade for the Thing-O-Matic: a snap-on table, adjustable in height with screws. The board is snap-on, snap-off with magnets for easy maintenance(no magnets acquired yet though).
- 220C on the extruder head seems to do the trick to keep the safety switch from tripping.
- When we started printing the large workpieces, we noticed warping(the workpiece bending and coming off of the table). There are a few things you can do to prevent this(in order of importance):
- Slow down your printing feed rate to 30-40mm/min, it will take much longer to print, but your print will less likely be ruined.
- Clean the table with a kitchen paper and acetone.
- Increase raft size, in width, in thickness and/or full fill. This is a advanced option, please use another profile(testing or your name) to adjust these settings. Oddly can assist you with this.
- Increase table temperature to 115-120C, maximum 130C.
- Replace the Kapton tape, it could have been worn out


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Creating Inclusive Classrooms and Schools for Hispanic/Latino Students: New Paradigms, Strategies, and Practices for Educational Achievement and Success
Many Hispanic/Latino students struggle with pressures to reclaim and to reaffirm their cultural heritage at the same time that they are being required to assimilate into the dominant educational culture in U.S. schools and colleges. To assist teachers and staff who are working with Hispanic/Latino students and their families, this workshop will examine misperceptions about Hispanic cultures and demographics, analyze the relationship between Hispanic/Latino cultural identity and educational achievement and success, and generate new paradigms, strategies, and practices to implement in your classrooms, your school, and your college.
This workshop is available in either a 3.5 hour format or a one-day format (9 a.m. to Noon; 1 p.m. to 4 p.m .)
Communication Conflicts Among African American Women, White Women, and Latina Women*
Using role plays and small group discussion, this highly interactive workshop examines common conflicts in verbal/non-verbal communication styles, cognitive styles, problem-solving/decision-making styles, and work styles among African American women, white women, and Latino women. Participants analyze how such intercultural conflicts can not only contribute to a hostile workplace for women of color but also undermine diverse hiring goals. In addition, the workshop emphasizes how the dynamics of gender/cultural identity, power, and authority can result in misperception, misunderstanding, and broken work relationships.
This workshop is also available in either a 3.5 hour format or a one-day format (9 a.m. to Noon; 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.)
* This workshop was featured in the article "Learning to Communicate Across Cultures," Women in Higher Education, July 2001, p.20.
For further information about the objectives and activities of each workshop, please contact Pauline Kayes at 217/369-2058 or email@example.com.


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Gossip Girl
Who Is Blake Lively's Biggest Style Icon?
Gossip Girl's Blake Lively (Serena van der Woodsen) has had her fair share of fashion crimes, but even her worst looks are better than most of the clothes in our closet. Girlfriend is a walking fashionista, and each of her daring outfits is more iconic than the next! And speaking of icons, Blake is finally dishing on the fashion divas in the industry who have influenced her.
"I always look to women of times past for iconic style because they're not wearing what's trendy now," she tells Refinery29. "You look at Katharine Hepburn and her pants suits, you look at Grace Kelly and her incredibly feminine gowns that look like a princess, very fittingly. I look to women like that because I always look for style and not trends. They are two very different things."
As usual, Blake has kiddos on her mind –– even when it comes to fashion! "I always want to wear things that my kids will look back on and say 'Mom that's amazing why didn't you keep that?!'"
Wait, Blake doesn't keep everything she wears? Excuse us while we troll the streets of the Upper East Side for her cast-off Loubies.
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The best way to do a metal chimney?
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Whats the best way to attach a metal chimney to the firebrick flu??
Re: The best way to do a metal chimney?
I attached mine with hardened self tapping bolts. Seems to be working well. I have a shelter next to mine that supports the upper part of the stack.The shelter keeps the rain off me and my pizza. We have some wicked winds here in West Michigan so the support is necessary. If your oven is sheltered from wind you may not need any upper support.
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Hey Loafin,
There are a couple of mechanical connections you can implement; anchor bolts through flange style connections.
I chose a different style. The pictures show the basic process. I used a chimney flue tile, larger than my metal chimney pipe, and grouted the two parts to the masonry structure. I expect the metal will corrode away over time, but it is pretty dry here so it should take a bit of time...
Good luck with your build, and keep us posted with pictures!
Re: The best way to do a metal chimney?
On the same topic, how crucial is an anchor plate? I haven't quite figured out how I will attach my pipe to the vent without one, but I didn't really want to spring for a plate if I could avoid it. Haven't found a used one yet.
Re: The best way to do a metal chimney?
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There are numerous methods available and everyone has their own interpretation and ideas as what to do.
I made mine out out scrap stainless that I had lying around which was simply dyana bolted into the bricks and the 8" flues sat on top in a tight ring welded on the top of the funnel shape.
I also made one for a deceased friend, (the last 2 pics) which was bolted and sealed into his rather smaller and crowded chimney space.
I hope this helps you, very easy to make and very efficient in removening and venting your oven. Make it large enough and you will get no smoke out the front of your oven.
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Buy one of these (floor box) off the shelf for $10. Available at most hardware stores or HVAC stores in all kinds of sizes.
Set it in place with a glue gun. Use it as the inside form for a refractory mortar surround about 1 inch thick. Attach your metal chimney and continue the mortar up about 3 inches or so to form a "socket"
The thin metal floor box will burn and rust out the first year. (Watch for the pieces to start coming loose and pull them out.) Then don't tell anyone how you did it when they ask about the nice smooth vent to chimney transition you have.
Re: The best way to do a metal chimney?
Hey Neil
Will the mortar be strong enough to hold the chimney??
Re: The best way to do a metal chimney?
I used the smallest tapcons I could find and was shocked how well they held in the firebrick. Part of the trick is to use a standard drill with a masonry bit...the hammer drill is to much.
Re: The best way to do a metal chimney?
"Will the mortar be strong enough to hold the chimney??"
So far (three years). My chimney is a double wall 7 inch diameter and is 18 inches high.
Re: The best way to do a metal chimney?
I am in the process of welding togehter a stainless steel anchor plate which consists simply of a square piece of flat sheet stock with a 8" hole in the center. A 1/2 inch tall ring will be welded around the perimeter of the circle. Four holes will be drilled into the firbricks with a 1/4 masonry bit, lead lag shields in the holes will hold the lag bolts fast ans securely anchor the plate. Stove pipe will then be secured to it using sheet metal screws.
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Big Tex Awards Go Out To Artery Blocking "Cuisine"
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On Monday, the winners of the 10th annual Big Tex Choice Awards for the 2014 State Fair were announced. When the state fair opens on September 26th, here are some of the award winning specialties you can sample… just don't tell your doctor.
"Fried Gulf Shrimp Boil" earned Best Taste honors. "Funnel Cake Ale" got Most Creative. There's also "Deep Fried Breakfast for Dinner," and "Deep Fried Texas Bluebonnet," a blueberry muffin stuffed with cream cheese, blueberries and white chocolate, deep-fried and topped with whipped cream, more chocolate, powdered sugar, and a blueberry glaze. You get the idea.
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YOU won't see herds of kangaroos hopping around in the American Great Plains, destroying native plants and outcompeting the antelopebut this is a rare exception, as Kim Todd tells us in
Some of the species were introduced by accident, such as the lampreys and zebra mussels that slipped in via the St Lawrence Seaway. But most of these exotics were released deliberately. The flocks of starlings that plague farmers and city dwellers alike, for example, are all descended from a small group that was set loose in New York's Central Park in 1890.
In most cases, Todd shows, the people who breached ...
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'Sample' Donaghey Program Nov. 8
Students interested in applying for UALR's top honors program, the Donaghey Scholars Program, are invited to Sampler Day from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, in the Legends Room of the Jack Stephens Center. The program includes a scholarship package totaling between $60,000 and $80,000 as well as a chance to study abroad.
Space for Sampler Day is limited, so prospects should RSVP at firstname.lastname@example.com.
UALR's unique academic program accepts applications from graduating high school seniors and current college students from all majors, preferably those in their first or second year of study.
Acceptance into the Donaghey Scholars Program comes with a scholarship package totaling $60,000 to $80,000, including tuition, fees, stipend, study abroad, and other benefits. The program also features an interdisciplinary core curriculum with small class sizes, extensive writing, and vigorous discussion.
This week's Arkansas Times includes an eight-page section on the Donaghey program, its history, and profiles of current scholars and alumni.
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Ubuntu For Smartphones Is Either Too Late, Or Early To The Future [CES 2013]
LAS VEGAS, CES 2013 – Ubuntu's entry into the smartphone market is interesting, and at first gasp, they look like another open-source Android competitor doomed from the start for lack of marketshare. Maybe it's not so bleak, though, for the Linux maker. Sure, they're hopelessly outnumbered and entering a bloody fray, but like Battlestar Galactica's Cylons, they've got a plan.


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PARENT TALKS: Bullies, Step-Families
By Jackie Burrell
Monday, May 19th, 2008 at 7:46 am in Parenting Issues.
The school year is definitely winding down, but here's the lineup of remaining parent education talks:
"San Francisco Birth & Baby Fair"
May 24 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Fort Mason Conference Center, 99 Marina Blvd., SF. Zillions of booths with childbirth, baby care and lactations experts, workshops, shopping, and more.
"Childhood Matters: Friends and Bullies"
May 25 at 9 a.m. on 98.1 KISS-FM and 105.1 KOCN-FM
Childhood Matters' Rona Renner and her panelists talk about friends, bullies and preteen social life.
"Loving Your Single Parent or Step Family"
May 30 at 7 p.m. at the Residence Inn, Pleasanton.
Speaker: Donald R. Partridge, author of "Loving Your Stepfamily: The Art of Making Your Blending Family Work." Sponsored by the Institute for Family Research and Education. Free.
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On Thu 12 Apr 01, 6:21 PM, Adam Getchell said:
(big snip)
> Anyways, to each their own.
adam, i have left in the only part of your email that makes any sense.
you seem to be fond of saying "linux". but frankly, all your examples
seem to be redhat. and i think we all agree that redhat is not the poster
child for rigid security. and i hope you know the difference between
distro and a kernel.
some distros are into giving you bells and whistles and are probably more
suited for a home desktop. you seem to be more familiar with them.
some distros place more of an emphasis on security and are probably more
suited for a critical system. you seem to be less familiar with them.
and something CAN be said for the number of vulnerabilities that will be
found on an OS that has 10^6 users vs an OS that has 10^5 users. your point
which makes use of the number of vulnerabilities simply isn't convincing.
and again, _redhat_ isn't the posterchild of security. couple that with the
largest userbase of any linux of *bsd OS, and you have a lot of microscopes
looking at the OS. redhat may be getting a bad rap.
in any event, my position on this debate (which i've pretty much kept out of
until now) is that it was pointless from the start. there are smarter people,
way smarter than you and i, who argue both sides of the fence. considering
that these people can't reach a definitive decision, who are we to claim there
is an answer?
i see this debate as being isomorphic to the "vim vs emacs" argument. there
simply is no answer.
start personal bias
now let me throw in my own (biased) thoughts, since i haven't done so yet.
i think perhaps there is some merit to openbsd being more secure. but i'm
certain that its advocates overstate the issue. frankly, openbsd is a sad
operating system in the sense that it's a very high quality OS which simply
isn't getting the attention or the user base it deserves.
and you can see that this irks the openbsd developers to no end because they
say the most stupid and moronic things that i've ever heard in my life.
does anyone here remember the "taking over microsoft in a year" quote on
slashdot a few months ago?
so take away openbsd's "superior" security, and you don't have much left to
make the OS outshine other operating systems. you have what physicists call,
a vacuum state. it's nothingness. i think it's perfectly normal for
openbsd, its developers and its user base to try to overstate the security
case. nobody like to feel "unspecial". bsd doesn't even have it's own
category in securityfocus.com. it's lumped in under the "linux" heading.
so i think perhaps there may be some merit to your argument. but then again,
i wouldn't go around saying that a 233 MHz PII will blow away a 200 MHz PII.
even to make such a claim is an embarrasment.
ALMOST as embarrasing as the recent buffer overflow in openssh, which was
affected, yes you know it, the "most secure operating system in the world".
or the recent vulnerability in ntpd.
or the last vulnerability in sendmail.
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Biotechnology Consultation Memorandum of Meeting BNF No. 000013 (Cotton Line 521)
Return to inventory: Completed Consultations on Foods from Genetically Engineered Plant Varieties
See also Biotechnology: Genetically Engineered Plants for Food and Feed and about Submissions on Bioengineered New Plant Varieties
February 27, 1995
W. Martin Strauss
Roy Fuchs
Sharon Berberich
Frank Serdy
James Maryanski, HFS-13
Nega Beru, HFS-206
Dennis Keefe, HFS-206
Laura Tarantino, HFS-206
Vincent Zenger, HFS-206
Anita Chang, HFS-226
Carl B. Johnson, HFS-226
Louis Pribyl, HFS-226
Jeannette Glover-Glew, HFS-246
Zofia Olemska-Beer, HFS-247
Min Song, HFV-144
Bill Price, HFV-221
Mika Alewynse, HFV-226
Subject: Bt-resistant Cotton
Cotton, Cotton Bollworm, Tobacco Budworm, Pink Bollworm, Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki, APH (3')II, NPTII, crylA(c), Bt-toxin, Insect Resistance, Pesticide.
In a submission dated November 21, 1994, Monsanto provided summary information to support their safety assessment of cotton line 531. A meeting was scheduled at Monsanto's request to discuss their safety assessment of cotton line 531.
Intended Effect and Food/Feed Use
The intended technical effect of this genetic modification of cotton plants is to confer resistance to the lepidopteran pests: cotton bollworm, tobacco budworm, and pink bollworm. Cotton is primarily used for fiber production intended for textile manufacturing. Cotton linters, cottonseed oil, and cottonseed meal are by-products that are used in human and animal foodstuffs; Cotton linters are used as a source of cellulose in food for human consumption. Cottonseed oil is commonly used as a vegetable oil in human food. Cottonseed meal is used primarily in animal feed as a source of protein.
Mechanism of Intended Effect
Based on information provided by Monsanto, the crylA(c) gene from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki (B.t.K.) encodes for protein (Bt-toxin) that is toxic to certain lepidopteran insect pests. Monsanto claims that expression of the crylA(c) gene in cotton plants results in increased resistance to cotton bollworm, tobacco budworm, and pink bollworm. The toxicity of the Bt-toxin is reported to be very specific to lepidopterans.
Molecular Alterations and Characterization
Based on the restriction fragment analysis of total DNA isolated from transgenic lines intended for commercialization and control lines of cotton, Monsanto has concluded that their line has one genetic locus containing the transgenic DNA. At this locus the transgenic DNA is composed of one intact copy of the nptII gene, one copy of the aad gene, and one intact copy of the crylA(c) gene. In addition, approximately 1.3 kb of the 3' coding region, including 7S transcription termination sequences, of the crylA(c) gene was inserted ca. 1.7 kb downstream of the 3' end of the intact crylA(c) gene in a head-to-tail orientation. The nptII gene encodes for the enzyme aminoglycoside 3'-phosphotransferase (APH(3')II) which confers resistance to the antibiotic kanamycin. The crylA(c) gene encodes the Bt-toxin. The aad gene encodes the enzyme 3 (9) -0-aminoglycoside adenyltranskerase which confers resistance to the antibiotics spectinomycin and streptomycin. The aad gene is under the control of its own bacterial bacterial promoter.
According to Monsanto, the inserted DNA is capable of: expressing two proteins: 1) Bt-toxin; and 2) aminoglycoside 3'- phosphotransferase I1 (APH(3')II). Because the aad gene is under the control of a bacterial promoter, expression from this gene in cotton plants would not be anticipated. Monsanto reported that they confirmed that this gene is not expressed in cotton (Monsanto's citation: "Monsanto Report, MSL No. 13275"). Because the safe use of Bt-toxins as pesticides is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), and because EPA has exempted from the requirement of a tolerance residues of APH(3')II and the genetic material necessary for its production when used as a plant pesticide inert ingredient (59 F;R 49351; September 28, 1994), this memorandum will not address the safe use of Bt-toxin as a pesticide or the use of APH(3')II as a pesticide inert ingredient.
Based on the genomic restriction fragment mapping and genetic analysis, Monsanto has concluded that the intact crylA(c) transgene is present in one copy, is integrated at a single locus, segregates as a single Mendelian genetic trait, and is stable over several generations.
Expressed Proteins
As stated above, the only new proteins expected to be expressed in cotton line 531 are the Bt-toxin and APH(3')II; these are both subject to EPA's authority under FIFRA. Therefore, we limit our comments to the nutritional and toxicant properties of line 531.
Compositional Analysis
Based on the nature of the genetic modification, it is expected that cotton line 531 would not differ significantly in composition from other cotton varieties. To confirm this expectation, Monsanto analyzed the composition of cotton linters, cottonseed oil, and cotton meal obtained from line 531 and a parental control line.
Based on their analyses, Monsanto has concluded that cotton linters derived from their cotton line 531 are not materially different from cotton linters derived from other cotton varieties. They noted that the composition of linters is >99% cellulose; and because of the extensive processing prior to food use, fiber used for food is not expected to contain any detectable genetic material or protein.
In addition, Monsanto has concluded that cotton seed derived from their cotton line 531 is not materially different froh cotton seeds derived from other cotton varieties in their content of: protein, fat (oil), carbohydrate, ash, moisture, or calories. Moreover, Monsanto has concluded that the levels of gossypol and cyclopropenoid fatty acids in cotton seed produced by line 531 is similar to levels observed in cotton seed produced by the parental line.
Monsanto has concluded that cottonseed oil derived from their cotton line 531 is not significantly different from cottonseed oil derived from other cotton varieties in the content of fatty acids (14:0, 16:0, 16:1, 17:0, 18:0, 18:1, 18:2, 18:3, 20:0, 22:0, 24:O) as well as several cyclopropanoid fatty acids (sterculic, dihydrosterculic, and malvalic).
Finally, Monsanto has concluded that cottonseed meal derived from their cotton line 531 is not materially different from cottonseed meal derived from other cotton varieties.
Wholesomeness Studies
Monsanto described the results of a wholesomeness study with cottonseed meal they carried out in rats. Monsanto has concluded from this study that there is no material difference in the wholesomeness of cotton seeds derived from their line 531 and seeds derived from control cotton lines.
Monsanto has concluded that their cotton line 531 is iot significantly altered within the meaning of 21 CFR 170.30(f)(2) when compared to cotton varieties with a safe history of food use. At this time, based on Monsanto's description of its data and analyses, the Agency considers Monsanto's consultation their cotton line 531 to be complete.
Dennis M. Keefe, Ph.D.


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An improvement in demand was quite evident in 2Q following a steep climb in MDF selling prices from the month of March to June. EFB's 2.5mm MDF prices went up by 10.8% while 18mm MDF prices rose 12.8%.
Indicative average selling prices for medium-density fibreboard (MDF) have jumped 16% to US$240 (RM842.40) per cubic metre (cu m) in 3Q2009 versus US$204/cu m in 2Q2009, despite management's initial belief that average selling prices were likely to be capped at US$220 to US$230 levels, due to pick-up of demand in 2H2009.
Following the higher demand, Evergreen's management highlighted that the company's capacity utilisation in July 2009 was at 68% versus 64% in 2Q2009. August and September's utilisation would be higher or close to July's capacity utilisation rate, based on existing contracts in hand. For 2H2009, the estimated utilisation rate should average 76% versus 60% in 1H2009.Risks include a sharp drop in MDF prices, a sharp increase in log costs, further escalation in crude oil related glue and logistics costs, and strengthening of the ringgit which could reduce the company's export competitiveness. Well-positioned to benefit from economic recovery given that EFB is one of the biggest MDF players in the world. EFB is known to be the 5th largest MDF producer (by production capacity) in the world and they are likely to be the biggest in the region.
2010 (e) / 56m
Considering that the stock got hammered from RM2.00 down to below RM1.00 owing to the global financial crisis, its noteworthy that the company still managed to eke out a decent net profit in 2009. Things on the improve and should bring them back towards the RM1.40-RM1.50 level in the medium term.
NOTE: The above opinion is not an invitation to buy or sell. It serves as a blogging activity of my investing thoughts and ideas, this does not represent an investment advisory service as I charge no subscription or management fees (donations are welcomed though). The content on this site is provided as general information only and should not be taken as investment advice. All site content, shall not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security or financial instrument. The ideas expressed are solely the opinions of the author. Any action that you take as a result of information, analysis, or commentary on this site is ultimately your responsibility. Consult your investment adviser before making any investment decisions.
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Seattle preschool in a nursing home 'transforms' elderly residents
Colorado mom chastised by school for packing Oreo cookies in daughter's lunch
D.C. Council to consider banning suspensions of preschoolers
D.C. condo board, preschool at odds over noisy playground
Hopkins House provides elite preschool education for low-income families
Only On 7: Chesterbrook Academy preschool cook charged in outburst, assault of 3 children, 3 employees in Centreville
U.S. DOJ: Officers who killed Aaron Alexis during Navy Yard shooting not culpable
P Street Kids preschool in D.C. closes with no warning
P Street Kids preschool told parents as they showed up for school Friday - today is the school's last day.
Youngest students among most absentComment
President Obama wants to expand students' access to preschool, but that can't happen if children don't show up.
Educational TV study for preschoolersComment
Teaching parents to switch channels from violent shows to educational TV can improve preschoolers' behavior, even without getting them to watch less, a study found.
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Travis Barker and Mark Hoppus of Blink 182 have announced that their new project is called Plus 44. Numbers, again. Why?
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DescriptionThis Limited Edition 11" Frank Beltrame stiletto makes the perfect centerpiece to any classic Italian collection. This made in Italy knife features a stainless steel bayonet blade with Frank Beltrame stamped along the face of it and Limited Edition N. ###/2013 stamped along the base of the blade. The handle features brass liner construction, dark horn scales and accented by brass rivets. Uses a pull-up pick lock back mechanism to ensure secure blade lock. Stainless steel bolsters finish off the look with a circular push button release and safety switch.
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Workers at Tolrose Gold Mine have approached the Labour Court following a pay dispute with Grace Mugabe's son Russell Goreraza, who seized the mine in October 2013.
The workers went on strike last Friday demanding that Goreraza pays them their wages backdated to October, amid complaints that some employees and union leaders have been assaulted for asking for their wages.
"He is looting and running the mine mafia-style," National Mine Workers' Union of Zimbabwe president Tinashe Mugwira told SW Radio Africa Friday.
"The situation is gloomy for more than 351 families who used to rely on the mine for their survival since Goreraza took over."
"There are no systems in place to ensure that workers are paid. He (Goreraza) comes, collects the gold and goes. Some workers and union officials including myself were assaulted trying to engage the new management over wages."
"Anyone who raises a grievance is either dismissed or taken away and assaulted," said Mugwira, who also said he too was beaten up by Russell's uncle and Grace's brother, Sam Marufu.
Efforts by the Labour Ministry to intervene reportedly failed after Goreraza tore up the papers served on him, telling the workers that he was "above the law".
The ministry then referred the matter to the Labour Court, which has since appointed an arbitrator, a Mrs. Musunhe, to look into the allegations made by the workers against their employer.
"He said to us 'you use the law, I use the power of my mother' and we are not sure he will turn up for arbitration. We are also looking into asking the courts to attach the mine or some assets so that workers can get their dues."
"But with the mafia-style management at the mine we do not think this will even be possible. We had hoped that with the publicity surrounding this dispute the First Lady and Goreraza's step-father (President Robert Mugabe) would intervene and do something but this hasn't been the case," Mugwira added.
Tolrose Mine's human resources manager Nyasha Munangwa denied allegations that workers were not being paid when approached by the NewsDay newspaper Wednesday.
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Historical fiction/fantasy: Sherwood by Parke Godwin Great book. Set during and just after the Norman Invasion. A gritty and very realistic Robin Hood. No merry men, but a band of outlaws nonetheless.
Alternate History: Anything by Harry Turtledove, but specifically Guns of the South.
Espionage/Spy: The Odessa File. It got me hooked. I gobbled up everything I could by Frederick Forsythe and Robert Ludlum after reading it.
Sci fi/Fantasy Titan/Wizard/Demon - A trilogy set on Saturn's moon Titan. The moon is actually alive and thinks it is god. It also has a split personality.
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The management and board of the Gambia Printing and Publishing Corporation (GPPC) in the report submitted to the Public Accounts and Enterprises Committee PAC/PEC of the National Assembly, yesterday, complained of old machines and debts owed by the government as the major challenges affecting the institution.
"The biggest challenge facing the Corporation is the old aged machines", asserted Mr. Abdou AB Njie, the Chairman of the Board of GPPC.
Chairman Njie explained the need for capital to change the old machines with a state of earth machines. He complained about the high debt that the government owes the institution and the high cost of printing materials. He also made mention of poor financial management of the previous management of the Corporation.
The GPPC Board Chairman unveiled that the issue of government loans is increasing year by year. He explained that the matter was taken with the Ministry of Finance who agreed to pay the balance on a monthly basis.
"The old machines of the Corporation have been an obstacle to compete at the market. We need a state of the earth machines to compete effectively", asserted Mr. Momodou Ceesay, the Acting MD of the Corporation.
According to Acting MD Ceesay, the objective of the Corporation is to secure revenue collections for the government. He mentioned about the transformation of the new management with a tight financial management control. He also mentioned the creation of an internal audit that is answerable to the Board of Directors.
MD Ceesay revealed the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Corporation and Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education to print all the books of the private schools in 2014. He explained that the development would boost the revenue of the institution. He also revealed that the Corporation has revenue of over D24 million dalasi in 2011.
"The government created the GPPC and should not be responsible for its failure", asserted Hon. Fabakary Tombong Jatta, the Majority Leader.
However, Hon. Jatta expressed concern about the short nature of the report which he said should be improved to give more information about the activity of the Corporation. He stressed the need to encourage the government to pay its liabilities to the Corporation. He also raised concern about the financial mismanagement of the Corporation which he said was the care free attitude on the part of the old management.
Hon. Abdoulie Saine, the member for Banjul Central raised the issue of the Corporation, giving almost a million dalasi for donation on gala dinners when it is facing financial problems. The management response was that the donation was part of its corporate social responsibility but they were warned to be more careful in giving social responsibilities based on the financial status of the institution.
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About Obgaektify
Obgaektify is a wrapper library for Objectify-appengine, enabling it to be installed as a plugin for Gaelyk which is a lightweight Groovy toolkit for Google App Engine Java.
- Obgaektify adds a few more Groovified niceties to Objectify's already easy-to-use API wrapper for the Google App Engine low-level datastore.
- Obgaektify allows you to cleanly separate your domain models from your views and controllers without having to write a lot of extra code to wire them together.
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Where does the name come from?
The name Obgaektify is an orthographic mash-up of Objectify + Gaelyk. (Gaelyk of course takes it GAE from the Google App Engine.)
How do you pronounce Obgaektify?
I recommend pronouncing it just like you pronounce Objectify. The precedent in English for "ga" sounding like "ja" being words like "gaol" and "hygaene".
Who's behind Obgaektify?
Obgaektify is a little pet project started by Jeremy Brown to further simplify the writing of web apps on Gaelyk. Of course, this plugin is really only a little syntactic sugar sprinkled on top of Gaelyk and Objectify. To take a quote out of context, "Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor."*
What is the license of Obgaektify?
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Who was Epicurus?
Epicurus, pictured on the right in Raphael's School of Athens, was a Greek philosopher who lived from 341 BC to 270 BC, and who established a philosophical commune called the Garden in Athens, where he and his followers practiced and lived their philosophy as a way of life. A sign hanging above the entrance to the Garden said: 'Stranger, here you will do well to tarry. Here our highest good is pleasure'. That sums it up well: Epicureans are hedonists. They believed we shouldn't try and follow the 'will of God', as the Stoics tried to do. We should just try and find a bit of happiness and pleasure here on Earth before we die. You can find many of the original Epicurean writings, and other resources, here.
So the Epicureans were atheists?
Not exactly. Epicurus believed that the gods existed, but that they showed no interest in human affairs. In place of divine providence, Epicureans embraced an atomistic view of the cosmos. The universe is a swirl of atoms drifting around, and everything is 'riddled with nothingness', as the Epicurean poet Lucretius put it. Humans happen to have consciousness, because some of these atoms luckily 'swerve', giving us the capacity for free will, which in turn means that we have the capacity to practice philosophy to craft happier lives. And then we die, our consciousness stops and our atoms dissolve back into the celestial stew. Certainly many later admirers of Epicureanism were atheists – there's no real need for the gods in Epicurus' atomistic universe, so it's easy to dispense with them while retaining other aspects of the philosophy.
How then should we live? What is the good life?
Well, there are no absolute and eternal 'shoulds' in the Epicurean universe, because there is no divine providence, no cosmic law of justice. We have consciousness, free will and rationality, so we can choose what sort of life we want to lead and what values we want to hold. However, some choices will be better than others. The life-choices we make should fit with our nature: humans, like every other animal, naturally seeks pleasure and tries to avoid pain. As rational beings, we should try to pursue pleasure as rationally and intelligently as possible.
How can we pursue pleasure as rationally as possible?
Like the other philosophies of the Socratic tradition, Epicureans believed that what causes humans suffering is our false beliefs. In particular, we have many false beliefs about what is necessary for our happiness. We put a great value on some external goods such as status and luxury, because we think they will make us happy. In fact, Epicurus says, many of these external goods are not good for us at all, and the pursuit of them only makes us more miserable.
Epicurus said that, for each belief or action, we should consider the pleasure it will lead to, and the pain, and then 'measure the one against the other'. Some activities lead to a short-term spike in pleasure, such as heavy drinking, but ultimately lead to pain, in the form of hangovers, sick bodies and damaged relationships. We should restrict our desires to what is necessary and easy to attain, Epicurus says. So actually, contrary to the popular image of Epicureans as libertines, Epicurus and his followers lived quite austere lives, following a simple diet and not having many possessions.
Where's the fun in that?
The simpler and less complicated your needs, the freer and less anxious your life. If you come to depend on luxuries, you'll then have to work hard to support your lifestyle – and slaving away in a boring or stressful job is no fun. By restricting one's desires to what is necessary and easy to attain, you free up more time for the good things in life: friendship and philosophy. It's a sort of intelligent slacker philosophy that has quite a lot in common with the Idler philosophy of Tom Hodgkinson, who we meet at the beginning of the chapter. There are even some 'life-coaches' today, such as Stefan Streitferdt, who teach Epicurean philosophy as a way to prioritise your life and avoid unnecessary stress.
What was the Epicurean attitude to politics and the state?
Epicureans thought politics was a needless cause of stress and anxiety. The masses are incurably deluded, and the powerful are incurably corrupt, so it's best to withdraw from the state, set up your own philosophical commune, and pursue the good life privately. Some Epicureans did attempt some outreach, though. Diogenes of Oeneanda paid for a large wall to be erected outside his city, inscribed with Epicurus' teachings, to spread the word of his philosophy. In fact, someone in Manchester was recently inspired to copy his example (see right).
Isn't Epicureanism a bit selfish then?
That's what some critics of Epicureanism said, particularly later Christian writers, who as you can imagine thought Epicureanism was scandalous. Rival philosophical schools, like the Stoics and Aristotelians, also suggested Epicureanism advocated gross sensuality and mindless hedonism. That's an unfair criticism, but Epicureanism could be accused of having a rather atomised and selfish view of relationships. There's not much sense of duty or social obligation there. We're all separate atoms seeking our own pleasure in the great void. However, some modern Epicureans have tried to forge a more political form of rational hedonism, as we'll explore shortly.
So what's good about Epicureanism?
What I think is particularly useful in Epicureanism is the recognition that humans are very bad at being happy. We're great at inventing ways to make ourselves miserable. We often impose dogmatic demands onto our life: we should be richer, or we should be more successful, or we should be more popular, or we should be more pious. For the Epicureans, there are no shoulds. There's nothing we have to do or be while we're here on Earth. So we can release ourselves from what the psychologist Karen Horney called 'the tyranny of the shoulds', and just allow ourselves to be happy and enjoy life in the few decades we're on this planet. That's a beautiful and powerful idea. It was a big influence on Albert Ellis, the pioneer of cognitive therapy, who was a rational hedonist like the Epicureans. He agreed that many emotional disorders are caused by what he called 'musterbating': imposing our musts and shoulds onto reality and making ourselves miserable in the process. His therapy tried to teach people to take a more rational approach to pleasure-seeking, as this article by a student of Ellis' explores.
You talk in the lesson about the Epicureans' therapeutic technique of focusing on the present moment. Can you tell us a bit about that here?
Sure. According to the Epicureans, one of the main ways humans make themselves miserable is by ruminating over the past or worrying about the future. To combat this, the Epicureans developed the cognitive technique of bringing our attention back to the present moment and enjoying its gift. The present is, literally, a present.
Carpe diem, in other words.
Yes, that famous quote actually comes from Horace, a Roman poet who was quite influenced by Epicureanism. Horace's Odes are full of exhortations to enjoy the present moment. For example, here's the famous ode that 'carpe diem' comes from (the translation is Edward Arlington Robinson's):
I pray you not, Leuconoe, to pore
With unpermitted eyes on what may be
Appointed by the gods for you and me,
Nor on Chaldean figures any more.
'T were infinitely better to implore
The present only: whether Jove decree
More winters yet to come, or whether he
Make even this, whose hard, wave-eaten shore
Shatters the Tuscan seas to-day, the last –
Be wise withal, and rack your wine, nor fill
Your bosom with large hopes; for while I sing,
The envious close of time is narrowing;
So seize the day, or ever it be past,
And let the morrow come for what it will.
Don't the Stoics use a similar cognitive technique?
Yes, the technique was also taken up by Stoic writers like Seneca and Marcus Aurelius. They agreed with the Epicureans that it's only in the present moment that we have any control. We don't control the past – it's already happened. And we don't control the future. So the more we focus on the past and the future, the more we are disempowering ourselves. If we bring our attention back to the present, we are re-empowering ourselves, and being more efficient in our use of attention and energy.
We see a similar idea in Buddhism, of course, which developed a whole arsenal of techniques for bringing the attention back to the present moment. And this idea of focusing on the present moment, and our beliefs in the present, has been taken up in the last few years by Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) . Both CBT and ACT insist that the way to get over emotional disorders is not by diving into the past and ruminating over all your conflicts with your parents, as psychoanalysis might get you to do. It's wiser and more effective to bring your attention back to the present, to your beliefs in the here-and-now. As Seneca puts it: 'What's the use of dragging up sufferings that are past, of being miserable now, because you were miserable then?'
There's also something mystical in the technique of focusing on the present moment. It's telling us that everything we need in life is right here, right now, in our consciousness of the eternal moment. The more we bring our attention back to the present moment, the more we can savour it, appreciate it, and enjoy the strange wonder of being alive and conscious in the universe. We see some of this sense of the mystery and wonder of the present moment in the work of Eckhart Tolle. Here's a video of Tolle talking about Marcus Aurelius' use of the technique.
OK, but what if the present moment is actually pretty challenging. What if we're suffering from a serious or painful illness, for example?
In the book, I tell the story of Havi Carel, a philosopher here in the UK, who discovered she had a rare life-threatening illness when she was 35. She tells me she actually found the Epicurean technique of focusing on the present moment to be very useful in coping with her illness. Before her illness, she had been very focused on the future – having children, advancing her career, building her life. With her future suddenly thrown into uncertainty, she found some comfort in appreciating the present moment, like going for a walk with her husband, or even the taste of an apple. Luckily Havi's condition improved under a new treatment, and she's now working to introduce a 'philosophy tool-kit' into the NHS to help people suffering from serious illnesses. Havi wrote a book about here experience, called Illness .
Interesting…So how did Epicureanism fare after Epicurus' death?
Like Stoicism, it spread to Rome and was taken up by some leading Roman figures. Arguably it was less popular than Stoicism because its philosophy of personal pleasure fitted less well with the Roman military ethos. But Roman poetry was strongly influenced by Epicureanism, through Horace and another great poet called Lucretius. He wrote a strange and wonderful poem called On the Nature of Things, which describes the atomistic nature of the universe, and explains to the reader why we have nothing to fear from death. The poem was rediscovered in the early 15th century, and helped to influence the Florentine Renaissance. If you haven't read the poem, I really recommend it. It's one of the most modern, radical poems I've read, and it still has a therapeutic power. I interviewed Stephen Greenblatt, the great Renaissance scholar, who wrote a book
about the poem. He told me that reading Lucretius helped him get over his fear of death. You can read the interview here.
Tell us a bit about how Epicureanism transformed into a political ideology during the Enlightenment.
OK. Well, as you say, Epicurus' philosophy of rational hedonism acquired a new political edge during the Enlightenment, when many philosophers argued that the aim of governments should be the happiness of its citizens. Thomas Jefferson, for example, was a self-professed Epicurean, and he managed to get 'the pursuit of happiness' included into the American Declaration of Independence. In Britain, Jeremy Bentham developed utilitarianism, which argued that societies should be ordered around the principle of the greatest happiness of the greatest number. Like Epicurus, Bentham believed that the value of each action could be measured by calculating the happiness and unhappiness it would lead to. Unlike Epicurus, he thought this should be the guiding principle of governments.
These attempts to turn Epicureanism into a political ideology have to wrestle with this question: why should I care about other people's happiness? Why not simply withdraw from society and concentrate on my own pleasure, as the original Epicureans did? Jefferson, for example, argued that we all have 'inalienable rights' which governments have a moral duty to protect. But that's a much more Aristotelian idea than a Epicurean one – the Epicureans didn't believe in any absolutes, including human rights. To take a contemporary example, Christopher Hitchens called himself an Epicurean, but his indefatigable dedication to global justice is, really, more Stoic or Marxist than Epicurean.
So how influential is Epicureanism today?
I'd say it's hugely influential, particularly via the 'science of happiness', which builds on Epicurus' idea that humans are very bad at pursuing happiness, and that we need to take a more rational approach to happiness, measuring the actual pleasure and pain that life choices lead to. The scientific measurement of happiness became a huge movement in the 1990s, with the work of people like Ed Diener and Daniel Gilbert, and it's still a big movement today.
Happiness measurements have also started to influence public policy. As we discover in the book, the 'happiness economist' Richard Layard recently set up an organisation called Action for Happiness, which tries to spread happiness techniques to the masses, while also lobbying governments to get them to make happiness their main policy goal. Action for Happiness also wants to introduce 'happiness classes' in schools. Layard has even suggested that happiness could become a new 'secular spirituality' to fill the God-hole left by the decline of Christianity. You can watch a video of Layard outlining his vision here.
However, in the UK, a debate has grown among 'well-being experts' about how exactly the British government shoud define and measure well-being. On the one side, some Epicurean or utilitarian thinkers like Richard Layard say we should define it like Epicurus did, simply as pleasant feelings. On the other side, some 'well-being experts' have taken a more Aristotelian view, arguing that true well-being involves not just happiness but 'higher' things like meaning, engagement and transcendence. Here's a video of one well-being expert, Charles Seaford of the new economics foundation, explaining this philosophical argument.
What do you think of Action for Happiness?
There's a lot to like about it. I like the way the organisation tries to make people more aware of simple well-being techniques like meditation, or the Stoic technique of knowing what you can control and what you can't. But I don't think they should try and impose their philosophy of Epicureanism or Utilitarianism onto an entire society, or teach it to children uncritically, because there are many valid criticisms you can make of Epicureanism, that have been made by philosophers like John Stuart Mill, Robert Nozick, Bernard Williams and Derek Parfitt. People should be empowered to consider these criticisms, and enabled to choose their own philosophy of the good life rather than have one particular philosophy forced on them by 'experts'. That's what I argue in the book: if governments want to teach 'the good life' to their citizens, they should teach the various different approaches to the good life, rather than pretending there is only one solution.
Are there still Epicurean communes like the Garden?
Sort of. In 2008, the philosopher Alain de Botton, who can more or less be defined as an Epicurean, set up The School of Life , which he said he was inspired to do in imitation of Epicurus' commune (it even has tree trunks in it, as a nod to the Garden). And in 2011, Tom Hodgkinson of the Idler set up the Idler Academy, again in imitation of Epicurus' Garden – both schools have a bust of Epicurus in their hall. These organisations have both succeeded admirably in taking philosophy beyond academia and back to ordinary life. But they're quite different from Epicurus' Garden: the students don't live together, they don't pool their resources, they don't devote their lives to one particular ethical philosophy or way of life. They don't demand anything from the people who attend their classes, other than the entrance fee.
There's also a successful self-help writer called Gretchen Rubin, you may have heard of her, who launched something called 'The Happiness Project' , where Rubin committed herself to trying to take a more intelligent and rational approach to the art of happiness. Her book has spawned several local 'happiness projects' around the world, where people get together to try and live happier lives. There may be contemporary communes even closer to the original Epicurean model. If you know of some, let me know, I'd be interested to hear about them. Or set one up!


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