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Deriving the Rule of Happiness (IQ Not Required)
Oct 26th, 2009 by AhYap
Weird enough, our brain really knows nothing other than comparing. Or should we say everything has a "meaning" only if we are able to compare it with something else.
East means nothing if there is no West. Woman means nothing if there is no man. Tall means nothing when there is no short.
When you say something is cold, it is because you compare it with something that is hotter.
[If you hold a snake or lizard, yucks, it is cold to you but it is hot to them!]
When you say it is on the east, it is because you are standing on the west. You are comparing it to where you are standing.
[If you ride a rocket up to the space where you can't see the earth anymore, where is EAST? Where is WEST? Where is UP and where is DOWN?]
You say "this is woman" and "that is man" because we compare their … … type of fruits?
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Since now we know everything is about comparing (the old Chinese masters caledl it yin yang) we can now use it to derive our rule of happiness and hope that we can be "happily ever after". First we start with 2 observations.
Observation #1
If we compare ourselves to someone richer, we feel poorer and thus unhappy. On the other hand if we compare ourselves to someone poorer, we feel richer and thus more happy!
De deeeeeeeeennnnnnggggggggggggg!
And then,
Observation #2
If "what we want" is more than "what we have", we feel unfulfilled and unhappy. On the other hand if "what we have" is more than "what we want", we feel very fulfilled and happy!
De de de deeeeeeeeennnnnnggggggggggggg!
So using this 2 basic observations, we can derive the formula/rule of happiness.
Rule #1
To feel rich and happy, always compare yourself with someone poorer than you! (~don't laugh!~)
Rule #2
Always make sure "what you want" is so little that "what you have" looks like a lot!
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Is this a joke? Isn't this sounds like cheating yourself?
No it is not a joke. And Yes, it is cheating! It is a mind trick. Since we know how the mind works, we try to trick it. Just like how we trick people do to what we want by offering them choices.
And who cares if it is cheating or a trick? All we need to know is that it works! The ancient Indians and ancient Chinese has been using this philosophy since a few thousand years ago! [Unfortunately, "smart" people today who are supposed to be "smarter" than ancient people seems to forgot about this ancient wisdom]
If you score 99 in you test, you can be unhappy if you compare yourself to those scoring 100. Even if there is no one scoring 100, you can still be unhappy focusing on the 1 mark you didn't get.
If you are second in the whole school, you can be unhappy if you compare yourself to the first, even if that is Harvard or Oxford.
If you are Warren Buffett (the second richest man on earth), you can still be unhappy because you compare yourself to Bill Gates (the richest man on earth)
On the other hand, you can be happier than Bill Gates if all you want is to watch 8TV and eat strawberry.
You see, why we are suffering today is because we set different rules based on the same observations. Thanks to all the bestselling motivation and "You can be rich" type of books. Thanks to the instant idol reality programs. Thanks to the few instant internet millionaire story that we heard from Google, Facebook and now Twitter (which get rich faster and faster)!
Unfortunately, we all (including the "motivators") set the wrong rules. What rules?
Based on Observation #1, if we compare ourselves to someone richer, we feel poor and unhappy. So they set their Rule #1 (their solution to observation #1) as
Their Rule #1 (probably yours too)
To avoid feeling poor and unhappy, make yourself richer and richer so everyone else is poorer than you!
And then to tackle observation #2, they set their Rule #2.
Their Rule #2 (probably yours too)
In order to get "what we want", we must increase "what we have" (double/triple/1 million dollar/4 wives…)!
Yep, it works too. Same observations, same problems but different solutions/rules/mindset.
But the problem?!?
Why so many celebrities who seems to have everything in the world, take drugs or even suicide (or die of drug overdosed)? Remember Ko Ko Alan Cheung? Remember Michael Jackson? Remember the Joker in Batman? Why do people like Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan, which is supposed to be our role models, are always linked to drugs?
The problem is that when we set the wrong rules and go the opposite direction, what we get is not happily-ever-after but never-ending-suffering.
You see, at the moment you thought you need to be richer than somebody, or to have x amount of money before you can be happy, you can't be happy right now. Then you thought you need to change that. Instead of using the "dirty" trick by comparing to someone poorer or reduce the x amount to y so you have more "what you have" than "what you want" that can happened right now, you decided to put your happiness into the future.
You do what you are "taught" by the books/society/parents/teacher. You try to tackle it with the "normal" ways that other people do. You want to make more money than the person that is richer than you. And you set your financial goal to x amount of money "you want" in the future that you don't have right now.
Whether you reach your goal or not, you have made a decision. You have made a decision to put your happiness into the future in exchange with suffering, unfulfillment and unhappiness right now. You work hard for the "future," hope that one day you can be happy in the "future". You suffer now.
But then 2 things can happen. The future never comes and you live your entire live in full regrets. Or the future came and you hit your "ultimate" goal. But what's next? After 30 years of fighting and struggling, you finally made it. You open up a RM48,888 champagne to celebrate with your wife (or mistress since your wife might be too old for you at that time), buy a big bungalow with 20 rooms and 40 maids and park 20 Porsches in front of your house to show the guy that used-to-be richer than you that have "motivated" you the last 30 years.
Then what? Because of 30 years of hard root conditioning to your brain, it is now WIRED (or a better word "FUCKED"!)! Your "mind" is "set"! You now have a "mindset" that can be driven only by unhappiness and goal, you won't be able to stop that! You won't be able to get happy!
A trained muscle is very hard to be untrained if you do it wrongly! A kid who
is a virgin has no experience in badminton can easily be trained to be a world champion rather than an OK-OK player who has been practicing and playing with the wrong tactics! The same goes to the conditioning of your brain and all the wiring of your brain neurons (Once it is fucked, DHA and EPA can't help anymore,they call it "Fucked up brain")!
After so many years of "practicing", it becomes a habit. You can't just stop after you reach your goal and be happily-ever-after! You have been living in the "suffering now for the future mode" for so long and when the "future" really comes, you can't experience it because of your poor habit, there is no "now" but only "future"!
So maybe after 2 weeks of fulfillment and satisfaction, your will get uncomfortable and unhappy again (like Robert Kiyosaki having a vacation in Fiji Island after he is "free" but can't even finish his planned vacation and have to return earlier!). For the last 30 years, you never really learn how to be happy. Your "happy" software is not installed in your "brain". The software you installed, based on the 2 rules you set earlier, is to always compare with someone better than you!
De deeeeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnggggggggggggg!
So after 2 weeks, you will start back your old routine, your old habit. You simply can't stop. The momentum is so big, the brain is so fucked up. So now, you find someone even richer and compare yourself to him. You "enjoy" being "unhappy" again. You increase your "what you want" from x to 1,000 times x so you need a higher "what you have" to make yourself happy. You set new goals only to curse yourself more, to a never ending stream of suffering. You live again in the "future", expecting one day you will be happy. Unfortunately,
To be HAPPY, it is not in the future. It is RIGHT NOW.
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Homework #1
Find 6 people (friends/relatives/neighbors/enemies…) that are poorer than you and remind yourself everyday that you are richer than them!
[If you end up being 1 of the 6 that is selected by your friends, be proud because you just make someone happy! Bill Gates will even envy you because he can't serve that role, no one can put him in their list!]
Homework #2
Take out your bank account book, divide the balance by 2 and set it as the amount "you need" to be happy. And remind yourself that anytime you have that amount, you are happy.
[If you account balance drop, divide it again by 2 to get a new "what you need" but on the other hand, don't increase it when you have more money so your "what you need" is always kept at a low base, making you "richer and richer" in the future]
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It sounds very "ugly" and "unethical" but it is definitely a better alternative than to set up painful goals such as "I want to be richer than you" or "I want to make more money ."
Of course, we do have more "beautiful" spiritual ways to attain even better results, which is the "no comparing" method which should be our ultimate goal in the future. If you don't need to compare, how do you know if you are rich or poor?! It is even more powerful and effective because you don't even need to "think"!
But since our mind still like to think a lot and compare a lot, it is a difficult to stop comparing right now, but it is easier to change the object of our comparison right now. So we try to cheat by changing the object of our comparison, by selecting something "better" to compare with! And "mind" you, cheating the "mind" works! Even this method is "lower standard" like Proton, it is still a car dude!
Mummy Dog and her Bibi Doggie
Bibi doggie keep chasing its own tail but no matter how fast he "spin", bibi doggie still can't reach his tail!. The mummy dog tells her bibi, "You don't need to chase your tail because you will never get it! But it's already with you RIGHT NOW, no matter where you go, it will follow you".
Oh, by the way, your last homework -
Homework #3
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21 Responses to "Deriving the Rule of Happiness (IQ Not Required)"
on 26 Oct 2009 at 8:44 pm1RenHong
I think it's our instinct to compare things which is a strong force will drive us from satisfaction to greed! Somehow, i do agree with you most of us will not seems enough with what we have but i think is the fear of losing (your status,fame,reputation,financial status*eg) which make us fall deeper.
Anyway, this post is inspiring =) and happy b'day to my mama and i miss u so much
on 27 Oct 2009 at 9:23 am2Xyean
A very good trick to diver the way of release pressure.
Some people will call this as excuses of losers, especially those success LCLY guys..
But this can't be taken as a standard to live forward, not in the current age because you can't survive if you're not equipped with necessary sense of comparison.
Human are born to take pressure, risk, stress or troubles so that they can create a better world for future. (This not for their own satisfication but they did in the sake to benefit the mankind)
The odd rules that you mentioned at first are still able to carry out the happiness to man who paid a hard work into it.. But what measure here is not the result but the process that they went through it..
Just a little share!
on 27 Oct 2009 at 9:33 am3Seb
That's nice! Actually social psychology, the same thing is said, to keep our self-esteem up, downward comparison is required! It's nothing to be ashamed of, it's not bragging, it's not selfish; it's perfectly sane!
on 27 Oct 2009 at 9:51 am4pharmalogik
hahaha….i like your post..
No wonder you said you like 'The power of Now' so much. I think the basis of the book is sound, but I still have some reservations on the author undergoing an 'instant awakening'.
Great post. A great distillation of the recommended books.
hmm..i think you have just summarized everything about "happiness comes from within". Just wonder, when you get "richer" and happier, what do you do next? as in, what should I do/focus after that? since we are all almost with a "fucked up brain" already
on 27 Oct 2009 at 3:06 pm7Sourpuss
I think, rules are the main problem we have. As if we do not have enough of them already (crappy shit like speed limit), Now we are embedding them into our lives? Rules are good if it helps. To many rules will leads to rigid humans (everything is regulated ie everyone wants to be rich and powerful ). Sooner or later we will only have 1 goal and the earth become stereotype. seems impossible think again
1. Male will only have 1 goal : COD as much until he dies, and fuck loads of women especially lin zhi ling b4 they die, then lin zhi ling will be so doom.
2. Female will only wish menstruation never exist.
The more people wants to be in control and be extremely powerful. The nearer we move towards cloning (end of world to me). you like that idea now? u want what u want and wish people to eat your shits? then in the future only your face is surviving in the surface of earth. nothing else.
there are no recipe to happiness. It is all about perspective and perception. The day you know whether or not you are truly happy is the day you die.
am always fun reading your writing! hahah! keep it going~
on 29 Oct 2009 at 9:01 am10TAJUL ARIFFIN
Mr. Yap..you are so genius..i'll start changing my way of thinking.TQ sir.
on 31 Oct 2009 at 8:41 pm11Jek
Do you read 59 seconds think a little change a lot ?
on 14 Nov 2009 at 12:23 am13Jek
Well, i not yet buy it as it is around rm70 @@ . Seen that you read a lot of book , i though you might have read this as well and can give some opinion =) . It is recommend as a good book in some forum , they mention that after reading this book , it will save you from spending too much time/$$ on other 'motivational' books.
on 10 Dec 2009 at 2:22 am14kyle911
y eat strawberry ? LMAO
on 11 Jan 2010 at 2:57 pm15mat
I think the crux of the matter to know what one really wants and what is important. if going after what we want is jeopardising our priorities; that it is no longer a viable pursuit. Nonetheless, i enjoy reading your post. Thanks for sharing.
on 18 Jan 2010 at 4:08 pm16Wai Wai
I like to go for happy hour after work (drinking in the pub) almost everyday. Been drinking for many years (bad habit). Spend half of my earnings to this bad habit. I have tried to quit but the local pub I hang out drinking is just 5 minutes drive from my house and I have to pass by that pub everyday after work. Every time I told myself to go home after work but always ended up turning my car into the car park to the pub. Every time I limit myself for only 2 beers then go home but ended up with 6-8 beers. Pocket burn!
One day I did a little mind trick to myself, as usual after work I'll drive home, but this time 20m before I pass by that pub I'll tell myself.. I'll go for a couple of drink! Let's go home to have a shower first, perhaps a hydrating facial mask and a new make-up…
guess what happen? I always ended up sleeping or watching DVD at home. I know myself very well, once I reach home and had shower, I'll never want to go out! So a little mind trick works! Now I have stop drinking for 3 months. I learn to do this before I read your blog..
on 10 Apr 2010 at 7:39 pm17kerapusenangin
thanks ah yap for sharing this post. interesting ways of cheating our own mind
on 26 Aug 2010 at 3:39 am18vinext
tons of reading forms how u think
u hv overtaken me,for investment related,i think we r at par
on 07 Mar 2012 at 9:26 am20wen wen
hi ah yap,
new fan of your blog, good place to hang around and learn stuff. anyway, this is way too late, but do u mean ko ko leslie cheung instead?


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Postprocessing your correspondence
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Customer Experience Management – A Case Study in Failure
The story starts with me. I am an avid outdoors type person. I love having good ski, snowboard, mountain bike, kayak and hiking gear. I generally buy nothing short of the best as I've found myself in places where your life depends upon your equipment.
Recently I bought some Vibram hiking boots from Mountain Equipment Co-op. They basically wore out in about a year despite the fact they were only one of 6 pairs of footwear I used in that year. This includes the gaping holes in the toes and any of the plastic area. I called MEC which were very helpful but they said my best bet was to talk to Vibram myself. I went to the website twice now and left messages telling someone what happened and asking at the very least if they would contact me. I feel the quality of the boots is real bad and could have been possibly improved by the company examining them (I will otherwise not use them anyways).
Anyways, long story short, no one returned any communication to me. The company has permanently lost me as a customer over this. They showed no consideration for me as a customer.
Now while I rant about other companies on this blog with similar story (Rheem Water Heaters, Hillcrest Plumbing – both criminals IMO and The evil City Center Florists), I also want to commend companies that do really good things with customer experience. I recently made a post applauding Marriott Hotels for outstanding customer experiences. I've had similar great experiences with Shaw Cable Group, Delta Faucets (great warranty service) and others like Mountain Equipment Co-op.
So what are the lessons to be learned here?
1. If you run a company, you can no longer ignore the power of the people to spread bad news of horrible experiences via social media such as blogs, twitter, facebook etc. A simple person like myself can put such a message out and it will eventually reach potentially millions of your customers.
2. I would suspect people are much more motivated to spread negative experience than good ones. Companies like Vibram and ignore your customers when they have serious and legitimate complaints, it will hurt you. Just read the follow on messages on the City Center florists blog post about how others reacted to their deceptive and illegal business practices – http://technoracle.blogspot.com/2010/03/vancouver-city-centre-florists-use.html
3. You need a platform to reconcile the multiple channels of experience into a single view at your company. This should take into account social media activities as well as data from existing business processes and CRM type systems.
4. Understanding the context of an experience is essential. This will probably involve ontology work or semantics for a shared understanding of the possibilities, meaning and concepts within an experience, with inside of and outside of the enterprise.
5. The old way of doing business is dead! Big multinationals cannot simply adopt the Ostrich move (stick your head in the sand until danger goes away). YOu must be proactive in ensuring your customers have the best experience or they will not be your customers much longer.
In closing, if I owned stock in Vibram, I'd be selling it as fast as I can. Bad experience, shoddy workmanship and no desire to communicate with customers are a recipe for financial disaster.
Original article at http://technoracle.blogspot.com/2011/03/customer-experience-management-case.html.
How the architect looks at Customer Experience (video)
The development of LiveCycle ES as a service oriented platform, essentially what the industry calls an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), enabled data to be aggregated from various sources and gave enterprises the ability to access data and orchestrate data and services into processes, both short and long lived. The acquisition of Omniture gave Adobe the leading web analytics suite. The acquisition of Day Software completed the technology for delivering CX and integrating social media channels however the integration of these technologies will really shine in the next evolution of the LiveCycle ES platform. Additionally, the acquisition of Demdex provides the next evolution of our enterprise platform with the ability to enable clients to aggregate and manage their strategic data assets as well as make data actionable in a broad range of third-party advertising technologies. Even the latest beta release of Flash Player 10.3 is rife with new media measurement features that allow deeper access of analytics data.
The mainstream press seems to have missed the agile Adobe acquisitions in terms of where the company is heading and what it will be able to deliver to enterprise customers in years to come. Some analysts like RedMonk, Forrester and, Gartner seemed to have taken notice though. We've quietly built ourselves into a superpower in terms of being able to deliver CX to our customers.
To sum this up, architects MUST consider the view of overall customer experience over the lifetime of the relationship between their enterprise and the customers. The alpha architects will need to consider how to successfully integrate RIA data with back end systems and distributed web data, sometimes in the form of a trail of digital breadcrumbs. When they consider the many aspects and challenges of this view of architecture, it will become apparent who has positioned themselves as the leader.
Enjoy the video!
Original article at http://technoracle.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-architect-looks-at-customer.html.


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Hi! this is my first song hehehe! Empires of Anchor & Braille! The best!
[Leoo Espejo]
God Bless! :)
Intro: D Em C D
Verse 1:
D Em
the bridge I build you seem to tear down
you said you liked how it looks
lying on the ground
D Em
do you like it whem i'm poor, when I beg
seems I take two steps forward
D Em C D
then you break both my legs
G Em
don't cry for me
don't turn around
know you've got other empires
to burn down
G Em Am D
Verse 2:, SAME CHORDS
death strikes quick the needle she stings
pain seems so fitting
on these broken strings
kingdom's built on love for myself
lost in my ambitions
now cast to the seas
drowning in an ocean of tides
where excess and pity
seem to coincide
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Alcon Vision Care (formerly CIBA) sells
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diameter of 14.0 mm. They also have the Focus Dailies with a
base curve of 8.6 and a diameter of 13.8 mm. Bausch and Lomb
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and a diameter of 14.2 mm. Clearlab provides the Eyedia
Fresh Daily Disposable with a base curve of 8.6 or 8.7 and a
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Preferred Vision Group sells the Preferred Dailies with a
base curve of 8.6 and a diameter of 14.0 mm. Vistakon sells
the 1 day Acuvue Trueye with UV blocking. This lens has a
base curve of 8.5 and a diameter of 14.2 mm. They also have
the 1 Day Acuvue with base curves of 8.5 or 9.0 and a
diameter of 14.2 mm and the 1 Day Acuvue Moist with base
curves of 8.5 or 9.0 and a diameter of 14.2 mm. Orion Vision
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Toric 1 Day lenses are available from Cooper Vision-the
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Vistakon-the 1 day Acuvue Moist for Astigmatism, base curve
8.5, 14.5 mm diameter, and Bausch and Lomb-the Soflens Daily
Disposable for Astigmatism, base curve 8.6, diameter 14.2
There should be no reason that any
patient cannot be fit with a soft contact lens or a soft
toric contact lens. Many patients who do have problems with
their comfort have a fitting problem. If the fit is not
exact then vision will be compromised and a patient will not
be happy. There are certainly patients who have comfort
problems based on dryness, protein buildup, or allergies and
there are lenses available that can satisfy these patients.
Some patients may feel more comfortable in the newer
silicone hydrogel lenses. The soft lens must be centered
symmetrically over the cornea and move freely on the bulbar
conjunctiva. There must be adequate movement when blinking
in order to allow oxygen and tears to continue to nourish
the cornea. The various base curves and diameters that are
listed allow the ECP to choose from different base curves
and diameters which will affect the fit, the comfort level,
and the visual acuity of a patient.
If a lens appears to be too tight, the
base curve should be flattened or reduced. Going from a base
curve of 8.5 to 8.6 may improve this problem. The ECP can
also reduce the diameter of the lens to improve the tight
fit or the lack of movement such as changing the diameter of
14.2 mm to 14.0 mm. If a lens is too loose and moves
excessively, the ECP can steepen the base curve such as
changing the base curve from an 8.6 to an 8.5 or increase
the diameter from 14.0 mm to 14.2 mm. Fitting parameters
vary widely for every patient and there are always
exceptions to every rule. If dailies do not fit correctly,
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Didn't Overture come out in like 2008 or something.
Last GG I played was Dust Strikers that came out in 2006 on the DS.
Been playing some Bioshock infinite lately in a speedrun mood and it makes the game quite fun :8
Isn't Blazblue basically Guilty Gear in all but name? I loved GG but never actually got around to playing Blazblue.
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-No dust button. Instead each character has a special button that has a unique function for them.
-Hitstun decay. I hate this. Some people love it. Whateva.
-Two button throws (ugh) and an exclamation point that tells you you need to tech (I actually loved this Im sure a lot of people didnt though)
-You can combo into throws, though it increases tech time. It's like KoF but you get a chance to escape basically.
-IKs have been replaced by astral moves. Idr how these work but they're crazy flashy.
-Fucking bars. Everyone has their own bar. Bars have bars. Hope you like bar management.
-Combos much much easier to do because the game buffers your inputs for like 5 frames I think. I'm all for accessibility honestly but it's ruined by the hitstun decay.
-Vampires are no longer manly awesome dudes they are lolis and generic anime guys in red coats.
-And so much more I can't remember
I didn't think the game was bad or anything. I just hated the hitstun decay -- you'd think hey I should be able to combo this. Well you can, but you need to sacrifice a large chunk of the combo so that the opponent can't punish you when you unexpectedly decay all their hitstun. Also the game was extremely poorly balanced in its first revision. Nu-13 is like... imagine fighting dhalsim if he had 18 arms.


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'Sh*tfight' after dog dies of suspected heat stress
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- January 07, 2014
A DOG booked in to fly from Darwin to Perth has died.
Another passenger, who was also transporting her dog on the same Qantas flight on Saturday, said that she was disappointed at the airline's conduct.
"Saturday was a particularly hot day and we had to drop off our dog two hours before departure," she said.
"While we were boarding the plane I saw one of the hostesses call the lady off the plane to go and see her dog - it was obviously not looking good.
"I heard the owner say that it was probably heat stress - and she came back on to the plane crying."
The passenger, who did not wish to be named, said when she retrieved her dog in Perth she found out the other woman's pet had died.
"There was a big s*** fight happening," she said.
The woman said the two-hour waiting time to get on the plane might have contributed to the dog's death.
"I think it's ridiculous animals have to be dropped off so early," she said.
"They probably sit in a hot tin shed before they are loaded on to the plane," she said.
"They have to sit for so long and then endure the stress of a flight."
Qantas did not respond to requests for comment from the NT News yesterday.
Last January, Qantas came under fire for changing its restrictions on breeds allowed to fly.
American staffordshire terriers became the sixth breed banned from travelling on Australian Air Express, the Qantas-owned freight carrier used to transport animals on Qantas and QantasLink flights.
In September 2012, a crocodile escaped from its cage on a Qantas flight from Brisbane to Melbourne and was discovered roaming through the cargo hold.
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Kim of Darwin Posted at 6:12 AM January 09, 2014
I have booked our beautiful Labradore on a flight so he doesn't have to endure 5 days travelling in the car ( which he would love ) but accommodation is hard to find around the NT area that except big dogs. I am seriously now considering whether to cancel his flight as Labs cant regulate their body heat that well and he is a big part of our family. Concerned!
Jack Sez of Darwin Posted at 2:03 PM January 08, 2014
Australian Air Express recently refused to embark our small pet dog because he was going berserk in his travel cage. Inconvenient? It sure was but it was the right decision on the part of the staff. To the owner of the dead dog: 1. Sorry for the loss of your pet. 2. Take ownership for your decision: You weighed up the inconvenience of making alternative arrangements for your pet and the cost of your airfare versus the welfare of the animal.
Scully of Perth Posted at 9:06 PM January 07, 2014
When my dogs fly I freeze a large water bottle and put it in their cage so they can lick the side of it when it is defrosting. My dogs have flown all around Australia with Qantas and they have been great and ensured the dogs had water. Sorry to the owner of the dog whom died but if it wasn't looking good before hand why proceed to fly with the animal?


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oh well that wont work for me... so has anyone gotten the pokemon pearl or diamond... not sure if those r the names... i played it b4 but it was a demo... it was fun... but i cant buy it cause i dont have the DS...
My Auntie's got the japanese copy. She's Japanese.
awesome... i want it... but i don't know if i'll like it......... so does anyone have it?
well maybe its released sooner for you, being in the USA. Usually we get things late here Mine are still in training, i'll never beat Brawly at this rate xDtheres nothing good to train against though. Plus i need to make up the rest of my team, i still only have two.
really? did u like start a new game?
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"Production switching to 70% Europe 30% US in August according to Tesla sales rep"
"I was in store yesterday and overheard sales rep tell customer that waiting time in US may go from 4 to 8 weeks now to 4 to 6 months in next few months. When I asked why she said that in August they are going to start producing 70% of the cars for Europe in August."
"I was skeptical as well so I quizzed the sales rep a little and she said that they had all just received an email instructing them to notify U.S customer to expect longer delays. She said that they are going to focus on European countries where steering wheel is on left side first. I guess 4 month delays are feasible if they cut production for US customers down to 30%. I was actually a little concerned that demand was low enough in U.S. that they could cut production for us that much."
4-6 months gives a built-in backlog increase of about 6,OOO, and plenty of time to increase shift work, possibly to get another line in place. Wouldn't be surprised if demand reached 8-10K/quarter by then. Asia will be a factor by 6 mo. out, too. Interesting times!
That doesn't really sound too crazy given that In the US, there was a huge pent up demand for the Model S that has been mostly addressed, and now you have that issue in Europe and Asia. There thousands of people in these markets who would have bought the car earlier if they had only been able to. So now you have to catch up with that demand, and at the same time, the demand in US and Canada should be coming in at a lower pace given that they have mostly satisfied the years of pent up demand we had.
I hope so, there are way too few Model Ss on the road here.
I think this thread is a bit of a misnomer... The way you stated the question you made it sound like they would be producing 70% of their cars in the EU. The parts are still made in California, then they are shipped to the Tilburg plant in the Netherlands to be assembled.
I don't doubt that 70% of the production will be dedicated to being shipped to Tilburg since it is a new market, but it doesn't mean that the US plant will be idle. ;)
Recent video of Elon being interviewed by European media--he stated that it was going to be about 50-50 US/European production, with lots of pent up demand in Europe, so adjust your ordering and anticipated delivery times accordingly.
I don't think the "pent-up demand" in the US has even been dented. "In the wild" exposure is still on a steep upslope; no promotion beyond mall walk-bys has occurred, and the second and third layers of buyers (who require more ramp-up time to budget the purchase and rationalize it) are due to become the majority. Get George B. a little bit drunk, and ask him how much he could boost US demand if the gloves were off. I bet he would give you quite a show!
And then comes GenIII. There's an "overlap production" question here, too. How versatile will the lines be that do GenIII? Will they be able to do S & X if that demand is too high for the dedicated lines? Etc.
Then (or before Gen III) there's the "pent-up" Get2 cabriolet and pick-up markets to consider.
typo: Gen2 cabriolet
I ordered my Tesla S on November 4. Today, the service center in Costa Mesa, CA (7 miles from my home) told me delivery was scheduled for the middle of October. As a rule they said 6 to 8 weeks has been their experience -- so far.
November 4 ? As in 10 months ago ? I am doubting the car will take nearly a year to deliver.
I suspect he meant to type September. They share the same 5 last letters. ;)
I just hope I get mine first... They told me late October and that would be about six weeks... Fingers crossed...
@BrianH & @chetb He could have meant September, or the more plausible explanation, chetb is a time traveller.
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Hi Ranchers,
I am facing the problem in Firefox version 3.0.6 it was working fine till Firefox version 3.0.3 as well as other browsers such as IE5,6,7 and Flock
Scenario :
Web page loads successfully first time. Then, redirected to the alert message box. While returning back from the alert message box which is having only one button OK. The parent page goes blank.
But, when I had explicitly put an alert message in the javascript function then it is working fine!
Totally confused about the behaviour of the browsers.
Is there any way to sort the above problem.
Please refer the below code snippet
<SCRIPT> function onLoadWindow(){ alert(\n\"HI\"\n)"); } </SCRIPT> .... <BODY onload =onLoadWindow() > .......
When look in the Error Console of the firefox it displays the onLoadWindow() not defined.
If it was not defined then how come the IE and FLOCK refer and display the page correctly?
Please help totally messed up....! Because the same is working in the lower version of Firefox!
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You need quotes around it
Better to use the following in your script tag
window.onload = functionName;
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Hi Eric,
I have given the double quotes around the function call! Then also it did not working.
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The code looks fine to me except for the strange looking alert alert(\n\"HI\"\n)"); why are the quotes so weird and whats with the extra brackets? There is no way this could work on any browser
What works fine for me (Firefox 3.0.6) is
<html> <head><title></title> <SCRIPT> function onLoadWindow(){ alert("\n\"HI\"\n"); } </SCRIPT> </head> <body onload =onLoadWindow() ></body> </html>
Of course putting inline
script code is considered pretty bad practice, but I don't think firefox should be stopping you. The problem you getting is almost associated with something else being wrong in your code. Probably you need to post you actual code, if you still face the problem.
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Thank you for the Reply,
Now I have modify the code as par the suggestion missing quotes in alert box.
It works fine for some time and after two three attempts means refreshing the page,the error console displays the same error method not defined.
Not solved. I had check the source code again and found that method is present.
Is there any property which we need to handle propertly? in firefox!
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I tried out the code too and it works fine for me (actually its elementary Java Script and should work anyways).
More ever the code working fine a couple of time and then not working is pretty strange behavior for Java Script (well unless Ajax is involved! Then it starts to get complicated
Can you post the exact source code that you are trying out?
Also can you give a screen shot or exact posting of the error it shows in console? BTW (by the way) which console are you talking about - are you using firebug?
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Error console in Firefox browser -> Tools -> Error Console
Yes I have checked in Firebug also but the same problem? It displays the method undefined
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Works fine for me. No Errors in the FireFox Error Console or Firebug ...
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Padres have signed 71 of their 85 picks over past two years, including first 19 in 2013
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2 (51) OF Michael Gettys (Gainesville HS, Ga.) $1.08M
3 (86) RHP Zech Lemond (Rice) $632K
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The one who got away.
Especially during leaner years, teams' drafts are often as much about players slipping through their fingers as they are about the players they sign, and the Padres have a long history of what-ifs to ponder.
Within the past six years alone, Jason Kipnis slithered away as a fourth-round selection in 2008, as did Florida prep pitcher Karsten Whitson in 2010 as a wasted first-round pick that could have been better spent on someone like, say, White Sox ace Chris Sale.
"I don't spend a lot of times worrying about the ones who got away," Assistant General Manager Chad MacDonald said. "We're going to draft guys and we're going to try to sign as many as we can. The ones that get away? We'll worry more about the ones we got."
The ones they got this year figure to be bountiful, too, buoyed both by a college-heavy draft class and newer rules that have inflated signing trends across the game.
Player signings have jumped 10 percent in the first two years following the latest collective bargaining agreement, which provided further draft pick insurance in the early rounds and installed structured bonus pools that guide all parties toward specific values attached to each draft slot in the top 10 rounds.
It's all helped the Padres sign 71 of their 85 picks over the last two years, including their first 19 in 2013 and their first 17 in 2012.
The Padres' top pick in 2014, North Carolina State shortstop Trea Turner, likely will command a signing bonus around the $2.7 million assigned to the 13th overall slot — quite a bit more than the six-figure bonus he walked away from three years earlier as the Pirates' 20th-round selection.
Neither Turner nor the Padres are expecting this round of negotiations to lead anywhere near that scenario.
"I won't know the whole situation until I see everything in front of me, but I want to play baseball," Turner said. "I don't want to sit all summer and not do anything. I want to play."
Gifting Turner a signing bonus near Major League Baseball's assigned value would leave the Padres about $3.38 million to dish out to the remaining players selected inside the top 10 rounds. While the team doesn't expect to need to defer savings in that area of the draft for any bonuses larger than $100,000 in the final 30 rounds, they might need more than the allotted $1.08 million to lure second-round outfielder Michael Gettys away from his scholarship to the University of Georgia.
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"We think he's going to be interested in playing pro ball," Padres Scouting Director Billy Gasparino said while noting. "We still have to have conversations, but we're confident that once we talk to him we'll get something done."
Other tough signings might include a handful of high-schoolers selected outside the top five rounds, many of whom have scholarships that likely will enter into their negotiations tactics, from fifth-round catcher Zach Risedorf (University of Connecticut) to 19th-round pitcher Justin Lewis (University of Kentucky) to 40th-round catcher Bryce Carter (Stanford).
The latter's commitment to Assistant General Manager A.J. Hinch's alma mater — and that's no coincidence — is considered strong, as was the commitment to Virginia that pitcher Connor Jones honored last year even after the Padres selected him in the 21st round.
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Employees of Sendik's, 8616 W. North Ave., called police about the man after they witnessed strange behavior on his part at 4:50 p.m. Jan. 6. The man was wearing a coat much too large for him, tried purchasing a bottle of distilled water and then said he didn't have the 99 cents to pay for it.
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Converted closer Alfredo Aceves coasted through five innings, Mike Napoli and Daniel Nava drove in two runs apiece and the Red Sox, bonded by the tragedy in Boston, struck quickly against Justin Masterson and beat the Cleveland Indians 6-3 on Wednesday night for their fifth straight win.
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Dodging trouble in the first four innings, Masterson (3-1) failed to go at least six innings for the first time and couldn't stop the Indians from dropping their third straight.
"It wasn't as fun as the last three I pitched, but over a season when you have 30-plus starts you're going to have some like this," Masterson said. "I kept it close as much as I could."
Converted closer Alfredo Aceves coasted through five innings, Mike Napoli and Daniel Nava drove in two runs apiece and the Red Sox, bonded by the tragedy in Boston, scored three runs off Masterson in the first.
Aceves (1-0), who began the season as a reliever, took a shutout into the sixth before giving up three runs. Andrew Bailey, filling for injured closer Joel Hanrahan, worked the ninth for his first save as Boston's bullpen finished with four perfect innings, striking out eight of the 12 batters they faced.
Napoli had an RBI single in the first when the Red Sox scored three off Masterson, who has already beaten R.A. Dickey and David Price and came in without allowing a run in 19 straight innings.
But the big right-hander he was in trouble from the start as Boston loaded the bases three times in the first four innings. Somehow, Masterson managed to keep the Indians within three runs.
"He had to pitch out of a lot of traffic," Indians manager Terry Francona said. "He had to bob and weave."
Nick Swisher and Jason Giambi hit back-to-back homers for the Indians in the sixth when they chased Aceves.
Boston's starter coasted through four innings before Cleveland loaded the bases with two outs in the fifth. Asdrubal Cabrera then hit a liner to deep right that appeared as if it might clear Shane Victorino's head and the bases, but the former center fielder who was pursued as a free agent by the Indians this winter, ran it down and made the catch.
Cabrera ripped off his helmet and slammed it down with two hands in frustration.
Francona thought Cabrera's drive was headed to the wall.
"I sure did," he said. "There's not a ball hit when we're hitting that I don't think is going to be a hit, but saying that, he put a good swing on it."
Page 2 of 3 - The Red Sox hung a gray "617 Boston Strong" jersey in their dugout, just as they did for Tuesday's emotional series opener — one day after the deadly marathon bombings back home. The jersey has become a symbol of unity for the club, which will be back at Fenway Park on Friday to open a 10-game homestand.
Victorino, Jacoby Ellsbury and Mike Carp had three hits apiece as the Red Sox built Aceves a 5-0 lead.
The Indians weren't at full speed. Center fielder Michael Bourn went on the disabled list and second baseman Jason Kipnis missed his fourth game in a row with a sore elbow.
Blanked for five innings, the Indians finally got to Aceves and chased him with three runs in the sixth.
Carlos Santana walked leading off and Swisher followed with his second homer, a shot into the bullpen in center. Giambi then hit his 430th career homer — and first hit since signing with the Indians — to bring Cleveland within 5-3. Mark Reynolds hit a double and Aceves was lifted for Junichi Tazawa, who got three outs to end the inning.
The Red Sox added an unearned run in the eighth to make it 6-3. Ellsbury led off with a single, moved up on a wild pitch and scored from second when reliever Joe Smith fielded Victorino's bunt and threw wildly to first for an error.
The mood was much looser in Boston's clubhouse before the game than on Tuesday, when players solemnly went about their business with the tragedy so fresh on their minds.
Several players sat on a large leather sectional couch in the middle of the room and watched news developments from Washington and Boston on a large-screen TV. Others stayed closer to their cubicles and spent the time leading up to pregame batting practice reading and talking.
A close group to start, the Red Sox have become even tighter since the bombings. After they arrived Monday from Boston, just hours after the explosions at the marathon finish line, manager John Farrell said 22 players went out to an impromptu dinner together in downtown Cleveland.
"I don't want to downplay the events that we just left in Boston, but I think what we've quickly come to see is a group that likes to be around one another," Farrell said. "Those are encouraging signs."
Masterson came in riding his career-best scoreless streak, which came to an abrupt halt as the Red Sox scored three runs in their first at-bat.
Boston loaded the bases on opposite-field singles by Ellsbury and Dustin Pedroia sandwiched around Masterson hitting Victorino.
Napoli, who drove in three runs on Tuesday, hit a two-run single — also the other way — and the Red Sox went up 3-0 on Nava's single.
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