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Monday, 30 April 2012
Saturday, 28 April 2012
Pennetier Pays Homage to Mozart
A near sell-out audience is a familiar sight at Hong Kong Sinfonietta concerts these days, since the decision was made to put no quota on the sale of student tickets (half-price). Indeed, a flyer in the programme informed concert-goers, while soliciting them for support, of course, that nearly half of tickets are sold to aspiring Yundi Lis and Vanessa Maes.
While we're on the theme of scantily-clad, pouting musicians using sex to sell themselves, things have clearly got out of hand when one gets every Tam, Park and Hari staring seductively into the camera lens from above their off the shoulder number. I'm sure that Yeol Eum Son, due in Hong Kong on 2 June, plays a mean keyboard, but oil painting the Korean ain't. She'd also save money on the electricity bill if she got the studio to turn the wind machine off.
All the best things in yesterday's concert at the City Hall took place in the first half, where we were treated first to a young, but out of nappies, Mozart's Serenata Notturna in D and then his Piano Concerto in D minor. It was a pity for me at any rate that, with the Sinfonietta starting a series of concerts in which they will play all of Johannes Brahms's symphonies, they should choose to start with the Third, in my book the least melodious and dullest of the lot. Or, as one nineteenth century critic put it, "Many music lovers may prefer the titanic force of the First, others the untroubled charm of the Second. But the Third strikes me as artistically the most perfect". Which may be translated as "better than it sounds", as another critic once said of Wagner.
It is unlikely that Mozart's "Nighttime" Serenade was played outdoors in his own day. Now, we are told, this is not so much because it would be easy for a strolling violinist to stumble into a rose bush or even because the double-bassist might baulk at having to hump around his instrument (they made special strap-on ones for marching about with), as because they hadn't yet come up with a portable set of timpani, and Mozart was damned if he were going to rescore his piece for snare drums and have the whole of Salzburg laugh at him.
The piece, a delight from beginning to end of its 15-minute length, featured some nice repartee between the solo second violin and the double bass and a jazzy solo from the afore-mentioned kettle drums, expertly wielded as always by Chau Chin Tung. And was that the theme from the third movement of Beethoven's Violin Concerto that I heard from Concertmaster James Cuddeford?
And so we come to the highlight of this programme, which 'though part of Le French May actually managed to contain by my reckoning no French music, if, as my more musical friend suggested, Pennetier's encore was an early work by Mozart - which places it somewhere between play school and primary school.
If one had never seen Jean-Claude play and saw him on stage, I think "French" might be your last guess as to his provenance. Flamboyant he is not. He is to shameless showing-off what Lang Lang is to subtlety. Whether hunched over the keyboard, shuffling on and off the stage or taking a bow and breaking into his sole smile of the night, Pennetier appears blissfully unconcerned about ephemeral matters. It is clear that it is the music that matters to him.
All the best things in yesterday's concert at the City Hall took place in the first half, where we were treated first to a young, but out of nappies, Mozart's Serenata Notturna in D and then his Piano Concerto in D minor. It was a pity for me at any rate that, with the Sinfonietta starting a series of concerts in which they will play all of Johannes Brahms's symphonies, they should choose to start with the Third, in my book the least melodious and dullest of the lot. Or, as one nineteenth century critic put it, "Many music lovers may prefer the titanic force of the First, others the untroubled charm of the Second. But the Third strikes me as artistically the most perfect". Which may be translated as "better than it sounds", as another critic once said of Wagner.
It is unlikely that Mozart's "Nighttime" Serenade was played outdoors in his own day. Now, we are told, this is not so much because it would be easy for a strolling violinist to stumble into a rose bush or even because the double-bassist might baulk at having to hump around his instrument (they made special strap-on ones for marching about with), as because they hadn't yet come up with a portable set of timpani, and Mozart was damned if he were going to rescore his piece for snare drums and have the whole of Salzburg laugh at him.
The piece, a delight from beginning to end of its 15-minute length, featured some nice repartee between the solo second violin and the double bass and a jazzy solo from the afore-mentioned kettle drums, expertly wielded as always by Chau Chin Tung. And was that the theme from the third movement of Beethoven's Violin Concerto that I heard from Concertmaster James Cuddeford?
And so we come to the highlight of this programme, which 'though part of Le French May actually managed to contain by my reckoning no French music, if, as my more musical friend suggested, Pennetier's encore was an early work by Mozart - which places it somewhere between play school and primary school.
If one had never seen Jean-Claude play and saw him on stage, I think "French" might be your last guess as to his provenance. Flamboyant he is not. He is to shameless showing-off what Lang Lang is to subtlety. Whether hunched over the keyboard, shuffling on and off the stage or taking a bow and breaking into his sole smile of the night, Pennetier appears blissfully unconcerned about ephemeral matters. It is clear that it is the music that matters to him.
I was worried for a moment during the long orchestral opening to the piece that he was going to nod off, but I think he was just checking that he hadn't put the buttons in the wrong hole of the hand-me-down Chinese-style shirt previously sported by Lynn Harrell and a host of other ageing Western visitors.
By the end of the beautifully lyrical slow movement, he had the audience - even the toddlers and the coughers - in the palm of his hand and had recharged his batteries sufficiently to launch into the Mannheim Rocket of the final movement.
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Labels: Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Music
Friday, 27 April 2012
Sex, Religion and Politics Still a Heady Mix
As we head into the holiday weekend in Hong Kong (yes, Saturday is still technically classed as a working day here, so if a public holiday falls on a Saturday we don't get a day off on the Monday), I thought a spot of navel-gazing was in order. This seemed even more appropriate given that the chap to celebrate whose birthday we're being given the day off (or not) must have spent many an hour gazing at his navel as he attempted to empty his mind of all earthly cares. Well, in his youth, anyway, before he became so Zen-like that his metabolism went from merely laid-back to catatonic and the fat started to accumulate.
Taking a look at the 20 most popular entry pages for this blog this month, I discovered an extraordinary thing: every single one of those posts related to one or more (or all – how exciting does it get?) of those three topics that one is not allowed to discuss in polite society – sex, politics and religion.
Coming in at number one is "CYLeung 99% Certain to be Next Chief Executive", followed closely by another Leung-related post, which I won't bother to name since they're all much the same really. At number three we have a sleeper hit, "Leon Panetta a Clone Secret Files Claim". Next we have "Susan Li, a Brief Snatch", which Foamier has clicked on 178 times – just how many boxes of Tempo does that constitute? – followed by "Good Golly!" (nice to see that anti-political correctness, or common sense as I like to call it, is still alive and kicking).
Looking further down the list, I see that at number 14 there is an entry that combines each of the three taboo topics: Sun Hung Kai's "Sixth Wonder of the World". Enough to bring loathed footballer turned beloved pundit Gary Neville to scorgasm:
Enough of this rubbish. Have a great weekend, wherever you may be.
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Labels: CY Leung, Hotties, Sun Hung Kai, Visitors
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Spanish Football Giants Pay Price for Unlevel Playing Field
On Tuesday night, I must have had a premonition that something extraordinary was about to happen. Waking just after 3am, I staggered to the sitting room and switched on the telly, fully expecting
Barcelona already to be a goal up
against Chelsea in their Champions League
semi-final, as the team from
set about what most people thought would be the formality of overturning a
surprise 1-0 reverse from the first leg. Catalonia
20 minutes were on the clock and the score was 0-0. Within a few minutes, though, all that had changed as
scored two in
quick succession. Ten minutes before the end of the first half, things got even
worse for the Blues when their captain John Terry was sent off for placing his
knee in the hamstring of Alexis Sanchez, the Chilean needing little
encouragement to fall down and writhe around, thus drawing the attention of the
linesman, who promptly told the referee, resulting in an early bath for the
Neanderthal Terry, and more ignominy shortly before his appearance in court on
racism charges. Barcelona
I was about to call it a night and return to my snug when Chelsea breathed life into the tie with an excellent goal from their Brazilian Ramires, who exposed first the lack of speed of Carles Puyol – he of the Charles II barnet – and then the general inadequacy of goalkeeper Victor Valdez, who'd gone walkabouts in his penalty box, making the Brazilian's task much easier.
2-2 on aggregate at half-time, which meant that if there was no further scoring
would progress to the final on the
away goals rule. To no one's surprise, there was another goal in the second
period and it was slotted home by a Spaniard, one who'd scored a few at the
Bernabeu in his career. Unfortunately for home fans – and a shock to even the
most diehard Blue – it was scored by mega-flop Fernando Torres, who had
laboured for 15 months under his £50 million price tag before starting to look like a footballer again in
the last few weeks. Chelsea
As usual, the Spanish press had a field day – the same press who branded English referee Howard Webb a "robber" because he had the audacity to get three crucial decisions absolutely spot-on in
Spain's 2010
World Cup opener against ,
which the hosts lost 1-0. Words such as "unjust" and "unmerited" poured forth
from the scribes, but perhaps, just perhaps, they will allow themselves the
luxury of some reflection after last night Spain's other hope, Real Madrid, was
dumped out of the European Cup, this time by Bayern Munich. Switzerland
One of the roots of the problem lies in the truly "unjust" – to borrow one of the Spaniards' favourite words – financial structure that exists in the Spanish game. As opposed to the world's most lucrative league, the English Premier League, where a deal is done between the clubs en bloc and the various television networks, in
the clubs are free to negotiate on their own. Thus, Barcelona and Madrid,
already guaranteed huge income through ticket sales and sponsorship deals, take
between them the lion's share of the television money too, leaving little for
the likes of former powerhouses Valencia, Seville, Atletico Madrid and Athletic
Bilbao, and almost nothing for the also-rans (Malaga, Almeria, Sporting Gijon,
Racing Santander, Valladolid, Getafe, CeltaVigo, Deportivo La Coruna, etc. etc.). Spain
While this guarantees that Madrid and Barcelona will always finish one-two, or two-one, in La Liga, crushing one of the above teams 8-0 every other week hardly prepares them for sides which are well drilled, determined and devoid of any inferiority complex.
So, for the good of Spanish football, perhaps the powers-that-be can get together and sort out a financial structure that is less "unjust". The chances of that, you ask? About the same, I would say, as Spain ceasing to point the finger at foreigners for meddling intheir Civil War, in which half a million people died, the vast majority Spaniard killed by Spaniard.
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Wednesday, 25 April 2012
A Peek at SHKP's Peak House in Mei Lam, Shatin
At the weekend, after an exhausting couple of hours of badminton at the Mei Lam Estate Sports Centre (free parking for players, by the way), I took the chance to walk the short distance beneath the thundering elevated highway that is the Shing Mun Tunnel Road (AKA Route 9) to another development that is being heavily promoted by Sun Hung Kai Properties, the rather inaptly named Peak House.
Unlike its downmarket high-rise cousin across the way, Peak One, Peak House consists of just 13 three-storey houses. Most of the units get a heated swimming pool thrown in, and there's even a rooftop garden.
From that vantage point, residents will be able to enjoy panoramic vistas of not just the local elevated road system, Shatin's own "spaghetti junction", but also the very public housing estate, resplendent in jungle green, where they can go and play badminton.
If they get their binoculars out, and the wind is not blowing particulates down from the north, they may even be able to see Lion Rock.
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Labels: Sun Hung Kai
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Politico's Mistress Explains Why She Exposed Deputy PM
It was the only way I could make money from sex
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Labels: Little Britain, Photo Captions
Monday, 23 April 2012
Caring Cant
They say charity begins at home, but obviously no one ever told the warring Brothers Kwok. The latest edition of their SHKP Quarterly contains the compulsory nauseatingly preachy and hypocritical segment, this time entitled "SHKP Club promotes family love online".
The purpose of this club, comprising prospective buyers of Sun Hung Kai's overpriced boxes on smog-bound aits as well as in the glorious motherland (one membership privilege is the chance to be badgered by desperate sales types in between their smoking breaks at a show flat for Lake Dragon – the group's latest boxed set in Guangzhou), is set out above photos of affluent middle-class types being lectured on morality by a SHKP executive, after they found one that hadn't yet been dismissed or banged up.
"The SHKP Club builds long-term relationships with members and promotes caring families and harmony society (sic) in many ways. The Club's Loving Home campaign last year included a Cherish Your Family Facebook page …blah blah."
Meanwhile, over at that bastion of ethics and morality, the Hong Kong Jockey Club, Saturday's race card bore all the marks of having been put together by someone who'd just been released from Castle Peak Hospital after having been forced to make "1,000 Knots of Love symbolizing harmony and unity to promote appreciation and tolerance among families and care for society" at the SHKP Club's latest handicraft workshop.
The day kicked off with the "Caring for the Elderly Handicap", followed tout de suite by the "Positive Ageing Handicap" and the "Nurturing the Young Handicap". The loving family members who chose to spend their weekend at the race-track at Shatin in order to buy another bed for a Jockey Club Positive Ageing Clinic were also treated to the "Passing on the Legacy Handicap" and the "Promoting an Inclusive Society Handicap", although a number of punters could be seen shaking their heads in horror and checking their online grammars when they were asked to shell out their hard-earned on the "Promoting Healthy Society Handicap", which went article-less for reasons unknown
I must admit to not altogether getting into the spirit of the day, as I was trying to think up an appropriate name for a race in honour of the disabled. The "Employ the Handicapped They're Dirt Cheap Handicap" or the "Lend a Helping Hand to the Handicapped Kickstart Their Wheelchair Handicap" were the best I could some up with.
The programme culminated in Race 8, the Kwok-sponsored "Family Harmony Handicap" (sadly a fight broke out as to which brother would get to present the cup), before at the fag end of the day, the people responsible for coming up with the names finally threw in the towel, hoping no one would notice that they'd done a copy and paste job on the final two races, following the "Dedication to the Community Handicap" up by the "Partnering for the Community Handicap".
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Friday, 20 April 2012
Sun Hung Kai's Sixth Wonder of the World
Anyone in need of a bit of a pick-me-up could do worse than take a butcher's at Sun Hung Kai's corporate non-glossy (it's printed on that expensive and smelly environment-friendly paper) magazine SHKP Quarterly, which landed on my desk with a thud and a whiff this morning.
The reader will be energised by a spread featuring the Brothers Kwok's latest development on the
island of Ma Wan,
which lies in the silty waters between
and the Lantau Island Tuen Mun Road
in the shadows of the Tsing Ma Bridge.
Not according to the recent press release issued by the company it doesn't, 'though. According to the spiel, the development, called AnaCapri, is "surrounded by a boundless view of the ocean", which is a rather far-fetched way of describing the Ma Wan Channel, especially for those of us who have been brought up to believe that an ocean is, as the Oxford Dictionary puts it, "a very large expanse of sea".
Now the original Anacapri is a commune rising high (that's what the 'ana' bit means) on Capri, the island off Naples in the Tyrrhenian Sea, which is a lot bigger than the Ma Wan Channel but doesn't have a Mr Victor Lui, Executive Director of SHK Real Estate Agency, to big it up.
Victor obviously thinks very highly of the development – that, or he hasn't been on a site visit – as he gushes, "AnaCapri is situated at a premium location on the peninsula, facing the Tsing Ma Bridge, Ting Kau Bridge and the magnificent views of the Anglers' Beach in Sham Tseng, which highlight the indescribable grandiosity of the supreme residential project."
On the other hand, maybe he's just been on the wacky backy,as you'll have to do some serious neck-craning or climb onto the roof to catch a glimpse of the Ting Kau Bridge, which is far enough away, anyway, to be shrouded in pollution on rainless days when Guangdong's gunge is being blown down the Pearl River Estuary.
Not that you have to climb as many floors as in most
Hong Kong
apartment blocks to get to that roof. Rather bizarrely, as well as there being
no 4th floor – common in these parts, as the Cantonese for 4 sounds
like death – there is also no 7th floor. Now, this got me really
intrigued, as I've been 25 years in Hong Kong
and have never come across a missing 7. For goodness' sake, one of the most
popular convenience stores around here is even called 7-Eleven. Just as well
it's not owned by Kwok Bros, or it'll be renamed simply 11.
Anyway, so intrigued was I that I asked my secretary to call the AnaCapri hotline and ask them about the missing seven. She was told that in Western culture, the number 7 is unlucky. Why, I thought, didn't anyone tell those Jews to leave just six branches on their menorot or knock down one of the pillars on their house of wisdom, or the Pythagoreans to come up with another mystic number?
My secretary's explanation, pithy 'though it was, was, I thought, rather more apposite: "Mainlanders don't like 7, as the seventh month of the Chinese calendar is called Ghost Month".
Ah, well, now we know. A sign of things to come, perhaps, as our cousins from across the border continue to bring their
suitcases stashed full of dosh into the territory in their relentless drive to push
property prices to new heights? LV
But I leave the best till last. Our friends at Sun Hung Kai have a poet in their midst. Unfortunately, they didn't call upon his services when they stuck the following drivel on their website:
"Streets, hustle and bustle, after streets
In the metropolitan city, lies none of the quiet suites
Not until I found AnaCapri
The indulging place, away from the concrete
There, my life is fulfilled, with the abiding peace …"
Residents who can't take any more of this needn't worry; relief is just around the corner in the shape of Noah's
in all its Young Earth glory. But the last laugh may well lie with the punters.
In the same way that that glorious wheeled incarnation of the 1970s was quickly
dubbed the Ford Crappy, Victor may soon find his jewel in the ocean known as
AnaCrappy. Ark
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Labels: Christianity, Sun Hung Kai, Superstition
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Merci Monsieur Urius
If your office is undergoing renovation work, as mine is,or you're just looking for a site that offers full-length performances of musical classics from the golden age of conducting (old stuff, in other words), then Jacques Urius is your man.
Not literally, as this little known French tenor died in 1935, but a very active YouTube uploader has assumed his hero's name for his own moniker and is uploading old recordings by the likes of Sviatoslav Richter and Yehudi Menuhin as if they were going out of fashion. Which they don't.
Among the featured conductors are Guido Cantelli, Otto Klemeper and Leonard Bernstein.
To get you in the mood, here is a vocal arrangement of Johannes Brahms's Op.39, No.15, "La valse des regrets", sung by Georges Guetary.
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Labels: Music
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
It Just Won't Fugging Do
Fucking are going to the polls to decide whether a name change is in order.
Meanwhile, the residents of Dildo, Newfoundland, are in talks to enter into a twin-town arrangement during the quiet winter months.
Meanwhile, the residents of Dildo, Newfoundland, are in talks to enter into a twin-town arrangement during the quiet winter months.
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Labels: Language Use and Abuse
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
If you are at a loose end at 7.30pm on Thursday 3 May and are in the vicinity of the
on the junction of Queen's Road East and Methodist
International Church Kennedy Road in Wan Chai, then why not
shell out HK$150 of your hard-earned on the Cecilian Singers' spring concert?
This will be an all-English programme (well, they're letting a Welshman in – Ralph Vaughan Williams), with not a scintilla of Latin about, apart from the odd title or two – there's Herbert Howells's Magnificat and Stanford's magnificent Te Deum. (Okay, Stanford was another Celt.)
Come and join us on this musical tour that starts in the time of Henry VIII with Thomas Tallis, journeys into the Elizabethan era with the madrigals and motets of William Byrd and Thomas Morley (including the chart-toppers "Now is the Month of Maying" and "April is in my Mistress Face") and ends in the new Elizabethan age with Howells's "Hymn to Saint Cecilia" – appropriately enough.
To get you into the mood, here's Vaughan Williams's arrangement of the old Dorsetshire folk song "Linden Lea":
The ridiculous, you ask? Well, for that, you need look no further than Britain's Got Talent – in itself, an assertion which is open to debate, having watched the first four episodes. One of the stand-outs thus far, 'though, has undoubtedly been a rotund middle-aged black gentleman who underwent the misfortune of mislaying his keys and his mobile phone, and decided to write a song (using the word loosely) to both memorialise his loss and offer consolation to anyone who's ever been in the same boat.
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Labels: Little Britain, Music
Monday, 16 April 2012
Hooker Spot on in Bo Xilai Case
He might have been living and writing more than 400 years ago, but Richard Hooker knew a thing or two about lifestyles of the rich and famous, and the trouble to which they invariably tend:
'The impious cannot enjoy that they have, partly because they receive it not as at God's hands, which only consideration maketh temporal blessings comfortable, and partly because through error, placing it above things of far more price and worth, they turn that to poison which might be food, they make their prosperity their own snare; in the nest of their highest growth they lay foolishly those eggs out of which their woful overthrow is afterwards hatched.' (Hooker, Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Volume II, 415-416)
The worrying thing about the Chongqing case is that there are hundreds and thousands of little Chongqings across the "People's" Republic of China, and it would be a bold, or a foolish, person who thought that the same sort of massive scale corruption wasn't going on in all these places.
The country is rotten through and through, and those unable to stick their head in the trough are bound to create ructions sooner or later.
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Labels: Christianity, Little Britain, PRC
Saturday, 14 April 2012
Cristiano Ronaldo Makes Commentator Come
"This one deludes everybody."
No, only you, you Geordie twat. (I think you mean "eludes" by the way – the only "delusion" going on around here is you thinking you're the Byron of the twenty-first century.)
"This has got more curves to it than Jessica rabbit on steroids."
Wrong again, you brainless nerk. The ball scarcely deviates an inch and only goes in because the wall crumbles and the Atletico goalkeeper's naff.
Ray Hudson, you were a journeyman footballer and you are a sorry apology for a broadcaster. You are not worthy to be the bitch of legendary Tynesider Sid Waddell, who proved that you don't need to resort to smut when you can craft lines like, "There's only one word for that – magic darts!"
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Labels: Language Use and Abuse, Little Britain, Sport, TV
Friday, 13 April 2012
China's Golden Couple Explain How it All Went Wrong
Xi-lai, and this is my wife – she lie pretty good too
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Labels: Photo Captions, PRC
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Oh My God! It is Really Intentional
Out of the mouths of babes and Filipino ... well, babes, I suppose.
Moral of the story: if you've played a team and lost 16-0, take it like men and try to lose 15-0 next time. Don't kick players in the head.
This disgraceful and pusillanimous culmination of a series of assaults, which was picked up by the Daily Telegraph and broadcast to the world, has probably done more to persuade the Government to rethink its ESF subsidy than any number of loopy letters to the SCMP from Pierce Lam and friends.
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Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Wilson Car Parks Pursue Anti-Elitist Agenda
That Aussie show-off's started something. A
car park I visited yesterday was
displaying this sign on its Octopus reader at the entrance. Wilson
Nice to know of a place that welcomes only Triad vans and Alphards – vehicles driven by those with IQs guaranteed to deny them access to the LSE, let alone
Oxford and . Cambridge
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Labels: Australia, Education, Little Britain
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Norway Conflicted Over Killer
make me mad
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Aussie Protester Makes Emotional Appeal
PLEASE, guys, my book will be nothing without an Old Bailey trial and a jail term
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Labels: Australia, Little Britain, Sport
Sunday, 8 April 2012
Man Who Stopped Boat Race Explains Why
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Labels: Australia, Education, Little Britain, Photo Captions
Saturday, 7 April 2012
Invest in Hong Kong, Sex Toy Capital of Asia
I got an email from an old friend who's been wading through essays written by prospective interns on what makes Hong Kong an attractive investment option. He was both thrilled and a little disturbed to be distracted from the usual guff about CEPA, offshore renminbi centre, hard-working population, low profit tax rate, "shopping paradise", etc. by some startling revelations let slip by three of the candidates.
One budding accountant wrote of his hometown as a "lovely and vibrating city", a theme that was elaborated on by another, who described Hong Kong as a city of opportunities, nay, "one of the world's hard cores". Of course, all this electrical fun doesn't come without risks, as another candidate reminded us rather in the manner of a kinky Emily Lau Wai Hing: "As everyone knows, the shock market has to work non-stop."
Meanwhile, we paid a visit this morning to the yum cha place next to the Sha Tin library, which was preparing for this evening's big event, the nuptials of Suet and Richard. I couldn't help wondering whether, with time, the groom would become a Spotty Dick.
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Labels: Language Use and Abuse
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
SHKP Update
According to that fountain of all knowledge not possessed by Oriental Daily News, Next Magazine, the two younger Kwok brothers in their ask-no-questions media session yesterday were sending out at least two coded messages in the most bizarre part of their statement, that in which they praised their staff and insisted that SHKP does not rely on the Brothers Kwok.
The surface interpretation is straightforward: we may be going to jail for some time, but don't let that affect the share price. The other, deeper, interpretation is far more interesting: our scumbag brother, Wally - whatever our octogenerian mother may be trying to do behind the scenes in terms of bringing him back on B/board - will assume once again an Executive role in our Company only over our dead bodies.
As we said, SHKP does not rely on the Brothers Kwok. All three of them - but especially that one!
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Labels: ICAC, Journalism Industry, Rafael Hui, Sun Hung Kai
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Wu Fung Set to Wow Coliseum
I now admit I was wrong about the legend that is Wu Fung, who celebrated his 80th birthday in January and is giving a concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum this very evening to welcome in the Ching Ming Festival.
I said he was the world's greatest overactor, one who has been so influential in his field for so long that, life imitating art, police officers, politicians and protesters the length and breadth of Hong Kong are in his debt every time they burst into tears or take a dive at the merest hint of human contact.
, as he styles himself for his adoring non-Canto
fans, is in truth no overactor for the simple reason that he is no actor at all. A former English
teacher of mine, who went on to achieve great things as Head of Manchester
Grammar and St. Paul's (school not cathedral), could have been watching one of
Wu's 300 films when he said, "He's not acting – he's merely extending his
personality". Bowie
But, on this day of all days, let's not be pedantic; let's salute the man who can count among his disciples such budding thespians as Donald Tsang, Henry Tang and his much put-upon wife, little Lisa Kuo, not to mention most of the Senior Counsels that grace our courts – and not a few of our judges, to boot. At just HK$180 a throw, no one can say that tickets for what is billed as a "music and dance" extravaganza are incommensurate with the talent on offer. I hope to see many of you in Hung Hom supporting
Hong Kong's national treasure, our very
own Queen Mum.
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Monday, 2 April 2012
Hell Hath No Fury Like a Brother Scorned – Part The Second
While normally it might be expected that CY Leung would wish to be seen as a kind of knight in shining armour entering the lists to extirpate evil from his parish, there are several compelling reasons why he would not wish to be the one responsible for the current cleansing of the kingdom.
First, Rafael Hui, besides being mates with Sir Donald, is also good mates with CY Leung's defeated rival, Henry Tang Ying Yen – indeed, he was one of the "masterminds" behind the benighted one's bid for power. Second, the two arrested Kwoks, Thomas and Raymond, were both staunch Tang supporters in the recent chief executive election campaign. Third, the third, and not (yet?) arrested Kwok brother, Walter, was a staunch supporter of Leung.
With no desire to see his enthronement in July besmirched by accusations of score-settling, Leung (allegedly) told Tiny in no uncertain terms to get that whistle out of his pocket and give it a good blow.
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Labels: ICAC, Rafael Hui, Sun Hung Kai
Sunday, 1 April 2012
Hell Hath No Fury Like a Brother Scorned
According to that fountain of all knowledge, the Oriental Daily News, Walter Kwok has been busy furnishing whoever would listen with details of his younger brothers' - not forgetting their friend and adviser Rafael Hui's - dealings, and deals, in the New Territories.
Wally, who has been waiting for four years to take revenge on his siblings, had been forced to play a waiting game, it is said, by none other than our leader, Sir Donald Tsang, who dillied and dallied over his requests to shop his brothers to the ICAC.
Just why Sir Don would want to prevaricate, we of course cannot be sure. Okay, Rafa is a great mate and actually ran his campaign for "election" as chief nitwit in 2005, and the Kwoks are rich and powerful, and religious in that very Chinese way which combines being very preachy, very Whitened Sepulchresque and very rich.
Anyway, according to the Ma organ, AKA ODN, along comes CY Leung the day after his "election" as Don's successor and says, "Hey, Mini, what are you going to do about all the skulduggery that's being going on in the NT? (allegedly)"
Mini replies, "Well, we need to further monitor the situation and carry out a thorough investi --"
"Shut it, birdbrain!" responds CY, "this ain't going to be happening on my watch. We've got enough evidence from Wally to send them away for years. Pick up that phone to the ICAC. Surely, you don't want to further tarnish your legacy with more accusations of favouritism and cronyism?"
And thus the whistle was finally blown and the wheels of justice set in motion. Wally's Mum may no longer be speaking to him, but I somehow don't think that going to be bothering him too much. And as for Rafa, as the prime mover (allegedly) behind Wally's supplanting as chairman of Sun Hung Kai Properties, one can hardly imagine the oldest sibling shedding too many tears for the silly old fart.
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Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:55 pm
Post subject: 2ww...arrrhhhh
Hi im currently in the tww and it is our first month of using preseed and opks for the past week since about 2 dpo the symtoms ive had are(i hope you have a few hours because ive went in to overide!!)
Burning boobs and very sore
felling tired and faint
really bad skin im on tablets off doc for acne and its been fine for about 5 months,
this morning when i brushed my teeth i was sick(in my mouth )
My oh is complain how hot i feel but i feel alright
And the list goes on and on and on.....................................................................................................................
Just thought id entertain you with my obsession of the tww
Thanks cxxxxx
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I actually bought preseed a week ago but have not used it yet. How did it work for you without going in too much detail?
The signs sound very promissing. I had the same signs with my first one altho I didn't have a bfp untill a day after I missed my period.
I am feeling faint, tired, sore bb's and very panicky (sorry for spelling) at the moment but for some reason I do not feel like its not ment to be.
Fingers corssed you are BFP soon.
xx Anna
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:15 pm
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Hi!! I know how exciting ive just bought the new first response test(6days early you can test) think i might test fri or sat. Im on due af the day i go on holiday otherwise i wouldnt test yeah right.........!!
I dont think this is my month ive had sore boobs for about 6 days now(they are kiling me!!) Gooodluck hun xxxxx

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Looking for some beginner swimming tips. What are some good bits of wisdom to know when jumping back into the pool for the first time in a long time?
I would recommend using a kick-board to work on your kicking and a pull-buoy to work on your pull and then put it all together as well. I highly recommend bilateral breathing. Its such a good way to keep your stroke balanced and train your body to maximize each breath. Let us know how it goes!
I concur with Toby. 1/4 of the time upper body (use those things that you secure with your thighs) , 1/4 of the time lower body (kickboard), 1/4 combined, and 1/4 of the time treading water to help with the cardio and acts as a cool down.
Trish 18 "when jumping back into the pool for the first time in a long time?" First check the depth of the water and you may have better luck entering cautiously, avoid head injuries at all costs. Also make sure your bathing suit fits, you don't want to have the suit slip off. Try to start with some upper body conditioning/strength training-the upper arms are key to the crawl/freestyle. Also incorporate abdominal work outs and flexibility/core work. You can learn a lot by visiting the pool and observing technique. Swimming is very much about tecnique. All sorts of interesting approaches are alive and well. The basic concept is "form, form and and more form". Proper technique is the key to swimming.
The basis concepts involve getting sleek in the water. Getting sleek means to develop the perpendicular axis in the water. Swimming side ways rather than flat. With each stroke rotating on one's side. Use the kick not so much for propulsion as for balance. Kick from the thigh, pivot from the hips. Stay tall in the water. Practice bilateral breathing on alternate laps to balance the left/right stroke.
I agree with Toby also;
work on your shoulder rotation, kick(with a kick board) and the breathing. I know bi-lateral breathing is not an easy part to achieve but work on it. Always remember not too look up as it will lift the head and will sink the legs, so keep your head down so your legs and lower torso stays afloat. Good luck!
Trish, head to the local bookstore or jump on-line and read up on some of the stroke drills that are invaluable when developing your swim technique. All are designed to lengthen your stroke, improve your timing and your body's ability to "flow", and add power and grace to your form. The number one tip I can offer for returning swimmers or for newbies is that it takes time in the water to be a good swimmer. Laps, laps, laps. I disagree with the idea that a kickboard should be used a great deal (someone said a quarter of the time). Kickboards - in my humble opinion - are a resting device, and real kick training should be done streamlined in the water. I also would downplay the value of pull-bouys in a beginner's regimen. While you are "young" in the water, your full-body timing (the interplay between stroke, kick, and body positioning) should be developed. I'm sure there will be plenty of folks who disagree, so my last suggestion will be to find and interact with a local Master's swimming group so that you can swim with people of various skill levels and get real-time, tangible feedback and critique of your training. In that way, you can learn what best works for you. Good luck! Xraytriguy
Hydrodynamics are the physics that govern water. By spending time in the water, it helps to develop the natural flow, or understanding of hydrodynamics. Swimming a mile might actually help with your 25m / 50m / 500m times. There is really no substitute for swimming, but the various tools that can be used in the pool can help to improve specific skills. For instance the kick board and pull buoy. Fins and webbed neoprene gloves can also be used, either alone or in combination; kickboard and fin, or pull buoy and webbed gloves. By increasing the surface area of propulsion the generated force increases, which helps to strengthen the utilized muscles. The X-Vest is another training tool for advanced swimmers. It is basically a weighted vest, but it is also waterproof. Makes treading water more difficult, let alone moving through the water. Many swimmers also use bricks for various drills, and last semester when I took a lifeguarding class we grabbed a 5 gallon jug of water, filled it and treaded with it above our head as the whole thing dumped out. It was very challenging, and next summer I will be using this technique to cool off in the heat of the day. One last tool that I recommend for swim training is the expand-a-lung ( http://expand-a-lung.com/ ). This small, simple device is nothing more than a mouthpiece and a valve. It is used to increase the pressure required to inhale and exhale. In my opinion the expand-a-lung is better than other products like it because it can be adjusted by turning the valve. Helps to focus on contracting the diaphragm. Great to for breathing training. Other smart practice is Qi Gong. wu sa.
As mentioned before, body roll (parallel torso rotation) can drastically improve swimming by increasing each stroke length, especially for freestyle / frontcrawl. Here are some specific tips for each stroke and land exercises for them as well.
Freestyle - bend your elbows as your arm moves forward, and then drive your hand into the water. Land exercises; back extension with alternating arms extended holding light weight, torso twists, flutter kicks, and other ground abdominal work. Core strength is key.
Breastroke - pull, breathe, kick, glide. Practice the kick-glide especially, feet flexed to toes pointed as you kick. Land exercises; lat pulldown / pull ups, plie squats, shoulder circles and tricep extensions.
Backcrawl - hands enter with the pinkies, pull the water past your ear, scoop the water and push it to your hip. Land exercises; kettlebell swings, shoulder circles, tricep extensions and other ground abdominal work.
Sidestroke - keep your bottom ear in the water, this will help to bring your body more parallel. Leading hand guides, following hand pushes, and the legs drive (top leg forward, bottom leg backwards, and then together). Land exercises; front kicks, back kicks and tricep extensions.
I'm still working on my butterfly, and will keep you updated for technique tips. One more thing, don't be afraid to jump out of the pool and do some pushups or bodysquats. Overall fitness will improve swimming. Stay tuned for my up and coming book about maximizing impact while performing cannonball. just kidding. happy new year!
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Three Hatters picked up two hits in the game led by Spencer Theisen (Longwood, Fla.) who was 3-for-5 with a double, two RBI and a run scored. James Rasmussen (Tallahassee, Fla.) was 2-for-4 with a run scored in his hometown and Jeff Simpson (Valrico, Fla.) extended his hitting streak to 17 games with a pair of hard-hit singles in four at bats.
Freshman Kurt Schluter (Jupiter, Fla.) started on the mound for the Hatters and pitched a decent game allowing three hits and three earned runs in 4 1/3 innings of work. Ian Thompson (St. Petersburg, Fla.) took the loss after facing just two batters and giving up two runs on no hits and two walks. Sophomore Joe Dye (Royal Palm Beach, Fla.) was the only Hatter hurler on the night that did not surrender a run. Dye entered in the bottom of the 8th and retired the two batters he faced on five pitches.
Also picking up base hits for the Hatters were Mark Jones (Palm Coast, Fla.) and Ryan Lashley (Lake Worth, Fla.).
The Hatters will now return to Melching Field to host Northwestern University in a four-game series beginning Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. Stetson fans can catch the games on Hatter Vision by going to www.gohatters.com. The voice of Stetson baseball Bill Topping will call the action.


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- Examining trends in digital design
- Setting preferences for interactive documents
- Understanding intent and presets
- Working with images and swatches
- Creating and working with interactive PDFs
- Creating alternate layouts for multiple screens
- Linking text and page items
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Having the animation presets to work with is great. It saves you the time and effort of creating animations from scratch. The downside of working with presets is well, they are preset to do specific things, and if those aren't the specific things you want, then you have to do some customizing. One way to customize an animation is to create your own motion paths. So if I select this frame over here on the left, and look in the Animation panel, I can see that it's currently using the Preset Fade In and the Event is On Page Load. So it appears one second after the page loads.
But we could experiment with other kinds of animation to bring people's attention to this person's name. For example, we could have that text frame come up by choosing Fly in from Bottom. Let's choose that from the Preset menu, and we'll Preview. Now that was a little too fast for my taste. So let's go back to the Animation panel, and change the Duration. Let's change it from 1 second to 5 seconds, and Preview again, and there's a slower effect.
Another thing we could change is to make the name start out lower on the page, but end up in the same place. Go back to the panel again, now with the frame selected, I can see the motion path, and I can click on it, and interact with it like I can with any InDesign path. So I can press the A key on my keyboard to get my Direct Selection tool. I can click on one of the end points, and I can drag down. I'll hold Shift to constrain it, and let's preview again.
Now the animation starts right down here where I left that control point. I didn't change the direction of that path, just the length. So the animation still last 5 seconds, but now it covers more distance in that time. If I wanted to change the direction of the animation, I can select the end point and say, I'll drag it up here to the top-left corner of the document. So now the name will come down like this. Let's preview again. I can also add a curve to the path, so if I don't want the animation to move in a straight line, I can change it.
This time, I'll hold Command+Option or Ctrl+Alt on the PC to get my Convert Direction Point tool and I'll click and drag to make this path curve. So now the animation will follow this line. Preview again, and it's a different effect. I can also draw brand new paths and convert them to motion paths. I'll hide the Preview panel, and take my Selection tool, and click on the motion path, and I'll delete it. So now this animation has no motion path, but I'm going to draw a new one.
I will take my Rectangle Frame tool, and click and drag out a square. Take my Selection tool and select both my new square and the animation. Go to the Animation panel, and down at the bottom, I have this little curved arrow which is Convert to Motion Path. I'll click on that, and now you can see my square looks green like one of the motion paths. Let's preview. I couldn't see that very well because the fade in is still part of this animation.
So let's take that off. Hide the Preview panel, go to the Animation panel, and we'll take off Fade In, and preview again. Now that was really fast because the animation is covering a lot of distance in just a few seconds. But you get the idea. Whatever path I draw, the animation will follow when I convert it to a motion path. You can also convert paths that you draw with the Pen tool or the Pencil tool to motion paths the same way. You can even copy and paste paths from other applications like Photoshop and Illustrator, and make them into your motion paths.
So when it comes to putting objects in motion, you really can do just about anything you can imagine since you can take any path and use it as a motion path for your animation.


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(Please note: some content may not be complete on the beta site.).
The dates for the next Federal Mobility Technical Exchange Meeting (TEM) will be March 11-12, 2013, at the NIST campus in Gaithersburg, MD. The host of the upcoming TEM will be the Federal CIO Council Information Security and Identity Management Committee (ISIMC). The focus will be on the Digital Government Strategy (DGS) Milestones #5.5 and #9.1. Keynote speakers will discuss how mobility transforms the way Agencies address their missions and the impacts mobility has across use cases. The use case areas are national security systems, federal users, state/local/tribal/territorial, partners (labs/universities/research institutions), and the public. The use cases will be examined across mission areas, which include: national security, citizen services, law enforcement, health and medical, financial, agriculture and environment, and others.
Participants will be able to contribute to the development of the Milestone 9.1 Deliverables during Working Group sessions held in the afternoon of Day 1. Each Working Group will align with a mission area and will discuss the issues associated with the specific use cases. A facilitator will lead each Working Group. Cutting across all the use cases are the key mobility technologies/areas: mobile device management, mobile applications management, identity security, and data security. The objective of the Working Groups will be to flesh out the various risks and gaps that need to be considered for the use cases in the Federal baseline. The output from the Working Groups will be presented and discussed in the afternoon of Day 2. The content will serve as input to the development of the Federal wireless and mobility baseline associated with Milestone 9.1 which will be released to the Federal Government on May 23, 2013.
The audience from the December TEM will be expanded to include representatives from the specific use case areas (including state and local representatives) with insight into the promises of mobility and its inherent risks.
The TEM is intended for government agencies (Federal and State, Tribal, Territorial, and Local) their current employees, and their program support contractors. If you have trouble registering from a government address, an email will be sent to the registrant for clarification of your employee status.
Due to space restrictions, attendance is only for government employees and contractors who are providing direct support to related government programs. All contractors will require a government sponsor and the sponsor must notify Joshua Love (email@example.com).
Please join us for an informative and interactive conference that will help shape the direction mobility efforts will take in the near-future.
CIO Council – http://www.cio.gov
ISIMC - https://cio.gov/about/committees/information-security-identity-management-committee/
Digital Government Strategy - https://cio.gov/building-a-21st-century-government/digital-strategy/
(Agenda Updated: 03/06/13)
DAY ONE (March 11, 2013):
0830 - 0845 - NIST ITL Director – Dr. Charles Romine
0845 - 0900 - CIO Council's Information Security and Identity Management Committee (ISIMC) Co-Chairs - Mr. Luke McCormack, DOJ CIO, and Mr. Rob Carey, DOD Deputy CIO
0900 - 0945 - Deputy Federal CIO – Ms. Lisa Schlosser
0945 - 0955 - Break
0955 - 1030 - NSA, Assistant to NSA Director for Enduring Security Framework Forum - Ms. Anne Neuberger
1030 - 1100 - Updates on Digital Government Strategy Milestones 5.5 and 9.1 – Jon Johnson, GSA, and David Carroll, DHS
1100 - 1200 - Lunch
1200 - 1230 - DHS Mobility Program – DHS Deputy CIO – Ms. Margie Graves
1230 - 1300 - DOD Mobility Program – DOD CIO – Ms. Teresa Takai
1300 - 1600 - Working Groups – Contributing to the Development of the Government-wide Mobile and Wireless Security Baseline
DAY TWO (March 12, 2013):
0845 - 0930 - Federal Deputy CTO (tentative)
0930 - 0950 - USMC, USMC Mobility Strategy – Mr. Robert Anderson
0950 - 1010 - NRC, NRC CIO – Supporting Organizational Mission Effectiveness via an Information Centric Approach - Mr. Darren Ash
1010 - 1030 - National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), Mobility Protection Profiles - Mr. Tuan Nguyen
1030 - 1050 - DHS, Deputy Executive Director for Enterprise System Development Office, Work Place as a Service (WPaaS) – Mr. Greg Capella
1050 - 1205 - Lunch/Networking
1205 - 1225 - Dept of VA, Veteran Affair's Mobility Efforts - Dr. Aaron Drew
1225 - 1245 – NSA, Director for the Center of Assured Software - Identifying automated tools for assessing the Software Assurance of mobile applications Center for Assured Software - Mr. Kris Britton
1245 - 1305 - DISA Mobility Office, DISA's Mobility - Mr. John Hickey
1305 - 1325 - GSA, Identity and Access Management - Ms. Debra Gallagher
Working Group Presentations (15 minutes each):
1325 - 1340 - National Security
1340 - 1355 - Emergency Support Services
1355 - 1410 - Break
1410 - 1425 - Law Enforcement
1425 - 1440 - Financial
1440 - 1455 - Citizen Services
1455 - 1510 - Health and Medical
1510 - 1530 - Next Steps and Wrap Up
Start Date: Monday, March 11, 2013
End Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Location: NIST 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD. 20899 Building 101 - Admin. (RED Auditorium)
Audience: Government
Format: Other
Kevin Cox, Department of Justice,
Registration Contact:
Joshua Love, White House Communications Agency,
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Richardson council suddenly realizes there ain't no such thing as a free tree?
During last night's work session, the staff presented some plans for providing irrigation for trees planted in medians as part of the Tree The Town project. TTT, if you've not been following, is council member Amir Omar's idea that gets companies to donate trees that get planted, mostly, in public areas. The ambitious goal is to get 50,000 trees planted in the next decade. The city saves the cost of the tree, and the the first year of upkeep is handled by the Texas Tree Foundation. But after that first year, the city is on the hook. Trees in medians apparently require special care. At the moment, that care involves hand-watering. But installing an irrigation system would pay for itself in a couple of years, based on the staff presentation.
And by the way, there are plans for several significant planting days this fall.
So what was the surprise? Head for the jump.
After the staff presented the irrigation plan, a couple of council members asked the staff to pull together the ongoing costs of TTT upkeep.
As Steve Mitchell put it: "Like any project we look at, we need to make sure we know what it's going to cost and know how we're going to pay for it."
Well, yes.
Omar pointed out, accurately, that those kinds of expenses go along with any city landscaping project. And TTT covers some of the costs that would normally be borne by taxpayers.
But sitting in my chair in the bleachers, I wondered if this were like someone who wins a game show and suddenly discovers there's a tax bill. If they didn't win the car, they wouldn't need to come up with the money. So is Omar's point really the point? Would the city embark an such an ambitious plan on its own, knowing the upkeep costs? Based on the questions last night, I dunno.
In this case, the dollars don't seem to be enormous. The irrigation system costs about $12,000 to 15,000 for 100 trees. And staffers said the cost of TTT upkeep was already figured into the budget. But I was a bit surprised that council members were asking at this point what the bill to the city would eventually become.


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BERKELEY – Donald William Yerks Sr., 81, of the Bayville section of Berkeley, died Monday, Nov. 24 at home.
He has lived in Bayville for the last 46 years, and retired from the Ciba-Geigy Corp. of Toms River in 1984 after working there 20 years.
He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the U.S. Army Air Force as a staff sergeant.
Surviving are his wife of 46 years, Minabell a son and daughter-in-law, Donald W. and Ann Emily Yerks Jr., of Brielle a daughter and son-in-law, MaryAnn and Richard Sengstack of Whiting a brother and sister-in-law, Clarence and Edna Yerks of Toms River and two grandchildren, Ashley and Sean Yerks.
Visiting will be from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 28 at the Anderson and Campbell Funeral Home, 703 Main St., Toms River. A funeral service will be held 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 29 at the funeral home. Burial will follow at Silverton Cemetery, Hooper Avenue, Toms River.
In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to the Van Dyke Hospice, c/o Community Medical Center, 99 Route 37 West, Toms River, NJ 08755, or the American Cancer Society, 1035 Hooper Ave., Toms River, NJ 08753.


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Monday Nov. 17, 2008
ATHENS, Ga. --- University of Georgia freshman flanker A.J. Green has been
named the Southeastern Conference Freshman Player of the Week, according to an announcement by the league office on Monday.
Green, a 6-4, 200-pound native of Summerville, S.C., caught his second game-winning touchdown in a row during No. 13 Georgia¹s 17-13 road win over Auburn. Green snagged a 17-yard pass from junior Matthew Stafford midway through the fourth quarter to clinch the Bulldogs¹ ninth win of the season.
A week before, Green hauled in an 11-yard score from Stafford with less than two minutes left in the game as the Bulldogs beat Kentucky 42-38 in
Lexington. Averaging 16.2 yards per catch on five receptions for 81 yards against the Tigers, Green is attempting to become the first freshman to lead the league in receiving yards per game since 1999. Through 11 games, he leads the SEC with an average of 80.6 yards per game and he has the most yards (887) of any receiver in the league. Green also has seven touchdowns this year.
Green is looking to become the first Bulldog to lead the SEC in receiving
since 1994 (Brice Hunter) and the first freshman to top the conference in
receiving yards per game since 1999. He is also only 113 yards away from
becoming only the second Georgia receiver in history to register 1,000 yards
in one season (Terrence Edwards-2002).
This is Green¹s second SEC honor this year after also being named the SEC
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Afghan bank execs jailed 5 years for fraud
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- March 05, 2013
AN Afghan court has sentenced two senior Kabul Bank executives to five years in jail for a $US900 million ($A888 million) fraud that caused the country's largest bank to collapse in 2010.
Judge Shamsul Rahman Shams said the men must pay back millions of dollars they gained from the sophisticated network of corruption in which cash was used to buy homes in Britain, Dubai, Switzerland and the US.
The bank's former chairman, Sher Khan Farnoud, and its former CEO Khalilullah Ferozi were both in court on Tuesday to hear the sentencing.
Kabul Bank was seized by the government in 2010 after the exposure of the massive fraud, which led the International Monetary Fund to temporarily halt its hundreds of millions of dollars of loans to Afghanistan.
Renamed New Kabul Bank, the institution was later bailed out by the government.
The criminal proceedings into the bank's collapse are being watched closely by Western donors for signs that the country is finally tackling rampant government corruption.
Donors have pledged billions of dollars in aid after NATO combat troops withdraw in 2014, but have demanded that corruption is brought under control.
A number of well-connected people allegedly implicated in the scandal as shareholders, including a brother of President Hamid Karzai, were not charged by the special court.
Farnoud in court accused Haseen Fahim, the brother of Afghan Vice President Mohammad Qaseem Fahim, of being one of the key organisers behind the scheme.


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The competition opens Friday at the Verizon Wireless Arena. About 40 schools from throughout New England, New York and Canada are entering robots.
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Indiana; Amendment No. 13 to Notice of a Major Disaster Declaration
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster declaration for the State of Indiana (FEMA-1766-DR), dated June 8, 2008, and related determinations.
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The notice of a major disaster declaration for the State of Indiana is hereby amended to include the following area among those areas determined to have been adversely affected by the catastrophe declared a major disaster by the President in his declaration of June 8, 2008.
Madison County for Individual Assistance (already designated for Public Assistance.)
(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030, Community Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora Brown Fund; 97.032, Crisis Counseling; 97.033, Disaster Legal Services; 97.034, Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA); 97.046, Fire Management Assistance Grant; 97.048, Disaster Housing Assistance to Individuals and Households in Presidential Declared Disaster Areas; 97.049, Presidential Declared Disaster Assistance—Disaster Housing Operations for Individuals and Households; 97.050, Presidential Declared Disaster Assistance to Individuals and Households—Other Needs; 97.036, Disaster Grants—Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters); 97.039, Hazard Mitigation Grant.)
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REITs Buoy IPO Markets in Asia
Real estate investment trusts continue to garner favor from investors in Asia, with an upcoming initial public offering of one set to be Singapore's biggest listing in two years.
As the WSJ reports Friday, Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd.-owned Mapletree Greater China Commercial Trust is seeking to raise up to S$1.68 billion (US$1.36 billion) in a listing slated for March 7, according to a filing.
Cornerstone investors include Morgan Stanley Investment Management and units of AIA Group CBRE Group and Henderson Global Investors.
As a hub for REIT and trust listings in the region, the IPO will be Singapore's largest since Hutchison Port Holdings Trust raised US$5.5 billion in March 2011. It will also be Singapore's biggest-ever REIT listing, topping Mapletree Commercial Trust S$949.5 million IPO in April 2011.
As Deal Journal previously wrote, investors can get yields of between 6% and 7% from Singapore-listed REITs, compared with an interest rate of 0.25% on Singapore dollar deposits over a 12-month period.
The REIT market has also been strong in Japan, where there is a recovery in commercial rental and property prices. Singapore's Global Logistic Properties raised $1.3 billion in a Tokyo listing in December. This month, Nippon Prologis REIT, owned by U.S. warehouse operator Prologis Inc., raised $1.08 billion in a share offering.


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How hard is it to convert a pattern for knitting sleeves flat to do it in the round on circs?
I have been working on this sweater FOREVER!! It's with sock yarn and size 2 needles; I'm knitting a cardigan in 9 mo size. I've finished the back and both front pieces. The second front was the hardest as it took me awhile to figure out how to reverse the pattern correctly.
Anywho, it's time for sleeves. I'm thinking I can knit both at once except that I can seem to picture how that would work and I'm almost through my first skein so I couldn't start and end with two skeins simultaneously. Then I thought maybe I could do it in the round, but I have no idea how to convert the patter.
All that said, I can't really picture how to do the pattern as it's written sine I have never increased yet either!! What the heck does it mean to increase one stitch at the each end of row 3 (I think that means you are adding 2 stitches) and every following 4th row 6 times. ?? Does that translate to: add a stitch at the beginning and end of row 3 AND row 4 and after that only on rows 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 28?
Then it says to INC every 6th row 4 times (I assume that means add only one stitch, NOT at the beginning and the end). Next it says simply this: "66 sts. Work even until sleeve meaures 6.5 inches" I think that means that I should have a total of 66 stitches to work until the given length. If that's true, when I do the math (in my beginner head) I'm two stitches short.....
Back to my initial question - will it be easier in the round?
If it helps, the pattern is Black Purl, Sock it to me Baby..K5 (
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Photons double up for solar power
Jul 25, 2002
Solar cells could get an efficiency boost of 30% using a device proposed by physicists in Australia and Germany. Martin Green of the Centre for Third Generation Photovoltaics at the University of New South Wales and colleagues say that 'down-converters' could be connected to existing solar cells to double the number of 'useful' photons they capture (T Trupke et al 2002 J. Appl. Phys. 92 1668).
Solar cells are sensitive only to photons with wavelengths that correspond to the energy gap of the material from which they are made. When photons with this wavelength reach the cell, they excite electrons into the conduction band of the material, where they are registered as an electrical current. But higher-energy photons cannot contribute to this current, and can reduce the efficiency of the cell by heating it up.
Now Green and colleagues say that high-energy photons could be harnessed and converted into current using a 'down-converter' – a device that splits high-energy photons into two lower-energy photons. When a photon reaches the down-converter, it excites an electron into a higher energy level. But the electron returns to its ground state via an intermediate energy level, and emits a lower-energy photon at each stage.
By tuning a down-converter to emit photons with a wavelength corresponding to the energy gap of a solar cell, one high-energy photon could be split into two 'useful' photons. According to Green and co-workers, this could increase the efficiency of solar cells from the current maximum of about 30% to almost 40%.
The team calculated that the highest efficiency could be reached by placing a down-converter on the 'back' of the solar cell – that is, the opposite side to which the sunlight falls. This would allow high-energy photons to pass through the cell to the down-converter, while still allowing the cell to capture low-energy photons.
The drawback of this set-up is that most solar cells are made from semiconductors, which would not allow high-energy photons to pass through. However, the researchers say that this arrangement would be suitable for 'dye-sensitized' solar cells.
But the most promising arrangement would see the down-converter connected to the 'front' of a solar cell. Although this would block out low-energy photons, it would still boost the overall efficiency of the cell to 38.6%. Most importantly, say the researchers, this set-up would allow existing semiconductor solar cells to be fitted with down-converters.
According to Green and colleagues, the down-converters should be simple to make from materials such as aluminium arsenide or gallium phosphide, using established 'epitaxial' manufacturing techniques.
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Ireland Women 20-0 Scotland Women
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The Ireland Women took their try-scoring tally to 19 in four Six Nations games as they accounted for Scotland at Ashbourne RFC.
Alison Miller touched down in the closing stages, adding to first half tries from Sophie Spence and Ashleigh Baxter.
The wind-backed Scots were 12-0 behind at the break, with Niamh Briggs converting Spence's close range score.
Winger Miller raced over in the left corner for her try, following Marie Louise Reilly's block of an attempted Scottish clearance.
Ireland's third victory in four Championship games sets up a shot at their first ever Triple Crown next week when they meet England in London on St. Patrick's Day.
Paula Fitzpatrick, making her first Championship start, was right on the money with her first lineout throw tonight and Ireland were quickly up to speed in attack.
A strong run from Niamh Kavanagh created space and with Scotland brought in close to their posts, lock Spence sprung over from close range for the opening try.
Briggs tagged on the conversion, and then combined well with her centre partner Grace Davitt as Ireland remained on the front foot.
The elusive Miller was denied by a forward pass as she sprinted up the right wing, with the Scots, winless in this campaign, struggling to get out of their own half.
Ireland almost added a second try with a powerful weaving run from Briggs, who was hauled down just short of the line. Louise Dalgliesh came in at the side of a ruck, but Briggs snatched at the resulting penalty and missed it.
Scotland hit back strongly and turned down a kickable penalty before Briggs produced a vital tackle on the advancing Stephanie Johnston, in front of the posts.
A strong scrum from the hosts earned a relieving penalty and out-half Lynne Cantwell then had to react smartly to close down Katy Green as she threatened out wide on the right.
But Ireland were much more clinical when attacking opportunities presented themselves at the other end. Slick passing across the back-line set up full-back Baxter for her second try in as many games.
Briggs' conversion attempt from a tough position on the right fell short and with neither side impressing before the interval, Ireland took a 12-point lead into the second period.
Tricky centre Davitt was brought down just short of the Scottish line as Ireland threatened immediately on the resumption. The attack was set up by a strong charge on the right from prop Ailis Egan.
Briggs landed a subsequent penalty for a 15-0 scoreline and lively winger Kavanagh, already with three tries to her name in recent weeks, was left frustrated by two near misses.
She was called back for a foot in touch on the right after a brilliant counter attack was sparked by the fleet-footed Miller inside her own half.
Kavanagh was soon denied again in the same corner, this time by a forward pass. By that stage, Shannon Houston had made a welcome return to the Irish midfield.
Nonetheless, with Scotland lacking the firepower to get off the mark, this superior Ireland outfit fittingly had the final say with Miller's 73rd-minute try.
Towering lock Reilly got her block in and Irish captain Fiona Coghlan reacted quickly to spot numbers on the left and start a string of passes which led to the winger dotting down.
IRELAND WOMEN: Ashleigh Baxter (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster); Niamh Kavanagh (UL Bohemians/Munster), Niamh Briggs (UL Bohemians/Munster), Grace Davitt (Cooke/Ulster), Alison Miller (Portlaoise/Highfield/Connacht); Lynne Cantwell (Exile), Amy Davis (Blackrock/Leinster); Fiona Coghlan (UL Bohemians/Leinster) (capt), Paula Fitzpatrick (St. Mary's College/Leinster), Ailis Egan (Old Belvedere/Leinster), Sophie Spence (Exile), Marie Louise Reilly (Old Belvedere/Leinster), Laura Guest (Highfield/Munster), Claire Molloy (Bristol/Connacht), Joy Neville (UL Bohemians/Munster).
Replacements: Gillian Bourke (UL Bohemians/Munster), Ruth O'Reilly (Galwegians/Connacht), Siobhan Fleming (Tralee/Munster), Heather O'Brien (Highfield/Munster), Larissa Muldoon (Exile/UWIC/Ulster), Shannon Houston (Blackrock/Leinster), Jennifer Murphy (Exile).
SCOTLAND WOMEN: Stephanie Johnston (RHC Cougars); Katy Green (Murrayfield Wanderers), Laura Steven (Murrayfield Wanderers), Lisa Ritchie (Carlisle), Sarah Dixon (Stirling County); Tanya Griffith (RHC Cougars), Louise Dalgliesh (RHC Cougars); Tracy Balmer (Worcester), Sarah Quick (Murrayfield Wanderers), Beth Dickens (Murrayfield Wanderers), Anna Swan (RHC Cougars), Jemma Forsyth (Hillhead/Jordanhill), Lindsay Wheeler (Richmond), Ruth Slaven (Murrayfield Wanderers), Susie Brown (Richmond) (capt).
Replacements: Alison Macdonald (RHC Cougars), Heather Lockhart (Hillhead/Jordanhill), Katherine Muir (Richmond), Charlotte Veale (London Wasps), Tess Forsberg (Richmond), Lisa Martin (Murrayfield Wanderers), Lauren Harris (Melrose).
Referee: Sylvie Bros (France)