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omg!!! so beautiful... but theres something wrong... when i transfered it to my phone, it's "corrupted" =( help... i really want this!!!!! =(
Superb , mind blowing , beautiful these words r not really enough for this master piece . I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE IT .
thanks a lot bro,ths theme i done thinking my babyits a beautiful feeling,dnt know i given it a shape r not.
forget the shapes ( these r technical talks ) , I mostly love the heartfelt touching of this theme.
haha..thanks bro,mostly my themes and wally represent my feeling and my emotions.where i goes inside that and lives in that theme or wally..if the topic is not suits me..i cant make it..and i cant feel anything in it...i feel afraid to create..haha..like ths week wpc....i finished that wally bcos still i cant feel anything in it.
well , same things happens also in my case , the main thing is if we do something against our likings , everything will go wrong no matter how good or bad we r . Passion is the most important part of anything we do .
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Happy New Year Everyone! I hope you enjoyed a safe and happy new year's eve celebration. For the new year I want to get everyone off on the right foot in regards to baking at different altitudes and in different climates.
Before one of my visits to Bolivia to visit my sisters-in-law I decided to put together a little hand-made recipe booklet as a gift for them. The booklet contained some of my family's favorite baked treats that my in-laws had enjoyed me making for them over the years. I chose beautiful paper, typed up each recipe with care and hand-bound the booklet with ribbon and decorations.
Once in Bolivia I started to show everyone how to make each of the recipes. The first recipe we tried wasn't baking up with the same results in the same amount of time as it does when I'm in Chicago. We made some adjustments to liquid, oven temperature, fat content and baking time. The results were not perfect but the end product was still delicious. I was more disappointed then my sisters-in-law that the result wasn't identical to the result I had in my Chicago home.
We went on to make the second recipe and once again the liquid, sugar measurement, oven temp and timing just wasn't perfect. The end product was delicious but because I knew how it was supposed to be I considered it a bit of a failure. Friends that joined us that day to sample the items found everything to be wonderfully tasty.
The third recipe was pretty much a failure all around. It was a more delicate chiffon cake that did not do well at the higher altitude.
I had some of the same issues when I tried to reproduce Bolivian baked treats back in Chicago. I now had to adjust a higher altitude recipe to a lower altitude kitchen
Baking is a science. Along with the right combination of ingredients, altitude and climate need to be taken into consideration. We were baking in La Paz, Bolivia, which is a tremendously higher altitude than Chicago and the climate is much drier as well.
Even within Bolivia the altitude and climate changes significantly between the Eastern departments like Santa Cruz, the more central valley region and Western mountains. I realized that I needed to learn more about baking at different altitudes and climates if I wanted to be able to recreate all my baked favorites with equal results everywhere I went.
I went on a mission to learn more about baking at different altitudes and I want to share this information with you.
Each week in January and part of February I will add to this post until each ingredient has been explained in detail.
Baking With Altitude - Flour
Baking With Altitude - Leavening Agents
Baking With Altitude - Fats
Baking With Altitude - Eggs
Baking With Altitde - Sugar
February 13: No post this week
(Life has been busier than usual lately so I need to change some of the post dates.
2/20 post changed to 3/6 and the summary will be posted on 4/3 not 3/6)
March 6th: Liquids/Dairy
April 3rd: Baking With Altitude Summary
I originally thought I would do seven posts on baking disasters but as you can see so far in these posts its not a simple question of increasing or decreasing ONE item. All the ingredients in baked goods work together. Changing one ingredient may or may not be enough to achieve positive results. I've decided to add a Week 8 post where I bring all the information together in one spot to help you better tackle your baking. I will also talk about temperature and baking time changes in the summary.
Thank you for visiting my blog.
Chef Noly
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The map below shows the location of our Brownhills West station (indicated by a blue marker) and using the controls to the top left you can zoom-in and pan around the map. The links at the top-right allow you to see an aerial image of the railway too!
1. Travelling by Car to Brownhills West Station
The Railway's headquarters at Brownhills West Station are situated in Chasewater Country Park, Brownhills, near Walsall.
The postal address is: Chasewater Railway, Chasewater Country Park, Brownhills West Station, Pool Lane (Off the A5), Burntwood, Staffs WS8 7NL. Telephone: 01543 452623.
The main entrance to the park is Pool Lane, a slip road leading off the southbound A5 (Watling Street) just south of its junction with the A452 (Chester Road). Brown tourism direction signs are provided on the northbound and southbound carriageways of the A5 in the vicinity of the park.
If travelling along the A452 (Chester Road) from Walsall/Brownhills, turn right on to the southbound A5 at the "Rising Sun" Island and follow the brown tourism direction signs on the A5.
Following the signs, turn left into the park immediately after passing over the M6 Toll Road. Continue through the park until reaching Brownhills West Station.
Brownhills West Station is shown on A-Z Map Ed. 3B, 2002, Page 9, G2.
OS Grid Reference: SK 034071
Please note: when inputting the post code, certain Sat Nav systems will direct you via the wrong end of Pool Road (Chasetown side). Vehicle Access to Brownhills West Station is only available via the A5 end of Pool Road; look out for the brown tourist steam engine signs.
2. Travelling by Car to Chasewater Heaths Station
A5190 Miners Way (Burntwood Bypass), Chasetown.
The postal address is: Chasewater Heaths Railway Station, Station Approach, off Miners Way, Chasetown, Burntwood, Staffs. WS7 3PG (click here for map).
Telephone: 01543 682854 (operating dates only)
Brown tourism direction signs are provided in the vicinity of the Station.
OS Grid Reference SK 037087
3. Arriving at Brownhills West by Bus
Coming from Walsall or Birmingham alight at Brownhills West (Rising Sun Island), which is the junction of the A5 (Watling Street) and the A452 (Chester Road). The "Crown" Public House is also located at the Island. Proceed along Wilkin Road (a minor road leading directly off the Island, on the side nearer to the Crown PH). At the end of Wilkin Road, turn left into Hednesford Road. Cross to the opposite pavement and almost immediately follow a footpath, alongside Poole Crescent, into Chasewater Country Park. This footpath crosses over the M6 Toll Road and the station complex is clearly evident from the footbridge, on the left hand side. Walking time approx. 15 minutes.
Coming from Hednesford or Cannock alight at Cherwell Drive. Walk back along Cherwell Drive a short distance to the T-junction with Hednesford Road. Turn right and cross to the opposite pavement and almost immediately follow a footpath, alongside Poole Crescent, into Chasewater Country Park. This footpath crosses over the M6 Toll Road and the station complex is clearly evident from the footbridge, on the left hand side. Walking time approx. 10 minutes.
4. Arriving at Chasewater Heaths by Bus
Alight at Sankeys Corner (Burntwood Library) and proceed along High Street (alongside the Library). At the traffic island, bear right along A5190 Milestone Way (toward Burntwood Bypass). Continue along Milestone Way, across the first island and past Morrissons supermarket. Chasewater Heaths Station is located directly ahead at the next island. Brown tourism direction signs for Chasewater are visible at the islands. Walking time approx. 15 minutes.
5. Buses services to Brownhills West (BHW) and Chasewater Heaths (CWH)
The following information is provided for general guidance and prospective visitors are recommended to check service details with the respective operators (see Section 6).
|From Walsall Bus Station (Journey time approx 30 minutes) to BHW
|Monday to Saturday (Day)
|Service 10A
|National Express West Midlands
|Monday to Saturday (Day)
|Service 3
|Sundays and evenings
|Service 3A
|From Birmingham (Lower Bull Street) (Journey time approx 60 minutes) to BHW
|Monday to Saturday (Day)
|Service 937
|National Express
|Sunday and evenings
|Service 937A
|National Express
|From Lichfield Bus Station to CWH
|Monday to Saturday
|Service 60
|Service 33A & 60
|Diamond & Arriva
6. Rail and Bus Information
Travel to Birmingham New Street or Birmingham Moor Street main line stations for a convenient 5 minute walk to Lower Bull Street for buses to Chasewater. City centre maps are displayed at the stations.
Connections from nearer local rail stations are less frequent and less convenient.
7. Rail and Bus information
For up-to-the-minute travel information, contact the public transport Traveline –
Tel 0871 200 22 33 or visit www.networkwestmidlands.com
To contact Diamond Bus, telephone 0121 557 7337 www.diamondbus.co.uk
To contact Arriva, telephone 0844 800 4411 www.arrivabus.co.uk
To contact National Express West Midlands, tel. 0121 254 7272 www.travelwm.co.uk
To contact National Rail information, tel 08457 48 49 50 www.nationalrail.co.uk
To contact the Chasewater Railway, telephone 01543 452 623
The Chasewater Railway is unable to accept responsibility for any changes to the bus information provided above in good faith, based on information provided by the respective service operators.
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Big Island police are investigating the death of an Oahu man on Sunday.
Officers say that South Hilo patrol officers responded to a report that a man had fallen from a cliff in Pepe'ekeo at 11:28 a.m. Sunday.
The man was reportedly hiking to shore to dive with friends when he fell off the cliff and landed approximately 80 feet below. Fire Department rescue personnel extricated him from the bottom of Loa Road and took him to Hilo Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 12:45 p.m.
He has been identified as 24-year-old Keylan Sato of Honolulu.
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Heroes of the Faith: 2014 marks 300th anniversary of Commentary on the Whole Bible author Henrys deathcomment (0)
June 19, 2014
By Joanne Sloan
Matthew Henry (1662–1714) wrote "Commentary on the Whole Bible," the most famous and most widely used commentary in the world. English Baptist minister Charles Spurgeon said of the classic work: "Every minister ought to read it entirely and carefully through once at least."
This year marks the 300th anniversary of Henry's death June 22, 1714.
He was born near Wales on Oct. 18, 1662. His father, Philip Henry, had been expelled from his Anglican church because he disagreed with the liturgy introduced by the Act of Uniformity in 1662.
Although he was born sickly and weak, Matthew Henry's aptitude for learning was demonstrated by his reading some of the Bible at age 3. His father educated him at home until he was 18. He was then sent to an academy in London to study for two years.
After surviving a serious fever at the age of 10, he was convicted about his spiritual condition after hearing a sermon on judgment. "I was under great fear of hell," he said, "till the Lord comforted me. I, having engaged in serious examination — what hopes I have that when I die and leave this earthly tabernacle I shall be received into heaven — I have found several marks that I am a child of God." He made a public profession of faith several years later.
In 1685 he went to London to study law. He left within a year to preach. Ordained in London, on June 2, 1687, he became a nonconformist pastor of a Presbyterian congregation at Chester. He remained there for 25 years.
Matthew Henry experienced much personal tragedy. His first wife died in childbirth. He and his second wife lost three infant children. He refused to stop working.
His legacy rests upon his famous, massive commentary. In 1704 he collected the vast amount of notes and writings he had made on the Bible during his ministry. His knowledge of Latin, Greek and Hebrew, as well as his wide reading, aided him in his writing. On Nov. 12, 1704, he started work on his exposition of the Old Testament and completed it July 18, 1712. He completed an exposition of the New Testament through Acts on April 17, 1714, two months before his death. Others took up his work using his notes and completed Romans through Revelation.
His six-volume "Commentary" quickly became an indispensable reference work for many Christians. It conveyed doctrinal truths in a simple, yet clear manner. Evangelist George Whitefield read it through four times, the last time on his knees.
Last visit
Matthew Henry accepted a call to a church in Hackney, London, in 1712, but he often returned to Chester. His last visit was to preach in June 1714. Returning to London, he reached Nantwich on June 21. The next morning he suffered a stroke and died soon afterward. His body was returned to Chester, where he was interred in the Anglican church building beside his first wife.


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Black History Then and Now is the theme of the Gregg County Historical Museum's 2012 salute to African-American history. This month-long exhibit opened February 2 and features a timeline of American Black History, spiced with a chronicle of local black history and how it relates to black history nationally. Photographs, documents and various artifacts will …
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Gallery Main Street opens new exhibit
Gallery Main Street's new "Alternative Abstract / Surreal" art exhibit opens Thursday with a reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the gallery, 110 W. Erwin. The exhibit's Best in Show winner will be announced at 5:30 p.m. during the come-and-go reception, said Tyler Main Street Department Leader Beverly Abell. The public is invited. "The …
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Two-Artist exhibit opens
"Connections," a multi-media, two-person exhibit, will open Thursday at Gallery Main Street. The exhibit will be debuted with a reception on Thursday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Gallery, 110 W. Erwin. The collaborative effort of artists Abhidnya Ghuge and Briana Sutton, "Connections" will present multi-dimensional and multi-media works of art. "This exhibit will …
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Today, both my brother and sister missed my wedding. She was playing in a Call of Duty tournament, and he got so high that he forgot about the wedding completely. He was my best man. FML
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Today, my girlfriend came back from visiting her family. She'd forgotten to take her pills, and decided to "catch up" by taking almost a week's worth of birth control and prescription pills. She's fine, but I had to convince the ER staff that she's not suicidal, just stupid. FML
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Today, I introduced my girlfriend to my parents. The first thing my dad did was comment that given how pretty she looked in our photos, and compared to how she looks in real life, she's amazing at using Photoshop. FML
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Today, while living in Florida, I had a conversation with my mother explaining that it might be best for me to come back home. Her response, "Don't worry, they have plenty of homeless shelters down there if you need a place to stay." Thanks Mom. FML
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
One Room Challenge: Reveal Preview and Olympic Spoiler
No, I'm not going to ruin it and tell you who won all the gold medals today. But for those of you have been following the One Room Challenge, the reveal is tomorrow, Wednesday, August 1st. For all of you late night Olympic watchers, I will be posting my reveal at midnight tonight ET. Stop by for a little dose of Chinoiserie after the Olympics and let me know what you think of my Chinoiserie Chic kitchen makeover.
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The charter for the Town of Orange was granted by the State as of the date of August 11, 1781. The original charter is framed under glass, and in safe-keeping at the Orange Town Clerk's office.
According to the account of "Orange" written in 1868 by Carlos Carpenter, a native of Orange but living in Barre at that time, the first settlement in the Town was made by Ensign Joseph Williams in September 1793 on the South line of the Town, a farm owned by Horace P. Gale. Prior to this time only hunters, trappers, soldiers, and captives had passed through this land, which was then a wilderness and uninhabited by permanent settlers. However, following the first settlement, in the next two or three years there were others who arrived, including Major Joseph Thayer, Christopher Carey, Humphrey and Ephraim Hunt, Gould Camp, John and Matthew Sloane, Ezra Paine, Ezra Goodale, Abel Skinner, Jabez Rodgers, and Porter Lord. The Town was organized as of March 9, 1796 at a meeting, warned by Abel Skinner, Justice of the Peace, and "holden at the house of Joseph Williams." The first check list of voters who took the freeman's oath was made on September 2, 1800 and contained 30 names of men living in the Town.
The early records of the Town show that all the governing or overseeing of land grants and changes were decided by the proprietors of the Township evidently before many people had even settled in the area. The first hundred acre divisions for land grants in the Town consisted of 67 original rights and were recorded in the accounts from the proprietors' Records of Orange, found in the first book of the Property Records of Orange. These were all dated at Thetford as of January 5, 1785. Included were grants for College Right, Grammar School Number 1, English School, Minister Right, and Parsonage.
The second hundred acre division included 65 individual rights with five additional for College, Grammar School, English School, Minister, and Parsonage Rights. These rights were all dated at Hartford, Windsor County, as of March 6, 1786. All grants were made for 100 acres of land with five percent allowance for highway. The entire Township was chartered to "Contain (or comprehend) the Contents Six Miles Square (6 Miles Square)."
In the book "Vermont Place Names" by Esther Munroe Swift, she describes Orange as "largely a farming town," that the top population was reached in 1830 with about 1,000 people and over 5,000 sheep grazing on the hillsides. Also, "located almost in the middle of town, the village of Orange had a post office from 1823 until 1921. East Orange, in the extreme southern corner, had a post office from 1850 until 1908." She also states in her book that according to U.S. Coast and Geodetic survey Maps the tallest peaks in town are Knox Mountain and Butterfield Mountain both over 3,000 feet tall.
According to Census Bureau figures, the population in Orange was 348 in 1800, so did have an influx of people up until 1830-1850 when the population dropped more or less continuously until 1960. Then it began to again climb upward, to 752 in 1980 and 915 in 1990.
It seems that one reason for the decline in population was that the western United States was made more accessible by means of rivers, roads and railroads, and with open land available for grazing or farming, many people from the east left the hilly farmland, such as in Vermont, for more prolific opportunities in the west.
In Perry Merrill's book, Vermont Under Four Flags, he states that by 1840 about 4,000,000 acres of land had been cleared for agricultural use in this state. However, from that date until about 1992, the forest area had been increasing, and the picture reversed, as there were about 4,000,000 acres of forest land in Vermont with much less open land for farming purposes. The situation is apparent in the Town of Orange, as there were only a few farms remaining and actively farming in 1992. Much of the land which formerly made up the acreage for operating a farm has been sold off in smaller pieces for building of private homes.
According to Town records, the meetings of the town people took place in private homes or at a school house until 1824 when the meeting was held at "the meeting house in Orange." The records indicate that a meeting house was built by the religious Society sometime between 1800 and 1824, and that it was used as a common town meeting house for public meetings for several years. This was located on the village green which was in the area near where the Orange Center cemetery is situated. It was purchased by the Town in 1861 and moved to the Market Road (now Route 302), where it has been located ever since. It was, however, moved further back from the highway in 1981.
In the early years of the Town, school houses were built in different districts of the town and families could be changed from one district to another in order to keep enrollments at a more comparable level. In 1920 there were seven districts with an enrollment of 312 pupils. The enrollment in 1844 was up to "409 scholars in 13 districts," and the report lists 165 heads of families at that time. In 1905-06, school enrollment is listed as 122 and in 1930-31 the elementary schools (Orange Center and East Orange) consisted of 87 pupils, and there were 20 high school pupils enrolled in five different high schools. In 1948 the consolidation of schools was further approved which left only the central school of Orange Center and the one-room school at East Orange. In 1959 the East Orange school was closed, extending the centralization of all town schools into the Orange Center school. In 1990 the total elementary school enrollment was 125 pupils and the high school enrollment was 54 students, or a total of 179 from the town.
The first meetings for the worship of God were held in the homes of some of the town residents. In March of 1801 "at a Stated Place for holding public meetings" it was "voted to form into a religious Society for the purpose of settling a minister and for supporting the Gospel." The Town Records indicate that a Meeting House had been built prior to 1824, and it seems logical that this is the same one where town meetings were held and eventually purchased by the town, then moved to Market Road.
Records indicate that a union church was organized for East Orange in 1823, the first building being erected in 1825 and occupied alternately by Free Will Baptists and Methodists. This building burned and another church was built on the same ground in 1850. This church building burned in December 1887. Construction began in June 1888 on a new church building, which was completed and dedicated in 1890. Worship services continue to be held here in this church building which is noted for the beauty of its design and appearance.
There are seven cemeteries in the Town, the newest one being "Brook Haven" which is located near the town hall and clerk's office on Route 302 in the center of town.
After the first settlers came to Orange, there were several sawmills and grist mills established where dams were made in the waterways to provide water power. As a result of clearing trees from the land for farming purposes, the industries of making potash, pearl ash, and lye came about. These products were sold or bartered as needed. In the past, lumbering and local sawmills were an important industry in Orange, but this work seems to have declined considerably at the present time.
The raising of the sheep was a flourishing agricultural business from about 1810-1850, but declined rapidly when sheep herding in the western states became too competitive.
From 1850-1900 many dairy farms turned to producing butter, eggs, and cheese. Each family was more or less self supporting with their means of producing dairy foods, vegetables, to last the year round, and poultry to supply further means of food. Later on, the sale of fluid milk and cream became the chief sources of income for the family. With the introduction of motor transportation the Town has gradually become a bedroom town where the majority of workers commute to places of employment outside Town boundaries.
Other industries which were active in the past were a tannery and shoe cobbler, around 1850; a wheelwright shop and shingle mill, around 1900; a cabinet and furniture shop, around 1850-1900, and general stores in Orange Center and East Orange.
Industries listed in 1981 were: a country store, Rt. 302 at junction of Route 25, an auto body shop, insurance and real estate business, an antique shop, a used car sales business, firewood and gas product sales, maple sugar products sales, and about 10 active farms.
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Media Statement by YB Dato' Ngeh Koo Ham, dated on 28/12/2012.
- Upayapadu Plantation Sdn Bhd not involved in any timber logging. Berita Harian involved in reporting false news.
- Upayapadu Plantation Sdn Bhd involved only in reforestation to ensure future sufficient sustainable supply of timber. Project encouraged and supported by the Federal Government and Kelantan State Government
- The land concern does not have any orang Asli settlement
- Dato' Ngeh Koo Ham has been transparent. Dato' Seri Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir must explain the approval of state lands worth Billions of ringgit to BN's cronies.
1.Berita Harian report false news
Berita Harian yesterday (27/12/2012) maliciously reported that Upayapadu Plantation Sdn Bhd was involved in timber logging since April this year on the piece of land which the company is involved in a reforestation program. The report was a total lie. The picture showing timber logs gathered to be taken out is not from the land that Upayapadu Plantation Sdn Bhd is doing the reforestation. The front page picture is also probably taken from another place.
I would like to emphasise that Upayapadu Plantation Sdn Bhd has not taken out any single log from the land it has undertaken to do reforestation since some investors and I took over the company in April this year. Until today neither the management of Upayapadu Plantation Sdn Bhd nor I receive any complaint from any party concerning any pollution caused by the works carried out by them. The land has been cleared of timber many years ago by other parties when the Federal Government and the State Government agreed to the reforestation programs using latex timber clone trees about 15 years ago.
The new investors are here to help in reforestation. We are here to help produce sufficient sustainable timber supply for the future so that no further virgin jungle need to be cleared to supply us with timber.
The said piece of land is a forest reserve. There are many types of forest reserve. In most permanent forest reserve you can harvest trees more than 45-85 cm (depending on specie) in diameter and those smaller ones will be left to grow in size. Those trees that are harvested will have to be replanted with young seedlings. For example, the Perak State Government practice sustainable forestry management and not more than 8,000 hectares of permanent forest reserve (as determined by the Federal Forestry Policy) will be harvested every year. The same area will be harvested every 30 years when the smaller trees have grown up. Some people have the wrong idea that no tree may be chopped down in a forest reserve in which event we would not have timber to build our houses and make our furnitures.
2.Reforestation project carried out by Upayapadu Plantation Sdn Bhd beneficial to the nation
The Federal Government and the Kelantan Government took a different approach for the piece of land that has been approved to Upayapadu Plantation Sdn Bhd for reforestation. In the past reforestation was always done by the State or Federal Government using public funds through the Forestry Department. The Federal and State Governments subsequently encouraged the private sector to participate but the respond was poor as you have to wait for 20-40 years (depending on plant specie) before you can have your first harvest. Most investors would end up bankrupts before they can see the fruit of their labour.
The Federal and State Governments encourage reforestation programs for future timber supply because our furniture export is about RM8.0 billion a year. The Federal Government has also allocated soft loans for such reforestation programs.
In encouraging the private sector to be involved in reforestation, a new approached has been taken i.e to plant latex timeber clone (LTC) trees so that the investors may have income from the rubber trees while waiting for the trees to grow up to become timber logs.
Apart from the Kelantan Government, the project undertaken by Upayapadu Plantation Sdn Bhd was supported by the then Plantation Industries and Commodities Industries Minister, Dato' Peter Chin Fah Kui and the then Deputy Minister of Rural and Regional Development Dato' Awang Adek Hussin.
Two past attempts to carry out the reforestation on the said land have failed. The new investors and I hope to succeed. Our investment and endeavour is beneficial to the country and we look forward to the support of everyone.
3.Orang Asli
Many people have asked if the said reforestation affect the livelihood of any Orang Aslis. I would like to state that there is no Orang Asli on the said land.
I am a strong advocate of the welfare of the Orang Aslis.
I have encouraged the Kelantan Government to gazette all Orang Asli settlements so that no development will affect their livelihoods.
The PR Perak Government which I was a part of, in recognition of the rights of the Orang Aslis had initiated the gazetting/alienating of 82,500 acres (33,386 hectares) of land for the estimated 10,000 Orang Asli families in Perak (8.25 acres per family). I am glad that the Perak BN Government continued our said decision by gazetting recently about 11,000 hectares for the Orang Asli. I hope the balance about 22,000 hectares will be also be allocated to the Orang Aslis and not to outsiders.
4.BN Perak Government must explain why lands worth billions of ringgit were alienated to cronies
I have been transparent and have explained all questions raised with regard to Upayapadu Plantation Sdn Bhd. I believe BN raised it to divert the people's attention from the billions of ringgit land scandals that I have raised at the State Assembly. Now that I have explained I challenged Dato' Seri Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir to explain the accusations raised against him and his Government.
Dated this 28th day of December 2012.
MP for Beruas &
State Assemblyman for Sitiawan


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This is usually what happens after the devastation or anger wears off…the "why" question begins. Was it you? Was it him? What in YOU attracted that into your life? Do you really deserve this? Will this ever end? What is the universe trying to tell you?
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In this class, you will discover:
In order to have something you've never had, you've got to be open and ready for it. We're going to go further with how to open your heart so that you can finally move on toward the life and love you've always dreamed of.
In this class, you will discover:
In this very powerful 5th class, we're going to answer the burning question… "what now?" so that you can take these tools and continue to integrate them into your life. You'll get in powerful "love habits" that keep you grounded, open, and feeling great – so that your soulmate can see your bright, shiny self radiating through.
In this class, you will discover:
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-- As noted earlier here on the website, it was announced during Friday's episode of SmackDown that Layla will defend the Divas Championship against Kaitlyn at Night of Champions.
Three title matches have now been set for the pay-per-view headlined by CM Punk vs. John Cena for the WWE Championship. The updated line-up for the event taking place Sept. 16, 2012 at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts is as follows:
* WWE Champion CM Punk vs. John Cena
* World Heavyweight Champion Sheamus vs. Alberto Del Rio
* Divas Champion Layla vs. Kaitlyn


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Bake Off Star Sue Perkins to Write and Star in New BBC2 Sitcom
Sue Perkins, one half of The Great British Bake Off presenting duo Mel and Sue, has revealed who will be starring in her next project, a BBC2 sitcom called Heading Out.
Perkins will be joined by comedy royalty Dawn French, EastEnders' Dot Cotton (June Brown) and The Thick of It star Joanna Scanlan, in the new sitcom about a 40-year-old lesbian vet "so skilled she can spay a tortoise one-handed�?.
Her successful career is somewhat tempered however, by the fact she is too scared to tell her parents she is a lesbian.
On the eve of her 40th birthday she is given an ultimatum by friends – either she comes out to her parents in six weeks time or they will do it for her.
She said: "I think once the gnawing terror, sleepless nights and relentless self-doubt has subsided, this might well be the thing that I'm most proud of. It's been a joy to work on, and I hope that joy proves to be infectious.
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NCITS/J13: Programming Language Common LISP
|Document Number:
|28 June 2000
|Reply To:
|Steve M. Haflich, J13 Chair
|Franz Inc.
|1995 University Avenue
|Berkeley CA 94704
NCITS/J13 has developed the ANS for programming language Common Lisp (X3.226-1994). It now maintains that standard and is considering future revisions and extension.
Paid membership in good standing remains at eleven.
J13 held two teleconference and one 3-day in-person meeting in calendar 1999. There have been as yet no meetings in 2000. The chair will likely call a teleconference meeting some time in the fall.
J13 began consideration of future standards work with the possibility of proposing one or more new project plans for revisions or amendments. There was extensive discussion on these matters at the October 14-16, 1999 meeting, and a number of members volunteered to form ad hoc committees to explore particular areas. Unfortunately, none of these effors subsequently gethered any momentum. The chair's analysis is that all the parties, while well meaning and genuinely interested, are too absorbed in other matters to make the large time committment required by new standards work.
The chair is aware of development projects underway by various parties that might be appropriate for standardization at some time in the future. Many of the tentative work areas the committee considered are still in engineering development stage. There is some sense within the committee that development is more-efficiently done outside the committee; standardization should come only after development. The committee should continue to monitor and be available when that time comes.
a. Project Number and Title574 - Mb. Project Milestones
Programming Language Common LispMilestone 8 (Publication) was completed in 1994.The standard was reaffirmed in 1999.c. Project DescriptionDevelopment and maintenance of X3.226-1994, the American National Standard for Information Technology -- Programming Language Lisp.d. Publications During Past Year(none)e. Statement of Progress
J13 still contemplates continued work on programming language Common Lisp, either by Amendment to the existing standard or by new Projects in related areas. A number of areas of interest for future work have emerged from committee members and from the larger Common Lisp community. However, the committee has not yet achieved critical mass around any particular proposal.
a. Previous Year's MeetingsMay 6, 1999, at Franz Inc. in Berkeley, CA, and by teleconference from seven separate sites in the U.S. and Great Britain.
Prior to this meeting, J13 had not met since July 1996.July 27, 1999, meeting by teleconferenceOct 14-16, 1999, in-person meeting at SRI, Menlo Park, CAb. Next Year's Planned MeetingsA meeting was tentatively scheduled for January 26, 2000, but was not called as there had been no forward progress on materials for that meeting. The chair intends to call a teleconference meeting some time in the fall to review the current situation, to satisfy the yearly meeting requirement, and to solicit any new business to come before the committee.c. Officers -- NCITS/J13
Consideration of further meetings is a standing agenda item.
Chair: Steven M. Haflich
(address above)
Vice Chair: (vacant) IR: Kent M. Pitman
One Vista Circle
Arlington, MA 02474
term ends September, 2000 Secretary: (rotates ad hoc) Technical Editor: Kent M. Pitman Vocabulary Representative: (vacant) Librarian: (vacant -- performed by chair)
d. Membership(see Appendix M below)e. Liaison ActivitiesThe IR is liaison to SC22/WG16 which has been inactive since completion of ISO/IEC 13816:1997 - Programming Language ISLISP.f. Administrative Matters of NoteThe IR term ends September, 2000. The call for volunteers remain open. The chair is not aware of any respondents.g. Procedural Matters of Note(none)h. RecommendationsAs mentioned in the executive summary, J13 should be left to continue to monitor technological developments for areas that become good cadidates for standardizations.i. Market Impact
Common Lisp remains a language of choice for high-end engineering and artificial intelligence applications. The positive features of the language have aged without significant decay, and (unlike during the AI boom of the 1980's) Lisp systems no longer require expensive, high-end systems. Both development and delivery system requirements are similar to other languages, and indeed sometimes smaller.
In the past year there has been significant growth in the use of Lisp in Web applications, including but not limited to intelligent servers for dynamic content and intelligent data mining applications. In addition to the applications themselves, the technology substrates need for Web applications are also under active development within the community. J13 will monitor these for when standardization activities may be appropriate.
As evidenced by the frequency and vehemence with which it is cited and discussed in forums such as comp.lang.lisp, the 1994 ANS remains an important work that will continue to be the standard reference for the Common Lisp community. The errors, ambiguities, and other defects in the standard are objectively few. However, the continued lack of standardization for language features areas of system interface (e.g. sockets, threading) is laamentable, as these have become increasingly important to applications in recent years.
The contents of the ANS for Common Lisp were finalized by X3J13 in deliberations essentially completed by the early 1990's. Several language areas considered during that drafting round were rejected at that time as "not yet ready for standardization." (Others, such as those for Web programming, were not yet really on the horizon.) While the 1994 ANS has proven successful and is enthusiastically accepted by the Lisp community, there is growing sentiment that some of these areas could and should now be reopened for possible new standards work.
There is recent growing enthusiasm in the Lisp community for tools and libraries for Web programming.
Reopening the entire 1400-page ANS for revision would be too large a task for present resources. Fortunately, the changes to the existing ANS likely required to support new areas are likely to be minor. Some extensions could be accomplished without any change to the ANS and easily issued via Amendments specifying optional language libraries.
J13 has no special Internal Procedures; Attachment 2 is omitted.
J13 operates without collecting funds from members; Attachment 3 is omitted. It may someday become appropriate to collect reimbursement for teleconference expenses of future meetings, but this not yet been discussed with the TC. There is no expectation that funds for any other purposes will be necessary.
Areas which might especially warrant standardization within the next few years include libraries and interfaces supporting Web programming.
The chair has been participating independently in the XML Ad Hoc Working Group and hopes that this area will blossom. The Lisp community has for some years been using machine-processable recodings of the existing 1994 ANS and new XML-coded standards would no doubt be found to be readily accepted by Lisp culture.
Attachment 1. Committee Projects: X3/SD-4 DataThe current SD-4 data as revised 5/26/99 is correct. It is included here for completeness:J13/SC22/WG16
Common LISP
(Revised 05/26/99 )
NCITS Project: 574 - M
Standard Designation: X3.226:1994 []
Title: Programming Language Common Lisp
Related International Development
ISO/IEC Doc.: IS 13816:1997
JTC 1 Project: 22.23
Attachment M. NCITS/ J13 Organizational Membership (06/16/00)
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(Author's Note: To those of you just checking out the site, please also be sure to visit late Wednesday afternoon, March 31, when Aaron will be publishing a special "tribute," to all the Kentucky fans who've been kind enough to reach out to him since Saturday evening. Thanks.)
I wasn't planning on writing tonight. It's been a long week, and a long month and a long college basketball season. Truthfully, I was really just hoping to kick my feet up, grab a few beers, watch some hoops and hit the hay early. Seemed like a perfect Saturday night to me.
But with West Virginia having just beaten Kentucky, here I am in front of my computer, trying to collect my thoughts on this game, and this Kentucky team. A team that might not be playing for a National Championship next weekend, but still may go down as the most fascinating of my lifetime.
Now make no mistake, I'm not a Kentucky fan. Quite honestly, I've never even been inside the states borders. And for most of my life I never really gave their basketball team much thought either. At least until December 9, when the Wildcats took on my UConn Huskies inside Madison Square Garden.
As I tried my hardest to describe the following day in my piece, "Kentucky-UConn: A Final Four In December," the level of fandom that I saw from the Big Blue faithful that night was unparalleled. I'm still fascinated, all these months later, at the passion the fan base had that night, when easily 10,000 people wearing royal blue and white filled the Garden to cheer for their team. For a a mid-week, seemingly meaningless, non-conference game.
I knew that what I had seen, and what I had written touched a nerve, when after publishing that article the following day, I had an inbox full of e-mails from Kentucky fans, and close to 100 comments on my old website (unfortunately, when the site got redesigned to look like this, those comments disappeared forever) all thanking me for documenting that game for them. To this day, that was the single most well received piece I've ever written. And I will forever be in debt to all Kentucky fans, and those who took the time to reach out to me.
After that experience, both at Madison Square Garden, and the following response as well, I started to follow Kentucky quite closely. Not just because of the graciousness of their fans, but because as the season went on, Kentucky happened to become the single most polarizing college basketball team I can ever remember.
It's a strange thing when you think about it, but because of the constant turnover of players, teams, coaches and everything else, college basketball has become a niche sport over the last couple years. It just doesn't seem as "mainstream," as it was even a decade ago, and truthfully it's understandable why. Most casual fans would just as soon not get attached to a team, especially when they know that seem team will be completely overhauled just a few months from now. Why even bother.
Yet for some reason, this particular Kentucky team resonated. The sport's highest paid coach brought an All-Star team together on the game's biggest stage, for what everyone knew would be only one great run toward a championship. Even though Kentucky had no seniors that played more than a handful of minutes, this group was only getting one chance to win the ultimate prize. It was a perfect storm.
And from tip-off of the first game, everyone had an opinion on them. People who'd previously had no interest in the sport suddenly became interested in college basketball again. Casual fans of the NCAA Tournament started watching games in January. You either loved or hated Kentucky this year, there wasn't much middle ground. You either appreciated the finest collection of young basketball talent in years, or loathed the Wildcats, for being the bane of everything that's wrong with the sport. A group of kids who (at least on the the surface) appeared to have no interest in playing college ball beyond their required one year, before cashing NBA paychecks.
Me? Personally, I never really understood the disdain that many had for them, and grew to like this team. This group of guys didn't ask for the all the media attention, or to be the face of the NBA's one-and-done rule, a rule, which by the way, they had no control over. Would John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Eric Bledsoe, Daniel Orton and a few others be in college if there wasn't an age restriction? Who am I to know? But there is that restriction, and they ended up at Kentucky. And it never seemed very fair to me that these 18 and 19-year-old kids got so much grief, from so many nationwide. They just came to Kentucky to play basketball, not to be America's bad guys.
But beyond just being an interesting team to follow, they became a favorite of mine to watch too.
Sure they were young. But over time you grew to appreciate all their little quirks and deficencies, the way you would do the same after dating someone for awhile. Was DeMarcus Cousins too emotional at times this year? Of course he was. But everytime I heard someone complain about it during a broadcast, I thought to myself, "Who wasn't emotional when they were 19?" I know I was. These were the kinds of things that you might not have liked about Kentucky if you only watched them half a dozen times this year. Watch them 25 or 30 times though, and you start to realize that Cousins was only emotional because he wanted to win so bad. Oh, and because he won't even be 20-years-old until August.
Anyway, much like the rest of the season, when Kentucky entered the NCAA Tournament, they again divided America. You were only in one of two camps: They were either going to win the National Championship because they were the best team, or not going to win it because they were too young. Again, there was no middle ground. This time, I was in the second group.
But as the tournament went on, the Wildcats started to swing me again. Not only were they bigger, faster, stronger and more physical than East Tennessee State, Wake Forest and Cornell, they were doing the little things that had plagued them all season: Consistently making free throws and open jump shots, playing great defense, and getting big leads early and putting the opposition away for good. Forget youth, Coach Cal was working his March magic again.
On Saturday night though, Kentucky ran into a team that was just as big, as nasty and as mean as they were. West Virginia didn't back down after Kentucky jumped out to an initial lead, but instead stayed calm and punched right back. It was on.
And as the game went on, all those little things Kentucky did that got them to the Elite Eight were starting to come unglued. They finished the game 4 for 32 from the 3-point line, and barely made half their foul shots.
What I noticed more than anything though, was their body language. For the first time that I saw all season, guys were moving a bit slower. They were walking with their heads down. They were physically and emotionally defeated. They just looked younger and more inexperienced than West Virginia. It took until March 27, but they had finally run into a team that was simply better than them.
As the final seconds ticked down, with Wall and Cousins- the two posterboys for this team- on the bench, a weird feeling came over me. I actually felt bad. Really bad. Not like the feeling that I have when my team loses, but different.
Again, this was a group of kids that was brought together for one year to do something great, and as the final seconds ticked off, you could see that each and every one of them was realizing that the dream was coming to an end quick. Six months of hard work, done. Every person has to find out the hard way that life isn't always how you imagine it. For these guys, it was Saturday night.
I felt bad again, because this was a team that had been judged, mocked and sometimes ridiculed in every corner of the college basketball world since November. How would I have felt as a freshman in college, if some people seemed to get a joy out of one of the worst moments of my life? Not too good I'm assuming. Again, I think too often this season people forgot that these were teenage kids, someone's young sons, and not paid professionals. They didn't deserve all the negatively directly, or indirectly thrown their way.
Believe it or not, I actually felt bad for John Calipari too. I know what you're thinking: "Aaron, how can you feel bad for Cal? Why?" Well I did and I still do.
I feel bad because before the game was even over people were already criticizing the guy, and questioning his way of doing things. Now I know that he's an adult, and a public figure, and this is the world we live in. I also know that he's the highest paid coach in the game. But when I hear idiots on Twitter and message boards saying dumb stuff like, "Well, when you live by freshmen, you die by freshmen," it makes me just shake my head. Are these people serious? This guy is the best at what he does, hands down. Almost 12 months ago exactly, he took over a program that couldn't even make the NCAA Tournament and coached them to 35 wins and the brink of the Final Four. Can we give him a little credit where it's due?
Finally, I felt the worst for the fans.
As a fellow sports fan, I know how it is, as do millions worldwide. We follow our teams through the preseason and regular season, getting to know the players almost too well along the way. We get to know their strengths and weaknesses, not to mention their moods and emotions. We read every message board, blog and newspaper article. We get a little too immersed in everything going on, all with the hope that our team will be the last one standing at the end of the year, even though realistically we know the odds are against us. When it doesn't end as hoped, we all get a pit in the bottom of our stomach, that it sometimes takes days or weeks to get rid of.
But beyond that, I know how much this particular team meant to Kentucky fans. I have an inbox full of e-mails to prove it. I've been lucky to correspond with a few Kentucky fans throughout this season, and they've been nice enough to take me along for the ride with them. Hell, as I said in December, I met a Kentucky fan after the UConn game that was holding back tears, over a win in his team's ninth game of the season. John Calipari will get a lot more victories during his time at Kentucky, but this team was different. It wasn't just about these kids, and this year, but about all the underperforming and underachieving teams the last decade before them too. You always remember the one that got away, and I have a feeling that's the way Kentucky fans will feel about this group for a long time.
So to any Kentucky fan who may be reading, I just want you to know, that I understand your pain. It would be unfair of me to say that I feel it with you tonight, but I know what you're going through, and I know it's not easy.
And I know it doesn't mean much now, but just realize that there aren't many teams that would have kept me up until after midnight writing about them following an Elite Eight loss. But your team is one of them.
This Kentucky team was one of the single most fascinating teams of my lifetime, and I'll tell you this: Two Monday's from now, we're going to crown a new National Champion. Maybe it'll be Butler, or West Virginia. I don't know.
But what I do is, not to take anything away from whoever does win the 2010 National Championship, but we won't remember this season for them. We will remember it for Calipari, Cousins, Wall and Kentucky though.
The Wildcats won't win a National Championship this year.
But this Kentucky team was most certainly one of a kind.
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