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ATLANTA -- Family ties were a major factor for Georgia Tech on national signing day.
The Yellow Jackets picked up a couple of second-generation players Wednesday, signing the sons of Randy Rhino and Robert Lavette. They also landed the brother of receiver Jon Muyres and a cousin of quarterback Joe Hamilton.
But tight end Gary Godsey, the brother of backup quarterback George Godsey, chose Notre Dame instead of Tech.
Among the other players signed by the Yellow Jackets: receiver Anthony Lawston of Baltimore; defensive end Gary Gathers of LaPlace, La.; running back William Glover of Tampa, Fla.; and linebacker Recardo Wimbush of Early County High School.
''We were going after immediate defensive help,'' said coach George O'Leary, who had signed papers from all 26 members of his recruiting class by 11 a.m. ''On offense, we were going for future needs. We got what we wanted.''
O'Leary also focused on signing a kicker to replace Brad Chambers and a punter to succeed Rodney Williams. The Yellow Jackets picked up a couple of suburban Atlanta prospects: Luke Manget from Rockdale County High School and Philip Newman from Walton High School in Marietta.
''We're going to look at those guys very quickly because of the need factor,'' O'Leary said. ''Both kicked 50-plus (yard) field goals and they're both punters. ... One will be the punter, one will be the kicker. We'll have an opportunity to see them both in the preseason and see who fits in where.''
The recruiting class included cornerback Eric Lavette, the son of Tech's career leading rusher, and running back-defensive back Kelley Rhino, son of the star defensive back from the early 1970s.
''It provides consistency in your program,'' O'Leary said. ''It provides loyalty and trust in your program.''
The Yellow Jackets bolstered their secondary with Jeremy Muyres, a 6-foot-3, 195-pound free safety from Parkview High School in Stone Mountain, and the receiving corps with Hamilton's cousin, receiver Roderick Middleton of Bonneau, S.C.
Fourteen of the signees were from within the state, reflecting Tech's increased stature after going 10-2 last season.
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What did we do before kitchen roll? (Sponsored Post)
I don't remember exactly when kitchen roll became a standard in my mum's kitchen, but I do remember those knitted dish cloths that were difficult to wring out and having to pick up messy things with pieces of newspaper.
Paper towels were first created in New Hampshire in 1919 by William Corbin, Henry Chase and Harold Titus and put on the market in 1922 wikipedia but I don't think they reached most households in the UK until the early 1970s and they were so thin you could spit peas through them, as my granny used to say. Very different from today's super thick offerings.
I'm sure there are very good environmental reasons why we should use cloths again, but I know I would find it hard to go back to boiling pans of cloths on the stove (I can remember doing that with our face flannels!) and then there are all the other things that kitchen roll is used for.
This is the kitchen roll I usually buy. I bought the plain ones this time because they were on special offer, but sometimes I get the ones with the pretty patterns too. I often use kitchen roll for cleaning up my crafting too, it's great for dabbing up excess ink on journal pages and, of course cleaning up afterwards. It's also possible to wet Plenty kitchen roll sheets without them disintegrating. The clip below features 'Juan Sheet' demonstrating how to clean up with Plenty.


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Wild Heart Gallery Featured Exhibition: VicissitudesPosted May 12th, 2017 by & filed under Archetypally Speaking, Trauma, Grief & Renewal, Who's Who at Southwestern College, Wild Heart Gallery, Top News, SWC Blog, Student Reflections and Updates, Art Therapy/Counseling at SWC, Featured.
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May 2nd was the Wild Heart Gallery opening night gala for Vicissitudes, the first solo exhibition for conceptual, multimedia artist and second year Southwestern College Art Therapy/Counseling student, Jessica Morris. The evening was filled with lively conversation, delicious refreshments, and music provided by SWC's own, Larry Harkcom.
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Tan guaranteed Singapore a taekwondo medal when he rallied against Myanmar's Naing Dwe Shein Shein to score a 6-5 quarter-final victory in the men's 55kg category.
Despite defying expectations against Shein, 17-year-old Tan struggled against Iranian powerhouse Kaveh Rezaei in the semi-finals and failed to advance to the gold medal bout.
Rezaei, the world junior champion, went on to win gold by beating Nursultan Manayev from Kazakhstan.
"This is the toughest opponent I've ever faced," Tan said. "I feel I should have tried harder. But at least I have a medal for Singapore."
Singapore's minister for community development, youth and sports, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, and his parliamentary secretary, Teo Ser Luck, personally congratulated Tan.
"Bringing the Youth Olympic Games here gives our youngsters a chance to compete on a world class stage," said Dr Balakrishnan.
As for Tan, he is optimistic about flying the Singapore flag at the upcoming 2011 South East Asian Games in Palembang, Indonesia, but says the London 2012 Olympic Games is his ultimate goal.


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Bedford Town Council added a closed door session, not previously scheduled, to the end of their regular Tuesday night meeting. When Council came out of it's executive session, Town Manager Charles Kolakowski announced his resignation.
"I am hereby announcing my resignation as town manager," Kolakowski said.
State Senator Frank Wagner wants to be governor. He believes he is the only Republican candidate with true business experience and who has experience working in state government.
He also touts his military experience.
"It's going well," Wagner said of the campaign, during a brief stop in Bedford on Thursday.
Sonia Jammes, Bedford's director of finance, had some strange news for Town Council last week. It seems that the Town received $148,000 in vehicle rental tax that was supposed to go to Bedford County.
According to Jammes, the state department of taxation collects vehicle rental tax and divvies up the local share of the tax to localities depending on where the rental agency is located. The state depends on the agency to select the correct locality when it reports. This is where the problem comes in.
Bedford County's supervisors unanimously approved a tax ordinance that leaves all tax rates the same as they are in the current fiscal year.
District 3 Supervisor Steve Wilkerson, who made the motion to approve the ordinance, noted that the budget the supervisors devised is based on these tax rates.
Few attended the public hearings the supervisors held on the tax rates and the budget. Only two people, both representatives of the Bedford County Education Association, spoke.
The Huddleston Fire Department can now fill up its tankers right behind its buildings off of Dundee Road at Trading Post No. 3 or at the Waltons Station No. 4 as the result of a project through the Peaks of Otter Soil & Water Conservation District.
By Mary Lee Clark
Capital News Service
RICHMOND – For the past two months, they showed up every day at the state Capitol, dressed in matching blazers and carrying pen and paper at the ready – the next generation of public servants carefully observing their superiors.
These young adults are known as pages. They are middle school and high school students from around Virginia who assist in everyday tasks at the General Assembly to experience firsthand how the legislative process works.
The Bedford County Board of Supervisors and county staff are in the final stages of developing a budget that will not require a tax increase to balance.
Bedford Town Council will hold a meeting in council chambers at the town's municipal building on proposals for what to do with the current middle school building once the school division declares it surplus. A structural engineer will make a presentation, which will include the old 1912 school building commonly called "Old Yellow."
"I think, as we have found in the past, there is a lot of nostalgia for "Old Yellow," Mayor Robert Wandrei commented during a Town Council Meeting, Tuesday.
Bedford County got a new tourism director in January but Nicole Johnson is not new to Bedford County.
She's a Liberty High School graduate. After college — she majored in medial studies with a journalism concentration — she worked in the Washington D. C. area. She returned to Bedford 10 years ago and worked for five years at the National D-Day Memorial Foundation, working on visitor services.
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December 04, 2013
McAllister demands government accountability for slipping student grades
EDMONTON, AB (December 4, 2013): Today, Wildrose Education Critic Bruce McAllister demanded accountability in Alberta Education in the wake of years of overcrowded classrooms, under-resourced schools and declining student outcomes. Results from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Programme for International Student Assessment released this week indicate declining results for Albertan students in math, reading and science.
Alberta dropped from eighth in math and second in science and reading in the 2009 assessment to 11th, fifth and fourth spots, respectively. "Student grades are slipping and the government shouldn't point the finger at teachers. The government needs to own its responsibility on this," McAllister said. "Class sizes are ballooning as this government breaks promise after promise. The number of new teachers isn't even close to keeping up with increasing student enrollment." The OECD results show the government's push for a new grading system that eliminates percentages and letter grades is failing, McAllister said. "The PC government's support for the no-zero policy and the move toward eliminating accountability and life lessons from learning is impeding student outcomes," McAllister said. "That's not how the world works and that's contributing to these declining grades."


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How to Encourage Innovation and Creativity: Part 5 – Stay Grounded
by: Chris Knotts, PMP – ASPE Creative Director
This week we're offering insights into how professional creatives keep the mojo flowing. Nurture the pillars of creativity in your day to day work, and the rest will follow.
Part 5: The more grounded you are in your life, the more creative power you will have.
I know this is a bit vague, but let me just say: I'm a guy who loves to think about the big picture. The more I can understand about something, the more interesting my thought process becomes (at least to me). I personally think this is human nature. If you're annoyed by my head-in-the-clouds attitude, I won't mind. But hear this: at the end of the day, there are a couple ingredients in the creative process for which there is just no substitute, and which really just can't be taught. However, they can be cultivated. So if you don't possess them you're not exactly out of luck, but you do have to work hard to cultivate them. The thing to remember here is that we're interested in repeatable, reliable creative power on demand. So sure, Van Gogh and Edgar Allen Poe might have been creative geniuses, but they wouldn't have been much good at doing business creatively because they weren't very good at controlling their passions. That ability to control and leverage the creative edge is one of the things we're seeking.
One of the magical ingredients is talent. People are born with more or less levels of creative talent, but I've learned over the years that even the most talented people don't always end up being the best at what they're doing. In fact, sometimes the opposite is true. Talent is something we could talk a lot more about, but for now suffice to say that I put less stock in talent these days that I used to, because I know the type of skills that come naturally to someone with a lot of talent can eventually be practiced almost as effectively by someone who works hard and simply practices their method. So the message is this: focus on creativity as a process. Practice it. You'd be amazed at how talented people will begin to think you are, even if you never thought of yourself as a particularly creative person.
The same is true of this last creative asset: your attitude. Attitude is a hard thing to teach, but I promise you: it is critical to the creative process. Someone who dwells in negativity, who is depressed, who is overwhelmed or frustrated is not — I repeat NOT — going to be a consistently effective creative problem solver. They will not be a consistently effective creative thinker. Consider Van Gogh. Was he a genius? Yes. Was he consistent? No.
How you define positivity and balance is for you yourself to decide, but I know that a balanced, happy person is the type of person for whom handy flashes of inspiration occur much more often. Those little flashes are critical to the creative process. Not because the next one you have might be your next big, bright idea (although it may). No, they are critical because a truly effective creative thinker has to continuously come up with many, many of these little tidbits in order to dump them into your gold pan and get on with the business of sifting through them. For someone who doesn't live with a positive state of mind, this will be a much more daunting task. Furthermore, you have to figure out how to do it on demand, which makes it more daunting still.
If you really do think that structured creativity is a valuable skill, and you really are interested in practicing it, then you owe it to yourself to take hard look at the most fundamental qualities of your mindset and do what you need to do to start figuring out how to be a fulfilled, happy person. Trust me, nothing less will do. At the end of the day, leveraging a creative process is a lot of hard work. It's simultaneously generating lots of preliminary possibilities, sifting through them, developing the good ones, and constantly using this process to execute on your real-world projects. It takes a lot of motivation, and it takes a bit of passion about your work in order to fuel the fire. That's why attitude is so important: it's the precursor to doing all these things effectively.
In the days to come, we'll look at more creative advice for creative work. In the meantime, we want to hear about your experiences solving creative challenges, and what you think is valuable. Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com or send me a tweet: @chris_knotts. You can also follow my training firm at @ASPE_Inc – we love to hear from you.
Further Reading: There was a great article on NPR years ago by Bill Gates: "Unleashing the Power of Creativity."
More from this author:
- How to Encourage Innovation and Creativity – Part 4: Humility
- How to Encourage Innovation and Creativity – Part 3: Continuous Feedback
- How to Encourage Innovation and Creativity – Part 2: Repeatable Process
- How to Encourage Innovation and Creativity – Part 1: Find Your Own Voice
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Miffy socks, Liberty
Reindeer pyjamas and bib, Waitrose
My First Christmas teddies, Wilko
My First Christmas teddies, Wilko
Blanket, Notonthehighstreet
The latest addition to the Cloudbabies toy range, this cuddly My First Baba Pink has a little mirror inside her coat and crinkly and scrunchy feet for baby to play with. She's the perfect companion for first sensory play and exploration, as well as a lovely cuddly companion for travel and play. Made from high quality materials, with good tight seams this is a great baby toy, RRP £19.99 and available from the Cloudbabies store.
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The perfect introduction to Miffy in her 60th year, this lovely Peek-a-Boo Miffy lift the flaps book is bright, colourful, and has lots of fun flaps for babies and toddlers to lift and look under. Play hide and seek with Miffy, but who's hiding, is it her mummy, her friend, or Miffy herself? A lovely first book, with rounded corners, and robust enough to survive younger readers. Peek-A-Boo Miffy: A Lift-the-Flap Book is available from all good bookshops, RRP £5.99.
Over-sized muslins, Amazon
The Shea Mooti Baby Snooze Room Set is perfect for helping babies have a great night's sleep - and mums too! Comprising a cute little cloth bag containing dried flowers and an aromatic blend of sleepy time aromatic flower and herbal oils, including lavender. Just add 2-3 drops of oil to the bag and shake to disperse around the room. The gift-boxed set retails at £15.99 Shea Mooti also offers a multi-award winning skincare range for babies, and is also available from Holland & Barrett.
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To keep those tiddly tootsies warm, the new Wolfie + Willow range from Inch Blue shoes offers beautifully crafted, handmade moccasins in a variety of colours and designs. These practical, stylish shoes have an elasticated collar to ensure they stay on, and are ethically made from vegetable tanned eco leather making them biodegradable and eco-friendly. We chose the Clancy which are a gorgeous colour, and so soft and lovely. Our young tester refused to take them off!
For first toys, these super-soft treats from Skip Hop are hard to beat. The Explore & More Bandana Buddies Raccoon has lots of textures, patterns and sounds to keep little hands active as baby explores. The integral colourful, soft bandana teether also detaches for mum to wear around her wrist, perfect for multi-sensory play. Plus it has a handy stroller clip for fun on the move. He's super, super cute too!
The Chime Ball Owl, part of their much-loved Treetop Friends range encourages baby to shake and roll the ball to hear the soft chimes sing. It also has tuggable wings and feet, crinkle details, and is made from a cuddly soft plush fabric. This entertaining toy will roll along, encouraging baby to crawl after it to play some more. Both toys are suitable from birth, so would make a great Christmas present for new babies this year.
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Little Tikes has just launched a new range of eight adorable sea creatures designed to help develop babies' motor skills, coordination and confidence. The new Lil' Ocean Explorers range are very cute, really eye-catching and colourful, and great fun. Prices start at just £8.99 for the Push n' Glow Fish. a light-up fishy friend with fun sounds and an easy-hold handle making it simple and fun to push along. The Catch Me Crabbie (above) has a motor sensor which detects baby approaching, moving side to side clapping its claws and playing music as she does so. Great fun to chase!
The Crawl n' Pop Turtle offers a fun twist on the traditional shape sorter. Baby can learn about shapes and colours by placing the blocks into the turtle's shell. Then when baby is ready to crawl, the turtle will lead the way, zig zagging along with lively music. And then, surprise! the blocks POP! out of the shell for Baby to play all over again. Great fun.
The Little Tikes Lil' Ocean Explorers range is widely available, and the toys are suitable from 6 or 9 months up.
Special edition Frozen wipes, Huggies
Adorable as those baby towels are, they are quickly outgrown, so it is lovely to see slightly bigger toddler-sized towels coming to the market. In super soft cotton, this gorgeous giraffe print design is from one of our favourite retailers, aden + anais. It's a great size, perfect for any growing toddler to snuggle up in after their bath, and just seems to get softer and softer with every wash. Available in a variety of prints on the muslin panel, this gorgeous towel retails at £28.95. Our cute small thing loves hers!
Lastly, who doesn't love a Christmassy book? And this is certainly one to treasure and revisit each year. Ideal from 6 months up, this cute board book invites little ones to follow the finger trail through several classic Yuletide stories including The Nutcracker, The Snow Queen and the Nativity. With textured pages and fun, brightly coloured illustrations, this is the perfect first Christmas book for babies and young toddlers. Christmas Stories (Follow the Finger Trails) is available from all good bookshops, priced £7.99.
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Austin Traylor: During the spring, I wanted to get myself in position to contribute to the team from the start. I want to help this team win some games in the fall.
Where do you feel you progressed during spring practices? It looked like you were catching the ball more consistently and you improved your route running from last season?
Traylor: I feel like everything has improved and is different than the fall. I have to be the guy who has to come in and be ready by the end of the spring. I feel I have improved all around. Coach Genyk has made a big emphasis in route running and all the other stuff. I am just focusing on the little things to highlight my game.
Do you think you've been able to get better because of the seniors you've been able to learn from, guys like Jacob Pedersen, Brian Wozniak and others? How important was it to get those learning lessons?
Traylor: I think that was very critical to my success and improvement and a player because those guys showed that if you want to play you've got to make plays. People put pressure on them to be playmakers so they have to focus on details, improving your pass catching and blocking and be ready to jump in when you are needed.
What's the big thing you took away from the seniors last season?
Traylor: They all had a high attention to detail, especially Pedersen. Wozniak never missed a call. They rarely made fundamental mistakes and they had continuous effort, never taking any plays off. That's something that carried over into practice. If you aren't getting the ball, you are running your guy off the play as far as you can.
What's the biggest thing you do this winter to get yourself prepared for the fall knowing that there was going to be a big opportunity for playing time?
Traylor: I really focused in on route running. We did a lot of route running and a lot of conditioning stuff. I did some speed stuff on my own on the weekends. You can't work too much on the contact aspect of football, so I tried to work on other areas.
What's the big advantage you have to having the same tight end coach for the second straight season, especially after the amount of coaching changes this program has experienced recently?
Traylor: I was actually really excited that we didn't lose many coaches. I feel it was a great contribution to my success that we have the same playbook. I felt that having to learn a new playbook slowed me down. Having the same coach back knows how you're going to practice and what his expectations of you are.
What do you like about how the tight end is used in this offense?
Traylor: It's critical to the success of the offense. We're a power team and we can't run the football without the tight ends blocking. At the same time the tight end has to catch the ball and make plays in the passing game.
Do you think your biggest strength right now is pass catching or run blocking?
Traylor: I think catching the ball between those two. I don't see myself as weak at run blocking, so I feel I am pretty balanced at both areas of the game. As a tight end, you have to be a guy who can power block down on the defensive ends and be fast enough to make a play on third down.
How important is Sam Arneson to your group?
Traylor: Sam is really bringing us together. We've all talked about it every day that we don't want any let up from the tight end group from last year. Every tight end group has had success here at Wisconsin. He's pushed that a lot. He owns up to what he's doing wrong and tells us where we all need to improve. I think that's great for me and the young guys.


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Silkbank records sharp rise in profitability
KARACHI—Silkbank Limited has declared an Operating Profit of Rs1.32 billion for the nine months ended September, 30, 2016. The Bank's Profit before Tax of Rs783 million reflects a notable growth of 772 per cent compared to the same period last year.
The steady improvement in profitability is the result of implementation of a well formulated business strategy. The ongoing focus is two-fold; on the revenue side, growth is led by contributions from high yielding consumer assets; and on the cost side, a steady rise in CASA is bringing the cost of funds down – evident from the deposit mix which stands at 61 per cent of CASA deposits vs. 58 per cent for the same period last year.
Thus Net mark-up income of the Bank grew significantly by 43 per cent compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2015, which substantiates Bank's operational efficiency. The Bank's total assets base grew by 16 per cent as compared to the position as at September 30, 2015 due to the increase in investments by 23 per cent and net advances by 11 per cent.
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Causes of poverty
Various causes of poverty can be classified under economic, political and social heads.
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Economic backwardness of rural areas is attributed to dependence on agriculture which leads to low income levels per person. This is due to the following reasons:
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- Inadequate irrigation facilities
- Lack of financial resources needed for investment and raising productivity
- High number of landless labourers
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- Inhibitions and handicaps arising from caste and religion
- Low levels of literacy
- Politically vested interests
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Parker Waichman LLP Files Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuits in Tennessee, Arizona and GeorgiaMar 9, 2012 | Parker Waichman LLP
Parker Waichman LLP announced this week that it has filed three federal lawsuits on behalf of women allegedly injured by transvaginal mesh implants they received during surgery to repair pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI).
"The injuries suffered by these three plaintiffs are typical of the kinds of complaints we're hearing every day from women who have received transvaginal mesh implants during surgeries to repair POP and SUI," Gary P. Falkowitz, a lawyer with Parker Waichman LLP, said in a statement. "These complications are life-changing, and in many instances, the victims of transvaginal mesh injuries will never be able to recover their previous quality of life."
One of the complaints, filed in Tennessee federal court, names devices manufactured by American Medical Systems, including the Perigee System with IntePro Lite, the Apogee System with IntePro Lite, and the MiniArc Sling. A federal Georgia lawsuit names Boston Scientific Corp.'s Obtryx Transobturator Mid-Uretheral Sling System, while an Arizona plaintiff was allegedly injured by the Gynecare Prolift device marketed by Ethcion, Inc., a division of Johnson & Johnson.
The lawsuits allege that the devices the plaintiffs received were defective, and create an unreasonable risk of injury and other adverse health consequences for patients, including, but not necessarily limited to, vaginal erosion, infection, extrusion, perforation, chronic pain and/or abscess. Among other allegations, all the lawsuits claim that the named Defendants were on notice of numerous bodily injuries caused by the products, and based thereon, knew or should have known that the devices caused an unreasonably high rate of vaginal erosion, infection, extrusion, perforation, chronic pain and/or abscess in women implanted with them.


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Actually I like Anna. I'm more the girl next door/ farmers daughter type than the Hollywood tinsel queen type. Ms.Wilde is just an attractive woman all the way round. I can't think of her name but the woman who plays the main agent on In Plain Sight is a good example.
Once the list gets to 30, it's pretty good, but before that at least half of those on the list are downright fugly.
All politics aside, I'm not sure how she doesn't make the list:
Because "All politics" are never put aside.
Christina Hendricks. Our generation's Marilyn Monroe.
Too bad she started ummm covering up after she had her kid. :laugh1:
The gun just makes her hotter!
Ummm, yes. Yes indeed.
#30, 44 AND ........SOPHIA!! Yum.
Also.....the chick who plays the daughter on Modern Family is hot too. Was she in there?
modern family
Thank you! I could listen to her talk all day. And that's sayin' something.
Ted Nugent approves of this.
My kind of woman. One who can look sexy as well being comfortable out doors.
In my house the above lady is called...Big Head.
The wife has her show on sometimes when I come home from work.
She is a pretty woman but when she has her hair pulled back...Her Head just looks two times too big to fit her body. Hence she became known as Big Head in our house.
I dont know I think her head matches her melons perfectly.
She just does not do it for me now. All I can focus on is her big head now.
Same with Tyra Banks. Once I noticed how big her forehead was, It is all I see when I see her.
It's called having a fivehead.
That is exactly what I call her. Big head, big head, big head (Chandler Bing style)
that makes two of us.She had me at hello.


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Its so cold here in the south hello its called the south I feel like am back in my hometown of Michagan.
lol! Sorry.. don't feel all that bad for you.. yours will barely last, ours will :)
Its been cold here 45 is the high for today do not like that at all
lol my family lives in SC.. they are going through the same.. BUT our high will be 25 today.. soooo.. I assume yours will heat back up faster than ours ;)
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I do not know if she owns the house or if her parents do, but my rent is current and I just gave my two months notice. We have no paper contract or lease or anything, and I have a feeling she may change the locks on me because of a cat situation. I have two cats that she said could live there. The kitten has separation anxiety and my roommate put her in the garage where she got an eye infection. She said my cat was meowing and has destroyed some of her stuff although she has no hard evidence. The vet said that my kitten should not be in the garage and is not in heat. My roommate only wants the kitten to be in the house if it is declawed, which I will not do to a cat for defense reasons if she accidentally gets outside. I am keeping the kitten inside, so the locks might get changed.That same day I gave her my two months notice. The next day, she gave me a 5-day-notice and said that we need to go to open court the following Monday. She also said I owe her $1300 but as there is no lease and no contract, I don't know how I owe that amount. The amount that I would pay is this month's rent and the next two months, which comes to $975. What do I do? I am already moving in two months and now, all of a sudden after I give her notice, she wants me out in five days. What is going on here besides a tantrum and a power struggle?
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cifa replied to Paul C Skertich's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingIf your goal is just to make it "blurrier" you really don't need multiple passes (well not more than 2) but you can space more the samples you fetch. Supposing you want a gaussian blur with 7 taps: This is not actual code, is just to give an idea. const float weights[7] = {0.006, 0.061, 0.242, 0.382, 0.242, 0.061, 0.006}; // This would be equivalent to a gauss blur with std dev 1 const int offsets[7] = {-3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3}; float2 width = direction*gaussWidth*pixelSize; // Direction is (0,1) or (1,0) based on vertical or horizontal for(int i=0; i<7; i++){ OutColor += TextureSample(sceneColor, sceneColorSampler, UV + offsets[i]*width)*weights[i]; } Increasing gaussWidth will increase the amount of blur. This will introduce visible artefacts if you chose a very high width, but works well for reasonable blurs.
cifa replied to cifa's topic in Games Career DevelopmentI think you should at least make your email address public. After all it might happen that someone stumbles across your page and want to contact you. To prevent spambots from reading the email address you can use a mix of javascript and . I use the following code on my homepage and did not get a single spam mail so far (but there are tons of bots on the website). mail [at] domain [dot] com Thanks for the script, I will use it! However when sending the page for application I will make it public for sure. It is just now that the page is not yet used for its purpose.
cifa posted a topic in Games Career DevelopmentHi all! I am on the verge of sending out my first applications and I have recently put up a portfolio website. My goal is to try and get a job as (junior) graphics/engine programmer- Any kind of feedback would be greatly appreciated, here's the website: http://fcifariellociardi.com/ (Note, in the CV section all the personal data info, apart from the name, are eliminated as I am still unsure if I am up to having them public) Thank you!
cifa replied to cifa's topic in Math and PhysicsThank you very much! I don't know why I didn't thought of Gram-Schmidt.
cifa posted a topic in Math and PhysicsHi there, I was wondering if it is possible somehow to find two orthogonal vectors on a mesh, but starting from screen space. I know that I can bring two points (e.g. currPixel and currPixel + (1,0)) to object space if I have also depth info. In such way I can find a vector that is on the mesh in object space. Now we all know that in 3D there are an infinite number of perpendicular vectors to another one so if I just take one of them I have no guarantee it would be on the surface of the mesh. Taking perpendicular vectors in screenspace is of no help as they may well map to non-orthogonal vector in object space. Is it possible, starting from the data I have (persp. matrix, viewMatrix, modelMatrix, depth info and screenspace info), to obtain the said vector or is it an impossible task? Thank you!
cifa posted a topic in Graphics and GPU Programming************** UPDATE ********************** I had a stupid issue due to the resolution of the texture, not the code below works as it should. *********************************************** Hi there! I'm trying to implement the IBL technique described in here: http://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/s2013-shading-course/karis/s2013_pbs_epic_notes_v2.pdf Now I'm still trying to get the envBRDF LUT (roughness / NdotV) to render properly as shown in the paper: What I have now is: the usual Hammersley functions: float radicalInverse_VdC(uint bits) { bits = (bits << 16u) | (bits >> 16u); bits = ((bits & 0x55555555u) << 1u) | ((bits & 0xAAAAAAAAu) >> 1u); bits = ((bits & 0x33333333u) << 2u) | ((bits & 0xCCCCCCCCu) >> 2u); bits = ((bits & 0x0F0F0F0Fu) << 4u) | ((bits & 0xF0F0F0F0u) >> 4u); bits = ((bits & 0x00FF00FFu) << 8u) | ((bits & 0xFF00FF00u) >> 8u); return float(bits) * 2.3283064365386963e-10; // / 0x100000000 } // http://holger.dammertz.org/stuff/notes_HammersleyOnHemisphere.html vec2 Hammersley(uint i, uint N) { return vec2(float(i)/float(N), radicalInverse_VdC(i)); } The ImportanceSampleGGX practically as reported in the paper: vec3 importanceSampleGGX(vec2 sample, float m, vec3 N){ float phi = sample.x * 2.0f * PI; float cosTheta = sqrt( (1.0f - sample.y) / 1.0f + (m*m - 1.0f) * sample.y ); float sinTheta = sqrt(1.0f - cosTheta*cosTheta); vec3 vector = vec3( sinTheta * cos(phi), sinTheta * sin(phi), cosTheta ); return vector; vec3 up = abs(N.z) < 0.999 ? vec3(0.0,0.0,1.0) : vec3(1.0,0.0,0.0); vec3 tangentX = normalize(cross(up,N)); vec3 tangentY = normalize(cross(N,tangentX)); // Project return tangentX * vector.x + tangentY * vector.y + N * vector.z; } The integrateBRDF vec2 IntegrateBRDF( float Roughness, float NoV ){ vec3 V; V.x = sqrt( 1.0f - NoV * NoV ); // sin V.y = 0.0; V.z = NoV; // cos float A = 0.0; float B = 0.0; for( uint i = 0u; i < NUMBER_OF_SAMPLES; i++ ) { vec2 Xi = Hammersley( i, NUMBER_OF_SAMPLES ); vec3 H = ImportanceSampleGGX( Xi, Roughness, vec3(0.0,0.0,1.0) ); vec3 L = 2.0 * dot( V, H ) * H - V; float NoL = max( L.z, 0.0 ); float NoH = max( H.z, 0.0 ); float VoH = max( dot( V, H ), 0.0 ); if( NoL > 0 ) { float G = G_Smith( Roughness, NoV, NoL ); float G_Vis = G * VoH / (NoH * NoV); float Fc = pow( 1.0 - VoH, 5.0 ); A += (1.0 - Fc) * G_Vis; B += Fc * G_Vis; } } return vec2( (A)/float(NUMBER_OF_SAMPLES), (B)/float(NUMBER_OF_SAMPLES)) ; } As you can see they're almost a copy-paste from the reference, but what I got is completely different: The roughness is the uv.x and uv.y of a quad that are calculated in the VS as: vTextureCoordinate = (aVertexPosition.xy+vec2(1,1))/2.0; Am I missin something very stupid?
cifa posted a topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingHi everyone! I've been trying adding HDR support to my system but I got a couple of questions. I believe what I'm doing before tone-mapping is fine: - Setup a RGBA16F Render Target - Render to that RT - call the postprocessing tone mapping on the cited RT and display the result on screen. Now to test this I've cranked up a bit my light intensity: Now if I apply the following tone mapping function (either one, the result is similar) col *= exposure; col = max(vec3(0.0), col -0.004); col = (col *(6.2*col + 0.5)) / (col *(6.2*col +1.7)+0.06); return vec4(col ,1.0) or col *= exposure; col = col / (1+col); return vec4(col, 1.0); if the exposure is more than 0.5 for the above image and previous functions the result is pretty flat: Where for an exposure value of about 0.4 the result is ok: Although it's very darkish (unsurprisingly as the exposure is pretty low). Now the same issue (flatness of the tone-mapped image) is there for a "normal" light intensity which is fine even without using HDR. To get a decent result I have to lower the exposure even for that case, resulting though, again, in a darkish image. My questions are then two: - Am I missing something important here? I feel that the result I get is somewhat wrong - Is there a way to "automatically" select what's considered a good exposure value for a given scene? Thank you very much
cifa posted a topic in Graphics and GPU Programming********** EDIT: I've found a bug in the CPU side that wasn't my fault, I'm investigating and then update the topic, for now the following description is not valid anymore, if mods want to close the topic it's fine to me **************** I'm implementing a VSM algorithm. My code is pretty much like everything is online. //coords is after the w divide and 0.5 + 0.5* corrections float VSM(vec3 coords, float dist){ vec2 moments = texture(shadowTexture, coords.xy).rg; if(dist <= moments.x) return 1.0; float variance = moments.y - (moments.x*moments.x); variance = max(variance, 0.001); float d = (dist) - moments.x; float P_max = variance / (variance + d*d); return pMax; } Here if I use a small value to clamp the variance as done in almost every source I found the result is a terrible acne: If I start increasing the max value for the variance the acne diminish, although still evident. Also the proper shadow is definitely lighten (too much) Eventually if I keep increasing such value the proper shadow disappear. Moreover the value to produce this image above is 6.0! Way higher than everything I saw around. Similarly I've tried something like: float d = (dist + bias) - moments.x; but I found no value that solve the problem, although not tried that many. The depth map is I think fine because with PCF I get a good result. What can be the issue here? Thanks!
cifa posted a topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingOk I'm sorry for the terrible title, but I'm up for suggestion for a better one :) I am trying to write a small framework for a project I have to do soon. I never did nothing more than "one cpp file" OpenGL stuff up to now, so I was trying to come up with a decent class structure as required to do what I have to do. What is related to the following question is pretty basic: - Mesh class that has - ShaderProgram class (with a tables to link attributes/uniforms IDs and more user-friendly names) instance that is "used" when rendering the mesh. - Various attributes (VBO etc.) - A render function. I had the plan to add a textures vector in Mesh class to relate all the textures that may be useful (e.g. normal map, occlusion, diffuse etc.) to the mesh they belong to (I have no re-use of texture for different models). The big problem is that for the application I had to do at the end, there's no certainty on how many texture should I use for the Mesh, I could potentially have just diffuse and normal maps or I can have a dozen of texture maps needed for various parameters. That'd be fine if all the ShaderProgram will use all those textures, but that's not the case, I may need the same Mesh to be drawn with a fairly complex fragment shader or just drawing it's alpha matte. How can I handle such situation? There's any way I can achieve such degree generality? Also I'm a tad confused, so I'm afraid this question came up like a mess, I'm sorry about that and I'm extremely happy to clarify anything unclear. Thank you very much
cifa replied to cifa's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingOh thank you very much! I indeed re-wrote everything (that snippet is an extract) so to avoid division as much as possible and it now works like a charm. As for the NdotL issue thank you for pointing out, I did know that on back of my head but I probably got confused by what was in a old piece of code of mine!
cifa posted a topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingHi all, After reading 'bout BRDF I tried to implement it in a shader, but things apparently goes wrong, but don't know why. It's my first attempt to go beyond a basic phong shading, so sorry if the following is a silly question. First of all here's the model with just the diffusion component: Now if I activate the specular component as well the result is strange: The right side of the face is completely blackened and overall it looks strange. This was with the beckmann distribution, if I switch to Blinn: Same issue. My frag shader (relevant part) is: float beckmannD(float roughness,float NdotH){ float roughness2 = roughness*roughness; float roughness4 = roughness2*roughness2; float NdotH2 = NdotH*NdotH; float term1 = 1/(roughness4*NdotH2*NdotH2); float expTerm = exp((NdotH2 - 1)/(roughness4*NdotH2)); return term1*expTerm; } float blinnD(float roughness, float NdotH){ return (roughness + 2)/2 * pow(NdotH, roughness); } float kelemenG(float NdotL, float NdotV, float LdotV){ float numerator = 2*NdotL*NdotV; float denominator = 1+LdotV; return numerator/denominator; } float implicitG(float NdotL, float NdotV){ return NdotL*NdotV; } .... void main(void){ vec3 N = texture2D(uNormalSampler, vTextureCoord).xyz; N = N*2.0 - 1.0; N = normalize(N*uNMatrix); vec3 L = normalize(uLightPosition-vPosition.xyz); vec3 V = normalize(-vPosition.xyz); ... vec3 H = normalize(V+L); float NdotH = max(dot(N,H),0.0); float NdotL = max(dot(N,L),0.0); float NdotV = max(dot(N,V),0.0); D = beckmannD(roughness, NdotH); // or D = blinnD(roughness,NdotH); float LdotV = max(dot(L,V),0.0); G = kelemenG(NdotL, NdotV, LdotV); //or G = implicitG(NdotL,NdotV); // Note I'm not considering Fresnel yet specularWeighting = D*G/(3.14*NdotL*NdotV); vec3 diffuseColor = vec3(1.0,0.6,0.6); vec3 diffuseReflection = uLightColor * diffuseColor * diffuseWeighting; vec3 specularReflection = specularColor * specularWeighting; fragmentColor = vec4(uAmbientColor+diffuseReflection+specularReflection,1.0); } What can be? Thank you very much, and sorry for the probably silly issue.
cifa replied to cifa's topic in Games Career DevelopmentAn enlightening reply! Thank you so much! I'll try some of the things you cited. As far learning is concerned I'm always extremely eager to learn! Again, I sincerely thank you a lot for this answer!
cifa replied to cifa's topic in Games Career DevelopmentThank you very much! Do you have any idea of the scope of works on the portfolio they want? Oh ok! So basically keep trying sending application while building the portfolio! Thanks! Do you have any suggestion about what can be a good project to work on my own to increase my chances of be considered as graphic programmer? (I know internship is a job, for job position I meant everything from intern to junior programmer, whilst with the first option I don't think I can do much more than internship)
cifa replied to cifa's topic in Games Career DevelopmentFortunately I had a scholarship and the rest I was able to cover with my own finances without loans. Although I can't afford to stay still forever I definitely can for couple of months as I can go back home and work from there. In such situation I would definitely try to work hard to get the job I want, is this delusional? All the internship system is not usual in Italy, so I never had the chance
cifa posted a topic in Games Career DevelopmentHi all! I start by saying that this post is maybe premature but these questions have been puzzling me a lot lately, so I prefer to ask now. My life-goal is to become a graphics programmer in games industry, but before jump to the question let me post a short bio to frame my situation. I've completed my undergrad studies in computer science in Italy obtaining the highest mark. However, during I don't feel like I've programmed a lot and I barely touched graphics. For thesis I've finally done something implementing a very simple mesh viewer with phong shading in OpenGL and WebGL + an .obj to JSON converter. So actually not much. I'm now finishing an MSc at UCL in UK. While this master is computer graphics and imaging related (Image Processing, Virtual Environment, Computational Photography, Geometry Processing, Computer Graphics are most relevant module), I feel like the rendering part wasn't that relevant, just pretty basic stuff, at least in practice. On the Image processing side I've done way more, but I'm not sure if/how this will help me in my life goal (that's actually question 1: will it? ) and everything was implemented in MATLAB. Every coursework so far has gone very good in markings but due to the completely different system here I'm not sure I will be that good in exams. Unfortunately during my undergrads years I didn't have the ideas clear enough to start some side-project by my own and now here I definitely don't have the time to start one before the uni finishes. Giving this what I've in my hands are just some coursework and what will be my final thesis (screen space subsurface scattering implementation for skin rendering). On a theoretical side for rendering I feel that I have some knowledge although not that complete on an intermediate-advanced level. I tend to have the Imposter Syndrome but in this case I really feel inadequate to start looking for a job. Now, I don't really mind start my working experience with an internship, but even so I don't think I've enough to show or I'm good enough. So this lead to my central question: Wanting to be a graphics programmer what is in your opinion the best path to follow in my situation? Starting the search for an internship straight after the graduation. As material to show use just the courseworks and the final thesis (which hopefully will be good in terms of result and not that basic) Stop for a while and produce something by myself before trying to apply for job positions. I think this is the only way possible for me, but in this case what you think is a good project to start that will be well appreciated by a possible employer? Thank you very much and sorry for the long post :)


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May 4th 2008
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Our visit to Cambodia was about as varied as its mixed history which ranges from the splendour of the ancient Khmer civiliation to the tragedy of the more recent Khmer Rouge. I'm of two minds about what to think overall. Without a doubt, however, the true beauty of this place came through in the unconventional parts of the trip. But where's the humour in that? I'll get to that later. First, the negatives.
The Bangkok - Siem Reap Bus Scam
We had been warned about this a number of times. The scam is as follows: you buy your bus ticket in the backpacker area of Bangkok where they promise to take you all the way to the Cambodian of Siem Reap which sits right on Angkor's doorstep. The scam comes in two parts - first, they stop at a restaurant near the border and give you forms for your visa and offer to handle it for you for 1500 baht ($50 CAD) We learned from somebody we met that you can decline and do it yourself at the border. Granted the border guards are corrupt and will extort more than the official $20, but it's a heck of a lot less than $50. The second part of the scam is once in Siem Reap they take you directly to a hostel of their choosing, the one that paid them to bring you. They basically make you look at rooms, though you're not committed to stay.
We handled the first part beautifully but stumbled on the second. Once at the border restaurant, everybody except us and two ex-pat Canadians we met on the bus opted to shell out the $50 to have the bus company handle it for them. The guy in charge of the visas didn't appreciate this.
Now, I know I can get carried away and exaggerate (the Cebu Pacific office wasn't REALLY a refugee camp - it only felt that way) but I assure you this is exactly how it happened. Adrienne can verify.
The guy came up behind and started massaging my shoulders and neck and started asking us about our visas. Like we had been advised, we said 'no thank you' and told him that we would arrange it ourselves at the border. I squirmed forward to get out of his clasp on my shoulders. He wouldn't really take the hint though and as I leaned forward he just leaned in forward too, kneading away at my shoulders. After accepting that we didn't want him to do our visas and that I didn't want a massage, he went on to the next table and we were left with puzzled expressions. It got weirder later as we were getting ready to get back on the bus and as I was passing this same Visa Guy he reached down and gave me a good firm full-palmed slap on the posterior. I jumped in shock and wheeled around, he was just smiling back. I stormed back to the bus and immediately told Adrienne that the Visa Guy had just spanked me. Then things got weird.
He obviously didn't take rejection well and went into face-saving mode - once the bus stopped at the border, Visa Guy walked up the aisle and stopped beside and proceeded to tear a strip off me. It went something like, "So now we all have to wait for you to get your visa yourself! We could have done it for you and saved everybody time! You think it will be easy?!" I just awkwardly sat there, trying my best to smile politely and take it, but I swear he persisted, "Don't smile at me, sir! Don't smile!!!" He had snapped and gone from flirtatious to furious.
The bus was totally silent at this point and I was contemplating the international ramifications should I start a brawl at the border. Luckily he stormed away and we set about getting our visas with Tim and Ryan, the other two Canadians. The Visa Guy followed us for a bit and continued to act weird. He made fun of Adrienne for wearing glasses and I looked at him and said that I actually quite liked her glasses. He looked at me with pride and announced that HE didn't NEED glasses. I considered offering him high praise for such a spectacular feat, but instead opted to turn my back.
Of course once he got the hint and went away, the border itself wasn't easy either and we did have to pay off the border guard. Upon seeing that we only had US dollars, he said that we had to pay in Thai currency, of which we had none left. We pointed out that it actually says "20 USD" ON THE VISA, but he said thats just for the airport in Phnom Penh and for land crossings from Thailand you have to pay in Thai Bhat. We tried to stand our ground and kept saying $20 and poiting to the visa, but what could we do? He had all the power and we had nothing. So we offered to pay $25 USD and he gladly accepted that deal. Why wouldn't he, off the four of us he made a cool, illegal, $20 - apparently HE's willing to overlook that fictious Thai currency rule if we'll shell out enough dollars. Either way, we still paid half what everybody else on the bus paid. So we consider that one a victory. I never saw the Visa Guy again as he was going back to Bangkok and we got on a much smaller bus Siem Reap, on the famed "Boulevard of Broken Backsides". Once on the Siem Reap bus, a couple English guys were asking why he had yelled at me and I said I didn't know, only that he had been making advances on me a short while earlier. They laughed out loud at this, for after tearing a strip off me, they saw him shouting "Hey, handsome man!" to another wiry Westerner. I guess he has a type? If that whole experience was rough, the road ahead wasn't much better.
Rumour has it that an airline flying directly to Siem Reap has bribed the government to delay the paving of this common road since a reasonable road route from Bangkok to Siem Reap would take business away from their flights going straight to Siem Reap. As a result, you have a road often cited as one of Asia's worst when it's dry. When it's wet, the whole thing becomes a mudslide. At one point our entire bus was 45 degrees off centre of the road but we continued to slide forward for about a half kilometre. Many smaller cars were stuck and we saw hordes of young men muddy from head to toe for pushing the cars out of the mud. This is a major thoroughfare! One truck had lost its grip completely and pulled a Matt Vaughan Maneuver (for those who don't know, that involves rolling the vehicle over).
Either way, we got there at around 9am, a full 14 hours after having left Bangkok. We were so tired that the $3 rooms at the place they took us to ac tually seemed appealing. And this was our biggest blunder.
I'll say without a pang of guilt that the hostel was called The World Lounge and I advise anybody in Siem Reap to steer clear. They sell their rooms at a bargain because they make their money elsewhere. For instance, in order to properly see Angkor you need to hire a tuk-tuk driver (a tuk-tuk is basically a motorcycle pulling a small carriage). The guy on the bus from the border to Siem Reap who worked for the hostel offered to be our driver. He seemed like a nice enough guy and over breakfast he laid out all the prices and why we should go with him. Long story short, we over paid by roughly 100%. Furthermore, he took us according to HIS itinerary which included lunch stops at restaurants where he was no doubt on the take. It was so bad that on the second day when we informed him we wanted to break route to go visit the Canadian-sponsored Landmine Museum, he got irate and yelled at us for not trusting him. We apologized to him (which in hindsight seems a little backwards), but still insisted we get to the museum. Quick tangent: The Landmine Museum is worth seeing. You can't walk around anywhere in Cambodia without encountering the landmine problem. I forget the figures they cited, so let me tell you this. Walk down any street in any Cambodian city and you will see at least one maimed landmine survivor. The museum was started by a former Khmer Rouge child soldier who himself planted many mines. In the 90's he became a de-miner for the UN and now estimates he has personally deactivated over 50 000 mines. Needless to say, one doesn't leave the Landmine Museum feeling particularly warm and fuzzy about humanity.
Anyway, the situation with our driver came to a head when he asked where we were going next and we said Battambang, Cambodia's second biggest city. It wasn't an original destination, but it was highly recommened by a Dutch couple we met in Manila. I've found that when getting travel advice, the source of the information is as important as the information itself. When somebody tells you to avoid Place A or to definitely go to Place B, both Adrienne and I have learned it's worth considering whether the person who told you is looking for temples or discotheques. We spent a couple evenings in the Green Mango Inn with this Dutch couple and they seemed to be of a similar mindset, so their advice seemed worth taking.
The man at the hostel in Siem Reap told us that bus tickets were $9. We had heard $5, so he was clearly marking it up. Since it seemed so steep, I asked him if there were other companies that sold tickets for a cheaper price. He got defensive once more and accused me of accusing him of lying. I again apologized for no reason, but this time we didn't trust him. So that evening after dinner we went to the bus station and lo and behold we found tickets for $5. It was also then that we met another traveling pair and learned just how much we had overpaid. That night we went back to the hostel and called the driver on his mobile phone and chewed him out for lying to me about tuk-tuk prices and requested he take us to see sunrise at Angkor Wat for free. He actually agreed and met us at 5:30 am. It was an awkward ride, but we didn't care, sunrise at Angkor is highly rated.
The next morning after the sunrise he asked us if we had decided about the bus to Battambang, we lied and said we were going to go into town to look for cheaper tickets, even though we had actually already bought them. He snickered and said we wouldn't find anything and that we were making a big mistake. He was of course lying and exhibit A was a cheap ticket in my pocket. We insisted that we didn't want to book through him. Why would we? Every time we had we had been lied to, ripped off, and when we questioned what was going on he would intimidate us. So at that, we set off "in search of cheaper tickets" and went straight to the bus station, never looking back.
Oh well, at least he wasn't flirting with me.
NEXT TIME: Part 2, why despite all that I still fell head over heels with Cambodia.
For now, off to Saigon to meet up with my Uncle who's there on business. Next post will be coming soon, I hate falling behind!
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So, can I have the names and last known whereabouts of the Visa Guy, so next time I drop into Cambodia I can destroy him? I'm glad the Landmine museum was a good sidetrip, and that you insisted on seeing it. When watching that Digging for the Truth special on Cambodia, they really brought the landmine issue to the forefront. You keep telling those pushy people who's the boss.
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I'll ignore the unauthorized use of my name/maneuver for now, because I'm still in the early phases of the patent process. But be warned, my friend. Be warned.
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It's the same in any language...
I made the mistake of reading this post while sitting in the law library here at Osgoode... when I reached the part about you getting hit on by the visa guy and his type being (apparently) "wiry westerners" I actually burst out laughing. I'm glad to see that some things - like your hilariously well-documented history of being hit on by dudes - transcend borders and cultures. Hey, if you'd played your cards right he might have gotten you your visa for less than $25...
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Standing in front of City Hall on Tuesday, Gonzales held a copy of the letter from City Manager Glenn Morrison stating the reasons for her termination.
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"I want everybody to know," Acker said. "This closed-doors stuff is for the birds."
The city has not yet released the full documents from the investigation, and the Herald has requested access to the documents, under the Public Information Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 552.


text: Effects of electromagnetic radiation exposure on bone mineral density, thyroid, and oxidative stress index in electrical workersHalil Kunt, İhsan Şentürk, +6 authors Ahmet SongurOncoTargets and therapy2016BACKGROUND In the literature, some articles report that the incidence of numerous diseases increases among the individuals who live around high-voltage electric transmission lines (HVETL) or are exposed vocationally. However, it was not investigated whether HVETL affect bone metabolism, oxidative stress, and the prevalence of thyroid nodule. METHODS… (More)


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LEWISTON, Maine (AP) A two-day run, walk and bike fundraiser in Maine that was the brainchild of Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey has raised more than $1.1 million.
Proceeds from the Dempsey Challenge will benefit the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope and Healing at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.
On Sunday, Dempsey led a pack of riders through Lewiston. In all, more than 4,000 people registered for the bicycling, walking and running events held Saturday and Sunday.
Dempsey, who started the event last year, was spurred to action by his mother's experience battling cancer. He was born in Lewiston and grew up in nearby Turner and Buckfield.
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Hollie Cook & Prince Fatty Record Store Day 7"
Brand new 7" single, For Me You Are, by me and Fatty will be dropping on Record Store Day this Saturday. It will be available from most of the participating stores.
The single is a ska take on the Andrews Sisters classic 'For Me You Are'. Side A is the vocal version featured on Prince Fatty's forthcoming 'Prince Fatty Vs the Drunken Gambler' album on Mr Bongo. Side B is the dub version taken from my recent 'In Dub' album.