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It's worth remembering that President Obama decided not to let his new Obamacare scheme take effect until 2014. At the time of its passage in 2010, it seemed politically wise to delay its implementation. Republicans won the election of 2010 and lost that of 2012. But the full impact of the new law will begin to become apparent in 2014 and the effect will be horrific, deeply damaging the Obama Administration and the Democrats who backed it.
The main brunt of the impact will be on premiums for health insurance coverage. They will skyrocket in very short order. The Heritage Foundation estimates the increases by state. Here's a sample of how much higher premiums will rise:
–California: 42-69 percent
–Florida: 61 percent
–Georgia: 61-100 percent
–Illinois: 61 percent
–Michigan: 35-63 percent
–New Jersey: 39 percent
–North Carolina: 61 percent
–Ohio: 55-106 percent
–Pennsylvania: 39 percent
–Texas: 35-63 percent
–Virginia: 75-82 percent
Why such draconian increases? Heritage ascribes it to two provisions of the new law.
The first restricts health insurers from charging any one age group more than three times the premium it charges any other one. This 3:1 ratio (typically between the older, non-Medicare portion of their covered population and the young group) is the brainchild of the social planners. The actual figure is about 5:1 — it costs about five times as much to insure older patients than younger ones. Since, obviously, companies are not going to cut the premiums for the older patients, they will increase them for the younger ones so they can meet the 3:1 ratio. This is a big increase for younger families.
The second provision that pushes up premiums is the tendency of the new law to kill its customers with kindness by requiring all manner of illnesses and treatments to be covered, and covered generously. Mental health, dental care and more are all required in any policy. And the law restricts any effort by insurance companies to limit the utilization of these services. So the premiums will rise for everybody.
The result of this premium inflation will be that more and more employers will refuse to continue to cover their workers and will find it far cheaper to pay the penalties in the law than to underwrite the vastly more expensive policies. Tens of millions of Americans will lose their insurance and have to buy coverage from the insurance exchanges Obama is creating — at a multiple of their current premiums. The Obamacare subsidies are limited and will not begin to make up for the increased costs. And, to make matters worse, employers will be obliged to pay a 65-dollar annual tax per employee to subsidize catastrophic coverage for the most expensive patients.
Obama's real goal, of course, is to destroy employment-related insurance and force everyone into the insurance exchanges. This will lay the basis for a single payer, government funded, socialized medicine in the United States: His stated goal.
The political consequences of these premium increases are going to be horrific. Voters will realize how fraudulent Obama was in predicting average premium cuts of $2500 per family. And the full dimensions of this misguided law will become apparent.
The result will be a gradual and continuing erosion of Obama's favorability until he gets his clock cleaned in the 2014 election. Normally, of course, sixth-year elections are a total wipeout for the incumbent party. FDR lost a hundred seats in the House in 1938. Truman lost control of Congress in 1946. Eisenhower lost more than a dozen Senate seats in 1958. Nixon/Ford suffered massive losses in 1974. Reagan lost the Senate in 1988 as did Bush in 2006. Only Clinton, with Republicans self-destructing over impeachment, avoided severe losses. Obama will fall victim to the general trend, but his losses will increase as the economy fails to recover and health insurance becomes unaffordable.
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This fresco mural appears on the ceiling of one of the pooch palaces designed for the Bow-Wowhaus project.
The project involves designing and building 10 one-of-a-kind doggy digs to be auctioned off Saturday (Nov. 10) at a gala to benefit local charities. Asheville's chapter of the American Institute of Architects organized the project.
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"The dog houses are each so different and unique," said Mary Fierle, executive assistant, AIA Asheville. "There is a home appropriate for a teacup Chihuahua to a Rhodesian Ridgeback and every kind of mutt in between!"
The participating architects collaborated with businesses and craftsmen, including carpenters, interior designers, a metal worker, faux finisher, technology expert, and a jewelry designer, Fierle said.
An old surfboard is an eye-catching design element for the "Lost Dog Cafe."
Building materials used in the dog houses include recycled cherry slats, stucco, MDF, Plexiglas, beer cans, and an old surfboard. Some of the houses have been designed for indoor use; others are made for the yard.
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AIA Asheville President Thad Rhoden said that the idea for the project had been spurred by the documentary film Romanza: The California Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, by Michael Miner.
The film, which will be screened at the gala, traces homes throughout California, including the smallest of Wrights' designs: a dog house for Eddie Berger.
On June 19, 1956, that 12-year-old son of a client wrote to Wright, "I would appreciate it if you would design me a dog house, which would be easy to build, but would go with our house."
"[My dog] is two and a half feet high and three feet long," the letter said. "The reasons I would like this dog house is for the winters mainly." He said he could pay for the design with his paper route money.
"I was probably his youngest client and poorest client," said Berger, now 68. Berger rebuilt the dog house with his brother, using the original plans. The construction will be displayed at the Bow-Wowhaus event.
More information about the film and Berger's doghouse may be found here.
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For some architects, the process of designing and building the dog house provided an opportunity to think and work outside their normal "building box," the computer. Architects today spend most of their time in front of a computer screens clicking keys to express designs, AIA Asheville said.
For architect Terry Meek, AIA, the project provided a change of pace. "Our dog house was built entirely with hand tools—circular saw, scroll saw, a hammer and a screwdriver," said Meek.
Others said the project had brought back fond childhood memories.
"Many years ago, there were a couple of events that turned my interest to architecture," said Jes Stafford, AIA. "Building Lincoln's cabin out of Lincoln Logs was one. Building a dog house with my father was the other. It really sparked an interest in taking an idea, designing and making a real thing out of it. So this is rather personal and fitting."
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Asheville has been voted "Beer City USA" for the past couple of years and has an ever-growing number of microbreweries, according to AIA Asheville.
A roof coated in beer cans and a cork flooring are featured in this doggy den.
Architect Nicole Szlatenyi, Assoc. AIA, partnered with Square Peg Construction and Hops and Vine specialty beverages to capitalize on the craze by roofing their dog house with crushed beer-can shingles—local beer cans, of course.
In addition, her team made use of other bar by-products, including wine bottles, corks and a whiskey barrel. Szlatenyi's dog house is called, "The Hangover."
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Proceeds from the event will benefit the no-kill shelter Brother Wolf Animal Rescue and the Asheville Art Museum.
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Actually, the comparison to Mother Teresa is wrong.
Christopher Hitchens once branded Mother Teresa "a lying, thieving Albanian dwarf" and said: "She was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God.
"She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction."
And where did the money go?
Actually - the comparison to Mother Teresa applies to Labour - they executed similar policies.
And they were in love with poverty, because the poor were obviously going to vote for them.
Their policies encouraged the birth of children into potential poverty - since a child was a route to benefits.
I think the approach of moving away from transfers will unravel because ultimately in the long term it represents a centralisation and fossilisation of the state.
If you believe in free markets then you cannot approve of a centralised state where people in Whitehall and their thinktank friends decide what services the unemployed and the disabled etc require. It comes to something when the unemployed have better results searching for a job on their own than they do using the government's Work Programme.
Unless you have a very good reason for thinking you know better, it is much better to transfer money down to the people who have the problem that needs addressing with relevant conditionality. Let them then spend it as they wish.
Slashing transfers and local government feels like a great wheeze from the Centre, but in years to come we'll have expensive and ineffective services that struggle to cope with the social catastrophe slowly unwinding amongst people a long way away from Whitehall. You might also get lucky - perhaps the wheeze will work and you get to bank the savings too. It will be a human cost not felt by those doing that banking - a prospect that is too depressing for words.
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Dress made for Pattern Review contest.
I made this dress for 1969 theme party, as well as entering into the Pattern Review Contest. Theme was LWD. I didn't end up wearing it, (WHITE is not my colour)! I do however like how the dress has turned out! Will find a time and place to wear it…somewhere..
I made the tabs as to instructions but didn't like how they looked, created larger ones and fixed to waist and added buttons.
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Mar 4, 2014, 10.58 AMby ronnielee
I won 2nd place for the LWD contest from Pattern Review…
Feb 20, 2014, 06.37 PMby Carrie Arquette
I love it. Perfect fabric and excellently done. I'd like to find this pattern eventually. :)
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Nicely done
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Feb 16, 2014, 09.15 AMby liliv-1
It's a great dress!
Thanks Lil
Feb 16, 2014, 08.28 AMby Ellen Hatteland
This is gorgeous Ronnie! White is always a winner :)
Cheers Ellen. White would suit you more than me..
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This is a beautiful dress ronnie-lee. I always think white looks great on tanned skin? And i plan on making myself one this year. I think this dress would look great on your figure. I would love fabric like this in my stash x
My tan is quickly fading, by the time I end up wearing the dress i'll be as white as it! Here's a link for where I bought fabric. Normally $40 a mtr but everything half price at moment. xx
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I'm the same ronnie lee. I'm pasty now my tan has faded as well. Everything looks better on me when i'm tan lol x
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WaPo: Sneaky Persians Menace Pentagon's Noble Aim to Keep U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Forever
Submitted by Robert Naiman on 10 January 2012 - 12:01pm
In a front page exposé on January 4, the Washington Post revealed that sneaky Persian agitators are conspiring to thwart the Pentagon's noble aim of keeping 10,000-30,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan on "non-permanent," "non-U.S." bases after "all foreign troops are supposed to be withdrawn" in 2014, just as these sneaky Persians conspired to thwart the Pentagon's noble aim of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq.
The Post story is quite instructive, even if it is not exactly "news" in the common sense of the term. It presents the world from the point of view of diehard Pentagon revanchists who want to keep US troops in Muslim countries forever against the will of the majority of Americans and against the will of the majority of people who live in these countries. It presents this diehard Pentagon revanchist view as if there were no interests in the world besides those of Pentagon revanchists and wily Persian agitators, such as the interests of the majority of people who happen to live in the United States, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Of course, in the world view of the diehard Pentagon revanchist, the concerns of these mere residents are largely irrelevant, if they have no military implications. How many divisions do these mere residents control? These mere residents are just pawns in a game of Pentagon-sneaky Persian chess.
It is a story, moreover, that is spectacularly contradicted by the Post's own previous reporting, as well as that of other major American newspapers.
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Judy Miller Alert! The New York Times is Lying About Iran's Nuclear Program
Submitted by Robert Naiman on 6 January 2012 - 1:05pm
It's deja vu all over again. AIPAC is trying to trick America into another catastrophic war with a Middle Eastern country on behalf of the Likud Party's colonial ambitions, and the New York Times is lying about allegations that said country is developing "weapons of mass destruction."
In an article attributed to Steven Erlanger on January 4 ("Europe Takes Bold Step Toward a Ban on Iranian Oil "), this paragraph appeared:
The threats from Iran, aimed both at the West and at Israel, combined with a recent assessment by the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran's nuclear program has a military objective, is becoming an important issue in the American presidential campaign. [my emphasis]
The claim that there is "a recent assessment by the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran's nuclear program has a military objective" is a lie.
As Washington Post Ombudsman Patrick Pexton noted on December 9,
But the IAEA report does not say Iran has a bomb, nor does it say it is building one, only that its multiyear effort pursuing nuclear technology is sophisticated and broad enough that it could be consistent with building a bomb.
Indeed, if you try now to find the offending paragraph on the New York Times website, you can't. They took it down. But there is no note, like there is supposed to be, acknowledging that they changed the article, and that there was something wrong with it before. Sneaky, huh?
But you can still find the original here.
David Gregory Should Tell Rick Santorum There Are UN Inspectors in Iran
Submitted by Robert Naiman on 5 January 2012 - 2:24pm
Rick Santorum is running as the "more AIPAC than thou" candidate. But David Gregory wants people to think of him as a "journalist." We can hold David Gregory to a higher standard.
On Sunday, Republican Presidential Rick Santorum told David Gregory on NBC's "Meet the Press" that, unlike President Obama, he would "be saying to the Iranians, you either open up those [nuclear] facilities, you begin to dismantle them and, and make them available to inspectors, or we will degrade those facilities through airstrikes and make it very public that we are doing that."
David Gregory did not challenge Santorum's statement. But Gregory knows - or should know - that Iran's nuclear facilities are already under the inspection of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Politicians will say whatever they can get away with, but journalists have an obligation to correct serious misstatements of fact.
Of course, one can try to come up with excuses for why David Gregory didn't correct the record. Let's consider some potential excuses, and why they are no good.
"Journalists can't correct everything candidates say." This was a one-on-one interview, and the topic of discussion was Iran's nuclear program, and Rick Santorum's claims that he would be tougher than President Obama in confronting Iran about its nuclear program. Is there another context where it would be more appropriate for David Gregory to correct the record about what is known about Iran's nuclear program?
Stop the War on Christmas: Cease Fire in Afghanistan
Submitted by Robert Naiman on 20 December 2011 - 3:45pm
Shouldn't Americans of every faith tradition band together to stop the war on Christmas? Let us call on President Obama to announce that on December 24th and 25th, the United States will observe an offensive cease-fire in Afghanistan, and urge others to join the cease-fire, as a goodwill gesture to promote peace talks.
Far from being utopian, I claim that this is a pragmatic political proposal, with little cost and significant potential benefits; indeed, according to recent press reports, a US-initiated Christmas truce would complement peace efforts that the Obama Administration is already pursuing.
The political cost would be negligible. Would Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and John McCain denounce President Obama for announcing that US forces in Afghanistan will stand down to mark the birth of the Prince of Peace? If they did, would anyone take them seriously?
This is a decision that President Obama can make unilaterally as Commander-in-Chief. He does not need the permission of Lindsay Graham, the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, or the Washington Post editorial board. If President Obama decides that US forces in Afghanistan will not take offensive military actions on Christmas, so shall it be.
Already, Reuters reports, the Obama Administration is contemplating confidence-building measures to promote peace talks with the Afghan Taliban, including transferring Afghan prisoners at Guantanamo to Afghan government custody and supporting the establishment by the Afghan Taliban of a political office in Qatar for the purpose of participating in peace talks.
Will the Media Let Ron Paul Question U.S. Foreign Policy?
Submitted by Robert Naiman on 15 December 2011 - 3:44pm
Will the news media let Ron Paul raise serious questions about U.S. foreign policy? It's a crucial test case not only of the prospects that the media will serve the interests of the 99% rather than the 1%, but of the prospects for a foreign military and economic policy that reflects the values and interests of the 99%, rather than those of the 1%.
Economist and media critic Dean Baker recently posed this question in a forum at Politico. Politico's David Mark convened the forum under the headline, "Can Ron Paul Take a Punch?"
Now that Rep. Ron Paul is a top-tier candidate in Iowa rivals are likely to gang up. They may target the Texan's associations with unsavory characters, or a sometimes less-than-pure libertarian stance on congressional earmarks. Middle East politics could also complicate Paul's presidential bid - he once likened Israel's defensive blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza to "a concentration camp."
Can Ron Paul take a punch?
Dean Baker responded:
The better question is whether the media will allow Paul to raise serious questions about the nature of this country's foreign policy. I recall watching one of the Republican presidential debates in 2008 where the moderator asked whether the president could unilaterally take military action against Iran.
Mayor Giuliani answered first and gave a characteristic Giuliani answer to the effect of the president can do whatever he wants. Gov. Romney then gave a conditional this and that answer, and then said that if the question was one of constitutional authority, you would have to call in the lawyers.
House Vote Today to Approve Iran Sanctions Bill Would Restore Bush "Cooties Doctrine"
Submitted by Robert Naiman on 13 December 2011 - 1:46pm
Today the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote -under "suspension," requiring a supermajority to pass - on a provision which would restore as policy the Cooties Doctrine of the early Bush Administration - U.S. officials can't meet with officials of the adversary du jour, because our officials might get contaminated.
What's remarkable isn't that some people in Washington would want to prohibit U.S. officials from having contact with Iranian officials. After all, some people in Washington want to have a war with Iran as soon as it can be arranged. What's remarkable is the possibility that the majority of Congressional Democrats might vote to approve the "Iran Cooties Provision." Aren't Democrats supposed to be the diplomacy party, not the war party?
The Cooties Provision is Section 601c of H.R. 1905, the so-called "Iran Threat Reduction Act of 2011." Here's what the Cooties Provision says:
(c) RESTRICTION ON CONTACT.--No person employed with the United States Government may contact in an official or unofficial capacity any person that-- (1) is an agent, instrumentality, or official of, is affiliated with, or is serving as a representative of the Government of Iran; and (2) presents a threat to the United States or is affiliated with terrorist organizations. (d) WAIVER.--The President may waive the requirements of subsection (c) if the President determines and so reports to the appropriate congressional committees 15 days prior to the exercise of waiver authority that failure to exercise such waiver authority would pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the vital national security interests of the United States.
Would it not be totally preposterous to add this provision to the United States Code?
Leaving everything on the table with Iran--except diplomacy
Submitted by Megan Iorio on 12 December 2011 - 4:02pm
On the House suspension calendar for tomorrow is this year's "Give Iran Hell Via Broad, Indiscriminate Sanctions!" legislation, known formally as HR 1905, the "Iran Threat Reduction Act of 2011." When a bill is placed on suspension, it means that it is being considered "non-controversial," which this bill sure does seem to be, at least in Congress: 358 Members are currently cosponsors. However, hidden in the depths of this legislation is a provision that ought to be anything but non-controversial: a measure which aims to prohibit any contact between certain US and Iranian officials. I say "ought to be" because many cosponsors don't even know that this provision exists.
Let me give you the backstory. Back in May, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced HR 1905 as the obligatory annual Iran sanctions ramp-up bill. AIPAC then proceeded to make the bill a cornerstone of its 2011 lobbying—and when AIPAC comes knocking, we know that most Members of Congress have a hard time saying "no." The legislation quickly earned the cosponsorship of over 80% of the House. Then, at the end of October, the bill went into committee markup. As often happens, some things got removed, some got added. One of the things that got added was section 601(c):
JFP Joins FCNL and 24 Other Organizations to Tell Congress: Don't Sabotage Diplomacy with Iran!
Submitted by Megan Iorio on 9 December 2011 - 2:59pm
Just Foreign Policy joined the Friends Committee on National Legislation and 24 other organizations to call upon members of Congress to oppose a provision in HR 1905, the "Iran Threat Reduction Act of 2011," which would make certain contacts between US and Iranian officials illegal. The letter text can be found below. You can find the full text of the bill here. The section in question, 601(c), can be found on page 101 and in full in the letter below.
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Prevent War with Iran, Don't Sabotage Diplomacy: Oppose Sec. 601c of H.R. 1905
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Howard Berman: grave concern over role of Honduran security forces in human rights abuses
Submitted by Robert Naiman on 9 December 2011 - 12:26pm
On November 28, Representative Howard Berman, the ranking member on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, sent a letter to Secretary of State Clinton expressing "grave concern" over the role of Honduran security forces in human rights abuses.
The letter goes into detail regarding the involvement of Honduran security forces in killings, torture and other crimes and states that it is necessary "to evaluate immediately United States assistance to ensure that we are not, in fact, feeding the beast."
The letter is here.
EFE reported about the letter on December 8 here (Spanish.)
Could GOP Sanctions on Europe Tank the Economy and Elect Romney?
Submitted by Robert Naiman on 8 December 2011 - 8:20pm
Remember, "It's the Economy, Stupid?" So how come Democrats in Congress - over the objections of the Obama Administration - are helping Republicans press sanctions on Europeans who buy oil from Iran - sanctions that would increase unemployment in the U.S. during the 2012 campaign?
The National Defense Authorization Act now contains a Senate amendment by Republican Senator Mark Kirk - supported by many Democrats in Congress - that would sanction European banks and companies that do business with Iran's Central Bank, in order to stop Europeans from buying Iranian oil. This is a big deal, because Iran is the world's fifth-largest oil exporter, and blocking Iranian oil exports to Europe would raise the price of oil, in Europe and in the United States.
Kirk's amendment would hurt the U.S. economy, at a time when economic contraction in Europe could push the U.S. back into recession.
Is fear of the economic blowback of the sanctions on Europe that Kirk wants to impose justified? Many Europeans seem to think so.
On Tuesday, Reuters reported:
The European Union is becoming skeptical about slapping sanctions on imports of Iranian oil, diplomats and traders say, as awareness grows that the embargo could damage its own economy without doing much to undercut to Iran's oil revenues.
"Maybe the aim of sanctions is to help Italy, Spain and Greece to collapse and make the EU a smaller club," one trader joked.
The remark reflects the growing unease that EU sanctions would hit hardest some of the continent's weakest economies, because Iranian oil provides the highest share of their needs, not to mention the rest of the bloc.


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fehklhjdkji agree. kim wons girl looks so innocent and her face looks tired.:)
ahjumma37a worm... a plankton, a cockroach, a rat-brat moron! issssh
jenn505I NEED TO KNOW TOOOOOOO! CANT SEEM TO FIND WHAT BRAND IS IT!!
The minor roles kept on stealing my heart, damn. First it was Lee Bona and Chanyoung love team, my heart flutters upon seeing them two. Chanyoung is the ideal boyfriend and Lee Bona is not annoying even if she nags and whines a lot. Young Do is so cute and that freaking eyebrows of his. AHHHH. And I haven't seen a drama of Park Shin Hye on which she kisses passionately. I mean, even on Heartstrings, Yong Hwa (I don't know if I spelled it right, sorry) moves a lot while she's just standing there. I'm like, "Get the f*ck off the guy and lemme do the thing" But, oh well~ Park Shin Hye is reserved. Too reserved.
CherryYeah, but at the same point I'm glad she never kissed back. coz it will break my heart in to pieces :D
am_kcthen you didn't see flower boy next door the final episode :D
justsayinyeaaah.. watch flower boy next door. i was really shocked at the kiss. maybe her not kissing back is part of acting. think of it, if she kisses back then it would mean tons of things
jezzaeonnieit')s on all kdramas actually this kissing scene thing, they are all just so awkward except few kdramas (city hunter, my girlfriend is a gumiho etc.), so think it also depends upon the role they are playing and the director in flower boy next door, she was an adult, though a naive one, but the kiss really surprised me, also in goong s, her character wwas agressive even thoigh she was much younger then, when she forced to kiss the main lead, it looked so real, eventhough it was her kissing scene ever (might be her first kiss also, i still cant understand korean well so im not sure if she said it was her first kiss or first kissing scene, she around 16 or 17 back then
nyawreally hate this song. sorry.
Oliviaoh yeah, me too. it becomes irritating..
ncHDJhe is my oppa stay away
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YuukiI stand with you teammate
Aishhme too
jkzxhkdkhweirdoes freaks :P
bellabellame too!
HaitakazMe too! I think he is a very interesting character even though he's mean.
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yaayyomg me too. i want them tgt. Tan and her just don't seem realistic
SakuraSame. I rarely ever want the girl to end up with the lead. They just never seem to fit.
iRougeI agree! I ship them both. I don't really like LMH in this series, Tan as a character is just too selfish and too willing to make others suffer just so he can get his play thing. So I definitely want Eun Sang and Young Do!
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i dont know why but before i really dont like Kim Woobin i dont like his eyes and eyebrow, but in this drama he prove me wrong.. hahaha.. he is handsome and very charismatic.. he did well in his acting. i love how they portray the love of young people.. every character has an impact, every couple is unique. the couple that i love is Minhyuk and Krystal.. they dont fail to make me smile and laugh.
Rajeshi like Won Bin too but his ears are way too big like antenna, unlike LMH's every part is awesome, his looks can be a world class but won bin only in ASIA PACIFIC......lol
unredulaHAHAHAHA! YOU ARE TALKING JUST AS IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW ALL THE PLASTIC SURGERY THAT LMH USED TO GET THAT FACE. AND EVEN WITH THAT, I THINK THAT LMH IS STILL JUST SO SO.
YuukiWell for me it's his eyes and eyebrows, along with his voice, body and everything that made him just so daebak
RajeshBcoz she realised her place. She wants but doesnt dare to....
eastseajeweli got your point and at times, it's really frustrating to look at. but let us also remember that this is a teen drama and so passionate or steamy or hot or "moving" kisses are a bit inappropriate. have you seen the kiss between chan young's dad and rachel's mum when they met at a bar some episodes before? it was "moving", right? that is because they're adults and so kisses like that are, i think, permissible... =)
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minhasong : 마음으로만 singer :Lena Park (박정현)
SungHyoSubkapag nawala siya.. wala ng saysay ang kwentong ito :)
Yuuki^ well said hahaha! Pero para sa akin mas gugustuhin kong makatuluyan niya si Youngdo u_uv A hard tough guy but soft on the inside lol
ahjumma37sarap tadyakan! mukha na nga ipis, asal-uod pa. kakagigil!!! but you're right, without him, no more twists+no more drama hahaha
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The owner of a vacant strip shopping center across from the site of the new Africentric K-12 Early College is being built has been given until March 2 to begin to demolish or repair the center.
Franklin County Environmental Judge Dan Hawkins this week found that the center at 3150-3218 Allegheny Ave. on the East Side was a public nuisance. The boarded-up center has been vacant since 2005, and was the site of Mayor Michael B. Coleman's announcement in October that he was proposing a new $1,000-a-day civil penalty for owners who didn't fix up damaged or unsafe buildings.
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Media & Learning Association presented at TEAC14 in ZagrebSubmitted Sunday, September 28, 2014 - 20:26
Sally Reynolds presented the Media & Learning Association at the Telecentre Europe Annual Conference held from 24-26 September in Zagreb, Croatia. Telecentre Europe is about to become the first network member of the Media & Learning Association while the association is in the process of signing a MoU with Telecentre Europe to explore projects and activities of mutual interest which includes in-service and pre-service training in media production for teachers and finding ways to meet the educational needs of SMEs in media-related businesses.
Knowledge Exchange Workshop at the Indonesian BNPB, National Agency for Disaster ManagementSubmitted Monday, March 31, 2014 - 22:18
From 24th till 28th of March 24 Mathy Vanbuel visited the Indonesian National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) (BNPB (Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana - http://www.bnpb.go.id) to work with them on the development of capacity in the area of disaster management. As part of a team from the World Bank, he delivered a workshop in the university of Indonesia on GDLN and the use of videoconferencing for distance training. Together with Steffen Janus (WB) and Nicolas Meyer (WB) he provided a well attended workshop titled "The art of Knowledge Capturing" at the University of Gadjah Mada (http://www.ugm.ac.id/en/) in Yogyakarta. More than 40 participants, students of the University's MTPBA Program as well as staff and cadres from the national BNBP and local BPBDs joined the workshop to explore ways in which their experiences and expertise could be captured in order to be shared and exchanged with others. This workshop may be provided to other organisations in the future.
Media Studies – New Media and New Literacies, Ljubljana, Slovenia.Submitted Sunday, January 27, 2013 - 11:47
On Thursday 24th and Friday 25th January 2013 Mathy Vanbuel participated in the Forward Look Final Conference "Media Studies – New Media and New Literacies" organised by the European Science Foundation that took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The Forward Look on Media Studies – New Media and New Literacies was designed to address some of the societal challenges posed by the profound changes in media and communication technologies and cultures over the past two decades, namely by defining a common European research agenda for media studies and specifying the institutional frameworks that would promote the organisational cohesion of media research in Europe.
The Final Conference followed closely on the four thematic workshops in 2012 which were devoted to defining challenges in key areas of research in media studies (see www.esf.org/mediastudies). The Final Report of the activity that includes research and policy recommendations, was discussed during the conference which brought together a broad audience of key stakeholders: researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and others. The conclusions of the conference will feed into the final report that is expected to be widely disseminated among academic and policy audiences in April 2013.
AADLC Workshop takes place in Mombasa, KenyaSubmitted Monday, February 13, 2012 - 22:05
On January 24-26, Mathy Vanbuel from ATiT was part of the team involved in the delivery of the AADLC Workshop on Knowledge Transfer in Change Management, organised by the Kenya Global Development Learning Centre on Behalf of AADLC in Mombasa, Kenya. This workshop focused on deveopments taking place within the AADLC on a number of issues including IT and Learning Design, Business Development and Governance and Marketing Strategy.
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Mathy Vanbuel from ATiT led two capacity development workshops in Jordan on 10-11 February for the Jordanian Higher Council for Science and Technology. The workshops were on Guidelines on Proposal Evaluation and Selection Procedures of FP7 projects and Individual Evaluation of real FP7 proposals.
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Digital Agenda Assembly in BrusselsSubmitted Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 22:08
Almost 2000 people are taking part in the Digital Agenda Assembly in Brussels organised by the European Commission on 16-17 June. Sally Reynolds from ATiT facilitated the workshop on 'Mainstreaming e-Learning in education and training' which took place on 16 June and which identified successful eLearning policies, drivers, opportunities and expectations.
Outputs from this workshop contribute to a set of priorities and actions encouraging Member States to innovate in their education and training through adopting and integrating e-Learning into teaching and training. They also include recommendations to the Commission on how to support the Member States in this endeavour. This workshop represents the "kick-off" of the Digital Agenda action 68.
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A new research project to investigate Virtual School and College Provision called VISCED has just been launched with the support of the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme.
Partners in the VISCED project including ATiT are making an inventory of innovative ICT-enhanced learning initiatives and major 'e-mature' secondary and post-secondary education providers for the 14-21 age group in Europe. This includes a systematic review at international and national levels as well as a study into operational examples of fully virtual schools and colleges. The outputs of this work will be analysed and compared to identify relevant parameters and success factors for classifying and comparing these initiatives. This initiative is open to researchers and policy-makers, all outputs will be published on the VISCED wiki.
Training workshop at the LGA PhilippinesSubmitted Friday, July 23, 2010 - 17:11
During a one week visit to the Philippines, Mathy Vanbuel assisted the Local Government Academy (LGA) of the Philippines in their process of evolution towards the implementation of learning, knowledge brokering/connection, knowledge exchange, and innovation technologies in their capacity building strategy. The visit consisted of a three day intensive training workshop on e-moderation, content conversion and videoconferencing, which took place at the LGA Training Centre in Los Banos. A visit to the LGA Resource Centre in Region 7 in Cebu concluded this week.
Tokyo Development Learning Centre Phase 1 AssessmentSubmitted Friday, April 9, 2010 - 17:18
The Government of Japan and the World Bank are equal partners in the 'Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) Project', founded in 2004 with as its main objectives: (i) to establish TDLC as an important part of Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region; (ii) to provide access to Japanese knowledge and expertise in development, to Asia and internationally; and (iii) to contribute to the development and sustainability of GDLN in EAP by taking a leadership role in programs, operations, or technology.
The current phase of the Project ends in June 2010. In order to document the major achievements, outcomes and impact of the TDLC Project, to ensure the accountability of the Project to its stakeholders, and to provide a sound basis for the future of TDLC, an external and independent assessment is put in place, which focuses on key features and functions of TDLC. The assessment tries to answer to what degree TDLC Project has achieved its current goals, to what extent it has operated effectively and efficiently, and what its impact has been until today. Mathy Vanbuel, ATiT is based in Tokyo for most of April to participate in the assessment.
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Our June meeting was held on Thursday evening (June 12th). 21 attended our annual Sporting clays shoot & enjoyed the charcoaled steaks at Castlewood Rod & Gun Club. Top Gun again this year was Gary Young he lead the field of 12 shooters with a score of 35 out of 50 clay targets.
Our election of officers was completed on July 10th at the executive meeting. As it stands now I have accepted another year as your chairman. There were 10 officers in attendance. Our section meetings will start again on Thursday, September 18th. This year we would like to kick off the 2014/2015 section meetings with a night at PNC park for a game between our Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston Red Sox. The game starts @ 7:05 pm. We need to order tickets by August 8th to get seats in the same section for our group. Please contact Gary Young (our social chairman) by noon on Aug 8th to reserve your ticket for this game.
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To kick off the 2014/2015 ASNT Pittsburgh section meetings, I want to invite everyone to PNC Park where our Pirates are taking on the Boston Red Sox. Plans are still in the works until we see how many tickets we need. This will be open to members and their guests. The deadline to order tickets will be noon on August 8th. Depending on the cost of the seats we will purchase loaded value tickets good for food & refreshments at the ballgame. Once we have the number of those attending arrangements to deliver the individual tickets will be made.
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I know Acer aren't a good company from past experience with their products, but I have had two of their machines HDD's die on me recently. The machines are still under warranty so I phoned up Acer Technicial Support to get them fixed.
The guy on the phone sounded very annoyed when he first answered but I ignored it and explained the problem and where I was calling from. Like normal, he didn't believe what I was telling him that the HDD was broken, but thats normal for technical support so I went through all the usual questions with him. He asked if I had tried using the restore CDs that come with the machine. I explained that as we are a school we don't work quite like that, but yes, I had tried to re-image the machine and it won't even detect the HDD. He didn't understand what I was saying and kept mentioning the restore CDs, but eventually he sighed and bypassed that question totally.
Then it comes to the serial numbers - now the acer serial numbers are 22 characters long and the machines are locked under the desk in a dark area. I haven't got the keys to remove the machines yet so I had to crawl under in the dark and attempt to write down the serial numbers before I phoned them. I started reading it out to him but he stopped me almost immediately saying that it was wrong and I could tell he was getting annoyed. I tried starting again but again he stopped me. So I walked all the way to the other end of the school to the machines in question and got underneath the desk so I could read directly from the back of the computer, which was very difficult I was in a very awkward position and he was sighing all the time I was walking there. Then he started getting annoyed that I wasn't using phonetic alphabet - well i'm sorry, I don't work with the phonetic alphabet often. He is sitting in an office with his phone and computer directly in front of him, most likely with the phonetic alphabet nearby. I'm lying on the floor with my mobile in one hand under a dark desk with a computer that is broken (not to mention attached to the desk with a very short cable so it is difficult to turn) and a trying to read a serial number that is in about font size 5, at completely the other end of the school to where my own computer is.
Eventually we got the correct serial number after several repetitions, which incidently was exactly the same one I had written down. Then he asked for the post code. I don't know the school post code, I usually check the school address on my computer when this question is asked, but now of course I am at the other end of the school! Asking people nearby was no help, so I had to walk all the way back to my own computer and google the school name to find out the post code. By now I could tell he was positively fuming and he was raising his voice. It was probably a good job because a load of kids had just come into the ICT Suite and I could hardly hear what he was saying.
Then it comes to my e-mail address... now trying to read an e-mail address that ends with @theoval.bham.sch.uk over the phone is not an easy task when the person on the other end of the line has never seen the address before. Out of habit I pronounced 'sch' as 'school', but immediately corrected myself and he positively exploded saying "Okay, so please tell me, is it "school" or is it S-C-H". By this time I was getting annoyed myself, the kids were getting extremely loud and he was speaking so fast that I couldn't understand what he was saying. He asked if the machine has any windows passwords - why? I have no idea, the HDD is dead. I explained that the computer was part of a domain, besides, it doesn't even matter!
Eventually he explained what I needed to do to get the machines back to them, but I couldn't understand him because he was talking so fast and the kids were so loud. He said at the end "now would you like me to e-mail you that information?" I said yes, because I hadn't heard it anyway. He told me it had been sent. I hung up and checked my e-mail. Have I got it? No! He must have typed it in wrong. Now i'm not sure whether I am supposed arrange to have it sent to them or whether they arrange to have it picked up. :evil:


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Panasonic System Networks Co., Ltd. (PSN), a Panasonic group company, today announced that its HD-PLC, a Broadband over Powerline Communication (BPL) Technology, has been approved by the NIST SGIP Catalog of Standards of the United States. The company also announced that it has opened its verification test environment for coexistence to the public.
There are several types of standards based on BPL technologies; however, the instability of communications due to the interference among the different BPL technologies was a serious concern. NIST recognized this as a major issue in the development of the smart grid and dedicated itself to resolving the issue. As the result of its efforts, NIST recently established the "NIST SGIP Catalog of Standards". These guidelines for BPL include the following three specifications which PSN took the lead in promoting their standardization; IEEE 1901, the global standard for BPL, ITU-T G.9972, the global standard for BPL coexistence function, and NIST IR 7862, the guideline of coexistence implementation which requires that the coexistence function be "always-on".
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Oliver currently is the VPA's deputy executive director of administration and chief financial officer.
"Rodney is a highly-respected individual, both inside and outside the organization," Michael Quillen, chairman of the VPA board, said in a statement. "Moreover, during his 13 years with the VPA he has demonstrated a personal dedication to the organization and to the growth of this port.
"I'll also point out his knowledge of the port's finances, his experience in working with the other deputies and his reputation among the VPA's employees as factors in the decision we made."
Oliver was a member of the engagement team on the VPA's long-term lease of the APM Terminal in Portsmouth. He also led seven debt issuances totaling $500 million; established a master equipment lease program providing an additional $100 million in capital funding for port projects; and led the transition to an outsourcing of the agency's information technology.
Before joining the VPA in 1999, Oliver served as the chief financial officer for Commonwealth Information Services, corporate controller for the St. Charles Companies, and audit manager for KPMG Peat Marwick.