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Opening Address by DPM Teo Chee Hean at the "Our Population, Our Future" Townhall Dialogue on 9 October 2012
A. Introduction
Good evening. I am very happy to join all of you here today for this townhall dialogue to have a discussion on how we can build a sustainable population for a dynamic Singapore.
As you know, the National Population and Talent Division, or NPTD, is preparing a White Paper which will be completed at the end of the year. We have been actively seeking views from Singaporeans for more than half a year since February/March, about how we can have a sustainable population that will ensure a dynamic Singapore for the future, and the best home for Singaporeans for many more years to come.
Thus far, NPTD has received close to 2,000 pieces of feedback directly and met over 1,200 individuals and representatives of various groupings and organisations. The outreach has been multiplied by other organisations, which have also had discussions and shared their views with us. There have also been views and articles expressed in a variety of fora by many others. I am heartened by the many thoughtful views and feedback. I would like to thank everyone who has taken the time to contribute their views on this important issue, and also encourage more people to do so.
B. What does Our Population Look Like Today?
Before we start the discussion, let's go through our population numbers. As at end June this year, there were 3.29 million Singapore Citizens. But this is a static view. What's more important are the longer-term trends. Our fertility rate has been falling steadily over the years, and was only 1.20 last year, quite a long way from the 2.1 that is required to replace ourselves. What's the difference between 1.2 and 2.1?
Let me give you an illustration. With a TFR of 1.2, it means that for every 100 Singaporeans in this generation, there will only be 60 Singaporeans in the next generation. And in the generation after that, there will only be 36 Singaporeans. These 36 people will have to eventually support the 60 people from the previous generation, and many of the 100 people from the generation before that, because we are all living to a riper, older age.
If our birth rates stay at 1.20, and if we do not have immigration, our citizen population will start to decline from 2025. Our workforce of Singapore citizens will start to decline even earlier, from 2020, which is just seven years from now.
C. Understanding Concerns
While I have described the numbers and trends in terms of total population, I also know that each of us feel the effects of our population challenges at the individual and personal level, in many different ways. Perhaps we feel that the trains are more crowded. Or we feel that our parents or grandparents are growing older, and need more care and support. And we worry about these things. We also hear many views from Singaporeans about what the future is going to be like, for themselves and for their children. So, I would like to start this evening's session by asking you what concerns you most about Singapore's population and our future.
Polling Question 1: What concerns you most about Singapore's population and future?
- Who will defend Singapore? (Defence and security of Singapore)
- Who will look after me when I'm old? (Ageing and declining citizen population)
- Will there be good jobs for Singaporeans? (Job Opportunities)
- Will Singapore be too crowded? (Quality Living Environment)
- Will homes be affordable? (Cost of living)
- Will I feel like a stranger in Singapore? (Sense of national identity)
I think these are all questions which all of us are worried and concerned about, and which have been raised in many of our discussion forums and many of our feedback sessions.
Home affordability is one major concern. Jobs are another major concern. If we look at the Word Cloud based on the public feedback we have received to date, we can see that the kind of concerns that you are expressing today are pretty similar.
Housing costs associated with costs of living, living environment, national security, national identity, jobs, ageing and shrinking population are among the main concerns raised. There are also concerns about taxes on the working young. And a lot of concerns from businesses, especially from small businesses, about whether they have to close down or reduce their activities because of a shortage of workers.
Going back to the audience poll, I think some of the concerns are certainly very valid ones. For example, affordability of homes, because we attach a great deal of importance to home ownership in Singapore. As an immigrant society, home ownership gives us a sense of rootedness and belongingness, so home ownership is a very important social policy in Singapore.
Another concern is about feeling like a stranger in Singapore when there are so many foreigners around. Some of you are probably thinking "Will this be a Singapore that I am comfortable with?"
And jobs are a very important concern too. In fact, when I spoke at a seminar for JC and polytechnic students earlier this year, we polled the young people on what they were concerned about. I thought that being younger and idealistic, they would have a wider set of concerns, but the most important issue for them turned out to be jobs. I thought that was a very down-to-earth and realistic approach to life.
D. Marriage and Parenthood
Some of these concerns arise from whether we will have enough Singaporeans, just to replace ourselves. Our first priority is to build as strong a Singaporean core as we possibly can by encouraging more Singaporeans to get married and have more children, and at an earlier age.
There are some positive signs. Our surveys show that 85% of singles want to get married and 8 in 10 married couples want to have two to three children. In fact, I was in the Treasury building this morning, having a meeting and one of the staff brought her newborn baby in. So I asked her, "Is this your first?", and she replied, "No, this is my third." I am seeing more people with three children and more. I see that as a positive sign. We want to do our best to create an environment that supports Singaporeans to fulfill this desire. In fact, since 1987, we have encouraged Singaporeans to have 3, or more children.
Since 2001, we have redoubled our efforts, and put in place a comprehensive Marriage & Parenthood Package. These measures were enhanced again in 2004 and 2008, and again, we are currently studying further enhancements.
We are considering various measures and it would be useful to have a sense from you on which of these measures you feel will make the biggest difference to encourage more Singaporeans to get married and have children earlier? Maybe I can ask you this question now:
Polling Question 2: Which of these will make the biggest difference to encourage more Singaporeans to get married and have children earlier?
- Finding the right partner
- Owning a home
- More financial help e.g. Baby Bonus and tax reliefs
- Better childcare options
- Better work-life balance
- Family-friendly culture in society
It is interesting that work-life balance and family-friendly culture in society together account for more than 60 percent of the audience poll. Finding the right partner ranks high too. This shows that people want more time and a more family-friendly society. While financial concerns such as owning a home and better child care are important issues, work-life balance, family-friendly culture, and finding the right partner are soft issues. You have said that these are more important to starting a family and having children. And that is my sense too, because starting a family and having children is a personal decision. And if you decide that is something which is important to you, which you want to do and which brings fulfilment and satisfaction in your life, then all the other things matter less. But if you are not so sure that is you want, then all the other things become very good excuses not to proceed. So I am actually quite heartened to see this. I hope all the employers who are here today can have a look at the issue of better work-life balance, and see what you can do to help us to boost our marriage and parenthood rates.
Now let's see how that compares to the feedback that we have been receiving through NPTD over the last six/seven months.
Work-life balance and societal mindsets have come up quite regularly. The cost of raising children is also a very big concern. In many ways, your feedback this evening helps to reaffirm some of the feedback that we have been getting directly from various people we have spoken to and who have sent in their views.
We will strive to create a supportive and conducive environment for raising children, and we hope that couples will make the decision to start a family, even if circumstances do not quite fit their expectations completely or perfectly.
With all of us doing our part, I hope our birth rate can increase to at least 1.4 or 1.5. It was not so long ago that our birth rate was around 1.4 to 1.5, in the late 1990s and the early 2000s. Of course, it would be very good if our birth rate was higher than 1.5, but I think it will take time to change this, and we will need a huge effort from everyone. I hope that one day we will get there.
E. Immigration
Now let us take a look at the citizen numbers again. The red line shows where our population will stabilise or plateau off if we were to just sustain our population at the TFR replacement rate of 2.1.
Even though we have been encouraging more Singaporeans to marry and have children, we have actually been falling short of the numbers to replace ourselves. We need approximately an additional 20,000 new Singaporeans per year, to keep our citizen population going from the blue line to the red line. The top-most line is if we have 25,000 more a year; the second dotted line is if we have 20,000 a year; and the third dotted line is if we have 15,000 a year. So we are somewhere in that band, and that is where we will be to maintain a population which is stable — not declining and also not growing at an uncontrollable rate.
Who are these new Singaporeans? A good number are spouses of Singaporeans. This is not surprising, given that nearly 40% of marriages last year, or about 9,000 of the 22,000 marriages, were between a Singaporean and a non-Singaporean.
Most of the other new citizens are adults in their prime working years and their families, and we select those who are able to contribute to Singapore, and can integrate into our society.
So, with 20,000 new citizens per year, what we are essentially doing is trying to 'fill' this shortfall.
Today, our population structure looks like a barrel. And if we project forward without immigration, in 2050, in 40 years' time, we will become an inverted triangle — with many more older people above the age of 50 and very much fewer young Singaporeans.
And so what is it that we are trying to do with immigration? It is to fill in those parts in the younger age groups so that our population structure will look more like a cylinder or a rectangle. Otherwise, we will become more like an inverted triangle, and become quite unstable. So what we are trying to do is to have a more stable and sustainable population.
Besides Singapore Citizens, we also have 530,000 Permanent Residents today. These are people whom we assess can make a long term contribution to Singapore, but either they are not yet ready themselves to become Singapore citizens, or we are not yet ready to have them become Singapore citizens. We have been taking in about 30,000 PRs per year in the last two years, compared to about twice that number in the four to five years prior to that. So our permanent resident numbers have in fact, stabilised, and in the last two years, the numbers have decreased very slightly.
F. Non-Resident Population
What about our non-resident population? We have about 1.5 million non residents in total, and this is the composition.
There are 220,000 Dependants of citizens, these are spouses of Singaporeans, children of Singaporeans and some of our higher end work pass holders. We also have international students, where the numbers have come down from about 100,000 in 2008 to about 84,000.
In July this year, We also have foreign domestic workers — about 210,000 of them. They help us in a variety of ways, including looking after the elderly and doing domestic chores, so that both spouses can go out to work.
We have about 680,000 work permit holders. Most of them are doing work which either Singaporeans are not keen to do, or where there are not enough Singaporeans to do. Out of these 680,000, 280,000 are construction workers. We also have cleansing workers, some in the marine industries, and manufacturing. The vast majority of 1.5 million non-residents are foreign domestic workers and work permit workers.
And then we have the PMETs — professional, managerial and executives who are Employment Pass holders. They number about 170,000. There are also about 130,000 associate professionals. This group has been growing quite quickly, and we are trying to see how we can manage this growth.
Some people have asked, why do we need so many foreigners working in Singapore? They make Singapore more crowded. Why can't we let Singaporeans have these jobs instead?
G. Creating Jobs for a Vibrant Singapore
Singaporeans are highly aspirational. We want good jobs for ourselves and particularly for our children. We asked people what types of jobs and career aspirations they have. We received different responses such as a having wide range of career opportunities, attractive salaries and work-life balance and a sense of purpose. So Singaporeans want exciting, interesting, well-paying jobs. Our universities, polytechnics and ITEs are trying to train as many Singaporeans as possible for jobs like these. But we need to bring in new growth areas and new exciting industrial sectors to create such jobs. Sometimes, you do not have enough Singaporeans to create enough of a critical mass in these new industries for a start.
One example is the biomedical science industry. 10 years ago, in 2001, 1 in 5 of the professional managerial executive positions in the biomedical sciences industry were held by locals. But the proportion has grown over the last ten years because we have been encouraging this very exciting new growth industry to take root in Singapore and grow, and provide many more jobs for Singaporeans. So what has happened is that this proportion has now increased to one in three, and in a much larger sector too. And in these last 10 years, 2,000 new PME jobs for locals were created in this sector. We could not have kick-started this sector without bringing in people to help create the critical mass to get the sector growing. Over time, the sector expands and provides more opportunities, as we train more Singaporeans to take up these jobs.
While Singapore is still an attractive business location, we do face competition from many emerging cities, and this competition is for the types of companies and jobs that Singaporeans want. I co-chair the Singapore-China Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation. When I visit some of the cities there, they are very exciting and vibrant. What they are looking for in terms of investments in jobs and industries, is very often what we are looking for. Cities like Tianjin, Suzhou or Shanghai are moving very fast, and they are very hungry. If we have a shrinking and ageing population, it will be much more difficult for us to bring in exciting new industries, to attract new investments. Singapore will become a much less dynamic and vibrant place, and our young people who want to work in such growth industries may then go off to Tianjin or Mumbai or elsewhere. That would make our population problem even worse.
H. Foreign Manpower Projections
Unlike our resident population of citizens and PRs for which we want long-term stability, our foreign workforce is a transient one. Whenever we make a decision about citizens or PRs, it is like entering into a marriage. They have made a commitment to us, and we have made a commitment to them for the long-term.
The foreign workforce, however, is transient. It can adjust, grow, or shrink according to our needs for our whole economy, and for specific economic sectors. This gives us a lot of flexibility, and is one reason why we have been able to maintain relatively low unemployment, through the economic cycles, even in periods where we faced an economic downturn.
But we cannot grow our foreign workforce indefinitely. In fact, we have already started to tighten the access to foreign workers to slow down the growth of the foreign workforce.
In the first 6 months of this year, the growth in foreign manpower (excluding foreign domestic workers) slowed to 34,100, compared to 36,800 in the first half of last year. Let's take a closer look at the figures.
15,500 of the growth for the first half of this year has been in construction. This is three times the growth in the first half of last year. We need construction workers to build HDB homes and MRT lines. And not many Singaporeans want to be in the construction industry. The other sectors would have seen the growth in total foreign workforce slow down quite seriously — from 31,000 to 18,600.
We already know from surveys that 8 in 10 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are facing manpower shortages, and 3 in 10 are looking to relocate overseas to stay viable. Now this is a serious matter because our SMEs employ 70% of our workforce, and we have to be mindful that many of the SME workers are Singaporeans too. These Singaporeans will lose their jobs if our SMEs move abroad, or close down. So we have to make these adjustments in a calibrated way to make sure the huge efforts we are putting into productivity can have the time to take place.
We also live in an increasingly volatile world. In the last 15 years we have seen 5 down-cycles — the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997, September 11, 2001, SARS in 2003, the Lehman crisis in 2007-2008, and now the Eurozone crisis. In those years when growth is strong, we should seize the opportunities that come our way. In such times, we may allow more foreign workers to come in to supplement our workforce. Such periods will help make up for years of slow or even negative growth when we expect the demand for foreign workforce to moderate or fall. But I think the overall growth target of 3 to 5 percent annual growth set out by the Economic Strategies Committee up to 2020 is a reasonable growth rate, if we can even achieve that.
I. How Many People can We Have in Singapore?
Many people have also asked, "We are so crowded already — how many people can we take on our small island?"
Singapore feels crowded today because population growth surged ahead of our infrastructure, transport and housing as our economy rebounded rapidly in the last few years. We have been working hard to catch up — which also explains the increase in construction workers for now. We will open a new rail section every year until 2017, and double the rail network over the next ten years. We are also expanding the bus fleet by 20% with an additional 800 buses over the next five years. HDB has launched 50,000 Build-To-Order flats in the past 2 years, and will offer 20,000 more next year. We will also have more nursing homes and hospitals. Not all these improvements can come on-stream immediately, but they will become available progressively over the coming years, including many in the next three to five years.
How many people we can have in Singapore depends on many factors, including how well we plan our urban environment as well as the technology solutions that will be available to us. If you look at Pinnacle@Duxton, many people want to live there, even though the population density is very high. People want to live there because it is convenient and the environment is nice, with amenities close by. So it is a matter of planning well, and ensuring sufficient infrastructure and facilities.
URA, in their most recent midterm concept plan review in 2006, assessed that Singapore has sufficient land to support a population of 6.5 million. During the course of our consultation over the last half year, several experts have commented that there is room for growth beyond that number, and we are going to seriously study this, because that is the responsible thing to do.
Let me stress that these are planning parameters for infrastructure and land planning, and not a population target. It does not mean that Singapore will go for a population of that size. The problem is that without proper planning, there will be crowding leading to a poorer living environment. So it is better to plan early, so that Singapore can continue to be developed in a well-planned way with good living environment.
J. Singapore: Our Home, A Global City
One of the big concerns we have heard is: "Will I feel like a stranger in Singapore?" Singapore has always been an immigrant society. If you look back to the roots of your own family, you do not have to go back very far to find somebody who came to Singapore from elsewhere and decided to sink roots here. Our diversity has been a huge strength for Singapore, but also meant that we need to put in additional effort to build national cohesion. Because of this diversity, Singaporeans understand the region better than most. We have an understanding and experience of different cultures, languages and people. This is a strength for Singaporeans. We can be quite comfortable living anywhere in the world. And this ability to transit from culture to culture will be a key attribute for any exciting, growing city in the future.
The structure of our population has also been evolving. We now have more Singaporeans living and working overseas, even as we have more foreigners living and working in Singapore. More Singaporeans are marrying foreigners — making up 40% of marriages. More Singaporean children will have fathers or mothers who were not born in Singapore.
We are united, not just by where we are born, but by the values we live by and a common desire to want to make Singapore, our home, better.
From the feedback we have received so far, I am happy to know that so many Singaporeans care about where our country is going, and how our population will evolve over time.
I look forward to hearing more of your views and suggestions. All the views and suggestions we receive will help us to shape our population planning, culminating in the White Paper on a sustainable population later this year.
Thank you.


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Baker Hughes delivered a very welcome positive surprise with the second quarter results. While the company is likely to continue to face a tough operating environment for the rest of the year, it would at least seem that the worst-case scenarios are much less likely.
Revenue rose 12% from last year, but fell 1% sequentially as North American performance continues to deteriorate (down 7%) on weak gas activity, but international (up 6%) continues to grow. Although Baker Hughes doesn't go into exceptional detail with its quarterly operations, it does sound as though areas of business like artificial lift (electric submersible pumps, in the case of Baker Hughes) are picking up.
Where Baker Hughes really overachieved was on the margin side of things. Operating income actually rose 2% this quarter, and while North American margins were down sequentially (by about 60 basis points), the company delivered much better results than many had feared (analysts' estimates were in the range of 11% and some feared even worse).
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Internal Improvement Vs. Tough Operating Environment
Baker Hughes' strong second quarter performance needs to be kept in context. Schlumberger's (NYSE:SLB) North American margins are much, much better, as are those of Halliburton (NYSE:HAL). The improvements at Baker Hughes really aren't about surpassing its peer group, but rather more of a cessation of self-inflicted wounds. That's a good thing, to be sure, but there's still more work to do.
Baker Hughes seemed relatively constructive about the rest of the year, guiding to a 3% year on year growth in North American rigs. All of that said, it's not smooth sailing yet in North America. Natural gas activity in North America is still underwhelming and if global economic growth worries weigh further on oil prices, which certainly won't help matters.
Still Growth to Be Had
The issue with buying Baker Hughes today really has a lot to do with an investor's short-term pain threshold. Things could get a lot worse, and the stock prices of significant gas players like Chesapeake (NYSE:CHK) and Ultra Petroleum (NYSE:UPL) don't reflect a lot of optimism.
Longer term, though, this seems like an industry where investors should want to be. Not only can Baker Hughes grow with overall service demand, but further penetration of electric submersible pumps (where Baker Hughes is the leader ahead of Schlumberger) over the rod pump technology sold by Weatherford (NYSE:WFT) and Lufkin (Nasdaq:LUFK) could offer incremental upside.
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The Bottom Line
I still like the businesses of Cameron (NYSE:CAM) and National Oilwell Varco (NYSE:NOV) better, and I think Basic Energy Services (NYSE:BAS) is an interesting beaten-down name to consider. All of that said, Baker Hughes looks undervalued. Even at a forward EV/EBITDA multiple of two-thirds to three-quarters of the historical average, these shares look as though they ought to trade closer to $60 per share. As I said, there's still a risk of significant short-term pain, but today's price doesn't look like a bad entry point for a long-term holding.
At the time of writing, Stephen D. Simpson did not own shares in any of the companies mentioned in this article.


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This is the page for the Mio C510 and C710 devices.
The Mio C510 and C710 are GPS/DPA devices running WinCE? .NET 4.2. They features 4 hardware buttons (power, menu, volume up/down), a reset button, an on/off power switch and a touchscreen. They also features a speaker. The following chips can be found on the PCB:
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The Mio C510 and C710 feature a recovery mode accessible by hard powering down the device and then powering up holding the volume down button. It has several menus to update uboot or wince. The bootloader can be safely overwritten using the WinCE? SD/MMC update. It is also possible to boot WinCE? by holding menu and volume up.
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Here is a list of all the pins used by the OF. Direction only applies to GPIO.
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Kugel isn't on the menu, making the name something of a puzzle, but noodles are greatly in evidence. This neighborhood restaurant—a first-date favorite, with eminently reasonable prices (but cash only)—serves handsomely prepared traditional Italian fare, with such sure-to-please pasta dishes as gnocchi with butter and sage, linguine alla puttanesca and large slabs of lasagna. The bread alone—fresh loaves of ciabatta dipped in olive oil with tomatoes and parsley—is a worthy draw in itself. Arrive early (the spot opens at 5:30pm, except Sundays, when it opens at 5pm, and Mondays, when it's closed), because Noodle Pudding doesn't take reservations (unless your party includes at least six people); at 7pm, the place begins to get crowded, and the noise level can rise precipitously. If you can, sit by the window, with its view of busy Henry Street. —PT


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Last September Pentax replaced the K-5 with not just one but two new digital SLRs, one without an optical low pass filter (OLPF). Looking little changed from the Pentax K-5 and K-7 before that, the Pentax K-5 II retains a very photographer-friendly design, with a good set of controls at the ready despite a surprisingly compact design. Internally, the K5 II gets only a few updates, including a new air-gapless LCD and an improved autofocus system; the latter of which offers a noticeable improvement in AF speed overall, and greater sensitivity in low light. Though the resolution remains the same, Pentax updated the camera's 16.3-megapixel CMOS sensor with a faster data readout, according to company representatives.
Though Pentax made few upgrades, the K-5 II remains an excellent digital SLR, particularly for outdoor photography, including a weather-resistant body, extreme cold tolerance down to -10C (14F), an optical viewfinder with 100% coverage, sensor-shift Shake Reduction that works with all lenses, an electronic level function, and a seven-frame-per-second frame rate.
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- 16.3-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor
- 11-point SAFOS X autofocus system
- ISO 100-12800; expandable to 80-51200
- 1080p video at 25fps
- 3-inch, 920K LCD
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- Weatherproof, cold-resistant, Magnesium-alloy body
- Shake Reduction image stabilization built-in
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That Pentax kept the K-5 II design essentially the same as its predecessors might concern some, but those familiar with the design will be just as happy as they were when the company introduced the K-7 in 2009. We really liked the original design quite a bit, so we're perfectly happy to see it repeated here. The body is tight and small, a little smaller than a large Rebel, but with a metal body rather than polycarbonate.
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Pentax says focus acquisition should be faster with the new SAFOX X autofocus system, and our early experience shows that to be true. In low light, the difference is a bit less obvious. Both can still struggle a bit in low light, but the K-5 II takes about half a second, while the K-5 takes more like a second on average. We've always admired how Pentax SLRs, even when they were slow, kept at the job until focus was achieved, where other cameras just give up.
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RUSTON - The first edition of this year's Centric Federal Credit Union's Inside Tech Basketball radio show presented by Miller Lite will debut Monday at 6 p.m. at Scott's Catfish in Ruston.
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Hanging out with Google Around Town
Google likes bring around everyone and meeting people face to face. You certainly will not see Larry Page or Sergey Brin hanging out at these conferences, but you will certainly see Google employees. I was talking with one Googler here at SXSW who is a UX (user experience) designer out of Google New York, and […]Full Story
Blogger Joins Twitter
Recently, Google's blogging platform, Blogger, joined the Twitter micro-blogging-craze. There's been rave after rave about Twitter; Twitter-this, Twitter-that. Blogger finally joined Twitter. "We will be posting status updates, major feature announcements, and pointers to cool uses of Blogger will all show up in our Twitter account." There are already other well-known Googlers on Twitter though, […]Full Story
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Matt Cutts wrote a comment on his post about "fun e-mails" and thought he actually made a point which even funnier than his original post. As many have said, a picture is worth a thousand words, but in this instance, a screen shot is worth a million. If you've ever run a forum, blog, or […]Full Story
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Yet another post about paid links. I know, I know, will the madness ever stop? No way! Why would we want to not have something to talk about? Today's topic is paid links, search rankings, and sitelinks. I've known about these paid links for a long time and so has Google I'm sure. In this […]Full Story
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More kids for KateKate Beckinsale wants to have another child.
The 'Pearl Harbor' actress, who married director Len Wiseman last Sunday (09.05.04), already has a five-year-old daughter, Lily - from her nine-year relationship with Welsh actor Michael Sheen - but she says she doesn't think she'll be able to cope with just having one child.
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I hear nowadays a lot about the Spring Framework. Why is there so much buzz around the Spring Framework in the industry?
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I already gave a partial answer in What are Upcoming Trends in Software Industry and its Impact for Java Developer? but I'll add some links in this answer. Actually, I won't cover or discuss the technical qualities of Spring as they aren't new and don't explain the buzz in my opinion. Instead, consider the following events and acquisitions:
As you can see, there have been lots of changes in the SpringSource sphere during the past year, with some pretty big moves during this summer. Don't you see the big picture now? Well, look at the resulting stack: with Java, Groovy, Grails as languages, Spring as container, tc Server as underlying application server, Hyperic for health and monitoring, VMware for virtualization, CloudFoundry as management and provisioning system, VMware/SpringSource has a complete stack for elastic cloud. And by complete, I mean really complete as this stack covers everything - except the JVM - to put Java on the Cloud: the software, the platform and the infrastructure i.e. all the different flavors of cloud computing.
In other words, while others are still preparing themselves for it, VMware and SpringSource are already ready for the SaaS1/PaaS2/IaaS3 wave.
This is exciting, this is where innovation goes, this creates (or at least feeds) the trend, this puts a lot of pressure on Java, the Application Server market, Java EE,... and this explains IMO the buzz around VMware/SpringSource. More than the upcoming arrival of Spring 3.0 :).
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Maybe something to do with US$420 million?
Spring has been around for a while, it introduced important new design patterns, and it is indirectly responsible for reforming EJB.
But I'm thinking you are hearing about it now because in August, VMware bought SpringSource for $420 million. That's rather high for an open source developer and consulting company...
Let me try to explain you why spring, what is there in spring and what made spring so popular.
The basic Idea of Spring Framework is
I think you may want to read about dependency injection, and inversion of control.
Spring is (among several other things) an inversion of control container.
In the primordial days of crusty old J2EE, Spring Framework came along and made it possible to inject JNDI registered services into EJBs. Gee, you could actually begin to design an EJB to where it could be unit tested without having to fire up a J2EE app server - just mock the JNDI services that it collaborated with via Spring dependency injection.
Well, for it's day, that was a not so minor miracle.
These days, if you want to know why Spring continues to rock, check out this book and learn about this development stack, and how Spring is instrumental as the core bean factory mechanism to everything that surrounds it - from BlazeDS services to iBATIS or Hibernate to ActiveMQ messaging beans:
And check out this article:
Well it provides a great additional framework that lets you concentrate on writing less framework code and more application code.
It provides things like:
and a whole lot more.
A lot of these concepts are fairly complex and because they provide the framework it means you can just plug in their components and leverage what has already been created for you.
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The Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency at Baylor College of Medicine is a four-year program designed to train our residents in prenatal care, labor and delivery, postpartum care, prenatal genetics, and office and operative gynecology.
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Police say a woman kept the body of her dead boyfriend inside their southern Michigan house for 18 months.
Jackson police Lt. Chris Simpson says the body of 67-year-old Charles Zigler was discovered last week covered in a chair. He tells Mlive.com that a woman who lived with Zigler knew he had died in December 2010.
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"Yoga brings many benefits, joys and much more to my life and I feel honoured to share it withothers." Heather is a certified Yoga instructor. She studied at Still Point in Northport, Ontario and did specialized training in Yoga for cardiac and cancer patients at the Kripalu Yoga Center in Lenox, Massachusetts. Along with the regular weekly yoga classes, Heather also teaches private and semi-private classes - day and evening. (See FAQ page) Heather began doing Yoga more than 35 years ago. She began teaching Yoga in 2000. Her classes have attracted people from all walks of life, including teens, seniors, full-time moms, nurses, golfers, equestrians, commuters, teachers, police officers, farmers, and even a blacksmith who spends his workday bent over while shoeing horses. Heather has a special interest in helping those with medical concerns. In addition to her Yoga certifications, she is a Therapeutic Touch Practitioner. Consults and treatments are available on request.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The University of Alabama football team continued its fall camp at Drew-Thomas fields in a shortened workout on Tuesday morning.
"We cut down a little and finished a little early," head coach Mike Shula said. "After two tough Sunday practices and the scrimmage (Monday), it was good to get through this one today. It was good that it was a little cooler. We are going later tonight, to give the guys some time to rest, plus it will be cooler. It's been my experience that later practices are a little more lively."
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Portland Trail Blazers have appointed AEG Sports executive Chris McGowan as the team's new president and chief operating officer.
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McGowan, who joins the Blazers on Nov. 12, succeeds Larry Miller, who left the Blazers in July to return to Nike.
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It seems you have read these groups and posted questions and answers before, so I would have the message would be clear (both to you and others like you. thepurpose of this post is to help make good net citizens.)
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Five Senses in Amsterdam (in February) Sound The flip-flap-flapflap of dozens of pidgeons passes you overhead. Old bikes squeak along pleasantly, grumbling over cobblestones. A Dutch couple chats over coffee – the words are hkkkard and gutterrrral, but also pleasant. Rhythmic. Happy. The tram dings, and the clock in Dam Square chimes the hour. A bustle of tourists pass speaking a handful of languages. Seagulls squawk and fight bitterly over mayo-dipped fries. Puddles sploosh as a few cars roll by carefully. A man shouts "Hoi!" from his upstairs apartment, and friends from below reply in kind. A saxophone wails under competent hands from a street performer. A train rattles by, shaking the bridge as it passes thunderously. Children screech and shout in joyful abandon – some yelling as they play a haphazard football match, while others convene as they scrape chalk masterpieces on the pathway. Two dogs bark at each other, wishing desperately to tackle each other in friendly revelry. You barely resist the urge to go pet them. Taste Salty fries with thick, garlic-hinted mayonnaise. Strong coffee – put in a couple extra sugars and creamers. Loose-leaf tea steeped in a little clear mug, served with a nutty nougat; the sticky sweet meshes nicely with the tea. Pancakes, lighter and thinner than the American version, is filled with a savory cheese that stretches as you cut it and melts deliciously in your mouth. Stroopwafels (once it warms after sitting on your mug of tea) is soft and buttery and sugary, the caramel inside gorgeously globulous and sweet. The croissant is flaky and buttery, melting in your mouth after you take the first bite. Touch The wind is cold – it cuts through your jacket and scarf, and tugs on your hat. You are glad you did laundry last night, because your sweater is definitely a good choice for today's cold weather. It rains, lightly, spritzing drops on your face as you bike to class. Then it hails, and little balls of ice hop and dance on the cobblestones (and on your head). But then, it clears. There's a brief and thankful stillness. Warmth rushes when you get on the tram, which is smooth save for the jerks on tight turns. You shake hands as you formally introduce yourself to a classmate; their hands are dry from the winter air. Your butt is sore from biking, but there's no helping that – keep pedaling, and hope your underwear doesn't bunch up again. Smell You are fairly sure wet has a scent – it smells wet. Not musty, or murky, or damp, just wet. Watery. Grilled steaks let fantastic smells float out of Argentinian steak houses. Each bakery you pass lures you in with its scent of bread. The market has a faint smell of flowers; even now, in winter, tulips and tulip bulbs are sold. There is a promise of spring in the air. A sudden odor every now and again hits you as you pass by the many "coffee shops", those fabled tourist-attractions. The smell of age, or old wood and history, lives in the walls of many buildings. Can history have a smell? Perhaps. America doesn't smell quite like this – perhaps it's too young. Perfume wafts from a pleasant-looking Dutch woman, probably older than your grandma. The intoxicating smell of books is faint in the beautifully contemporary library; walk along the shelves and you can still smell the pages. Sight Water, catching sunlight in the brief, blissful moments that the plump clouds part. A pair of swans preen just beside a little tarped boat which sleeps until the days of Spring come and the Dutch take to the waterways. The buildings are old, but far from unsightly. Hooks still lean forward from the tops of the canal houses, reminding the world that goods were once pulled from the canals to the houses in the great trading center of Amsterdam. Graffiti splays out across streetsides and alleys – ebbing and fading together to create a strange urban wallpaper for the city. You are constantly reminded that art is everywhere, not just Van Gogh or Rembrandt or Escher, but in galleries and homes and museums and bookstores and libraries and cafes. Graffiti is art. Architecture is art. Fashion is art. Life is art. [gallery columns="2"]
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Dame Fortune is a contrary old biddy.
Who'd have thought that in a week when Channel 4 had this scheduled, that this would hit the headlines?
Yes, it's those zany Amish characters cropping up all over the fucking place in the media.
The big news is in the US and concerns a bizarre case in which some Amish decided to disgrace some other Amish by cutting off their hair and beards and there's also talk of people being imprisoned in a chicken coop.
Oh yes, there's sex, too.
This attractive character…
…who goes by the name of Samuel Mullet – and that's worth a cheap laugh in itself – has been
taking married women into his home so that he could "cleanse them of the devil with acts of sexual intimacy".
Yeah, right…
My money's on him taking these women into his home just to get his dirty little end away, but I'm no religious expert, as regular readers know full well.
Well, that's the hard Amish news, but what's this over on Channel 4?
Why, it's yet another variation on the reality TV idea of putting people into a bizarre situation that they have never been in before and watching them react to it – and hopefully suffer some sort of mental trauma that we can laugh at.
So, we have this televisual delight gracing our screens tonight:
Eton College student George, Cambridge University undergraduate Siana, spoilt 18-year-old Charlotte, media studies student Jordan and 17-year-olds Hannah, a Christian, and James, who lives in a London hostel, join Amish communities for six weeks to learn about their way of life. They begin at Middlefield, Ohio, where they meet a family who want to teach them that, despite the lack of material possessions, life can be equally fulfilling.
Fucking yawn…
Oh well, if it's good enough for the BBC, it's good enough for me, so I really feel I must state that:
other piles of festering goat wank are available for your viewing pleasure.
G'night, all…
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"The executors of my estate reside in Pennsylvania"
Since you (obviously) are still alive, you have neither an estate nor any executors. You will not have an estate until you die, and you won't have any executors until a court appoints one or more. I assume what you're saying is that you have a will that nominates as executors persons who live in PA.
"I would like to draw up a separate will in Pennsylvania regarding my house in Pennsylvania."
Aside from this not really making any sense, it's not at all clear why you would want to do this. You can have multiple documents that might constitute a will, but you can't have a "separate will" regarding a particular piece of property.
"I am told a will must be drawn up in the state in which I am a resident. Is that correct?"
No, it's not correct. You can have your will drawn up in Antarctica if you want. However, if you are a resident of NY at the time of your death, that's where your estate will be probated/administered, so you'll want to make sure that your will complies with NY law regarding the requirements for a will. In particular, you will need to be aware of NY law regarding nonresidents serving as executors. It is my understanding that NY does allow nonresidents to serve as executors but that there are special requirements for nonresident executors.
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If I am a resident of PA when I die, would a will drawn up in NY be probated in NY? Again, thanks for your reply.
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"If I am a resident of PA when I die, would a will drawn up in NY be probated in NY? Again, thanks for your reply."
No, probate would be initiated where you are a resident when you pass away. If a will is valid under the laws of your state of residence when created, it will be accepted as vaild in the state in which you later establish residence. Although, it is always good practice to at least have the will reviewed if oving to another state.
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Suspended California state senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) pled "not guilty" to Racketeering charges in Federal Court today. After the proceedings Yee had no comment for the throng of media waiting for him outside the court house.
Yee is accused of offering to help undercover FBI agents buy assault weapons from suspected terrorist group Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the Philippines, and for promising political favors and voting on specific bills in exchange for campaign contributions.
All the charges against Yee (and others) are related to a five-year FBI investigation that also helped indict former Chinatown gangster Raymond "Shrimp-Boy" Chow; and political consultant Keith Jackson, a former San Francisco school board president who is also indicted for narcotics conspiracy, wire fraud, murder for hire, and conspiracy to import firearms. Both Chow and Jackson pled "not guilty" in separate court appearances.
Yee is known in gaming circles as the man behind the 2005 anti-video game bill that banned the sale of mature-rated games to minors and included provisions for punitive actions against retailers that did not comply. A California court placed an injunction on the law shortly before it could go into effect. The case was eventually heard by the Supreme Court, who ruled in 2010 that it was unconstitutional (Brown v. EMA).


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According to RockstarWatch, Manhunt 2 is available again via digital download at this store.
Knowing the controversies around the title (still AO), it is never sure how long the game will be available for purchase, given that it was previously abandoned by Direct2Drive. I couldn't see the sale page, because it is only sold in US and Canada, so i get something like "not available in your country". Someone from US or CA could post a screenshot of the page here, please?
Manhunt 2 received mixed to low reviews, so there might not be many of you going for it, but any Rockstar collector (i consider myself one, though i only buy from retail stores) might not want to miss this opportunity, so there you have it, go grab it!
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