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Geoff Gallop is a rare species of academic. He actually knows about his field from direct experience rather than from a distance. Currently professor and director of the graduate school of government at the University of Sydney, Gallop was premier of Western Australia from 2001 to 2006. His insights into government and politics are always valuable because of this duality of experience. A collection of his speeches and lectures has now been gathered into one volume, Politics, Society, Self.
It is not a book that will endear Gallop to traditional academics. Australia, in common with other English-speaking countries, has too many academics who scorn real-world policy problems and implementation of solutions. Last year, both the then head of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Terry Moran, and a previous head, Professor Peter Shergold, made public comments to the effect that academics were next to useless in advising governments. Although the ACT is blessed with a larger than usual proportion of academics engaged in real-world problem-solving, the old culture that Moran and Shergold described - which celebrates the trivial and irrelevant over the helpful and applied - is still apparent in many universities around the country. Generalisations, though, are always subject to exceptions, and Gallop is a prime example.
Most of the pieces in this book are speeches, and so are accessible and readable. They avoid jargon and obfuscation. They are also wide-ranging, including not only politics but globalisation, the internal workings of government and the public service, federalism, multiculturalism and well-being. That breadth of interests in itself contains a useful lesson for public servants. The development of good policy requires wide and general experience rather than narrow specialisation. The experience in countries that have delegated policymaking to technocrats has been mostly unhappy. Too close a knowledge of subject matter blinds policymakers to wider social implications of the policies for which they are responsible. As a rule, specialism fails. Doctors are not good at running hospitals or health departments; educators, even if they succeed brilliantly as school principals, tend to struggle if faced with running education departments. This is another huge generalisation with many exceptions: talented people can sometimes escape the limits imposed by their training and succeed even if they do not generalise. Even so, it is notable that many of our best public-sector administrators are to be found in departments that have nothing to do with their first technical speciality.
One of the reasons why the amalgamation of departments in 1987 led to an outpouring of innovative and effective policy was that it broadened the span of issues that senior managers handled. The amalgamations reduced the number of different federal departments from 28 to about 18 (there is always dispute about the exact number, because opinions differ on whether Veterans' Affairs was a separate department). The lessons from that time were that the most successful departments were the ones that introduced their senior people to new and different areas of responsibility rather than maintaining silos. Being able to consider issues from different points of view led to better, more inclusive and responsive policy development.
The Ahead of the Game reform report has contradictory views on the question, possibly reflecting different authors. In parts, it advocates diversity and a broad range of experience, but in others it advocates specialisation. In particular, it makes the mistake of asserting that ''strategic policy analysis requires specific skills, such as econometric modelling, statistical data analysis and stakeholder engagement'' without apparently noticing that good policy also requires a knowledge of life more broadly, including non-technical aspects such as morality and ethics.
That is where Gallop is most worth careful reading. Throughout the book, the underlying purpose of government is emphasised. He writes best when he reflects on issues such as the ingredients of a healthy community (strong, purposeful government and active citizenship, including reducing discrimination and prejudice) and understanding what produces well-being.
He is also prepared, unlike most writers about government and the public sector, to reflect on personal questions. It is well known that Gallop stepped down as West Australian premier after he experienced severe depression, and he is open about that in many of these speeches. One of the most evocative sections addresses this directly, where ''prejudice and melancholy feed off each other like psychological twins … the more the concealment, the more the depression''. He is honest not only about himself but about how government should work. It is clear from reading this book that he has an abiding belief in the ability of government and the public service to effect positive change. At its heart, government has a moral purpose: to make people's lives better. If we take that as a starting point, it logically follows that honesty must be part of governing well. Honesty is a marker of underlying moral strength and purpose.
Honesty, however, is sometimes difficult to find. In the third century BC, the philosopher Diogenes wandered around carrying a lamp in broad daylight. When asked why, he said he was searching for an honest man, and had yet to find one. He would be in his element on Capital Hill today. The tightly scripted world of sound bites and staged media appearances that pervades politics is the antithesis of honest communication. We sometimes see something different - for example, Prime Minister Julia Gillard's extended press conference last month that threw open any and all questions on her past life as a lawyer, or Liberal frontbencher Malcolm Turnbull's eulogy for his friend, Robert Hughes - but such moments are far too rare. The public service has also seen a trend to less open and honest communication. These days, formal speeches from senior public servants (juniors are no longer let off the leash in most departments) have all the excitement and pizzazz of wet blotting paper. Pre-prepared and highly digested lines conceal rather than reveal the truth.
Indeed, if there is a weakness in Gallop's collection, it is that some of the pieces that were delivered as public speeches lack personal connections. For example, the rather important question ''how healthy is Australian federalism?'' is not resolved, ending on further questions rather than answers. An insider's perspective on the realities of Commonwealth-state and interstate relations may have led to clearer answers. With any luck, Gallop might be persuaded in time to prepare an annotated version that reveals more. That may mean waiting until all his key counterparts have left the political stage; he's clearly not out to stir up politics with this book, but to stir up ideas about how best to run our national institutions.
Stephen Bartos is the executive director of ACIL Tasman and a former senior public servant.
Politics, Society, Self, Geoff Gallop (UWA Publishing, 2012). RRP: paperback $29.95, ebook $14.99.


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Jose Mourinho again stole the headlines after his team's Super Cup victory by refusing to attend the post-game news conference, sending his assistant Aitor Karanka in his place.
Karanka has been Mouinho's representative in the press before,
usually when Mourinho boycots pressers to avoid the negative reaction
after a loss, but this time there was no clear explanation for his
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and defended despite having a two-goal lead and a man advantage on the
fied. Perhaps "the only one" thought a title like the Supercopa, which
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Karanka was willing to praise the team and especially the first half, in which the dominated the game.
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The assistant coach also addressed the difference Pepe made in the game after missing the first leg with a concussion.
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I wonder what that was about. I too have seen things like this and never a read a word about them anywhere. Hope they caught the bad guy or put out the fire.
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I looked around...didn't see any fire trucks. Nothing on the MVPD web page either. Guess they don't feel it's important to let us know what happened with they shut down 20 acres of the city and evacuate people to a spot a quarter mile away.
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Nothing major... it was free donut night.
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John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com> wrote: >This has got to be the longest thread ever to get PostgreSQL running on the Mac -- but I'm glad you have not given up :). Hi John, Partly it's because I don't have much time to spend investigating this, partly it's a very positive reflection of the great willingness of so many people on this forum--such as yourself--to help novices like me. Many thanks, all. > acorn$ sudo su postgres -c 'pg_ctl start -l logfile -D > /Library/PostgreSQL8/data' > Password: > sh: line 1: logfile: Permission denied > server starting >Since you did not specify the full path for the log file, I assume it is created in the current directory. Check your permissions there. I tried this: sudo su postgres -c 'pg_ctl start -l /Library/PostgreSQL8/logfile -D /Library/PostgreSQL8/data' and terminal said server starting, & no complaints. I then viewed the logfile (which was created where specified), and it showed: postgres cannot access the server configuration file "/Library/PostgreSQL8/data/postgresql.conf": No such file or directory So I think it's confirming the problem lies with initdb. >Change to the data directory and see what is there. If you don't see lots of folders along with pg_hba.conf and postgresql.conf, then initdb did not work. /data is empty. >At the risk of sending you down another path when you are close, you might want to look at this distribution and instructions: >http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/postgresql/ That url says: Versions 8.1.3 and up have been tested and will work on Mac OS X version 10.4/Tiger only. The software is built as Universal Binary and will run natively on PPC and Intel Macs. NOTE: On Mac OS X 10.3 (and possibly later), it seems you have to adjust some system configuration parameters first. The advice there (about putting values in an /etc/rc file) seems to contradict, or possibly be superceded by, the info in the pg docs: <PostgreSQL8/doc/postgresql/html/kernel-resources.html#SYSVIPC> , which states: ---- MacOS X In OS X 10.2 and earlier, edit the file /System/Library/StartupItems/SystemTuning/SystemTuning and change the values in the following commands: sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmin sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmni sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmseg sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmall In OS X 10.3 and later, these commands have been moved to /etc/rc and must be edited there. Note that /etc/rc is usually overwritten by OS X updates (such as 10.3.6 to 10.3.7) so you should expect to have to redo your editing after each update. In OS X 10.3.9 and later, instead of editing /etc/rc you may create a file named /etc/sysctl.conf, containing variable assignments such as kern.sysv.shmmax=4194304 kern.sysv.shmmin=1 kern.sysv.shmmni=32 kern.sysv.shmseg=8 kern.sysv.shmall=1024 This method is better than editing /etc/rc because your changes will be preserved across system updates. Note that all five shared-memory parameters must be set in /etc/sysctl.conf, else the values will be ignored. Beware that recent releases of OS X ignore attempts to set SHMMAX to a value that isn't an exact multiple of 4096. SHMALL is measured in 4 kB pages on this platform. In all OS X versions, you'll need to reboot to make changes in the shared memory parameters take effect. ---- I'm running 10.3.9, so last week I created the /etc/sysctl.conf file in vi, using the values shown above, rebooted, but still got/get the same problems with initdb. I've just rebooted, & ran the following (a list member advised me off-list to try creating the cluster in a "fresh" dir.): acorn$ sudo mkdir /data Password: acorn$ cd / acorn$ sudo chown postgres:postgres /data acorn$ sudo su postgres -c 'initdb -D /data' The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres". This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initialized with locale C. fixing permissions on existing directory /data ... ok creating subdirectories ... ok selecting default max_connections ... 10 selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 400kB/20000 creating configuration files ... ok creating template1 database in /data/base/1 ... FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Cannot allocate memory DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=2, size=1646592, 03600). HINT: This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory or swap space. To reduce the request size (currently 1646592 bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared_buffers parameter (currently 50) and/or its max_connections parameter (currently 10). The PostgreSQL documentation contains more information about shared memory configuration. child process exited with exit code 1 initdb: removing contents of data directory "/data" Should I uninstall pg 8.2.4 & try with an earlier version, even though the docs. seem to imply 8.2.4 should work with 10.3.9? Cheers! Joe
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When recently asked about my process for world-building, the answer was easy. It's a feeling. I know that sounds like the pantser's version of writing a novel, but there's a lot behind where this feeling actually comes from. It's living in the back of my mind, fully formed, giving me a sense of foreboding.
We can put the blame on my father, who every Friday night like clockwork would get comfy-cozy in the corner of the sectional in his cotton shorts and Star Wars tee (of which there are many), sipping bubbling Moet from Waterford crystal. He spoon-fed me these feelings with a few chuckles, excited grins, and exclamations including "and these idiots!" or, if it was really serious, "a-holes."
Friday nights were when he'd talk to me about life. Past and present day, but more importantly, how our past actions will reflect in our futures. He'd tell me everything he believed possible, and a lot of this had to do with how the ideas of men will affect the outcome for women. Though I didn't realize it until years later, my dad is a huge feminist.
From Archetype's conception, I didn't have far to go to figure out the world Emma lived in. I already felt it living in my mind. Waiting. I never even gave these feelings words until, well, now. I felt three historical facts for Emma's future world to begin with, and built from there as I went.
1. The technological age that allows us the power to control the sex of our children (among other things) has come and gone. Think Gattaca.
2. The world population continued to grow at such a rate that world leaders had to enforce a restriction: one child per family, not unlike some areas in modern-day China.
3. Mother Nature has also stepped in. Dad was a huge believer in human beings adapting to their environment, which could in some ways include population control. He says Mother Nature or the Universe or the Powers that Be will always find a way to make things right. I don't necessarily believe this; anything made "right" has a human hand on the trigger, which I intend to get into in future books set in this world.
With these three things in mind, and keeping in mind our past actions, I came to the conclusion that we'd end up with a shortage of women. That the world as a whole would come up with several solutions to the problem, both desperate and moderate. That the U.S. in particular would end up in a civil war over certain states enacting laws that other states might find wrong. The weapons involved would be devastating to the environment on top of the loss of life.
Fast forward a few hundred years, and we're two territories under a single non-political government. And we're seemingly at peace. Both territories have their ideas of freedom, both desperate and moderate. Both extreme. With the east's control comes a form of slavery. The west's lack of control expands into the allowance of guns on our streets, and the sale of drugs from street vendors.
Since then, I've picked a few things up along the way through documentaries on Netflix or the History Channel. Things that filled me with dread or excitement. Gave me that feeling. Added fuel to the fire. For example, I may as well go all out and have that scary California-changing earthquake while we're at it. A quake so massive that it spawned what I lovingly call the Neo-Luddist era that set us back a few centuries, technologically speaking. Why not? Could happen.
What I've done is taken as extreme a look at the possibilities my world has as their answers. While the world's issues aren't the focus of my books, they play a horrifying backdrop, and one I wanted my readers to feel. To look into the future and share my sense of foreboding. For me, these are the only futures worth building.
M.D. Waters lives with her family in Maryland. Archetype is her first novel. Its sequel, Prototype, will be published in July 2014.


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Washington • Dr. Seuss had it right: Horton really does hear a Who. Wild elephants can distinguish between human languages, and they can tell whether a voice comes from a man, woman or boy, a new study says.
That's what researchers found when they played recordings of people for elephants in Kenya. Scientists say this is an advanced thinking skill that other animals haven't shown. It lets elephants figure out who is a threat and who isn't.
The result shows that while humans are studying elephants, the clever animals are also studying people and drawing on their famed powers of memory, said study author Karen McComb.


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The 86th annual Hoboken Italian Festival is underway in the Sinatra Park area and the event is expected to attract more than 50,000 visitors over its 4-day run.
Preparations have been underway for weeks. Contractors dressed Fourth and Hudson streets in the tri-colors of the Italian flag more than a week ago, as the Mile Square City prepared for the annual event.
The much-anticipated festival, which ends on Sunday, features daily entertainment, a fireworks show, games, crafts, food, and the reenactment of the legend of the Madonna dei Martiri in which a statute is placed on a barge and floated in the Hudson River, following a procession.
The event is open from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. daily, and from noon to 11 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday.
Carlo's City Hall Bakery of TLC's "The Cake Boss" fame will serve cannoli, and there will be a cannoli eating contest at 8 p.m. tomorrow night. R3Brothers entertains following the contest and a fireworks display is scheduled from 9:15 to 9:45 p.m.
Among the highlights on Sunday is the annual Hoboken Fire Department versus the Police Department grape stomping contest at 6:30 p.m.
Festival organizers said they've placed a special focus this year on entertainment for children.
Also planned is Freestyle Friday Night, All-Italian Saturday, and a variety of music on Sunday.
Organizer Greg Gallo said is a statement, "We are excited and honored to provide a space where Italian-Americans can reconnect with their roots, and people from other cultures can get a taste and appreciation for all that Italy has to offer."
As the patron saint of sailors, the Madonna dei Martiri has had special meaning to the Italian coastal town of Molfetta for hundreds of years, according to event organizers. The Hoboken Italian Festival recreates the traditional Molfettese feast in honor of the Madonna's history.
Mass celebrating the Feast of Madonna dei Martiri will be celebrated at St. Francis Church in Hoboken on Saturday at 11 a.m. Festival goers can expect the religious celebration honoring the Madonna to last much of the day.
The procession through the streets with the statue follows the Mass and includes re-enactments of the "Blessing of the Feet" in the Hudson River.
The event, which traces its history back to a 1399 street festival in Molfetta, Italy, a small town by the Adriatic Sea, included a procession of the religious figure with parishioners carrying the statue into a boat and sailing out into the harbor.
Later in the day tomorrow there will be a World War II Memorial Commemoration in honor of all 159 Hobokenites who lost their lives in the war, many of whom were Italian-Americans.
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Lillian Moy, Executive Director of the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York, Inc. said, "This grant allows the Legal Aid Society to have an attorney available to victims of domestic violence in Columbia County. Our representation helps ensure a victim's safety, stability and ultimately her independence from her batterer. We are very grateful to Senator Saland for his on-going support."


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In his most recent article for The Hockey News, Adam Proteau posed a question or two that each of the NHL's 30 organizations will have to answer during the 2011-12 campaign.
Some questions are fair. Some are crafted with the intent to spur laughter. Others, like the one directed to the Ottawa Senators, is emblematic of the Toronto media's fascination with Daniel Alfredsson's future in a Senators jersey.
He wrote…
Can the rebuilding Sens really expect to challenge for a playoff spot with a second line that would be stellar if it were in the American League? If not, can Daniel Alfredsson maintain his always-classy veneer or instead look to be moved late in the year for a Ray Bourque-like shot at a championship?
Umm… seriously? Playoffs!??! Trading Alfie? For reals?
Not to begrudge Proteau, but anyone who has a thumb on the pulse of the Senators knows that: a) management and ownership have reiterated that the captain will not be traded; and b) this team seems prepared to give a number of players who struggled last season every opportunity to develop into marketable assets.
It's somewhat of a unique opportunity that Ottawa has. Unlike the situations in Florida, Calgary or Columbus, the organization is not concerned with generating fan interest in a non-traditional hockey market. Nor is it interested in some feigned attempt to push for the 8th overall playoff seed. Nor is the job security of its hockey ops people influencing its player personnel decisions. Head coach Paul MacLean was brought in from the vaunted Detroit Red Wings and general manager Bryan Murray signed a 3-year contract extension in April. With Eugene Melnyk having bought into the philosophy of "rebuilding the right way", Ottawa can afford to give players like Nikita Filatov and Peter Regin extended opportunities without having to worry too much about how it may affect the win column in the interim.
I assumed that this was common sensaren'te but judging from another one of Proteau's offseason articles entitled, "The NHL's Five Least Improved Teams", I'm hopeful that other Senators fans won't echo Adam's sentiment…
Speaking of total disasters, have you seen what currently projects to be Ottawa's second forward line? Its 2011 first round draft pick Mika Zibanejad centering Nick Foligno and Bobby Butler. I'm surprised schlock movie director Michael Bay isn't lobbying to film that trio.
Then there's the Senators' defense, which is comprised of two slightly mobile turnstiles (Sergei Gonchar and Filip Kuba), a 21-year-old up-and-comer in Erik Karlsson, and a depreciating asset named Chris Phillips.
Given that information, it is nothing short of baffling to think of what GM Bryan Murray did this summer. He signed Zenon Konopka to toughen up Ottawa's fourth line when the team already had a tough guy in Chris Neil. And he signed Alex Auld to back up Craig Anderson in net. This is akin to someone who is burdened with a Jimmy Durante schnozz opting for laser eye surgery and a pedicure. See you at the draft lottery, Sens fans.
In watching yesterday's Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremonies and then the Toronto Blue Jays game that followed last night, Rogers' play-by-play man Buck Martinez alluded to an interesting Pat Gillick anecdote about how to build championship teams. To win championships, you need great players.
Its premise is so simple but it's a concept that is so often lost.
In the NHL, how does one acquire great players?
Are they found on July 1st when the NHL free agency period opens?
No. (Shhhh! Don't tell the Rangers!)
Are they acquired via trade?
On the rarest of occasions. Like when a few select players refuse to pledge their name as part of the "Dry Island" campaign designed to encourage players to abstain from alcohol for one month.
Great talent is drafted and therein lies the duality of Ottawa's situation. They get criticized for eschewing a shitty free agent market; preferring instead to favour internal player development and give themselves better odds of drafting a high-impact player in next year's NHL Entry Draft. And it's this kind of big picture, savvy asset management philosophy that should be applauded. Not criticized.


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Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan will arrive in New York early next week for speeches in four principal American cities just as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is concluding his five-day visit to Washington.
While Sadat will be spending the coming weekend with President Carter at his Maryland mountain retreat in Camp David and appearing at the National Press Club and meeting with Congressional committees, Dayan's full schedule is still uncertain. The State Department said that he will meet with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance but there is no decision on whether there will be a White House session with Carter.
Dayan, who has frequently visited America for fund-raising activities, is understood to be scheduled for appearances in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal and the Israel Bond Organization. He is expected to begin his visit Feb. 8. Media reports here are saying that Dayan's visit was hastily arranged to counter the certain favorable publicity to be given to Sadat's visit and the extensive coverage for him in the media on his terms for a Middle East settlement.
(In Jerusalem, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said today there are no plans for Dayan to meet Carter or other Administration officials. The spokesman said Dayan did not intend to meet Sadat and the possible overlapping of the Foreign Minister's arrival and Sadat's departure was a coincidence.
(Dayan's visit to the U.S. was seen by some here as on effort by the Israeli government to offset the propaganda campaign undertaken by Sadat's visit and his open letter to American Jews last weekend as well as the propaganda activities by other Egyptian officials in Western capitals. In addition, Dayan will be able to bring back to Israel the latest U.S. thinking on the peace negotiations between Israel and Egypt following the Carter-Sadat talks.)


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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.: Jaroslaw Kowalczyk, 32, of Illinois faces human smuggling charges after allegedly placing an ad in a Polish-language newspaper offering to help illegal immigrants get New Mexico driver's licenses. A criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque says he transported two illegal immigrants from Chicago to Albuquerque, charging them $1,000 each.
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Divide Two Lights (Between Me) - Poem by Unwritten Soul
By walking days
Tirelessly on the months' cycle
Yet completing another year circle
For another run ready to come
To be in my life journey
A new chapter for me
Pages to be revealed
My unwritten story
Days in mystery
In a draft of destiny
About life, they, you and me
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Separating me
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Present and future
My all years
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Sound stitched to the sky
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A second ago
The night has closed
The end of another chapter
A new second now
Time delivers another chapter
Anew one in unfolded paper
To be written on secrecy of future
In three hunderd sixty five pages
With lights and dark, days and nights
With the ink of mystery, unwritten to eyes
Our adventure to go and to be experienced
Spherical light
Orbiting the moon bright
Kiss me, sleepless in a solitary night
Even the sky painted with sparkling light
And firework bursting the joys
I am belong to somewhere else
Not the night i am stay now
But with all moments i had
In a silence and quietness
To think, live, to think
What we've lost in past
We've never return again
For the dreams that broken
We must claim back to the future
The lost we had, The gain we will have
In a new opening days
what we gain we shall cheers
A day for no give up
before the chapter changed again
I wont surrender, no i wont
A new year has come
Yet old dreams to hunt
So i run run and run
Till all dreams i'm done
My new year, you finally come
Poet's Notes about The Poem
This is a poem i wrote for A New Year, it has my identity of
my soul, and how i want to tell, if we have dreams of past
and unfinished, have no worry still we can get it by this year
so if we keep mourning, it will remain nothing, so keep hunting
without surrendering your fate to the time of uncertainties
~Unwritten Soul~
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Frank Davis, Sr. (6/26/2017 7:44:00 AM)
An abundance of wisdom, here.
Incredible work, Soul! (Report) ReplyUnwritten Soul (7/27/2017 2:56:00 AM)
You are a generous motivator, precious thanks to u.
Muhammad Ali (1/4/2017 1:51:00 AM)
nice poem. yes, keep hunting, and let other hunting too. :) stay blessed in every moment of preseni (Report) Reply
Edward Kofi Louis (6/5/2016 7:05:00 AM)
My unwritten story! ! Of life; and, about my life. Thanks for sharing this poem with us. (Report) Reply
Diane Hine (2/17/2013 5:33:00 AM)
Youthful anticipation energizes this fabulous poem with allusions to the mysterious nature of time. (Report) Reply
Rekha Mandagere (2/4/2013 12:58:00 AM)
The relationship between life and time is fantastically brought out. Nothing is lost but we can fulfill all dreams of life this time, if not during the next interval of time. This poem teaches us lot of patience and gives hope to be always friendly with moving time. Nice work: -) (Report) Reply
Paul Brookes (2/2/2013 3:14:00 AM)
So beautiful and full of meaning Sometimes though you need to stand still to know where your'e running to or from
Nice write BB : O) (Report) Reply
Spiritual Seeker (2/1/2013 8:07:00 PM)
Life wandering, life wondering....peace and harmony! Happy journey wise one...Nice poem. (Report) Reply
Nassire Ghadire (1/30/2013 6:43:00 AM)
I love it it's a nice poem... thanks for it..
Nassire. (Report) Reply
Valerie Dohren (1/28/2013 12:24:00 PM)
Beautiful poem Soul, full of meaning and very thought-provoking. (Report) Reply
Subodh Pandey (1/27/2013 10:45:00 AM)
Poetheart Morgan (1/27/2013 7:34:00 AM)
Neither one wants, you can not give up. Human nature drives us ever forward. Even in small steps. TFS Soul! (Report) Reply
Chandra Thiagarajan (1/27/2013 6:16:00 AM)
Such a philosophical poem rendered in beautiful words which is for every person.A CAPTIVATING WRITE. (Report) Reply
Kieran J96 (1/24/2013 10:46:00 AM)
not too sure what to say, its really entrancing to be honest, captures you and bring to the front your own fears and anxieties, great poem. (Report) Reply
Nimal Dunuhinga (1/23/2013 11:34:00 AM)
the contrast between the light and darkness! A new year has come
Yet old dreams to hunt................................! (Report) Reply
Nimal Dunuhinga (1/23/2013 11:33:00 AM)
the contrast between the light and darkness! A new year has come
Yet old dreams to hunt................................! (Report) Reply
Nader Baheri (1/23/2013 9:40:00 AM)
unseen future has come and we get a step closer to our end line.that s why a new year frightens us.the present moment is like an edge between past and future.we have to take care not to fall in to each side.not think about past and not be afraid of future too much.live in the moment.
it is a little bit regrettable.a season of our lives is closed and a new one is begun.but we must know that
Time waites for nobody
neither me nor you buddy
we have to take care of our souls
so pursuit in life our goals
some day we see that our lives are rolled by and we see how fast it becomes last.
nice poem soul.lots of fresh impressive feelings it gave me.brilliant one
~nb (Report) Reply
Neela Nath Das (1/22/2013 10:06:00 PM)
I adore your positive attitude to life and all.This is the thing we need most and we lack also.More and more is nothing but the hedonism which makes us mournful if we don't get the cherished things.Thanks for focusing on this theme.
Best Wishes
H.H (Report) Reply
Saadat Tahir (1/22/2013 12:18:00 PM)
A second ago
The night has closed
The end of another chapter
A new second now
Time delivers another chapter
Anew one in unfolded paper
To be written on secrecy of future
In three hunderd sixty five pages
With lights and dark, days and nights
With the ink of mystery, unwritten to eyes
Our adventure to go and to be experienced
imaginative, a bit soulful and montage captured very well
cheers (Report) Reply
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- Measure the thickness of the rotor at 5 points around the circumference. The tolerance for difference in thickness is 0.0005 in. (0.013mm).
- Minimum thickness dimensions are cast into the caliper for reference.
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Absentee balloting will continue through February 11th. Applications can be obtained at the Stearns County Auditor's Office, or from their website.
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While the Samsung Galaxy S4 does not feature an unbreakable display – as rumors from December 2012 have led us to believe – the upcoming Galaxy Note III might have such a screen.
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tarheelfan4life - I also have 2 sets of the Cesar coupons if you'd like them. I can mail them to you.
ddalmas - this may not be appropriate for this blog but I'm going to say it - brother/sister from another mother/mister?! I use the same recipe for almond milk and I make banana nut bread with the almond meal!
Oh, and then I use the almond meal in any recipe calling for almond flour, typically banana nut muffins.
smolder13: Here's a link to the recipe I've used for the almond milk, and to strain it I bought some cheesecloth from A.C.Moore and sewed the ends together to form a bag. The recipe includes her tip for drying the leftover meal in the oven, which I do in a 9x13 pan at 175 degrees for about an hour.
Here's a link for almond butter, although I used almond oil rather than macadamia nut oil. I have also sometimes sweetened with 1 tsp of pure maple syrup or honey.
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Thank you for the suggestions, I guess I'm going to have to make note of prices when I go to these different stores. pss3: I'm looking for raw nuts, any brand as long as they're not rancid. ddalmas: I've made almond milk and toasted the almond meal too! I'll let you know if I find a good deal. smolder13: you can use the raw or roasted for almond butter but you need raw only for hte milk. jdouglas13: I used to buy raw cashews from TJ's because they're almost ~ $1 cheaper per pound compared to Whole Foods and I haven't have any bad experiences so far. I'll be sure to check out Kroger.


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"Strategy before tactics" is something we talk about every day in the Duct Tape Marketing Consultants' network. It's what sets us apart from other small business marketing consultants.
Strategy is one of those words that conjures up images of intellectual giants, using secret information, to make last minute moves to save the day. However, creating your business or marketing strategy doesn't have to be that complicate. I prefer to start with this simple definition of strategy:
"A plan of action for achieving a goal."
Simple, but actionable.
When it comes to setting and achieving goals, all the experts tell us that the more personal we can make them, the more emotion we can attach to them, the more we can visualize how our life be better when we accomplish them, the more likely we will be to achieve them.
In other words, the more personal our goals, the greater our chances of reaching them.
As a business owner, you got into business to help you achieve your goals. You may have wanted more money, more freedom, or more time to work on a cause that is important to you.
Many business owners that I meet tell me that the reason the decided to "go out on their own" was they felt their work was not helping them meet their goals.
This is an important point to remember when you start hiring employees of your own – your employees will always work harder to achieve their goals than yours. Your job is to help your employees set their own goals, help provide ways for them to achieve those goals, and align their goals with the shared goals of the company (yours, other employees, and customers). Great employees always set higher goals for themselves than you would.
And of course, the success of your marketing and your business lies in helping your customers goals achieve their goals. This is why we (Duct Tape Marketers) spend so much time about narrowing your focus, finely defining your ideal customer profile, taking the time to understand your customers buying process, etc. We aren't doing this so we can create award winning advertising or clever tweets. We are trying to better understand what their goals are so we can provide them with the information they need to make decisions about how they can meet those goals.
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Mark Wahlberg who has four children claims he and his wife Rhea Durham have decided not to have more children.
"It's wild at our house with four kids," says Wahlberg.
"I wouldn't change it for anything but it is crazy. I think we've come to the conclusion that four is the max," he added.
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It was Saucer's birthday a couple of weeks ago and for the longest time, I was thinking hard on what to get for him. I wanted it to be something different, something that we seldom do but also something that he would enjoy, of course. I came up with the idea of having a staycation in the city itself! Staying in the suburbs in Sydney about an hour's drive away means that we seldom venture out to the city especially at night. Ever since Jared came along, we have never spent the night in the city to enjoy the vibrance and colourful night life of Sydney. So I went ahead and did my research and managed to get a really good deal on a hotel stay, smack in the city centre. I did this a few months ahead and had to keep it as a secret too! When the day came, I obviously couldn't hide it much longer because Saucer saw me packing a luggage and he was the one driving. LOL!
The hotel that I booked was the Swissotel Sydney, right next to the Westfield shopping centre. It was our first time there and I have to say, I was very impressed! The entrance to the hotel was a bit dodgy because we had to take a lift from the ground floor to the 8th floor where the reception was, but other than that, we were pretty satisfied with the service. We arrived around 11am that day, and normal check-in time was 2pm. However, since we were already there, I thought maybe we could just try our luck to see if there were any rooms available. And sure enough, it was our lucky day! We were given our keys within minutes of checking in!
The room was a decent size but what matters most to Saucer is that the bed must be huge and comfortable. Therefore, one of the criteria during my hotel search was that the hotel must have a King size bed. Needless to say, someone was pretty pleased with the huge and comfy bed that was in our room. Loved that they displayed a customised welcome message on the TV screen too. I didn't know about that or I would have asked them to put Saucer's name there to surprise him. 🙂
According to the website, the Swiss Advantage King rooms were recently refurbished so it looked really new and the toilet was clean and modern too. I also requested for a baby cot (which ended up not being used *stares at Little J*) and it was set up very quickly after we checked in.
Another thing that I found impressive was the room also came with a Nespresso coffee machine with a few coffee pods too. Beats the normal coffee sachets anytime. 🙂
The look of him says it all. 🙂 After settling down in the hotel for a bit, we walked out to the city to look for lunch. It's such a different atmosphere walking in the city compared to the suburbs. Everyone was just bustling around, there were so many restaurants within walking distance and so many things to see. There were buskers outside of Westfield, there were booths giving out free samples of drinks and we even met a giant minion!
We had lunch at a nice Malaysian restaurant called Hawker (which deserves a separate post), and headed back to the hotel for Little J to nap. He had such a long nap on the comfy bed that I had to wake him up so that he didn't continue sleeping through dinner! We still had some time before dinner so we went down to the heated pool for a dip. Little J was a little apprehensive at first but he soon warmed up to the idea of being inside the water, and was enjoying the jacuzzi thoroughly.
Later in the evening, we walked to the beautiful Darling Harbour for dinner. It was a Saturday night and we made the mistake of not making any reservations beforehand (because Saucer couldn't decide what he wanted to eat). By the time we knew what he wanted (steak), most of the good restaurants were already full and the next seating was at 9pm! Obviously we couldn't wait until 9pm for dinner, especially with a toddler around. Luckily, we managed to find another nice restaurant which had a 20 minute wait and great food too (another post on that!).
Walking around Darling Harbour at night relived our experience pre-baby. We saw groups of young people dressed to the nines going to pubs, young girls celebrating someone's hen's night and couples on romantic dates, and it somehow made us grateful that we were enjoying that life but with our precious boy now. I know Saucer had a great time because he said, "Let's do this again next time!" at the end of the night, and I knew then, that I had indeed made the right choice of a surprise vacation. 🙂
The next day,we woke up to a gorgeous spread of buffet breakfast at the hotel. This was another criteria to make the hotel stay perfect for Saucer, because he was always telling me that he missed having breakfast buffets in hotels. In Sydney, most breakfast buffets are charged separately so we had never opted to pay for them since they almost always didn't seem worth the price. However, with the deal that I found, the price for breakfast buffet included wasn't too extravagant, and it meant a lot to me that the birthday boy got what he wanted! 🙂 I didn't manage to capture any pictures but the spread was pretty good with the standard bacon, sausages, baked beans, tomatoes, omelette station, toasts, lots of pastries, fried noodles, rice, congee, smoked salmon, cereal, muesli, fruits, cheese and lots more!
Before we left the city, we spent some time at the popular playground in Darling Harbour, where Saucer had lots of fun with Little J. They went up and down the giant slide multiple times, and also explored other parts of the park. As for me, I was contented with just sitting by the side and observing the bonding that was going on between the father and son, and sneaking a look at the happy hubby who was having the time of his life.
Overall, the staycation was an absolute success and even though many would prefer to have had the night out without any kids, we didn't mind having Little J around at all. Most importantly, the birthday boy had a blast and that was all that mattered. Happy birthday my dear, and let's celebrate for many many more years to come!


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In her early years as a law professor, Elena Kagan wrote almost exclusively on the First Amendment. There are indications in those writings that her views on government regulation of speech were closer to the Supreme Court's more conservative justices, like Antonin Scalia, than to Justice John Paul Stevens, whom she hopes to replace.
Justice Stevens is not a First Amendment absolutist. He wrote the majority opinion in 1978 in Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation, which said the government could ban the broadcast of George Carlin's "seven dirty words" monologue. And he dissented in Texas v. Johnson, a 1989 decision striking down a state law that made it a crime to burn the flag, while Justice Scalia was in the majority. There is good reason to think Ms. Kagan disagreed with Justice Stevens in both cases. "Her articles on free speech showed a strong sense of the importance of civil liberties as a bulwark against ideological orthodoxy — a perspective that will give her ready camaraderie with free speech devotees on the court like Justices Scalia, Kennedy and Thomas," Kathleen Sullivan, a former dean of Stanford Law School, said.
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