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compared to the other flavored rice like lime,tamarind or curd rice but it definitely a great alternative from the usual preparations.
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Serves: 2
Level: Beginners
- ½ cup rice
- 2 teaspoon kasa kasa/poppy seeds
- 1 teaspoon ellu/sesame
- 1 teaspoon ullutham paruppu/broken urad dhal
- 4 red chillies
- 2 teaspoon grated coconut
- 2 teaspoon oil
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Soak rice in water for half an hour. Cook the rice until done~each grain has to be separate. Let it cool
- Dry roast the sesame and poppy seeds for few minutes and make a powder when cool. Keep aside.
- Heat oil in a kadai/pan. Add the ullutham paruppu and when it turns light brown color, add the red chillies and grated coconut. Dry grind in a mixer and
- Add the powders and salt to the rice. and mix well.


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My research centers on the politics of digital media and culture. While my objects of analysis tend toward the popular and contemporary, I situate them within lengthier conceptual, theoretical and cultural histories.
The driving philosophy behind my research is that it should provide a critical examination of the contemporary world. This means that it must place at its center the powerful structures and forces in which social life is embedded: capitalism, gender, race, nation. I am especially interested in the history of these categories, how they have unfolded through a dialectical relationship with the manifold social forces which inevitably arise to contest them, extending to the highly mediated societies of today.
Historical struggles form the terrain of today's digital world, and only an approach alive to power and resistance, can grasp digital culture in all its complexity. My overall research agenda is to construct a critical theory of the digital world and cultural production from the perspective of social antagonism and struggle.
I place my work among critical and interdisciplinary bodies of scholarship: critical media studies, cultural studies, science and technology studies and the digital humanities. I pull from a variety of methodological approaches: textual analysis, political economy of media, digital archival research, and ethnography (online and in meatspace).
I've conducted a few larger projects. For my master's thesis, I conducted a historical and ethnographic investigation into Detroit's ghettotech scene, to explore issues of racial representation, local media ecologies and emerging digital methods of cultural production, distribution and consumption. My doctoral dissertation, due for publication in 2018, is a theorization of media piracy, contextualized within the restructuring of labor and social organization during the neoliberal period. I'm also working on a book for Verso on popular resistance to machines.
Here are some recent and forthcoming academic publications:
2018. Diversity of Tactics: Luddism. Verso (under contract).
2018. Media Piracy in the Cultural Economy: Intellectual Property and Labor Under Neoliberal Restructuring. Routledge (under contract).
2017. "Digital Proudhonism," boundary2 (forthcoming).
2016. "Piracy as Labor Struggle," tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique.
2013. "Culture, Technology and Hyper-Industrial Capitalism" (co-authored with Tai Neilson, Lisa Daily, and David Rheams). Reviews in Cultural Theory 4.1.
2012. "Be the Street: On Radical Ethnography and Cultural Studies." Viewpoint Magazine, Issue 2.
2012. "The Hipster Labor of Conspicuous Leisure," Politics and Culture.
2012. Entries for "Detroit Ghettotech," "Miami Bass," "Baltimore Club." New Grove Dictionary of American Music, Oxford UP.
I also try to keep up with reviewing books, both because I enjoy it (and I love reading well done book reviews) and because it is a useful service to the profession. Here are some academic book reviews I've done:
Sauter, Molly. The Coming Swarm: DDOS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet. Bloomsbury, 2014. boundary 2.
Coleman, Gabriella. Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous. Verso, 2014. boundary 2.
Ball, Jared. I Mix What I Like!: A Mixtape Manifesto. AK Press, 2011. Viewpoint Magazine.
Drott, Eric. Music and the Elusive Revolution: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968-1981. U of California Press, 2011. Journal of Popular Music and Society.
Madrid, Alejandro L. Nor-tec Rifa! Electronic Dance Music From Tijuana to the World. Oxford UP, 2008. Current Musicology.


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A lot has happened in the five months since we first debuted Jack and White, the folksy-pop duo composed of American Idol alum Brooke White and singer-songwriter Jack Mantranga, here on the Music Mix.
They released their debut EP, Gemini, on Aug. 30, shot a retro video for "Double Trouble," toured throughout Southern California, and Brooke recently announced (via video!) that she is pregnant with her first child.
But all that activity hasn't stopped the sunny duo from recording new music. Today, Jack and White are releasing their second EP, Winter, and we've got an exclusive listen to the first track, "Night After Night," an atmospheric "California country"-tinged lament. Check out the tune, which has Jack taking on lead vocals on the verses, below:
Ah, isn't it wonderfully moody? Jack and White's sound (along with their press photos) seems to change organically with the seasons, yet the sound here still meshes with the one developed on Gemini. "Night After Night," along with the whole Winter EP, is available for download now, and it's definitely worth a listen.
What do you think of Jack and White's new song? Will you be picking up their new EP?
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Did you know it's National Insect Week this week?
Television chat show host Jonathan Ross launched the event on Monday at the Natural History Museum and shared this fab photo of himself with a stag beetle!
Not to be outdone – we're marking the occasion in Dudley with a brilliant 'Incredible Insects' bug hunt at The Leasowes Nature Reserve. We're also encouraging visitors to take your own photos with the insects you find. (You don't have to put them on your nose – unless you want to!)
We would love you to share them with us on our Facebook page or via Twitter (make sure you use #mydudleybug and #NIW2014). And, as part of the national bug-loving initiative, there's a photography competition – so send your piccies in for a chance to win a cash prize!
And there's more to come across Dudley borough for lovers of the little things!
Check out these events coming up, celebrating all things creepy-crawlie!
Pond Dipping at The Pavilion – 12th July
Butterfly Walk – 20th July
Minibeasts of Cotwall End – 22nd July
The Big Butterfly Count – 27th July
Bugs and Slugs Family Day at the Museum – 31st July
Bug Hunt – 6th August
Minibeast Madness – 6th August
What's Hiding at the Bottom of the Garden? – 7th August
Moth and Bat Night – 8th August
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|The 'Trophy' at the end of an incredible film trip.
|Richard Leonard in the driving seat filming and directing.
Richard Leonard directed the shoot and also applied his skill as a camera man above and below the water.
Chris Coates organised all the spearfishing and dive gear as well as using his diving ability to film Mohammed in action.
Matt Swart, ITZ's wizard on the editing desk brought some unique filming skills and insights above the water.
Robin 'Gumby' Moulang not only is an excellent water cameraman he brought some epic quadcopter flying skills to get some unique and very interesting camera angles.
|Creating new angles with the flying Quad Cam
Lazarus was an amazing place to shoot, the water is very clean with amazing fish life. The goal was a big Dog Tooth Tuna on film and Lazarus did not disappoint. The team also worked hard to ensure that the footage was above the normal standard seen in spearfishing videos.
|Mohammed and Chris all smiles on Lazarus
Filming spearfishing at this standard also required a huge sacrifice from Mohammed, the production generally comes first and for this you need loads of patience. Especially when having to redo things over and over until the team gets the shot right. You often hear some one shouting, "wait for he cameraman!"
|The ITZ team - Gumby, Chris, Rich and Matt
Trips like this into places like Mozambique need a serious amount of organising and planning. From flights and boat transfers, to filming permits, fishing licenses and a host of admin night mares. This is all before Richard hands you a 28page shoot list and production plan, nothing like a little bit of light reading before the trip :-)
All in all the Lazarus trip with Mohammed was a huge success, with the team getting what has to be some of the best spearfishing footage ever filmed. Now its up to Matt on the editing table and Rich directing to do their magic.
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Slav Sloniowski, Ph.D.
Dr. Slawomir "Slav" Sloniowski is a versatile Grant Writing Specialist who feels equally comfortable writing grant proposals for the development of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, software, and business incubators, even though his primary areas of expertise are small molecule drugs and biologics for neurological, neuropsychiatric, and cancer indications. He graduated from the State University of New York in Buffalo with a B.S. in biochemistry, where he also performed research in ion channel biophysics. He earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of California Riverside, where he studied early brain development in the context of immune system activation. His work as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill was focused on developing viral vector based gene therapies for neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr. Sloniowski's diverse interests fueled by his passion for science and technological innovation allow him to stay current while continuously expanding his already broad knowledge base. When not writing grant proposals, Dr. Sloniowski enjoys tinkering and traveling.
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Pestera Muierilor - the cave was called like that because of the women hidding in it during the many wars we had with the Ottomans and even during the two World Wars. I can't imagine how it was for them to improvise a living in here, as it is very cold and dark. They for sure had no electric light. Well, i hope none of us will have such experiences for the future.
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Pestera Muierilor - open for public
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Pestera Muierilor - as i hope you can see, this is a very well decorated cave. it also has this rock organon you could play if left alone in here for too long. However, try to keep it down, don't be too noisy or you'll wake up the bats that live on the dark corridors.
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Ciucas rocks!
The Ciucas Mountains - These rocks are shaped like that because of the wind that won't stop blowing up there. And also because of some material properties of the stone they're made of. Summer is a great time for going to the mountains as you can enjoy a great variety of flowers. i like the blue one in particular. :)
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Posted on June 01, 1998 in Washington Watch
It is well past the time for the Arab states to take a decisive stand to save the Middle East peace process. The current U.S. mediation effort designed to end the stagnation in the process is itself in danger of stagnating.
Thus far, the Netanyahu government has foiled the U.S. plan. It is, by now, an open secret that the U.S. proposals offered to end that impasse strongly favored the Israeli side. The Palestinians have been asked to accept much less than they had a right to expect under the terms of the Oslo Accords. What they were offered instead was a bitter pill to swallow, but having no leverage, they agreed to swallow it.
Still the Netanyahu government has refused to accept even the modest 13.1% withdrawal proposed by the United States. Not only has Netanyahu rejected the U.S. efforts, he has used the past five months to mobilize powerful allies in the United States against the Administration. The recent appalling performance by Republican congressional leader Newt Gingrich is a case in point.
Gingrich's shocking attacks against First Lady Hillary Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright should not be seen as the mere ravings of a loose cannon or a partisan politician. They are evidence of the degree to which the Likud party and its operatives have succeeded in poisoning the well of political discourse in the U.S. Congress and the American Jewish Community.
Netanyahu and his neo-conservative and fundamentalist allies have preyed on old fears and anti-Arab biases and succeeded in giving new life to old lies. The rhetoric used by political leaders of both parties at the recent AIPAC (the pro-Israel lobby) convention in Washington provides ample evidence of this fact.
Speaker after speaker at the AIPAC event described the Middle East as an arena in which "tiny democratic Israel" was "surrounded by hostile despotic Arab neighbors preaching hatred and destruction of the Jewish state." Praise of Israel was excessive, negative stereotypes used to describe the Arabs were abusive. Once again, the name of Palestinian President Yasir Arafat has been reduced to a dirty word used to smear one's opponents.
When Assistant Secretary of State Martin Indyk (a former AIPAC employee) attempted to introduce some balance to the AIPAC conference discussion by pointing out what efforts the Palestinians have made toward peace and instances of Israel's non-compliance with the Oslo Accords, he was greeted with boos and shouts of disapproval.
It was as if Oslo, the Casablanca and Amman Economic Summits and the Sharm al Sheikh Peacemaker's Summit had never occurred. There was no recognition of what the Arabs have attempted to do to move the peace process forward. And there was no appreciation of the fundamental objectives that launched the current drive toward a comprehensive peace.
The process began as an imperative dictated by U.S. national security interests to fulfill UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 and move the Middle East toward mutual recognition shared prosperity, justice and security. Today, in the wake of the Likud ideological blitz campaign, the process is seen as having only one objective: security for Israel and an end to Arab hatred and threats against Israel!
While U.S. public opinion does not share this myopic Israeli view, unorganized public opinion is not a political force. On the other hand, Congress, the organized Jewish community and the fundamentalist right wing are serious political forces with which the Clinton Administration must contend.
In this context, the Administration has been somewhat stymied. Clearly they have the power and broad public support to impose themselves more vigorously on the Netanyahu government. But it is equally clear that given the strong opposition from partisan Republicans and a radicalized Jewish leadership, they have not found the political will to do so. Each deadline the United States has set has given way to yet another deadline, and now there is even the denial of any deadline at all. The result is the current impasse and the danger of a collapse of the process or an even more fatal drawn out stalemate during which the Palestinians continue to be squeezed.
At this point, only a strong Arab response can make the difference in saving this ailing peace process. Some facts, however, must be established in order to frame the content of such an Arab response.
It is important to recognize that Netanyahu is extremely unpopular within Israel and his policies are not supported by the majority of American Jews, despite the support he receives from their organizational leadership. Polls show that strong majorities in Israel and among U.S. Jews want the peace process to succeed and strong support also exists for a Palestinian state.
Netanyahu understands this and therefore couches all of his political ploys in language and tactics that suggest that he is continuing the search for peace.
Netanyahu has promised Israelis peace with security. Now as a result of his policies, Israelis have neither. But Netanyahu has succeeded in confusing large segments of Israeli public opinion. While there are hard-line ideological and theologically-based zealots in Israel who oppose the peace process, much of the Prime Minister's support comes from substantial numbers of new immigrants and other non-ideological Israelis who, despite having fallen prey to his fear mongering rhetoric, want a lasting peace and believe that the Netanyahu government is making a real effort to achieve it.
These elements believe that the Prime Minister's hard-line tactics are justified and working. They have come to believe that the Arab side is not truly committed to peace and, therefore, the Prime Minister is correct in lowering Arab expectations and limiting Israeli concessions, while, at the same time, maintaining some semblance of continuity in the process itself. From their perspective, Netanyahu may be risking a rupture with the U.S. Administration, but he has won the support of the U.S. Congress. He may have alienated some Arab states, but relations continue with others. He has infuriated the Europeans but he can still do business with others. There may be no direct talks with Arafat, but there are hints of talks and even suggestions of breakthroughs with other Palestinians and if that fails, the possibility of movement on other tracks.
All in all, these mainstream Israeli supporters of Netanyahu feel he has managed fairly well at ducking and dodging U.S. pressure while seeking the best deal for his country.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu has succeeded in buying time, building new settlements, establishing new facts on the ground and making it more and more difficult to return land in a future peace agreement.
The United States, plagued by domestic political pressures, has up until now been unable to significantly alter either Netanyahu's behavior or the internal Israeli debate. The Europeans cannot get a foothold in the process, since the Israelis will not let them in, and the Palestinians, the weakest and most vulnerable party in the conflict, have little leverage against Netanyahu's ploys.
A strong Arab response, however, can end the charade that the peace process has become and dramatically alter the internal Israeli debate.
An Arab summit, not unlike the one convened in 1996 should meet at this extraordinary moment and issue two related resolutions.
The first should be an unequivocal statement of commitment to the vision of a new Middle East. The statement should restate in unambiguous terms the Arab states' support for UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 as the basis for a peaceful negotiated resolution of all aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Arabs should make especially clear their acceptance and recognition of Israel as a neighbor and a partner in the future of the region.
It would be important to provide, within the context of this statement, a balance sheet laying out the potential benefits of peace weighing them out against the negative costs of continued hostility for all parties.
Arabs should paint a picture of the future so attractive and compelling that Israeli and Arab public opinion alike are drawn to it.
At the same time, the summit should issue a parallel statement declaring that while their desire to implement this vision of peace, which includes Israel's existence with security and peace, is sincere and irreversible, movement toward achieving it must be conditional on Israel's acceptance of its internationally recognized obligations toward the Palestinian people and completion of a just and lasting peace on the Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian tracks based on the principles of land for peace and mutual recognition of the right of self-determination.
To back up the conditionality of their offer, the Arabs should take immediate steps to strengthen the resolutions of the June 1996 Cairo summit.
Having put their offer on the table in unambiguous terms, in equally unambiguous terms the Arab summit must take concrete steps to economically and politically isolate the state of Israel until it agrees to the establishment of a just and lasting peace.
If the EU can propose to boycott Israeli goods produced in occupied territory, the Arabs must find the political will to incrementally reestablish economic sanctions of their own.
Only when Israelis, who have tasted the fruits of peace, while their government has blocked its implementation, can see: (1) that the Arab offer of peace is real and complete; and (2) that a price must be paid for the intransigence of the Netanyahu government–will they be motivated to challenge their government's intransigence and demand a change.
This Arab effort to shape the political debate within Israel is critical if the peace process is to move forward. But if this effort is to succeed, both elements of the proposal described above must be implemented. On the one hand the hearts and minds of Israeli opinion must be won, on the other, their pocket books must be effected. At present, their pocketbooks have been fattened, while their fears have been reinforced.
Finally, to be successful, Arabs must engage their allies in the United States and Europe and elsewhere in a multi-pronged campaign to support their initiative. Arab Americans and their pro-peace supporters in the United States must be strengthened and encouraged to engage in the U.S. public debate and international NGO efforts, like that initiated by the Copenhagen group (the International Alliance for Israeli-Arab Peace), must be intensified. While all political contact with the Netanyahu government should be frozen so as to end the charade he has made of the peace process, significant efforts should be made to reach out directly to the Israeli public.
The stakes in this contest are high. The dangers of continued stalemate or collapse of the peace process are all too real: extremism, instability and renewed violence. These will only play into the hands of the Likud and their neo-conservative supporters who actually want to reestablish a Middle East cold war. It is precisely this outcome that the U.S. administration and the vast majority of the Arab states who support peace seek to avoid.
Left alone, the current process, which depends to too great an extent on the United States, will continue to flounder and yield undesirable results. The Netanyahu government's manipulative ploys have succeeded in changing the terms of the process and the Arab-Israeli discourse as well. It is imperative that the Arab states, who, themselves, have the most to gain and the most to lose, take some control of the process and restore to it both vision and integrity.
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Shrinking the VirtualCenter Database
Transaction logs on the VirtualCenter Database can get quite large. This article explains one way to shrink these files.
You might find that the transaction logs on the VirtualCenter Database can get quite large. Backups of a SQL database should purge the system of transaction logs and keep the database in a manageable size. If it does not then review your database backup procedures with your database admin team.
There is another way of shrinking the database and keeping this small. However, this does involve lowering the level of fault-tolerance provided by the transaction logs on a production database. So proceed with caution – the procedure below would certainly be appropriate for a development environment.
You can use SQL Enterprise Admin to backup and shrink these files with:
1. Run SQL Enterprise Manager
2. Right-click on the database
3. Select All Tasks and Backup Database
4. Select Transaction log
Make a path to a disk somewhere and call it whatever you choose. After that is done, it will take awhile.
5. Right-click again choose All Tasks and Shrink Database
6. Click on Shrink Files
7. Change the file name to the log file and shrink it
To stop these transaction logs getting too large you can change the recovery options to Simple using:
1. Run SQL Enterprise Manager
2. Right-click on the database
3. Select Properties
4. Select Options, and set the Recovery to "Simple".
You can force a shrink of the database after a backup through SQL Enterprise Admin Tools – alternatively you might wish to look at Microsoft support document that explains how to automate shrinking the Transaction Log in SQL Server 2000 with DBCC SHRINKFILE.


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Under Pressure Therapeutics observes the following behavior policies:
- There is a 24 hour cancellation policy. Failure to cancel or reschedule an appointment within 24 hours will result in the client being charged for the service.
- Repeatedly not observing the 24 hour cancellation policy may jeopardize the client's future ability to receive services.
- We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.
- Appropriate, professional behavior is required at Under Pressure Therapeutics. Inappropriate behavior results in being required to pay for your full session, immediately leave the premises, termination of any agreements made, and the inability to acquire further services.
Financial policies observed at Under Pressure Therapeutics:
- If you partake in the 2 for New Client Special, the second massage expires after 3 months of original purchase.
- We do not issue refunds on products or services.
- Gift Certificates expire one year after original purchase.
- Packages expire one year after original purchase.
Seeking services at Under Pressure Therapeutics requires you to agree to abide by these policies. Failure to uphold these agreements will jeopardize your ability to acquire further services.


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Most people know I specialize in Wedding photography, but did you know that sometimes, on rare occasions I do portraits too!
This beautiful set of sisters have been coming to me since the first one was just a baby. They have become so close to me that I literally get giddy when I know I'm going to get to photograph them!
Up until now however, I have only photographed them in the winter or fall. This was our first summer session and I must say that I adore these photos of them!
You can see their personalities, right through the photos!
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Study: Living Near Restaurants Makes You Fat
Bad news, women of New York City: a new study found that the more restaurants there are within a five-minute walk of your home, the more likely you are to have a higher body mass index.
The study, by three professors at the University of Buffalo, looked at 172 women living in upstate Erie County. But the findings could readily apply to New York City as well. (The same may be true for men, but the study just looked at women.)
The findings touch on something of an urbanist paradox, since a high number of restaurants within a short distance from home is also seen as a hallmark of the walkable city centers thought to be so much healthier than the sprawling, car-dependent suburbs.


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Enterprise Integration (EI) is an inherently complex undertaking that tends to have a fairly high failure rate. Integration needs are difficult to predict and solve because there are multiple system silos with their own project plans that span several release cycles to manage. Keeping track of these multiple silos makes it difficult to determine and eliminate redundancies and track system interdependencies. With so many cogs in the integration wheel, it's challenging for agency IT leaders to embrace EI. So how can we simplify integration processes to help CIOs leverage the benefits? It all starts with the how of EI.
Category Archives: Modernization
What Integration Trends Should Your Agency Embrace to Ensure Mission Success?
Federal government agencies face all kinds of challenges when leveraging IT to drive mission success. From legacy systems that consume a disproportionate amount of the operating budget to architecture that can no longer adapt to modern requirements, these types of obstacles quickly undermine efficiency, performance, and success. One of the most often cited, yet easiest, way to overcome challenges is integration. By keeping six key integration trends in mind, you can plan to poise your agency for long-term mission success.
Are Legacy Systems Really Hampering Federal Agencies?
One of the most frequent topics of conversation among government IT leaders today is how to manage legacy systems at a time when the pressure to modernize is at an all time high but budgets remain tight. But what exactly is a legacy system, and why are they creating such problems in the federal government?
IT Modernization in the News
Despite the loss of billions of dollars of funding for IT modernization in the 2017 federal budget, agencies are making investments in their futures. Whether driven by a mandate to serve citizens better or to comply with regulations handed down from Congress, CIOs like LaVerne Council and Register of Copyrights, Maria Pallante are determined to bring their agencies and systems into the digital age.
Read on to find out where 18F, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the United States Postal Services (USPS), and the Copyright Office are making strategic investments.
Resources to Help Agency CIOs to Drive Modernization
When President Obama's 2017 budget was released in early February, it was clear that a key focus of the administration's final year was to drive a smarter and more efficient government through IT. Key sections of the budget confirmed what has been evident for some time now: that "[t]he Administration has embarked on a comprehensive effort to fundamentally improve the way that the Government delivers technology services to the public," through means of "recruiting top technologists and entrepreneurs to work within agencies on the highest priority projects, leveraging the best processes to increase oversight and accountability for IT spending, and ramping up Government contracting with innovative companies."
API Management: Real-Time Open Data
Open Data is the concept that data should be available for use and distribution by anyone. In many cases an open data model enables speed and flexibility within the devops community. That speed is then passed along to other organizational areas, allowing government IT to move at the speed required by today's business world. However, choosing to embrace open data and the choice it offers can be perplexing. Incorporating an API Management system to manage, protect and monitor data exchange is the best path for agency IT leaders to embark on in order to alleviate concerns over open data.


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The warmup schedule for the upcoming Dev League season:
Note that Goffmouth Park is not entirely completed, as two major stands are still under construction. As such, the number of spectators will be limited. It will be completed in time for the start of the season.Code:Day Month Home Team vs Away Team Venue Format 19th February CW Blue vs CW Red PDV Dome F-5D CW Colts vs Bangladesh Goffmouth Park F-5D CW Green vs CW Black CWBCC Stadium F-5D 20th February CW Red vs CW Blue CW Oval F-OD CW Colts vs Bangladesh PDV Dome F-OD CW Black vs CW Green Pickford Reserve F-OD 21st February CW Blue vs Bangladesh PDV Dome F-5D CW Green vs CW Red CWBCC Stadium F-5D CW Colts vs CW Black Goffmouth Park F-5D 22nd February CW Black vs CW Blue Pickford Reserve F-OD CW Red vs CW Colts CW Oval F-OD CW Green vs Bangladesh PDV Dome F-OD
Get the full Season X schedule here or quick source it here.


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Marabou Construction Update
From Marabou: In construction news, two of our six owners' cabins, Sundance Cabin and Riffle Cabin, are both vertical with Sundance Cabin having windows, electrical, and plumbing installed. Sheet rock will be hung by the end of the week. The Riverhouse Lodge and River's Edge Fitness Center have all been framed and are vertical. The RiverÂs Edge Fitness Center will have a roof within the week.
Stream restoration has been progressing steadily. The Army Corps of Engineers has recently approved phase one of the river restoration project. The roads have been coming along with over 90 percent of the sub-grade laid. The water main is also being installed at this time with over 75 percent of the water main now complete. The ranch is easily accessible with a four wheel drive vehicle.
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I read, write and think about the world of work and the gig economy quite a bit. I keep hearing prognostications that by 2025 40% of the jobs will be gig types of positions. I wonder though, how true that is. Are American's going to be inclined to give up their full time jobs by the year 2025? Doubtful, but what about by 2050? Will the world of work have changed sufficiently that most companies will have eliminate the full time job as we know it? A lot of things will have to change to do so.
Full time gig employment
Today, even prior to 2025, it is possible for someone to work 40 hours or more per week. It may take two or three part time jobs or many different projects to put that time in. A decent living can be had by someone working that way. What is missing from that situation however, is the benefit plan and retirement plan that often accompany a full time job. Changes will have to occur before this becomes possible. One such change will have to be something like a universal basic income, as I wrote about in Future Friday: Will Universal Basic Income come to be? Additionally, a universal heathcare system will be needed, though as we are seeing currently in the U.S. that is not an easy hurdle to get over. I discussed some of those issues in Future Friday: Is the future of work really part-time jobs?
Denis Pennel who is managing director of the World Employment Confederation-Europe, also sees the world of work as changing. He says "We cannot solve 21st century issues with solutions invented a century ago! …In my view one of the first things that we need to do is to stop holding up full-time, permanent contracts as the standard ideal and classifying anything else as inferior."
What would have to change?
What would have to change in order for such a world without full time work to occur? First we would most likely see companies reducing their workforces due to robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). Despite what the Trump Administration says, that is likely to occur within the next 50 years. We will need to see a change in the laws surrounding wages, overtime, and portability of benefits and retirement. There will have to be a huge change in societal attitudes toward work. People will not identify themselves as employees of a particular company. Many people may have an identity crisis.
Everyone will have to become more of a sales person in order to find continual work. Some people may have to decide that they don't want to work fulltime. People will have to adapt to being in a constant training mode and that will have to be driven by them and by business and government.
Will that happen?
Do you see this kind of change occurring? What do you think we need to do? Please leave a comment below.
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TX. Presentation. Playout. Whatever you call it, they're the people responsible for taking the programmes, promos, adverts and continuity, packaging it all up, and making sure you have something to watch on your television… with the absolute bare minimum of breakdown captions. Yet oddly enough, despite the interest in the subject on many forums, there's really very little writing online about what it's actually like to work in transmission.
Last year, I left Channel 5 TX, having been there for a year and a half – and I thought people might be interested in a few details. What the bloody hell do we actually do all day, apart from sit and watch telly? Here's your answer.
A few points first, however. Don't expect any dirt to be dished – much as I'm sure it'd be entertaining to hear me whinge on, it's not gonna happen. Also, there are certain confidential things which I'd love to be able to talk about, but can't because… well, they're confidential. Sorry about that. I can guarantee, however, that none of that affects what I have to say too much. Whilst some of the stuff I've had to leave out is really interesting, I think the below still represents the job pretty damn well.
Finally, and I can't stress this enough: the below is just my perspective on the job. In no way whatsoever does it represent the views of Channel 5, or any of its partner companies.
Right, let's get started, shall we?
08:00 The day TX controller arrives, bang in the middle of the Milkshake! children's block. Handover time – one of the most important parts of the day. Any problems spotted overnight are handed over to you, both verbally and in writing – any missing material for the day, and any technical issues from the previous night. A good handover is the difference between a smooth day, and frantic fire-extinguishing as you're constantly taken by surprise.
As you take the chair, you glance across the huge bank of monitors and make sure everything looks sensible and is in its right place. Same with your schedule for the day – it's all been checked the previous night, but it's always sensible to check the next hour yourself straight away to make sure you're not in immediate danger of falling off air. The key to good TX is noticing problems before they happen.
In front of you on your main computer screen is your playlist. A channel playlist is in many ways very similar to a music playlist you might create at home – more complicated, but the same basic idea. At its simplest, it gives you a list of each event (a trail, an ident, a programme, an advert), the time it broadcasts, and its source (either from server, or an outside line for live shows). This will in general run by itself – you're not putting each event to air manually, it'll automatically cue up and run. Which isn't to say the schedule doesn't need any manual intervention… but we'll come to that.
All programmes and trails for Channel 5 are now played off server – nothing runs off tape. (Technically it could be in an emergency, but I never had to do it.) Needless to say, there's a main and a backup server running everything in parallel – so if anything goes wrong with the main server on air, you can flip to the backup with a press of a button.
On the desk is the paper schedule, usually printed out on A3. This is your bible. Any schedule changes or important notes are scrawled across it. (Or, at least, should be.) If you had to evacuate the building at any time, it's vital you know what's going on in your schedule… and how long the channel can continue to run without manual intervention.
During the week, most Milkshake! in-vision links are completely live. The links studio used to be right next to TX, but had moved off-site by the time I arrived. (Hence some of the old TX lags moaning they didn't get the presenters making cups of tea for them any more.) The studio can see a copy of the playlist, so they can count themselves on and off. Occasionally, the TX controller may be needed to intervene – to add or remove a trail, or change the duration of a live link. If you need to talk to any live studio, or they need to talk to TX, you don't have to rely on the phone – you have a talkback system. A row of buttons for each studio and a microphone = instant communication.
08:20 The PA for The Wright Stuff rings up, and you go through details. What time they're on air, what time they're off air, how many commercial breaks, their duration, etc. You also do a clock check to make sure you're both in sync, and agree to check talkback is working once it's available.
08:30 MCR line up with The Wright Stuff – checking picture and sound are OK – and then hand over the lines to TX. (MCR are the department in charge of all lines into and out of the building.) You then put the correct source into the schedule so the right line will be cut to air, and put the source of the studio feed up on your preview monitor – just to double-check yourself that things look sensible. At this point the programme is busy setting various things up – you pick a sensible time to buzz through via talkback, just to check communications are working.
09:13 Milkshake! do their last link. A quick goodbye to them over talkback to confirm they are clear, and then you give a minute's standby for Wright Stuff: "One minute, Wright Stuff." "Thank you, Channel 5." They go on air bang on 09:15:00… and are live for two hours.
Doing a live show is, for my money, the best part of the job. Once the show is on air, you sit back and give it your full attention. Your main duty is ad breaks: whilst the live show comes from the studio, all commercials and promos are played out by TX. The PA will give you a minute's standby to the break, and then give a countdown into the break (on The Wright Stuff, usually a 15-0). To go to the break is almost a cliche: you press a chunky red button, "Take Next", which moves to the next item in the playlist – in this case, the ads.1 Once you've scanned your eyes across the monitor wall to make sure the correct ads are playing out, you let The Wright Stuff know what time they are back on air, and then give a minute's warning. (It's worth noting that different TX suites wildly differ in terms of the counts required for live programmes.)
For safety, each live show has a main line and a backup. If there are problems with the main line – picture glitches, or a complete loss of signal – you need to cut to the backup… within a few seconds. Or preferably sooner. If both lines disappear, it's into full breakdown – "Sorry for the interruption to programming" slide and all. This is extraordinarily rare on Channel 5 these days – in fact, it never happened to me in the whole year and a half I was there.
11:10 The Wright Stuff ends for the day. A quick thanks over talkback, and they're gone – off to record their promo for tomorrow's show, which TX will play out later. Around this time ITN ring, and you go through their news bulletin times and durations for the day. You can only give them provisional times for anything after 6pm, as the evening schedule is redelivered late afternoon.
At this point, you get to chasing any missing promos, adverts or programmes for the rest of the day – if it's not in the building at this point, you need to know exactly when it will be. This also goes for things like missing subtitles and audio description – two of the more hidden aspects of TX that most would rarely think about. Subtitles especially can be delivered quite close to transmission – it's not uncommon for them to be sent less than an hour in advance. (Which can admittedly be frustrating when you're dealing with a 50 year old film.)
If you're very lucky, everything is already in and this is the quiet part of the day when there's not much to do. But don't get cocky. In practice, there's always something. You might think everything's clear for the day, sit back and relax… and suddenly, the email pings, the phone goes, and there's Things To Do. An advert might be pulled and needs replacing; the afternoon film might clash with something in the news, and so needs changing. Of course, there are plenty of people behind-the-scenes chasing and getting this material to you… but in the end, you're the one in front of those screens. If things aren't arriving, it's your job to scream blue murder until things do arrive. You are the last line of defence from having black to air.
12:10 ITN's lunchtime bulletin; counted on air in exactly the same way as The Wright Stuff. Incidentally, with the odd rare exception, live programmes automatically come off air at a set time on Channel 5, so the schedule keeps exactly to time and there are no risks of commercials pushing into the wrong clock hour. (More of that later.)
12:15 Unlike ITV for example, most daytime programmes on Channel 5 are pre-recorded, and run off server. There is one major exception, though – when Big Brother is running, there is an edited daytime repeat. There's no time to get this delivered to TX as per a normal programme, so it's done as a live play-in. From TX's point of view, this is exactly like a live show – you talk to the PA, go through all the timings, and it comes into you as an outside source just like a live show. The only difference is that the production is playing it down to you from VTR or server, rather than it being a proper live show – and so, of course, you already know the durations of each part.
15:00 That evening's continuity announcer arrives, pops in to say hello, and then retires to the booth to start preparing their script. Channel 5 has live continuity between 5pm and midnight, and recorded continuity during the day – recorded the previous night by the duty announcer.
16:00:. The evening schedules are delivered. And things get busy.
Why are the schedules redelivered in the evening, I hear you say? Simple: the ads for that evening are being sold by the Channel 5 sales team throughout the day. So when you reappend the schedules from 6pm, they include all those freshly-sold ad breaks. Of course, this means you're also waiting for all the new ads to be delivered and filter through to the playout servers – causing the odd stressful moment. (And frantic phone call if the ads are tardy in arriving.)
But surely just reappending a schedule isn't that hard work? Bear in mind that you also have to check through the whole schedule to make sure it all makes sense; occasionally there will be things missing, or things which are mistimed. You have to check all the breaks present and in the right clock hour (again, more on that later). Then you have to prep various parts of the schedule. Not forgetting you also get a graphics schedule sent which also needs loading. And if things are wrong you need to request a new schedule. Then you need to chase up any missing adverts, and find out when they're due to arrive. And when you're done with all that, the schedules for tomorrow daytime arrive, and you need to go through it all again. And in the middle of all this is the live trail for the 5pm news, which needs counting on. And that's not forgetting that the late-delivery entertainment filler programmes for that evening are delivered at this point and need to be prepared…
On a straightforward day, you're just busy. On a day with problems… well, you earn your money, put it like that. Very occasionally, when you're sent the evening's schedule and it doesn't even load, and time is ticking away… you have to remind yourself that crying isn't really an option. It sounds stupid, but one of the most tricky things during this period of the day sometimes is making sure you're actually loading the right version of the schedule. If it's been resent three times with amendments, woe betide you if you get confused and load the wrong one.
One of the most "fun" things that can happen at this point is that you can be happy that at least all your programmes for the evening are in… and then the new schedule arrives, and suddenly one is missing. Often because it's had to have a last-minute re-edit for compliance purposes. An hour-long hole suddenly appearing in your schedule without warning isn't especially pleasant. But part of the job. Man up, fool.
16:45 The continuity announcer checks their levels with MCR, and then buzzes through to TX via talkback and checks their faders are working. (The announcer controls their mic and dips the sound themselves.) You then route them into circuit ready for…
17:00 Channel 5 News – and the first live continuity announcement of the day. It was always one of my favourite parts of the shift – sitting there in front of a film in the afternoon is all well and good, but at 17:00 the channel wakes up. You can't beat having a live continuity announcement and then crossing to ITN for the latest headlines. It can't fail to be exciting. Live continuity, for me, makes a channel feel alive.
Different TX suites will require different counts by TX for the announcers. On Channel 5, all the announcers need from you is a shout of "Ident next" when on the trail prior to the announcement. End credit squeezes would require a bit more: you give them a minute warning before the squeeze, and then give them a 10-0 count on air. On different channels, announcers can require more counts – a full count to zero through the ident itself, for instance.
20:00 The night Channel 5 TX op arrives… just in time for primetime.
Primetime on Channel 5 can be many different things. An easy night consists of mainly pre-recorded programmes, playing from server. A hard night would be, say, a Big Brother eviction night. With those you can have five live programmes back-to-back: a live news bulletin, Big Brother, Big Brother's Bit on the Side, Live from the House, and then SuperCasino. Dealing with live programmes gets exponentially more difficult when you're talking to more than one production at once.
With live events on a commercial channel, one thing is always at the back – or front – of your mind: break restrictions. The Ofcom rules when it comes to ad breaks are very complex – you can read the whole thing here – but the most important rule, boiled down and over-simplified, is: "No more than 12 minutes of ads per hour".
Which sounds easy enough. The difficulty comes when you're in a live show, near the top of the hour. The first two breaks have been taken, but you have to get the third break out of the way before it gets to, say, 11pm. The break is three and a half minutes long, which means they have to go to the break by 10:56:30pm. Otherwise, the next hour will have more than 12 minutes of adverts in.
What is truly head-spinning is when ad breaks are allowed to tip past the top of the hour – but only part-way. If the next hour has, say, 10 minutes and 30 seconds of ads, then your three and a half minute ad break can tip into the next hour… but only by 90 seconds. If this situation occurs, you'd better have done your calculations beforehand. This is why it is vital to have clear communication with the production. If they take their ad break too early or too late, you run the serious risk of overloading an hour with commercials and breaking the 12 minute rule. And ultimately, the production team isn't in charge of ad breaks tipping. It's the TX op's responsibility.
This is one of the invisible parts of TX which nobody at home thinks or cares about… but which has serious consequences if you get it wrong – for the channel, and for the TX op sitting in the chair. Such mistakes are extraordinarily rare on Channel 5 – but scroll back through the Ofcom Broadcast Bulletins, and you can see how many channels screw this up on a regular basis.
Some of the most stressful – but ultimately rewarding – nights I had in Channel 5 TX were with the live boxing. With most ad breaks, you usually had three and a half minutes to sort yourself out once you went to a break. With boxing, you took 30 second ad breaks between rounds – you've barely had a time to orientate yourself before you're back. Taking into account the fact the production played bumpers into the ad, and the automation took two seconds to cue up and take the break once you hit the button, to get everything looking smooth took some neat timing… and a little bit of instinct. If the match had finished early, I also would have had to combine the remaining 30 second breaks into one longer break – not difficult in itself, but when you have to do things fast in a high-pressure situation, the simplest things take on a whole new dimension. Rarely have two hours flown past as fast as when I was sitting in the chair during the boxing.
22:00 Around this point – sometimes earlier or later, depending on who the announcer is and how busy they are – the announcements for the next day are recorded. The TX op listens to each, compares it against the schedule, and checks it for accuracy – all before the announcer leaves at midnight. No point in finding out a problem once the announcer has gone home and can't re-record. This isn't just a formality, either: it's very easy for an announcer to accidentally miss off a flashing images warning, or work to an old version of a schedule and point to the wrong programme, or simply misspeak a programme title. Mistakes can creep in anywhere.
A good example of how the simplest things can easily go wrong in TX: there have been occasions where the announcements have all been recorded by the announcer, but they steadfastly refuse to transfer correctly so the playout system can access them. You then have to call the engineer and get them to investigate… and it's difficult to clear the announcer so they can actually go home if you have no guarantee tomorrow's announcements are salvageable. You really don't want to get to 4am and have the engineers say you haven't actually got any announcements for the whole day. Sometimes, the simplest things can cause the most trouble.
01:00 SuperCasino is on air. Hooray, live gambling all night. If for whatever reason SuperCasino can't make it to air, or have to come off air early – rare, but it occasionally happened – there is standby material ready to air in its place. This involves a bit of tricksy messing around with schedules. Easier said than done at 1am.
Anyone who thinks that TX ops must sit around all night DOSSING are sadly mistaken: there's tomorrow's schedule to check and prepare. This can take a very long time: each programme part needs to be checked to make sure the in and out points make sense; the graphics for the next day's credit squeezes and in-programme-pointers needs to be checked for factual accuracy and spelling; all the offsets for the graphics and voiceovers need to be checked to make sure a squeeze doesn't come in in the middle of a programme… and much more besides. Any issues are emailed off to the channel to get corrected.
Anyone who thinks that VT clocks are an anachronism these days, with server-based playout? Nope – they're still incredibly important, as the clocks contain the programme number which we cross-reference against the schedule. If the two don't match, there's a chance that the wrong material entirely is on server. It's happened – and the buck stops with TX to make sure it's caught. And you only have to consider what might happen if a post-watershed edit of a programme goes out pre-watershed to realise how important checking the VT clocks is.
The glamorous side of TX is sitting there doing things Big Brother eviction shows – and it is glamorous. Anyone who isn't excited by doing that is in the wrong job. But those overnight checks are some of the most important work a TX op does. Your job – especially in a single channel environment – is to stop errors getting to air. Material comes from many different departments and many different people… but you are the final person who pieces everything together, and will view everything before the material transmits. Whiling away the hours at 4am doing schedule checks is some of the most worthwhile work I will ever do. Pick up a spelling mistake in a graphic? You've just stopped the channel looking stupid. Pick up an advertising minutage issue? You've just stopped a needless Ofcom breach.
06:00 The broadcast day starts. Another of my favourite parts of the shift – the Milkshake! sting kicks off bang on 6am. (Their opening jingle is irrevocably burnt into my brain now.) When the Milkshake! live links team show up, you do the usual checks – check our clocks are correct, when their first and last links are, and do a clap test – where the presenter claps to make sure sound and vision are in sync. Once they're all up and running, it's time for all your final checks: make sure your handover is as comprehensive as possible for day shift, and that you've chased up absolutely everything that can be chased internally at that time of the morning.
08:00 The day TX op arrives… and this is where we came in.
And that's your lot. Every channel and TX suite has its own way of doing things, so there are plenty of things done at Channel 5 which aren't done elsewhere – and, conversely, things we didn't do which other TX suites do constantly. But the above serves as a general overview of what it's like to work in TX, the kind of things we have to do, and the kind of skills you need. I like to view the job as very much a "last defence" kind of role – and that's one of the most satisfying jobs in television you can have. A day where you've stopped some stupidity going out on air which would make the channel look bloody ridiculous is a job well done. (Conversely, a day when you've done something stupid yourself and made the channel look bloody ridiculous is a day when you want to curl up into a ball and die.)
The motto of being in TX is: be prepared for anything. I was once in a cricket highlights play-in… and the very next programme hadn't arrived in TX. Things can quickly get very sticky indeed – communicating with Channel 5, arranging which standby programme to put in instead, checking to make sure you aren't tipping an ad break into the wrong hour, making sure the announcer knows what's going on so they introduce the right thing – all whilst making sure the cricket stays on air. An eye for detail in this kind of situation is essential. For instance: we had squeezes and voiceovers planned pointing to the programme which hadn't been delivered in time; it would be very easy to forget about those, and accidentally have the announcer promote a programme which wasn't going to make it to air at that time. From the TX op's point of view, you could have busted a gut making sure that you didn't fall off air and the replacement programme was OK… only for the viewer at home to roll their eyes because from their point of view, you'd been advertising it an hour ago. The tiniest thing can make it look like a channel doesn't know what the hell they're doing. (Luckily, we did spot it in time and dropped all voiceovers and squeezes pointing to it.)
At times, it can feel like the whole world is caving in, and you're the only person who can save it. But when a hugely difficult situation has been resolved with the viewer not having a clue about the frantic splashing around, and all looked great on air… it can feel like the best job in the world. Who needs extreme sports, when you can just fight to get a programme about extreme sports on air instead?
If you have any questions you'd like to ask me about the above, feel free to ask in the comments below or on Twitter. I'll try my best to answer to the best of my ability – without giving away anything confidential or commercially sensitive. It's a world which really isn't talked about very much, and perhaps doesn't get as much respect as it deserves. Within certain parameters, I'd like to change that a little bit.
With thanks to Tanya Jones, Seb Patrick, Dan Thornton, and Danny Stephenson for their help with this article.
Ads for Channel 5 were regional when I was in TX: there were actually five different regional variants of Channel 5, all with different ads. London, South England/Wales, North England, Scotland, and Ulster. (However, there was only one HD service, which used the South England/Wales ads.) This meant five different server outputs for adverts, and five different channel outputs. Sadly, as of August 2015, the different ad regions of Channel 5 have ceased, and there is now only one feed. ↩


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Premier Yu Shyi-kun yesterday appointed Kong Jaw-sheng (
"Professionalism, personal integrity, a global vision and little [political] burden is what qualifies Kong for the new post," the premier told reporters at a press conference called to announce Kong's appointment.
The administration hopes to take advantage of Kong's more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry and foreign investment community in getting the new regulatory body up and running, Yu said.
The new supervisory board will merge the Ministry of Finance's Bureau of Monetary Affairs, the Department of Insurance, the Securities and Futures Commission and the central bank's Bank Examination Department.
The new Cabinet-level agency will have 900 employees and act as an umbrella organization to centralize and oversee the nation's banking sector.
Kong, a 49-year-old banker specializing in financial planning and consulting, began to develop close ties with and to stump for presidential candidate Chen Shui-bian (
In early 2001, Kong helped the government organize investment forums in Europe and Hong Kong, in which then-minister of finance Yen Ching-chang (
Kong's close relationship with the Chen administration, however, upset Beijing, which barred the Zurich-based Credit Suisse Group AG from participating in deals in China in 2001 and cost Kong his coveted job in April 2002.
Before the announcement of Kong's appointment, it was reported that some potential candidates -- such as Huang Yung-jen (黃永仁), chairman of E. Sun Financial Holding Co (玉山金控), and Ko Chen-en (柯承恩), dean of the management college at National Taiwan University -- had rejected the job.
At yesterday's press conference, Kong appeared to be very confident about his new post.
"My experience in the financial industry and global perspective is the main reason for my appointment,'' Kong said.
He added that "the new regulatory body is critical to the development of Taiwan's financial industry and corporate governance."
Pundits gave a thumbs-up to Kong's appointment.
"It takes more than political ties to do the job well," said Yang Tze-kiang (
"It takes courage, ambition and professionalism, in which Kong is over-qualified," Yang said.
The former minister praised Kong as an ideal and liberal-minded banker with market-oriented international vision and down-to-the-earth insight into the liberalization of the domestic capital market.
Yang added that when he had been vice finance minister, Kong had been one of his private advisers and had been behind many of his financial policies -- including the nurturing of domestic investment banking and venture-capitalist businesses as well as the adoption of a regulatory approach to open up the financial market.
As an old friend, Yang said that he benefited from Kong's insights when the two men used to sit next to each other during board meetings for the Taiwan Stock Exchange Corp.
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welcome to hhome.co.uk - the online presence for phil 'phrenzy' hudson and his associated stuff.
hhome.co.uk started life as a college intranet web site way back in 1997 (known back then as hellfire@home), which featured
various humourous anecdotes and spoof guides. while most of the original humour pages still take up a substantial chunk of the
site, more pages are available to show my other interests
other additions to the site include a portfolio of web sites i've designed, various graphic work (mostly humourous), my
online auction career information, and a links page of web sites i frequently visit. to find out more about the other sub-sections,
please click on the links on the left.
i hope you enjoy the site, and find something useful and/or entertaining. thanks for looking and catch you later!
Phil Phrenzy :-)


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Aim of this RFCS project was to go a step forward and improve the current situation regarding chatter problems.
It has been achieved by developing a global adaptive model for prediction, characterisation and control of vibrations in hot strip mills that should work efficiently in all chatter situations.
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The history of Laelia's kneesWednesday, May 23rd, 2012
The history of Laelia's knees.
Once upon a time Laelia had bent knees. (Bent = flexion.)
We tried serial casting, daily stretches and finally KAFOs (knee ankle foot orthotics) to try and straighten them out.
When we got down to 45 degrees flexion she was able to stand with KAFOs!
Even as we stretched her nightly and the KAFOs pushed her legs straight, those stubborn knees were still stuck in 40 degree flexion.
Then Dr. van Bosse did Laelia's knee surgery to make her knees straighter. (Straight = extension.)
The surgical releases allowed her to gain about 15 degrees of extension overnight!
Still I was a little disappointed that her stubborn knees were still a bit bent.
But with the eight plates inserted we watched her very slowly gain a few degrees of extension every month. This picture is just two months after surgery!
Then last night at dinner I watched Laelia push her knee down to 0 degrees.
That's perfectly straight.
Now I don't have a goniometer, but that looks like 0 degrees to me!
When she let go it was still within 5 degrees of perfectly straight!
They still bend a little when standing, but we are very happy that in three months we've gained almost ten additional degrees of extension with the eight plates! That's amazing!!!
Praise God!
Thank you Doctor van Bosse!!!
I love it!
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Busy summer for Hibs
The victory for Hibs in the Edinburgh derby on Sunday was only their second SPL win of the calendar year.
It's been an alarming slump for the side managed by Pat Fenlon considering they were top of the table in early November.
The Hibs fans will hope Sunday's win with a youthful looking side will be the catalyst for a potential shock Scottish Cup success over Celtic at the end of the month. Beating Hearts hasn't been as regular as the Easter Road side would have liked over recent years.
It was just their first league win against their city rivals in 14 attempts which for a club of Hibs' stature frankly is not good enough.
A third successive season in the bottom six is not where Hibs should be so I suspect another summer of upheaval and new arrivals.
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Welcome to John & Dawn Field
Welcome to John and Dawn Field's contemporary jewellery website. The nine ranges of jewellery that you can view, have been designed and handmade by us, in our workshop up in the hills of Yorkshire.
We have been busy making jewellery together since graduating and our work is exhibited through numerous Art galleries and Craft centres throughout the country.
As well as our unique approach to design, we use a variety of quality materials, such as exotic hardwoods, precious and semi-precious metals and gemstones.


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WHY have we never properly honoured the man who invented the Spitfire?
RJ Mitchell, the designer of the Spitfire and S6B Scheider Trophy winner, has never been nationally acknowledged as one of our greatest design and engineering geniuses. Spitfires built in Southampton and Eastleigh played a major part in winning the Battle of Britain in 1940 and flew throughout the Second World War.
There is a new petition to government to request that the image on the new £50 banknote should be that of RJ Mitchell at https://chn.ge/2ziPrAN
What better way to recognise his contribution to the freedoms we enjoy today than to support this petition, in this year of the 100th anniversary of the RAF?
Dr Henry Goodall
Chair of trustees, Friends of the New Forest Airfields.


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When people think of Anaheim, California, the first thought that cross their mind is probably a trip to Disneyland. Disneyland is a great family destination. While families can make great memories at Disneyland, Anaheim is also home to many other exciting things to do. We've compiled a list of the best alternatives to Disneyland while visiting Anaheim, California.
1. Anaheim Stadium
If you enjoy Major League Baseball, you need to check out Anaheim Stadium. Just a short drive east of Disneyland, Anaheim Stadium is the home of the Anaheim Angels. Find out more at: http://losangeles.angels.mlb.com/ana/ballpark/
2. Knott's Berry Farm
Often overlooked, Knott's Berry Farm offers a more relaxed alternative to Disneyland and is just a few miles west, located in Buena Park. For more info, go to: https://www.knotts.com/
3. Medieval Times
Enjoy a trip into the past as you experience battles between knights and are treated like royalty while enjoying a sumptuous feast at Medievel Times in nearby Buena Park. Just a few minutes from Disneyland, find out more at: http://www.medievaltimes.com/plan-your-trip/buena-park-ca/index.html
4. Dodger Stadium
Just a few minutes up the highway from Disneyland, Dodger Stadium has been the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers since 1957 and has seen several exciting decades of sports activity. Find out more at: http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/la/ballpark/
5. Universal Studios Hollywood
Experience the thrill of some of your favorite movie adventures and learn how some of your favorite scenes were made. The Special Effects show is a must see. For more details, go to: http://www.universalstudioshollywood.com/
6. La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
Explore the prehistoric world when you visit the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles. Visit the exhibits and learn more about life in prehistoric times. Go to: http://www.tarpits.org/
7. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
While visiting Universal Studios Hollywood, make sure to explore the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. This is a world all to itself and is a must for Harry Potter fans. Go to: http://www.universalstudioshollywood.com/harrypotter/
8. Aquarium of the Pacific
Learn all about the marine life of Southern California when you visit the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, just a short drive west of Disneyland. For more details, go to: http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/
9. Legoland California
For all who are into Lego's, this is an exciting adventure park to explore. Just a short drive south of Anaheim, Legoland includes lots of shows and activities. For more details, go to: https://www.legoland.com/california/
10. Madame Tussaud's Interactive Wax Museum
Located in Hollywood, just minutes from Anaheim, Madame Tussaud's Interactive Wax Museum includes many realistic images of celebrities and sports stars as well as political and historic figures. Learn how movies are made and take pictures posing with some of your favorite people. For more details about the Wax Museum, go to: https://www.madametussauds.com/hollywood/en/
This post was contributed by Lunamar Vacation Homes, offering vacation rentals in Anaheim, CA near Disneyland and other great attractions in Anaheim.


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Enzymes IVD
Nipro's R&D department has been developing enzymes and IVD assays mainly for the local, Japanese market. In march 2015 Nipro acquired the commercial organization and manufacturing operations of Unitika, a global leader in thermostable enzymes.
The combination of the portfolio and skillset of these two organizations triggered the global expansion of the Enzymes and IVD business unit.
Nipro Enzymes and IVD offer catalogue products as well as co-development opportunities. Please do not hesitate to challenge us.


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Should I specialize in Check Point Firewall-1 security?
I am currently a AIX/Check Point Firewall-1 consultant and am unsure whether to specialize in one or the other. I have advanced skills in both and am wondering if I should move to security full time and specialize further. Can you give me any useful advice?
As somebody's whose job it is to answer questions, I'm never short on advice, but you'll have to be the one to decide if it's useful or not! Although you indicate in your e-mail that you're involved with both AIX and Check Point stuff, your entire self-description concentrates on security or related topics. Thus, my reading of your inquiry is that you've already specialized in security matters -- at least, insofar as what you've shared with me. I think that recent industry trends and data validate security as a viable and still-growing field. I would recommend that you look into Check Point's various certifications (described online here) and perhaps think further ahead to something like the ISC2 CISSP (also described online here).
Other than that, assuming you're happy following that direction and want to stay in your current position, you'll simply have to decide how to transition from what I'm guessing must be a mix of system admin and security work to something more focused on security. If that means changing jobs, you may want to pursue and obtain some certifications first, unless you're prepared to present yourself and your extant security experience and knowledge in the most positive light possible.
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Applying the five choices to some common major time wasters that we all have. Meetings. Interruptions. Travel. The two ways to apply the learning from this course are: Either pick your biggest time waster, or pick one of the options and think about where you can use it. Finally, Chris explains the importance of using the five options in the right order.
- So, those are the five options.…The only five options that you have…if you want to get more done.…Saying no,…negotiating,…delegating,…more efficient systems,…and doing some things less well.…These are the only options,…and they apply to every time waster.…For example,…if you think about meetings.…You can say no to going to the meeting.…You can negotiate to just go…to the first part of the meeting.…You can delegate,…and send someone else to the meeting.…
You can run the meeting more efficiently,…or doing it less well,…you can have a Skype or phone call instead of the meeting.…Or if you take interruptions,…you can say no to the interruptions.…Perhaps put up a Do Not Disturb notice,…or hide in a meeting room somewhere to do your work.…You can negotiate over how long the interruption takes,…or when you meet with the person.…You can delegate.…This would mean putting up a sign saying,…"Anyone who needs me this morning,…"please see Louise."…You probably should check that…with Louise before you do it.…
You could have a better system.…
The first—saying no—is simple in theory, but hard in practice. Chris explains how to reclaim the power of "no" to make room for true priority items. The second step, negotiation, allows you to spend less time on unimportant tasks. The third way is to delegate sometimes, and the fourth is improving systems and processes so that repetitive tasks are quickly and easily managed. Last but not least, Chris explains how to overcome perfectionism and nitpicking. He explains how to apply the five methods to all time-stealers, including meetings, interruptions, and more.
In the initial chapters, he'll help you clarify your life and work goals, prioritize to-dos using Eisenhower's matrix of tasks, and answers questions like "Does working longer hours actually get more done?" The worksheets included with the exercise files will help you apply the lessons to your own work and life, and hone your time management skills—one step at a time.
- Discover why you need to make the most of every day.
- Assess how to separate important from urgent items.
- Define Eisenhower's matrix of tasks.
- Determine how to find more time for important things.
- Discover how to say no.
- Prepare to negotiate tasks.
- Develop your delegation skills to save time.
- Improve your systems.


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Spring as is the season of course not metal spirals or leaping. With the blossom out and Mother Nature sprouting after the hard Winter it is looking really beautiful and lush along the canal near where i work so i thought i would take the office digital SLR out at lunchtime and take some photos. As its a much better camera than my own the photos look pretty good too.
Flickr set is here. Meanwhile you can amazingly see Cliff Richard drive a speed boat down the Tame Valley Canal in this movie clip!


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Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow by choosing the most appropriate alternative from those given below : (3 Marks)
i picked it up and set it carefully farther along on the floor of the car, where the raindrops would not fall upon it. And then suddenly, i smiled, and seemed to see that life has no geographical bounds.
(a) Who is the speaker ?
(i) the author
(ii) John A. Pescud
(iii) Colonel Allyn
(iv) Trevelyan
(b) it stands for
(i) plate-glass.
(ii) his bag, one of the best-sellers.
(iii) The Rose Lady and Trevelyan.
(iv) (ii) and (iii)
(c) Explain: ...life has no geographical hounds.
(i) There are no boundaries in life.
(ii) The man is same everywhere.
(iii) All human beings, being same, have same emotions and feelings.
(iv) (i) and (iii)