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Carrot Clicks: Our Week in Dinos, Pranks & Arrested Developmentby Gabrielle
Happy Jurassic Park 3D Day! (We're celebrating with pinball and popcorn.) This week, the first pitch was thrown by NY's most important teams: the Carrot Pirates and the Yankees (#nobias). Other highlights include surviving the most confusing day on the internet (April 1st) and surviving/inflicting Force Choking.
We didn't just add to the internet though, we also clicked on it:
- Facebook decided to advertise (in case you hadn't heard of them), highlighting their new "home" - a software vs hardware game-changer, complete with a new dictionary of words to learn. They also hinted at their entrance into the online dating world, if you can call it that.
- It was confirmed that Brooklynites have more fun: By moving from the land of Bruce to BK, the Nets gained 700K Facebook fans. (This seal has just as much swag.)
- We learned a little more about Manhattan from custom maps and bartenders.
- We found design inspiration from: Louise Fili, Ryan Cabrera), and a 21st Century version of MadMen.
- Sandwiches came up twice: in Tom Selleck form and Megan Do photography form.
- We were reminded that cellphones are 40 years old and used to be as big as a foot.
- Prince got mad about Vine, and the world got happy about Jimmy Fallon (sorry Leno).
- Vdio, sister of Rdio, launched in the US (causing a lot of commotion here) and Netflix backed the otherwise dead Arrested Development.
We'll just end on an appropriate #JP3D line: "I am not a computer nerd. I prefer to be called a hacker!"

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Pacific are probably happy to see the back of August. Earlier in the month, they lost their last 2 league matches, following the regaining of the McDougal-Lindridge trophy on 31st July, thereafter, defeat followed against Fulmer, 3 further games were drawn (1 rain affected) & 2 cancellations.
Yesterday's defeat to 9 man New Barbarian Weasels capped it off with a disappointing performance below the expected talent available on paper.
The most likely explanation was with NBW rocking up with just 7 players at the start, the prevailing mood seemed to be one of "better let them get some runs or no one will have much off a day†but once such an approach is instilled, it becomes hard to turn around. Hollman's hapless misjudgement of a skyer to long off from left hander Doug Wheldon when on 6 did not seem to make so much difference, yet the left hander who looked the best bat for the Civil Service side in the 04 fixture at Cambridge when Pacific won by 10 wickets, was always the danger man.
He was dropped twice more in the deep before reaching his century & was ably supported by the ageless John Bishop (22) – himself surviving a tough caught & bowled to James Gleadow – also early on. The pair put on 62 for the 1st wicket, stymieing Captain Nigel Wilkinson's 5 pronged seam & swing attack of Rees, Gleadow, Roberts, Rademaker & Mundie. Wheldon also put on 68 for the 2nd wicket with Wilson (17) dominating the partnership & the innings with some big hitting – particularly against Wilkinson who seemed unable to make the ball swing as much as usual.
In fact Gleadow, Rees & Mundie had all been very economical but the surprise was how Wheldon despatched the normal strike bowlers Roberts but particularly Rademaker & Wilkinson. All the bowlers returned limited success, particularly Shane Mundie who troubled Wheldon with list late swing but fine shot selection kept the run rate tempo high as the mid order joined in . Admittedly, Pacific's outfielding was mixed, but another display behind the stumps from Rob Bastin who ended the innings with a run out plus a fine running catch by Purcell to dismiss Wheldon on 107 were the highlights.
Pacific's batting simply failed to emulate the shot selection & the unfussy bowling of Captain, Greg Dyer & Doug Wheldon gave NBW aspirations of victory. Following Shayne Ree's needless run out to a brilliant shy from Gary Lynch, the batters came in & simply couldn't adapt to Dyer's' pace – or lack of it. Form batsman Jai Rajaraman was the main disappointment spooning to square but Hollman, Rademaker, Roberts, Mundie & later, Gleadow all went similarly as Shazad took over Dyer's end & found similar success picking up the wickets of Bastin, debutant Rob Woodcock & Shane Mundie for 24 runs.
Until Wilkinson joined him all hopes were with Sammy Purcell who scored a fine 42 but with partners coming & going & the required rate reaching 8 an over, Sammy was stumped by Pat Hurley off Wilson for 42 with the score on 93. 70 runs were still required with 10 overs remaining & so the final pair sought respectability until James Gleadow spooned up to Wilson at mid on off 7th bowler Lynch.
An ignominious defeat for Pacific & an unexpected fillip for Weasels who really gave it their all deserving a well earned win with their solid teamwork in the field.
XI:- Rob Bastin, Sammy Purcell, Darryl Roberts, Shane Mundie, Kurt Rademaker, Shayne Rees, Rob Woodcock, Jai Rajaraman, Nigel Wilkinson*, Peter Hollman & James Gleadow.
Other matches: Too Strong for the Weasals, Sun 20 Aug 2006, Norbury Power league, Won 20 runs Jim's Ton Tuned to Radio 3 Comeback, Sat 03 Jun 2006, Gonville & Caius, Won 158 Runs Sammy 's Star shines to ensure honours are even., Sat 28 Aug 2004, Civil Service grd, Chiswick, Drawn Pacific Overwhelm Barbarian Horde!, Sat 29 May 2004, Gonville & Caius, Won By 10 Wickets Chuck Goes the Weasel!, Sat 30 Aug 2003, Civil Service grd, Chiswick, Lost 61 runs Thu 28 Aug 2003, TBC (To Be Confirmed), Deadly Davies Denied as Rain Ruins Finish!, Sat 19 Jul 2003, Civil Service grd, Eltham, Drawn Ferocious Faisal Batters Barbarians, Sat 31 Aug 2002, Wray Crescent, Won 9 Wickets Rampaging Roberts Routs Barbarians, Sat 20 Jul 2002, Kings College Sports Ground, Won by 9 Wickets Pacific escape, Sat 21 Jul 2001, Away, Drawn Michaels makes the difference, Sat 02 Jun 2001, Oakhill Park, Lost by 65 runs Sat 02 Sep 2000, Kings College Sports Ground, Drawn Sat 10 Jun 2000, Kings College Sports Ground, Won by 4 wkts Sat 08 Aug 1998, Oakhill Park, Cancelled Sat 06 Jun 1998, Kings College Sports Ground, Won by 3 wkts Short on all counts, Sat 07 Jun 1997, Away, Drawn


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Jean-Marie Bonnassieux. La Modestie (1846).
Isn't it kind of narcissistic to write a blog about yourself?
Such was the question I confronted myself with over and over before starting this blog. Like many people, I was conditioned from an early age to believe in an intrinsic bond between modesty, morality, and professionalism. Now, however, with the widely documented success of professional bloggers who earn a living off of 'just being themselves,' it appears that the notion of self-promotion, especially with regard to one's professional image, has changed. Being your own brand is now encouraged. Whereas members of my grandfather's generation believed that 'what do you defines who you are,' now the commonly encouraged belief is that 'who you are defines what you do.' And while it's easy to dismiss this as a result of an ever-growing cult of individuality, I wonder to what extent the public presentation of one's personal self can be rationalised as morally praiseworthy, acceptable, or questionable.
Man Booker Prize-winning novelist and art critic, John Berger, in his 1972 seminal documentary and companion text of critical essays on Western cultural aesthetics entitled, Ways of Seeing, similarly observed this phenomenon of disseminating private opinions for public consumption, albeit largely in the context of image mass-reproduction rather than the mass-distribution of personal information via the internet. In the final paragraph of his last essay, which concerns issues of glamour and publicity, he writes that, "Publicity is the life of this culture—in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive…Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible."
A key characteristic of capitalism has always been the emphasis on individual gain rather than communal progress, and here, Berger presents the idea of using publicity to gain an advantage over the rest of society by editing ourselves into exclusive forms for public consumption. But beyond the issue of capitalism, what actually catches my attention most is how Berger believes that people are now forced to "define their interests as narrowly as possible."
It's an interesting thought because it resonates with those presented in a book published forty-three years later by Aliza Licht in May 2015 about using self-promotion to build one's own brand, and in doing so, creating a niche market for which there is only one product available: ourselves. In Leave Your Mark, she encourages readers to reflect on the key characteristics that make themselves unique in order to present that edited image to the world. The mentality from which she advocates this operates on the assumption that people are "innately judgemental" and view each other in "one-sentence description[s]" anyway, so we might as well play an active role in creating that image for our own benefit. In short, she promotes the reduction of our complex selves into their best, most essential forms in order to be comprehended faster and more easily by the public. Exclusivity and the usage of it for upward mobility—in this regard, doesn't building one's own brand seem in line with the selfish mentality that Berger is wary of after all?
Perhaps. And perhaps I am playing into that game, whether I like it or not. But the desire to share our thoughts with others comprises an innate part of our sociality as humans, and it is hard for me to see anything wrong with that. As Kurt Vonnegut said, "Practice any art…fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money or fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow." And as the internet is but one tool to share our thoughts with others, I see this endeavour as a way to practice collecting my thoughts and writing—something I do professionally, but here on a more casual platform and with a wider audience given the wider range of content.
And that is all I have to say about the conception of this blog. I hope you enjoy it!


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with the title heading "WOWEFA Story Submission"
Bella Competition
by Punisher924
"Melina, you're gonna have to choose between us." Nikki Bella says solemnly.
"One night you wanna be with Brie, the next you wanna be with me. I can't
keep doing this. It's..." she trails off, an assortment of adjectives - some
not so nice ones- coming to mind.
"Unfair to both of you," Melina finishes for her. "I know," she admits
softly. "This is not easy for me either," she adds sullenly, green eyes
fastened to her shoes in an attempt to look anywhere but at the two women
currently occupying the room with her.
Melina knows she shouldn't have let this go on for as long as it has. She
knows the longer she waits to make her decision, the more pain it's going to
cause the one she doesn't pick. She knows that no matter who she picks, or
even if she picks neither, someone is obviously going to get hurt. She knows
all of this, yet, she still can't make a decision. It definitely doesn't help
that the two women are like complete polar opposites.
There's Brie Bella; impulsive, wild child who Melina feels devoted to. After
all, she was with Brie first and Brie had forgiven her and stuck by her side,
even after she had admitted to her first drunken tryst with Nikki. And it's
not like it's a weary "I just don't want to hurt her because she's been good
to me" devotion she feels towards her either, in fact, it's quite the
opposite, more like a "I really don't know what I'd do without her," kind of
devotion which in all essence should make this decision easy but...
Then there's Nikki; sweet, loyal, tender, all curves and soft skin, Nikki,
who in retrospect, Melina had first slept with when she was drunk off her ass
but still, even then, Brie was her friend, and a damn good friend at that.
There were times when Brie wasn't exactly being best.girlfriend.ever
material, when she had chose to "hang out" with the boys who flocked to her
like lambs to the slaughter, and left Melina all by her lonesome during which
Melina had found herself, cheeks tear-stained, in Nikki's comforting embrace.
And, quite frankly, had she known before their first drunken escapade that
Nikki was into chicks, she's not entirely sure she wouldn't have gone for it,
after all, she had continued to sleep with Nikki after their first time.
There's just an allure there that she can't quite escape.
"I really don't see what's so hard about it," Brie pipes in, scooting closer
to Melina on the hotel room bed. "You know I love you," her hands find their
way to Melina's shoulders. She kneads the soft flesh, surprised at how tense
her girlfriend really is. "And, I know you love me," she continues. "The best
decision seems pretty simple babe,"
Nikki Bella rolls her eyes.
"You know I'm getting kind of tired of your self-centeredness Brie,"
"And I'm getting really tired of you period Nikki," Brie Bella retaliates.
"Melina," Nikki begins, scooting in on the bed on the other side of the
brunette. She takes Melina's hands in hers. "I can't say I'd exactly be
overjoyed if you..." her eyes dart to her sister. "Pick her over me, but,
it's your decision to make and I'll respect it and you no matter what. I want
you to be happy Mel."
"You know we were perfectly happy before you came along Nikki," Brie
interjects before Nikki can finish.
"Obviously you weren't or we wouldn't be here in the first place," Nikki
replies. If she recalls correctly, which she is sure she does, it was Melina
who came onto her the first time, and then the second, and then the third...
"She was drunk Nikki."
"She was drunk the first time, Brie..." Nikki corrects, her tone making it
clear that there were many times after that.
"And I wouldn't be surprised," Brie continues as if Nikki hadn't even spoken.
"If you had conspired to get her drunk just so you could have your way with
"You know maybe if you weren't off being a little slut all the time, she
wouldn't have been at a bar drinking. And maybe, had you been fulfilling your
duties as a girlfriend, she wouldn't have kept coming back to me, now would
she, sis?"
"Guys," Melina said meekly, trying to cease the argument before it got out of
control but it was obvious there was no stopping this one. This was the kind
of argument she had been avoiding over the past couple of weeks and it was
obvious now that the volcano of unadulterated tension had been un-capped and
unbridled and was currently erupting right before her eyes.
"There is nothing; absolutely nothing that you can give her that I can't,"
Brie says.
"I think it's safe to say that Melina obviously disagrees," Nikki argues.
"But I can think of something you can give her that I can't,"
"What's that?"
"An STD."
Melina sighs, shaking her head disapprovingly at the immature turn for the
worst the argument seemed to have taken. She rubs her temple softly, deciding
to tune completely out of the argument, at least until it actually comes to
physical blows, in that event, she's pretty sure that William Regal is
staying on their floor and he'd be more than gentlemanly enough to help her
break up a cat-fight.
* * *
Melina looks between the two women beside her, blinking rapidly in confusion.
She had been doing quite a good job at blocking them out until she heard,
"Well let's ask her."
"Melina, who do you think is better in bed?"
"Ermm," Melina chews on her bottom lip nervously. "Guys, I-"
"Melina!" Brie says, her tone quite outraged as if she can't even fathom that
the brunette even has to think about the question. "You know I know you Mel,"
she says.
Melina shivers, her body involuntarily reacting as Brie's hand falls to her
"I know your body Melina," Brie continues, her voice dropping an octave to a
seductive drone. "I know how you like to be touched," her fingers tips trail
over Melina's crossed legs. "where you liked to be touched," she accentuates
her words by tracing circles over a particularly sensitive spot right behind
Melina's knee.
"Ermm," Melina bites her bottom lip, her eyes fluttering shut momentarily.
She has no idea what it is she had to say, all she knows is, Brie is really,
really going to have to stop doing that if she wants her to say something.
Brie smirks at her sister to which Nikki only shakes her head. Two can play
at that game!
Melina nearly jumps out of her skin when she feels the insistent press of a
palm against the smalls of her back. She swallows hard when that touch
expands, when Nikki drags her knuckles up the column of her vertebrae,
caressing each gentle rise of her spine. Goddamn backless dresses!
"You remember that time when I made love to you in that Jacuzzi in that hotel
in Miami?" Nikki asked, her fingertips caressing the nape of Melina's neck.
Melina made a sound deep in her throat that could have been a yes, most
likely was a yes, because Nikki really didn't see how Melina could have
forgotten it.
"Remember how many times I made you cum?"
Melina nods. That was something that couldn't be easily forgotten. She had
been so exhausted afterward that Nikki had to practically carry her to bed.
Her eyes flutter shut again, her body reacting to the adamant touches much
faster than her mind.
"Guys," she finally says when the situation finally sinks in, and by sinks
it, it actually takes the soft brush of fingers against her underwear clad
center for what is going on to actually register. "Guys, I-,"
She is cut off by a soft press of lips against her - not exactly a bad way to
be cut off - she internally muses.
She's not exactly sure this is particularly the right way to settle their
little dispute though because really, after a few minutes, everything starts
to blur and blend into one. Her eyes close, her head tips back, and she falls
back against the mattress. She has a hazy awareness of who's doing what, but
with Brie's lips pressed against hers - no wait, they're Nikki's lips now,
she's not sure when that happened - and lips - those are Nikki's, she can
taste the strawberry lipstick that only Nikki wears- trailing down her neck,
as well as two sets of hands, Nikki's - she thinks... she's pretty sure-
kneading the flesh of her thighs, and Brie's -yep, definitely Brie's- cupping
the gentle swell of her breasts through the thin material of her dress, she
kind of feels like she's being touched everywhere at once.
Her body literally feels aflame under a whirlwind of lips and teeth and
tongues and hands, and she briefly wonders if it's possible to drown and burn
at the same time because this is definitely what it feels like.
She's briefly aware of when her dress is being pulled off, but not at all
aware of who's taking it off, maybe it's Nikki, or it could be Brie, or maybe
it's both of them - yeah, what a time for them to finally decide to work
together- but it really doesn't matter, because it's off now and lips are
wrapping around nipples, yes, both of them, one on each side, and she's
really helpless to do anything but fist her hands in the crisp white hotel
room sheets and moan out in pleasure.
She really feels like she's coming out of her skin by the time she feels her
underwear being dragged down her legs and she's pretty sure that's she's died
- burnt, drowned, whatever - and gone to heaven, by the time two fingers
enter her, knuckle deep. She's so wet that the intrusion doesn't even push
that boundary of pleasure and pain. It's all pleasure, from the way the
fingers curl inside her and caress just so to the way gentle palms graze her
hips as they travel lower. It only gets better from there though, because
there are lips -Nikki's which means it's Brie's fingers curling inside of
her- traveling down her abdomen.
"Oh God!" Melina breathes out, biting down on the fleshiest part of her hand
to stop herself from screaming.
Brie's tapered fingers are thrusting inside of her, twisting, curling,
withdrawing and reentering in perfect agreement with Nikki's tongue as she
traces small circles over the swollen flesh of her clit.
Her thighs are trembling and her thrusting wildly into the fervent touches.
She's nearing her climax. She can almost feel it and suddenly it occurs to
her, as an abrupt warmth spreads down her sides and un-furls in the pits of
her stomach, that she really had no answer for them about who was better in
bed because really as clich� as it sounded, they were just skilled at
different things and this- this combining of said skills- really only served
to reaffirm what Melina already knew, she just couldn't choose.
The End
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How does it work?
Our project is a 2-axis gantry attached to a dispenser that interprets image-processing and movement code from an arduino to replicate a user inputted picture. First, the image processing code interprets the user's image makes it into "mixels" or M&M-sized pixels. Then the movement-related code translates the sprixel pattern into a series of movements and communicates them to the gantry. The dispenser on the rods of the gantry is moved by a series of belts along rods, pausing occasionally to release an M&M onto the icing-coated surface beneath it. This icing-coated surface's height can be adjusted by moving the build plate up and down teeth on the comb-like structures on which it rests.
Mechanical System
The gantry is a 2-axis gantry composed of rods held up by rail-shaft guide supports screwed into the a lasercut hardboard structure. Stepper-motor controlled gears across from pulleys are aligned with both axes. The gears and pulleys hold thin rubber belts that are moved by the stepper-controlled gears. The stepper motors themselves sit on tiny platforms in the corners of the gantry. The belt on the on the front-back axis attaches to a hardboard structure encasing the gear on the end of the left-right pair of rods. The belt on the left-right axis attaches to the dispenser structure. The entire left-right axis including the dispenser moves along the front-back axis with the help of linear bearings embedded in the hardboard structures at the end of the left-right axis. Similarly, the dispenser uses two linear bearings in its hardboard structure to move along the left-right axis. The build plate beneath the entire structure moves up and down depending on what notches on four comb-like devices the build plate is placed on.
The dispenser itself is entirely 3D printed. It consists of two tubes attached to the dispenser itself, which then attaches to the hardboard piece that moves along the left-right axis. The top tube is wide enough to loosely fit an M&M, which was established to help prevent jamming, and is tall enough to hold many vertically stacked M&Ms at a time. The dispenser itself includes a cylinder with a circular cup-shaped divot spun by a mini servo motor inside of a structure that holds it between the top tube. The bottom tube, which is the same diameter as the top, but reaches down about half an inch above the build plate. The bottom tube also attaches to the hardboard piece moving along the left-right axis via a small rectangle that fits around the structure. The structure that holds the tubes above and below the dispenser also includes a small shield to prevent M&Ms from falling forward while the cylinder is turning. The M&M drops down the top tube into the cup on the cylinder, which is then turned in such a way that it drops down into the bottom tube and lands on the build plate.
Electrical System
The electrical system ensures that everything in the system is working smoothly. The limit switches mounted on the gantry help the steppers keep track of the dispenser's location and calibrates the motors if needed. In addition to the limit switches, the stepper motors and servos are connected to the firmware through jumper wires for secure connections.
Software System
The image processing software as written in Python. It utilizes the OpenCV packages to process user-inputted images and convert them to stepper motor commands. The software takes in some black and white image, and resizes it to a 30 by 30 pixel
matrix before identifying each pixel's color. It then converts the color information into a series of motor commands, telling the gantry motors when and how far to move the dispenser. This information is sent through the serial stream to provide
commands to the firmware.
Firmware System
Using the signals from the software's input from serial, the Arduino Uno and Adafruit Motor Shield uses Arduino C to convert those commands to determine which coils within the stepper motor should be magnetized. Those commands also indicate when to turn the servo motor in the dispenser. When the gantry stepper motors translate the dispenser to the next destination, the servo motor on the dispenser receives the command to turn and dispense an M&M.


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now this is quite a co-incidence (btw there are no co-incidences, just illusions of it – V for Vendetta, got to give the credit), i just stumbled across a page while saving the world on the internet today…..it said about atheism, and i thought about writing something appreciating the methodology of presentation through my blog – this was morning….
getting back from work, i sit down and open my google reader and i see a new post in my subscription list and what is it about?…….
i might be diverting my audience, but then it's about the completeness of the topic under discussion. go here and then come back……
… how true is GOD?
i, or rather anybody if he wants to, can give you many practically feasible theories to prove his non-existence while i know that nobody can give me even one to prove His (pun intended) existence.
now how apparent is that naked fact….
nobody's trying to desperately prove that He does not exist, at least not anyone that i know of, unless of course agitated by someone who is hellbent to prove the existence, usually by an illustrated example, primary role being played by the prover himself or a very close person, and sometimes, crossing all bounds of hysterical descriptions, a completely unknown personthingobjectUFOsantagodzilla…i leave the absolute gibberish for u to complete..
The point here is not whether he exists or not, we, the God-created beings cannot comprehend the complexities of Gods' creation and cannot fathom and would be completely so humanly foolish to try and debate His existence, although we understand that we cannot understand HIM – oh my God, i love u.
I also love boddah.
ok let's try un-complicating the issue – there is no GOD.
although i disagree with Kuber(logic intended) when He(sarcasm intended)says, HE(respect intended, pardon me G) is a tripster, if he's a tripster, so is Sylvskychinokov Singh Sharma.
I do understand, in completeness, how people truly believe in Him and that's because I,once upon a time, myself believed in Him …just like i, once upon a time believed in Spiderman, Saabu and Giant robot….c'mon man i saw them on TV, read them in comics, and there were so many of us 'normal' kids who shared my opinion on them.
but then i, gradually, as that's way the masterplan had been devised, discovered and realised -no they were not there, they were just characters 'created' to upbring a normal-child-behaviour in me (something must've gone wrong in that plan too, as i see it, it fails)….well someone showed us the path, and then we could easily say how stupid we were earlier, but of course, normal, since we too believed in spiderman/saabu, like it should be for a normal kid….
based on philosophers' theories, the earth was flat, everybody believed that (now who's to say that everybody believed that?, but that's what 'they' say and so i have 'heard') and why not it was backed by then-logical reasoning…then somebody did some scientific finding which proved that wrong, and everybody wondered how stupid they, others were earlier…
another one…double the mass would take half the time to hit the ground was the belief for centuries, after the gravity was 'discovered'(see just like Him, gravity too was there, we needed someone to prove that…thanks a ton Newton….where's our God prover?) and then came another G, Gallelio… oh we have slight amendment in our previous theories, henceforth we'll believe in Gallelio's theory….
alas, there would be no day when it would be proven that He has vanished and doesn't exist, that happened before the human race was born, now he operates from some place/object/thing/creature unknown and uncomprehensible by us….
…come to think of it it was in the same period that kuber wrote something exact that i was thinking of…mebbe God wants it that way, he wants me to play the role of a protester, thanks man, i'm happy with my role……more on this…right now He wants me to take some rest…but hopefully more on this, unless He thinks He's been de-marketed enough……


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Beijing Aidi School is an educational cooperation project between the Chinese and Australian governments (with investment from the Aidi Education Group) and was officially started in Beijing in 1999. Aidi School is located in Beijing's Chaoyang District and covers an area of 92 acres, providing a safe, beautiful and inspiring learning environment for all students. The school provides an inclusive K-12 international education system and multi-channel higher education model. Aidi believes in taking the best teaching approaches from both Chinese and Western education, making sure that students have an established cultural identity combined with an international outlook. Our vibrant and highly diversified curriculum is designed to provide a holistic education experience for our students, nurturing their talents whilst simultaneously preparing them to have a competitive edge in the future. The school is equipped with high-quality facilities to help students reach their potential in all phases and areas of learning – intellectual, physical, social and cultural – to help them stand out in a globalized environment. So far, more than 11,000 students have successfully graduated from Aidi School, and these amazing individuals have gone on to study at over 100 top-quality international universities all around the world.
Address: CBD International Education Park, 7 Louzizhuang Lu, Chaoyang District. 朝阳区楼梓庄路7号爱迪国际教育园区
WeChat: aidieducation
Contact: 400 800 4033, email@example.com
Web: www.aidi.edu.cn
Founding date: 1999
School type: International school
School hours: 8.40am-4.20pm
Ministry of Education accredited? Yes
Curriculum description: Kindergarten, Primary, and Middle school: Bilingual (English and Chinese) High School: WACE, A-level, ASE and International High School of Art & Design
Age range: 2.5-18
Grades offered: Kindergarten to Grade 12
Number of students: 3,000
Foreign passport holder accepted? Yes
Local Chinese students accepted? Yes
Nationality of students: China, Australia, Canada, US, UK, South Korea
Average class size: 20
Teacher-student ratio: 1:4
Tuition and other fees
• Kindergarten: RMB 160,300
• Elementary school: RMB 192,000
• Junior high school: RMB 219,500
• High school (accommodation fee included): RMB 207,500-259,500
• School bus fee: RMB 5,000-10,000 per year
Primary teaching language(s): English and Chinese
Other elective language(s): N/A
After-school activities: Students clubs and optional courses – golf, fencing, cricket, baseball, diving, piano, swimming, art, dancing, Peking Opera, aeromodelling, broadcasting, calligraphy, chess, singing, Model United Nations, winter and summer camps and volunteering programs.
Extra help offered? Yes
Total area (in sqm): 37,700
Facilities: Regulation-sized 400m running track, soccer field, golf fields, tennis courts, cricket field, indoor and outdoor basketball courts, swimming pool, gym, fencing hall, climbing gym, library, digital reading room, piano room, lecture hall, theater, smog proof stadium.
Lunch: Organic Chinese, western, and vegetarian options. The school has 5 Chinese cafeterias, 1 western cafeteria, and 1 bakery
Lunch fee: Kindergarten and primary school: RMB 5,000-10,000 per year; Middle and high school: prepaid card
Boarding program? Primary school to High School
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It's funny how seemingly unrelated events over many years time can somehow coalesce into one experience. Several years ago I saw a play at the Seattle Repertory Theatre called "The Cook" by Eduardo Machado. More recently, my book group read Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire. I never connected those two literary experiences to each other until the first time I went to a restaurant in Havana.
Machado's play had three scenes, all set in the same kitchen. In the first, an affluent, pregnant, young woman is preparing to flee Cuba during the revolution of the early 1950's. She begs her cook to help her get away and to take care of the house until she returns. She pledges undying devotion to her servant. In the second scene, years have passed since the revolution. The Cuban people have faced great austerity, and the kitchen is showing signs of deterioration. In the third scene, even more years later, the kitchen is even shabbier. The cook has opened a restaurant in the house. The grown daughter of the woman who fled (who looks just like her mother, and of course is played by the same actress) returns to claim the house and berate the cook for not having taken better care of her property, and for having opened the restaurant. She has no knowledge of any special relationship between her mother and the cook.
In Carlos Eire's memoir there are frequent images of the valuable objects he remembers in his parents' art and antique-filled home in the wealthy district of Miramar, and in the even more beautiful mansions of even wealthier Cubans, pre-revolution. There are paintings on the walls and objets d'art in cases and on stands throughout the tall-ceilinged rooms, where the windows are covered with louvered blinds and heavy draperies.
On our first night in Havana, we were taken to the Havana Club, a famous (we were told) restaurant in the Miramar District. Driving through the residential neighborhood, I caught glimpses in the dimly lighted streets of big houses behind high walls. I wondered if one of the houses we passed could have been the childhood home of Carlos Eire. Ilen, our Cuban guide, told us that the government permits families to set up restaurants in their own homes–called paladars. Permit is the operative word. The family-owned restaurants compete with government-run hotels to provide tourists with a different dining experience. The high-ceilinged rooms in this restaurant could have been part of a grand home. This dinner wasn't memorable–all I wrote in my journal is that it was served family style, that I drank watermelon juice, and that "The ice cream was the best part."
We ate in several paladars in the course of our trip. On our third night in Havana, when we were on our own, we went to San Cristobal, a paladar highly recommended by Ilen. No question that this had been and still was a family's home. In the banjos I peeked behind a curtain across one end of the room and found a bathtub. The walls of the high-ceilinged rooms were covered with paintings, the tall windows decorated with blinds and draperies, several old clocks stood on shelves or hung on the walls. We ordered from a menu here–it was nice to be able to order individually after many buffet meals–and the grilled shrimp on a skewer were delicious. When we left the proprietor gave each woman at our table a little gift, an old brooch, no two alike. Mine is a little cluster of enamel flowers with rhinestone centers, one little stone missing.
In Trinidad we ate in two paladars in one day. Where we had lunch near the square, there were tables set up in the bedrooms, or perhaps I should say there were beds in some of the dining rooms. These rooms too were lavishly furnished. That night we ate at Davimart, another well-known paladar; he encouraged us to visit his website! We had lobster which I thought was very good, my journal says best meal so far (it was our seventh evening), but Don was sick that night.
I also wrote that the band at Davimart was the best so far. Every restaurant had a band of its own, even at lunch, usually no more than four or five pieces, sometimes with a singer. We got so tired of Guantanamera! Even the kids at the nursery school sang it to us.
Every restaurant, and hotel too, always greeted us with a welcome drink, most often a mojito. Sometimes we were handed a glass with mint, ice, soda and lime juice, and the rum was poured on later. At Davimart we had a rum and honey drink served in special earthenware cups, and at Casa Verde in Cienfuegos the welcome drink was a Cuba libre, rum and Coke. At Las Brisas Resort outside of Trinidad, where we stayed for two nights, there was a list of rum drinks painted on the wall next to the bar. The purple wrist band clamped onto each of us as we checked allowed us unlimited drinks, and so I tried as many on the list as I was able to. Not the best but the most beautiful was unlisted but available at the beach bar. It was called a Blue Lagoon, rum with blue Curacao. Imagine yourself lying back on a terrycloth covered lounge under an umbrella on a sandy beach with a bright blue drink at your side….
As a reviewer of food in Cuba I have to say that the best meals were seafood, but nowhere was the food great. Lots of black beans and rice, lamb that was closer to mutton, lots of chicken. Sandwiches bought outside of the hotel were dry. There was not as much fresh fruit as one would expect, mostly bananas and oranges; on our bicycle-rickshaw ride through the old town, our peddler stopped at a market and brought us an orange. It was juicy and tasty, and it had been peeled on a gadget like the one Don uses to make dried apples. However, the oranges in our sack lunches from the hotels were so dry we couldn't peel them. Still, the foods we were served were far better than what the Cubans ate. We went into a food store in Trinidad where Cubans lined up to receive their monthly allotments of flour, rice, beans, meat, oil and eggs. All these commodities were not available every day; a blackboard on the wall showed what could be bought that day. Ilen had her family's ration book with her, so we could see what she was able to buy for her family of three. Reminded me of the ration books during World War II, when I was a little girl. Nobody starves in Cuba, at this time. In the past, it was not so good. Nobody is homeless either, but some of the occupied buildings we saw would have been condemned in Seattle. I hope that conditions continue to improve for Cubans–go there, spend money, write to Congress to lift the embargo!


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Thoroughbreds is a drama/thriller that tells the story of two teenage friends, Amanda and Lily, who hatch a plan between them to be rid of Lily's mother's controlling partner. Directed by first-time-director Cory Finley and starring Olivia Cooke (Amanda) and Anya Taylor-Joy (Lily), Thoroughbreds is a dark comedy that has been applauded for the performance of the central characters. The score is written by Erik Friedlander.
Originally trained as a cellist, Friedlander has composed music for ads, dance works and scored feature films (Future Weather [2012], Oh Lucy! [2018]) and documentaries (Nothing On Earth [2013]), as well as creating a number of projects for other musical disciplines. Thoroughbreds is a sparse score that is dominated by a variety of percussion instruments (played by Satoshi Takeishi) that is peppered with additional musical colours including prepared piano (played by Sylvie Courvoisier) and a small ensemble of strings (including cello). [Read more…]


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The Gainesville Housing Authority (GHA) has a simple mission – to provide qualified families with safe, decent and affordable housing of the highest quality consistent with available funding.
The structure of GHA is changing in response to both Federal mandates and today's economic realities. While change is not new for this agency, the way GHA responds to challenges is changing because it has to. Tough economic times call for tough decisions, and this agency must step up to the challenge because so many people depend on the delivery of GHA's services.
GHA must become the premier provider of affordable housing in Gainesville – second to none in the public or private arena. To accomplish this feat, we are making several changes.
We are reducing administrative costs to focus on maximizing funding for program delivery. GHA must first work smart, and then work hard. We are establishing performance standards for each staff position that include productivity, work quality and customer service as minimum benchmarks.
Additionally, we are reaching out to our residents and clients, business and political leaders, the public, and other nonprofits who share GHA's goals. We seek partners who share our commitment to the people we serve. Working together we can go beyond what has been done in the past and find unconventional ways to deliver and expand our services.
We must continue to work through our partners in the service sector to help our clients achieve self-sufficiency and economic independence. Successful partnerships will ensure that our public housing residents are provided quality housing while also gaining education and skills to lead to employment and movement from assisted to market-rate housing when affordability exists in the marketplace. No matter how successful we are in developing new housing, it is only through the upward mobility of successful families that we can hope to assist the hundreds of families who walk through our doors each year to be placed on our program's waiting lists. These same families seek the support of the entire community and we must surround them with the necessary services to foster the message of hope.
Finally, we will enhance our linkages to services for senior residents and those with disabilities to make sure they can live comfortably and successfully in our public housing communities. If we pull together toward these common goals GHA can be an authentic catalyst for improving peoples' lives. This is what our work must be about and it is not beyond our reach.
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Subdivisions (including boundary adjustments) require a resource consent within the Manawatu District. Once you have been able to determine the zoning of your land which you wish to subdivide you will be able to check the District Plan for the conditions around subdivision.
Each zone in the district plan sets out a minimum lot size requirement. If your land is large enough to create allotments at or above the size requirement then you should approach a surveyor or consultant to help you prepare your resource consent application.
The surveyor or consultant will be able to outline for you the entire subdivision process, and its associated costs based on their experiences. Most surveyors and consultants will give you a free consult which will help assist you in determining whether you wish to pursue the process of subdivision.
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Youth Corner
Why not? Chaeli Mycroft
How cool is it that you have to be disabled to do certain sports? Like goalball (for the sight impaired) and boccia (for people with cerebral palsy and other neurological disabilities).
I would probably have played almost every sport going if I wasn't disabled, but I don't let the fact that my-legs-don't-listen-to-my-brain stop me from competing. I play boccia and do Ballroom and Latin-American wheelchair dancing. I tried out karate for a while - but it's not my thing.
I've just gone back to boccia but I've been dancing for seven years now and it's been my passion ever since I started. I recently got a new partner "about a month ago, haha" and we are learning new moves together, learning about each other and figuring out how to communicate on the dance floor. It's avery entertaining process.
I love dancing so much because you're not doing it alone, you have apartner. You get to do really rad moves, fall on your face, get up (or get some help to get up) and try again. The falling on your face part might not appeal to some of you guys,but for me it's part of learning, growing relationships and creating memories.
When we dance we tell stories. They are different stories all the timebecause our lives change and so our stories change. The stories that I tell areones about how inclusion is important for the wellness and happiness ofsociety. The stories that people get are so much more than that.
Don't be afraid to tell your stories. People need to hear them, you add to their stories. We, as disabled people, become the lessons in the stories ofthe people we share our lives with - just as they become lessons in ours.
Just saying!
Good Vibes
There is nothing like a great night out with friends, but for people with disabilities a place needs to have a little bit more than just a good vibe and cool music.
A place needs to be accommodating of certain needs because, for a disabled person - particularly a wheelchair user, there is nothing more degrading than having to use the bathroom with the door open because it is not big enough for a wheelchair.
Things are, however, becoming much easier as nightclubs around the country are being revamped to allow ease of access for disabled people so they can have as great a time as anyone else, without worrying about simple things like getting up and down flights of stairs or whether the toilet door closes or not.
Newscafe, at the Woodmead Retail Park in Joburg, is one such place. The place has a great vibe, a wide selection of drinks (!) and DJs that play the coolest house music. I'm not an accessibility expert like Joan but it does have:
- Wheelchair friendly parking bays
- A ramp leading into the entrance
- A bathroom I can get into - very important if I'm planning on having a few drinks!
- A spacious interior, making it easy for me to get from A to B without fear of riding over people's toes, even when it's packed
- The balcony area is a real breath offresh air - it is spacious and easily accessed by smokers and those of us who simply prefer the cool night breeze as opposed to sitting indoors. (Might be abit chilly now though!)
So, next time you are in search of a cool place to hang out with friends, why not give this Newscafe a try? All you'll need to worry about is getting your groove on!
Y is it dat wen ppl wana do a numba 2 they always gota use the "Disabled peoples toilet" then they look all stupid wen they cme out and u waitin outside 2 go in #jstsayn- Mbalenhle Nkhumeleni


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A few months ago, ELLE International launched a worldwide survey entitled "The Happiness Index." Women in 42 countries were asked to talk about what makes them smile. We highlight some of these findings in "How to Be
Happy in 2015" on page 42 and online at ellecanada.com/happiness. was a pretty happy kid, which, given my Celtic heritage, is rather remarkable. Or at least that's what I concluded when I would hear my relatives repeatedly say that "during the best of times, the Irish comfort themselves with the knowledge that bad times are just around the corner." They would laugh after they said it, but the message was clear: Don't take happy moments for granted, and don't enjoy them too much either. When we were planning this month's issue—its theme being about the pursuit of happiness and what that means—I decided I would ask people I met how they achieve, or experience, this emotion in their lives.
Dickson Yewn, an exceptionally talented jewellery designer, told me that he tries to follow an ancient Chinese philosophy that encourages people how not to be happy. (This line of reasoning makes the Irish seem giddy!) "How not to be happy?" I asked, seeking clarification. "Happiness is all about ups and downs, but the goal is to be in the middle," explained Yewn. "You want to avoid the ups and downs. Be content but not too happy and not too sad. In the end, happy is nice and sad is nice." He talked about the importance of achieving self-contentment, but not in the way Oprah might encourage. "There's this Buddhist idea that if you're meant to be a billionaire but you're not, you're not happy," he said. "If you're meant to be poor but you're super-rich, you're not happy. If you're meant to be average but you're not average, you're not happy. So self-contentment means: 'I'm supposed to have something and I have it. You don't have more or less.'"
Several days later, I had the pleasure of hearing Susan Wener speak in support of Lung Cancer Awareness Month. It's a disease that has affected my life profoundly, as my mother and father-in-law both died of it. Wener, now 61, was diagnosed with colon cancer when she was 36. The young mother of three daughters was determined to live long enough to see her girls thrive on their own. A few years after her first bout with cancer, she was stricken with lung cancer. Her remarkable journey—and the philosophical teachings it prompted—is captured in her truly inspiring book Resilience: A Story of Courage and Triumph in the Face of Recurrent Cancer. For Wener, being happy is being in the moment. "It doesn't matter what the outcome is in life; what matters is the process," she said. "And the process is that dash that's between the time of birth and the time of death. Many of us are too busy wondering when we're going to be happy—if we get good results, if we lose five pounds, if we get $100,000, if we find a mate—but we're missing the happy moments in that dash." So if self-contentment (however you define it) is one of your goals this year, start by banishing "if only..." from your mindset.
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I suppose you're all aware of The Asylum, the "movie-making" company which stands upon dozens of rip-off movies with effects so bad; you could do better ones in Blender in 5 minutes tops. What could be worse? Hailing from the land of Carnaval of Caipirinhas, comes Video Brinquedo (Toyland Video), a "kids movie-making" company with, again, dozens of rip-off movies with the most horrible CGI effects you'll ever see in your life.
Video Brinquedo has released many leech movies that though presented as being clones of other famous children's movies, are quite different on the plots; but good god, with the "plots" of these movies, you'd prefer to sit through an exact clone.
Wanna delve into the deep world of cuisine in fine París with a rat that can cook like Ratatouille? TOO BAD, you're stuck on Rio de Janeiro with 3 rats that take over a minute to dress and make strange moans and sounds with Ratatoing. (And I'm not kidding, that's the actual name)
Want to see an obese panda become the best at Kung Fu while preparing to save his village from ill-intended villains? NOPE, you're stuck on seeing a dancing panda pretending to be a professional fighter on a restaurant with good god, the worst Care-Bear ripoff ever possibly imagined.
Want to see a bee fly to the outside world and interact with the humans as well as trying to recover the precious honey which has been harvested unknowingly? SORRY, you're stuck with the most generic bee designs on *insert bland cliche adventure here*.
Why am I showing you this? Because I'm bored off doing reviews of these pieces of crap for my school newspaper and what better way to show the god awfulness of these abominations called "animations" than to post it on the CCS forums? Want to check them out for yourself? Here's the USA Official channel:
Be warned. Once seen, it can never be unseen.
"The universe is one big joke, and the joke is on us"
Dude, I've seen so much shit from this company, it doesn't scare me anymore. Although, Little Princess School comes very close into making me shove a jackhammer on my ass.
"The world is merciless and it's also very beautiful."
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Wow, I remember that episode of Gumball where he takes a jab at Brinquedo. Kudos to he show!
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On March 22, 2011, Prima Industrie, the parent company of Laserdyne Systems, announced a major re-branding initiative that has led to organization of the Group into two divisions: Machinery (Prima Power) and Components (Prima Electro).
With the acquisition of Finn-Power Group three years ago and the subsequent integration of the two companies, Prima Industrie has become the third largest laser and sheet metal machinery manufacturer in the world. Today, we have direct presence in 20 countries and activities in more than 60 countries.
What will change? Our logo will change and our name will change from Prima North America to Prima Power Laserdyne. Our new logo will appear on business cards, stationery, purchase order templates, presentation templates and products, to name a few. E-mail addresses will also change to reflect the new company name. Soon, the sign on our property will also reflect the new logo and company name.
What will not change is our commitment to quality products and services. We will continue to work to make the Laserdyne and Prima brands the standard for precision, multi-axis laser processing systems and, in doing so, grow our business throughout the world. For our suppliers, this means greater opportunity. For our customers, this means more products that can be used to help solve your manufacturing needs.


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1/4 scale, resin
KitKong Mansion
This is a stunningly beautiful model, and a perfect complement to KitKong's other HUGE 1/4 scale figures.
They won't be around forever, so grab these while they're still available. I can't imagine what these will fetch for on eBay ten years from now.
I'll eventually post a photo of our living room, which is surrounded by this, the Wolfman, Frankenstein, and Dracula.
These models make a great room for watching classic horror films!
resin, 1/8 scale, sculpted by Jeff Yagher
currently available at Monsters-In-Motion
kitbash includes Polar Lights Phantom organ, nameplate by The Headless Hearseman,
and a floor extension scratch-built from balsa foam.
Wow! I finally bagged one of these!
I didn't use the boat that sits behind the model due to the extra depth (it wouldn't fit on my shelf),
so I finally decided to make the Polar Lights' Phantom model productive by using its organ.
That required extending the base of the floor by two more rows of granite slabs.
I used balsa foam for the first time - it's great stuff! I also think that Yagher may have used the same piece
when sculpting the model - it's the exact same size as the original floor, though I cut it down here to only two slabs wide.
The extension sits flat on the shelf in the Model Museum - it's a bit wobbly here because of the black velvet it's sitting on for the photo.
The nameplate was the perfect touch!
The model is painted with Delta Ceramcoat Acrylic paints.
Eric's face is a base coat of Empire Gold (not metallic), a wash of Walnut, and a drybrush of Ivory.
This is definitely a contender for my favorite model!
cold-cast resin, 1/6 scale. sculpted by MIke Hill?
What a dynamic sculpt! And what a heavy model! Got it used on eBay for about $100, which is a great price.
The mask and the scepter are made of soft metal.
Old faithful, from Aurora:
get in touch
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FBI Profiling of Muslims on the Rise, Says Law Caucus
By BY SUNITA SOHRABJI
indiawest.com August 13, 2009 01:38:00 PM
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Muslim Americans are being increasingly targeted for unwarranted house searches and questioning, said Veena Dubal, staff attorney of the Asian Law Caucus, during a brown-bag seminar at the organization's headquarters here Aug. 5.
Last October — in the waning days of the Bush administration — FBI director Robert Mueller signed new guidelines allowing broader FBI authority in pursuing potential threats to national security. The new guidelines allow agents to consider race or ethnicity in determining whether someone is a suspect.
These guidelines – which became effective Dec. 1, 2008 — allow the FBI to launch a criminal investigation against someone without any factual predicate and without approval from FBI headquarters, said Dubal. "Under the current guidelines, FBI agents are allowed to racially profile an individual if it is determined to be in the nation's national interests," she said, adding that the guidelines may also be used ambiguously to "prevent conduct."
"A really negative shift has occurred," said Dubal, who received the Northern California South Asian Bar Association's Public Interest Attorney of the Year award in 2009.
The guidelines are similar to COINTELPRO, an FBI program used in the 50s and 60s to spy on civil rights, environmental and labor groups, with the goal of unearthing Communist ties those organizations may have had.
At Congressional hearings last May, Mueller — who continues to serve as FBI director in the Obama administration — said the guidelines simply formalized processes the FBI had begun to use, post-9/11.
President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have not indicated whether they intend to scrap the new guidelines, said Dubal. The administration has stated its commitment to ending racial profiling, but it remains unclear as to whether this will include religious profiling as well, she said.
"We understand the reluctance of some communities to sit down at the table with us. Oftentimes, the communities from which we need the most help are those who trust us the least. But it is in these communities that we must re-double our efforts," said Mueller in a Feb. 23 talk at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C.
Mueller and former attorney general John Ashcroft had been sued by Pakistani national Javaid Iqbal, who alleged he had been tortured and kept in confinement by the U.S. for more than 18 months, based solely on his race and religion. Iqbal was eventually deported back to Pakistan, but was never found to have engaged in any terrorist activity.
The Supreme Court dismissed Iqbal's case May 18, saying he had failed to make a link between officials' conduct and the abuse he allegedly suffered.
"The decision will make it far more difficult for other
individuals aggrieved by post-9/11 security policies to hold high-level government officials accountable for any wrongdoing, including profiling of Muslims, Arabs, South Asians, and Sikhs," Dawinder "Dave" Sidhu told India-West.
Sidhu is a founding director of the Discrimination and National Security Initiative, which is studying the post-9/11 backlash against Muslim-Americans.
Dubal said the Supreme Court decision essentially endorsed religious and ethnic profiling as a "wartime necessity."
Equally problematic is the practice of recruiting informants from within the community, said Dubal. The FBI has set up a Citizens' Academy, ostensibly to train community leaders into the field-gathering techniques of the agency.
Business, civic and religious leaders, nominated by an FBI employee or previous academy graduate, are given training in several aspects of espionage, including firearms usage, evidence collection and fingerprinting.
Dubal pointed to the recent case of an Irvine, Calif., man hired by the FBI for $130,000 to infiltrate area mosques and incite people to say things about the jihad and terrorist activities.
"There's a feeling of being under siege within the community," she said, adding, "People start to wonder whether their friends or colleagues are spies. New people are always distrusted and never become part of the community."
The caucus is organizing a series of town hall meetings at religious gathering places throughout the state — particularly in Stockton and Lodi, which have high concentrations of Muslim American residents — letting people know their rights while under investigation.
You do not have to talk to the FBI, said Dubal, adding that people have a right to – and should – bring an attorney along.
Federal Criminal Code 1001 makes it a crime to lie to an FBI agent, and that code is now being used to recklessly incarcerate people, said Dubal. "We tell people its better not to talk to an FBI agent, because if you do and you misrepresent yourself, you could be subject to criminal penalty."
A household search can be conducted by the FBI without a warrant, noted Dubal.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Could the Raleigh & MD people do the same?
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Record Viewership
25 million Americans watched on television as the United States beat Japan in the final of the Women's World Cup on Sunday, setting a record for U.S. viewership of a soccer match.The previous U.S. record was set in 2014 when an estimated 18 million U.S. television viewers watched the U.S. men's team tie Portugal.
The match peaked at 30.9 million viewers between 8:30-8:45pm ET.
The numbers of viewers are comparable to the numbers who watch Sunday Night Football. The 2014 World Series' Game 7 attracted 23.5 million viewers. The NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers averaged about 20 million viewers. Game 6 drew about 23 million viewers. This year's Super Bowl drew 114 million U.S. viewers.
Got to be the Shoes!
Carli Lloyd scored a hat-trick in the final, the first time that feat has been achieved. Lloyd was awarded the Golden
No contest on
Amobee Brand Intelligence said that Nike's #NoMaybes campaign more than doubled the number of Adidas mentions on Twitter. Adidas was the official sponsor of the Women's World Cup. Even so, according to Amobee, Nike's World Cup association was 120% greater than Adidas's.
Number of teams
Nike outfitted 11 of the Women's World Cup teams, to Adidas' 6. Of the final four teams, Nike had two as did Adidas with Nike prevailing. Nike's close association with the U.S. team gave them additional leverage.
Goooooaaaaaallllll for Nike!
As the battle for world domination in soccer continues, Nike clearly won this round.
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New Orange Industrial Association
A Short History of the New Orange
Industrial Association
The New Orange Industrial Association (NOIA) was the precursor to the modern day Borough of Kenilworth and the main reason for the building of the New York & New Orange Railroad, which eventually became the Rahway Valley Railroad. A real estate scheme, the NOIA purchased hundreds of acres of New Jersey farmland with the intention of reselling it for residential, commercial, and industrial purposes. The founders of the association believed that they would build a model city to which thousands would flock to and in the process the founders stood to make a great deal of money on the scheme.
Founders &
Backers of the
Charles Millard
Tompkins Ray
Tompkins William S.
McCord Platt V.
Bryan George W.
Robinson Albert M.
Bennett Edward J.
Dunn James B.
Rathbone Howard H.
Hallock *Known founders, there may have been
Founders &
Backers of the
Charles Millard Tompkins
Ray Tompkins
William S. McCord
Platt V. Bryan
George W. Robinson
Albert M. Bennett
Edward J. Dunn
James B. Rathbone
Howard H. Hallock
*Known founders, there may have been others
The subsequent success of the Elmira Industrial Association, which led to the formation of the village of Elmira Heights in 1896, prompted the associates to embark on a similar project in 1894. The associates sent Manahan south to New Jersey to scope out possible sites to build upon within the shadow of Gotham itself: New York City. Manahan eventually found a suitable location in southwestern Union Township, NJ to build and the New Orange Industrial Association was formed in 1894. The association was named after the town which Manahan had relocated to, East Orange. The associates believed by naming the town after the Oranges it would attract more investors if they associated their project with the more well-known New Jersey towns of Orange, South Orange, West Orange, and East Orange.
Rather quickly three and a half square miles of land, comprising of some thirty farms, were acquired by the association for immediate development. Plans to develop this land were drafted by the associates for what they wished to include in their proposed manufacturing village. Their plans were anything but modest.
To put all of their ideas together, a young Civil Engineer by the name of James Wallace Higgins of nearby Roselle, NJ was called upon to create a "master plan" for the proposed town of New Orange. What the 23-year old recent graduate of Rutgers University drew up was certainly a "grand plan." His plans called for wide thoroughfares, a large man-made lake called "Lake Wewanna" complete with its own Yacht Club, an Opera House, a grand City Hall, lots for hundreds of homes, several proposed factory sites, an Electric trolley line, and a railroad which Higgins called the "Belt Line Railroad." One of the financiers of the project referred to the plan as "one of the most substantial he had ever examined."
The associates, not having raised enough capital among themselves, began to raise money for their project through the selling of stocks and bonds in their association. An excerpt from an Elmira, NY newspaper reveals how the associates enticed people to invest in the project, "The mechanic or laboring man, who may wish to invest his money in this association can do so and receive the same privileges and benefits as do the largest investors . . . The extraordinary advantages offered in the investments make them of double value to the purchaser, and the sales are unusually heavy as a consequence. One of the best holiday gifts that could be made would be a block of shares in the new association. Make the most of the present opportunity as the stocks are going rapidly." (Elmira Daily Gazette, December 14, 1894).
By 1896 a great deal had been accomplished as is revealed in the following excerpt, "A project to found a model city in New Jersey . . . is now under way. For this purpose a tract of land about three and one-half miles square has been secured . . . The place has been named New Orange . . . More than one hundred acres have been reserved for industrial purposes, the intention being to erect model factories there. The remainder of the land will be devoted to residence purposes. The New Orange Industrial Association . . . will construct a belt railway passing by the doors of the factories and connecting with the Central of New Jersey . . . the Lehigh Valley, and the Lackawanna Railways."(New York Times, May 3, 1896)
Indeed by 1896 the project of the New Orange Industrial Association was well underway, roads constructed, large quantities of homes being built, and factories being erected. Among those early factories built in New Orange were the "Big Four" and included the Circular Loom Company, the Ricca Manufacturing Company, the New Orange Decorative Leather Company, and the Charles E. Wright Company, as well as others still being built.
The associates painted a pretty picture of their project in the many newspapers in which they were published, in an attempt to entice buyers and investors. However the true status of things in New Orange was far different than from what the associates wanted the public to know. An article published in the New York Herald on August 12, 1899 revealed much about the status of the town, "Peculiar methods employed to induce workingmen to invest in the new town of New Orange, N.J. . . . Details of the scheme . . . Town is sparsely settled . . . after 3,000 persons have jointed the scheme, and about one-half of the total amounts due under their contracts has been paid, there will be a drawing, and those who have given up their money will learn exactly what they are to receive in return. They may find themselves owners of corners on what are intended to be leading business thoroughfares . . . or they may find that a portion of what is now a swamp is all that they can claim The projectors declare that there will be no blanks. They tell customers that the poorest lots will be worth every cent paid for them, while those who draw the prizes will be able to realize many times the amounts they have invested . . . A large portion of those who have paid their installments have never seen New Orange and know nothing about it aside from what they have been told by the agents who have induced them to part with their money. They have, however, seen the fine maps of New Orange, showing many wide avenues . . . public parks . . . a City Hall . . . and a long lake. There are factory sites and hotel sites and facilities for growth in every direction. It is already a wonderful town on paper . . . I finally reached New Orange . . . Washington Avenue, on which the hotel fronts may someday hum with traffic. It is cut through for a short distance, and runs to a post office, opposite a dismal swamp, surrounded by high grass, from which mosquitoes fly in clouds . . . Here and there are small frame houses, a few of them tenanted, but the majority vacant and awaiting the influx of the crowd . . . The building of the town has been slower than was anticipated by some." (New York Herald, August 21, 1899)
Things with the New Orange Industrial Association continued to deteriorate after 1899. The association found itself in legal proceedings between itself and the Baron de Hirsch Fund over some one hundred houses that were sold to the fund by the association.
Some of the original directors had passed away as well, President of the Association and former General Manager of the NY&NO, Charles M. Tompkins died on July 1, 1900 after a bout with appendicitis; the famous bridge builder, Robert Grimes, who was a major investor in the association and a past president of the NY&NO suffered a paralyzing stroke in December, 1898 and passed away on December 8, 1903; but the most devastating blow was the death of Charles W. Manahan, Jr., founder and General Manager of the New Orange project, and secretary of the NY&NO and NOFJ. Manahans health had deteriorated in the last months of his life and he passed away on November 14, 1901 in East Orange.
Howard H. Hallock, a major investor in the association from the beginning, took charge of the New Orange project after Manahans death in 1901. Hallock dealt with the New Orange Industrial Associations financial turmoil for three years before it was realized that things were not going to improve. Then in 1904 the remainder of the original investors brought Levi W. Naylor, a native of England, into their midst. Together they formed the "Kenilworth Realty Corporation" to carefully manage the sale of the remainder of the old New Orange Industrial Associations land holdings, and with its much more modest ambitions than its predecessor, the Kenilworth Realty Corporation met much more success and gave birth to the borough of Kenilworth which was formally incorporated on June 18, 1907.
The New Orange Industrial Association and the Rahway Valley Railroad
The grand schemes and in some cases, outlandish plans, of the New Orange Industrial Association and its investors weighed heavily on the formation and fate of the New York & New Orange Railroad. The NY&NO was formed in 1897 and it and the NOIA were heavily intertwined. The main purpose of the NY&NO was to provide a rail link between the town of New Orange and the Central Railroad of New Jersey as well as the Lehigh Valley Railroad, both in Roselle Park. The railroad would provide the factories located in New Orange an access link to the vast markets beyond the borders of the village.
The industrial recession of 1899, which led to the reorganization of the NY&NO as the New Orange Four Junction Railroad in 1901, coupled with the NOIA falling greatly short of expectations led to the ultimate failure of the New Orange Industrial Association. In 1904 the NOIA was reorganized into the newly formed Kenilworth Realty Corporation.
Once the NY&NO was reformed into the New Orange Four Junction Railroad in 1901 the railroad became increasingly disillusioned with the New Orange Industrial Association. As the association floundered the NOFJ looked for ways to secure its own future, namely through an extension to the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad in Summit which it planned to build. Attempts at this endeavor would not be met with success for the NOFJ, partly due to the financial instability of the company.
Management of the NOFJ, William W. Cole and Horatio F. Dankel, associated themselves with Louis Keller to form the Cross-Country Railroad in 1902. Keller wished to provide his Baltusrol Golf Club transportation opportunities that would come with a railroad. The Cross-Country Railroad was planned to bridge the gap between the NOFJ in New Orange and the DL&W in Summit. Unfortunately backers for the project became dissuaded and the Cross-Country Railroad folded before it was ever built. This ultimately led to the formation of the Rahway Valley Railroad on July 18, 1904. The RVRR and NOFJ would consolidate on March 1, 1905. The Rahway Valley Railroad would extend the line to Summit by 1906.This is how the New Orange Industrial Association relates to the Rahway Valley Railroad.
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Water Basics
Three (3) Weeks without food. But only. . .
Three (3) Days without water.
When water availability is a concern, your first priority is to conserve the water that you already have contained in your body plus any supplies that you have left. There are some tips on conserving bodily fluid in the 'fluid loss' and 'electrolytes (salt)' articles further on in the water category.
Water can be sourced from most places but you need to know where to look.
Water is at the top of the priority list so you need to ensure that you secure an adequate supply as soon as possible (Not once you have already run out).
Whilst it is preferable to find a source of fresh running water, this will not always be an option. All water can be treated and made drinkable though so even if its not an ideal source, it should be collected and treated by using one of the methods described in this section.
- Does not have any living plants growing in or around it
- Has animal, reptile or fish bones or carcasses in or around it
- Has white chalky ring/s around the edges
These are often signs of chemical contamination and this water will need to be distilled before it is fit to drink. It is always advisable to boil water from pools.
- Never drink seawater without diluting as this will lead to kidney failure.
- Only ever drink urine as an absolute last resort.
Where the situation permits, you should always boil all water to avoid picking up any nasty stomach bugs which could causes vomiting and diarrhea which will cause you to lose fluid, which you cannot afford to lose.
Exertion, heat, injury, or an illness can all contribute to increases in water loss.
Dark yellow urine indicates dehydration.
Once you find a good source of water, Be careful not to drink too much too quickly as this will usually result in you throwing up, if you are at all dehydrated, resulting in further fluid loss and further dehydration. You should take it in small frequent amounts allowing your body to accept and absorb it.
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Extra-hot Golf GTI Pirelli is back
* Power raised to 225bhp * Manual or semi-auto gearbox * Prices from 22,555...
Volkswagen is launching a high-performance version of its Golf GTI to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Golf GTI Pirelli special-edition car.
The new car is based on the current Golf Mk5 GTI bodyshell but features a 2.0-litre petrol engine with 225bhp, 28bhp more than the standard unit. That reduces the 0-62mph time from 7.2sec to 6.8sec and increases the top speed from 146mph to 152mph. It comes with a choice of a six-speed manual gearbox or high-speed semi-automatic unit.
Other features include 18-inch alloy wheels, a body-coloured front splitter, side skirts and rear bumper, half-leather sports seats, and tinted rear windows. The car will also feature a Pirelli badge on its rear.
The car is available as a three- and five-door model, costing from 22,555.
However, buyers eager to haggle are recommended to concentrate on standard models as discounts will be higher.


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