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When I worked at the airport, I was assigned the task of transporting cargo to the gates of flights they were assigned to. This was not always a "simple" task, particularly when constant gate changes bespeak of barely "controlled" chaos behind the scenes. I worked alone, was self-motivated, set lofty but achievable goals, and was discontented when I didn't meet them. Working alone was fine by me because there was no one who was an obstacle to my goals; the union airline employees who staged the out-going cargo in the pick-up area were "impressed" by the fact that one of the non-union "enemy" kept the area neat, tidy, and usually empty. But it was sometimes a chore, because incoming cargo was usually brought in by the non-union "kids" who were often thoughtless and lethargic and did not care for good order, just dump and run and let someone else (like me) clean-up their mess. After seven years working outside all day in all kinds of weather, avoiding death dodging planes taxiing over the speed limit ( as if they wanted to run over one of us just out of spite), and only making something over minimum wage, I figured I had had enough and it was time to move on. I was told some time afterward by a former colleague that the cargo running responsibilities had been taken away from the non-union contractor I worked for, apparently because the airline was unhappy with the irresponsibility of the people who came after me.
I'm sure that Chris Hansen and his investment group feel the same way about civic, political and media "leaders" in Seattle; if you want something done "right," sometimes you just have to depend on someone who is willing to take on the responsibility, with or without the cooperation of others; and if that someone has to be you, then so be it. Those who just want to be an obstacle should just get out of the way.
What is all this about? Starbucks' owner Howard Schultz sold his stake in the NBA Seattle Supersonics franchise to an Oklahoma City investment group headed by Clay Bennett, who then demanded that a new arena be built, or else. Schultz was criticized for running the team like a "business," failing to make "basketball" decisions that would make the team competitive (before the sale of the team, Rashard Lewis and a past-his-prime Ray Allen were the only players who were not a complete bust on the roster), and there was little stomach for his previous similar demands. A visit from NBA Commissioner David Stern before the state legislature urge funding for a new arena was met with sarcasm, which was exactly the wrong tact to take with Stern for future reference; the disinterested reaction to the city's failure to enforce the lease on Key Arena—which would have effectively kept the team in town for a few more years, instead allowing Bennett to "buy out" the lease and take the team to Oklahoma City—pretty much showed where public "sentiment" was in retaining an NBA franchise in Seattle. Bennett agreed to sell the WNBA Storm to four-female group, probably for peanuts. Geez, thanks. I bet even people who are "fans" of the Storm and don't consider them merely a political "statement" can't even remember what years they won their WNBA championships.
There are likely reasons why NBA basketball was (and is) not considered a civic priority like football is in Seattle. It isn't because the Seahawks are having an unprecedented run of success; unlike baseball, the NFL is less "tribal" than most sports. Football fans are fascinated by what is going on in football everywhere; even if one's own team stinks, the overall scene retains interest. But basketball is another matter. For myself, I still am an avid follower of NCAA men's basketball, but the NBA? Not so much. I started to lose interest following the Magic-Bird era. Something changed; was it the street "culture" of Michigan's "Fab-Five" and those ridiculous knee-length "shorts" migrating to the NBA that turned me off? Was it incidents like "Malice in the Palace," or the fact that a thug like Ron Artest can be given a "citizenship" award by the NBA, and within months make a mockery of the "award" by his uncivil behavior in the NBA finals against the Dallas Mavericks? Artest went on to mock everyone by renaming himself "Metta World Peace" after these incidents—and more were to come, one punished by a seven-game suspension.
Still, when Hansen first stepped forward in 2012 with a proposal to build a new arena and bring the NBA back to town, there was some scattered excitement in basketball fandom, but it was hardly overwhelming. The possibility that the Sacramento Kings were on the selling block and Hansen and his group, which included Microsoft billionaire Steve Balmer, were interested in acquiring the team, got many people's hopes up; but the alienation of Stern earlier came back to "bite" any such deal.
And it wasn't just the NBA that was "biting." The Port of Seattle opposed the building of the arena in the SODO district; but it had also opposed the building of Qwest and Safeco Fields in the same area, so any opposition was just more grumbling and sour grapes than anything substantive. The female-dominated Seattle Times editorial board was a foe of Hansen from the start, and blew-up its own credibility by resorting to juvenile name-calling in its editorials opposing returning the NBA to Seattle. The Times went on to dare Hansen and his group to pay for their arena themselves without public funds, as if that was their only "issue." This spring, the city council voted 5-4 against selling a one block strip of Occidental Ave to the Hansen group, which owns the property on either side of it; all five "no" votes were placed by all five women on the council, while all four men on the council voted for the sale. The blocking of the sale had to be "personal" against some male trying to be too "pushy" with all his money. There was no sense at all in blocking the sale, since I've seen that strip of road with my own two eyeballs; to call it an "Avenue" is like calling a off-dirt road in some rural boondock an "avenue." The ancient industrial district directly south of downtown Seattle is full of such ill or unused patches of pavement, and then only as parking spaces. After that vote, the Times Jon Talton exulted that it is now "unlikely" that a new arena will be built in SODO.
But things have changed "dramatically" since then. Clearly angered by the ill-intentions of the majority of the city council and from the Times, Hansen and his group called the bluff of both by unveiling a proposal to 100 percent pay for a new arena from private sources, plus an overpass as a gift to the Port in exchange for their old dirt footpath. Tired of civic "leaders" and their incompetence, stonewalling, personal grudgery and simply being an obstacle to progress, the group decided they wanted no more to do with the city, and they could do what they wanted with the property they bought and paid for. Of course, there was still the matter of Occidental and the opposition of the Port, but now it was put-up or shut-up time. Would the real reason for the opposition to the arena deal be exposed? Was it less about public "spiritedness"—which the Hansen group has shown far more of than the city or the Times—or more about the petty personal?
What has happened in the 10 days or so since the Hansen group announced their proposal? For now it seems that the women on the city council and the Times are running for cover under the skirts of the mayor, Ed Murray. The mayor immediately released a statement, not in support of the Hansen proposal, but lamely suggesting that there were still "alternatives" on the table, which of course he did not name because there aren't any. No one wants to "renovate" Key Arena again, especially for a professional sports team. Murray couldn't help himself but to further expose the hypocrisy of the current "leadership" of the city with its utter failure to recognize a great deal, even when it is handed to them on a silver platter. Murray's statement continued "The City will review the letter sent by a group of stakeholders, including Chris Hansen, suggesting a revision to the previous SODO arena proposal. We share the goal of bringing the NBA and NHL to Seattle. The City will continue to consider all options to build a new, state of the art arena that will accomplish that goal and that can serve the city for years to come."
Oh, bullshit. The current city leadership isn't "serious" about bringing an NBA (or an NHL) team to Seattle, because it might cause everyone to forget that there is a women's "alternative" team in town, and there is no other "option" to consider of any substance or applicability to a big-time professional sports franchise. The city seems to insist on just standing in the way of good order. Hansen wants to do things in a business-like, professional way, keeping everything neat and tidy. All the city and the Times want to do is to be obstacle for petty partisan political reasons, put common sense and reason on ice, dump in all their unsubstantiated complaints, and run when their mendacity has been exposed. Why can't these people tell the truth, like Hillary Clinton? Am I being sarcastic there? Well of course. While I'm not an NBA fan (just as I am not a Donald Trump "fan "), bald-faced hypocrisy has a way of bringing out the "fan" in me.


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Global Bass is a term that is attempting to classify a recent mashing of genres and cultures. Global Bass is exactly that, Global. It's different in every instance and culture. However, it is always electronic and always using lots of the lower frequencies. Sometimes Global Bass uses 3Ball (Tribal), Dub, Dancehall, Electro, and Miami. It's a very rap and dub influenced style of electronic music. But enough definition, let's get on with the show!
FYI, this show clearly quotes almost completely from this article - http://boingboing.net/2012/10/02/music-appreciation-global-bas.html
A Tribe Called Red - Indigenous Power
Bucky Done Gun - M.I.A.
Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa and Soul Sonic Force
Curi Càhueri - Dj.RogelioHuerta
Ayinla Omowura & his Apala Group + J Kenzo - Fuji Dub - DJ Zhao
Javier Estrada - Histeria (Original Mix)
Treason - Rhythm Star
Body of a Goddess - Rhythm Star
Eye of the Sibyl - DRVG CVLTURE
Aint No Sunshine Master - Elonious
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Full Name: Eddo Andre Brandes
Born: 5 March 1963, Port Shepstone (Natal)
Major teams: Zimbabwe (since 1985), Mashonaland Country Districts (1994/95-1995/96), Mashonaland (1996/97-).
Present club team: Universals
Known as: Eddo Brandes
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Occupation: Chicken farmer
Test Debut: Inaugural Test v India, at Harare Sports Club, 1992/93
ODI Debut: 10 October 1987, v India, Hyderabad (World Cup)
Biography (December 1996)
Eddo Brandes has been the spearhead of Zimbabwe's bowling attack for over ten years, and is now, at the age of 33, fitter and bowling perhaps better than ever before. Despite the presence of several promising young pace bowlers, Eddo is determined to continue to play a leading part in the Zimbabwean team, and his skill and experience have kept him in the selectors' minds.
Eddo was born in Port Shepstone, on the southern coast of Natal, but shortly afterwards his father, a farmer, moved to Rhodesia, as it then was, to work on a sugar estate near Triangle in the Lowveld. Although his father was not an active cricketer, he did shoot for this country. Eddo attended Murray McDougall Primary School at Triangle, and played cricket there; he was inspired to take more interest in the game by the visits of national cricketer Brian Davison to coach while he was in Standard 3 (Grade 5). He both batted and bowled and, although in adult cricket his bowling has taken precedence, he has always been a potentially dangerous batsman against all but the fastest bowlers or the highest quality spinners. He was selected for the Partridges, the national primary schools team, in 1975. He moved on to Fort Victoria (now Masvingo) High School from 1976 to 1979, representing the Fawns, the national under-15 team, in 1978. In his second year there he recorded his first century, in an inter-school match. He moved on to Prince Edward School in Harare from 1980 to 1982, where he was also a boarder, and played for the Zimbabwe Schools team in 1982.
After leaving school, he attended Pietermaritzburg University to study agricultural manage-ment; he also played cricket for the university, but his studies probably delayed his coming to prominence in Zimbabwe cricket. He made steady progress without any spectacular performances in Harare league cricket during the vacations and, with the selectors looking for a strike bowler to replace Peter Rawson, unavailable for the 1985 tour of England, he did well enough to be chosen. It took place during the university vacation, but he enjoyed little success. On his return to Harare the following year, he played for Old Hararians, the Prince Edward old boys' club, and worked to start with in a furniture shop, fortunately with an employer who was kind enough to allow him plenty of time off to play cricket. He was soon opening the bowling with Peter Rawson, and once again Zimbabwe had a bowling attack with real fire-power.
Eddo really made his name in the season of 1986/87. After two unsuccessful outings against powerful Young West Indies team, he tore into their batsmen in the third match with his first five-wicket haul, after removing Phil Simmons and John Charles for 17. Unfortunately poor Zimbabwe batting resulted in a heavy defeat. Against Pakistan B he was the dominant bowler on either side, taking 17 wickets in three matches. His pace and hostility complemented Rawson well, although at this stage of his career he concentrated mainly on raw pace and was criticised for too much short-pitched bowling; he did not have extreme pace by world standards and the placid home pitches often resulted in the bumper being a wasted ball. As Eddo developed, he would slow his pace a little, pitch the ball up more readily and develop the skills of movement, becoming a more complete bowler in the process. He found Rawson a great help and encouragement in his development as a bowler, and also particularly mentions the support of such other players as Dave Houghton, John Traicos and Robin Brown.
In 1988/89, Eddo wrote his way into the record books by becoming the first (and to date still the only) Zimbabwean bowler ever to record a first-class hat-trick. This came against Bert Vance's New Zealand Young Internationals, when he changed the course of the match by first dismissing Gavin Larsen hit wicket, after a major partnership, and then immediately having Tony Blain caught and Mark Priest lbw.
After that season, Peter Rawson emigrated to Natal and Eddo found himself Zimbabwe's sole strike bowler. He had at times been forced to bowl long spells in the past due to the team's limited bowling resources, but now he frequently found himself over-bowled. At times this proved counter-productive, as he sustained injuries and missed important matches. Another important factor was his decision to go into business himself and take up chicken farming in 1992, just before Zimbabwe gained Test status. Out at Ruwa, just east of Harare, he found it increasingly difficult to spend enough time in training and practice.
Eddo has received considerable criticism for his injury problems, and he understandably resents them. He admits that he has not always been fully fit, but points out that this often proved impossible with his very time-consuming business. He went into chicken farming before professional cricket had taken root in Zimbabwe, and his foremost responsibility was to get his business established, which involved working very long hours and financial problems, as it was difficult to borrow money. He had to do all the administrative work single-handed and it was not always possible to find the time or energy that he wanted to play cricket in the peak of condition.
However, he remained Zimbabwe's number one strike bowler when the country attained Test status in 1992. After Zimbabwe had run up 456 against India in the inaugural Test, the team looked to Eddo as its main strike bowler. Unfortunately, after bowling only two overs he injured his ankle so seriously that umpire Dickie Bird thought it was broken, and he was unable to play any further part in the match. Fortunately, John Traicos rose to the occasion with five wickets, enabling Zimbabwe to lead on first innings. And Eddo recovered in time to play in the New Zealand Test at Harare three weeks later, when he took four wickets. He also took 13 wickets in Pakistan the following year, but by now the increasing workload of international cricket was taking its toll.
Injured early the following season, he was omitted when fit again from matches against the touring Sri Lankans, and looked a doubtful choice for the tour of Australia for the World Series Cup. While Zimbabwe were playing the one-day series against Sri Lanka, Eddo had been relegated to the Zimbabwe Board team to play Griqualand West in Kimberley. He rose to the occasion superbly. He pulverised the Griquas attack for 165 not out, including 10 sixes and 15 fours, and then ripped out seven Griqua batsmen in the first innings. Two more wickets in the second innings left him just one short of a rare match double of 100 runs and 10 wickets in the same match, previously achieved only by Percy Mansell from this country. This made his trip to Australia certain; unfortunately, another breakdown in Australia saw him return home early.
Prior to his century, Eddo had generally failed to do his batting justice at first-class level. His only previous first-class fifty was an outstanding innings of 94 against the touring county side Glamorgan in 1990/91; he arrived at the crease with Zimbabwe struggling on 65 for six, and then shared a stand of 147 with the young Alistair Campbell, who went on to his maiden first-class century.
Since then, he has never been certain of his place in the Zimbabwean team. However, with his chicken farm now established, he is still determined to play a major role in international cricket. He is fitter and bowling better than he has been for years, and fine bowling on unhelpful pitches in Logan Cup matches has regained him a place in the national squad, when so many people had written him off.
His most memorable match, Eddo thinks, was the 1992 World Cup victory over England, where Eddo himself was man of the match with four prime wickets for 21. England needed a mere 135 to win, but Eddo, who bowled his ten overs on the trot, dismissed Graham Gooch lbw first ball, and then in quick succession removed Allan Lamb, Robin Smith and his former school-mate Graeme Hick, the last two with off-cutters that went through the gate. This set up a magnificent nine-run Zimbabwean victory.
Andy Flower says, "Eddo is actually fitter than I have seen him for a long time, so we can hardly say he's coming to the end of his career. As fast bowlers go, he is getting on a bit, but he is bowling really well and I'm certain that he'll be opening the bowling with Heath Streak against England. He's bowling quick again and swinging the ball away from the batsman."
Dave Houghton says, "Eddo is looking as good as ever; he's looking fit and lean, so if we get a few good spells out of him we've got a really good bowling combination."


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Complex and Intelligent Systems Center,
East China University of Science and Technology,
Shanghai 200038, China;Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A9, Canada
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Complex and Intelligent Systems Center,
East China University of Science and Technology,
Shanghai 200038, China;Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A9, Canada
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Contributed by the Mechanisms and Robotics Committee of ASME for publication in the JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL DESIGN. Manuscript received January 6, 2015; final manuscript received July 19, 2015; published online October 15, 2015. Assoc. Editor: Charles Kim.
Rigid-body mechanisms (RBMs) and compliant mechanisms (CMs) are traditionally treated in significantly different ways. In this paper, we present a synthesis approach that is appropriate for both RBMs and CMs. In this approach, RBMs and CMs are generalized into modularized mechanisms that consist of five basic modules, including compliant links (CLs), rigid links (RLs), pin joints (PJs), compliant joints (CJs), and rigid joints (RJs). The link modules and joint modules are modeled through beam elements and hinge elements, respectively, in a geometrically nonlinear finite-element solver, and subsequently a beam-hinge ground structure model is proposed. Based on this new model, a link and joint determination approach—module optimization—is developed for the type and dimensional synthesis of both RBMs and CMs. In the module optimization approach, the states (both presence or absence and sizes) of joints and links are all design variables, and one may obtain an RBM, a partially CM, or a fully CM for a given mechanical task. Three design examples of path generators are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach to the type and dimensional synthesis of RBMs and CMs.
Definitions of beam and hinge elements: (a) the coordinates and deformation parameters of the beam element and (b) the hinge element between two connected beam elements
Model comparison: (a) conventional beam-only model and (b) the proposed beam-hinge model
Beam-hinge model of the modularized four-bar mechanism
Discretized design domain with the beam-hinge ground structure model
Joint interpretation when the reference link is absent: (a) the mesh with beam elements and hinge elements, (b) the design with the referenced link A being removed, and (c) the interpretation of the design in (b)
Principles for the interpretation of two joints that are connected in series. In each principle, the first term represents the joint between link B and the reference link A, and the second term represents the joint between link C and the reference link A. The third term represents the joint between B and C when A is absent.
Design domain
Design results of examples I–III
Result interpretation of example I—rigid-body path generator: (a) the joint and link modules of the original result mechanism, (b) the interpreted joint and link modules of the mechanism, and (c) the equivalent four-bar RBM
Results of examples II (the first row) and III (the second row): (a) and (d) represent the original design results; (b) and (e) represent the results with interpretation; and (c) and (f) represent the deformed configurations of the mechanisms
Models based on the explicit model and the implicit model for the result of example III
Modularization of mechanisms: (a) a four-bar RBM, (b) a four-bar lumped fully CM, (c) a four-bar distributed fully CM, (d) a four-bar partially CM, (e) a modularized four-bar mechanism with link and joint modules, and (f) a general modularized mechanism with link and joint modules (the dotted lines represent any possible connectivity). Note that the symbols for the five modules are used hereafter in this paper.
Desired path and generated path
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{Muar} Lotta Cafe
last post on our short and eventful Johor road trip where we visited few towns including Segamat, Kluang and last but certainly not least, Muar! i kept the best for the last! a cafe in Muar that i adored the most in southern region – LOTTA Cafe, yes beats Malacca's hands down in term of ambiance. December… Read More {Muar} Lotta Cafe


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Monday, March 17, 2008
Dave's Absolutely Gorgeous, Beautiful Buttons!!
Some of you may know that I have been getting my Buttons on ebay from Dave Rundell in Florida - well Dave wrote to tell me he is no longer selling on ebay - BUT - he IS still selling buttons.
He can be contacted by email on firstname.lastname@example.com - he is selling packages of gorgeous buttons, like these pictured, for 75 cents a package, plus relevant postage. And his postage charges are very reasonable, believe me! I live in Australia, and it is still worth my while to buy from Dave in USA!! So for details of how many to a package, and postage, please get in touch with Dave direct.
I must emphasize that I have no affiliation with Dave Rundell, but I am very happy customer, and am sorry he is not selling on ebay any more.
9 comments:
- Lynne said...
They are very cute buttons - and I'm one very tempted knitter!!
- 1:22 pm
- MALUSICA said...
dear ivette:
I swear that Idon't know said who of all is the more beautiful , I like to me alls.really you knitt genially.
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- roseygirl said...
I always remember as a child my mum putting really cute buttons on things she knitted for me, it is something I treasure as a special memory :)
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- peigirl said...
your knitting is just beautiful
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- ferda said...
have been wondering you
my son is 26 days old by now I've sent you emails and got no reply:(
- 10:04 pm
Thank you for this information. I have been looking for Dave on Ebay, to get some of these buttons.
Will contact him direct.
- 12:15 pm
- Susan said...
I have emailed him and got no reply? I would like to see what he has and get some...
Is there a way to know what buttons he has?
BTW your knitting is just beautiful as always!
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- Kree-ations said...
Dear Yvette,
Just thought to let you know that I took a looksie at your site and I am currently crocheting a jacket very similar to one on your blog!!!! I am making it (hopefully) smaller than the pattern to fit my little girl's doll. Finger's crossed...
Again, thankyou for your generosity :-)
Cheers, Kree-ations
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For quite some time I've wanted to do a PIN-UP book full of heroines; characters that I like, from TV shows, comics or movies. Once, when I was about to get into that idea in earnest, I saw the just recently released BELLE du JOUR by Bill Presing (not to mention his follow-up BOOK PLATE BETTIES) and suddenly, I lost [READ MORE…]
Last weekend was beautifully sunny here in Portland, so I went on several long walks throughout the city. I tried doing some sketches of the scenery but none that came out very well. Several half-started scribbles is all. Perhaps they can be made into something decent if I revisit those particular spots again for a follow up session or two… [READ MORE…]
I am posting from my hotel here in sunny San Diego. We got down here a day early, on Tuesday, to set up our booth with a minimum of fuss. Last Night was PREVIEW NIGHT here at Comic Con and it went very well for us. In addition to all the left overs from previous years, I have the NEW [READ MORE…]
Here are some of the sketches I did while sitting at the Abismo/NerveBomb booth at last months Comic Con. Drawing famous heroes is a first for me, and I had quite a bit of fun doing it. I'll post some more when I get time. Speaking of Comic-Con, I was only recently able to get my hands on the stuff [READ MORE…]


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Dividends Horizon offers continuity between workplace furniture and interior architecture, offering planning opportunities to optimize users' relationships to their work areas and those around them. Designed to embrace organizational change, Dividends Horizon moves the workplace forward both practically and aesthetically, creating a sense of community and structured space. Dividends Horizon's simple frame and tile panel design, in combination with Open Weave fabric screens, supports changing aesthetic and functional needs. The result: a consistent visual language and refined details.


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Safran Identity & Security and IDEX ASA (Oslo Børs: IDEX), announce significant progress toward commercializing the world's first ISO standard form factor smart cards with a touch fingerprint sensor. A pilot card series has successfully passed testing.
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A blatant violation of basic rules, while initiating any proceedings. Below is an example of how lazy and incompetent the lower courts in India are. The lower judiciary seldom applies it mind, while initiating proceedings. And then they claim, they have flood of cases!.
A person working as driver while implicated by a women under Domestic violence Act. He wasn't her relative. This person, was working as a driver in that household. Shows the extremely corrupt nature of police too. Fortunately for him, the high court ruled in his favor. Pathetic law, shameful supporters of this law.
Dated:- 31.08.2009
The Hon'ble Mr. Justice R.REGUPATHI
Crl. O.P. No. 91 of 2009 and
M.P. No. 1 of 2009
K. Viswanathan ... Petitioner
Sivamalar ... Respondent
Prayer: Petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure
for the relief as stated therein. For Petitioner : Mr.V. Gopinath,
Senior Counsel
For Respondent : Mr. P. Duraisamy
The 5th respondent in the C.M.P filed before the trial court, admittedly driver of the 1st and 2nd respondents is the petitioner herein and he seeks for a direction to call for the records and quash the proceedings in C.M.P. No. 8207 of 2008 filed under Sections 12, 17, 18 and 19 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 before the Judicial Magistrate No. 1, Coimbatore, who took the same on file and ordered issuance of summons. The 5th respondent in the C.M.P. No. 8207 of 2008,
3. Learned Senior Counsel for the petitioner submits that admittedly, the petitioner is neither a family member nor having any domestic relationship with the family of respondents 1 and 2 and under such circumstance, he is erroneously included as one of the respondents in the application. By referring to Para 13a of the application, wherein the applicant prays for a declaration to the effect that she is entitled to reside in the shared household and the prayer at Para 13b for a direction to respondents 1 to 5 to hand over gold jewellery and sridhana property in their custody, learned Senior counsel submits that a person can be included as a respondent in an application of this kind only in the event of the aggrieved person establishing the domestic relationship with such person sought to be taken as respondent as a family member living together in the joint family and contended that the petitioner is not a person coming under the purview of "respondent" and he is not in possession and control over the sridhana property; therefore it is a fit case to quash proceedings against him.
4. Per contra, learned counsel for the respondent submits that specific
allegations have been made in Para No. 6 of the application to the effect that the petitioner was always acting as if he was also a family member in the household and playing a dominant role by taking important decisions, but curiously respondents 1 to 4 are under the clutches of the petitioner for unknown reasons. It is also alleged that the petitioner even had the audacity to abuse the husband of the respondent herein in front of his parents.
5. Heard the submissions made on either side and perused the materials available on record.
6. The words "respondent" and "domestic relationship" have been defined in 2 (f) (q) of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005. 2(f): ""Domestic relationship" means a relationship between two persons who live or have, at any point of time, lived together in a shared household, when they are related by consanguinity, marriage, or through a relationship in the nature of marriage, adoption or are family members living together as a joint family" . 2(q) ""respondent" means any adult male person who is, or has been, in a domestic relationship with the aggrieved person and against whom the aggrieved person has sought any relief under this Act."
7. Having regard to the operation of the Act as against the person who is sought to be taken as "respondent" in the proceedings initiated thereunder, it must be pointed out that unless the aggrieved person, namely, respondent herein, substantiates that the person concerned has got domestic relationship or that he is a family member, such person cannot be mechanically impleaded as one of the respondents in the application. If the respondent has any grievance against the petitioner, she is always at liberty to initiate proceedings against him before the appropriate forum for any offence committed by him against her, if she is so advised.
8. Considering the facts and circumstance, I do not find any justification on the part of the trial court in including the petitioner as one of the respondents in the application; therefore, the proceeding pending in CMP No. 8207 of 2008 on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate No. I, Coimbatore is directed to be quashed in so far as the petitioner / 5th respondent is concerned.
9. Accordingly, the Criminal Original Petition is ordered and consequently,
miscellaneous petition is closed.
1. Judicial Magistrate No. I,
Blatant misuse of DV, to implicate driver !!
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If you are looking for a great gift for a mother, then you should consider a ring. By definition, a mother-ring is a piece of jewelry memorial. They usually have a birthstone for each of the children of the woman, dead or alive. Not only have a mother. You may even be a grandmother of the family are birthstones for other family members, and can be given on the birth of a new child or grandchild.
Mother rings has become very popularif someone take two wedding rings with precious stones and connect the children of the family decided. These variations sold very well in the first season, Mother's Day and quickly became one of the best gifts for mothers and grandmothers. Seeing that have been hit, hard work marketing person decided to expand the concept and add the birthstones for all children. It is claimed that Guertin Brothers to design the first company to sell and had mothers rings. ObviouslyMother rings are hit during the holidays such as Mother's Day is very, Valentine's Day, birthdays and Christmas.
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To order the ring of a mother, you need to know three things.
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Mother rings are one of the top gifts you could ever hope for your mother, grandmother or another woman I know who has had children. They are a proven favorite.
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Six astronauts emerged this week from four months spent living on Hawaii's isolated Mauna Loa volcano to simulate life on Mars, the latest elaborate make-believe staged in the name of science.
The astronauts wrapped up the Hi-Seas mission on Tuesday, leaving behind the vegetation-free lava fields and the 1,000 square foot geodesic dome that served as their living and working space.
"Geochemically if you compare geology there to the geology, for example, that Curiosity is looking at on Mars – very similar," said Kim Binsted, a UH professor who is an investigator on the study. "You can look at pictures of Curiosity and pictures of our site – sometimes they are almost indistinguishable – except we've got beautiful blue skies."
This study was meant to compare two food systems – pre-prepared individual items and something like cooking, except with freeze dried meats and produce – to see how items rate in energy use, crew satisfaction and other variables.
Nasa recently gave the study funding for three more years of research and three more analog missions that are set to last four, eight and 12 months.
The focus of these studies will move from food to more sensitive situations. "That's looking at issues to do with crew cohesion and crew psychology – so how do you select a crew and keep them sane without killing each other over these long durations," said Binsted.
It helps that unlike Mars or Antarctica, where extreme conditions for non-simluated missions have led it become a serendipitous site for analog studies, the Hawaii site is one hour from a hospital and other easily accessed safety resources.
"We can mess with them in ways that we wouldn't be able to in Antarctica," said Binsted. "You wouldn't run a simulated emergency in Antarctica, because there is too much real risk there. Whereas in Hawaii, we can put pressures on them in different ways and know that if something goes badly wrong we can still rescue them."
This is hardly the first time researchers have simulated a mission to Mars, nor even the only ongoing simulation. Like the Hi-Seas mission, most of these projects try to create analogous circumstances to life on Mars, so that researchers can study the problems of long-term life in space by creating.
For Mars500, six 'marsonauts' for the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems, spent 520 days (roughly 17 months) in voluntary isolation from the world. In 2011, they finally left their "spacecraft", a cramped system of windowless steel tubes that sat stationary in a Moscow warehouse, and in which they took daily tests to research the strains of space travel.
The six men – Russian, French, Italian and Chinese – also spent 30 days landed on an artificial Mars, which they accessed through yet another tube attached to the system. On this pretend planet, they had to wear spacesuits and enact emergency scenarios. The results so far show how unhealthy sleep cycles can induce depression, how not everyone is up protracted isolation and confinement, and how a sedentary life under artificial light is bad for astronauts and office workers alike.
Meanwhile, the Mars Society runs simulations through its Mars Analogue Research Station Program, shortened, predictably, to "Mars". The Society currently has two domed "habitats" at work, one in southern Utah and another on the polar desert of Devon Island, Canada, whose terrain and harsh conditions comes as close to Mars on Earth as can be managed. Often adorned with the tricolored "flag of Mars", these habitats is home to about six volunteer scientists, who work under "sim" conditions for up to four months at a time.
Like the men of Mars500, the men and women of the society conduct psychological tests, but they also test survival equipment and robots, hunt for water with geophone flutes, and study the extremophiles that survive in the world's most inhospitable places. When outside the habitat, they wear full space suits, keeping "in sim" at all times – except when someone needs to look out for polar bears.


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The lady will have a Franzia.How does Katie Holmes unwind after a long day? She puts Suri to bed, slips into her jammies, throws in a Dawson's Creek DVD, and rips into a box of wine. Okay, those first three things aren't true, but the fourth one is. Katie Holmes loves boxed wine, you guys. And, yes, I'm taking the time to write a post on this. Why? Because it's awesome. And because there's a whole mess of other non-fancy things Katie likes that you might be interested in knowing about ...
In addition to revealing to The New York Times her love of "box wine", Katie also came clean on the fact that she loves Funyuns; microwavable burritos; beans "right out of the can"; and she also told the reporter that she mixes the very last drops of her shampoo with shower water and "shakes it up real good" in order to avoid buying a new one for as long as possible.
I'm kidding.
But again -- Katie really does love box wine! I know! It's crazy!
Why is it crazy? Because she lives in a $12,500 a month apartment in New York. And because her 6-year-old daughter knows that the "v" in Bvlgari is really a "u." You wouldn't peg Katie as someone to drink box wine like I do now did in college. You'd think she'd be sipping, or bathing, in Dom P.
Katie, I knew I liked you the minute you stepped out on Tom. But now I know it: You and I are meant to be.
Do you ever drink box wine? Do you actually believe that Katie does? Do you wish you didn't read this post?
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I don't even have the words to go with this. I think the quoted material speaks for itself:
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The test of a good model is not whether it corresponds to the true underlying structure of the world, but whether it usefully captures some of the regularities in the concrete phenomena we observe. There are lots of different regularities, more or less bounded in time, space and other dimensions, so we are going to need lots of different models, depending on the questions we are asking and the setting we are asking them in. Thus the need for the "art of choosing".The Slack Wire
A Quick Point on Models
JW Mason | Assistant Professor of Economics, John Jay College, City University of New York
Critical realism in economics
Heterodox economists like Tony Lawson, Lars Pålsson Syll, Frederic Lee or Geoffrey Hodgson are trying to work the ideas of critical realism into economics, especially the dynamic idea of macro-micro interaction.
According to critical realist economists, the central aim of economic theory is to provide explanations in terms of hidden generative structures. This position combines transcendental realism with a critique of mainstream economics. It argues that mainstream economics (i) relies excessively on deductivist methodology, (ii) embraces an uncritical enthusiasm for formalism, and (iii) believes in strong conditional predictions in economics despite repeated failures,
The world that mainstream economists study is the empirical world. But this world is "out of phase" (Lawson) with the underlying ontology of economic regularities. The mainstream view is thus a limited reality because empirical realists presume that the objects of inquiry are solely "empirical regularities"—that is, objects and events at the level of the experienced.
The critical realist views the domain of real causal mechanisms as the appropriate object of economic science, whereas the positivist view is that the reality is exhausted in empirical, i.e. experienced reality. Tony Lawson argues that economics ought to embrace a "social ontology" to include the underlying causes of economic phenomena.Conventional economists would likely respond by pointing out microfoundations as a methodological requirement that grounds economic models in reality through rational choice.
There are deep divisions among economists, especially between conventional and heterodox economists, over methodology and that includes assumptions regarding model construction.
Heterodox economists would say that there is much more involved that choosing the right model. Conventional economists make this point, too, but they limit the choices to conventional methodological assumptions.
Heterodox economists counter with the objection that these assumptions are themselves the problem. Choosing the right model involves more than choosing a model. It involves having correct assumptions about methodology. Without correct assumptions about methodology, a comprehensive modeling process that integrates the micro, meso, and macro levels is impossible to achieve, and causal explanation is elusive. As simple example of this is observing stock-flow consistency, which purely mathematical approaches often ignore and proceed to violate.


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As most of you know, President Barack Obama and Congress are in the throes of debate over federal sequestration, an unusual legislative requirement that dictates across-the-board cuts of $85 billion in federal spending on March 1.
The cuts will take place automatically unless Congress acts to stop them. Setting aside the politics that have led us to this point, the impact on our ability to fly and operate our aircraft in the manner in which we are accustomed could be severely impacted if the sequester takes effect.
Our primary interest, as always, is maintaining the freedom of flight for AOPA members. But in this instance, we have another equally important concern: flight safety.
Arbitrary cuts to our aviation system could compromise safety and the efficiency of GA operations.
The purpose of this communication to AOPA members is to alert you to the possible impact of a government sequester on you as a pilot, aircraft owner, and AOPA member. We also want to tell you how your association has deployed its regulatory and government affairs specialists to affect the best outcome during this challenge and to mitigate its impact on GA.
On Feb. 22, the Department of Transportation and FAA wrote to AOPA and several other aviation organizations detailing the possible impact of the so-called sequestration spending cuts that are scheduled to take effect March 1.
The agencies said the letter was "just the beginning" of a dialog with stakeholders about how to "reduce the negative impact" of required cuts that are expected to reach $600 million for the rest of this fiscal year. The letter cited several measures that it would have to enact if a deal on sequestration wasn't reached, including the closure of 60 airport control towers during midnight shifts, the shutdown of 238 towers completely at airports with fewer than 150,000 flight operations per year, and a staff furlough.
However, there is considerable controversy regarding the FAA's proposed cuts, with numerous others suggesting that the FAA could make more selective cuts that would be less dramatic and damaging.
We hope to learn more about the FAA's sequestration plans on Feb. 26 when AOPA will join with several other aviation associations in a sequestration meeting with top FAA officials. We have urged the FAA to provide a specific timetable for implementing the cuts announced at the end of last week. We of course will share any details on the cuts with our members at that time.
AOPA's government specialists report to us that if sequestration takes hold, we will see a gradual reduction of services that may take weeks to become apparent, during which pressure would likely mount on Congress and the Obama administration to find a workable compromise.
We have spent the last few years building the largest and strongest GA Caucus in the House and Senate ever. AOPA is working today in Congress with this sizeable caucus, which has been very supportive of the system in which we operate. In our meetings on Capitol Hill, we have expressed the need to maintain essential services that are of vital use to our members, including air traffic control and the FAA products that provide weather, notam, and operational flight information, such as updated charts. Airmen certification and medical services are also a concern, and we are working with our colleagues within the FAA itself to make sure that the agency knows what you rely on most as AOPA members.
Standing in the shadow of the sequestration controversy is Obama's budget, which will also come out in March. As before, it will most likely include a $100-per-flight user fee proposal. We expect the House to declare the president's budget dead on arrival, and then to enact its own budget bills (without user fees). They will send those to the Senate, where a budget has not been acted upon for years.
Thus, we are months away from knowing whether the administration will have the ability to advance its user fee proposal. If past is prologue, chances of its passage are not good. We will work to defeat it, as we have successfully done in the past.
In the meantime, we hope that a solution to the automatic sequester can be found by March 1. Until then, please stay tuned to AOPA's website and newsletters for updates on our meetings with the FAA and Congress, and for further news on sequestration's impact on aviation.


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Zara Kingsley dispels the myth of character autobiographies.
A Moral Dilemma was released in March and has been very well received so far. I love getting emails from readers telling me how much they loved Rebecca, hated Isabella and how Julia annoyed them. The one question that crops up time and time again is: So Zara, which character are you most like?
Well, the character from my book which I am most like is … none of them. And that's the truth.
Oh, I know most people assume that a first novel is somewhat autobiographical, and I think there is some truth in that. But although A Moral Dilemma is my 'debut' novel, it's not the first novel I've written. The first novel is called They Have Wings, and that one, currently lurking in the bottom of a tightly closed drawer, is extremely autobiographical, rather deep and definitely meaningful. Well, to me at least.
Writing that novel was somewhat therapeutic. Something I just had to get off my chest. However, having done that, I am now able to completely indulge in unadulterated fiction, inventing characters from my questionable imagination whom I love, admire, and quite fancy 😉
The main character in my book, Rebecca Hardy, is a pretty cool chick. The only thing she and I have in common is that we've both made some poor choices with men, and are both skint. The 'moral dilemma' referred to in the book's title, is one that I would personally never consider, (honestly mom), but one that Rebecca handles remarkably well.
The character I would most want to be like, but could never be gutsy enough to pull it off, is Abigail. She, I quite like to kid my boyfriend in believing, is my alter ego! Oh I would just love to walk a day in her 6" heel, carefree, flirtatious shoe. Except I prefer to wear sneakers, as they go better with my jogging bottoms.
So in short, I'm actually not like any of the characters in A Moral Dilemma, which is actually quite a good thing. But there is something about each of them that I absolutely love….so much so, that they all make it into Book Two of the series. Except for "bloody Jeremy" of course. He's in for the chop!
Think You'd Never Date A Married Man?…………Think Again!
Rebecca Hardy wasn't a naturally deceptive person, though she took quite well to the art of deception. Too well perhaps. She liked to think of it as helping someone out. Female camaraderie and all that. But it had gone too far. She had gone too far. She had, after all, ruined someone's life. Hadn't she?
Having theatrically caught her boyfriend cheating, Rebecca, convinced she was born in the wrong era, has had it with these modern day men. She has even less regard for these immoral modern day women, (of which she highly suspects her best female friend Abigail is one), who tend to prey on men in committed relationships. What is wrong with them?! Don't they care that they're breaking hearts and destroying lives?!
Rebecca, with her high morals and family values, would never even consider dating a married man. Which is exactly why, it is of no surprise her friends are at serious odds, when Rebecca finds herself doing exactly that. Dating a married man. Albeit, at the fervent request of his wife; the notorious Isabella Coombs.
Zara Kingsley is a chick lit and romcom writer, frustrated lover, yummy mummy, dreamer and red wine connoisseur. She lives in London.
2 comments on "Are Characters a Reflection of the Author?"
Interesting post, Zara! Thanks for sharing 🙂
My pleasure! Thanks for having me 🙂 x


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Billionaire in wolf's clothing / Terry Spear.
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Real estate mogul werewolf Rafe Denali didn't get where he is in life by being a pushover. When sexy she-wolf Jade Ashton nearly drowns in the surf outside his beach house, he knows better than to bring her into his home and his heart. But there's something about her that brings out his strongest instincts... Rafe has good reason to be suspicious. Jade Ashton and her baby son are pawns in an evil wolf's fatal plan. How can Jade betray the gorgeous man who rescued her? But if she doesn't, her baby will die, and her own life hangs in the balance. To get to the truth, Rafe is going to have to gain Jade's trust. If he can do that, he just might be her last-and best-hope. Contains mature themes.
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