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It's Veterans Day, and a group of antiwar Democrats have assembled at Chet Guinn's firehouse in downtown Des Moines. Guinn, a retired Methodist minister who still likes to slide down the fire pole, bought the building in 1980 for $1 and converted it into a community hub. When the caucuses roll around every four years, Guinn says, "the fire station comes alive." A picture of Paul Wellstone sits near the pole. Above the wide glass doors in front is a quote from Eisenhower: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
The gathering was organized by Sue Dinsdale, a self-described "pretty typical Iowa mom" from the town of Huxley, just north of Des Moines. Dinsdale became an antiwar activist when her oldest son, who enlisted in the Army in 1999, came home from his second tour in Iraq. "I was yearning for something to do," she says. "I couldn't just sit at home and see other kids go through what he did." Last summer she left her job as membership director at the local YMCA and became a field organizer for Americans Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEI). She's been hounding Iowa Republicans about their support for the war ever since. It's Dinsdale's job to make sure Iraq stays in the news. As such, she's a good barometer here of public opinion on the war.
I ask Dinsdale if antiwar Democrats have reached consensus on whom to support in the January caucuses. The short answer is no. "There might be six people in a room supporting six different candidates," she replies. In 2004 the ten people sitting in Guinn's spacious living room backed either Dennis Kucinich or Howard Dean. It was a fairly easy call: true believers went for Kucinich, while pragmatists rallied around Dean. This year, antiwar activists are having a much harder time picking a candidate; many of Guinn's guests back Bill Richardson because of his pledge to pull out all troops within a year, but there are Barack Obama and John Edwards supporters here too.
One thing they agree on, though, is mistrust of Hillary Clinton. Everett Fell, a former sportswriter from New Jersey who moved to Iowa as an organizer for AAEI, reflects a common view when he says, "I like all the other candidates, but I have a problem with Hillary."
"At least in Iowa, the peace community is thoroughly disillusioned with her," says Jeremy Jansen, a young organizer from Wisconsin who moved to Iowa as part of AAEI's Iraq campaign. On November 8 nine war protesters, led by Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, occupied Clinton's campaign office in Des Moines for more than seven hours, placing Support the Troops, End the War signs out front and, once inside, reading the names of dead American soldiers and Iraqi civilians. It's telling that they initially chose to target Clinton, along with the office of Rudy Giuliani. "We did this because Hillary voted for the war in Iraq and refuses to apologize for it, because her rhetoric...is not only imprecise but also contradicts her public comments that she won't withdraw all the troops before 2013, because she voted for pro-war with Iran measures...and for her general hawkish foreign policy stances," wrote David Goodner, a senior at the University of Iowa and a member of its antiwar committee. "She floats so quickly, vacillates so often, that I don't think people have any confidence that she will expedite the end of the war," says Ed Fallon, a former state representative and candidate for governor who has endorsed Edwards.
Polls show that the war is still the number-one issue for Iowa Democrats, leading healthcare and the economy by a comfortable margin. While antiwar activists may be opposed to Hillary, the polls are more ambiguous, reflecting an electorate still very much in flux. A number of polls from May through October showed Clinton to be the favorite among that broad sector of Democratic voters who may not be political junkies but who still cite the war as their top issue. In an October 29 University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll, for example, Clinton leads Obama by two points overall but by fifteen among voters whose top priority is ending the war. Yet the ramped-up criticism from Obama and Edwards does seem to be damaging Hillary; in a mid-November Washington Post Iowa poll, Obama not only leads Clinton overall but does better on the question of who would best handle Iraq.
Clinton's generally favorable poll numbers on the war confounded most of the activists I talked to. But it shouldn't be surprising: her campaign has been more aggressive than anyone anticipated in defusing what even her aides describe as her biggest vulnerability--her 2002 vote in favor of the war and her refusal to apologize for it. Since declaring her candidacy, she's cautiously embraced an antiwar position. "If we in Congress don't end this war before January of 2009, as President, I will," she said in February, a month after entering the race. In May she voted to use the Congressional power of the purse to end the war, a step she had long resisted. In July, at a campaign event in Des Moines, she unveiled her plan to move combat troops out of Iraq (while leaving an unspecified number behind for a variety of tasks). A week later she mailed a DVD of that plan to every Iowa Democrat. In October she stumped with liberal lion George McGovern in the antiwar bastion of Iowa City. Former Ambassador Joe Wilson, another early opponent of the war, has been dispatched to the state as a key surrogate. Clinton's campaign has distributed signs that say Support the Troops, End the War on the front and Iowans for Hillary on the back.
Further working to her advantage is the failure of her top rivals to draw a clear distinction between themselves and Clinton on Iraq. War opponents here often point to a September debate in New Hampshire where Edwards and Obama refused to commit to withdrawing all troops from Iraq by the end of their first term, in 2013. That answer gave an opening to the so-called second-tier candidates, notably Richardson, who began highlighting his plan to get all the troops out within a year and has doubled his Iowa staff. "The most important issue affecting this race is the war," Richardson said at the Iowa Democrats' Jefferson-Jackson dinner on November 10. "There is a difference with the candidates on how to end the war." To stress their point, his campaign supporters draped banners that said "2013?" and "GetOurTroopsOut.com." After his speech, the usually attack-shy Richardson campaign distributed Clinton quotes indicating that she might leave as many as 60,000 troops in Iraq for years to come.
Yet rival supporters concede that Hillary has succeeded in muddying the waters. "A lot of Democrats think the difference on the war is between the Democrats and the Republicans," says Peggy Huppert, a former Des Moines party chair and the head of Iowans for Sensible Priorities, which advocates cutting the military budget to pay for domestic needs and which recently endorsed Edwards. "I've heard people say the war is why they're choosing Richardson, for example. But I've heard a lot of other people be more ambivalent. They want it ended, but they think any Democrat will do that."
Kucinich, with Richardson the staunchest and most consistent antiwar candidate, hasn't campaigned much in Iowa and has almost no organization here. All the Dems have pledged to end the war if elected, yet none have attracted the antiwar fervor or backing of Dean in 2003. "Without a clearcut peace candidate," Guinn notes, "it's harder to energize the peace community."
Still, the caucus remains too close to call, and despite Clinton's deft positioning, her rivals are betting she stays vulnerable on the war. At a recent stop in Cedar Rapids, Edwards opened by pledging to end the war and criticized Clinton for vowing to leave troops behind. "She says she'll end the war, but she's gonna keep combat troops in Iraq and keep combat missions," Edwards told me afterward. By contrast, Edwards would deploy troops only to protect the US Embassy. I asked Edwards if Democratic caucusgoers notice such distinctions. "Some do," he responded. Would it be enough to swing the election? "Hard to know," he replied. Gordon Fischer, head of the Iowa Democratic Party in 2003-04 and an Obama supporter, predicts that after the results come in on caucus night, pundits will write the following words: "Boy, Senator Clinton's vote for the war sure hurt her. Apparently, she just didn't explain it away adequately for Iowa Dems."
The controversy over Iran may be an even bigger storm cloud for Clinton. By voting in favor of the Kyl-Lieberman resolution on September 26--which called the Iranian Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organization and gave George W. Bush another rationale for keeping troops in Iraq, and for potentially moving the war next door--Clinton opened a new wound and exposed old ones, igniting Iowa's peace community. "In Iowa people were quite upset about her vote," says Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, an Iranian-American professor of economics at Drake University, in Des Moines. The blowback came to a head October 7, when a voter asked Clinton at a campaign stop in New Hampton, Iowa, "Why should I support your candidacy...if it appears you haven't learned from your past mistakes?" Clinton grew testy, and the exchange became a rallying cry for her opponents.
On October 23 the New York Times dubbed Iran "the new Iraq." War-weary Iowans, only 4 percent of whom favor military action against Iran, began paying close attention. "In Iowa as many people are listening to what the candidates say about Iran as about Iraq," says Jeffrey Weiss, peace coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee. According to Everett Fell of AAEI, "people seem even more intense about Iran." After the Kyl-Lieberman vote, Clinton immediately went into damage control, sending Iowans another mailer claiming the bill "was clearly a vote for stepped-up diplomacy, not military action." She also signed on to legislation prohibiting Bush from attacking Iran without Congressional approval.
Yet doubts about Clinton's intentions linger. "Her vote was potentially very damaging," says former State Representative Fallon. "I haven't heard many people who were convinced by the response." Lori Nelson, head of Iowans for Peace, an umbrella group for more than twenty organizations, says she is "really concerned about things Clinton says about Iran" and has begun co-sponsoring films with the University of Iowa's Persian student group and working with NGOs in Iran in an attempt to "be proactive."
However, foreign policy--or any one issue, for that matter--probably won't determine Iowans' choice for President in January. In the absence of a major misstep by Clinton, or major policy differences coming to light, the race is likely to be decided by the campaign that can best marshal its supporters on a post-New Year's night and by the candidate viewed as the most capable of defeating the Republican nominee. After all, in 2004 caucusgoers forsook Dean in favor of the more "electable" John Kerry, who also clearly benefited from a better state apparatus. Tim Gauger, a leader of the University of Iowa's antiwar committee, says, "Why would it be any different now, when everyone just wants to beat a Republican?" A recent New York Times poll found that half of Iowa Democrats would be willing to support a candidate who "favors keeping troops in Iraq longer than you would like," if it meant a GOP defeat.
The war itself often fades into the background of everyday life here. Though 2007 has been the deadliest year for US troops in Iraq, casualties have declined recently and the war has often been nudged off the front page. A chant at the weekly peace vigil in downtown Iowa City in early November, which drew thirty or so people--a decent crowd by Iowa standards--summed up this disconnect. "Iowa City wake up!" a student with a bullhorn shouted. "The war is going on right now!"
It's not that antiwar sentiment has disappeared. Iowa is less hawkish and more internationalist than most swing states. There are vigils, yard signs, meetings, sit-ins. Iraq comes up in some form at every town-hall stop. Every Democrat mentions the need to get out of Iraq in his or her stump speech. In 2006 Iowans elected two new Democratic Congressmen and flipped both the state House and Senate blue, the only state besides New Hampshire with such a Democratic tidal wave. And yet the war goes on.
Perhaps that's why, after four and a half years of occupation and no end in sight, Iowa, like the rest of the country, is suffering from war fatigue. "They marched, wrote letters, elected a Democratic Congress and now Congress is funding the war--and Hillary is giving the President the authority to go into Iran!" says Nicholas Johnson, a University of Iowa law professor and former FCC commissioner who leans toward Richardson. "What's a voter to do?"
In conversations with scores of Iowa Democrats, it's evident that domestic issues like healthcare and the economy are a big deal--and getting bigger. Yet the greatest concerns are still tied to the staggering costs, in lives and money, of the Iraq War. Iowans for Sensible Priorities, an offshoot of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, started by Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen, is perhaps the largest, most organized peace group here. It has distributed charts illustrating how the military budget crowds out domestic needs. Although the group backs Edwards, supporters from every campaign brandish its stickers and pins.
Like Hurricane Katrina, the war is a metaphor for all that has gone wrong under George W. Bush. The lack of antiwar sentiment among the GOP frontrunners helps explain the surge of support for Ron Paul, the only Republican candidate to call for withdrawal. His signs and supporters show up everywhere you turn.
Former Iowa City Representative Jim Leach, one of the few House Republicans to vote against the war in 2002, points out that Iowa has experienced one of the largest per capita National Guard deployments to Iraq of any state. A day before Veterans Day, 130 more Guardsmen got ready to ship out. "We have an awful lot of people who have served in Iraq," Leach says. "And they have increasing doubts about the judgment of it all."
Clinton's adroit maneuvering, combined with the absence of a definitive antiwar challenger, may have divided the state's peace community, at least from an electoral perspective. But dissent among those who serve, the popularity of groups like Sensible Priorities and AAEI, the persistence of dozens of smaller organizations and widespread dissatisfaction with the current policy prove that antiwar sentiment still runs deep in the heartland, waiting to be tapped, if only it is given clearer expression.
"Sometimes I think a lot of people forget about the war," Dinsdale admits. "But then they see a pin, or a sticker, or a sign, and it brings it all back."
Ari Berman, based in Washington, DC, is a contributing writer for The Nation, a contributor to The Notion and a Puffin Foundation writing fellow at The Nation Institute.
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Smog UK – Misfit Songs 7″ EP
Artist: Smog UK
Title: Misfit Songs
Source: Vinyl 7″ EP
Bitrate: FLAC
Running time (h:m:s): 00:09:52
Size (mb): 70.1
Label: Smog Records
Cat. No: SUK 002
Year: 1995
For a while, it seemed like you couldn't avoid seeing Smog play if you were at any punky-related gig in and around Southampton in the '90s. And that was a very good thing.
These boys knew how to knock up and belt out some mighty fine ska-tinted punk rock, reminiscent of early SLF with an 'ampshire 'og accent and a splash of Motorhead sauce. It's no wonder I became mates with 'em (and still am to this day).
Life has since given the band members other commitments and Smog UK is no more. It's a shame they only got around to putting out this EP and a split with Shutdown (which will be next up) in all their years together, as an album would've been far more fitting. Still, I'm happy they left any legacy at all.
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I just cannot stand the films of Larry Clark. Thats what I had to face after it took me over two months to get through this movie, which normally is exactly the kind of thing that is right up my alley. I love movies about how today's youth are amoral little drugged-up wastrels with no future, and I love crime movies, and I love crime movies where the criminals are drugged-up wastrels with no future. But this, God, I just couldn't stand it. I could only bear to watch it for about 20 minutes at a time before I would want to turn it off, and then I would be irritated afterward. Which reminds me that I had the same experience watching Clark's Kids, which finally brought me to the point where I said "You know what, there's no reason I need to watch this," and returned it unfinished.
So Brad Renfro as Marty and Nick Stahl as Bobby work at the deli counter of a supermarket. The they meet these two young women, one of which is Rachel Miner as Lisa. We can see that Bobby casually bullies Marty, calling him names, calling him stupid, and sometimes hitting him for no reason. And yet they are best friends. We can only ever wonder why this happens. At night they go to a gay club where they dance in front of men, and it is implied that they arrange phone sex or perhaps other exchanges for money. Soon both boys are having sex with both the girls they met, in the car, and at one point Marty is having sex with Lisa when Bobby comes in to her and says "I'm next."
We are seeing a fair amount of the kids having sex, which struck me as quite gross, and super distasteful, all those nasty youthful fluids commingling. I was sitting there like "Please use condoms, please use condoms," and boom, before you know it, Lisa is pregnant. Great. Just what the world needs. Meanwhile, Bobby has made a video of some guy sucking a dildo, and has the idea he is going to sell it as virtual porn. We soon find out to our surprise that Bobby's dad adores his son and thinks Marty is the problem. We also see a bit of weirdness in Bobby's home as his dad comes in to have a talk with him while Bobby is nude. And soon Bobby is with one of Lisa's friends, where he makes her watch gay porn as he rapes and hits her. This guy is not making a lot of friends. Soon Lisa is asking Marty why he puts up with it, and Marty responds "We could kill him," and Lisa responds "That's what I was thinking."
Now begins a long planning period, in which they make their plan known to everyone and recruit a lot of people who have nothing to do with their social circle, including Michael Pitt, a pudgy fellow whom they consider to be some sort of badass gangster, and another guy who claims to be schooled in murder and can get them various weapons. The background continues to be filled in, painting a picture of these aimless teens who do nothing but sit around, doing drugs, watching videos and screwing, and their parents, all uniformly clueless and powerless. They all keep talking and planning, and it starts to become apparent that the murder is just kind of a game to them.
Eventually they take Bobby out and kill him. Marty leaves the sheath of his knife at the scene, and they have to go back and get it. They all meet on the beach to work out alibis, the reality starting to sink in on them, and each inventing various reasons why they aren't guilty. One stabbed him, sure, but didn't KILL him. Some of the girls say they were present, sure, but didn't KILL him.
In the days that follow, they all start blabbing. One of the girls asks her mom if you can report a murder without giving your name, but insists she's just asking out of curiosity. Some of the boys boast about it to other boys. Lisa goes over to ask an unrelated friend for a ride out to where they dumped the body, so she can make sure it won't be found. Eventually all the kids are rounded up and sent to trial. The movie ends with little titles telling us the sentence each one got.
In retrospect, now that I'm not watching it anymore, it seems pretty good. It successfully paints this portrait of aimless youth, surrounded by violent and sexual media, downing tons of drugs and engaging in reckless sex, all without any parental oversight or mature influences to help them make sense of any of it. But there's something so in-your-face about Clark's style, it is so self-consciously trying to be hard-hitting and working overtime to ensure that you understand every single point as it's being made, that it can be just generally annoying to watch. As I said, I could only take it in 20-minute increments over the course of two months, and it irritated me every time. It just doesn't leave the viewer much space to form his or her own impressions, or experience and process the story on your own, because it is so insistently shoving everything in your face, and I found that quite alienating. Surely not everyone does.
That said, the performances are quite good, and ultimately it does fill in these characters and let you see where they're coming from. Renfro does seem like a genuinely sensitive dim bulb, easily swayed by anyone around him with an idea, whether it be Bobby or Lisa. Rachel Miner as Lisa maintains a manic, vacant look in her eye that makes her seem quite believably crazy. And everyone else convincingly casts their characters as aimless kids, all trying to put on the trappings of being badass, careless adults, and only seeming like flailing kids.
So, you know, it's good! It's one of those good things I'm super glad I never have to sit through again. Can't I just read an article about the case?
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Phuket Travel Guide
Phuket is among the world s finest beach destinations, with fine white sands, nodding palm trees, glittering seas and lively towns. It has something for any taste and budget, with hundreds of hotels to choose from, a wide choice of dining and partying options. Aside from visiting the fantastic attractions of Thailand s biggest island, you can take an exhilarating speedboat trip to the many nearby tropical paradises, including the famous Phi Phi Islands, or enjoy a serene cruise around the mystical Phang Nga Bay. Phuket is blessed with more than 30 amazing beaches to choose from. Patong Beach, Kata, Karon and Kamala have always been the most popular, but the north of the island reveals some hidden gems for travellers searching for a more romantic atmosphere.
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Council members approved an incentive package for an unnamed manufacturer codenamed Project China, which plans to locate in the west technology park. The incentives will be provided through the Industrial Development Board and the revolving loan program. City staff estimates the company will invest approximately $13.1 million and employ about 105.
The incentives include providing a 23.5-acre site through a sale/lease agreement; securing financing for as much as $5 million to design and build a 71,227-square-foot facility to be leased to the company; building site preparation; a short-term loan for as much as $200,000 at 2.5-percent interest; a 10-year tax abatement deal; $15,000 for relocation of key staff; and $63,000 for training assistance.
The council also agreed to modify tax abatement deals for SiO2 Medical Products Inc., which plans to build a second facility in Auburn and its in-house parts supplier Capitol Medical Devices Inc. SiO2 plans to build a facility in the city's west technology park in March. It also plans a facility in the city's south technology park on Enterprise Drive.
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Textron Systems and Bell Helicopters have teamed up to open state-of-the-art laboratories to provide integration and testing of manned and unmanned aircraft systems.
The new Textron Systems Integration and Collaboration Lab and Bell Helicopter/AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems Manned/Unmanned Operations Capability Development Lab have opened at Textron System's Huntsville location. The labs combine live data feeds, high-fidelity simulated environments and field equipment to allow for rapid testing and system integration.
"Our U.S. Department of Defense customers are facing a period of profound change," said Textron Systems president and chief executive officer Ellen Lord. "Now more than ever, they need affordable technologies that can be deployed rapidly against their most pressing requirements. These new law capabilities enable our customers to achieve this while reducing program risk."
Lord said the labs are designed to reduce testing costs, decrease program risk, accelerate time for products to get into the field and allow for training for mission rehearsal.
The Butler County Commission for Economic Development has a new executive director.
The BCCED announced Tuesday that David Hutchison, director of business development for the Alabama Department of Commerce, will assume the role beginning in January.
"I'm a big Auburn fan, but the best college football coach out there is Nick Saban," said Greenville Mayor Dexter McLendon. "I honestly believe we hired the Nick Saban of economic development."
Hutchison will replace former executive director Ricky McLaney. McLaney's contract was not renewed following his annual review in January.
McLendon, who serves as the chairman of the BCCED, has served as the interim director during the search for McLaney's replacement.
Hutchison said he is excited to "join Butler County's team," and looks forward to helping attract new industry as well as supporting existing industries.
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Birmingham has begun its courtship of potential suppliers of a planned $600 million Airbus Americas plant in Mobile.
Rick Davis, Birmingham Business Alliance senior vice president of economic development, joined the Alabama delegation in a trip to an aviation conference in Hamburg, Germany, last month.
BBJ: What was the point of the trip, and what did the Birmingham delegation hope to get from it?
Davis: This was an aviation forum. Some people said it was an Airbus suppliers conference - that's not exactly correct, but to be sure, there were a lot of Airbus suppliers who attended because there were several people with Airbus who had speaking roles on the panel discussions and that sort of thing.
[Birmingham Business Journal]
HOOVER, Alabama - Conventional wisdom holds that 85 to 90 percent of new businesses fail. Don't believe it, said Dale Callahan, director of theInformation Engineering and Management program at UAB.
The overwhelming majority of businesses that are counted as failures were incorporated, then their "founders" lost interest or moved on to other things without actually launching them, he told a luncheon crowd of students and entrepreneurs at the Hoover Public Library.
"Those aren't business failures," he said. "They failed to start. You're a business when you make money."
Callahan, author of the book "Resumes are Worthless," said that less than 10 percent of businesses that are actually launched end in failure, and success in business is a lot easier and more liberating than most people believe.
An evangelist for entrepreneurship, Callahan said too many people sentence themselves to careers they don't enjoy, ignoring their passions and the success that can come from pursuing something you love.


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A trip to Germany is not complete without the two B's... Bratwurst and Beer. Although we were not actually in Germany, I felt that I had to have these two things anyways. I was intent on trying a nice Germany Pilsner to cool me off, since it was quite warm.
We chose to eat at Sommerfest, a quick service restaurant on the more affordable scale. A quick scan of the menu yielded very pleasing results.. Bratwurst? Yes..Pilsner? Affirmative.
I was content so we ordered one of each to share.
I am terrible at getting souvenirs when I travel so I decided I would pay a couple extra $'s and get the souvenir beer mug. The beer was incredibly refreshing, when it is 35+ degrees outside this is liquid gold. I am not 21 yet so I cannot buy alcohol in the States so I had to get my girlfriend to boot for me..how embarassing.
The bratwurst was served with sauerkraut and a bun. We skipped on the bun since it is just filler and chowed down on the bratwurst. There was nothing special about the brat.. it was just a brat, which I enjoyed.
We did have the option to eat at a more expensive
restaurant, but I can only take so much meat in one day
and I saw myself getting full very fast (does that sound alright?).
good solid food
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Haven't been on its kind of debbie downer here. Dad needs exploratory surgery on his parathyroid, plus they found a small mass on his lung (never ever smoke) that needs more tests etc. hoping it bee-nine. They are going to bigger city hospital/doctors again this coming wed for more tests & set up surgery. I sometimes got funny stuff to post but never get around to posting or may not be the right time. Hope you all are ok me & mom misses posting here. Omar
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Got up at 7:20 feeling demotivated, empty, lazy, and depressed. I scored the lowest result in my class on the history test. It doesn't even get to me anymore. I'm used to it.
During recess, I went to get coffee with cream. Talked to Layla. Almost died of boredom in Literature. Witnessed Monica tell our P.E. teacher to, "Zip it, teacher" to which he immediately apologised. More reasons to hate both of them, I guess.
Went to see a friend at her house. Got home, took the pill, chewed the rag with my sister. Then Mum and I went to a grocery shop. You know a snack is good when its name is "Potato Product Enhanced By Artificial Flavours". We got loads of shit that will make my stomach cells beg for mercy (ultra cheap crisps and sweets, obviously.) The problem with me and a lot of other people is that no matter how disgusting a snack or a cake or whatever may be, if you've got a pound more to eat, you're going to eat it in one sitting. And that's for those instances when you aren't even hungry.
After I had eaten 1 million calories, I decided to change my life and my eating habits for good. I made around a litre of peppermint tea. I studied history and then went to make a study-and-assignment plan for the rest of the semestre.
Shaved my legs listening to some lecture by Simon Horobin feeling enthusiastic and nervous. Not a happy enthusiastic, nor a sad nervous. What is happening?
Changed my linen. Intended to read The Beach, but decided to go sleep relatively early.


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Can your organizations IT stack stand up to the burdens placed upon it? Do the components in your IT stack provide the best possible performance? Do you have a choice? Its time to find out.
There are all kinds of stacks out there, from network stacks to code stacks. But in recent years, the stacks that have been getting the most attention are those that are referred to—somewhat broadly—as IT stacks. Essentially, an IT stack consists of a server operating system, a Web server, a database, and a scripting or development language.
Of course, IT stacks deserve all the attention they get. After all, that grouping of applications is the core base that most Web-based enterprise applications run on—from portals to enterprise content management systems to CRM (customer relationship management) and ERP (enterprise resource planning) platforms.
Further, as companies move more aggressively into SOAs (service-oriented architectures) and other service-based systems, their IT stacks will play huge roles in determining ongoing service strategies.
Probably the two best-known stacks are Microsofts .Net and the open-source LAMP.
The .Net stack typically consists of a Windows Server operating system, the IIS (Internet Information Services) Web server, SQL Server database and Active Server Pages scripting language. The LAMP stack comprises the Linux server operating system, Apache Web server, MySQL database and one of the three "P" scripting languages (PHP, Python or Perl).
After these two stacks, the biggest—especially in enterprises—is the J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) stack. This stack is pretty flexible in terms of its components, but there is one constant: The development language has to be JSP (JavaServer Pages).
Of course, these arent the only three IT stacks out there. When you start mixing and matching applications, and introducing applications we havent even talked about, the choices are almost endless.
However, typically an IT stack isnt chosen based on the quality of the applications therein but on issues such as history ("Weve always been a Linux/Unix/Windows shop"), internal skill sets ("Our developers only know ASP/JSP/PHP") or end products ("We really want to run Product X, which is .Net/Linux/Java").
But what about the stacks themselves? How much does the choice of stack affect performance? Do stacks need to be pure in their configuration, or can a business get solid performance by mixing and matching among multiple stacks?
These are some of the questions eWeek Labs set out to answer a few months ago, when we began a series of tests to evaluate the makeup, performance and scalability of enterprise IT stacks.
We performed a series of load tests against eight mixes of IT stacks (admittedly, barely scratching the surface of potential stacks). These consisted of pure LAMP stacks, a pure .Net stack, J2EE on both Windows and Linux, and what we will refer to as a WAMP stack—basically, open-source components running on a Windows server.
Our tests show that all of the stacks perform well enough to handle most enterprise needs. Some did better than others, but no one was a leader in all categories. (Benchmark charts start at right.)
But there were some results that may prove surprising. Mix-and-match stacks tended to do fairly well in our tests—especially the stacks that took a nonstandard route when it came to the database.
Probably most surprising was the solid performance that came from the stacks that contained a mix of a Windows server and open-source components. Traditionally, these kinds of WAMP setups have been considered suitable only for development and testing purposes, not for production systems. But, based on the performance we saw in our tests, businesses should seriously consider the combo for their enterprise applications.
Thats not to say that pure-play Microsoft isnt a good bet: Microsofts .Net stack performed very well in our tests, clearly showing the benefits of the tight integration among each of the stack components.
We hope our tests provide some perspective, but, more than anything else, we hope they inspire IT managers to perform the same kinds of tests themselves. No tests done in a third-party lab can tell you how a specific combination of servers and applications will run under your business-specific requirements and systems.
Our tests were labor- and time-intensive, but there was nothing too unusual about the equipment involved. Probably the biggest expense would be in finding a performance testing application to use, although, there are free, open-source testing tools out there that are capable of doing the job.
Next Page: Putting IT stacks to the test.


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Artist-Teachers in Context
International Dialogues
2016 - 226 pages
ISBN Paperback: 9789463006316 ($ 43.00)
Subject: Art Education, Teacher Education, Education General
Number 2 of the series: Doing Arts Thinking: Arts Practice, Research and EducationFree Preview Artist-Teachers in Context
This book brings together interviews with twenty-one artist-teachers from different parts of the world, offering many insights into their identities, challenges and creative and pedagogic practices they have adopted. Based in a range of educational situations — from compulsory to post-secondary education, art schools, departments of art education and community-based environments — these educators discuss their own training in fine art and/or art education, research interests, teaching methods and theoretical outlooks, collaborative projects, students' ambitions, exhibitions and the different approaches they use to connect their educational and artistic commitments. The discussions take place against a contextual backdrop that is tackled in every interview, bringing to the fore the impact of social, political, historical and institutional frameworks on artist-teachers. Illustrated with images of works and projects by each artist-teacher in the book, the volume combines the visual and the verbal in a way that reflects the complex experiences and identities of the interviewees.
Raphael Vella is a Senior Lecturer in Art Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Malta. Apart from coordinating and teaching in art education courses, he also teaches courses in fine art and theory. His publications address the relationships between contemporary artistic practices and education, art education in the Mediterranean, identity in art education, photography and cultural studies, and arts-based research. He is also actively involved in the curation of international and Maltese exhibitions and cultural events, and in recent years he initiated projects such as Divergent Thinkers (aimed at creating a platform for emerging artists based in Malta) and the Valletta International Visual Arts festival (VIVA). He is also a practising artist, having shown his work in many contexts, including Malta, Venice, Warsaw, Tokyo, Reims, Buenos Aires, Nicosia and Oxford.


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Freida Pinto: 'Trishna' Premiere with Dev Patel!
Freida Pinto wraps her arm around her boyfriend Dev Patel at the premiere of her film Trishna held at the Princess of Wales theatre on Friday (September 9) in Toronto, Canada.
The 26-year-old actress' film is screening as part of the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival!
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Trishna, which is based on Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, also stars Riz Ahmed.
After the premiere, Freida and Dev headed over to the BlackBerry Inside Film Lounge for a dinner and after-party at Brassaii restaurant in Toronto.
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Download: jschnitt.bandcamp.com/album/speaking-esperanto
I love it when someone pours their heart completely into a record, leaving absolutely nothing behind. Utica's J Schnitt is one of those someones. Some of you might know him as the talented guitarist who has been playing live with The Real Burnouts over the last few years, others might know him as a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist who has produced a whole raft of albums available on his Bandcamp page. "Speaking Esperanto" was the first time I'd heard him, a 13-track album of near flawless alternative folk-rock anthems that sounded like a greatest hits compilation. It's unashamedly American, occasionally imbued with the twang of country guitars and shuffling Americana drums, at times like a contemporary take on "Blood on the Tracks" era Dylan. The music is as good as note perfect, intricate and expertly imagined, the voice world-weary enough to sound believable, and yet it is the song and melody where J Schnitt really excels.
The opening three tracks – "Ocean Liner", "Lewis Caroll's Daughter", and title-track "Speaking Esperanto" are three such examples of melody leadign the way. "Ocean Liner" is a toe-tapping piano folk-pop grower with exquisite lines like "once I was the wind in New York City" and a catchy chorus that greets you like an old friend every time you start the record. "Lewis Carroll's Daughter" is Irish-folk, infinitely cooler than Mumford & Sons, brought to life with banjos and brass. It's one of my real favourites with more great lyrical brilliance as we hear the story of a girl who pretends "Lewis Carroll was her father for the day". Upon writing this, I was pleased to discover that J Schnitt is something of a undercover storyteller, and without going as far as giving us definitive characters, you sense that there are real people, not just ideas behind the lyrics, and the words are powerful enough to keep your attention and stop the album slipping away into background filler. Another example of song-story, title-track "Speaking Esperanto", was arguably the most accessible of all the songs. Another Dylan-esque ballad with intricate acoustic guitar picking, shuffling drums and accordian interludes, as good a place as any to start if you're pushed for time and want to give this record a chance.
"God Bless The Idiot Swimmer" is a slow parade, a guitar march down your street, leading into "Conversations With A Dashboard Jesus", another traditional acoustic rock song that grew on me the more I listened to it. Next comes "Monday Loud And Clear", probably my favourite of all the tracks, one of those melodies that has popped involuntarily into my head and made me say "oh, what's that? oh yeah, it's j. schnitt!" With it's poppy up-tempo tune, Beach Boys' vocal melody, hand claps and Indie Rock guitars, it's slightly off-track from the general vibe that runs through the other songs. Funnily enough, in terms of construct it sounds like one of the simpler songs, yet it works simply by being a great little song.
"The Astronaut and The Trampoline" is another stand out. A slow atmospheric track telling the dreamy story of… well, an astronaut and a trampoline. Unless I'm not supposed to be taking this song literally, in which case, it's an ode to aspiration, a epistle for daydreamers aiming for the clouds. It also sounds like the sort of thing you might hear in a 1960′s suburban music hall, when some touring band rock up in their van and scare the bejesus out of your mum and dad. "Healing Sores With Fatal Curses" returns to a more modern sound and reminds me a little of Snow Patrol or Travis, the sort of song you expect to discover on late night MTV, again deviating from the country-folk central ground of the album, but making the whole composition all the better for it.
Talking of different, "Magnus 11.99″ is next. An almost splintering vocal take backed with stripped organic instruments that sounds like pistons and machinery, topped off with some kooky keys that are quite brilliant to behold. "Pretend" returns us back to the more familiar acoustic guitar and piano, as close as the record gets to a flat-out bell-less ballad, the instrumentation carefully mapped out, and J Schnitt's voice at its fragile best. Definitely one for those of you who are stuck behind windows on rainy afternoons and probably not for those of you smoking pot in the park on a sunny afternoon. "It Is What It Is" comes chasing along on its heels, a clever blend of country, folk and pop, probably my third favourite song behind "Monday…" and "Astronaut". Again, melodically it is one of the simpler songs, but it's an absolute gem. Probably not for you rainy day window gazers, but for those of you back in the park… fill your boots.
Closing tracks "Walk In The Light" and "Black Cloud" are two of the darker tracks to finish the record. The former has traces of Dylan's "Gates of Eden" with its rambling half-spoken, half-sung vocals over a bustling tune, and the latter is a creepy, claustrophobic soundscape with electric fuzz and sudden bursts of melody, banjos and pianos and drums, all building to a crescendo that leaves you feeling somewhat dazed and excited to hear the whole thing again from the beginning.
So all in all, I'm suitably impressed by J Schnitt's "Speaking Esperanto". It's a far cry from the weirdness I usually hear being peddled from his Utican peers, far more polished, professional and a watertight vehicle, yet still with a heartfelt motor driving it. It's more a record of quiet contemplation than a soundtrack to go out and get trashed to, a slow burner on the ground rather than an explosion in the night sky, something you can warm your hands on when the winter nights draw in, with a little bit of something for almost everyone thrown in.


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Durian is definitely an acquired taste. Our aunts and uncles say it's three time's a charm when trying to get past the pungent smell and truly appreciate the deep flavor of durian. After much skepticism and literally three courageous tries, I definitely agree with them. You must ease into this fruit slowly to really appreciate it's custardy texture and sweet and savory taste. It's not called the "King of Fruits" for nothing. After cutting up and devouring this dangerously spiky thing, I really felt like we usurped the iron throne and won over King's Landing, Lannister style.
I had my first bite of this exotic treat while visiting Dave's aunt and uncle's house where they had a chocolate covered durian. Feeling adventurous that day, I decided to try it. I love anything chocolate, thinking to myself, how bad could it be. It was surprisingly delicious! It wasn't the smell I remembered as a kid walking into an asian market.
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Ralph Godbee, Detroit police chief, suspended after alleged mistress tweets photo with gun in her mouth
(CBS) DETROIT - Detroit Mayor Dave Bing suspended the city's police chief Tuesday amid allegations of a sexual relationship with another officer. This is the second time in two years that a Detroit police chief has been embroiled in a sex scandal, CBS Detroit reports.
"After learning of the allegations regarding Chief Ralph Godbee, I have placed him on a 30-day suspension pending a full and thorough investigation of this matter," Bing said in a released statement.
Godbee, 44, was allegedly involved in an affair with 37-year-old Angelica Robinson, an internal affairs officer for the Detroit Police Department. Her attorney stated that his client was trying to cut off the relationship and that Godbee "didn't like that."
Robinson's attorney told The Associated Press that Godbee had officers locate Robinson and put her under surveillance after she posted a photo of herself on Twitter with her service gun in her mouth. Robinson, who is married, allegedly posted the picture after learning Godbee was at a weekend conference with another woman.
Godbee, who is separated from his wife, became police chief two years ago following Chief Warren Evans' resignation after his relationship with a subordinate, Lt. Monique Patterson, was revealed.
It was later learned that Godbee also had a romantic relationship with Patterson before she dated Evans, according to CBS Detroit.
Bing appointed Assistant Chief Chester Logan to assume the duties and responsibilities of police chief during Godbee's suspension. Robinson was reassigned to other duties and doesn't have use of her service weapon.


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|The hero car of this year's Bathurst 12 Hour (image: GT Academy on Twitter)
"Bathurst Delivers!" As endurance racing commentary regular slash my favorite commentator ever John Hindhaugh always said amidst the 12-hour endurance race at Mount Panorama Circuit. This year's crop gathered cars from different classes, with GT3 as, obviously, the highlight category though with a twist in a form of "Pro" and "Am" sub-categories with other category grids include Flat 6 cup cars, GT4s, production cars and invitationals. Even with the race itself clashed with V8 Supercars's super test at Sydney Motorsports Park, meaning that we didn't see Craig Lowndes, Shane Van Gisbergen and Rick Kelly, this year's race gave us top-flight GT drivers in return, including GT Academy graduates Florian Strauss and Wolfgang Reip and Blancpain GT Series champion Laurens Vanthoor, who turned out to be the next breed of the "mountain killer" after setting the fastest lap to an extent he brought Phoenix Racing "The Al" - The Allan Simonsen Memorial trophy awarded for the pole position in the qualifying.
Bathurst 12 Hour is anything but without a story, and this year's race once again proved why there's always a great story that lies in such a race. This post lists some of the author's choice memorable moments that has made you excited, nervous, cringe and delighted throughout the race's run.
(WARNING: This post contains lots of pics and GIFs. Not for the faint-hearted snails)
WHAT HAVE I LEARNED FROM THIS YEAR'S RACE?On my Twitter, I tweeted ten B12hr things plus one bonus that I can consider as a "moral of the story". Below here were my tweets (edited for the blog, also posted to my Facebook beforehand):
1. My internet sucked at earlier stages, yet was able to digest a little bit of video streaming.
2. In case of video stream eff-ups, there's Radio Le Mans, yet won't be complete without John Hindhaugh and friends! Props to these guys! (y)
3. An endurance race is never complete without John Hindhaugh. Period.
4. Close racing is its tradition hands down, even in GT3 category.
5. V8 Supercars is... well, they better regret their choice of clashing their testing with this event! :p
6. As #5 stated, we don't have Lowndes, SVG and Rick Kelly. Yet we had Laurens Vanthoor, Katsumasa Chiyo and GT Academy guys, among all others, in return :D
7. NISMO is indeed motorsport's Taylor Swift. <-- Totally random :v
8. Kangaroos now eat donuts, crocodiles now eat STIX. And donuts are the commentators' favorite too!
9. This year's race has brought diversity, which is very good! GT3s, Daytona Coupe, BMWs, Porsches, Mazda RX8s, MARC Fords. What else?
10. Video Games can get you anywhere, even to Bathurst :D
Bonus: SAFETY CARS, BITCHES!!!
But despite so, there's more to the story than just all the things I have tweeted...
NO McMARANELLO MOTORSPORT
|The big "NO!" of this year's race (image: Auto Action)
Maranello Motorsport had one job: to maintain the glory they had last year from the hungry competitors seeking for their revenge last year. This year, they were wrapped in the McDonalds sponsorship which, in my opinion... well, I can't say much, other than imagining myself eating a Big Mac in the middle of the race as a sign of support to the team. However, this year marked their absence as their car was severely crashed during qualifying to the point that it was irrepairable. They also tried to act as Momotaros Imagin to AF Corse, but somehow it didn't work. Alas, no Maranello, no McMaranello, and no Big Macs.
For this year's race, they put a line-up of Mika Salo, Tony D'Alberto and Ben "ex-The Stig" Collins. Where the last year's drivers John Bowe and Peter Edwards, you said? Both drive the same Flying B Bentley Continental GT3 this year with David Brabham as their other driver. To note, Flying B is one of the three Bentley-powered teams to take part, with the rest belong to M-Sport.
|Bloody Blister - #15 Phoenix Racing Audi R8 LMS Ultra of Laurens Vanthoor, Marco Mapelli and Markus Winkelhock (image: Autosport.com)
Losing V8 Supercars superstars means that the race would be sour without the presence of Craig Lowndes, Shane van Gisbergen and Rick Kelly. However, one name managed to stagger everyone who were watching: Laurens Vanthoor, the fastest man on the mountain, whose nickname he beared because he set the new fastest lap for the GT3 cars and made Phoenix Racing Audi start on pole position.
Oh, and what if I told you Laurens Vanthoor himself posted the onboard moment of the fast lap he set online?
Bathurst 12 Hour is a one-of-a-kind endurance race where everyone starts at the break of dawn where the track is still dark, thus requiring headlights to illuminate the darkness, but that's not enough as it also tests the drivers' focus. Cold morning with a little to no light levels and engine sounds screaming behind them with no clue whether a stray animal would pop out of nowhere made up one of Bathurst 12 Hour's common traditions, and this year is no different.
|So Close - #10 Bentley Continental GT GT3 belonged to Bentley Team M-Sport, driven by Guy Smith, Stephen Kane and Matt Bell, was one of the three newly-competed Bentleys in Bathurst 12 Hour. They missed the podium placement after losing the podium battle against #15 Phoenix Racing Audi and #97 Craft Bamboo Aston Martin. (image: Matt Bell Racing / The Checkered Flag)
Big, bulky and mean. Enter GT3's equivalent of David Karofsky: Bentley Continental GT3. Debuted on Bathurst 12 Hour this year by the hands of M-Sport and Flying B Racing, three of this car were taken to the mountain which is the first time the car went to the mountain outing; their real debut was in 2014 where they were competed in Blancpain GT Series last year.
True to its Karofsky-ness, it, along with the two others, gave the others problems.
But they ran into their own problems too...
At the finish, though, they missed the podium after a close battle with the #15 Phoenix Racing Audi and a #97 Craft Bamboo Aston Martin. I guess bullies never prosper then, but they did their best there. Just be thankful they didn't have the Slushie-spitting contraption on their exhausts or the race would actually be Glee-themed instead.
Last year, a kangaroo let out its hate to Lamborghinis. This year, there wasn't only one wild animal that made its cameo; there were two. First, kangaroo / wallaby, and finally the crocodile. I don't know what the kangaroo's / wallaby's intention was when it crossed the race track, but for the crocodile, I thought it was having a secret love to Stix. It's just that the crocodile didn't want to have its passion for Stix televised, so that could be why it spitted its Stix.
On the serious note, that's quite a big crash. Glad that the driver was okay, yet big props go to MARC cars Australia as they have made a car that is both reliable and sturdy; able to made sure the driver survives such a big crash.
|"We got a wallaby on track, wallaby on track!" (image: Duck 7 on Tumblr)
Speaking of kangaroos / wallabies crossing the circuit, it didn't happen only once.
|The OUCH! Factor - A BMW hit a passing kangaroo
But twice. (OUCH!)
|(image: @BaronVonClutch on Twitter)
Yet we can't forget the horses, although the it's only a cameo animal that doesn't seem to "color" the race on track...
|"Success ballast refueling procedure rule checking?" (image: @LanzaroteCamel on Twitter)
Probably one of the best candid moments, if it doesn't match the candidness of the kangaroo and the crocodile. This was where we see Hindy and the crew's obsession to donuts. Were you readers one of those hungry for donuts by the time you were seeing this?
Probably the kangaroo / wallaby the BMW car hit was looking for this? Or probably the one that crossed the race track on a random whim who did? Hence why they went to an extent crossing the race track...
|Because Safety Car (image: Ausmotive)
Cringe-worthy for some, but like it or not, it was part of the game. This year's race was plagued by 21 full course yellows, which explains the title very much. Even the best drivers could have their get togethers on the mountain.
The abundant amount of Full Course Yellows was nothing compared to this: streaming issues. At one point, everything went Smurf even though there either was no blue moon or Gargamel, and at one point also the stream went down several times. However, Radio Le Mans came in handy when the streaming wasn't well.
On my side, I had to struggle with internet speed issues to the point I threw my fit on Twitter. Granted, my internet did work well even though there were lags when streaming. The most cringe-worthy thing however was that I cannot access the Live Timing at all as it gave me "connection errors" no matter how many times I refreshed.
|Nissan in Bathurst - Then, yesteryear, and now (images: Crank and Piston, Youtube Screengrab, Speedcafe)
1991, a Nissan Skyline GTR (R32) conquered Bathurst 1000 and earned the nickname "Godzilla". Fast forward to 2015 where three drivers with courage reclaimed what Nissan had lost: a Bathurst win. The battle of the closing minutes witnessed the Nissan GT-R GT3's fight against the Phoenix Racing Audi and one of the M-Sport Bentleys, and from the last green after the last FCY, Katsumasa Chiyo displayed the showcase of staying cool under the pressure; to make sure Chiyo has done it best, everyone was cheering hard, the track was as hard as hell and there were lead lap cars very close to each other driven by top-flight GT drivers who have slightly more experiences than Chiyo has.
In the end, his struggle paid off. Not only he avenged his team's failure on the last year's race, but he also marked Godzilla's territory once again and put smiles on his and the team's fans and put a smile to Alex Buncombe who had to absent before the race started due to the arrival of his first child. Buncombe stated that pulling out to this race has been a very hard decision knowing that he was waiting for his first child's arrival and that the timing didn't seem to work out.
Congratulations to the Nissan team, the drivers, and Alex Buncombe too for his first child! Looking forward for a bruising line-up of Rick Kelly, Alex Buncombe, Katsumasa Chiyo and a GT Academy driver for next year!
The real silver lining? Never underestimate Bathurst 12 Hour, to an extent having a rivaling event in which their drivers, who wanted to make an appearance on the mountain, are prohibited to do so. That rivaling event in question is the V8 Supercars SuperTest in Sydney Motorsport Park. Shame on them to do such a thing because, to be honest, all the international eyes were on the race obviously, not the testing.
Though I hope that V8 Supercars would re-schedule the next year's testing session so that they will allow some of their drivers participate in the exciting international-grade race that is Bathurst 12 Hour.
RANDOM ON-TRACK ANTICSBecause just tens of pictures aren't enough, a picspam would do. Even better, not just a picspam but a GIF-spam!
Bathurst 12 Hour will not be as exciting as it always do without the winning team that is Radio Le Mans! The team knew how to put a great show and this year was not an exception, especially John Hindhaugh. Special thanks also go to the race marshals involved for their quick decision-making and fast reactions, and also to the winners, finishers, drivers, teams and sponsors who made everything happen!
Remember, folks. If there is something you want to etch in your heart, it's this:
"Bathurst Delivers" -John Hindhaugh
Further reading:
DailySportsCar's Bathurst 12 Hour review
Full race recap at Motoring.co.au
Radio Le Mans podcasts of all sessions of Bathurst 12 Hour
Watch the race again on the official site
Paul Truswell's, cleverly-done observations of this year's Bathurst 12 Hour


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|With my boyfriend, Christian :)
Hi! Yesterday I had my graduation ceremony and a ball/banquet in the evening, it was a lot of fun! Feels so crazy to be finished now after five years at the university. We even had the weather on our side, it was rather warm and sunny and I was super happy for that. I promised that I would take photos of my nails and my makeup, which I (surprisingly) found some time to do despite being really stressed. I did not have time to apply so much makeup as I initially wanted to. My plan was to redo my day makeup for the evening, making it a little more dramatic and add some glitter, but the only thing I found the time to add was the false lashes. Oh well, I didn't suffer that much from that of course! The photos are not the best (didn't really have time) so I'm compensating by adding some other pictures from yesterday :) Product list below!
Products used:
- Benefit The POREfessional Pro Balm
- Yves Rocher Zéro Défaut Flawless Skin Foundation - 050 Beige
- Max Factor Professional Loose Powder - Translucent
- Emite MakeUp Tan Booster Bronzer - SUNF
- Make Up Store Cover All Mix
- So Susan Universal Blush
- Yves Rocher Luminelle Eyeshadow - Champagne (as highlight)
- Yves Rocher Radiant Youth Corrector Pen - 02 Beige
- Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion
- Shiro Cosmetics Eyeshadow - Glowstick of Destiny, Moon Prism Power, You Know Nothing (although I do hope I know something after five years at uni ;) )
- Sleek MakeUp i-Divine Eyeshadow Palette Arabian Nights - Simbad's Seas
- Make Up Store Cake Eyeliner - Black
- Oriflame Wonder Lash Mascara - Black
- Ardell Accent Lashes - 305
- IsaDora Eyebrow Pencil - 22 Light Brown
- Anastasia Beverly Hills Clear Brow Gel
- Pierre René Sweet Berry Lip Gloss - 33 Beige Shimmer


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Dailly village centre
Graham and I took a spin on the bikes today from Maybole through Culzean, Maidens and Dailly, lots of good tracks linked by minor roads, coffee and cakes in Culzean and Dailly.
Weather was a bit dull and cold but the route was good going for around 5 hours.
Route here but we did it in reverse and added a loop through Ladyland farm toward Girvan.
Pictures from this week and today here.


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"Progressing at a good rate?"
Spoke too soon during my last blog entry.
I thought of minimizing seams on this project that I actually decided to knit the raglan sleeves downwards. Not that it's a problem, except that I wasn't concentrating on the maths.
Had a OOPS, SHUCKS! moment with the sleeve. Not just once, but both times. So frogpond visiting it was.
Once it was complete, I also gave it a good wash so that the project would unfurl. I just simply hung it on a clothes hangar and left it to drip dry in my bathroom. [This would NOT be recommended if you are having an adult garment!]
A good steam iron also helps!
Initially, I was also faced with the dilemma of how the patterns would go on the sleeves themselves.
As you can see, there are actually 2 different shades of variegated yarns. Thanks to careless packing by the shop assistant (one of my many yarn shopping trips eons ago!) I had 2 different dyelots.
As a result, not only are the colors distinctly different, I was rather short on yarn. Had 3 balls of one lot and 2 of the other.
So I took on a white yarn to break up the colors and also had a slightly broader stripe on the upper chest area. The same white yarn then also took on the role of as ribbed borders all over.
And I had just the simple translucent buttons to match.
Oh, and I had the handiworks tag sewn on it as well! (Too bad, it wasn't obvious in the photo.) And the baby's initials JT embroidered on the bottom right corner.
Here are the specs:
Pattern: Self design
Fits: One year old (I try to avoid baby items unless they are certain to be used - babies outgrow their clothes really quick!)
Yarn quantity used: 4 x 50g 4ply variegated yarn + 1x 50g white yarn
Time taken: 1.5mths intermittently
I am glad the baby's parents liked it!
PS. I know there are probably still some readers out there. Do let me know if my blog entries are boring you to tears. Apart from my customers, that is. :)


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Katie Holmes: 'Really Excited' to Shoot 'The Giver'
Katie Holmes keeps it cool and casual as she goes for a stroll after dropping off her seven-year-old daughter Suri at school on Tuesday (October 1) in New York City.
That same day, the 34-year-old actress hit the black carpet at the premiere of the highly anticipated film Gravity held at AMC Lincoln Square Theater.
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It was recently announced that Katie has joined the cast of Meryl Streep's upcoming film The Giver.
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