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1. Application for Invention Patent
2. Formality Examination
Upon receipt of the application, the examiner checks if the application satisfies the formal requirements needed for the grant of a filing date. The date of filing is very important under the present first-to-file system because it serves to determine, in case of a dispute with another applicant for the same invention, who has the right to the patent.
3. Publication of Unexamined Application
After the formality examination, search and the classification of the field of technology to which the invention is assigned, the application together with the results of the search (which contains a list of published patent applications or issued patents for inventions, which are identical or equivalent to those claimed by the application), will be published in the IPO Gazette (after the expiration of 18 months from the filing date or priority date). After the publication of the application, any person may present observations in writing concerning the patentability of the invention. Such observation shall be communicated to the applicant who may comment on them.
4. Request for Substantive Examination Substantive examination is conducted upon request.
The request for substantive examination of the application must be filed within six (6) months from the date of the publication. The application is considered withdrawn if no request is made within that period. If the examiner finds reason to refuse the registration of the application, i.e. the application is not new, inventive or industrially applicable, the Bureau shall notify the applicant of the reason for refusal/rejection giving the applicant the chance to defend or amend the application.
5. Decision to Grant Patent Registration or Decision of Refusal
If the examiner finds no reason for refusal of the application, or if the notice of reason for refusal is satisfactorily complied with by amendment or correction, the examiner issues a decision to grant the patent registration. Otherwise, the examiner refuses the application.
6. Inspection of Records
The grant of a patent together with other information shall be published in the IPO Gazette within six (6) months. Any interested party may inspect the complete description, claims, and drawings of the patent on file with the Office.
7. Appeal
(a) Every applicant may appeal to the Director of Patents the final refusal of the examiner to grant the patent within two (2) months from the mailing date of the final refusal. The decision or order of the Director shall become final and executory fifteen (15) days after receipt of a copy by the appellant unless within the same period, a motion for reconsideration is filed with the Director or an appeal to the Director General is filed together with the payment of the required fee. (b) The decision of the Director General may be appealed to the Court of Appeals. If the applicant is still not satisfied with the decision of the Court of Appeals, he may appeal to the Supreme Court.
ReferenceCode Type of Fee Big Small
201 1.1. Filing Fee 3,600.00 1,800.00
202 1.2. For each sheet in excess of thirty (30) 30.00 15.00
203 1.3. For each claim in excess of five (5) 300.00 150.00
204 1.4. Request for right of priority 1,800.00 900.00
205 1.5. Request for Extension of Time to File Priority Documents 1,300.00 650.00
206 1.6. Divisional Application (for each division) 3,600.00 1,800.00
207 1.7. Conversion From Utility Model to Invention 1,200.00 600.00
208 1.8. Early Publication: Request for publication before the expiration of 18 months from filing date or priority date 5,550.00
2.1. Request for:
2.1.1. Extension of time to file Response
209 126.96.36.199. First 600.00 300.00
210 184.108.40.206 Second 650.00 325.00
211 2.1.2. Substantive Examination 3,500.00 1,750.00
212 2.1.3. Revival 1,000.00 500.00
213 2.2. Preparation of amended page(s) of the master copy of the specification and/or claims 70.00 per page
214 3.1. Amendment or correction in the Letters Patent 500.00 250.00
plus publication fee
3.2 Petition for:
215 3.2.1 Voluntary surrender or cancellation 600.00 300.00
plus publication fee
216 3.2.2 Any amendment or any correction of mistake in a Letters Patent of formal and clerical nature without fault of Office 600.00 300.00
217 3.2.3 Any amendment or any correction in a Letters Patent of substantive nature 1,500.00 750.00
218 5th year 2,700.00 1,350.00
219 6th year 3,600.00 1,800.00
220 7th year 4,500.00 2,250.00
221 8th year 5,400.00 2,700.00
222 9th year 7,200.00 3,600.00
223 10th year 9,000.00 4,500.00
224 11th year 11,600.00 5,800.00
225 12th year 14,400.00 7,200.00
226 13th year 17,000.00 8,500.00
227 14th year 20,700.00 10,350.00
228 15th year 24,300.00 12,150.00
229 16th year 27,800.00 13,900.00
230 17th year 31,400.00 15,700.00
231 18th year 37,700.00 18,850.00
232 19th year 45,300.00 22,650.00
233 20th year 54,300.00 27,150.00
234 5. Annual fee for each claim in excess of five (5) (5th to 20th year) due and payable at the same time as the applicable Annual Fee listed above. 350.00 175.00
235 6. Notice and publication of non-payment of annual fee 350.00
minimum; approximately 1/8 page
(a) Properly filled-out Request Form for a Grant of Philippine Patent;
(b) Name, address and signature of applicant(s); for non-resident applicant, the name and address of his/her/their resident agent; and
(c) Description of the invention and one or more claims.
NOTE: It is advised that any drawing/s necessary to understand the subject invention should be submitted at the time of filing so that there would not be a possible change in filing date due to late submission/filing of said drawing/s. The other formal requirements, which are not needed to obtain a filing date, but maybe included at the time of filing are:
(a) A filing fee (for big or small entities) which maybe paid during application filing or within one month from the date of filing. The application shall be deemed automatically cancelled/withdrawn in case of non-payment of such fees;
(b) Drawing(s) necessary to understand the invention;
The Intellectual Property Rights Rule 413 states the following with regards to inclusion of drawing(s) specifications on the application:
(a) General Requisites for the Drawing The drawing must be signed by the applicant or the name of the applicant may be signed on the drawing by his attorney or agent. The drawing must show every feature of the invention covered by the claims, and the figures should be consecutively numbered.
(b) Drawing for an Improvement - When the invention consists of an improvement of an old machine, the drawing must exhibit, in one or more views, the invention itself, isolated from the old structure, and also, in another view, so much only the old structure as will suffice to show the relation of the invention therewith.
In addition to the above rulings, RULE 414 clearly indicates the following specifications:
Rule 414.1. Uniform Standard of Excellence Suited to Photolithographic Process, Required of Drawings. - The printing of the drawings in the IPO Gazette is done by the photolithographic process, and therefore the character of each original drawing must be brought as nearly as possible to a uniform standard of excellence suited to the requirements of the process, to give the best results, in the interests of the inventors, of the Office, and of the public. The following rules will therefore be strictly enforced, and any departure from them will be certain to cause delay in the examination of an application. Rule 414.2. Paper and Ink. Drawings must be made upon paper that is flexible, strong, white, smooth, non-shiny and durable. Two ply or three ply Bristol board is preferred. The surface of the paper should be calendered and of a quality which will permit erasure and correction with India ink. India ink, or its equivalent in quality, is preferred for pen drawings to secure perfectly black solid lines. The use of white pigments to cover lines is not permissible. Rule 414.3. Size of Drawing Sheet; Imaginary Line. The size of a sheet on which a drawing is made must be exactly 29.7 cm x 21 cm or the size of an A4 paper. The minimum imaginary margins shall be as follows: top 2.5 cm; left side 2.5 cm; right side 1.5 cm; bottom 1 cm. Within this imaginary margin all work and signatures must be included. One of the shorter sides of the sheet is regarded as its top, and, measuring downwardly from the imaginary line, a space of not less than 3 cm is to be left blank for the heading of title, name, number, and date. Rule 414.4. Character and Color Lines. All drawings must be made with the pen or by a photolithographic process which will give them satisfactory reproduction characteristics. Every line and letter (signatures included) must be absolutely black. This direction applies to all lines, however fine, to shading and to lines representing cut surfaces in sectional views. All lines must be clean, sharp, and solid, and they must not be too fine or crowded. Surface shading, when used, should be open. Sectional shading should be made by oblique parallel lines, which may be about 0.3 cm apart. Solid black should not be used for sectional or surface shading. Freehand work should be avoided whenever possible. Rule 414.5. The Fewest Possible Number of Lines and Little or No Shading to be Used. Drawings should be made with the fewest lines possible consistent with clearness. By the observance of this rule the effectiveness of the work after reduction will be much increased. Shading (except on sectional views) should be used sparingly, and may even be dispensed with if the drawing be otherwise well executed. The plane upon which a sectional view is taken should be indicated on the general view by a broken or dotted line, which should be designated by numerals corresponding to the number of the sectional view. Heavy lines on the shade sides of objects should be used, except where they tend to thicken the work and obscure letter of reference. The light is always supposed to come from the upper left hand corner of an angle of 45 degrees. Rule 414.6. Scale to which Drawing is Made to be Large Enough. The scale to which a drawing is made ought to be large enough to show the mechanism without crowding, and two or more sheets should be used if one does not give sufficient room to accomplish this end; but the number of sheets must never be more than what is absolutely necessary. Rule 414.7. Letters and Figures of Reference. The different views should be consecutively numbered. Letters and figures of reference must be carefully formed. They should, if possible, measure at least 32 millimeters in height, so that they may bear reduction to 10.6 millimeters; and they may be much larger when there is sufficient room. They must be so placed in the close and complex parts of drawings as not to interfere with a thorough comprehension of the same, and therefore should rarely cross or mingle with the lines. When necessarily grouped around a certain part, they should be placed at a little distance where there is available space, and connected by lines with the parts to which they refer. They should not be placed upon shaded surfaces, but when it is difficult to avoid this, blank space must be left in the shading where the letter occurs, so that it shall appear perfectly distinct and separate from the work. If the same part of an invention appears in more than one view of the drawing, it must always be represented by the same character, and the same character must never be used to designate different parts. Rule 414.8. Signature, Where to be Placed. The signature of the applicant should be placed at the lower right-hand corner within the imaginary margins of each sheet, but in no instance should they trespass upon the drawings. Rule 414.9. Title of the Drawing. The title should be written with pencil on the back of the sheet. The permanent name and title constituting the heading will be applied subsequently by the Bureau of Patents in uniform style. Rule 414.10. Position on Drawing Sheets of Large Views. All views on the same sheet must stand in the same direction and must, if possible, stand so that they can be read with the sheet held in an upright position. If views longer than the width of the sheet are necessary for the proper illustration of the invention, the sheet may be turned on its side. The space for heading must then be reserved at the right and the signatures placed at the left, occupying the same space and position as in the upright views and being horizontal when the sheet is held in an upright position. One figure must not be placed upon another or within the outline of another. Rule 414.11. Flow Sheets and Diagrams. - Flow Sheets and diagrams are considered drawings. Rule 414.12. Requisites for the Figure of the IPO Gazette. As a rule, only one view of each invention can be shown in the IPO Gazette illustrations. The selection of that portion of a drawing best calculated to explain the nature of the invention or its specific improvement would be facilitated and the final result improved by judicious execution of a figure with express reference to the IPO Gazette, but which must at the same time serve as one of the figures referred to in the specification. For this purpose the figure may be a plan, elevation, section, or perspective view, according to the judgment of the draftsman. All its parts should be especially open and distinct, with very little or no shading, and it must illustrate only the invention claimed, to the exclusion of all other details. When well executed, it will be used without curtailment or change, but any excessive fineness or crowding or unnecessary elaborateness of detail will necessitate its exclusion from the IPO Gazette. Rule 414.13. Reference Signs. Reference signs not mentioned in the description and claims shall not appear in the drawings and vice versa. The same features, when denoted by reference signs, shall throughout the application, be denoted by the same signs. Rule 414.14. Photographs. (a) Photographs are not normally considered to be proper drawings. Photographs are acceptable for obtaining a filing date and generally considered to be informal drawings. Photographs are only acceptable where they come within the special categories as set forth in the paragraph below. Photolitographs of photographs are never acceptable. (b) The Office is willing to accept black and white photographs or photomicrographs (not photolitographs or other reproduction of photographs made by using screens) printed on sensitized paper in lieu of India ink drawings, to illustrate the inventions which are incapable of being accurately or adequately depicted by India ink drawings restricted to the following categories: crystalline structures, metallurgical microstructures, textile fabrics, grain structures and ornamental effects. The photographs or photomicrographs must show the invention more clearly than they can be done by the India ink drawings and otherwise comply with the rules concerning such drawings. (c) Such photographs to be acceptable must be made on photographic paper having the following characteristics which are generally recognized in the photographic trade: paper with a surface described as smooth, tint, white, or be photographs mounted on a proper sized Bristol board. Rule 414.15. Matters not Permitted to Appear on the Drawings. An agents or attorneys stamp, or advertisement or written address shall not be permitted on the drawings. Rule 414.16. Drawings not Conforming to Foregoing Rules to be Accepted Only Conditionally. A drawing not executed in conformity to the foregoing rules may be admitted for purposes of examination if it sufficiently illustrates the invention, but in such case, the drawing must be corrected or a new one furnished before the application will be allowed. Applicants are advised to employ competent draftsman to make their drawings.
(c) An abstract; and
As stated in the Intellectual Property Rights Rule 411, The abstract shall be written in a separate sheet with a heading ABSTRACT shall consist of a concise summary of the disclosure of the invention as contained in the description, claims and drawings in preferably not more than one hundred fifty (150) words. It must be drafted in a way which allows the clear understanding of the technical problem, the gist of the solution of that problem through the invention, and the principal use or uses of the invention. The abstract shall merely serve for technical information. Each main technical feature mentioned in the abstract and illustrated by a drawing in the application shall be followed by a reference sign placed between parentheses.
(d) If the priority of an earlier filed application is being claimed, the details of the claim, i.e. filing date, file number and country of origin.
The Intellectual Property Rights Rule 305, states the following with regards to Right of Priority:
An application for patent filed by any person who has previously applied for the same invention in another country which by treaty, convention, or law affords similar privileges to Filipino citizens, shall be considered as filed as of the date of filing of the foreign application: Provided, That: (a) the local application expressly claims priority; (b) it is filed within twelve (12) months from the date the earliest foreign application was filed and (c) a certified copy of the foreign application together with an English translation is filed within six (6) months from the date of filing in the Philippines (Sec. 31, IP CODE).
This six (6) month-period may be extended by the Director for a maximum of six (6) months upon showing of good cause or in compliance with treaties to which the Philippines is or may become a mem


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Welcome to the
Santa Cause!
"Santa Cause" is a super charity, which supports existing charities in Walworth County referred to as: "The Charities of Christmas" & performs Random Acts of Kindness throughout our community.
Williams Bay, WI—April 2, 2018—Nancy Waspi, Director of Development for Santa Cruise/Santa Cause went out in the community to award the citizens of Williams Bay that won a lighting category for the 2017 Santa Cause season. Each winner was presented with their engraved stone award as well as any corresponding prizes.
The decoration categories judged were (1) Best Lakefront Home (Top 3: Larry Crown who won a 2 hour private charter on the Lorelei, George Williams University who won a wine dinner for 6 at PIER 290, and Bob, Ruth Ann, Trey Morava with Kate Guss who won a $100 gift card to PIER 290. (2) Best Theme winner Scott, Kimberly, Lia, Molly Bychowski and Ken Copenwhaver who won of $100 gift card to PIER 290, (3) Most Creative winner Jamey Pietrowiak who won $100 gift card to Café Calamari, (4) Griswold/Craziest winner Karen Mitchell and Mark Noland who won $50 gift card to Harpoon Willie's and $50 gift card to Lucke's Cantina, and (5) People's Choice winner Tracy and Michael Sierakowski who won 4 tickets to a dinner cruise with Lake Geneva Cruise Line.
About Santa Cruise—Santa Cruise is a winter lake cruise that tours a lighted shoreline and culminates to Santa's North Pole Hideaway. In 2018, Santa Cruise became a "Premier Sponsor" by donating $50,000.
About Santa Cause— Santa Cause is a super charity, supporting existing charities in Walworth County referred to as: "The Charities of Christmas" & perform Random Acts of Kindness throughout the community. Their big event is referred to as the Tree Festival and runs the day after Thanksgiving until the New Year.
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Pictured above is the Dream Tree Loft Playhouse. It looks amazing, and if you are interested in dropping more on a playhouse than most drop on their car, this is the playhouse of your dreams. It can be a retreat for your children in your own backyard. Click behind the fold to read more about the playhouse and see more pictures.
This is a side view of the tree house. While it is quite expensive, often times you can find people that make knock offs. (Yes, knockoffs of a playhouse.) This particular play house is handcrafted using high quality hardwood (90% cedar).
The interior view is quite nice also. I think I could use one of these for myself. The upper part of the tree house measure 5'x6' and the deck portion measures 10'x10'. Overall, the treehouse is 12' tall. Click on over to Posh Tots to check it out for yourself.
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Everyone loves a good pregame locker room speech. Udonis Haslem delivered an emotional one before Sunday's game and then backed up his words with one his best games offensively since injuring his foot back in 2011.
"Obviously, we've got so many guys who have won and have been successful throughout their careers at this level, so on different nights different guys speak up," Haslem told ESPN after the game. "This time, it was me. Just coming into this game, I wanted to make sure that we came in here with a certain attitude. Something had to change."
Haslem's 17 points (the most since the injury) was a definite change. Before Game 3, he had three points in the entire series. His baseline jumper was wide open throughout the out game and he connected on eight field goals, which was a career postseason high for field goals made in a game. Afterwards, Pacers center Roy Hibbert acknowledged that he basically had no choice but leave Haslem wide open.
"Just him hitting those shots really made us have to think on defense. Who do we guard?" Hibbert said. "Do we guard the paint or do we have to go out to the shooters on in the corner?"


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Midwife in the Tire Swing
Chapter 42—The New Ashmoleans
"There is no higher calling than that one shall say unto another 'use me' and have no thought of gaining by it."
—New Ashmoleans 6, vii
With a burst of pre-menstrual energy, Heidi Nichols was rearranging potted plants that lined the windowsills of the Extension. The phone rang and she leaned over to put it on speakerphone. "University of Maine Department of Agriculture Extension. This is Heidi, how may I help you?"
"You can help me by getting a quiet divorce. I have a career to consider." It was her husband. "How long has this... thing with Ed Hobart been going on?"
"Thank you for your interest. Word gets around, doesn't it? Mmm, I'd say about three days now. And I haven't called a lawyer yet, if that's what's worrying you." Heidi snuffled and heard her sinuses click; they did that when she was about to get a cold.
"You have malformed sinuses. You should see a doctor," her husband would say. They would then have a fight—a shouting match that ended only when one or the other left the house. After eight years Heidi rented a small apartment and moved out.
"You are a doctor; I've seen you every day for most of ten years. Bother you?" She clicked her sinuses again. "Doesn't bother me one little bit." Click. Click. Click.
"You are making your sub-vocal expressions of hostility. You always do that. Christ, you're annoying. So it is just about the sex. Our marriage was nothing to you."
"Nothing much now. At first it was too much. I thought I repulsed you. I loved you, Andy. But you never leveled with me. Got all passive aggressive whenever I brought the subject up—tried to get you up. We would fight and forget what the fight was all about. If you'd just said something... anything. Things might be different. No. Wait—I don't think so."
"Ed is that good... He always looked like a nebbish to me."
"I am one well-fucked lady, let's leave it there."
Heidi slid into the University pickup Ed left parked behind the laundromat. As the starter growled, the windshield wipers slammed from side to side. The radio came on full blast, caterwauling about a woman that been done wrong—a country station. She quieted the accessories and, easing the truck from its berth, headed to her place. A personal call. Let Ed simmer for a day or two. She sniffed for any scent of their recent sex. There was none. Shit, she thought, I'm scheming just like with Andy.
At her one-room efficiency apartment she poked around in the depths of her carryall for the keys and found none. She must have left them at Ed's. She prized the snap lock with a credit card, shouldered the door open, then lunked it shut with her hip. There was a pervading odor of mustiness. "Huh, three days away and the mold moves in." She dropped her bag in the center of the bed and flopped next to it and waited for the phone to ring. Would it? She had said it would.
Fright, terror, racing pulses from the bleary half-sleep of an afternoon nap, she crashed into the Walmart cardboard bureau. Elder Jesse. He had only called her at work. How would he know to find her here?
"Hello. Mister Youngblood?"
"The same." The voice was calm, preoccupied.
"Are you alright? And how did you know I was here? I mean... you called me at work, used redial to call me back, a number you called at random."
"You have said that I would call; you were testing your faith, not mine. Here I am. I looked you up in the phone book."
"New Ashmoleans," said Elder Jesse. His voice was faint and indistinct. He was having a stroke. Was he drunk or drugged?
"What?" Heidi bellowed into the phone. New Ashmoleans, that must be one of the Forbidden Books of the Bible the Rosicrucians had in their ads.
"'New Ashmolean Marching Society and Students' Conservatory Band.' It's a song from a show, Where's Charley. And you don't have to shout."
Heidi rose to close the Venetian blinds.
"A snappy halftime tune the high school band plays at football games. Nobody has ever heard of it—it's old, that's why. You want to grow old and alone with no one knowing your name? You don't have to answer. The answer is a given. Say no."
"Well, no."
"Just what I expected you'd say, foreseen and foreordained. 'Be fruitful and multiply,' Genesis 1:28. That's your Bible text for today. And tomorrow, into an undefined future. Multiply, no long division, no logarithms. Prosper... well, that's something else. Not my department. I am in outreach. You hear voices?"
"Now you are sounding like my soon-to-be ex-husband. No, I don't hear voices."
"Think again, be sure. Voices—sounds, that seem to come from nowhere, the wrong places."
"You mean you are a ventriloquist."
"Ventriloquism don't work on the phone." The rustling recommenced. He was doing something. He had mentioned binoculars—no, it was Ed who spied on her and she had forgiven Ed; he might be watching her now from, from... Heidi opened the blinds and looked out. Nothing. Nothing but... "Are you recording this?"
"As your telephone pastor, I have to remind you that our talks are sacrosanct." Elder Jesse's inner city accent had disappeared. "Please, Heidi, you can speak freely; we are alone. Was that Venetian blinds I heard?"
"Uh, your voice... It's slipping? Now don't take this wrong but your, your... rhythm has changed; you are going back and forth."
"You mean sometimes I talks like a ghetto nappy-top and sometimes I talks regular."
"Well, yes."
"I am a person, Heidi Nichols. And a person, particularly a man of the cloth should be allowed some latitude in matters of style." Heidi heard pages flipping, then what could only have been a zipper. "Isn't they the noisiest, Venetian blinds?—a dead giveaway you're ill at ease. Myself, I got draperies. Draperies calms the spirit. You are doubting me and my, our mission together. Fulfillment, remember? You did as I said and have been rewarded by Providence. You got your hit at the lickin'-stick, heh heh. Full circle: a prophesy fulfilled. And you too, if I don't miss my guess. You got some proper stuffed; I can hear it in your voice. Hold on. Ohh, ohh, that good." There was a prolonged silence.
"You shit," said Heidi. "You are jerking off."
"Couldn't help it." He dropped the phone.
The man was depraved. Not the masturbation... everybody did that from time to time. Shit, all the time. But he needed an audience. Her. And he knew all about her and Ed and the blowjob in the truck. Jesus Christ, he had set it up. I should be grateful, Heidi thought. "Hello, hello..." The rustling started in again, stopped, and Elder Jesse picked up the phone.
"I won't be calling again, Heidi." He was quiet, waiting for her reply.
"Wait. You know who I am. How the hell do I know you are who you say you are? Faith? Bullshit. Do you think you're God that you can set things up like that and just walk away? That's it?' You do think you're God. Is there anyone there locked up with you who thinks he's John the Baptist?"
"You have entered upon the slippery slopes of doubt, Heidi Nichols. Believe me; all of this has been foreordained."
"You know where I live, you have my number. Numbers... you looked me up in the phone book. You probably know what I look like." I have picked up my very own stalker, Heidi thought. "Have we ever met?"
"Not that I know. So you mos' likely wouldn't recognize me if we met face to face. Nor me you, on the street, say. I like things that way. Like the Catholics in their confessional. They have a screen between the priest and the sinner in the hot seat."
"No. Not for me. I like distance. And anonymity. No screen, no priest, just miles of wire."
"Most folks would be calling me their benefactor. I saw you in your need and brought you heart-ease. You are at ease..."
Heidi felt shamed at being tagged as ungrateful. Had not her innermost secret wishes been granted? Was she not happy with her outcome?
"Yes I am—at ease. I have never been happier in my life. I'm sorry, Elder Jesse, it's just that..."
"My self-manipulation. It brings you discomfort."
"Yes, frankly, it does. It's like I'm being used."
"You are. 'There is no higher calling than that one shall say unto another 'use me' and have no thought of gaining by it.'"
"A Bible verse..."
"New Ashmoleans 6, vii. You are getting it regular-like now. A long dry road between pussy-poundings if you ask me. You gettin' it—I'se gettin' it. Now what's wrong with that? Are we two not but using a God-given gift? Not selfishly, as the Good Book says, but for the pleasure of others."
"You are jerking off in my ear. I am not comfortable with that."
"This is my vocation. I am a sacred man, little lady. You think I jes' calls people up to mess with their heads. My precise title in the Church of the Divine Satisfaction is sexton."
"That's a janitor."
"Ah, but so much more, little lady. Sexton... think about it. One little word, a name with much hidden meaning. Ton o' sex, for instance."
"But you're jerking off in front of me... of my voice."
On the other end, Elder Jesse zipped his fly. "I goin' take a rest now, Willie," he said. "But don' go way. I be's back."
"Who are you talking to?" asked Heidi.
"Wet Willie, my mighty engine," replied Elder Jesse.
"You have a pet name for it."
"Don' everyone? What about you?—married all those years to an anesthesiologist who puts his own jones to sleep. When the sleeper wakes—it is written—there goin' be a Great Fornication."
Elder Jesse did not elaborate on just what, if any, scripture he had quoted. Maybe he just made it up. He made things up, yes. That was it. "You are a liar," Heidi said.
"Heidi, Heidi. Ten years, no wangtang, and you never touch yourself just once? Tell me, girl... and I'm the liar. You have a vibrator."
"That's a very personal question." After all she had been through with Elder Jesse Youngblood, she realized that was a foolish thing to say.
"Ain't no question, jes' a simple statement of fact. Of course you do—have a vibrator. Every fine, upstanding woman does. You use it every day, I'd bet. And you gotta name for it, too. Here, hold on for a while, I got another magazine here with a gal getting' it on with a vibrator. Mm-mm."
Pervert or not, Elder Jesse was right on the money there. "Lady Luck, the vibrator's name." said Heidi.
"Mind if I smoke? I got a cubeb."
"Mister Youngblood, we are on the phone in case you haven't noticed."
"Some women is particular wary when a man lights up a cubeb."
"Not me."
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So it's happened and unfortunate as it may be, you've made the funeral arrangements and the Funeral Home Director asks you if you would like the organist to play or if you would like to bring your down music. So what do you say to him?
Well this site has compiled a nice list of songs that can be played while a funeral is in session.
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Your PC has a built-in "screen capture" function. If you know which keys to press, you can take a snapshot of your entire screen or an active window. After it's captured, you are can paste the screenshot into any variety of image-editing programs and other programs such as Microsoft Word. A saved screenshot can help you show operating glitches to a technician, promote a computer product online or just brag about a video game's high score. No matter your reasons for capturing the screen, the process takes just seconds.
Click on the window you want to capture. You can capture your entire screen or deliberately select one specific window.
Press and hold the "Alt" key if you want to capture just the active window. If you want to capture everything, don't press "Alt."
Press the "PrntScr" key on your keyboard (it also may be the "PrtScr/SysReq" button or similar). Your screen is now captured to the PC's clipboard. You can only capture one screen shot at a time, so don't capture the screen again until you paste the screen image into a program.
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Open your desired image editing program.
Hold down the "Ctrl" key and then hit the "V" key to paste the screen shot. The captured image appears on screen for saving, editing and sharing.


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All items > Knives > Fixed Blade Knives > SOG (Fixed) > SOG Huntspoint
- Overall Length:8.20"
- Blade Length:3.60"
- Cutting Edge:3.00"
- Blade Thickness:0.13"
- Blade Material:AUS-8
- Hardness:56-58 RC
- Blade Style:Drop Point
- Blade Grind:Flat
- Finish:Satin
- Edge Type:Plain
- Handle Length:4.60"
- Handle Thickness:0.75"
- Handle Material:Rosewood
- Weight:3.70 oz.
- Sheath:Leather
- Knife Type:Fixed Blade
- Brand:SOG
- Model:Huntspoint Boning
- Model Number:HT022L
- Country of Origin:Taiwan
- Best Use:Camp/Hike, Hunting
- Color:Wood
- Product Type:Knife
The Huntspoint Boning fixed blade is part of SOG's new line of Hunting knives. The high satin finished AUS-8 steel drop point blade is flat-ground and specifically designed for boning. The Rosewood handles are a great fit on this knife with a slight offset around the edges for excellent grip. The Huntspoint knife comes with a USA-made black leather sheath.


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An Indian airline said Tuesday it had fired two pilots after reports they fought and both briefly left the cockpit unmanned during a New Year's Day flight from London to Mumbai.
Jet Airways took the step after investigating allegations that a male pilot slapped his female colleague during a heated argument when the plane was mid-air carrying 324 passengers.
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A Mercedes driver should have won the Brazilian Grand Prix. Both were fast enough. The faster of them almost managed it despite starting from the pits! The other should have got the job done having started from pole position. But both failed ultimately, to the delight of Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel.
A chronic weakness of the Mercedes Formula 1 car played a part in scuppering star man Lewis Hamilton's chances, despite a stunning recovery drive from that pitlane start, while team-mate Valtteri Bottas paid the price for a long-standing flaw in his competitive make-up, which undid his hopes of a better result once again at the crucial moment.
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text: NobletonNobleton Community Church, 29084 Sentinel St., will host Dan Schall in concert for the 17th year at 10:45 a.m. Feb. 18. Schall stutters when he speaks, but praises God and shares God�s Word through music. For more than 30 years, he has shared his personal testimony of going from anger to having a message of encouragement for others. Visit DanSchall.org to hear his music.Spring HillSpring Hill United Church of Christ, 4244 Mariner Blvd., will host a free indoor Game Day with trivia, puzzles and board games for all ages from 4 to 6 p.m. Feb. 17. A meal will be provided. Call (352) 683-4870. There will be an organ recital with organist Eric Lebel at 4 p.m. Feb. 18. Also, tickets are on sale now for Sally�s St. Patrick�s Vegas Show and Dinner beginning at 12:30 p.m. March 11. Tickets cost $15; call Larry at (352) 293-4736.Weeki WacheeNativity Lutheran Church, 6363 Commercial Way, will have Lenten services at 5:45 p.m. on Wednesdays from Feb. 21 through March 21; a soup and sandwich supper will be served from 5 to 5:30 p.m. Call (352) 597-1456.Information for the Religion Calendar and Briefs must be in writing and may be emailed to Gail Hollenbeck at [email protected] or mailed to Hernando Times, Religion Calendar and Briefs, 13045 Cortez Blvd., Brooksville, FL 34613. The deadline is two weeks before the event or reservation deadline. Include the time, date, exact street address, cost, contact person (first and last names) and phone number.


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Loving summer like I do, the sets being released this week are right up my alley!
Here are the details of the release:
- The June release stamps will be "sneaked" Monday-Wednesday at 7PM CST!
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"Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it because nobody else will. Like when someone comes into your life and half of you says: "You're nowhere near ready". And the other half says: "Make her yours forever". Michael, Caroline asked me what would I say if I knew you could hear me. I said: "I do know. I love you. God, I miss you, and I forgive you."
-I have my dessert first.
-Is that a political statement? A medical condition, perhaps?
-I just don't see the point in waiting. I mean, what if I die while eating my entree?
-Is that probable?
-It's possible. What if I choke? What if an asteroid come hurling down onto the restaurant?... I'll tell you what, if you swear on your eternal soul that I'll make it through my entree, then I'll wait. But before you answer, consider that if something does happen, you'll have to live the rest of your life knowing that not only did you lie to me, but you denied of my one last indulgence. Are you prepared to shoulder that kind of responsibility?
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Sanford in Seminole County, Florida — The American South (South Atlantic)
The U.S. Post Office
Erected - 1917
—230 East First Street —
Architecturally it fits into the Classical Revival style, constructed of red pressed brick, and remains basically unaltered. It is trimmed in Georgia sandstone and white sandstone pillars. Other features are Venetian windows, and marble occuli flanking the entrance which is recessed into the face of the building. The original exterior is essentially intact.
Erected 1989 by the Sanford Historic Preservation Board.
Marker series. This marker is included in the Florida, Sanford Historic Preservation Board, and the Postal Mail and Philately marker series.
Location. 28° 48.714′ N, 81° 15.973′ W. Marker is in Sanford, Florida, in Seminole County. Marker is at Touch for map. The marker is mounted on the building next to the front doors. Marker is at or near this postal address: 230 East First Street, Sanford FL 32771, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. The Meisch Building (within shouting distance of this marker); The Peoples Bank Building and Block (within shouting distance of this marker); The Bishop Block (within shouting distance of this marker); The Whalers Saloon (within shouting distance of this marker); The E. E. Brady Livery Stable (within shouting distance of this marker); The Sanford Herald Building (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); The N.P. Yowell and the Garner-Woodruff Buildings (about 300 feet away); The DeForest Block (about 300 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Sanford.
Regarding The U.S. Post Office. The U.S. Post Office Building is not listed individually with the National Register of Historic Places. In the NRHP listing cited by the marker, the building is designated one of several Contributing Structures within the Sanford Commercial District, a National Historic District.
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Some Clarity on my Thoughts on NServiceBus
In my last blog post I mentioned in passing something about NServiceBus
There is, of course, a cost to running NServiceBus as it is a commercial product.
I though that, perhaps, there should be some clarity to my comments. I have a few good friends who make their living working with NServiceBus and there was some debate about my point.
MassTransit is a competitor to NServiceBus and I'd also say that Akka.NET plays in a similar enough space to be considered competition. However, one of the biggest competitors is hubris. The belief, by developers, that they can build NServiceBus in an afternoon. Afterall it is just a sprinkling of dependency injection on top of a transport protocol and mixed with a sprinkle of quartz.net, right?
I fell into that trap some years ago. The company I was with needed a service bus but wasn't willing to spend the money on NServiceBus. They had almost a dozen servers handling messages so the cost would have been pretty significant. I took a full month to build what was a prety limited version of NServicebus. It was an adventure and the result was, almost certainly, full of bugs. Hundreds of unit tests can uncover and verify a lot but when it comes to distirbuted, multi-processor systems the bugs tend to be, well, interesting. Building NServiceBus is jolly hard.
This is the old build vs. buy dilema rearing it's head. The cost of building and maintaining a system the equivilent to NServieBus is huge. You would need to have a large team dedicated to it. However you don't necessarily need to build the entirety of NServieBus. That's the crux of my comment: in large systems you may wish to build your own, thinner, interface over a messaging system like Azure Service Bus: one which exposes a smaller, more focused API. Balancing build and buy is one of the more difficult things to get right in software.
Consider a system like LMAX: it was a highly focused, message based architecture. It would not have been suitable for NServiceBus because they had performance needs which were well outside of NServiceBus' capabilities. Specific needs are another reason you might want to build your own system.
I suspect that more than 95% of distributed systems written in .NET are suitable for simply using NServiceBus. It is that final few percent where the needs are unusual or specific enough to require a custom build.
So should you buy NServiceBus? If your needs are for a reliable distributed system with top tier support then probably. If you have a massive system to build or narrow needs then you may wish to explore further. But, be warned, building distributed frameworks is exceedingly non-trivial.


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THINGS happen, in everyday life, things happen. I know they dont just happen to me. I have a theory .........
Friday, 24 April 2015
Funny Friday
11 comments:
- Angela Weight said...
These are GREAT!!!! Love the Pumpkin Pi one and the "blend Him" one. I knew you'd come up with something clever.
- 24 April 2015 at 15:16
- Tamara Gerber said...
Ouch on blending HIM! Love the Pumpkin Pi, don't care where you got it from :-)
- 24 April 2015 at 15:26
- Candice's Measurements of Merriment said...
These are great! Love the Pumpkin Pi and the earthworm one. Happy Friday!
- 24 April 2015 at 15:42
- Sarah said...
Bless you Angela - I feel cleverer just reading that comment ;-)
I love it too Tamara - it was too good not to use.
It's true about the worms though isn't it Candice!
- 24 April 2015 at 16:15
- Michele Marriott said...
Love the earthworm joke. It's true!!
I need to save the pumpkin Pi joke for next Halloween :)
Enjoy your weekend!
- 24 April 2015 at 16:16
- Karen @Baking In A Tornado said...
The squash and earthworm one is hysterical, probably because it's also true!
- 24 April 2015 at 16:39
- Jules B said...
Hilarious! Thank you for the laughs! I hope your weekend is lovely!
- 24 April 2015 at 21:13
- Robin Allen said...
Yay! Another squash reference!
And not one, but TWO bad jokes? Those are my favorite. I love a funny bad joke!
- 24 April 2015 at 22:25
- StacySews andSchools said...
#1 is absolutely BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!
- 24 April 2015 at 23:03
- Dawn Bedingfield said...
cobwebs and decorations, pure genius
- 25 April 2015 at 14:32
- Sarah said...
The earthworm one really IS true isn't it Michele!
Ha ha, yep, it is Karen ;-)
Thanks Jules, I hope your is too!
Terrible jokes Robin but they make me laugh.
Thanks Stacy, I pinched the fungi reference from another joke.
Lol Dawn, it's true though isn't it ;-)
- 25 April 2015 at 20:18


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Those who do not like Family Guy - and I confess that I include myself among their number - criticize it for replacing actual jokes and humor with contentless pop culture references. Although I find this critique stingingly accurate, I understand how a show could get to be like that. I'd like nothing more than to just shout "OMG COOL WORLD" and call it a blog entry. But then I'd risk disappointing you, my imagined interlocutor, and I should hate to do that. And anyway, dipping into the Cool World level of obscure cultural reference is a bit much. It basically gives us nothing to go on beyond "An on-the-rise Brad Pitt stars opposite an on-the-decline Kim Basinger in a movie that's about having sex with cartoons." Which, actually, when you put it that way, is a bit more to go on than I perhaps gave it credit for, yeah?
Somewhat alarmingly, I was aware of this movie when it came out in 1992. Which was, ummm... fifth grade. I'd only just had the vaguest outline of this "sex" thing explained to me in the context of my sister's imminent arrival. So a film about fucking cartoon characters was not set to be a part of my world view. Then, after a marketing campaign inexplicably carried out where I could see it, which probably meant full page ads in comic books, the movie flopped quietly into the void. I never saw it, was never going to any time soon, and, given that everybody hated it, am probably reasonably happy that way, although, to be fair, everybody hates The Fountain and Tideland as well, and those are two of my three favorite movies of 2006, a year that was actually alarmingly good for cinema. (The list is rounded out by The Prestige, a movie that would have been my favorite movie of the year in 2004, 2005, or 2007, which, actually, is true for other movies in 2006 as well)
As I consult the Psychochronography Standard Playbook, It suggests that the traditional move here is to the faithful and marvelous idea of secret histories. This is unhelpful for two reasons. First, there is no Psychochronography Standard Playbook - I'm making this up as I go along. Second, and perhaps more significantly, the resulting narrative, no doubt about an imagined sexual awakening I could have had, would require that the movie be good, which, as I said, it appears to have not been, given that Ralph Bakshi was, let's face it, never at his best when he was playing the sexual transgressiveness game (a tragic fact that forces us to admit that Wizards was him at his best).
No. This is not a secret history. This is something else. It is the phenomenon described by Slate when they recently looked at the 1990 Dick Tracy movie - the cultural event that never happened, or, more accurately, happened but was not an event. It is tempting to call it alternate history, but this too seems off. It is not that Cool World as a cultural event belongs to some alternate fork of the many worlds hypothesis. Cool World happened. It's just that its happening was not an event with visible repercussions. Those that showed up in the theater expecting a hurricane got a weak fluttering of butterfly wings.
I made reference above to the many worlds hypothesis. To better understand this, it's necessary, I am afraid, to provide a brief introduction to quantum mechanics - specifically the idea of wave function collapse. Wave function collapse occurs when a wave function, a description of all the possible states of a quantum object such as an electron - resolves itself into a single position via interaction with an observer. The big question is "how the bloody hell does this happen, and what does it mean that it happens?" One interpretation is the many worlds hypothesis - that in fact the wave function as a whole does not alter, but merely splits into multiple universes in which it resolved differently. Extrapolated from the quantum scale this leads to the science fiction conceit of the multiverse.
But there is a sister concept developed by Feynman - multiple histories. In this concept, it is not merely that a wave function collapse splits the timeline up into numerous alternate states. It is also true that any prior position that could have been true happened - that history is in fact the sum total of past events averaging together and canceling out in order to produce a single outcome. Doing similar violence to the carefully delineated scale of quantum mechanics, we can extrapolate another science fiction concept - this one frustratingly more ignored in contemporary art and media despite being every bit as cool, if not slightly cooler, than its better known brother.
Under the multiple histories interpretation, we can look at Cool World not as a failed cultural milestone but as a nexus of possibilities. Given that Cool World is both viewable as a landmark cultural event and as an entirely irrelevant movie, it can thus be assumed within this schema as being every possible movie and, as an event, every possible cultural landmark. In other words, perversely, because Cool World is an indeterminate oddity within the historical record, as opposed to something of significant weight that we might know about, we may imprint any significance we want upon it. It is in the exact middle ground where this is possible - enough of an event to plausibly situate itself in the historical record, but not enough of one to collapse history's wave function into some sort of discernible fact.
Oh, you wanted me to talk about the video game? Right, I forget sometimes that this blog is ostensibly about them. It might be easier if the game were playable. It's not. There's ammo scarcity, and then there's this game, which combines an almost Resident Evil-esque level of ammo scarcity with a beat-em-up's level of intensive enemy attacks. This is a good combination in exactly the same way that cheddar cheese and peppermint are, that is to say, a stellar example of taking two potentially good ideas and completely screwing them up.
But what relationship does this have to the event, if Cool World can, in our quantum understanding, still be called that? The video game tie-in is normally a pale echo of the event. But here Cool World does not have echoes - rather, Cool World is itself the echo, a causal echo instead of a consequential one. This is the problem with multiple histories - by their nature, they are inconsequential in understanding the present. They have no resonance as such because they are all, by necessity, antecedents to a definite present. If I embrace some other history, some great and wondrous Cool World, I do not change who I am - merely an apparently indifferent detail of how I got to this strange point.
Here, however, Cool World's utter crappiness as a game, as opposed to its mere disappointing underwhelmingness as a film, provides us some inadvertent benefit. While it is possible to extrapolate a wealth of possible cinematic/cultural events to account for the incommensurable gap left by the non-event of the film, the fizzling of the tie-in video game is not only no problem, but necessary. Tie-in video games are never good.
Should we observe the fleeting object of Cool World too closely, it will diminish on approach, resolving to some outcome that is necessarily less wondrous than the infinite tangle it is currently afforded. But the video game version allows us what amounts to another way through. By bathing in the paratext, we may encounter the multiplicity of the event without collapsing it. Cool World (the game), like ourselves, emerged from the myriad of histories that Cool World (the film) is. But unlike ourselves, its relationship to the film is necessary - the game has no option but to respond to the film even though it provides us with no information about the quality of the film.
The game, then, is a blank slate - a way to approach the film from the side, of sneaking up on it so we can stand in the aura of this tangle of multiplicity without collapsing it. Is this a useful or beneficial interpretation to take? I would argue that it is at least as useful, and probably rather moreso, than anything the game or likely the movie would give us in a more conventional approach. This approach, at least, offers some semblance of mystique, creates a point of irresolvable fascination and mystery. My approach, in other words, rescues the past from its own banality.
Cosmic Wars offers the opposite phenomenon. It is a Japanese game - one that should evade my supervision on the Nintendo Project, except that a translated version of it made it into my games folder, and it amuses me to talk about it so I will.
In these days of mod chips and Internet, the mystique of an import game is in many ways limited - mostly they're just advance releases of games that are irritatingly untranslated. This was not true in the NES days. While a mod/import scene existed, without the Internet to unite and guide it, it was a scattered, obscure scene based heavily on local connections. In those days, in other words, you needed a guy. (I am to understand that the situation was similar, by and large, to that faced by people trying to buy drugs, although I am spectacularly inept in this regard. But my sense remains that you can't really buy them on the Internet. Although I could be wrong, I suppose. Heck, for all I know, the way you find a dealer is to complain on your blog. I doubt it though.)
What was clear, however, was that the Japanese had games we didn't. For a long time the best known example of this was Super Mario Bros. 2, which finally saw a US release as The Lost Levels some time later. But others existed, of which Cosmic Wars was not one that I had heard of. A turn-based strategy game from Konami, Cosmic Wars is, apparently, a lost part of the Gradius series. No doubt of considerable interest to a niche of video game fandom, I, being neither a Gradius fan nor a particular turn-based strategy fan, had little problem putting it down after half an hour.
There are no multiple histories to be untangled about Cosmic Wars, largely because there is no history to be untangled in the first place. These sorts of games are defined by their absence in our history - by the fact that there is no data and no event where we want there to be one. They are inevitably imagined as brilliant games, in turns fascinatingly weird and captivatingly fun. They are usually hard - the legend of Super Mario Bros. 2 (which was not far from the truth) was that it was deemed too hard for Americans. But all of this is imagination.
I've played a few of these games over the years, and almost without exception, they're disappointing. The issue is not, I don't think, one of impossible expectations - as we'll discuss in a week or two when I hit Darkwing Duck, impossible expectations are not a huge problem. Rather, it is that these games are, from the moment they are first encountered, experienced as historical phenomena. It is not that an old game can never fascinate - I've been caught up in several games over the course of this project. But an old game, when it fascinates, does so because it comes from outside our experience - because it's a secret history. These long lost imports by and large cannot do this because they already fit into our histories by their absence. That is, they are in our experience as explicit blank spots, as opposed to inadvertent ones.
Just as Cool World's mystique collapses if its multiple histories are approached too closely, so does the mystique of these abysses collapse if we get to look inside. We were not meant to know secrets such as these. Our history is not for us, or at least not for our consumption as knowledge. It is something else. Something stranger. It is what brought us to this point, but is, from this point forward, strangely inessential given that we are at this point. From here, memory alone will suffice. History is a veil - alluring, entrancing, yes. But it is forbidden to look past it.
The question is whether that will stop us, and whether the results will always be as much of a letdown as they are here.


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"There is a culture of impunity, and the conduct of minister Mervyn Silva is a challenge to the government in maintaining law and order," FMM spokesman Sunanda Deshapriya said.
The attack took place in broad daylight in the presence of police, but no law enforcement officer came to the assistance of the cameraman when dozens of goons surrounded him, eye witnesses said.
"The cameraman was hospitalized with abdominal pains after they injured his testicles," head of MTV, Chevaan Daniel said.The minister himself grabbed the camera and also removed the Sirasa TV microphone from the podium where guests at a bridge opening ceremony were scheduled to speak, eye witnesses said.
Minister Silva and his goons had previously assaulted the news chief of a state TV station and hundreds of television workers surrounded the minister and man-handled him, in an event that was televised nation-wide.
He was led away under police protection, but later a several persons who led the protest were assaulted or slashed with razor blades.
Though the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party started an inquiry and media watchdogs called upon President Mahinda Rajapaksa to take action, no visible action has been taken and the ministers continues his war against the media with impunity.
International media watchdogs have named Sri Lanka as one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists, after Iraq without about a dozen journalists killed and several abducted and detained without trial.
The culture of impunity in the country, human rights abuses and 'the war against journalists' has come under fire from the European Union and United States.
An EU parliamentary delegation, last month said Sri Lanka is likely to lose trade concession from the EU which were originally given to encourage good governance, and the government can send a positive signal by taking action to end attacks on the media.
An independent media is considered essential to preserve and nurture democracy by countries where democracy is valued.


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U.S. study shows Internet discussion groups = popularity contests
A 6-year study of online discussion groups by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia shows that 2 percent of online discussion-starters received a disproportionate 50 percent of replies. Additionally, those with many online connections received "preferential attachment" over people with smaller followings. http://www.torontosun.com/2011/06/10/internet-a-popularity-contest-study
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R4 gamers like to play the 'Endless Ocean' on r4i gold. This game is set in a relaxing, interactive aquarium offering a great way to explore the unspoilt beauty and mystery of the sea. Gamers and nds player users like to play this game on R4i Gold 3DS much more. Marketers consider 'Endless Ocean' as the most excited and adventurous game as of now. The 'Endless Ocean' is considered to be in top most list of r4i gold games. Players can use r4i gold as shows a great compatibility with all the DS editions for playing such games. Both NDS player users and gamers like to play homebrew and WIFI games on acekard ds. Players should know that the r4i gold has a great support of microSD card wherein gamers have to drag and drop all the games and applications in order to enjoy the game. You can run this game on any type of OS.
The game Endless Ocean appears quite attractive while playing the game on r4i gold. In this game, there's a great virtual Endless Ocean experience for all those who don't want to bother with the endless hassles of real scuba diving. During the game, player has to be a biologist with the Manoa Lai Oceanic Research Society and player job is to explore the ocean and identify the wide variety of sea life swimming down there. Besides that the slow pace and soothing underwater scenes make it easy to just swim around aimlessly, and feel the stress melt away. The player is able to enjoy this game due to the usage of r4i gold.
If you really just want to distress by some virtual swimming then start playing endless ocean on acekard ds. Both NDS player users and gamers like to consume r4i gold much much more. Playing, Endless ocean on r4i gold was an amazing experience.


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Meet Miss Frankie—a very accomplished young lady! Besides earning numerous awards at school, she raises cattle for show, and was chosen for the 2014 US Army All-American Marching Band playing her flute. Her interests were fascinating to me! She is heading to Illinois State University in the Fall, where she'll continue to play the flute and piccolo.
Frankie has incredible style, and not only brought some killer outfits with her, but included one with her "signature" scarf! She has something like over 100 of them! It's always so fun when seniors wear or bring items that really mean something to them for their senior portraits. She is just beautiful, and we had an amazing shoot together! Thanks so much for a wonderful day, Frankie—you're the best!


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I give lots of thought to what makes community-based organizations the lowest common denominator in development aid. Readers of how-matters.org may already be familiar with previous arguments I've offered for the increased inclusion of and investment in community-based organizations (CBOs). As an ardent proponent of CBOs' comparative advantages, I believe they have a better chance of being driven by "the…Continue
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(Whispering.) "Psst, excuse me, but actually it's not 'your' program. And if you think that it is, we may have a problem on our hands."
Many would argue that who owns what in development is a key aspect, if not the aspect, to a project's or program's success.
And so a person's choice word choice when describing their work or do-gooder endeavor can actually reveal quite a lot.
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The September 23, 2013 oral arguments will be conducted in Courtroom 1, 12th Floor, of the John W. McCormack Post Office and Court House, 5 Post Office Sq. Boston, MA. This is a change from the original notification that the arguments would be held in Courtroom 5 (U.S. Tax Court).


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Above, a crowd gathered on the beach watches the fireworks from a safe distance, while the brilliant light of the grand finale lights up the scene.
Click here to enlarge the above photo of the Weirs Beach Fireworks as seen from out on the Lake
|Please call the Lakes Region Chamber at 603-524-5531 for any questions regarding the fireworks schedule information seen below. You can also check the Weirs Action Committee's Facebook page for late breaking information.
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A crowd gathered on the boardwalk watches as one of the larger shells explodes in a burst of color
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All of the above shows are fired from the beach. While the beach is mostly closed to the public during the shows, a small portion of the beach that is deemed at a safe enough distance IS open. Excellent views of the fireworks are also available from the boardwalk and public docks.
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There are also available, on occasion, special fireworks cruises and fireworks trains from which to observe the fireworks. (The view from a cruise boat or private boat in Weirs Bay is especially lovely, with the fireworks exploding nearly directly overhead.)The Mount is docked at its berth in Weirs Beach, while in the background can be seen the colorful lights of a fleet of boats out on the Lake, in anticipation of the July 4th, 2012 fireworks.


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Prediction of the in vitro gas production dynamics of kikuyu grass by near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy using spectrally-structured sample populations
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Herrero, M.; Jessop, N.S.; Fawcett, R.H.; Murray, I.; Dent, J.B. 1997. Prediction of the in vitro gas production dynamics of kikuyu grass using spectrally-structure populations. Animal Feed Science and Technology 69(1-3):281-287.
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A study was carried out to test: (1) if the prediction of in vitro gas production of kikuyu grass (Pennisetum clandestinum) samples by near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) could be improved by the use of a spectrally-structured sample population; and (2) if the parameters from exponential models used to describe the kinetics of gas production could be calibrated by NIRS. Forty-one kikuyu grass samples (calibration set) were chosen out of a total of 288 on the basis of their spectral characteristics as representative samples of the whole sample population. Measurements of cumulative in vitro gas production were recorded at 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 72 and 96 h. Spectra were transformed with 1st, 2nd or 3rd derivative mathematical treatments. NIRS calibration equations were derived for in vitro gas production, with or without scatter correction for particle size using modified partial least squares. The equations were validated using a set of 48 samples previously chosen at random from the total sample population (validation set). Satisfactory calibrations and cross-validations were obtained for all the static measurements of gas production (R2 = 0.77−0.86 (S.E. 0.48−2.06) and 0.74−0.82 (S.E. 0.50−2.18), for the gas volumes from 3 to 96 h, respectively), and the use of a spectrally-structured population improved the calibration and cross-validation statistics of the NIRS equations. However, when three exponential models were fitted to the gas production data, only the asymptote values could be satisfactorily calibrated or cross-validated. When the NIRS equations were used in the validation set, the static gas volumes were predicted with R2 values between 0.60 and 0.71 (S.E. 0.65 to 3.83, for the gas volumes from 3 to 96 h). These results were less accurate than within the calibration set, but they were still better than when the parameters from the exponential models were fitted. The results suggested that the calibration of static gas volumes is a more promising alternative than to fit specific parameters of kinetic fermentation models by NIRS.
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Mario Herrerohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7741-5090
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text: The NAS New Testament Greek Lexicon Strong's Number: 5350 Browse Lexicon Original WordWord Originfqeggomaiprobably akin to (5338) and thus to (5346)Transliterated WordTDNT EntryPhtheggomaiNonePhonetic SpellingParts of Speechftheng'-gom-ahee Verb Definition to give out a sound, noise or cry of any sort of sound or voice, whether of man or of animal or inanimate object as thunder, musical instruments, etc. NAS Word Usage - Total: 3speak 1, speaking 2 NAS Verse Count Acts12 Peter2Total3Greek lexicon based on Thayer's and Smith's Bible Dictionary plus others; this is keyed to the large Kittel and the "Theological Dictionary of the New Testament." These files are public domain.Bibliography InformationThayer and Smith. "Greek Lexicon entry for Phtheggomai". "The NAS New Testament Greek Lexicon". . 1999.


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Cambodia's imports of construction materials increased substantially in the first five months when compared year on year, though insiders say the sector still sits below pre-crisis highs.
Some US$307 million worth of material such as steel, tiles, and cement were imported in 2011 to the end of May, from $76 million in the same period last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce's Camcontrol Department.
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction Director General Im Cham Rong said the government has noticed a recent uptick in construction projects.
"This shows the improvement of the sector reflecting our economic growth and peoples' rising living standards especially in Phnom Penh city," he said.
"We need to import [construction materials] to complement what we lack, and meet the increase in demand."
Although the sector is showing signs of recovery, insiders say the construction industry still faces challenges.
National Valuers Association of Cambodia President Sung Bonna said the industry was generally on the upswing, though the market was not yet comparable to pre-crisis peaks in 2006 and 2007.
Much of the present development was conducted by local investors, though the sector had been driven by foreign investment in the pre-crisis stages, he said.
"We can say that projects which are developed by foreign investors have seen some recovery from the bottom," said Sung Bonna, who is also President and CEO of Bonna Realty Group.
"However, we cannot compare to the boom period, so we just close our eyes and imagine we're in a better state than the years of 2009 or 2010."
Cambodia imports much of its construction materials from China, as well as Vietnam and Thailand, he added.
Angkeara Trading and Engineering Managing Director Uch Angkeara said the industry had shown signs of recovery. "We are seeing more signs of construction activity," he said.


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LONDON and SAN FRANCISCO – February 14, 2008 – Advent Software, Inc., (NASDAQ: ADVS), the award-winning provider of software and solutions for the global investment management industry, today announced a consulting alliance with Atlantic Link, a London-based consulting organization specializing in the alternative investment and capital markets sectors. Atlantic Link will work with Advent clients implementing Geneva®, Advent's award-winning global investment management and accounting platform, and Moxy®, Advent's industry-leading trade order management system.
Advent's business in EMEA continues to expand, and one of the strategies to support this growth is to develop a strong network of high calibre alliances with companies that have the knowledge and expertise to work with Advent products. Atlantic Link will continue to build a team of Advent certified consultants with strong industry backgrounds who are able to implement Geneva® and Moxy®.
"We have worked with Atlantic Link on a number of successful projects in the past, which made the decision to enter a consulting alliance simple for both firms," said Hakan Valberg, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Advent Software EMEA. "We have similar goals – to become the market leader in EMEA's alternative investment and asset management sectors – and this relationship expands our offering within our core markets while providing increased flexibility to deliver first class services and support to our growing client base."
"We are delighted to have this new relationship with a firm as highly regarded as Advent Software. Their Geneva® and Moxy® products are recognized as best-in-class in the market," explained Eric Werner, Chairman of Atlantic Link. "Advent's tremendous growth in EMEA over the last 24 months aligns with our own expansion plans both in the UK and in Europe. We have a strong group of industry experts who also have in-depth knowledge of Advent's solutions, so our mutual goals make this formal relationship a very positive move for us," concluded Werner.
About Atlantic Link
Atlantic Link (www.atlantic-link.com) is a young and rapidly expanding company that delivers high quality advisory and technical services to clients in the Alternative Investments and Capital Markets sectors. The company provides support of essential operational processes and the systems that they rely on via Atlantic Link's integrated expert services organisation. Clients have access to strategy and advisory services from the Hedge Fund, Capital Markets and Technology Practices with exemplary delivery via a centralised Project Office.
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Geneva®, a global investment management and accounting platform, is a proven solution for asset managers, hedge funds, fund administrators, prime brokers, and mutual funds that require a high level of operational efficiency and easy access to real time data. Geneva® offers comprehensive instrument coverage, full financial general ledger, and industry-standard integration tools enable firms to manage complex investment vehicles, multiple investment strategies, and tiered fund structures.
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Moxy® is the industry's most widely used trade order management system, with more than 800 clients worldwide. Moxy® automates trading and order management processes for a comprehensive array of instruments, and features portfolio modeling, rebalancing, and what-if scenarios; intra-day order management; pre- and post-trade compliance checking; and electronic order routing and trade execution.
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Advent Software, Inc. (www.advent.com), a global company, has provided trusted solutions to the world's leading financial professionals since 1983. Firms in more than 60 countries use Advent technology and manage investments totalling more than US $18 trillion. Advent's quality software, data and services enable financial professionals to improve service and communication to their clients, helping them grow their business while controlling costs.
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I loved learning how to piece the mini log cabin blocks to make sweet patchwork chicks but I thought it would be fun to go a little funky and try some improv techniques. The small size makes these chickens a cheap and easy way to try something new
I gathered up some scraps from my stash and combined them with a pair of sleeves salvaged from a light grey linen shirt I found at a resale shop. There was enough fabric in the sleeves to make 2 chicks, so I ended up with one using the slash and insert method, and a second with really easy no-fuss applique.
This tutorial will take you through the slash and insert piecing and the matchstick quilting for the pink and grey chick. I'll also show you how to lay out the applique pieces to make the chick sporting the orange mohawk!
For each chick you will need:
- body fabric - two squares at least 4 inches on a side. 4.5 or 5 inches is safer if you want more wiggle room or haven't done any slashing and inserting before.
- scraps of contrasting fabric to insert into the body fabric (at least 1 inch x 6 inches)
- beak - about 1.25 inch square of fabric
- comb - a piece of fabric at least 1 inch x 2 inch
- tail - one 4 inch square and one 3 inch square
- embroidery thread for the eyes
- scrap of batting at least 5 x 10 inches ( its easiest to use low loft )
- quilting thread
- stuffing ( you can use poly fil, pellets, sawdust, or even grits or rice )
- Rotary cutter and mat with a plastic ruler (a 3.5" inch square ruler is handy for squaring up your blocks, but if you don't have one that's ok.)
Press your body fabric. I like to use spray starch at this stage to give the fabric some extra
stiffness so it won't distort as much after it's cut diagonally.
Cut 2 squares for each chick. You can get by with 4 inch squares but 4.5 inches will give you extra insurance.
Using your rotary cutter make 1 or two strait slashes across the body squares. I made both
sides the same, but you can make them different.
Cut your insert fabric into strips at least 1 inch by 6 inches
Fold your beak fabric square diagonally twice and press
For the comb, fold your scrap in half wrong sides together and cut the open edge all wiggly
Place the beak and comb where your chicken's head will be to hep you visualize the final look .. ( or just b surprised! ) You will make the tail later.
Double check your alignment and seam allowances!
Mark your seam lines. since you are looking at the right sides of your fabric, at this stage, it is easier to just mark a dot with a chalk pencil, or use a hera marker or even a small strait pin to mark the end of the seam line on BOTH fabrics. This will help you get everything positioned correctly again when you flip the body fabric over right sides together to sew your seams.
Flip the top body piece over so it is right sides together on top of your first insert piece.
Be sure to check that you have both pieces positioned so your planned seam line dots
line overlap or touch each other.
After you sew the first body piece down, flip it back open to double check it is in the right place, then move the next body piece over on top of the insert piece and using your marks, get it positioned correctly and sew your second seam. Now you have one insert done
and it's time to trim and press before you go on to the next step.
Trim the extra seam allowance off each seam, and press all seams toward the body fabric. Leave the extra insert pieces sticking out, you will clean them up later when you square up your final block.
Mark and trim both the front and the back. They don't have to be the same and they don't have to match at the seams unless you just get crazy if they don't match up.
Next it's time to sew the front seam!
Lay your two pressed body parts out side by side. Be sure you have your planned "face" part at the top and on the inside ( yellow dashed circle shows the "face area". )
Be sure your beak is folded twice diagonally and pin it in place with the raw edge lined up with the left edge of your body piece. Keep the single folded edge of the little triangle at the top and the double folded edge at the bottom. Make sure you move it down enough that the top corner falls below the seam line ( white dashed line in the photo )
Check to be sure everything looks right and if so, you are ready to move on to the quilting part. Set your comb aside for later and press and starch again if your fabric has lost some
of its crispness from handling.
Lay your open chicken body right side up on top of your batting scrap. The beak should not
be pressed down. Leave it sticking strait up.
If it isn't perfect, don't worry .. mine is not perfect. I save the perfect points and exact trimming rules for when I am doing crucial piecing. This is wonky and fun.
I like to preview the quilting thread color before I actually work on the real thing. I tried both the pink thread that I liked with my fabrics and also a grey thread that is a close match to the body color. I decided that I wanted the texture to show more than the stitching, so I changed my mind and used the grey thread instead of the pink.
I usually decrease the pressure foot setting a little, change my stitch length to somewhere between 2.75 and 3.5, and slow down my sewing speed so I'll have time to get nice irregular wavy lines.
It would be faster and make a lot of sense to do free motion quilting here if you like .. I'm still terrified of the BSR foot and the jumping foot, so I use this embroidery foot since it has a small clear sole it is easy to see my stitching and it manuevers pretty well. I have also used the even feed foot on my machine or a walking foot with success, but this project is so small that I didn't even try to use any of those bulky attachments.
As for basting .. yes, you should probably baste for a more controlled outcome. You will have less problem with your fabric distorting and getting all out of square as you quilt. I did use some thin little strait pins around the outside edge and it held the fabric nicely. It's a pretty small area we'll be quilting, and you can also easily spray baste, or glue baste if you like those methods.
Congratulations! I hope you love your rebel chick!
Using the quilting stitches to applique decorative elements is super fast and easy. Cut out your body blocks ( use the 4 inch size since you won't be doing any inserts ) and skip all the insert fabric steps. Jump ahead to placing and sewing your beak in place.
Plan your applique .. cut out wings, or stripes, or dots, or any thing you like and temporarily attach them to the front of your chicken body. You can make the comb from felt or fabric, or get crazy with it and add some personality with something unexpected.
Follow the directions above to quilt and finish this fun option. I loved how quickly it came together.
If you want to know more about The Chicken Run, or enter to win one of my chickens, go here to read more, or visit The Chicken Run Gallery here.


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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Sugar Meringue Candy Dots - Tutorial by Running with Glitter
Show Off Your Stuff by FireFlies & JellyBeans. Click the image below to learn how to make these candies:I found this in another Linky Party today and wanted to share. It's by Running with Glitter & the Linky Party is
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Every day is Earth Day at Vera Green Productions and Designs, but we still love any excuse to celebrate our planet and encourage others to do the same! Earth Day is this Thursday, April 22 and to celebrate we have some exciting offers and specials for the eco-savvy couple. Also, keep your eyes out, because the Vera Green crew is kicking it into high gear this week with some special activities around town.
Earth Week happenings:
Check in on the blog for a daily retrospective from Ashley Paz, founder of Vera Green Productions, on her mission as a pioneer in planning socially conscious weddings and special events. As well as unique wedding and green living tips.
Thursday the Vera Green Productions team will be out and about spreading the word with local vendors about the green wedding industry. And their day will end at The Safe Haven Women's Shelter in Arlington to help plant flowers for their Safe Haven Young Professional Group's Earth Day event. If you are looking for a way to give back on Earth Day they will surely need additional help. You can contact them via their website.
We are so excited to celebrate our planet this week, and encourage others to do so as well!


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Here are my Top 10 songs for Summer 2015!!!
10: Good Boy - GD X Taeyang ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZRb1we80kM )
From someone who loves EDM and Kpop this song is a great one to turn up at the party and keep it going all night long!!!
9: Zero For Conduct - Bastarz ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C7vxJ8cB-Y&oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D-C7vxJ8cB-Y&has_verified=1)
Good song with a great feel to it that totally gets you pumped for whatever (or whoever) comes at you that day!
8: Dirty Vibe - Skrillex ft. G-Dragon and CL ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq-aVCUs2Q0 )
Great song to jam to alone or at a party!!! And of course with GD and CL what more could anyone ask for!!!
7: Ice Cream Cake - Red Velvet ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glXgSSOKlls )
This song is so happy go lucky and fun that it's a must have on a summer playlist!
6: I Swear - Sistar ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktEEjk3Xy3s )
Super fun song that just oozes summer vibes! Who doesn't love this song!?!?
5: Dope - BTS ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVwAVbKYYeM )
Great song with an even better meaning! Definitely one of my most played songs this summer!
4: Crooked - G-Dragon ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKhsHGfrFmY )
I know, I know! You're probably thinking "So much G-Dragon". I'm suprised too seeing as I don't listen to him that often. But this song has such a fun free vibe and the music video is what I wish my summer looked like sooooo yeah!
3: Go Crazy - 2PM ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwD51VS0Uko&index=75&list=PLCC67A0CADDE19926&shuffle=187 )
The name says it all! This song is the perfect song to just jam out and Go Crazy to!!!
2: Devil - Super Junior ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOwERHxXcTs )
This song has been stuck in my head since it came out!!! Great song, great video, free spirited feel. Perfect for summer parties!
1: Party - SNSD ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQzu7NYlZNQ )
If you didn't see this coming xD hahaha!!!! My girls killed it again with this song!!! And don't even get me started on Sunny (if you haven't seen it she looks STUNNING)! The song is great and the M/V just totally reinforces the summer theme (and makes me totally jealous of the cameraman) but yeah, fangirl moment over!
Well there is my Summer 2015 playlist everybody!!! Tell me what you think in the comments!!! Love you all and I hope you have a safe, fun, and epic summer!!!