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This is quite a simple way I use in hacking symbian phones
However, if you don't know what hacking a symbian phone is all about, Click here.
Follow the steps accordingly and get your symbian phone hacked in a twinkle of an eye.
1. If when you open your explore application and your memory card shows as "E:/" , then download this file (HERE), However, if shows as "F:/ " drive in newer phones like N8) then download this zip file (HERE). Remember that the zip file MUST be chosen according to the phone (whether memory card is "E" or "F" drive in your phone).
2. Extract the content using your PC the zip file which you downloaded and open the folder named "Private " (that is inside the archive). Copy the entire folder "20024113 " (that is inside "Private").
3. Connect the phone with PC (using data cable) in " Mass Storage Mode ". Make sure that DO NOT connect the phone in Nokia PC Suite mode and please do make sure that neither Nokia PC Suite nor Ovi Suite is running when you connect the phone with PC (because the system folders can't be accessed using these modes). Alternatively you may also connect the Memory card with PC via a card reader.
4. Now, you have to go to My Computer and open memory card connected to PC (that is your memory card you want to use and hack your phone and not mass memory in new phones). Now find and open the " Private" folder and paste the above copied "20024113" folder inside it. Now disconnect the phone (or memory card) from PC. If you don't see the "Private" folder in memory card, it means your PC isn't showing hidden items, simply enable the "Show hidden and System files" option in your PC.
5. Download Dr. Web Anti-virus app HERE and install it (select Memory card as the installation location). Follow this steps carefully. Run Dr. Web app from menu (cancel the warning) and go to " Options/ Quarantine ". Select all three files in Quarantine via "Options/Select All". Now select " Options/Restore ". Exit Dr.Web
6. Download ROMPatcher+(signed) HERE and install it in the phone. Launch ROMPatcher from menu and go to "Options/All Patches/Apply ". On selecting "Apply" the installed patches will become activated.
Wow! Your phone is now hacked and you can install any unsigned app and also have full access to system folders (read/write to sys/private) using your X-plore application and file managers e.t.c. No need for those old certificate/ key.
Note: This method is applicable to all Symbian 3rd, 5th ed and Symbian^3 (Anna, Belle? whatever) phones. You can uninstall the Dr. Web application after the whole process is over.
In older Nokia E series phones, this above method seems not to work as good as in newer 5th ed and Symbian^3 devices. My possible suggestions to this are -
1. Format/hard reset the phone using *#7370 or *#7780# and try again
2. Update the phone to the latest available firmware and then try the hacking method again
3. Or simply try other hacking methods.
NOTE THIS: If your phone still gives error while you try installing unsigned applications after successfully applying the above hack, (or a red cross appears in ROM Patcher on applying the patch), simply download this file (HACKED INSTALL SERVERS for S60) and extract the contents now select and copy the correct " installserver.exe " (according to your phone) and paste in phone's C:/sys/ bin folder (use X-plore to do this). Restart the phone and done.
Remember; DO NOT apply the installserver patch in ROM Patcher after placing this hacked installserver in C:/sys/ bin. That's it.


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Outrageous 'It's Just Not Right': City Threatens 25-Year Business With Eminent Domain
A fight over eminent domain is pitting a family-owned rug store and other local businesses against the city council in Glendale, Colorado.
Earlier this week, more than 100 protesters showed up to the city council meeting, where members voted unanimously to allow the city's urban renewal authority to use eminent domain.
The city wants to clear out the 142 acres for a $175 million dining and entertainment complex, called Glendale 180.
The mayor maintains the city has never used eminent domain and despite the vote, officials are committed to negotiating agreements with each business owner.
The owner of Authentic Persian & Oriental Rugs, which has been there for 25 years, joined "Fox and Friends" Friday morning.
Nasrin Kholghy said the loud protest could not stop the council from authorizing the potential use of eminent domain.
"We have to get eminent domain out. It's just not right," she said.
The developer insist no land has been "taken" at this point and "sincerely hopes...negotiations with the property owners are successful."
Kholghy said they've received offers from the urban renewal authority that were a slap in the face.
"They offered two acres of land behind a parking garage facing a street that is not a major street. Our land is six acres. ... How is that fair?" she asked.
Kholghy said the offer was an "insult" because the store currently operates in a prime location, in the middle of heavily-trafficked streets.
Watch the interview above and read more on the story, via The Denver Post.


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Life in all of its glory brings us many challenges. The past few years have given us what I would consider a fair amount of challenges: job changes, big move, new house, etc.
One of my blogging mentors, Well-Traveled Wife, has been giving me encouragement to get back into writing. She is really good at posting regularly and that is something that I aspire to reach.
As a family, we have one simple goal in life: be happy.
Some days that happiness is just there for us to enjoy and other days like yesterday it is a choice that I have to make happen. Yesterday got off to a bumpy start, including being late to 2 appointments, thankfully they were understanding. I think perhaps their understanding continued my choice to make it a good day.
My adorable clients are looking to find their first home and a new listing came on the market. Since they property is literally around the corner, I jumped on my bike instead of jumping in my car. Fresh air is good for the soul. The sun was shining even though rain was in the forecast.
After that I stopped by my favorite local cafe aka former grocery store, 32 Shea, and enjoyed a bite to eat. To my very surprise, the manager treated me to a drink for something that happened last weekend. She had already been very sweet when the problem arose and this random act of kindness reminded me why I love to go there.
Last night, my evening plans changed a few times. Note to self: when you add something to your calendar, it is a good idea to register for it. I chose to ride the wave as everything happens for a reason and just go to my second evening activity.
En route, I just had to stop into the adorable 21 cakes for a sweet treat, because nothing is better than a little sweet treat for a pick me up.
They did not disappoint! Look at the adorable packaging.
And then the cupcake, YUM!
The Beyond Fear Workshop that Christina Bilbrey of Stella Nova Strategies and Lanie Smith, MPS, ATR of Integrative Art Therapy put together was the perfect way to shift my perspective. I am always a fan of a little art therapy and the combination of a talk about moving thru fear combined with building an actual bridge was a wonderful end to the day.


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Good News for all my Prawn Lover Friends. Today I am going to share a very easy and yummilicious prawn recipe with all of you which I found in a food blog , "EasyRecipeBook". This is a very quick and delectable exotic preparation which requires almost no fuss - no time in the kitchen.
Here is the process:
- Butter - 10 gm
- Cream, Thickened - 100ml
- Garlic - 2-3 Cloves
- Parsley - Handful
- Prawns, Peeled - 250 grams
- At first melt the butter in a frying pan, and add the prawns. Fry on medium flame until the prawns start to turn a nice red /pink colour on both sides. Keep them aside.
- Finely chop the garlic, and add it in to the pan. Stir for a few seconds, and be careful not to burn it.
- Beat the cream and pour it .
- Add the chopped parsley.
- Turn down the heat little, and allow the sauce to simmer for several minutes until it starts to bubble and thicken up nicely.
- Now add the fried prawns and simmer for another 3-4 mins.
- It's wonderful when served with herb rice. So once the rice is ready, serve it on the top and spoon a little sauce over the prawns.
Enjoy Your Food..!!


text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Anyone know anything about life in Toechon Myeon? Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Anyone know anything about life in Toechon Myeon? Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message karenologyJoined: 20 Jul 2010Location: Gwangju City, Gyeonggi-do Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:55 am Post subject: Anyone know anything about life in Toechon Myeon? I think I am close to taking a public school position in Toechon Myeon, Gyeonggi-do, out in the sticks. The closest city is Gwangju Gyeonggi-do. It seems pretty rural (the teacher I spoke to said the population is about 10,000), but near a lake and some nature, and I'm not much of a city person anyways so that might be okay. According to Google Maps it seems like Seoul is just a 1.5 hour bus ride away. The teacher mentioned problems keeping foreigners in the area due to its ruralness. Should that make me uneasy about taking this job? Is rural life really that awful? For the record I'm from Kansas originally, so perhaps I'd have an easier time adjusting than someone who is accustomed to living in, say, NYC. Any feedback from people who have lived in or visited this area would be super appreciated! Thanks! Back to top ChilgokBlackHoleJoined: 21 Nov 2009 Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:15 pm Post subject: If I remember correctly, Myun is the smallest size of incorporated area in Korea. I loved my little rural hagwon (I was in a -eup). If you like cooking your own food and having everyone know where you live, limited shopping options, and it being a pain to get anywhere, go there. Seoul sucks. It smells bad. It takes forever to get anywhere. It's full of drunk idiots and lunatics. Everyone here says GO TO SEOUL!! (especially Cohiba, before he got banned). Now read all these stories about grown men getting drunk, fighting, puking in the streets, pushy ajummas throwing elbows, and getting screwed by the shopkeepers, and you tell me how much "fun" Seoul can possibly be. Back to top BreakfastInBedJoined: 16 Oct 2007Location: Gyeonggi do Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:24 am Post subject: I like the Toechon area but I don't think I'd recommend living there without your own transportation. It is very pretty but your social life will likely be pretty bleak and your shopping/entertainment options extremely limited. I live about a half hour away in Yangpyeong and visit every few months. There are some great restaurants nearby, a huge spa worth checking out, an annual tomato festival, and lots of places to pick fruit (even blueberries, a rarity here). I don't imagine there are many foreigners in Toechon itself, so you could be looking at 10,000 won (or more) cab fare each way every time you want to meet up with people at the nearest hangout. Buses are considerably cheaper, but aren't an option if you want to stay out later than ten or eleven. This is all speculative, of course. The good news is, if it's anything like my rural area, you will probably meet a very welcoming and agreeable close-knit group of foreigners not too far away, and a whole bunch of delightful Koreans eager to make your acquaintance, show off their country, and share their culture with you. If you are fine with small town life, and the prospect of spending days on end without having a proper face-to-face conversation with another native speaker doesn't bother you, then give it a try. It will certainly be an experience. Back to top karenologyJoined: 20 Jul 2010Location: Gwangju City, Gyeonggi-do Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 7:11 am Post subject: Thanks for the tips! I think I'm fine with small town life, but the whole going for days on end without talking to anyone might drive me crazy. I think I'm going to sign on for this job; after all I was looking for an adventure, and this seems like I'd get to experience a lot more "Korea" than just hanging out in Seoul and getting drunk in bars every night. Do either of you (or anyone else, for that matter) know how bikeable the area is? Sounds kind of hilly... Back to top stuey11Joined: 13 Jun 2003Location: Seoul Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 9:31 am Post subject: ... I recently cycled from Seoul to Yang Pyeong to do some wakeboarding and passed through Toechon on the way. It seemed pretty rural with not much going on, but the surrounding area is very pleasant to cycle around. Leaving Toechon on the way to Yang Pyeong there is one pretty tough climb but a great downhill on the way to Yang Pyoeng, riding the other way Paldang Dam is nice and there are several nice looking restaurants and coffee shops located near the dam. A forty-fifty minute ride from Toechon bring you to the outskirts of Seoul. Overall a great place to cycle around, close enough to ride to Seoul and some wakeboarding/water sports places in the other direction. Not sure about cycling in winter though as is does get pretty cold. Hope this helps Back to top karenologyJoined: 20 Jul 2010Location: Gwangju City, Gyeonggi-do Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 10:21 am Post subject: Thanks stuey11! A 45 minute bike ride doesn't sound too bad...obviously I wouldn't be doing this every day, but for a weekend ride that is definitely doable, as long as I'm not scaling steep mountains that way. Did you feel safe cycling on the roads outside Seoul? Back to top stuey11Joined: 13 Jun 2003Location: Seoul Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:41 am Post subject: ..... The roads around toechon are pretty quiet and safe, when riding into Seoul after reaching paldang dam there is a cycle path along the northern part of the river Han which if you follow it will take you all the way into Seoul without having to brave any of the busy roads! I'll try and post a google map link so you can see the route. When I said a forty-fifty minute ride to Seoul I mean the real outskirts of Seoul, it's probably double that to get to anything of interest in seoul Back to top stephencreechJoined: 13 Apr 2010 Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 6:45 am Post subject: Teaching Positions Karenology, I was wondering if you got your documents back from AT or if they found you a position? Stephen Back to top karenologyJoined: 20 Jul 2010Location: Gwangju City, Gyeonggi-do Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 10:03 am Post subject: Stephen - haven't heard a peep from AT. I've already gathered backup copies of my documents, because luckily my state only charges $7.50 per apostille (and they even gave me additional background check copies for free, whoop!). I found this job through another recruiter. Have you heard anything from AT? I wonder if they are just ignoring me and my boyfriend in particular, hehe... Back to top stephencreechJoined: 13 Apr 2010 Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 10:31 am Post subject: At Well, Scot email my gf the other day and said he would check into our status. We haven't heard anything since then, that being about a week ago. I guess we might have to look into a new recruiter, they seem to lack communication and follow-up. Which recruiter did you end up using? Did your boyfriend get a position? If so, are you in the same town/school? I saw that your are teaching public, why did you choose public over private? -Stephen Back to top karenologyJoined: 20 Jul 2010Location: Gwangju City, Gyeonggi-do Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:52 pm Post subject: We're going through Korvia (who are awesome, by the way! Super nice, helpful and communicative), and really, we're just trying to get any job that comes our way. Though I am a bit nervous about taking a public school job as my first real teaching gig! I think Korvia mostly does recruiting for GEPIK positions, which are public school positions in the area surrounding Seoul. I've also contacted Brad Brennan from TEIK, who has also been good about keeping in touch. Otherwise, most recruiters I've contacted only send me mass messages with lots of job postings, yet never respond when I reply back saying "hey I'm interested in x and x job..." it's really quite frustrating! Have you and your gf had any offers yet? You're not just working with AT, are you? The advice seems to be to work with as many recruiters as you can find, especially with the job market the way it is. The only slight issue with that is you can't apply for public school jobs through more than one recruiter (apparently your application is then either thrown out or not taken seriously, for some reason), but I believe it is okay to look for these public school postings using multiple recruiting agencies. When it comes time to submit your formal application to EPIK or GEPIK, however, you can only do that once. Back to top eroneJoined: 23 Jan 2013Location: South Korea Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 3:20 pm Post subject: Toechon - what is your opinion after living/working there? Hi karenology, Did you end up taking the job in Toechon-myeon? Because I was offered a public school position there and I'm considering taking it. Perhaps it's the same school? (Dosu Elementary / Chowell Elementary). How was the experience? How is the school? Classroom size? I visited there yesterday. It's a really small place, but Gwangju city is only 30mins away so that's a relief. And Seoul is about 1.5-2 hours away. Any feedback would be great! Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion Forum All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Forums:----------------FAQJob-related Discussion ForumGeneral Discussion ForumOff-Topic ForumTravel ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumBuy/Sell/Trade Forum You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group TEFL International Supports Dave's ESL Cafe


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Prints and process
One of the things that keeps us fairly busy in the office is some of the R&D work we're doing. A good chunk of this involves making test rigs to do quick proof of concept work -- if we can get something working with 3D printed and laser cut parts, it's a good indicator that we can get it working with more advanced fabrication methods. Here's an example of that process -- we had primarily been working with 3mm filaments, but knew we would like to move down to 1.7mm filament.
Doing a quick mock-up Bowden test unit confirmed that there weren't any immediately show-stoppers with moving down to the smaller filament. It also confirmed our suspicion that we'd want a little more torque in the motor unit. This is useful validation as we begin to move into the design-for-manufacturing process.
What you're actually seeing in the photo is a couple of bowden clips connected to an extruder tube. The clips are providing a quick and secure mechanical lock for the bowden tube, which has a reasonable amount of force being applied to it by the stepper motor, via the filament. The whole thing looks fairly simple, but it took about four design revisions to get the clip that holds the extruder tube right.
And, here's some images of new prints: Yoda, a factory and the Cube-Sphere decorative object from http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:31343.
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Can you tell me the advantages of the smaller diameter filament, please? Also, have you actually TRIED printing something 11" x 11" x 11" yet? Does it take like, 2 weeks to print? LOL
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Other than the bowden clips, these were all models off thingiverse, printed at the size of the file.
Yoda is around 55 x 41 x 57mm.
The radius of the sphere is around 40mm.
The factory is around 40 x 40 x 45mm
Layer heights were between .1 and .2mm, as with almost every other print we have posted.
Print speeds were between 20mm/s and 40mm/s, depending on infill vs perimeters vs external perimeters, etc.


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The transitional diaconate makes the diaconate seem like a consolation prize or stepping stone and it therefore loses it's unique charism. I love the suggestions, including the possible, and appropriate context for, a return of the role of the deaconess (which is not a female deacon as it doesn't hold a liturgical role and has a unique ministry to women and children). Though, it could be argued that returning deaconesses would be an orientalization, too. (The Coptic Church recently re-established the order of deaconess. Whether deaconesses were once tonsured/set aside or ordained is a semantic issue highly disputed. That they existed, as evidenced by Phoebe in the Bible, is not.)
It's a job already being largely fulfilled in the church by RCIA directors, directors of catechesis, or under similar titles. Giving them the recognition, training, and unique ministry they deserve would be a benefit IF it could be accomplished within the appropriate context.
That the role of deacons is not properly respected or understood right now is an underlying issue that needs to first be addressed within it's own right for the sake of our deacons and our church. Similarly is the role of male religious, whose identity of being set aside was consumed in the corporate ladder model to the priesthood, making the religious orders top-heavy with priests and bereft of brothers. Which is what started the process of them losing their communities and identities as they filled the role of parish priests. I am so pleased to see both the diaconate and the male religious life beginning to be rediscovered in the west and to serve the church with their unique charisms again.
Serving alongside my bishop- this picture appeared on the front page of the Deseret News last weekend
I think a similar rediscovery of the ministry of the priesthood needs to happen, which will remove the role of marriage or celibacy from the equation. How can the priesthood be a vocation if it is dependent on the church's need and affirmation? It isn't an alternative to marriage. The "mandatory" celibacy requirement caused us to frame the priesthood as an alternative to marriage, but it isn't. Celibacy is an alternative to marriage, but there are a lot of ways to live out celibacy. Singles (like deaconesses), consecrated virgins, religious, priesthood... The uniting factor is that every person lives that out in a community that supports and builds up that vocation. Even hermits are attached to communities. Sadly, our diocesan priests today lack in this essential area and I think a large reason is the rhetoric that the priesthood is the vocation instead of the proper focus on the celibate life being the vocation and the priesthood being the ministry.
Understanding vocation--the life one will work out one's salvation through--to be marriage or celibacy will really go a long way. Then, the priesthood as a ministry that the church calls the most qualified to will transform who is chosen, how they're chosen, the training provided, etc. And all of a sudden, whether the best candidate for the job being required to be married or celibate doesn't rank so high any longer. His stability, personality, responsibility, gifts, orthodoxy, witness, and so on become qualifying qualities.
I am so excited to see all of these transformations of how we speak and think returning to the fuller contexts in which practical solutions for how to live that out within our traditions can be legitimately discussed.


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This is the combo of two egg dishes, plain omelette + gravy = egg omelette curry. It's not that hard to make and consumes less time also, so I hope anyone can make it easily. So let's see how we are going to cook it. Firstly have a look at the recipe
(1) Eggs- 4
Recipe of Egg Omelette Curry
(1) Eggs- 4
(2) Onion- 1 large
(3) Chili- 3-4
(4) Tomato- 1 large
(5) Coriander powder- 1 teaspoon
(6) Turmeric powder- ½ teaspoon
(7) Ginger-garlic paste- 2 teaspoon
(8) Black pepper- 1 teaspoon
(9) Chili powder- 1 teaspoon
(10) Water- 600- 700 ml
(11) Salt to taste
(12) Oil- 3 tablespoon
(1) Heat the pan and add oil then make two plain omelettes (2 eggs per one omelette).
(2) Heat khadai then add oil, after that add onion and chili and cook till gets brown.
(3) Add ginger-garlic paste, coriander, turmeric, black pepper and chili powder and cook for few minutes.
(4) Add tomato and then add salt to taste, cook it nicely till tomato melts.
(5) Then add water and stir it well and leave it in average flames for 10 minutes until gravy is ready.
(6) Then add the omelettes in the gravy and let it being cooked for 15 minutes.
Egg Omelette Curry is ready to be served, serves two person.


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Danny Dyer: My life is like a soap opera
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- 6 January 2014
'EastEnders' star Danny Dyer admits his home life is like a soap opera and he is very similar to his alter-ego Mick Carter
Danny Dyer admits his home life is like a soap opera.
The 'EastEnders' star - who plays Mick Carter, the new owner of the Queen Victoria pub, in the BBC One soap - welcomed his third child Arty into the world with his partner Joanne Mas in October and insists his life is just as chaotic as his character's.
He said: "I'm in a soap and I go home to a soap. It is tough. When you're on set all day, you miss them. But you've got to get up and earn. Some people get up and they grab their tupperware box and go off to a building site so I feel blessed to have the job I've got."
Danny - who also has daughters Dani and Sunnie with Joanne - admits he was previously offered the role of badboy Carl White (Daniel Coonan) but turned it down because he felt it was too predictable.
However, he was attracted to Mick because of his family orientation and he couldn't wait to work with Kellie Bright, who plays his on-screen wife Linda.
Speaking to TV Times, he explained: "What excited me about this was that Mick is a family man; someone who loves his kids and his wife, a grafter. He's an alpha male, but not in an obvious way; he's not running around with a gun. I was offered a part before, but it was too obvious - it was Carl. I'm glad I turned it down, because I wouldn't be working with Kellie."


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Karachi: Former captain Wasim Akram believes that the time is right for Pakistani players to be allowed back into the Indian Premier League as it would help the event connect with more fans in not just the subcontinent but all over the world. Pakistani players have been barred from participating in the IPL since the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. They only took part in the first edition of the event but since than have been kept out for different reasons one of them being the political uncertainty between the two countries.
"Whenever India and Pakistan players have played either against each other or together, they have attracted lot of crowds and you get plenty of support, especially in this part of the world. I hope in near future Pakistani players will be able to participate because we have great talent," Wasim said in an interview to a Pakistan-based cricket website.
Wasim, who is also the bowling coach of Kolkata Knight Riders, said Pakistani players can add value to any top T20 event.
"Imagine Saeed Ajmal playing. It would have been perfect in these conditions," he said referring to the first leg of IPL matches in the United Arab Emirates.
"Umar Akmal, Umar Gul, Shahid Afridi playing would have been huge. This was their home ground, but let's see it's a decision of the cricket boards of both countries has to take. Mixing sports and politics was going to do no good," he said.
The former Pakistan captain also felt that conditions and facilities in the UAE were ideal for IPL and international cricket.
"It feels good to be back and seeing the facilities here I must say it is as good as any ground I have seen around the world. I'm very sure IPL will start off with a bang here. The buzz is already around and my friends were calling and asking for tickets again," said the former pacer.
He said he knew the wickets in the UAE like the back of his hand and his expertise will definitely benefit KKR.
"The conditions are similar and probable better wickets with the ball coming nicely on the bat and it will be good for the T20 format. In T20 cricket, people come for entertainment and it is sixes, fours and wickets that makes it interesting," he said.


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I wanted to hang a small wreath on the corner cabinet in my kitchen. To buy one was very pricey--I thought. I was able to purchase this bunch of Greens for Half the price. I found this little wreath at a thrift store for 50 cents.
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The Truth About Toddlers
Knowledge is power.
Unfortunately no one really educates you on the weird details of toddler hood. Maybe because they are so bizarre that people don't know how to handle it. Like when Google did away with their feed reader. You hint to talk about it but you just can't.
Here are 15 things I've learned from both my toddlers in the last year:
1. My left, or right, bra strap has become stretched beyond usefulness.
My toddlers hang onto it like a lifeline. Like a walk from the kitchen to the car is equivalent to a mechanical bull ride.
2. My shirt collars have zero elasticity left in them.
My toddlers feel a need to use it to climb on me and get my attention, just to protest being put down. Every shirt has become an over exaggerated scoop neck.
3. Toddler snot materializes as soon as I wipe it.
It's bionic mucous.
4. They're in charge.
Reverse psychology, bribery and negotiations only work if they say it's okay.
5. They don't care.
They can go an entire day with both legs through one leg hole of their underwear, pants, or shorts and walk around like it's the most natural thing in the world.
6. They're Limitless
Setting a limit on toilet paper amounts for a potty training is pointless. I've learned to just hand them the roll before going to get the plunger.
7. Toddlers are eager to help.
I take advantage of someone who is so excited about tossing laundry into the dryer. Of course, laundry tossing turns into exactly that. Tossing laundry. Everywhere.
8. They love to Splash
My kids MUST reenact the breech of a humpback whale as soon as they get into the bathtub. Because without several gallons of water all over the floor, they simply cannot bathe.
9. My Toddlers don't eat.
They'll run off energy from four grapes for two whole weeks before fueling up again.
10. They like to do everything.
Their attention span is so small that we often do 40 different activities in less than four minutes.
11. They will step on me to get past me.
Not around me. Not over me. On me. And they pinch leg or arm fat along the way. Every. Single. Time.
12. My spouse and I have learned the art of teamwork.
We've worked together diligently, with a booger sucker and a flashlight, to extract play-doh from our toddler's ear.
13. My toddlers teach me how to pretend again.
Like, pretending I didn't really see my one-year old drink from a puddle on the ground. That was formed by over splash from the dog's water bowl.
14. They do weird things.
I've had to tell my child to quit biting my toes. Seriously.
15. Silence is not golden.
The only thing more frightening than silence and toddlers in another room is silence and the sound of something heavy being dragged across the floor….
God bless mothers of multiples.
Originally posted at Christina's blog, Raisins and Goldfish. Photo courtesy of NCEE.


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Many so called NGOs are demanding lifting the ban on Food grain exports - As an Organic farmer, Environmentalist, Development economist, Researcher in Vrukshayurveda my views.
Instead of increasing the MSP Government is trying to promote food grain Export which is actually anti-farmer and pro-corporate farming this policy will result in many dangerous consequences... some are stated below
1). Initially export will start with Rice and Wheat (this itself will increase the price in local market) then slowly the world would wants us to grow Corn (already 10% of wheat farms are converted GM Corn fields) because they want to import Corn (mainly as poultry feed) Canola, Soya, Oats and host of other food grains which are unsuitable to Indian weather conditions.
Note: These non-native crops need lot of fertilizer, herbicides (in the case of GM), huge amount of water etc., when grown in an unsuitable area. Posing as a saviour some chemical co. will come out with a patented GM seed claiming that their GM variety offers better yield ?! just to sell their seeds and herbicides - then sometime later when soil is spoiled after dumping their poisonous chemicals and synthetic seeds and when land became desert the business will move to Congo or Papua New Guinea and spoil the environment there - this kind of moving to a green patch and making it a desert is happening from 1900s
2). These export specific grains will be grown at the cost of Indian Vegetables and food products like Kootu, Barley, Ragi, Baajra, jowar, wheat, etc. - these may not fetch big money to farmers but they are the lifeline of many poor and most of them are rain-fed and Arid crops grown on wayside lands - India has wonderful varieties of these native species (Note if India didn't have these native germplasm wealth then the foreign giant ICRISAT won't be here to so called learning from us. (they are stealing our germplasms and patending our native seeds is another matter altogether)
3). many of the so called human food grains that are imported by foreign countries are for poultry feed - why we should sell our land's fertility, productivity, land's grain for the people of rich countries to eat Red meat - which by itself causes the largest global warming as well as poultry originated diseases - H1N1, SARS, Swine Flu, Bird Flu, Mad-cow disease, etc.
4). we can't equate everything with money - the poor farmer may not have big money but what is to be ensured is that he has food, water and other basic amenities and not money because money is a poor substitute for real goods with price rise money will just be another paper. Today the poor farmer may afford some with his money tomorrow when the prices rise that may not be the case
5). Already millions of acres of Indian agricultural land in the past 15 years have transferred hands from small and marginal farmers to large /corporate farmers - particularly in Maharashtra, Haryana and Punjab - many have Vine yards, Corn farms and export /sell to poultry corporates - this has in no way improved the life of poor farmers - 90% all farmer suicides post independence have taken place only in the past 15 years - this is due to wrong agricultural policies - let this also not become one among them
6). The big farm-corporates may have the muscle to play in the commodities market thus can control their losses (The fact is that 99.99% of all commodities trading is nothing to do with commodities buyers or sellers but by speculators and investors for hedging purpose - which is another dirty secret known to all in the Govt. but none want to talk about it )
7). Rice and wheat instead of being seen as food for the children of the country will be seen as money and whereever more money, there these will flow there thus will lead to price rise and scarcity in many places in rural India.
It appears that there is a lack of exposure to root cause by the NGOs who are demanding lifting of Foodgrain export ban (Root-cause and not superficial ones) of the problems faced by small and marginal farmers in many rural areas are out of sight for many of the City based power hungry NGOs - which goes by the demands of one small section of farmers and demanding changes to national policies - the sad part is that our Government is also listening to these big corporate funded NGOs.
People like Bhaskar Save, Nammaalvar, Vandana Shiva, Claude Al-wares, Subhash Palekar, Thanal, OFAI, Virendra Bhatt, SFA - many of these people are witness to the region specific damages of green revolution & chemical agriculture and its effects on health as well as rural economy and now in some regions the bigger danger of Transgenic agriculture. They all have written many valuable articles but those are not brought to limelight in a big way
If Government stops all food grains exports and stop all trading of food items in commodities exchange - we can witness a straight 60% drop in food prices and thus poor will have sufficient food items to eat - they may not have big money or be able to afford the lifestyle of the city dwellers - but there won't be single death health deterioration due to malnutrition.
But even in Cities 80% of people's life is not good, the population of downtrodden in cities are increasing day by day. Let the farmers live in peace in village itself instead we are making them as slum dwellers in cities with short sighted agricultural policies and stupid media which boasts city-life as superior!
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Food grain Exports - Good or Bad ?
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What is an investment?
I love how Prof. Bryan Sudweeks of BYU starts off by defining investment in very broad terms, comparing it to a sacrifice-- you give up something now because you expect to get something greater in the future. That's a concept we're familiar with in nearly every aspect of our lives-- for example, he lists "education and skills, knowledge and friendships, food storage and emergency funds, and finances" as common areas we make investments in. (His website, personalfinance.byu.edu, is a great resource if you find yourself really wanting to dig deeper into a topic.) Here, we're going to focus on financial investments.
Financially, it makes sense that an investment would mean that you don't "consume" your money now, but buy some other asset (such as stocks, real estate, or a business) that you expect to earn some sort of financial return on, whether it be through interest, dividends, rental income, appreciation (increase in value), etc.
Of course, you don't get something for nothing, so let's talk about why you can make money on investments.
Time Value of Money. This is one of those phrases that people with a financial background like to throw around, so I'm telling you about it so you can be in the in-crowd. The in-crowd of nerds that may or may not be cool. Basically all it means is money now is preferable to money later. Duh, right? But the concept has a lot of implications. It means that giving someone access to your cash (even if they plan to pay it back later) is something that you need to be compensated for (they need to pay you interest), based on the rate of return (e.g., a 3-percent interest rate) and how long the other party has access to your money. In other words, part of the way you make money investing is that you give up access to your funds (at least temporarily).
Risk. In financial investments, the risk we typically think of is that the investment won't produce as much money as we think it will, or that we may lose some or all of the money we invested. Generally speaking, you will be compensated for taking on more risk. This certainly isn't to say that that means you should always invest in the riskiest of investments. Investing is not the same as gambling. Things aren't completely random and there is a huge spectrum of risk and how to handle it. And that could be the subject of multiple, multiple blog posts and books. But I think we'll do one follow-up post on it for now (coming soon-- and by soon, I mean eventually :) ). My husband and I have most of our investments (retirement, our son's 529 plan), etc. in index funds that track the market-- given the long time horizon, I consider this very low-risk. But we do also have some of it in specific stocks, which, given the lack of diversity (we can talk about how owning lots of different stocks lowers your risk in the follow-up post) is more risky. Honestly, I really don't recommend picking stocks on your own unless you are willing to spend the time to do the research to decide if it's a good investment and have deep industry knowledge and a super solid financial background (in our family, this is more my husband's area than mine-- I am an index fund kind of girl). In this category of risk, we don't invest more than we could stand to lose. On the other hand, the money that we would need immediate access to, (like our emergency funds), we keep it in an online savings account (basically no risk).
Humans doing their business thing. Whether you bought some lemons and sugar and sold them at a profit at a lemonade stand, or "gave" the money to someone else (either by buying ownership in the company--stock, or giving them a loan) to get their business off the ground, human ingenuity can grow the amount of money through a smart business.
What are some common examples of investments?
Now that we've talked about what an investment is, and how you can make money from them, let's outline some of the most common types of investments.
Stocks. This is where you buy a small portion (a share) of ownership in a particular company. When a company decides it wants to "go public," it means in exchange for a large amount of cash, they give up ownership to whoever buys the shares of the company. (Typically shareholders will elect a board of directors that vote on the big company decisions.) All shares of ownership are sold at an Initial Public Offering (IPO-- have you heard that acronym floating around?). After which, the already purchased stocks (and their ownership rights) are sold second-hand in the stock market. You can make money on stocks either through appreciation (you buy them and resell them for more as the value of the company is perceived to increase), or through dividends that the company chooses to pay its shareholders.
Mutual Funds. A company like Fidelity or Vanguard will take money from many different investors, and buy large portfolio of many different stocks with it. Each investor owns a small portion of the entire portfolio. The fund manager selects which stocks to buy and sell. In exchange for this service, the fund will charge you some management fees. The diversification makes this a less risky choice, in general, than purchasing individual stocks.
Index Fund. An index fund is a mutual fund that is constructed to track the performance of a stock index (like the S&P 500-- a collection of 500 large companies used to track the performance of the stock market as a whole). Because the stock picks are more routine in nature (they are just trying to mimic the index, not evaluate the merits of each stock as an individual investment), the fees tend to be lower than "actively managed" mutual funds.
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Similar to a mutual fund, ETFs pool together multiple stocks, bonds, or whatever the ETF is focused on. They typically track an index, like an index fund, but unlike an index or mutual fund, they are traded on a stock exchange.
Money Market Accounts (MMAs). A Money Market Account is a type of savings account offered by banks with a higher interest rate than your typical savings account. You get a slightly higher return because they have higher minimum balance requirements (think anywhere from $500 to many thousand dollars) and withdrawal limitations. Because these are offered through banks, they are very low risk.
Money Market Funds. These are different from Money Market Accounts. Instead of being offered through a bank, they are a type of mutual fund that invests in short-term debt. These are also very low risk, and usually offer a slightly better return than Money Market Accounts.
Bonds. This is different from a stock - it's essentially a loan to the company. You don't get a share of ownership in the company, you get a share of ownership of the right to be repaid a specified amount of money at a specified rate of interest. You might not have access to the high appreciation potential of stocks, but you are subject to much lower levels of risk (if a company goes belly-up, bondholders will get paid before stockholders). If the government needs more money, sometimes it will issue bonds.
Savings Account. Some people don't really like to call this an investment, since the return is next to nothing and the risk is essentially zero, but I still think it qualifies, at least in principle. You lend your money to the bank, and they pay you interest for the favor of having access to your money. They lend it out to other people and businesses and charge them a higher rate of interest on it.
Certificate of Deposit. You can buy one of these (also called CDs) from banks if you know you won't need access to your money for a specified amount of time (such as a year or five). They offer a slightly higher rate of interest than a typical savings account, since they know they have your money for a specified amount of time, but not by much. Super low risk, and pretty low return.
Real Estate. If you buy a house/apartment/building that you intend to rent out, or fix up and resell, this would be an investment. Under most circumstances, I would not consider your personal home as an investment. That's certainly not to say that buying your own home is not a smart financial choice (given the right set of circumstances).
Business. Buy or create a business. Easier said than done :)
Tell us -- Which of these types of investments (or aspects of investing) would you like to learn more about?
"Understand the Definition of the Term Investment." Personal Finance. Bryan Sudweeks.
"Defining the Three Types of Investments." Andrew Beattie. Investopedia.com. September 2, 2012.
"What is a Mutual Fund." Dave Kansas. wsj.com.
"Mutual Funds and Other Investment Companies." Personal Financial Planning: Seventh Edition. G. Victor Hallman & Jerry S. Rosenbloom. 2003.
"Exchange-traded Fund." Wikipedia. January 19, 2014.
"How Does a Money Market Account Work?" Keybank.com
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The books are being packed up again. Munson has seen this before and seems to have an inkling of what's going on.
We're headed for Australia – all three of us – and expect to be arriving in Sydney a few days before Easter, that is to say at the end of March. This has been in the works for about six months now, and in fact we would have already been in Sydney except we had to re-vaccinate Munson and delay the countdown three months. Gustav has been simply bursting to tell the world for some time now, but I needed to wait until some more preparation was done.
After two and a half years on the French farm, the move is not being done lightly or without acknowledging how much I'll miss the place and having Brent, Jean and the four growing Munsoneers next door. However work options for us in this part of France are severely limited (I have temporary residency at best, and Gustav has little open to him in a dominantly agricultural area other than minimum wage work), so a trip down under provides the most options. That doesn't mean it's permanent - especially if I don't find work quickly – but we have a plan to follow and there's no cost-effective Plan B that allows for Europe in the near term.
Our timetable has the movers collecting our furniture from here at the end of February. We will drive to Paris for a few days – notably because I haven't been there since my two month stay in 2006, and neither Gustav nor Munson have spent any time there. From there, Gustav flies back to Sweden to get his final packing and paperwork done, and to act as best man at a friend's wedding. Meanwhile, Munson and I continue on to the UK where we'll say goodbyes to everyone. Around about March 25, I leave Munson with the pet transporters in London, and I fly to Copenhagen to join Gustav, and from there we fly to Sydney.
One of the reasons I'm spending three weeks in the UK is to finish Munson's export preparations. It has been unnecessarily complicated to get this far with his French paperwork, and I quickly realised that it would be much simpler to get the export done from London rather than Paris. I don't want to deal with any more local officials who ignore or disagree with the Australian quarantine regulations! I also found that it is significantly less expensive to go via the UK than use French transporters (where there is very little competition) who all blithely ignored the information I sent when requesting a quote, when they could be bothered responding.
To make this transfer work I had to obtain a Certificate of Equivalency from the Australian quarantine folks which enables Munson to move between two countries in the six months prior to export. Despite most of Western Europe being a borderless free-travel zone, and each country being rated the same by Australia, DAFF (the new name for AQIS) still has this six month rule. Through December I had a number of sleepless nights pushing paperwork between France, Britain and Australia with at least one catch-22 situation before I got the final approval a few weeks ago.
As soon as we get to London at the start of March, we'll visit the pet transporters and get them to handle all of Munson's final tests and shots. They're the same people as handled Bondi's travel in 2007.
He'll be arriving about the same time as Gustav and me, but I probably won't get to check in with him until after the Easter holiday weekend. He'll be at the quarantine station until May 1.
The easiest part of the trip planning was getting a working holiday visa for Gustav: his online application was processed in less than 24 hours!
We'll be staying in Woolloomooloo with my friend Vance when we arrive, as there's no point in moving back into my house until the furniture arrives in late April/early May.
For now, I'm busy whittling down my life into "keep" or "discard" boxes, while searching for employment in Sydney. If you have any suggestions or leads – please let me know – I have a mortgage to feed!
Also, for friends in the UK, I've got plenty of time up my sleeve and don't want to be hanging around London the whole time – although some visits to Munson's Coffee & Eats Co is mandatory!
(photograph: MountainThunder)
Friday, January 25, 2013
Return to the Emerald City
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Oh my goodness. On the road again. Have a great and safe trip home, not too stressful I hope, especially for Munson! We've been researching getting Georgia to South America the last few months and have just about given up. It seems that no one has the experience on this side and we have been diverted to Miami and LA for info. Not to mention, with the SA classification, it would likely be a one-way trip. All too complicated and final for us!ReplyDelete
Perhaps you could do a post about the pitfalls and how to get dogs in (and out) of Oz when you're back and settled :)Replies
The pitfalls are many and varied! One of the problems is that details of the Australian regulations change each year, and they don't post a "change log". You have to wade through a long document each time to figure out what's new. All the moving companies roll their eyes when they talk about moving an animal to Australia.Delete
There are further complications in that the transition from AQIS to DAFF is not smooth and some documents reference old email addresses and website addresses. The website is not easy to navigate at the best of times! While I was progressing through my application in December some of the documents simply disappeared off the site!
Bigger changes are ahead for those inbound. Some are good: the minimum quarantine may be going down from 30 to 5 days. BUT. All the quarantine centres across the continent are being centralised to a single new facility to be built at Tullamarine. So if you're in another state there is no opportunity to visit or exercise the dog, and you have to factor in transport costs for getting them home again. Since Australian trains don't allow dogs you've either got to arrange other road transport or pay $$$ to fly them. ($$$$$$ for big dogs).
I submitted feedback on the review plans for the changes but I don't know if they'll pay them any attention. I drew their attention (again!) to the six month rule, reminding them that it is ridiculous to ask a vet to certify a dog hasn't left a country in the last six months as there is no way for them to tell. Last year Munson travelled between Gibraltar and Stockholm through 8 countries without ever being asked to show his paperwork.
Hope you 3 might stop to spend a night in Saint-Aignan before you fly off to the other world. This time you'll be able to sleep in the guest room rather than in in the tent. We're only about three hours from Paris by car. I go to the U.S. in April, but both of us are here until then (Callie too).Delete
That would be wonderful Ken. We'd certainly love to see you both before we sail off into the blue. Most likely dates for us are Feb 26th or 27th - we won't know for sure until the movers get here. They're actually coming from the UK, because it's about 30% cheaper than a local mover! Unbelievable.Delete
Hey Mike, do you have any plan to come to Cambridge while visiting the UK? We've never met or talked before, but I've been following your blog for a long time and I'd love to meet you and Munson before you get back to Australia! We could also meet in London instead! ManuReplyDeleteReplies
Hi ManuDelete
I don't have an itinerary yet, but I do aim to visit a friend in Norfolk for a few days, and I'm just reminded that I should look up an Aussie friend teaching at Anglia Ruskin U in Cambridge. Much will depend on where I can get accommodation.
I probably can't give you a better answer than that until nearer to March.
Hi Mike, that would be great, I'll be following your blog but if you manage to visit the area I'll send you my email maybe via PM on twitter or Facebook!ReplyDelete


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Well, as I did last year, I had managed to grow and obscene amount of tomatoes. Unfortunately, our summer was a little strange, and a many of the last ones did get to ripen, so I had a ton of green tomatoes. Well, I still had green tomato chutney from LAST year, so I wasn't too crazy to make more of it. I had enough red fruit left, however, to make spaghetti sauce (mm, sauce).
So I just threw all the tomatoes (red, green, the whole lot) into the stock pot, and cooked them down. They were sieved, and the pulpy juice was strained again for extra smoothness, and I cooked up some onions, garlic, and home grown herbs, and added the sauce back in. It bubbled away, infusing happily, and when I finally got around to bottling it, I used those stainless steel lids the MIL had gifted me with at Christmas.
|Delicious red sauce. Mm, so fragrant.
|The stainless stock pot, six rubber rings, six preserving clips, six stainless steel lids, and six washed No. 14 Fowlers jars, being kept hot with boiling water.
|Filled jars with seals in place
Now, I grew up knowing the Ball canning method, but instead of a flat metal lid with sealant and a metal ring, you have a rubber seal ring, a metal lid, and a clip the hold the lot together when you go to process them.
After you understand the process is pretty much the same as far as sealing goes, it's a breeze, as you can see in the following photos:
|Stainless steel lids, because you need them for very acidic things like tomato sauce.
|Lids have been firmly secured with the clips.
|Close up of the lid and clip. It just snaps right onto the lip of the jar, no hassles.
To process the jars you just place them in a pan (I use a metal roasting pan, and place a folded paper towel in the bottom), place the jars in the tray, fill with hot water, and place in an oven about 170C. Let it run for an hour, shut the lot down and let it cool. Then remove and label.
|Jars placed in the pan, waiting for hot water and the oven.
|Ready for processing!
|Now, this processing method is okay when you have no other choice. The jars seal, I've experienced no incidents with failure or breakage (yet), and my own real cautionary statement is beware: the stainless steel lids I have are quite sharp around the edges, and I managed to slice my finger on it. Other than that, they're fine. However, the Fowlers-Vacola system has an expensive start up cost, unless you can find a lot of cast off jars, lids and other supplies in the city missions, as I have managed (for some, at least). I also cannot vouch for them when it comes to pressure canning, when you are wanting to bottle low acid foods. Other than that, it seems to work well enough for the time being. And I now have sauce!


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Taylor Swift Short Biography
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American country pop singer. Signed to the independent Big Machine Records label in 2006, she made her debut on the Billboard country charts with the release of her debut single "Tim McGraw". This song, which peaked at #6, was the first of five singles from her self-titled debut, which was released in late 2006 and re-issued in 2007, and has been certified 3× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA. Following "Tim McGraw" were the #2 "Teardrops on My Guitar", the six-week Number One "Our Song", the #3 "Picture to Burn" and another Number One in "Should've Said No". All five singles from her debut were Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, as was her song "Change" from the AT&T TEAM USA Soundtrack. Her second album, Fearless, was released on November 11, 2008 and its lead-off single "Love Story" has become her highest Hot 100 hit. The New York Times names Swift "one of pop's finest songwriters, country's foremost pragmatist and [is] more in touch with her inner life than most adults".
Taylor Swift Early Life
Swift was born in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Scott and Andrea Swift. She has one younger brother, Austin. Swift grew up on a Christmas tree farm outside of Reading, Pennsylvania, the daughter of a stock broker father and stay-at-home mother. When she was in fourth grade, Swift won a national poetry contest with a three-page long poem entitled "Monster In My Closet". At the age of ten, Swift began to perform around her home town, singing at karaoke contests, festivals, and fairs, and also started writing songs.
Taylor Swift Early Career
Swift's singing influences include her grandmother and LeAnn Rimes. Although her grandmother was a professional opera singer, Taylor's tastes always ran more toward country and she developed a love for Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton at an early age. She also credits the Dixie Chicks and Shania Twain for demonstrating how much impact can be made by "stretching boundaries".
At age eleven, Swift made her first trip to Nashville hoping to obtain a record deal by distributing a demo tape of her singing with karaoke songs. She gave a copy to every label on Music Row. Swift faced rejection, not just from record labels, but also from her peers. After Swift returned to Pennsylvania, she was asked to sing at the U.S. Open tennis tournament; her rendition of the national anthem completely moved the crowd.
Swift started writing songs and playing 12-string guitar when she was 12. Swift began to regularly visit Nashville and wrote songs with local songwriters. By the time she was 14, her family decided to move to an outlying Nashville suburb. When Swift was 15, she walked away from a development deal with RCA Records because the company wasn't interested in her recording her own songs. Swift then performed at Nashville's songwriters' venue, The Bluebird Café, catching the attention of Scott Borchetta who signed her to his newly-formed record label, Big Machine Records. She also became the youngest staff songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Tree publishing house.
Taylor Swift Performing Career
Swift's first single, "Tim McGraw", was released to radio in Summer of 2006 and on October 24, 2006, her self-titled album was released. Swift wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on the album, which debuted at #19 on the Billboard 200 and sold just 39,000 copies during its first week. It later peaked at #1 at Billboard Top Country Albums and #5 at Billboard 200. It also spent eight consecutive weeks at the top of the Top Country Albums charts. In total, it spent at the top on and off for 24 weeks. This accomplishment places Swift in an elite group-the only other country artists this decade to hold the #1 sales position for 20 weeks or more are The Dixie Chicks and Carrie Underwood. To date, it has sold over 3 million copies.
Swift has surpassed the 133 million mark for music streams on MySpace. She is currently ranked in the Top 10 for the most MySpace visits for all genres of music, and is MySpace's current top-ranking Country artist. Swift is the most searched musical artist on MySpace in 2008.
Regarding "Tim McGraw", Swift said, "I wrote the song in my freshman year of high school. I was dating a guy who was about to go off to college. I knew we were going to break up so I started thinking of all the things that I knew would remind him of me. Surprisingly, the first thing that came to mind was that my favorite country artist is Tim McGraw." "Tim McGraw" peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts for the week of January 27, 2007. The song's music video set a record by appearing for 30 consecutive weeks on GAC's fan-voted weekly Top 20 music countdown show, and reached number one on CMT's video charts. The video also won Swift an award for Breakthrough Video of the Year at the 2007 CMT Music Awards. Her pursuit of country music stardom was the subject of "GAC Short Cuts", a part-documentary, part-music-video series airing since the summer of 2006 on the country music channel.
On May 15, 2007, Swift performed "Tim McGraw" at the Academy of Country Music Awards. She sang the song to Tim McGraw in the audience, and introduced herself for the first time to him. Swift has been an opening act for Tim McGraw and Faith Hill on their Soul2Soul 2007 tour. She has opened in the past for George Strait, Brad Paisley and Rascal Flatts as well. On August 21, 2007, Swift performed live on the season finale of America's Got Talent.
The second single from the Taylor Swift album, "Teardrops on My Guitar", was released February 24, 2007. The song was inspired by a true event during her time in high school in which she liked a boy named "Drew Hardwick." He only saw Swift as a friend and a go-to person for advice about his relationship with his girlfriend. She noted she heard "through the grapevine" that Drew is well aware the song was written about him. "Teardrops on My Guitar" originally made its peak positions in Summer 2007, peaking at #2 on the Billboard Country Chart and #33 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was re-released to the Hot 100 and Pop 100 in late 2007 with a Pop remix that brought "Teardrops on My Guitar" to #13 on the Hot 100 and #11 on the Pop 100.
In October 2007, Swift's songwriting peers at the Nashville Songwriters Association International honored her with their Songwriter/Artist of the Year Award, making her the youngest artist ever to win the award.
On November 7, 2007, Swift won the 2007 CMA Horizon Award and also performed "Our Song," the third single from her album, which would go on to become her first #1 song the week of December 22, 2007, where it leaped up from the #6 spot. This was the biggest jump to Number One since January 1998, when Tim McGraw's "Just to See You Smile", also jumped from #6 to #1. "Our Song" spent six weeks at #1 on the Country charts and also peaked at #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #24 on the Billboard Pop 100.
Swift also recorded a holiday album, Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection, that was released October 16, 2007, exclusively available at Target stores. The album, which was not as successful as her self-titled debut, featured both holiday classics such as "Last Christmas" and original songs written by Swift.
Swift was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award in the category of Best New Artist, but lost to Amy Winehouse. Swift's successful single, "Picture to Burn" was the fourth single from her debut album. The song debuted early in 2008 and peaked at #3 on the Billboard Country Chart in the spring of 2008.
Swift was cover girl of Seventeen in the June 2008 issue. She was also named number fifty-two on Maxim's sexiest women of '08.
Big Machine Records announced the release of "Should've Said No" on Monday, May 19. The song is the fifth and final single from Swift's debut album. She performed it on 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards. The performance started off with her dressed in a hooded sweatshirt and jeans, but soon after a short black halter dress was revealed. In the last minute of the song, she went backstage to perform the final verse under a cascading waterfall. Swift had wanted to do that performance on stage with the water and the change of clothes since she was ten years old.
In Summer 2008, Swift released Beautiful Eyes, an EP sold exclusively at Wal-Mart. In its first week of release, the album sold 45,000 copies, debuting at #1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart and #9 on the Billboard 200. With her self-titled debut album at #2 the same week, Swift became the first artist to hold the Top 2 positions of the Top Country Albums chart since LeAnn Rimes did so in 1997.
In July 2008, Swift graduated from the Aaron Academy, a Christian school in Hendersonville, TN which offers a home schooling program. "Should've Said No" became her second Number One single for the chart dated August 23, 2008.
Swift's latest studio album, Fearless, was released in the United States on November 11, 2008. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart. Its sales of 592,304 was the highest debut pf any country artists in 2008. This is also the largest opening U.S. sales week in 2008 by a female artist in all genres of music, and the fourth biggest overall, behind Lil Wayne, AC/DC and Coldplay.
During the first week of release, more than 129,000 of Swift's sales were sold digitally. This gives Swift the best online start for any country album in history. It also makes Swift the fourth biggest week for a digital album since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking them in 2004.
In its debut week, seven songs in total on Fearless were charted on Billboard Hot 100, tying Swift with Hannah Montana for the most by a female artist in a single week. With White Horse charted at #13, this gave Swift her sixth top 20 debut of 2008, a calendar year record for any artist in the history of the Billboard Hot 100. Of the 13 tracks on Fearless, 11 have already spent time on the Hot 100.
"Change", a song from the album, was selected as part of a soundtrack supporting Team USA's efforts in the 2008 Summer Olympics. The song was also featured as part of the soundtrack of NBC's broadcast package of the Games. She also released the lead single from the album, "Love Story", on September 12, 2008. The song is accompanied by a music video that is based on Romeo and Juliet. The song has reached #2 on iTunes Store Top Downloaded Songs and #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. The second single from Fearless "White Horse", released 8 December, 2008.
Swift is Billboard's Top Country Artist and Hot Country Songwriter of 2008; she is also country music's best-selling artist of 2008.


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The Creep Returns
Alex is upset that I wrote about him on Israpundit and this blog, here and here. This disgusting creep seems to think that the Delray Beach police department are going to come crashing through the walls of this little blog because I wrote about his "kike" rants in Internet newsgroups.
This isn't Nazi Germany, Alex, though I can understand your nostalgic feelings for the good old days.
Alex reminded me of something I've asked before. I'd still like to know why the streets in front of his plastic-flamingo shop aren't filled with picketers handing out leaflets exposing this slimy Internet bigot.
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So here we are, in 2009 already. To use the old cliche, I can't believe how fast 2008 shot by, but then it was an exceedingly busy year and, another cliche to hand, time flies when you're having fun!
There were many highlights from last year, but off the top of my head here are a few of the best: doing my first ever festival gigs in Glasgow, Cambridge, Brighton, Hay and Edinburgh; spending the weekend down in Hay with Mum and Jamie; getting a deal for the new series, selling it into the States and writing the next two books; deciding I was going to make a horror film with my sister; going to Centerparks with the gang; Christmas.
I love Christmas, it's my favourite day of the year and this year was no exception. It was quite a quiet one, but really good fun. I spent the morning at Mum's, opening pressies and snacking. Then I popped over to see Dad in the afternoon (although Jamie almost wouldn't let me out of the door)! I haven't spent Xmas with Dad for years so it was great to see him.
New year was quiet this year too. Lynsey and I just chilled out in front of the telly watching the godawful BBC show. I didn't recognise any of the 'celebrities' they had on, or the presenters for that matter. And the music... I mean who was in charge of that?! It's the end of 2008, the start of a brand new year, and what band do they pick to ring in 2009 - Simply Red?! Still, it was good for a laugh.
Yesterday Lynsey, Lucy and I popped out to Cromer in the freezing cold to watch the fireworks from the pier. Jamie would have come, but he sneaked some beer out of the fridge on New Year's Eve so I think he had a hangover... They weren't quite equal to the spectacular show in London, but it was quite magical watching the explosions coming out of the water and raining down from the pier. I ended up queuing outside Mary Jane's fish and chop shop for almost an hour, which was slightly ridiculous, but they do make the best fish suppers. It was a great start to the year anyway!
Anyway, speaking of fish suppers I really do have to lose some weight... Ah yes, you say, I wondered when the new year's resolutions would rear their ugly heads. Well I start my juice diet today, I had a glass of wheatgrass juice and algae for breakfast. No, seriously, I actually did. I tasted like a cow's bottom, but they say it's very good for you. I have to have a six-pack by the end of February or I owe Jamie a small fortune, so I'd better get used to it!
And as for my other resolutions? There's loads I want to do this year, including write another three or four books and produce this horror movie in summer. It's going to be a very busy year, though, with three Furnace books out plus the first one out in the States in October. I can't wait! There are only two months till the first one, whoop!
I hope you all have a wonderful 2009, and that you manage to stick to all your resolutions!
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