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The Portuguese and the Spaniards, in search of spice, were the earliest among the westerners to arrive in the East Indies and establish themselves in Malacca early in the 16th century. British interest in the Sulu-Borneo area stemmed primarily from the East Indian Company's desire to establish a factory.[1] The head of this particular project was Alexander Dalrymple, who, in January 1761, negotiated a Treaty of Friendship and Commerce with the Sultan of Sulu. The agreement was confirmed by another treaty in February 1763 reiterating the major provision, emphasizing defense alliance.
But the company appeared unable to take advantage of this concession. When it finally decided, in 1769, to occupy Balambangan and made use of the ceded territory, disease and strained relations with the Sultan of Sulu erupted that led to open war; hence, prevented the development of the enterprise. The Balambanagn settlement was abandoned in 1775 until a second attempt was made in 1803, which again abandoned in 1805.
Under the Act of 1858, the East Indian Company was dissolved and their interests were transferred to the crown. However, evidence seems to suggest that the territires ceded by the Sulu failed to interest the British government further. Lord Canning, as the first viceroy to British India, repudiated the "doctrine of lapse" and was further enunciated by his predecessor (the Earl of Derby). The Earl of Derby, in explaining to the British Ambassador in Germany the nature of Spanish claim to North Borneo:
"It should be mentioned that previously to 1836 Spain claimed the island on the ground of first discovery, ancient treaties, and alleged occupations; but those claims were never admitted by Great Britain…Great Britain also had rights under Treaties with Sulu, dated 1761, 1764, and 1769, BUT those treaties must be considered as having lapse…"[2](Emphasis provided)
Almost two decade before the dissolution of the East Indian Company, an Englishman named James Brooke[3] visited Sarawak, and shortly after was offered by the Sultan of Brunei the governorship of Sarawak in exchange for aid in the face of continuing rebellion. Later in 1841, Brooke was proclaimed Rajah and in subsequent years, he succeeded in minimizing piracy in Sarawak, brunei, and North Borneo with the cooperation of the British Navy. The involvement of Brooke made him "the supreme ruler of Sarawak or the White Rajah."[4]
In 1846, the British flag was raised on Labuan Island off the cost the east coast of Sabah. And in the following year, Great Britain and Brunei the concluded a Treaty of Friendship and Commerce, at the same time that Labuan was ceded in perpetuity to the crown.
The United States became similarly attracted to Borneo, eager of obtaining the favors that had been secured by other western powers. In 1850, a treaty was signed for the United States advantages for the most favored nation, and later an American consul was appointed to Brunei. Borneo-Sulu area became increasing attractive in terms of commerce for its strategic location in the region, especially maritime traffic.
[1] Serafin D. Quizon, "The east Indian Comapany and the Sultanate of Sulu (1761-1858)," p. 81-114.
[2] The Earl of derby to Lord Odo Russell, Foreign Office, January 17, 1878, in "Papers Relating to affairs of Sulu and Borneo and to the Grant of a Charter of Incorporation to the British North Borneo Company." p. 71.
[3] The Rajah of Sarawak, Sir James Brooke, KCB, LL.D (29 April 1803 – 11 June 1868) was a British statesman. His father Thomas Brooke was English; his mother Anna Maria was born in Hertfordshire, England, the daughter of Scottish peer Colonel William Stuart, 9th Lord Blantyre, by his mistress Harriott Teasdale. James Brooke was born in Secrore, a suburb of Benares, India.
[4] Steven Runciman, The White Rajah, (Cambridge University Press, 1960), Vol I-II.
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Chia seeds are a super food that are packed with protein, good fats, healthy fiber and phytonutrients. Adding them to your day often helps to level blood sugar, which improves satiety and reduces food cravings. They also help support healthy digestion. There are some really awesome ways to get a good serving of chia seeds each day.
Here's a delicious recipe that is sure to be a great breakfast cereal or mid-day snack. It is full of sweet delicious flavour and is packed full of nutrients. Plus, a recipe like this is a great substitute for yogurt, for those who have a dairy intolerance or allergy.
Check out this Cherry Chia Pudding recipe, pictured above. The recipe calls for cherries, and these days you can find frozen *organic* cherries at Costco, Zehrs and many other grocery stores.
The recipe also calls for Stevia to sweeten it, but honey or maple syrup can also be used.
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Because it's cold out…
Because it's pouring rain out…
Because my boy boy is feeling sick…
Because it's just one of those days…
We made Play Dough!
My aunt sent me this awesome recipe to make our own home-made play dough.
Aunties Play Dough
1 cup flour
¼ cup salt
1 cup cold water
2 Tblsp. Cream of tartar
1 Tblsp. Vegetable oil
food coloring
Mix flour, salt and cream of tartar in a medium pot.
Mix in water, oil and food coloring.
Heat on stove over low to medium heat and stir until it looks like mashed potatoes (3-5 minutes).
Knead on a floured surface. Store in airtight container.
Nathan decided to use Green and Black. We had planned to make more colors but we ran out of Cream of Tartar. I didn't realize the small container of Cream of Tartar would only give us two sets of play dough. This is a super easy recipe and Nathan had a blast, kept him entertained for a few hours.
He even made this truck that he wants to keep forever and ever!!
I just love my boys!


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The waterfalled braid just sets off the waves and looks great.
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The closest thing my kid has to after-school activities: playing outside with the other neighbor kids.
1 - time with my husband
2 - time with my friends (mostly via weekly trivia nights)
3 - work
4 - time with family (about once a month, visiting my folks and/or in laws)
5 - church (weekly)
6 - caving grotto (once a month for meetings, and then going caving about every other month)
And then...I had a kid. A kid whose schedule overlaps with mine for only about 2 hours a day. He wakes up at 7:30a, eats breakfast with me for 15 minutes before we head off to day care. Then we pick him up 9 hours later, we have dinner together, play for a bit, then he's off to bed by 8pm. Sure, there's weekends, but in general, Monday through Friday, we get 2 hours together.
Biscuits & gravy for dinner, because he's special.
If you're married/in a committed relationship: imagine if you only got to spend 2 hours a day with your significant other. You can't talk/text/Facetime/Skype ANY outside of that 2 hours. Oh, and you're going to be cooking dinner/eating for about 30 minutes to an hour of that 2 hours. So really, only 1 hour of quality, one-on-one time together, 5 days a week. How much of that time would you be willing to sacrifice for other things?
...like your friends?
...going to the gym?
...or self-care, like getting a hair cut, a massage, or pedicure?
...or essential errands, like grocery shopping or paying bills?
...or work?
...or personal time, like reading or blogging?
...or extra-curriculars, like volunteering or social/networking organizations?
Based on your personal life goals and priorities, probably some of those things are easier to give up than others. For me, that last one goes out the window. I'm only willing to do networking during regular business hours. Thankfully, I have a job that allows that. I'm also allowed to use up to 4 hours of paid time annually to do volunteer activities during business hours. My volunteering choice? Donating blood. It takes about an hour and I can only do it every 2 months, which is very manageable for me. I can leave work an hour early, go donate, and then still get home about the same time.
But that also means I haven't been to a caving meeting in over a year, and I've only been in a cave twice since my son was born. I also choose not to go to the after hours socials that my local business networking group hosts. I've been asked to join the Junior League--but while I admire the work they do, I know it requires a lot of time commitments, and I just don't have that right now.
Where I used to see my friends weekly at trivia, our group is evolving, and many of us have kids now. So we've only played trivia at our old haunt TWICE since we had our kid. I live less than 5 minutes from one of our trivia buddies, but she's just as busy wrangling kids and quality time in the evenings as I am, so we really don't see each other much. I think we all probably manage to get together about once a quarter. Really. From weekly, to 4 times a year.
Benefit of young kids: Using our kids' birthdays as an excuse to see our adult friends.
As far as the gym goes, I dropped my membership. I took a close look at my schedule, and realized there was no good way to make it work...at least with the gym I was going to. My gym was 5 minutes from my work, but 20 minutes from my home. Realistically, the best times for me to go to the gym would be a) before Lil' Man gets up, or b) after he goes to sleep. I'm not going to drive 20 minutes to another town to make that happen. I may eventually look into getting a membership at a gym closer to my house...or I may just start running up and down the basement stairs 10 times a night after I put the kid to bed. We'll see.
I do try to schedule self-care once a quarter, whether it be a pedicure or massage or just some alone time to shop for myself. I've had two haircuts in the last 18 months. I haven't been clothes shopping for myself in...well...I mean, I bought some shoes on Amazon about 3 months ago. Does that count? No? Okay...um...OH! Black Friday. I bought some new shirts on Black Friday. I mean...I didn't try them on or anything, because it's freakin' Black Friday and I gotta hurry up and get in line and they were just long sleeve tees, but still. So like, 6 months ago. If you mean the last time I leisurely strolled through a store and actually tried things on...probably a year.* (To be fair, I don't really like clothes shopping that much. And the only reason I don't use Stitch Fix or MM LaFleur is because I'm also a cheapskate who doesn't like to pay more than $20 for ANYTHING. Comparatively, I go shopping for a mixed six pack of new beers to try at least once a month.)
*Note: this paragraph was written a few weeks ago...and I did in fact do a little clothes shopping over Memorial weekend. My favorite resale shop had a 50% off sale and I found a few shirts & dresses for work.
And work is, well, work. I can't exactly give that up (technically, you can, some parents do, and that's awesome for them, but that's not me.) I'm a salaried employee so my hours can fluctuate from week to week, and it really just depends on what's going on with my projects or if I have field work. But it's now a lot more important to me to be as efficient as possible so that I can leave work before 5pm to beat rush hour traffic and get to my kid's daycare around 5:30p, so he can get home before all the other kids go inside for dinner, so that he gets some outside play time with his friends.
And time with the Hubs...well, that's mostly us plopped on the couch watching DVR'd shows after the kiddo goes to bed. Or maybe we bust out a board game or deck of cards. But we did recently take a kid-free vacation to the Dominican Republic while Lil' Man stayed with his grandparents. It was an amazing trip, but 7 days was a little long to be away from our kiddo without being able to see or talk to him.
So, ultimately...we are making it work. We are doing the best we can. Life is different from before we had our kid. Not better or worse...just different. And we love our kid. But it's an adjustment, with what feels like a constantly changing target. We're doing a good job, and we're getting really good at this.


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Internet Marketing Blockbusters
Secrets bared, but are you ready for the price?
Last week 2 blockbuster Internet marketing releases made me wonder which one is better than the other. True, if I buy and use them I'd know the answer. But I felt my hands firmly tied at the back by an invisible shackle, unable to take the decisive action of clicking on the respective buy buttons.
I'll shortly come to why it was so. Meanwhile, let's see what the respective 'covers' have to say.
At first glance, both appear to have the zing necessary to see you through the maze of marketing on the net. First off the block was Stompernet's SMARTS program, which is now 'temporarily' sold out.
Newcomers are being told to queue in the waiting list - name and email address given - before their turn comes in the next round. Good marketing this, and indeed lots to learn.
Okay, let's get under the hood now.
Andy Jenkins while promoting SMARTS was very succinct. He revealed an interesting info that some of us know but haven't grasped the real meaning.
The social media sites like MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube record nearly same or more footfalls a day than the search giant, Google.
The figure is a jaw-dropping 148 million people who make a beeline to the Web 2.0 sites every 24 hours.
SMARTS promises to unveil all those barely known social media secrets that website owners like you and me can put into action to claim a small pie of that mammoth traffic.
What that means is that while you've no control over their coming to those popular sites, you can do other things to lure them to your site when they decide to leave.
Well, there's little doubt the 'other things' are indeed promising looking at how SMARTS could garner record visits - as evidenced from Alexa ranking - to its promotional campaign.
Incidentally, the free Social Marketing Strategies Guide that SMARTS released as part of their launch campaign lists HubPages as one of the top sites to place your content in for social visibility.
Let me add a few more nearly similar sites worth taking a look though HubPages is considered more wealth-sharing-friendly: Squidoo, Associated Content, InstaBlogs, and Scribd.
Internet Marketing Explained (IME)
Close on the heels of SMARTS came Armand Morin's IME. Armand, a past master in Internet marketing, fixed the launch date on Jan 18, and for nearly a month prior to that upped the hype with each passing day.
Between the time I noticed IME's proposed launch and Jan 18, I could see some of Armand's tips which he gave away free in the form of videos in his website.
I've no hesitation to say that some of Armand's tips are real jewels. They make certain aspects of Internet marketing so compelling and easy that perhaps no reason can justify your not implementing them right away.
The IME course on offer has 34 CDs and nearly 900 pages of solid information. Armand says he holds nothing back in the course from the vast knowledge of his culled over a decade, which perhaps explains the massive volume of course materials. Here is the video link to IME launch.
What About Buying
For both SMARTS and IME, the time-bound action to be taken came and went. I could not bring myself taking the plunge and buying either or both. The reason for me is the invisible shackle I spoke at the top that held me back. It's the prices.
SMARTS at $1397 and IME at $1997 are both way beyond my ability to spare even if that means I'll have to rather gape at the pot of gold from a distance than extending my cost-sensitive hand for it.
There's a way out though. You can become an IME affiliate and earn $800 for each referral. Just 4 such will fetch you the wherewithal to buy both.
If you're nimble-footed and do not mind spending some cash in AdWords ads, promoting IME can be a good opportunity not to miss.
However, as it happens, SMARTS and IME - or for that matter, the new child on the block, Frank Kern's Mass Control, which Andy Jenkins is now promoting as a part of what I term as you-claw-my-back-I-claw-yours deal - are perhaps not the only bets for you.
At a far lesser price I'm enjoying the knowledge being imparted by the Teaching Sells, which is just about to launch its second leg of 3-month e-program that will have sumptuous fare on Internet marketing.
Hey, don't say I didn't tell you.
great huba wealth of information on internet marketing and other very useful but related topics, a site i found well worth a visit for all your internet busines related tips google sucks


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FIA springs into action against blasphemous content on social media
ISLAMABAD: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has issued an advertisement urging masses to provide information of the elements posting blasphemous content on social media websites, ARY News reported.
In the advertisement, the investigation agency has urged the masses to provide information of the culprits posting blasphemous content on social media.
The information should be provided to FIA's Cyber Crime Cell, the investigation agency stated.
It should be noted that Islamabad High Court had remarked that blasphemy is the biggest issue of the country.
Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui had said on Thursday that the prime minister may be summoned if no action taken against the offenders.
The court earlier ordered the Interior Ministry to include the names of all those people who upload blasphemous content on social media websites in the Exit Control List (ECL).
Justice Aziz had also remarked in the case hearing that the whole judiciary is united on the matter but the Parliament is still silent.


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Where will you stand?
The anti-Bush movement is "genuinely bubbling up from the grass roots," said Jon Copans, the state party's executive director.
According to this article, (and according to common sense from anyone who has half a hearing aid),
The anti-Bush movement is "genuinely bubbling up from the grass roots,"
Well duh! Brings me back around to my question, "Where will you stand when all is said and done?". I for one, am not a person of radical notion, much less behavior. (ok, there was that one time in college..) But seriously, these folks have an answer! The great State of Vermont is pulling out "Jefferson's Manual"( it's right there in article 53) and are prepared to go to work for you and I! No more of this pansy ass shit "If you are not a resident, then contact your own congressman...blah, blah...". These folks wanna boogie!
Democratic committees in at least half of the state's 14 counties have passed resolutions calling for impeachment, citing a rule in "Jefferson's Manual," a book of parliamentary guidelines written by Thomas Jefferson that supplements U.S. House rules. They rely on "Jefferson's Manual," which says impeachment proceedings can begin "by charges transmitted from the legislature of a state
Rock on Vermont!! These folks obviously mean to be on the active side of a productive street, no more vote sacrificing to the mysterious Third Party Gods, this is some real stuff!
So I ask again, "Where will you stand when all is said and done?". I for one am gonna go down kicking and screaming, it was my vote, he lied, I want it back! What, are we all gonna cave into the "well, he is our President...he does need our support.." Take a trip over to my 2nd video, after you puke...offer him your support.
Democratic House Speaker Gaye Symington said lawmakers should stay focused on state issues and suggested Bush critics work to elect a different Congress in November "that could investigate the actions of the president and change the direction of the country."
James Barnett, chairman of the Vermont Republican Party, said presidents should not be impeached "because we disagree with them," adding that evidence for impeachment was drawn from "left-wing blogs and conspiracy theories."
See? It's all our fault anyway, why not follow through? These guys are scared, mark my words (southern slang and all), this is the beginning of an end here folks, question remains, "Where will you stand when all is said and done?".
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Big Broad Data: Increasing the signal to noise ratio
In my previous post about Making the shift from Big to Broad Data, I made the case for thinking about Big Data not so much as "Big" but as "Broad." We looked at the explosion of new data sources in today's economy, which are individually typically smaller and more diverse than the enterprise systems of record of the past. Data comes from a variety of sources like Twitter, Facebook, partners, tens and hundreds of apps (some built around your APIs), and more.
To be responsive and make business decisions, an enterprise simply has to be responsive to data across many more sources than in the past.
Signal extraction and stitching data from diverse sources
Whenever you collect a lot of data, you collect a lot of both signal and noise. In fact, a lot of the Big Data approaches to date are focused on extracting the signal from the noise in the data collected from traditional enterprise sources.
As the data an enterprise collects has shifted from 5 to 7 primary "enterprise-centric" data sources (point-of-sales data sources, supply records, customer records, warehousing records, and so on) to hundreds of diverse and typically smaller sources (hundreds of apps, hundreds of social networks, business networks, and so on), the size of the data doesn't matter nearly as much as the number and diversity of data sources you need stitch together to extract meaningful signal.
Now with the footprints of customer and partner behavior spread across hundreds and maybe thousands of data sources (see Making the shift from Big to Broad Data), there's undoubtedly a smaller signal/noise ratio than before. Data need to be stitched together to ensure that the signal rises above the noise.
Successful enterprises will be those who understand and consolidate the data that they own as well as that which they can acquire. Today, the challenges are striking deals and forming partnerships to get access to hundreds, not handfuls of data sources. It's no longer about old styles of purchasing data or getting them from departments in your own organization.
Enterprises need to think about access and control; whether they need to push analytics to the data or push data to the analytics, and so on. In the past, bringing data to a central repository in the enterprise - whether a warehouse or other techniques - where it could be analysed was a less significant concern.
Data APIs will lead the way for easy data consumption, flow, and interaction
Fundamental questions are What are the mechanisms enterprises need to stitch data together from its own enterprise as well as syndicated and external data sources?
How will people interact with other people's data? (We've got to understand the form in which this data will be exposed and how it will be consumed.)
In Web 1.0, techniques centered around Web crawling; in Web 2.0 it was about Web pages, AJAX and other "rich" interface technologies. I think that in Web 3.0, broad, diverse data will be accessed, consolidated, and correlated through the power of APIs.
Today, transactional and data APIs are the Ying and Yang of APIs and the API conversation is fairly dominated by transactional APIs (which achieve tasks like sending messages, making trades, getting credit information, and so on). But I think we're looking at a revolution in the world of Data APIs because the future is around the easy consumption, the flow and interaction of data. As APIs are central to the evolution and handling of big, broad, diverse data, so is data central to the evolution of APIs. The structure of the data APIs becomes increasingly important.
In my next post, we'll take a look at some of the schools of thought around structure of Data APIs. We'll explore the different techniques companies are using to collect and stitch data to create individual domains and to expose data out of those domains. See The role of Data APIs »


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I wrote: > I see another problem with this patch: the code added to > ATExecDropColumn is a crude hack. It doesn't work anyway since this is > not the only possible way for columns to be dropped (another one that > comes to mind immediately is DROP TYPE ... CASCADE). The only correct > way to handle things is to let the dependency mechanism do it.
Actually, the whole question of dependencies for generated columns probably needs some thought. What should happen if a function or operator used in a GENERATED expression gets dropped? The result for a normal column's default expression is that the default expression goes away, but the column is still there. I suspect we don't want that for a GENERATED column --- it would then be effectively a plain column. Along the same lines, is ALTER COLUMN DROP DEFAULT a legal operation on a generated column? What about just replacing the expression with ALTER COLUMN SET DEFAULT? Before you get too excited about making generated columns disappear automatically in all these cases, consider that dropping a column is not something to be done lightly --- it might contain irreplaceable data. On second thought maybe the right approach is just to allow the default expression to be dropped the same as it would be for an ordinary column, and to make sure that if a GENERATED column doesn't (currently) have a default, it is treated the same as an ordinary column. This leads to the further thought that maybe GENERATED is not a property of a column at all, but of its default (ie, it should be stored in pg_attrdef not pg_attribute, which would certainly make the patch less messy). AFAICS plain GENERATED merely indicates that the default expression can depend on other columns, which is certainly a property of the default --- you could imagine ALTER COLUMN SET DEFAULT GENERATED AS ... to make a formerly plain column into a GENERATED one. I'm not entirely sure about ALWAYS though. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate


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International Journal of Endocrinology
Volume 2012, Article ID 925143, 8 pages
Chemical Methods to Induce Beta-Cell Proliferation
Chemical Biology Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
Received 19 March 2012; Accepted 21 May 2012
Academic Editor: A. N. Balamurugan
Copyright © 2012 Amedeo Vetere and Bridget K. Wagner. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Pancreatic beta-cell regeneration, for example, by inducing proliferation, remains an important goal in developing effective treatments for diabetes. However, beta cells have mainly been considered quiescent. This "static" view has recently been challenged by observations of relevant physiological conditions in which metabolic stress is compensated by an increase in beta-cell mass. Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlining these process could open the possibility of developing novel small molecules to increase beta-cell mass. Several cellular cell-cycle and signaling proteins provide attractive targets for high throughput screening, and recent advances in cell culture have enabled phenotypic screening for small molecule-induced beta-cell proliferation. We present here an overview of the current trends involving small-molecule approaches to induce beta-cell regeneration by proliferation.


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The Department of Human Services has assumed responsibility for Medicare applications and IT services in the final step of a two-year move away from outsourcer IBM.
Medicare, which manages Australia's universal health care system, has outsourced mainframe, midrange, desktop, gateway and service desk services to IBM since 2000.
It decided to disengage from IBM in December 2010, a year after the Federal Government announced plans to consolidate the IT, staff and procurement at Human Services agencies.
A Human Services spokesman told iTnews this week that all Medicare systems were moved onto DHS hardware last month. The IBM contract is due to expire on December 31.
The department has inked nine contracts with IBM since November 2012, including deals for IT disengagement services, IT transition services and IT contractor services.
Of those, six contracts worth a total of $1.19 million were due to expire at the end of this month, including a $440,000 contract titled "Disengagement for Medicare Transition".
Another contract, titled "IT Transition Services", spanned almost three months between November 6, 2012 and January 31, 2013, and was valued at a total of $3.18 million.
The departmental spokesman credited its close working relationship with IBM for a successful transition that was "both complex and performed in a short period of time".
"Handover of services from IBM took effect from 1 November 2012," he said, noting that all services previously provided by IBM were now provided by Human Services staff.
"As part of the disengagement process, IBM provided 'knowledge transfer' workshops where DHS staff were able to gain detailed knowledge of the Medicare environment.
"Ensuring the transition was performed without impacting business was … a key challenge that was successfully accomplished."
Human Services commenced detailed planning for the Medicare-IBM disengagement project in September 2011, after winning $373.6 million from the 2011-12 Federal Budget to integrate agency IT systems.
The so-called service delivery reform program aimed to consolidate Medicare, Child Support Agency, Centrelink and CRS Australia IT systems.
Human Services reported in October that it took back Child Support Agency's systems in June, upon the expiry of the agency's 12-year outsourcing arrangement with HP/EDS.
The department said this week that it had also begun work to move Medicare off a 11-year telecommunications contract with Optus and onto a consolidated, $474 million Telstra deal.
It did not expect "any significant disruption" to its operations, the spokesman said.


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We don't like to think of Rylan Clark being sad. In our minds, he should always be at his OTT best, cracking jokes and throwing quips in Gary Barlow's direction. Preferably whilst dressed in one of his outrageous stage outfits with Nicole Scherzinger dancing next to him.
But it turns out that X Factor star Rylan's had some pretty sucky times since finding fame on last year's series of the talent show, as he revealed as part of the latest Celebrity Big Brother game.
In scenes mimicking (a VERY dumbed down version of) Question Time, the housemates were given different topics to debate, with the celebrities needing to argue for or against the subject.
The first topic of debate, drawn by Razor, was 'fame never brings happiness', which caused Tricia to quip, "It pays your bloody paycheck!"
But Rylan wasn't so cheery on the topic.
"I think fame has brought me great happiness but at the same time my greatest sadness," he mused as the other housemates looked on.
"The lowest point of my life was when I'd just become famous as I was hated. It was so new for me that was the worse part of my life."
But he added: "On the flip side this show has been a dream of mine; without being that hated character I wouldn't have been able to come in this house and have one of the most amazing times of my life."
Razor and Frankie both thought that fame was pretty darn great, though.
"I love being famous," Razor told the housemates. "That's why on EasyJet I get [seat] 1A, I don't have to queue!"
On a more serious note he added: "Fame has made me and my family and my close friends the most happiness people in the world."
Heidi, on the other hand, wasn't so sure.
The former star of The Hills - whose only job is, well, to BE FAMOUS - said: "Sometimes I wish I was never famous. It can be really hard and damaging; it takes away your freedom for the rest of your life.
"I feel like kinda my life has been taken away from me and it's sometimes a really hard thing to deal with. I would trade all the money I have sometimes just not to be famous anymore."
Our heart bleeds. Not really.
Heidi was next up to select a topic, and she just so happened to draw 'America is the greatest country on Earth', which drew cheers from Speidi and caused Heidi to babble on for a good few minutes.
"God bless America. America is the land of the free. The American dream can happen. You can come from nothing, as I have, and become what I've become has been a blessing. The greatest place on Earth; and you have so many rights, and freedoms, and protection."
Arguing the flip side, Razor stood up and declared: "I love America and American people, that is why they are the second best country in the world!"
Cue cheers from everyone except Speidi.
Their final debate topic, 'reality stars set a bad example', caused Frankie to ask, "Are we reality stars?"
Umm, what do you think Big Brother IS, Frank?
Once that matter had been cleared up, Rylan tackled the very pressing issue at hand.
"I've made my money and making a career on reality TV," he said.
"I'm very very flattered that I'm making a career for myself from just being myself and I think it's a good testament to my mum and my family, for the way that they raised me, [that] people are interested in what I'm doing and saying."
Then it was Spencer's turn to join the debate, admitting: "Reality stars such as myself set a bad example, where if you're mean and dramatic, and create problems."
Frankie butted in, saying: "In general most of the reality shows are fabricated, are plastic. They are not the real life."
After a LOT of debate, they finally decided that reality stars don't generally set a bad example, with Spencer concluding: "All of you have shown me positive examples. I've learnt more from most of you, than I have from some scripted television shows."
"Amen," finished Heidi.
Gosh, Speidi really have totally done a U-turn on their feelings for their fellow housemates, huh?
If you want to be famous like Heidi and Spencer, try following their pretty weird guide to life (ghostwritten by us). And for all latest Celebrity Big Brother news, click right this way.


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Chanel, which belongs to the Wertheimer family, is the second biggest luxury brand in the world, behind Louis Vuitton and ahead of Ralph Lauren, with nearly 6 billion euros ($8 billion) in estimated annual sales.
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My 14 year old daughter has a friend that is ignoring her and being rude to her. Its been going on for awhile, but lately shes been acting like they were never friends. I may have made things worse last week because I snapped at the friend because she wouldn't move over to let another girl in the car. My daughter is sad about losing her friendship but also sees her as a social climber. She kind of runs from one friend to the next. It's just sad because my daughter seems to be more reserved than most girls and doesn't reach out to make friends easily. She has a few friends, but no one seems to ask her to do things lately, she has to do the asking.I'm just worried because its the end of 8th grade and I'm afraid she will have a tough summer before high school. Is it possible that i made things worse by snapping at her old best friend for being rude to their other friend? Should I apologize to her friend? I noticed that she's not asking for rides this week! Should I encourage my daughter to talk to her about why it seems like she doesn't want to be friends any more? I also think that my daughter isn't good at reaching out
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Academy Award® and seven-time Emmy® nominated and Peabody winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger's films include the landmark documentaries Brother's Keeper, the Paradise Lost Trilogy and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, a film that redefined the rockumentary genre. Crude about oil pollution in the Amazon Rainforest, won 22 festival awards and Under African Skies, about Paul Simon's seminal album, received three primetime Emmy® nominations. In 2014, Berlinger completed Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger for Magnolia Pictures. Most recently Berlinger finished Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru, profiling life strategist Tony Robbins for Netflix.
Peter Balakian is the author of 7 books of poems including "Ziggurat" (2010) and "Ozone Journal" (2015), winner of the Pulitzer Prize™. His prose books include "The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide" and "America's Response," which won the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book and a New York Times and national Best Seller. He is co-translator of Grigoris Balakian's "Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide 1915-1918" (Knopf, 2009), which was a Washington Post book of the year.
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The Old Man on March 31st, 2008
Working inside a three story building one weekend, my son wanted to go with me. I told him ok. He was still a little young then but always a good helper. We were working on the third floor of a building with ThyssenKrupp Elevators. It took most of the day to finish the job, I was doing. My son Gordon was helping me take all my working tools back to the truck. After putting all our tools in the ThyssenKrupp Elevator and we went down to the first floor. After loading the truck we had to lockup the building. On the way back in Gordon said "dad I think we left a drop cloth upstairs" "oh yeah" I replied, so back in the ThyssenKrupp Elevator and off we go to the third floor. After getting the drop cloth and taking it back down to the first floor. I told Gordon don't push any buttons on the elevator (Oops to late!). I was outside the elevator when the doors closed. The elevator started up I reached for the button outside pushed it but the elevator doors didn't open. They were no lights on up stairs. By this time Gordon was screaming his head off let me tell you that boy had a big mouth. He was scared, I ran up the stairs to the second floor, Gordon still screaming. He wasn't on the second floor. I ran up the stairs to the third floor. He was not there. Knowing Gordon he is still pushing buttons. By the time I got back to the second floor I could here the elevator still moving, and Buddy still yelling and crying. Standing there wondering what to do, the door open and I said "thank God". He ran out of the elevator; you should have seen the look on that boys face. It took a few minutes to calm him down, but he was ok.
I was the one that was huffing and puffing, after running up three flights of stairs.
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Most of my parents generation and all older generations came from large families. I remember talking to friends, relatives about family structures. And for most people my parents age and grand parents age they would always count the number of kids in their family and point out that two or three of them had died maybe at child birth or when they were older. It was always said 'matter-of-fact-ly' and wasn't a sad subject discussing the lose of children or siblings.
In my culture, when people were laying on their death bed, and had no hope of recovering or getting better, they would be dumped in the forest for the wild animals to feast on.
Twins were considered a bad omen and if you gave birth to them, one would be killed.
We even see it in movies, during medieval times, when people committed a crime they would be sentenced to death and would be beheaded in front of a group of people including children.
How is it that these people were capable of going through all this and not have any mental or psychological effects.
Even when we look at our lives today, if you consider the relationship between most of us and our parents, and us and our children, it has changed tremendously. We are more attached to our kids, we are more involved in their lives and the same between our parents and ourselves and our parents and our grand parents the change exists. Its like with every generation the gap between parents and kids is getting smaller.
So with this realization, I am left to wonder are we becoming weaker as human beings or are we just more knowledgeable. Why are mental disorders, depression, suicide, addictions on the rise.
Is it that we realize that we are humans and therefore should act different from animals. Do we now realize that children are capable of way more than we thought previously and they therefore thrive when treated as almost equals? Is it the upbringing or evolution? Nature Vs nurture
I don't have the answer, I am just wondering out loud, are becoming weaker?


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We've all heard it all too often - walk more! It is a kind of a mantra that unsurprisingly hits right on the spot. Life has grown beyond sedentary. Not only do we spend more time sitting but the time that 20 years ago was subconsciously dedicated to physical activity is now devoted to driving.
But life is changing faster than our human minds can grasp, and that is why nowadays we need to pay attention to our bodies and follow a physical routine. I know people who spend almost all their time awake sitting. To be honest, I am sometimes one of them! And I know how easy it is to fall in that trap. While our brains work actively in front of the computer - day in, day out - our bodies are in standstill which is devastating for all our organs and our nervous system.
According to research we now spend more time sitting than sleeping. But our bodies were not made for that and this massive lifestyle change is taking its toll. Obesity is just one obvious consequence. The problem is that there is much more going on under the surface that might get late to fix when we realize it.
Did you know that prolonged sitting leads to an earlier death? Yes, even if you exercise, once you exceed the healthy limit of sitting you are doomed.After the second hour of sitting your insulin effectiveness drops and the risk of diabetes increases. Your good cholesterol drops with 20%. Calorie burning drops to 1 per minute. For more malicious effects of sitting, read here.
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How to make the situation better? Take every chance to stand up and walk. Use the stairs, instead of the elevator, walk outside, even better - walk in nature. Any time you can walk instead of drive to a certain destination - do it! Walking burns more fat than jogging! Walking on an uneven terrain is even better because it involves more muscles!
To see just how beneficial walking can be for you, take a look at the infographic below.
I know that all benefits of walking are obvious and probably banal but knowing how devastating sedentary life is, I prefer to remind myself time and again to just get out there, find a goal and reach it. For me, taking photographs is the perfect and simplest excuse for going out for a walk. What is yours?


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Happy Grandparent's Day (9/11/11) to Meme, Granddad, Nana, Papa & Great-Grandma!!
Reese performed in her 2nd annual Grandparent's Day Ceremony at school and we just LOVE watching her :) Next year Emma will be old enough to get on stage as well. I will apologize in advance for the quality of these photos. It is so hard to take good pictures in a dimly light church chapel.
Granddad & Meme
(Reese was upset she couldn't come home with us after this but when I picked her up later that afternoon she was all excited and said "I saw Meme & Granddad!")


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Aboriginal hip-hop artist Jack Sinclair (Bronson Pelletier) and his best friend Zoey Jones (multiple Gemini Award winner Ksenia Solo) established an underground ezine called renegadepress.com. What started as a pet project soon took on a life of its own pushing Jack, Zoey and their crew of renegade reporters to deliver the goods on what's really going on in the lives of today's teens. Ripped from the headlines, the series' storylines are inspired by events experienced by today's youth.
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Dec. 7, 2010
MARYVILLE, Mo. - The Northwest Missouri State University Clay Club will host its annual Winter Art Show and Pottery Sale this weekend at the Fire Arts Building, located south of the Olive DeLuce Fine Arts Building at the south end of campus.
The event will be 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10 and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11.
Students from all studio areas are encouraged to participate in the show and sale, which offers pottery, sculpture, paintings, drawings, prints and photographs.
Artwork can be purchased by cash or check. Shoppers are reminded a line of customers often forms before the show opens.
"The sale is an excellent opportunity to purchase Christmas gifts," said Laura Kukkee, assistant professor of art and head of the ceramics program at Northwest. "There should be something to fit everyone's taste and budget. We have many, many bowls, cups and plates for sale this year, and glazes range from very neutral and subtle to very colorful and playful."
Eighty-five percent of the proceeds go directly to students, and helps offset the cost of art supplies. Remaining proceeds support art-oriented activities such as field trips and other co-curricular activities for the Clay Club and Art Association.For more information, contact Kukkee at 660.562.1324 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Earlier this week, Barbra Streisand began her tour of Israel, starting out with receiving an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Upon receiving the degree, Streisand spoke upon a touchy subject–the Jewish religious practices that separate women and men. Streisand specifically spoke about incidents where women were expected to sit in the back of buses through their neighborhoods or attempts to prevent women from wearing prayer shawls or carrying Torah scrolls in prayers at the Western Wall.
While Streisand acknowledged that the country obviously has its own dynamics, she made clear that women should be allowed to practice their religious traditions in peace.
It's distressing to read about women in Israel being forced to sit in the back of the bus or when we hear about `Women of the Wall' having metal chairs
thrown at them when they attempt to peacefully and legally pray.
Israeli Laws Minister, Tzipi Livni has gone about introducing legislation that will bar these kinds of incidents from happening. Coupled with the university for the first time having a majority of women receiving their degrees, Streisand said she felt that "repairs are being made, and that's very good."
In Israel, Streisand criticizes treatment of women (The
Seattle Times)
Wave Hello to Dr. Barbra Streisand (Jezebel)
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Kolkata: A day after India suffered a humiliating defeat to Guam in a 2018 World Cup qualifying match, former India captain Bhaichung Bhutia said that the team had less time for preparation.
"You always have bad games. Guam is a good side. India had less time for preparation. Let's be patient. When we win you cant find a problem. But if you lose then you can spot several problem. Let's give more time to the team," Bhutia told reporters here.
Bhutia also pointed out that state associations needed to play a bigger role in spotting and scouting for talents from grassroot levels.
"I-League or ISL is good in terms of bringing up or showcasing a talent. But if you want to groom young talents for future then the state associations need to play a bigger role. Some of the state associations are doing quite well but all of them need to perform in order to bring up talent. Untill and unless we can bring up talents from grassroot, you can't have a bright future for Indian football," he said.
Bhutia said if there were proper infrastructure and care, India could have produced famous names in world football.
Bhutia, who along with several other former and current players are participating in an integrated license coaching course, organised by the Football Players Association of India ducked question of whether he has plans to coach for Indian football team by saying "you can't say what happens in life".


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3CX is an exhibitor at this year's All-Over-IP in Moscow, Russia from November 18th – 19th at the Sokolniki Expo.
The All-Over-IP Expo 2015 brings together all advanced and emerging IP-enabled solutions and services that utilize enterprise IT infrastructure, and drive the most powerful global trend: convergence of previously disparate technologies, companies, markets, ecosystems and people.
This expo is a perfect fit for the 3CX Product range. 3CX Phone System can easily be deployed on any company's existing infrastructure as it's software-based and runs on Microsoft Windows. Bearing in mind that the new trend for businesses is to work in the cloud the recent release of 3CX Phone System v14 and 3CX WebMeeting 8 are both up to date with the trends.
Make sure you come by Booth 10-3-3 and visit the 3CX team to see a live demonstration of 3CX Phone System 14 and 3CX WebMeeting.
We look forward to seeing you there!


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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Thoughts on 9/11
I got into the office, made a quick check of the headlines, no word of any attack. As the day went on, lots of tributes and remembrances, but no terrorist attacks, save in Iraq.
I suppose it's not too late yet for some malefactor to initiate some strike or bomb sequence, and pay homage to 9/11, but we're getting close to the failsafe limit for evening news broadcasts, and still no terror observance of the anniversary. As in previous years, Al Qaeda and Bin Laden pay lip service to their distorted idea of Jihad, but can't accomplish their promised reprisal against the West, against America.
Some lunatic takes an ax to a civilian in the Netherlands because he can't find a soldier. In Europe, that's surely symbolic for something. Some twisted, terrorist take on the saying, you may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. The downside risks of juvenile thinking: what happens when you let other countries take care of your physical security, and other populations perform your menial labor.
I think the desperation and lunacy of the ax killing is symbolic of the dramatic failures of Al Qaeda since 2003 as well.
When the only people you can motivate your cause might just as well pull off some mass killing at a McDonalds as bury an ax into military substitutes, well, you're not much of a motivator for mayhem. There just aren't that many lunatics, and they get easily distracted and may murder off message.
You can view the significance of 9/11 any number of ways. A tragic attack that awakened us to a decades long war already waged against us. The grandest of a series of attacks meant to pacify or terrorize us into submission. The precursor to ever more dangerous and devious methods to exploit the soft underbelly of western democracies. I know some want to view it as a one-off aberration, unlikely to be repeated, but I think that's naïve, to put it charitably. Terror loses its power if it starts falling below a threshold of anticipated or "we've seen this before" mediocrity (in terror terms). Bin Laden and others of his ilk would always want to top their previous exploits.
Me, I remain anxious about how Al Qaeda, their admirers, or their state and non-state miscreants who adopt their methods, find a successor to 9/11 worthy of their grandiose visions of complete world domination. (Or domination of a significant proportion thereof.)
What happens when they deploy a nuke or dirty bomb? What happens if they co-opt and perfect weaponization of biological agents?
I'd like to think that we're seeing the last throes of a discredited threat, unable to win over converts, on the run, denied one safe haven after another, even former allies turning against them in cold calculation of what's in it for them.
But I think that may be naïve, as well.
There remain a great many people and disgruntled movements in the world who continue to resent the West, America, capitalism, markets, democracy, various forms of manufacturing, even modern entertainment industries and other cultural pollutants.
And for them, 9/11 will always be the World Series or Super Bowl of using violence to get attention.
How many terrorist wannabes are out there, hoping against hope and probability that they'll be able to give the world a new, more terrible substitute to 9/11 in collective dread?
Eventually, that wacko may have more at his disposal than an IED or an ax.
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