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Unholy Nexus
Anything which is conceivable to divert, to lie, and to suppress, with an aim to make a headline, is the emerging doctrine that shows up in our headlines.
This perceptible shift in the investigative journalism is certainly alarming. What is perhaps even more horiffying is to watch the reaction of ordinary people.
The dramatic tendency of their reaction indicates a calamity of thoughts that over time appears to typically degenerate to extreme subservience, to faceless accussations, yet powerful lobbies of corruption.
The captivated audience of this great nation, who... (more)
Tags: journalism, corruption, rights, story, nation, deception, nexus
Empowered Women
The woman who holds a dignified posture to carry on with her head high has to go through stressful and strangulating events of life. Many may borrow clichés to sustain the deafening assault of male chauvinism and if you ask the women you would get to know their harrowing tales.
Such women don't shed tears over their miseries; rather they draw strength from them to build their lives with dignity, with grace or whatever they do to makes sense and move ahead. These women exist, they are real. They are not celebrity, they are ordinary women but with extraordinary resolve to cultivate... (more)
Tags: domestic violence, woman, empowerment, male chavinism, ampathy
Be always there
She called him and said "Be always there"…and he did not understan why she said this. He lived at the surface of his emotion, but beneath the surface, surprisingly, he with acquiescence in its inquisitive mode permitted a thought to be there. But "why does he need to be there?", he asked himself.
The chaotic life in its own way stifles the tender heart and he knew that the denial is the only way to avoid unjust trampling of the heart later. She called him again and said "Be always there" He wondered again, "where does he have to be and why? What is it that she is referring to?"... (more)
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He is not alone
From the oblivion, the transcript of existence appears in its most complete form and he at the very first sight understood the depth of creation. He is calm and knowing now the purpose of his existence. He is composed; knows now, that no one can belittle him; no one can traumatize him with unjust accusation of irrelevance. He is thinking that how come he is given a raw deal from the quarters of expectation and he realizes that it was bound to happen. No reason or any answers are required from smoldering destruction; he pulls out his soul smeared with scars. Tears in its own time always help... (more)
They don't destroy...They create
Have you ever come across a person of exceptional passion…If you have, then surely you are lucky and mark my word and that would make you feels so complete and contented… People with passion are different, they create...they build…they nurture…they nourish. Selflessly and unconditionally, they infuse life in others. What ever they do, they do it elegantly, and they do it with grace. Passion is not a borrowed terms of sympathy or pity…It is the ultimate emotion of love and care. My humble suggestion, if anyone come across such person; please thank your stars, that you are blessed….you encountered... (more)
I Have My Spring with Me
To me it appears, as if life is dancing… yes life is dancing for those who are in unrelenting mood to give up smile. Those who are not willing to smile, I beg them, to borrow smile with reasons…If they don't have any, invent the reason….find the reason…Life cannot be wasted.
Umpteenth time the salacious moments transgressed into my life but I could always go pass such turbulent phase. And now also, I don't need to fasten my belt, I would tread through. No matter what happens, I know now that, I have the repertoire of experience and unfazed, wish to take a course, which many with their... (more)
Love is eternal
Compulsion is not a bad word, rather over a time it is very liberally used as synonym to limitation. Compulsion as I read, is a very passionate need, it articulate our thoughts which in turn motivates us. The myriad setbacks in life cannot be potent enough, to subvert the instinctive feelings of love. To extricate from the arduous trail of debacles, one needs to liberate the mind from the shackles of stifling customs and belief.
Liberation is an elemental core of our existence. Always question the validity of tortuous happening and remember that no question ever chokes; it facilitates... (more)
On that bed I see my mother...
She is on a bed…she moves her eyes restlessly…Why she is restless? Yes, no one looks at her… A lady comes out of a kitchen carrying a lunch pack and she loudly calls, "where are you Robin, come down immediately, you are getting late, you are going to miss your bus...come down my son." "I am coming mom"…a boyish voice fills the room. An old lady on bed turns her face to...wards the room, from where the boy answered. And there, young boy comes out tucking his shirt…adjusting the neck tie and yells at his mother, "Come on mother…just see, today also you made me late, it's your fault…Mama, you... (more)
The body and soul is on fire
Dance is a visual feast to the onlookers but in contrary, to those who wish to let loose, it's the most exhilarating moment. They dance with absolute sincerity. The instinctive urge makes them to dance with perfection. The eroticism of grace, in its multifaceted moves, turns the transient ambience of mood into seductive charm. And once the seduction envelops …it raises the passion and the aroma that sets in, it then untie two bodies and soul. Unbridled they acquire space… the sensuality takes over, elegance acquires an erotic moves of perfection and from the amalgamation of all this, erupts... (more)
Life is Beautiful
Why is that we don't tend to agree on the issues of life, which are so important and crucial for the ones happiness. At times differences makes two persons drift and they close all the doors for any sane views to mend the relations. Uncompromisingly they refuse to yield any ground for any rapprochement. They simmer…they crib…they insult each other…and they drift to point of no return. They certainly don't realize about the loss of precious time and relation. They remain timid and in the bargain life becomes hell.
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Slow-roasted spiced pork loin with black-eyed beans and tomatoes
This dish works as described here, but you can also stuff it into hot flour tortillas or pitta breads to be eaten like a kind of fajita or burrito...
Meat » Main Courses » Mediterranean recipes
Recipe Language : English
• 3kg rib-end loin of pork with skin on, French-trimmed
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 5 teaspoons smoked paprika
• juice of 1 lemon
• olive oil
• 3 red onions, finely sliced
• 6–8 fresh red, yellow and green chillies
• 200g small whole chorizo sausages, thickly sliced
• 6 bay leaves
• 2 sprigs of fresh rosemary, finely chopped
• 3 x 400g of good-quality plum tomatoes, roughly chopped
• 2 handfuls of fresh ripe tomatoes, halved
• 4 x 410g tins of black-eyed beans, drained
• 5 cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped
• a handful of fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped
• red wine vinegar
• sour cream, to serve.
main courses | serves 8
This dish works as described here, but you can also stuff it into hot flour tortillas or pitta breads to be eaten like a kind of fajita or burrito – superb. Spanish smoked paprika is now widely available, and your butcher can do the trimming and scoring of the pork loin for you to save you some time.
Preheat your oven to 240ºC/475ºF/gas 9. First, score the skin of the pork in a criss-cross pattern every 1cm/½ inch with a sharp knife, trying not to cut into the meat itself. Mix a little salt with a teaspoon of paprika, the lemon juice and a little olive oil, then rub this over the meat and into the score lines. Put the meat in a high-sided roasting tray and cook in the preheated oven for 30 minutes to start the skin crisping up.
Remove the meat from the oven, turning the heat down to 180ºC/350ºF/gas 4. Take the pork out of the tray and put it to one side, then spoon out half the fat and discard it. Place the tray on the hob, add the onions, whole chillies, chorizo, bay leaves and rosemary with the remaining paprika, and fry gently until the onions are soft. Add all the tomatoes, the beans, garlic, parsley and a wineglass of water to the tray, stirring and scraping up all the lovely sticky bits from the bottom. Place the pork on top, return to the oven and cook for another hour or so or until the skin is crispy and the meat is meltingly tender.
When cooked, remove the pork from the tray and allow to rest. Taste the sauce and season with salt, pepper and a few swigs of red wine vinegar to give it a twang. Then remove the chillies and control the heat by chopping up as much chilli as you like and stirring it back into the sauce. Lovely served with soured cream
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Recipe Name : Slow-roasted spiced pork loin with black-eyed beans and tomatoes
Recipe Chef Name : Jamie Oliver
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Testing code changes in G was and still is a painfully long process. Testing changes to admin console is ok(?) to some extent. I use Eclipse for development. Some changes could be tested quickly while using remote debug, but, you can not be sure which ones and once the IDE complains "Hot code replacement failed" or you disconnect the debugger, the server needs to be built again. Sometimes a build will fail since Eclipse knocks-out xml-beans classes and at this stage the only option is to do a rebuild. We should also consider some improvements to the build process so that the module that is modified can be specified as a parameter to the build command and it will build only those modules/configs that need to be built for the changes to get reflected in the server. IMHO, any improvement in this aspect of G (to be able to test changes quickly) will have a dramatic improvement in the productivity of G Developers. --vamsi On 11/3/06, Sachin Patel <email@example.com> wrote: > > So since I've been working on Geronimo, one of the most annoying things > developing Geronimo in an IDE is the overhead involved between modifing code > and being able to test the code. For a single line change you have to > rebuild and install the module, rebuild the assembly, and re-extract and > relaunch the server image. This is needed since Geronimo loads classes from > the server repository and currently cannot from the local m2 repo or from > the "target/classes" directory itself. > Well to ease the developer experience I think we need to change that. As > a first step, I'd like to see if we can hook into geronimo a "developers > module" that the repository code can delegate over to to load from the m2 > repo. That itself would be an improvement and developers could simply > rebuild the module without having to regen a new assembly. A step beyond > that would be the ability to treat the source tree as a repo, and geronimo > load directly from target/classes, this is tricker since the modules in the > source tree don't follow a groupId/artifact/version/type convention so some > sort of intelligent mapping would have to be done. In theory, this would > give us the ability to simply compile a module (with an IDE compiler and not > maven) and simply re-start the server. > > Would this be an effort that would be valuable to the community? > > If so, if there are suggestions on how to go about implementing either the > first or second solution, please give your input. > > thx > > -sachin > > >
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Day after SC judges' revolt, Justice Kurian Joseph says acted in interest of judiciary and justice
Justice Kurian Joseph rejected suggestions that they had violated discipline and expressed hope that their actions will bring in more transparency in the administration of the Supreme Court.india Updated: Jan 13, 2018 14:02 IST
Justice Kurian Joseph, one of the four senior Supreme Court judges who virtually revolted against the country's Chief Justice over "selective" case allocation and certain judicial orders, expressed confidence on Saturday that the issues raised by them would be resolved.
Joseph said they acted solely in the interest of judiciary and justice, a day after he and the three other judges took the unprecedented step of addressing a press conference.
He rejected suggestions that they had violated discipline and expressed the hope that their actions will bring in more transparency in the administration of the Supreme Court.
"Stood up for justice and judiciary... That is what we said there (in New Delhi) yesterday. Nothing beyond that," Justice Joseph said in Malayalam when local television news channels approached him at his ancestral home in Kalady near here seeking his reaction on Friday's development.
"An issue has come to attention. It will certainly be solved since it has come to the attention," he told reporters.
Justice Joseph said the judges had acted only to "enhance the trust of the people in judiciary."
The four senior most judges of the Supreme Court — justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, M B Lokur and Kurian Joseph — Friday called a press conference in New Delhi and said the situation in the top court was "not in order" and many "less than desirable" things have taken place.
Unless this institution is preserved, "democracy will not survive in this country," they had said.
Justice Chelameswar, the second senior judge after the Chief Justice of India, had said "sometimes administration of the Supreme Court is not in order and many things which are less than desirable have happened in the last few months".
Chelameswar said they had met CJI Dipak Misra yesterday morning and "raised issues affecting the institution".
He also said the four judges had written a letter to CJI Dipak Misra some time back, raising important issues.
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Research finds homograph attacks on big brands rife
Apparent domain name homograph attacks against major brands are a "significant" problem, according to research from Farsight Security.
The company said last week that it scanned for such attacks against 125 well-known brands over the three months to January 10 and found 116,113 domains — almost 1,000 per brand.
Homographs are domains that look like other domains, often indistinguishable from the original. They're usually used to phish for passwords to bank accounts, retailers, cryptocurrency exchanges, and so on.
They most often use internationalized domain names, mixing together ASCII and non-ASCII characters when displayed in browsers.
To the naked eye, they can look very similar to the original ASCII-only domains, but under the hood they're actually encoded with Punycode with the xn-- prefix.
Examples highlighted by Farsight include baŋkofamerica.com, amazoṇ.com and fàcebook.com
Displayed as ASCII, those domains are actually xn--bakofamerica-qfc.com, xn--amazo-7l1b.com and xn--fcebook-8va.com.
Farsight gave examples including and excluding the www. subdomain in a blog post last week, but I'm not sure if it double-counted to get to its 116,113-domain total.
As you might imagine, almost all of this abuse is concentrated in .com and other TLDs that were around before 2012, judging by Farsight's examples. That's because the big brands are not using new gTLDs for their primary sites yet.
Farsight gave a caveat that it had not generally investigated the ownership of the homograph domains it found. It's possible some of them are defensive registrations by brands that are already fully aware of the security risk they could present.
After long battle, first Bulgarian IDN domain goes live
Bulgarians finally have the ability to register domain names in their native Cyrillic script, after years of fighting with ICANN.
The domain Имена.бг, which translates as "names.bg" went live on the internet this week, according to local reports.
Bulgaria was one of the first countries to ask for a internationalized domain name version of its ccTLD, almost seven years ago, but it was rejected by ICANN in 2010.
The requested .бг was found too similar to Brazil's existing Latin-script ccTLD .br. Evaluators thought the risk of phishing and other types of attacks was too high.
The requested string didn't change, but ICANN processes were adapted to allow appeals and a new method for establishing similarity was established.
On appeal, .бг was determined to be less prone to confusion with .br than existing pairs of Latin ccTLDs are with each other, ergo should be approved.
Имена.бг does not yet directly resolve (for me at least) from the Google Chrome address bar. It's treated as a web search instead. But clicking on links to it does work.
The new ccTLD, which is .xn--90ae in the DNS, was delegated last week.
The registry is Imena.bg (which also means "names.bg"), based in Sofia and partially owned by Register.bg, the .bg registry.
Despite the long battle, the success of .бг is by no means assured. IDNs have a patchy record worldwide.
It's true that Russians went nuts for their .рф (.rf for Russian Federation) ccTLD during its scandal-rocked launch in 2010, but Arabic IDNs have had hardly any interest and the current boom in China seems to be largely concentrated on Latin-script TLDs.
.бг is expected to open for general registration in the fourth quarter.
I guess we'll have to wait until at least next year to discover whether the concerns about confusion with .br were well-founded.
IDN .com hits the root
Eleven variants of .com and .net in non-Latin scripts joined the internet today.
Verisign's whole portfolio of internationalized domain name new gTLDs were added to the DNS root at some point in the last 24 hours, and the company is planning to start launching them before the end of the year.
But the company has been forced to backtrack on its plans to guarantee grandfathering to thousands of existing [idn].com domains in the new domains, thereby guaranteeing a backlash from IDN domainers.
The eleven gTLDs are: .कॉम, .ком, .点看, .คอม, .नेट, .닷컴, .大拿, .닷넷, .コム, .كوم and .קוֹם. Scripts include Arabic, Cyrillic and Hebrew.
Verisign signed registry agreements with ICANN back in January, but has been trying to negotiate a way to allow it to give the owners of [idn].com domains first rights to the matching domain in the ".com" in the appropriate script.
The company laid out its plans in 2013. The idea was to reduce the risk of confusion and minimize the need for defensive registrations.
So what happened? Trademark lawyers.
Verisign CEO Jim Bidzos told financial analysts last week that due to conversations with the "community" (read: the intellectual property lobby) and ICANN, it won't be able grandfather all existing [idn].com registrants.
All of the new IDN gTLDs will be subject to a standard ICANN Sunrise period, which means trademarks owners will have first dibs on every string.
If you own водка.com, and somebody else owns a trademark on "водка", the trademark owner will get the first chance to buy водка.ком.
According to SeekingAlpha's transcript, Bidzos said:
Based primarily on feedback from domain name community stakeholders, we have revised our IDN launch strategy. We will offer these new IDN top-level domains as standalone domain names, subject to normal introductory availability and rights protection mechanisms, available to all new gTLDs. This revised approach will not require ICANN approval and is designed to provide end users and businesses with the greatest flexibility and, for registrars, a simple and straightforward framework to serve the market.
Finally, we believe this approach should provide the best opportunity for increased universal acceptance of IDNs. We expect to begin a phased rollout of the IDNs towards the end of this year, and we'll provide more information on our launch plans when appropriate.
Senior VP Pat Kane added on the call that the grandfathering provisions, which would have required ICANN approval, have been "taken out".
The question now is whether Verisign will introduce a post-sunrise mechanism to give rights to [idn].com.
That would not be unprecedented. ICM Registry ran into similar problems getting its grandfathering program for .porn approved by ICANN. It wound up offering a limited, secondary sunrise period for existing .xxx registrants instead.
Bulgaria looking for an IDN registry operator
The Bulgarian government is looking for a company to run the registry for its recently awarded .бг internationalized domain name.
.бг is the Cyrillic equivalent of .bg, the nation's existing ccTLD.
After a tortuous battle through ICANN's IDN ccTLD Fast Track process — where it was repeatedly rejected for looking too much like Brazil's .br — the string was finally approved after an appeal last October.
The RFP is being carried out by the Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications and will be open for the next 90 days.
MTITC says the winner will be registry whose proposal most closely adheres to a "principles and requirements" document, which is currently a dead link on the ministry web site.
There's no government money on offer, but the winner will be supported in its request to IANA for delegation of the TLD.
I gather that the bidding is open to any European Union company.
Verisign lays out 'buy once' IDN gTLD plans
Verisign has finally clarified how it proposes to let existing registrants of internationalized domain names grab the matching domains in its 12 forthcoming IDN gTLDs.
The company has applied for transliterations of .com in nine non-Latin scripts and .net in three, but its applications were light on details about existing registrants' rights.
But today Verisign senior vice president Pat Kane outlined precisely how name allocations will be handled.
At first glance it sounds like good news for existing IDN registrants, particularly domainers whose investments in IDN .com and .net domains are about to become much more valuable.
If you already own a .com domain that is an IDN at the second level, you will have exclusive rights to that IDN string in all other .com transliterations, but not .net transliterations.
That works the other way around too: if you own the IDN .net domain, you get the matching second level in all of Verisign's .net transliterations.
Owning the Chinese word for "beer" in Latin .com would not give you rights to the Thai word for "beer" in the Thai transliteration of .com, but you could buy the Chinese equivalent.
The rules seem to apply to future registrations too.
You could register the Hebrew for "beer" in the Hebrew transliteration of .com and you would also get the exclusive right to that Hebrew string in Latin .com.
There would be no obligation, and you wouldn't lose your right to register matching domains if you chose not to immediately exercise it, Kane said. He wrote:
Two primary objectives in our strategy to implement new IDN gTLDs are, where feasible, to avoid costs to consumers and businesses from purely defensive registrations in these new TLDs, as well as to avoid end-user confusion.
It all sounds pretty fair to me, based on Kane's blog post.
There's a hint that trademark rights protection mechanisms may complicate matters, which has apparently been discussed in a letter to ICANN, but if it's been published anywhere I've been unable to find a copy.


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October 2006, page 116
Daniel Grant,
The market for artwork by Latin Americans has grown significantly in recent years, especially the secondary market, where prices for the biggest names - including Fernando Botero, Frida Kahlo, Wifredo Lam, and Roberto Matta - have surged.
In May, a 1943 self-portrait by Kahlo brought $5.6 million at Sotheby's in New York, the highest price ever paid for a work by a Latin American artist at auction (estimate: $5 Million/$7 million). In 1982, New York dealer Mary-Anne Martin sold the same painting privately for $60,000, she says. Another record price at Sotheby's was the $3.7 million paid for the 1974 bronze sculpture
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(estimate: $700,000/$900,000), by Costa Rican-born Mexican sculptor Francisco Zúñiga. Two large paintings by Botero drew a record $2.03 million each at Christie's and Sotheby's May Latin American sales.
The sales volume at Latin American auctions has exploded as well. Totals at Christie's and Sotheby's in May nearly doubled those from the year before - Sotheby's yielded $23 million, compared with $12.7 million last year, and Christie's generated $16.3 million, compared with $8.3 million. At auctions in December 2002, Sotheby's posted a total $8.8 million while Christie's took in $4.8 million.
Furthermore, the traditional poll of collectors has expanded beyond the Americans. "During the sales, we have Europeans in the room, Asians on the phone," says Virgilio Garza, director of the Latin American-art department at Christie's. Dealers and auction-house experts say U.S. buyers of Latin American art have historically been concentrated in areas with sizable Latino populations. Martin, who founded the Latin American-art department at Sotheby's in 1977, says that roughly 40 percent of her buyers live in Miami and are the children of immigrant Latinos "looking to rediscover their roots." She estimates that another 15 percent of her clients live in Latin America, particularly in Chile, Mexico and Panama. Miami dealers Virginia Miller and Dorothy Long both say that Latin Americans and Americans of Latino descent account for about 60 percent of their sales.
Chicago-based dealer Aldo Castillo, on the other hand, says only about 10 percent of his sales are to Latinos; the rest are to "a general public," including museums, dealers, art consultants, and collectors looking for investment pieces. In some cases non-Latino buyers are building collections that are specifically Latin American art, says Martin, but more often, they are simply buying Latin artworks they enjoy. Dealers like Castillo report that there is also a thriving primary market in the United States for less expensive works by younger artists from such countries as Columbia, Mexico and Panama. "Young collectors want to get on the bandwagon before it becomes the next Chinese art," says Lisa Pursell, associate director of New York's latincollector gallery. In May, 15 of the 22 paintings by Cuban-born artist José Bedia on view at Miami's Frederic Snitzer gallery were sold to private collectors, at prices from $30,000 to $35,000. Last February, Miller sold out an exhibition of graphite-and-charcoal drawings (priced between $6,500 and $25,000) by Mexican Artist Hugo Crosthwaite, and the buyers, she says, included the San Diego Museum of Art and the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California.
Museum acquisitions and research play an important part in the increasing demand for Latin American art. In 1988 the San Antonio Museum of Art opened the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art. At the University of Texas in Austin, the Jack S. Blanton Museum houses a collection of 1,800 modern and contemporary Latin works and recently integrated 125 into its permanent installation. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Center for the Arts of the Americas houses one of the largest Latin art collections in the United States. The commitment demonstrated by institutions "has validated the whole field," says Mari Carmen Ramirez, director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. "I've been in this field for 20 years, and back in the beginning, it was difficult to sell an exhibition to any museum and get any money to pay for it." These days, she says, "it's normal to see Latin American artists exhibited in museums, at art fairs, and in biennials around the world."


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Let me say, once again I have impressed myself (trying not to be cocky) by making a boyish layout from a girly kit. Just showing you boy mummas out there that it can be done. I was selective with the die cuts I chose and I even grabbed the gelatos out for a play. I am losing my fear of using them slowly and I really love how this one turned out.
If you watch the below process video you will see a little bit of how I created this gelato background. It was inspired by the lovely Wilna Fustenberg. She does lovely things with watercolours and mixed media techniques. The idea of this layout was to create a layering of the lovely die cuts you get in the kit. I selected quite a few of the more blueish toned die cuts out of the pack.
I used a mixture of alphas. The gold alphas are from the CLEO kit however the grey woodgrain alphas were left over from the gorgeous NOVA kit and I thought they looked so cute combined. To add some extra texture and another element I got my dusty sewing machine out of hiding the stitched over them. I really like how it looks over chipboard thickers.
I have typed my journalling using my trusty typewriter and stamped the date using my Heidi Swapp date stamp. I love the script of the months on this stamp. I have also added one of the gold glittered circle tags as a layer behind my photo. So cute. The wood dots are from an older BPK Kit ~ Hunter.
A little look at the top of the layout. The wood banner and flair are from my personal stash but I thought that they accented the page well. I love how to ORLA kit worked so well with this kit also. I pulled a lot of gold in and think it finishes off well with the gold foiling of the die cut.
I hope you enjoyed this look at my layout.
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I am a fairly even-tempered temperamental person. The same way that I am an extroverted introvert. I believe in justice and fairness, but also believe it cannot be uniform. Thus, I may at times present a complicated persona. Many moons ago, a network colleague wrote a letter complaining about how she couldn't get a read on me. She was really peeved that she didn't know which way I would "vote" on things. I laughed and shrugged it off. The best offense is to keep people off-balance. Not that I needed an offense or defense. In the business world, maybe even in general, it's best to be a bit of an enigma. Can certainly get one more drinks at a bar. Although, I'm fairly consistent in my love of rum drinks.
Where am I going with this?
I'm fairly even tempered. Yet this week, I had to not be. I hate it but I can be very good at it. I've been told I'm a bit scary. I have no idea why that would be as I say most things with a smile and a small laugh. Perhaps it's the laugh. Anyway, towards the end of the week I had to attend a day-long outside the office meeting while also handling three other dial in meetings. It was enough to make anyone loopy. As I sat in the day long meeting I wondered more and more why I had to be there.
Then lunch came. I mistakenly swallowed a butter ball whole. It was mixed in with my tomatoes and tofu. It was an honest mistake anyone else could make. It went down pretty smoothly and coated my throat and stomach. I figured it was better that than the fish dish they had that could have killed me. Got to look at the positives in each moment.
I grabbed more tofu so that the ball of butter wouldn't be lonely in my tummy. It was well accepted. I then handled a few more calls and decided to grab dessert. They had red velvet mini cupcakes. Score! It was both a treat and a form of harm reduction.
I looked down at my plate and I felt that the cupcake was mocking me. It had a smirk on its face. Don't you agree?
When your cupcake smirks at you, it's time to finish up and leave. I felt like I was in the middle of a Donnie Darko movie scene. All I needed was for a rabbit to come on in. I know I cannot be alone in having such a feeling. Everything mocks these days. I tried a joke in the middle of the meeting with a new acquaintance, it went way over his head. So much so that in turn I was offended. Yikes. I wanted to say to him "no more jokes for you!" Life really can be a bit surreal and a bit like a Seinfeld episode. Or is it that Seinfeld has shaped our world? (Whether or not you're familiar with the show).
I only ate half of my cupcake. It was dry and nothing bothers me more than dry food. My dog was right…
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The new welding line, named Souspeed-AB line, uses a new technology developed by Soutec-Andritz for an increased productivity (©ANDRITZ-Soutec AG)
ArcelorMittal press release - 22 June 2018
ArcelorMittal is installing a new high-technology welding line at its ArcelorMittal Tailored Blanks Lorraine facility in Uckange, France. The new line follows a EUR7 million investment and will be the world's first installation and application of a technology which enables two key processes in the production of laser welded blanks (LWB) – welding and partial ablation – to occur simultaneously. This will result in a 50% capacity increase when production begins - expected in September 2019.
The new welding line, named Souspeed-AB line, uses a new technology developed by Soutec-Andritz for an increased productivity (©ANDRITZ-Soutec AG)
Laser welded blanks are an innovative way for automakers to enhance crash and safety performance while improving the fuel economy of the vehicle. By welding together steel grades with different coatings and thicknesses, LWBs ensure strength can be concentrated where it is most needed for crash resistance while more ductile steels can be used in the same part to control deformation. With LWBs, overall material thickness is reduced, decreasing weight and emissions. Manufacturing, material, and transport costs are reduced significantly.
The decision to locate the new welding line in Uckange is based on the proximity to the supply of press hardenable steel, which is required in the production of tailored blanks, from ArcelorMittal's plants in Florange and Mouzon. Uckange is also well located for supply and distribution to ArcelorMittal Tailored Blanks' key automotive customers.
ArcelorMittal Tailored Blanks Lorraine, located in Uckange (France)
The EUR7 million investment in the new welding line was made with the support of Tailored Blanks Lorraine's local community and government stakeholders. The Grand Est region will provide 10% of the investment and 25% of the related R&D expenses, and the Val de Fensch community will also provide co-investment in the new installation. ArcelorMittal will employ local companies for specific parts aspects of the project.
Bertrand Jacquier, CEO ArcelorMittal Tailored Blanks Europe, said: "With this new line, ArcelorMittal will address the growing needs of car manufacturers to reach higher standards in terms of safety, light-weighting and emissions reduction."
For more information about this topic, please refer to the original press release.
Laser welded blanks steel solutions for automotive: tailored solutions for safer roads
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Laser welded blanks give automotive engineers the chance to design lightweight parts which ensure the right steel in the right place for safety and performance. Creating LWBs with ArcelorMittal's newest hot or cold stamping grades allows OEMs to achieve additional reductions in vehicle weight at an affordable cost, while increasing safety performance. Read the full article here.


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The European Council of Economic and Financial Affairs (ECOFIN) agreed on a shared position on climate finance in view of the COP21. Finance Ministers on Tuesday (Nov. 10) reaffirmed EU commitment to scale up the mobilization of climate finance for the incoming years. The ECOFIN conclusions highlighted that the EU and its Member States have already scaled up their bilateral and multilateral climate finance from EUR 9.5 billion in 2013 to 14.5 billion in 2014. However, the conclusions adopted by ECOFIN did not detail the amount of resources that will be mobilized for climate actions in vulnerable countries. Moreover, Ministers did not mention the issue of ringfencing revenues from the auctioning of EU ETS to climate initiatives in poorer countries.
The Council said that the provision to increase mobilization of resources for climate actions aims to contribute to Copenhagen pledge. Indeed, at Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 developed nations agreed to mobilize USD 100 billion per year by 2020 to help developing countries to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Developed countries also set a fast start finance commitment, agreeing to mobilize USD 30 billion to facilitate climate action in developing countries over the period 2010-2012. So far, they fulfilled the fast start, by providing approximately $33 billion in new and additional public resources. A report by OECD and Climate Policy Initiative estimates that climate finance averaged USD 57 billion per year in 2013-2014.
Even if progresses have been made, ECOFIN stated more efforts are needed in order to fulfil the 2020 goal. As a consequence, the Council asked for a fair share of the burden among developed countries and also called for emerging economies to contribute to climate finance in line with their respective capabilities, circumstances and responsibilities. Among emerging economies, China recently announced to make available YEN 20 billion for setting up the China South-South Climate Cooperation Fund, aimed at supporting other developing countries to tackle climate change.
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My Fair Lady turns 95 – By Marie Pietersz: Melbourne
My Fair Lady turns 95: by Marie Pietersz
Gwen Pietersz (nee Bertus), the matriach of the Pietersz family, celebrated her 95th milestone birthday recently, choosing a private party in Ringwood to share with her heritage of four generations of Pieterszs. Her cake was a tribute to her long life and relationship with her family, the message reading, Queen Gwen, 95 Years Loved.
Gwendoline Amelia Bertus was born in Colombo (Ceylon) on 27 October 1922 to parents Llewellyn (Lula) Bertus and Emma James. Gwen is the oldest sibling of a family of eight children, Pam Koch (dec), Cynthia Pereira (dec), Herbert Bertus (dec), Dickie Bertus (dec), Ron Bertus (dec), Dulcie Namasiyavan (dec) and Bernard Bertus.
Growing up in Sri Lanka, Gwen attended St Matthew's College, Baseline Road, Borella, and on completing her education worked as a stenographer in legal firms until this quiet, demure lady met and fell in love with Lloyd Pietersz, a dashing, swashbuckling young policeman, much to the surprise of her family.
They say opposites attract and after a whirlwind courtship they were married in 30 October 1943 at Holy Cross Church, Slave Island. Husband, Inspector Lloyd Pietersz, was stationed at the Kalutara Police Training School and the family lived in Kalutara where Gwen brought up her family of five boys and one girl, Randy, Cheryl, Tregartha, Desmond, Geoffrey and Glenn.
In later years when Lloyd secured the prestigious job of Bodyguard to the former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the family moved to Colombo and lived in Police accommodation opposite Parliament House (where the Intercontinental Hotel now stands).
Gwen and Lloyd migrated to Melbourne in 1974 and lived for many years in Bayswater in a staff bungalow when Lloyd found employment in security at Fibremakers Bayswater, and then moved to Ringwood when they purchased their home.
While she didn't work in the corporate world in Melbourne, Gwen had the reputation of being a gracious host, busy with house duties, keeping a nice home for her husband, unmarried sons and mother. She always had food on hand when family or friends dropped by and nobody left hungry without a taste of her delicious Sri Lankan home cooked meals or hidden treats for grandchildren. She would wake up early each morning before the household stirred to cook meals for "whoever may visit", she used to say, and by the end of the day, that food had disappeared because she would have fed so many family members or friends who visited.
A pint-sized lady, she ruled her male dominated household with a firm but fair hand – a much-loved mother, mother-in-law, grandmother and later great–grandmother. In the tradition of old, one could always find her dressed immaculately – nothing casual with how she presented herself to the world, whether in the home or in public. Every occasion was an excuse to buy a new outfit, do her hair and paint her nails, and everybody knew this and indulged her, the end result being that there was always a beautiful 'my fair lady' at the parties she attended.
Even as she grew older and her family expanded, she maintained her position as matriarch and the pivotal point of contact for her family – one could always be sure to find a visitor at the meeting place, her home. Her family Christmases was, and still are, big and extra special events when furniture has to be moved to make room for the new generations who do not want (or dare) to miss their mum/nana/gran-gran's Christmas Eve family celebrations.
When the modern way appears to be to give combined presents or reduce present-giving at Christmastime, even at her ripe old age, she makes it a point to shop herself (in later years with the help of her daughter) for a present for each and every child, grandchild and great-grandchild, and even close friends who come to her home on 24th December. She loves Christmas and still keeps the traditions of old, giving everybody and her Australian-born family, an insight into how Christmas was celebrated in Sri Lanka, or Ceylon, as she wants to remember it by.
When she could no longer live in the family home on her own, Gwen moved to live with her daughter in Ringwood and now resides with a son in Wantirna, still sharp of mind, still able to laugh heartily at a jokes her sons make of her funny traditions, and still busy watching old western movies, completing crosswords (and winning) in magazines like That's Life, buying Tattslotto without fail each week (and winning) and always playing the machines at the pokies (and winning).
The family's long-standing mirthful recollections which bring a hearty laugh from Gwen is when they remind her of her ability to forget her aches and pains and difficulty moving fast the minute she gets an offer from a son or friend to go to the pokies. Her speed automically picks up and she is virtually jumping into the car, with her departing laughing comment " have car, will travel" and off to the pokies goes this winner to come back with a heavier handbag than the one she set off with.
Gwen's one desire it to reach the grand old age of one hundred, just so she can get a letter from the Queen (she is such a die-hard Royalist) and everyone wishes her this heart's desire. The family laugh that the congratulatory letter might be from King Charles, to which Gwen smiles knowingly. We know she's thinking "who cares" as long as it is from Royalty.
Family, friends and in-laws wish Gwen a happy and healthy life and her dream to be one hundred. God bless this much loved lady!
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Do You Also Consider Stock Market as A Game of Gambling
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Some consider stock as gambling while others take it as an exclusive club for brokers and rich people. There are many experts, who claim to be able to call the markets' every turn. The fact is that almost every study done on this topic has proven that these claims are false. These days, the advent of the internet has made the market much more open to the public than ever before. You must be aware of the fact that all the data and research tools those were previously available only to brokerages are now available for individuals to use. In addition to this, advisors can allow investors to access the market with a fairly minimal investment.
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The registry contains information about a wide range of South African archival and memory institutions and organisations, and international collections that hold material related to Southern Africa.
Old South African Families.com
Launching the Old South African Families.com-website was inspired by Mike Anderson's father, Dr Ralph Anderson, who studied his own family's history for over 15 years. The result is a website he created which records the families linked to the Anderson family over seven generations and including over 4,000 individuals. These families span the recorded history of South Africa from the earliest immigration started by Jan Van Riebeeck to the modern day.
The main work of the genealogy in this website is done on a program called Legacy Family Tree by Millenia. You can download a free version from their website at The Legacy Family Tree Store The best way to send information for inclusion in this website is to download that program, enter the information into the program and then email a file to the webmaster.


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Level 2B – Energy Healing Counselor 2
Level 2, PART B: Transpersonal Spiritual Counseling and Professional Practice
For many Lionheart students, this three-weekend program is necessary for the completion of the Energy Healing Counselor Certificate. It is also open to those who want to look at this material at the permission of the instructor. firstname.lastname@example.com
"If only we can wait, the patient arrives at understanding creatively and with immense joy, and now I enjoy this joy more than I used to enjoy the sense of having been clever. I think I interpret mainly to let my patients know the limits of my understanding. The principle is that the patient and only the patient has the answers. We may or may not enable him or her to encompass what is known, or become aware of it with acceptance." – DW Winnecott
Sessions 6 & 7:
Transpersonal Spiritual Counseling
Sessions 6 and 7, two four-day intensives, Thursday through Sunday include
Exploring how to become an exceptional service oriented professional: Make client assessments and intakes that take you to the root of your client's problem quickly.
- Following body language, energy in movement and vocal cues you'll learn to identify and unwind the core issue that lives in the tissue and auric field
Creating a deep trusting bond with your client:
- The basics of Attachment Theory to create a healing relationship between you and your client
- Learning the tools available for working with
co-dependent relationships:
- How to implement appropriate and healthy boundaries with the psychology of individuation
Learning an Art of Inquiry:
- Recognize how to keep your ego out of the way, be present, available and open-hearted while empowering your client to find their own way.
Evolving your abilities to process with Transpersonal Spiritual Counseling:
- Learn the process of Being, Connecting, Knowing, Doing
- Shifting from talk to table: Integrating the Art of Inquiry with hands-on healing
Understanding what it means to have a healthy therapeutic relationship with clients:
- looking at important psychological terminology, identify transference/counter transference, ego defenses and projection
Creating a Treatment Package:
- How to set-up your treatment series, have healthy closure and follow up with clients.
Hands-on-healing and movement skills:
Ground, charge, center and clear:
- How to prepare your own energy field prior to performing healings for clients and stay healthy after sessions using Qi Gong, breath and energy releasing exercises.
Feel and strengthen energy boundaries:
- Stop taking on other people's "stuff"
Have an assessment technique:
- How to perceive chakras with body readings
Learn to perform 6 full body hands-on healing techniques:
- • The Body Mind Balance
- • The Reverse Body Mind Balance
- • The Cradle Healing
- • Strengthening the Structured Levels of the Field
- • Merging Power and Heart
- • The Rocking Release Healing
Learn hands-on Energy Healing skills to repair injury and illness:
- • Balance the body: Palpate the Chakras and Levels of the Energy Field
- • How to repair leaky energy joints
- • Lines of Light
Strengthen energy boundaries:
- • Hold the structured level
- • Get clear on your life's purpose
Hara healing
- • Feel connected to others:
Infusing Consciousness of Love and empathy in the unstructured levels of the field
Clear toxins from the body:
- • Etheric Unruffling to cleanse the auric field
- • Balance the Reason, Will and Emotion energy centers
Psychodynamic lectures and skills:
Making the Subconscious, Conscious: The true meaning of Transpersonal Energy Healing and how to apply it to hands-on healing work
The Meaning of Holistic Health: The function of the chakras and auric field
How to Control Reactivity and Maintain Objectivity
How to create the witness state of The Objective Observer
How to Have a Meditation Practice: The 3 Step Heart Centered Meditation technique
Conflict, Communication and Health: How defenses in relationship affect our energy field
Unwinding Core Beliefs: the nature of energy defenses, their origins and expression as either our gifts or limitations
Session 8: How to Build Your Healing Business:
Session 8, one, two-day session, Friday and Saturday followed by graduation on Sunday
Create your Energy Healing Intake forms:
- Make client assessments and intakes for full body Transpersonal Energy Healing techniques
How to create a professional practice:
- Start your new career as a Transpersonal Energy Healing Counselor
Learn the business of doing business:
- How to set up a legal business practice
Create your policy forms, understand you scope of practice and how to refer out
Legal and ethical issues for the professional Transpersonal Energy Healing Counselor in practice
Finding your niche, creating your mission statement and defining your clientele
How to get clients:
- building your target market and self-promotion
- How to introduce your new career using social media.
Dates and Schedule: Click here
And after Graduation you'll have an opportunity for follow-up support:
- • Teaching internships in beginning level classes
- • Professional Practice Coaching
- • Graduate Level programs in Depth Psychology with Masters in the field
Our program is designed to be able to support participants to join us from all parts of the country. The Integration sessions occur via Teleconference.
Poverello Retreat Center, is in San Fernando Valley, California on 10 acres of gorgeous manicured lawns. There retreat has on-site housing with a full kitchen. If you are traveling from a distance, a grocery store and restaurants are a 5-minute walk from the retreat center. A limited number of onsite sleeping rooms are available for those traveling at a distance.
Your Investment
Part A: $3995
Part B: $3495
Upon completion of all requirements you'll receive your Energy Healing Counselor Certification and be listed on the Find a Healer page of Lionheart's website.
How to Apply
Level 1, The Essentials, or permission of instructor, is a pre-requisite for Level 2.
Level 2, The Transformation: Healing Childhood Developmental Trauma
Part A, Free Yourself from Family Conditioning. For more info contact: email@example.com
Part B, Get to the Heart of the Matter.
If you have completed Level 1, and Level 2, Part A, and wish to apply online for Level 2B to click here. If you have prerequisites from other programs apply to join Part B, please contact Deborah.
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As a Teaching Associate at UCLA, I've taught a number of courses: in the Department of Political Science, in the fields of political theory, American politics, and race, ethnicity, and politics; as well as outside of my own department, in African American Studies and History. My classes span multiple intellectual interests, themes, and conversations, with a goal of engaging my students from diverse backgrounds in challenging conversations about the world around us.
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APPEARANCE: this may sound like a no-brainer but you'd be surprised about how many people who go to work without putting their best face forward. Promotional modeling is NOT like working a regular job so you really do need to make an effort in this area. You are contracted to represent a client's brand so think of yourself as a walking/talking commercial who will be directly interacting with their customers. Promotional modeling does not always require red-carpet hair and makeup but you should always look fresh, professional and ready to conquer the world! In addition to representing a client's brand, you are also representing your own brand. Ya – you! You never know who you're going to meet while you're working so this could be a great opportunity to network and grow your connections in the industry. If you look like you rolled out of bed….. chances are you're not doing yourself or the promotion justice.
PERSONALITY: although appearance is my first point, don't think that looks are everything – because they are not! I have seen many promotional models in my time who are downright gorgeous; but also completely useless. That being said, promotional modeling isn't for everyone. Not everyone has an uncanny ability to break the ice and make small talk with complete strangers all day and that is what makes the difference between modeling and promotional modeling. Don't be afraid to use humour (tastefully of course) when approaching people and don't take it personally when you get a "no". You'll always get people who say no – it's your job to work it, and get them to say yes!
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RELIABILITY: after 10 years, I think I've heard every excuse in the book from promotional models to events staff. These days, it's hard to take any excuse seriously but I will say that I'll take someone alot more seriously if they call me vs. sending a text or email. If they're afraid to talk to you personally, chances are: they're lying. For the most part, promotions rely on temporary staff. They are at the mercy of each person's availability and commitment. The bigger the promotion, the more intricate the schedules will get – especially when there is equipment involved. You really need to be respectful of the company you work for before you consider cancelling on a shift or worse, not showing up – because it is really difficult to find last minute coverage particularly early in the morning or on a Saturday night. This is common sense and respect. If you value the work and want to continue receiving it, you will make an honest effort to go to work when you've agreed to.
COMMON SENSE: ah the old adage… common sense. If everyone had common sense, I probably wouldn't be writing this. No matter how much instruction is provided before a promotion, it depends on the promotional models or other staff reading and understanding it. We don't write and distribute protocols for ourselves – we write them for you, so you know what you're doing at the promotion! When you step onsite, you should know exactly what you're doing, where you're going and know your product knowledge inside and out. Don't do anything you wouldn't do if the client or your manager was standing directly in front of you. You'd be surprised at how many clients will secret shop you while you're working and the last thing you want if you think it's ok to sneak a bite of an apple or send a text when you're not on your break. When you're working as a branded representative or promotional modeling, you truly never know who's watching and any wrong move, could cost your company an important client.
When I think of some of the very best promotional models I've ever worked with, they had all of the qualities listed above and a good head on their shoulders. They recognized that promotional modeling provides them with unparalleled opportunity to make amazing money on a flexible schedule – and have alot of fun doing it. If you're versatile and open-minded, the opportunities with promotional models and event staffing are limitless and they could take you down a path you never even thought of before…
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