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The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory by David Plouffe
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I am coming up this summer on 18 years experience in my chosen career profession — starting humbly by inventorying cabinets of RS-232 cables and BNC connectors and all kinds of leftover watchamacallits from my employer's years of government contracting — to today where I do, um, er, I do, well, "computing things"
You know, I have the hardest time describing what I do. I say that I do "systems administration" and "software development" and "project management" or sometimes "cat herding" — but all of those are 10,000ft views of my job.
It gets even worse when I try to tell people what I know. One of my colleagues asked recently "How did you know that?" — and about the best I could say was well, "I just knew". Sure, I could rattle off a whole list of technologies, but I'd forget to list more than I'd remember to list — and for anyone outside my profession — and likely for most of the people in my profession, it would sound like some mishmash of buzzword bingo. I'm a problem solver. I'm good at it, as you would hope to be after 18 years in multiple computing platforms and roles and tens of thousands of little computing problems, tens of thousands of little failures and hopefully a few successes day in and day out that burn in neural pathways so that you just know.
I get the feeling that David Plouffe is a bit in the the same boat. The man clearly just knows how to run a campaign. He helped engineer the successful presidential campaign of Barack Obama — where words like "breathtaking" "amazing" "historical" even themselves can't capture the event. I'm not sure that it's all that possible to use hyperbole to describe the win. No matter your politics — even those with crazy conspiratorial theories — could really counter just how much of an watershed event that win was, particularly as a "professional" endeavor.
With that win, Plouffe has likely cemented his place in the history books as one of the best, perhaps the best, campaign managers ever. The environment conditions were right for an Obama win, and David just knew how to build and manage an organization that worked within those conditions. But he has the hardest time telling you how.
The Audacity To Win does highlight some of the tactics used in the campaign, and it provides some mention of the strategy — but with a few exceptions — it all feels incredibly generic. I guess I was expecting more details, more stories, more insight into the day to day decision making. It all feels like a 10,000ft view "We met our metrics, our supporters got nervous, we stuck to our guns, we laughed, we cried, we won."
I'm being a bit hyperbolic — the book is better and more detailed than that — but most of the time it feels like that. You just know that David is the best at what he does, but you don't get enough information as to why or how. I don't think that's a flaw — it's really, really hard, at least in my own experience, to do that. The only way I know how to do it is to tell stories and weave them together in illustrative ways. And I guess that is what I was looking for — I was looking for more stories like this (Chapter 5, "Win or Go Home" — in the run up to the Iowa Caucuses):
"In early December on a Saturday night…, all thoughts turned to the Des Moines Register poll, which was scheduled for release in the next day's paper… Generally, polls are a dime a dozen in a presidential race, and the sheer number of them makes each one seem less important. But the release of the Register poll is considered an event. Time stops and waits for the results.
My first experience with the poll was in 1990 when I was working on Tom Harkin's Senate race. This was before the Internet, so if you wanted the scoop on the poll you had to go down to the Register's loading docks around midnight and persuade one of the truck drivers to give you a copy before he left on his route. Harkin's campaign manager called me into his office on a Saturday afternoon and told me to stay out of the bars that night and instead to go down to the Register building at midnight, get a copy of the paper, and then call him at home (cell phones were just large, toaster-sized oddities in those days) to give him the results and read him the story—then he would call the senator.
Sounds pretty pro forma and uneventful, but to a wet-eared twenty-three-year-old kid it was a high honor; it made me believe I must be doing a good job to be trusted with such an important task. Since then I have never seen a Register poll without thinking of that night and of how seemingly insignificant moments like that can have an outsized impact on your professional trajectory. Now I got to play the old hand: I told our mostly under-thirty staff about how we used to get the Register poll down at the docks because there was no Internet, and they would roll their eyes and look at me like I had escaped from the set of Cocoon."
More of those would have made the book a five star book.
You certainly don't walk away from this book empty handed, I've bookmarked a number of pages in my Nook — because I think there are some tactics that the campaign employed that highlight strategies for the ways in which you successfully engage people these days. Hints to the answers to questions about how you take an organization, use technology and communication — and engage people "on the ground where they are" — and what you choose to focus on and what not to focus, even in the face of the conventional wisdom. By all measures, the Obama campaign was an incredible success — and one that seems to be built on more bedrock principles than normal — and there are things to learn from that.
I just wished there had been more insight into the day to day execution. More stories, more 10ft views rather than the 10,000ft views.


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Tax saving scheme, which was announced in the Union Budget 2012-13 and was further expanded the next year.
New Delhi: Government today proposed to phase out tax benefits up to Rs 25,000 on stock market investments under Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS), which was introduced with much fanfare by the previous UPA regime.
Noting that "limited number of individuals availed this deduction", the Union Budget 2017-18 today proposed to rationalise this tax benefit introduced in Finance Act, 2012 and phase it out from assessment year 2018-19.
The tax saving scheme, which was announced in the Union Budget 2012-13 and was further expanded the next year, was designed exclusively for the first-time individual investors in securities market with gross total income below a certain limit.
In 2013-14, the income ceiling of the beneficiaries was raised to Rs 12 lakh from Rs 10 lakh specified in 2012-13. Under Section 80CCG of the Income Tax Act, it provided for a 50 per cent deduction of the amount invested during the year, up to a maximum investment of Rs 50,000 per financial year, from his/her taxable income for that year, for three consecutive assessment years.
At that time, the UPA government had said the objective of the scheme was to encourage the flow of savings and to improve the depth of domestic capital markets. This would help in promoting an 'equity culture' in India.
The scheme was also aimed at widening the retail investor base in the Indian securities markets and also to further the goal of financial stability and financial inclusion. According to the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today in Parliament, the deduction for three consecutive assessment years is allowed up to Rs 25,000 to a resident individual for investment made in listed equity shares or listed units of an equity oriented fund subject to fulfillment of certain conditions.
"This deduction was introduced vide Finance Act, 2012. However, considering the fact that limited number of individuals availed this deduction and also to rationalise the multiplicity of deductions available under Chapter VI-A of the Act, it is proposed to phase out this deduction by providing that no deduction under section 80CCG shall be allowed from assessment year 2018-19," as per the Budget documents.
However, an assessee who has claimed deduction under this section for assessment year 2017-18 and earlier assessment years shall be allowed deduction under this section till the assessment year 2019-20 if he is otherwise eligible to claim the deduction as per the provisions of this section.
This amendment will take effect from the April 1, 2018 and shall accordingly apply in relation to assessment year 2018-19 and subsequent years, as per the Budget documents.

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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Gumball Machine Baskets, Part 4
I am going to make some imitation hinges. I have saved, (what haven't I saved?), some heavy foil from candy chocolate coins. Roll a dowel over the foil to flatten.
I used the Fiskars corner punch, "Flowers", the shape my tweezers are pointing to.
A note on this punch, it's a good one for making daisies and I will be using it shortly for a project with flowers. The "Leaves" corner punch is good, too.
You can cut rectangles for the hinges, they are just as nice.
Punched out shapes for the hinges.
Glue the punched shapes onto the top of the lid. Don't faint, I used tacky glue for this.
Now make a hole at the center edge on the larger part of the lid. This is for the knob.
Showing the lid opening.
Bend a straight pin as you did for securing the handles. Leave less space at the head, though. You are only going through 2 layers of card stock.
After I bent the pin I painted the head with white paint mixed with glue to make the paint "stand up" and made a knob shape. Let this dry.
After the pin/knob is dry insert into the lid placing the lid into the 90 degree angle and clip off the extra pin.
Now you can glue the lid onto the basket. Looks like you could go on a picnic, doesn't it?
Have fun, expand on it, make it better, just keep making minis!!!
Talk to you all later. . . . . Kris
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I love working with paper..this basket is absolutely on my to-do list :-) Thanks for the tutorial!!!ReplyDelete
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you tutorial is fantastic !!!... we have those gumball machines here in the Italy also...the fault or merit of globalization ;-))))
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Wonderful tutorial,thanks!!!!ReplyDelete
Love this tutorial!! Thank you!!!ReplyDelete
Very Clever! The basket looks so great! I also love that Fiskars-thing...ReplyDelete
Thanks for your tutorial is wonderful!!!ReplyDelete
Kris, Wonderful tutorial!! Thanks for sharing it with us!!ReplyDelete
This is one of the cutest baskets I've seen! Thank-you for taking the time to do a tutorial for us! I'll be adding it to my long list of things to make:)ReplyDelete
Excellent tutorial thanks so much for thisReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 16, 2010 at 6:33 PM
Thank you for sharing this wonderful project. I found it November 16 and printed out all the instructions today so I could make one for myself and for some tiny Christmas ornaments I am giving to other special friend miniaturists. Thanks again. Roberta FlemingReplyDelete


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Educational technologies; Inequality; Africa; Digital neo-colonialism; Massive Open Online Courses; Centre of Development Studies; Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS); School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Taskeen Adam is a Cambridge-Africa scholar pursuing doctoral research at the Centre for Development Studies, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS).
Her research interest is on educational technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the role of African Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in helping the most marginalized. Her MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development thesis focused on the Sustainable Implementation of the One Laptop per Child project in Rwanda.
Taskeen's research mainly tackles the Sustainable Development Goals 4 (Quality education), 8 (Decent growth and economic growth) and 10 (Reduced Inequalities) through the improvement of access to quality decolonised education, by reducing unemployment and by the bridging of inequalities. The focus of her research and her related roles as co-founder of Khwela (an online platform to empower unemployed youth through career development MOOCs relevant to South African contexts), as pioneer of the Solar Powered Learning initiative in South Africa and of the Mobile Education for Smart Technology project in India positively impact the lives of the world's poorest 3 billion people.
Taskeen's commitment to bridge the Digital Divide, with a specific focus on digital neo-colonialism (which is concerned with the over-representation of western knowledges as global knowledges, at the loss of indigenous or local knowledges that are not online) underlies her motivation to join Cambridge Global Challenges.


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Letter: House must support Food Security Act
The Global Food Security Act (GFSA) is one of the most important pieces of legislation passed by Congress to alleviate hunger and malnutrition in low-income countries.
Over the past two years, programs supported by the GFSA have helped smallholder farmers, strengthened agricultural businesses, and promoted critical nutrition interventions for mothers and babies in the first 1,000-day window.
We know these investments work. Since 2011, programs like these have helped 3.4 million children escape the consequences of poor nutrition and lifted 23.4 million people out of poverty.
Unfortunately, the law expires on Sept. 30 unless Congress acts. The Senate has voted to reauthorize the GFSA; now it is the House of Representatives' turn to act. The bipartisan House bill already has over 120 co-sponsors. I urge Rep. Claudia Tenney to join her colleagues in cosponsoring and voting for this critical legislation.


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Deus Ex GO released to fairly positive reviews last year alongside the launch of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Much like Square Enix's Lara Croft GO and Hitman GO, this title focused on creating a sort of "diet Deus Ex" experience for mobile users. Bringing the Deus Ex experience into a mobile package, it offers up something that mobile devices currently lack.
Hack your way through dystopian puzzles as agent Adam Jensen in Deus Ex GO, now available in the Windows Store! https://t.co/kR7QZJSEVN pic.twitter.com/rgzP7Ylriw
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The game released on Windows 10 recently, giving a chance for PC and Windows Phone users who wanted to give the game a shot. Running for just $4.99, the game offers a nice experience that aligns well with the dystopian, cyberpunk feel that's always been offered by the Deus Ex games. If you've been itching for a new experience in Deus Ex, Deus Ex GO should definitely be on your radar.


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A Prospect of Cities: Being Studies Towards a History of Town Planning by Cecil Stewart soon to be presented for sale on the exceptional BookLovers of Bath web site!
Published: London, New York & Toronto: Longmans, Green & Co., 1952, Hardback in dust wrapper.
Contains: Black & white photographs; Black & white plates; Diagrams; Maps; Plans;
From the cover: This book gives, by means of studies of selected cities, the story of Town Planning from the first planned settlements of the Hellenic world to the newest planned town in Great Britain.
The author, who has lectured at the School of Planning in London and is an examiner for the Town Planning Institute, has deliberately treated his subject in such a way that his book will have an appeal to others than students of Town Planning. The towns he has chosen for study Caerwent, Constantinople, Flint (an interesting example of a Bastide), Richelieu, Saltaire, for instance illustrate different and typical attempts made by men to forestall the haphazard urban developments with which we are so unpleasantly familiar.
The individual studies show how the towns fitted into their contemporary social and economic back-ground, and the Interludes by which they are linked sketch in the main march of historical events. There are many drawings, plans and photographs to illustrate the text.
Good+ in Good+ Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper which is a little dull, tanned more heavily at the spine. Leans a little. Edges of the text block lightly tanned, more so to the top edge.
Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 191 pages. Index. 8¾" x 5¾".
Of course, if you don't like this one, may I beguile you with my offerings from my intriguing Architecture catalogue?


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That, under s 33 of the Parliamentary Committees Act 2003, the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Committee inquire into, consider and report, no later than 30 June 2018, on the external oversight and investigation of police corruption and misconduct in Victoria.
Specifically, the Committee is required to
- Examine the current system for the oversight of police corruption and misconduct in Victoria, in particular the role of IBAC and the Victorian Inspectorate.
- Identify and assess best-practice models for the oversight of police.
- Identify and review the main challenges to the effective oversight and investigation of complaints and disclosures about police in Victoria. This will involve an examination of the legal framework for the oversight of police in Victoria. The review will encompass both the legal responsibilities of those overseeing police as well as the perspectives and experiences of complainants, including marginalised Victorians.
- Consider best-practice strategies to improve the oversight and investigation of police corruption and misconduct and how they may be implemented in Victoria.
The Committee's Inquiry will include not only the oversight of police officers but also protective services officers.
Under s 12A of the Parliamentary Committees Act 2003 (Vic), the Committee does not have the power to consider individual complaints against police. These complaints should be directed to IBAC or Victoria Police.
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WAG is dedicated to finding responsible, loving, and suitable homes for retired racing greyhounds and other breeds of sighthounds. WAG also looks to be an educational resource to the greyhound and sighthound community and works to promote and educate the public about the joys of greyhounds and sighthounds as pets.
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This may sound silly, but many groups and even some tracks do cat testing with a stuffed toy, a remote-control car, etc. Some groups that do use live cats only use outdoor (stray) cats, or cats that are in crates.WAG performs cat testing in a house, with the cat loose and the Greyhound wearing a muzzle. This simulates a home environment while providing for the safety of all animals involved.If you have cat(s) and are interested in a particular Greyhound that we believe is "cat friendly" or "cat workable", we would have the dog meet your cat(s) at your home, while wearing a muzzle, to see how well they get along (The same applies for small dogs).
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Dogs in foster care have already begun the transition from track/kennel life to home life. They learn about stairs, glass doors, house-training, etc. There will still be an adjustment period when the dog moves from its foster home to its adoptive home, but often it is much easier than adopting a dog straight from the track. Having dogs in foster care also allows WAG to know more about each dog's personality, such as how the dog reacts to cats, kids, strangers, how it walks on a leash, etc. This can make it easier to find the right dog for your family.
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Whether you have already adopted, or are just thinking about adoption, our volunteers are always available if you have questions or concerns. After you bring your Greyhound home, we want to hear from you to see how you are doing. WAG can loan you a crate to help ease the transition and assist in house-training your new dog.WAG also has Meet & Greets, Playgroups, and other events regularly, and we encourage our adopters or potential adopters to attend. We also encourage people to keep in touch via email, phone, or the WAG Online Forum. WAG is a very helpful community of Greyhound lovers and we'd love to welcome new members.


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Consistency. Patience. Strengthen. Give Back.
This sums up what I've been working on since RnR Dallas.
I had a little chat with myself after that Dallas race. I was blunt and to the point. You could also call it a "come to Jesus meeting." I know no one cares about my finish time (except me), but I also know I can get more out of myself. I have tried to figure out why I didn't "bounce back" after Cowtown like I have in the past. Most of my PR races were run in 2014, and then I dealt with plantar fasciitis and haven't seen those speeds. It was exactly two years ago when I contacted Airrosti and cautiously came back to running 5 days a week. Then last year at this time I started training for my first half-Ironman, and was only running 3 days a week. My average weekly mileage is lower and my workouts feel blah.
In short: I've been giving myself a pass. I know that I'm a runner who needs to run to run faster. I also know that I run better when I weigh less than I do right now.
Enter phase one of Build a Better Runner: Lose the weight, do more strengthening, keep the mileage consistent. Which is hard as my body adjusts to eating less carbs and more muscular soreness. It makes the running feel harder. So when I go do speed work at the track and run 800s at my half marathon PR pace, my first instinct is to throw in the towel. This is where patience comes in.
I have a renewed vision of my goals and what I want to accomplish. Now I need to take the steps to get there.
My next race is a half marathon on the 29th. I won a free entry back in December, so I don't know much about the course. I'd like to see my time back under two hours, but realistically I'm shooting for under 2:05. This is how my long run went on Saturday:
But it was great helping another runner get to 13 miles in preparation for her first half at Oklahoma City. She was so excited, and I was so proud of her!
On the non-running side, I'm wanting to give back to the running community where I can. My friend and I served as volunteers at the Big D Marathon earlier this month. It wasn't the best weather, but it was out at White Rock Lake and it's so pretty there.
I'm volunteering at Texasman (triathlon) at the end of the month. This allows me to still be a part of races while my husband and I are working toward our financial goals.
Also, congratulations to all the Boston Marathoners! I seriously admire all of you. I've kept it no secret that it's my goal to qualify and run it. My motto right now: Don't wish for it. Work for it."


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#21 Tim Abromaitis- 6-8/220, Unionville, CT
Carleton Scott- 6-7 / 198, San Antonio, TX
On the surface, Scott is a promising, if undersized, prospect. He might need a year or two to grow into his body, but has the best upside of the class. Can play both forward positions. Was also recruited by Georgetown.
Thomas Kopko- 6-0/175, Bubank, IL
Kopko is a freshman walkon who was a two-star recuit according to Scout.com. He has no official ND bio yet and, judging by his picture, he's not happy about that.
Some fun facts: Abromaitis had a brother who played at Yale and father James played for UCONN and the Nets. Nash averaged a double-double his last two years in high school. Proffitt played varsity high school ball in 8th grade. Scott helped his high school team to go their first ever Texas state title game.
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A collection of images and other items from Disneyland, theme parks and other amusement parks. Also look for images and items I find interesting, amusing or both.
Wow - I never even knew something like a sweater guard existed! Love the price tag!!!! What's an "excise tax"?
Very cool to see this one the original card.
I looked up "excise tax" on Wikipedia, but it put me to sleep!
This is that style of simple, clean, fun packaging that Jody and I love. This is perfect. I'm putting together a blog post symposium on packaging design and may refer to this one. It's wonderful.
In addition, it's comforting to learn that among her many uses, Tinker Bell was also a guardian against wardrobe malfunctions of the 50s!
You need a companion illustration of the guard in action.
Does anyone know why is there an excise tax in addition to the sales tax?
I have one of these sweater guards that was passed town to me. I'm woundering that they are worth and how rare they are? Please help!
Is this for sale?
Not for sale.
I have one very similar but it has pin backs. Are the clips pre-dating the pins? I've never seen one similar.


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Podcast: Dave tells his tale by the Tesco trolleys....
...And here's a tweet just in from House builder, Hammond (Chancellor): ' Determined to tackle the housing shortage. We'll use all the tools at our disposal to accelerate housebuilding, inc £2bn additional investment.' That's it; all sorted, then.


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You will receive an email with a download code whenever an update to any collection becomes available. You can check the current version numbers and if you are missing an email, contact us!
Enter your download code into the Connect downloader. The process is identical to a regular Installation and is described in detail in the Installation Guide.
Auto-Extracting or Manual Extraction
By default, Connect will automatically download and extract the update. After entering your download code, click Download. Connect will ask you for a location. Pick the collection folder, which is the folder where the Documentation, Instruments and Samples folder, etc. are located. Connect will then download and extract the update into that folder.
Collection Folder (here BST)
On all Kontakt Player collections (these are the ones you have registered in the past with a serial number) you need to run the Installer. Follow the instructions in the Installation Guide. You do not need to do this on all other collections.
If for some reason you want to download and extract manually, you can use the Manual Links as detailed in the Installation Guide. When extracting, make sure to extract all downloaded files directly into the collection folder, overwriting old files when prompted. Do not install into any subfolder; do not create a new folder for the update and do not change the folder structure in any way.
Verifying the update
To make sure the update has been correctly installed, open any patch. The InfoView will show the Capsule version number as well as the collection version number. Check with the Current Versions and make sure the Capsule version and collection version are correct. You can also browse the Folder Structures section to make sure everything is correct.
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Located on the urban fringe of Copenhagen in Kastrup, the site for the new headquarters for Ferring Pharmaceuticals A/S occupies a pivotal waterfront position alongside the Øresund crossing between Copenhagen and Malmö, and is next to Copenhagen International Airport. Bordered by predominantly low-rise development, it affords fantastic views towards Malmö and the Swedish coast – where the company was founded.
The building sits on a large stone plinth which acts as the first line of defence against floods and integrates the design of street furniture and landscape elements. The lightweight glass building 'floats' above, in contrast to the heavy plinth below. The six stacked floors and roof canopy cantilever out to further capture the surrounding views and create self-shaded spaces on each floor. The triangular form of the building is driven by the shape of the site, surrounded by water on all sides. At the heart of the building is a generous internal atrium with panoramic views, comprising an entrance lobby, café and break-out space, as well as catered conference facilities and space for social events. Access to the floors above is via a feature staircase or glass lifts that further animate the atrium space.
The layout of the interior spaces was derived from in-depth studies of Ferring's way of working. Through observation and targeted interviews, the design team gained valuable insight into the processes involved in the development of pharmaceutics, creating workspaces that are tailored to the company's specific requirements. Offices and laboratories – for quiet, individual work – are situated on the edges, to take advantage of the views and natural light, while more collaborative meeting spaces are located towards the centre, overlooking the top-lit atrium and other social spaces creating a vibrant core of the building throughout each level.
The building façade has a very strong horizontal emphasis, in consonance with the surrounding low-rise urban fabric. The technical plant and building cores are incorporated into the cantilevering roof form, giving it a sleek profile. The geometry of the atrium roof is a form-found, glazed catenary gridshell, reflecting the forces acting upon it, allowing for thin, lightweight structural members. Daylight streams into the interior spaces, creating a light-filled, unique workplace that brings the whole range of Ferring's activities under one roof.


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set the Thames on fire
set the Thames on fire
To do wonderful or exciting things; to cause a great or remarkable sensation in the world; to be extremely exciting, popular, famous, renowned, etc. (Refers to the Thames river in London. Often used in the negative to indicate the opposite.) Primarily heard in UK. I wouldn't be too concerned with what he thinks of you. For all his money and education, he's hardly setting the Thames on fire, is he? When she was a child, Janet dreamed of setting the Thames on fire as a famous actress.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
not set the Thames on fire
If you say that someone or something won't set the Thames on fire, you mean that they are not very exciting and are not likely to be extremely successful. None of these dishes would set the Thames on fire, but they were well prepared and good value for money. Note: You can replace Thames with the name of another river. They both had fairly successful careers in North America, without exactly setting the Hudson River on fire.
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012


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Four Paws
February 2014
In his luxurious winter residence in the Ukrainian Carpathians, the ex-president of the Ukraine also kept bears. The FOUR PAWS team is now on their way to administer first care to the animals left behind.
The discharged Ukrainian president, Viktor Janukowitsch, not only left his ostentatious estate near Kiev, he apparently left animals too; boars, horses, pheasants and five bears, including three bear cubs were left behind.
Local animal welfare organizations asked FOUR PAWS for help. Currently the animals, which are in a relatively good condition considering the circumstances, are still being taken care of by the former employees of Janukowitsch. FOUR PAWS bear expert Carsten Hertwig, who coordinates the first care of the bears says, This can change quickly. It is to be feared that the bears will be sold, especially the bear cubs who are in danger of ending up in an unsuitable environment again.
The bears, whose original home is still unclear, were kept in cages that were far too small. A single male bear was kept in one cage, while another one contained a female bear with her three cubs.
Today, a FOUR PAWS emergency rescue team including bear expert Annika
Luerssen are on their way to get an idea of the circumstances and the
condition of the bears. They will provide them with food and also try to
find a long-term solution for all of the animals.
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I'm in the depths of Thetford Forest. Some distance behind me is the hustle and bustle of a myriad of people near the visitors centre, using the café, experiencing zip lining or bbq'ing. But for those willing to venture away from the 'near wild', the voices in the forest call out.
'Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth… they preach… the ancient law of life'
As I pick my way through the damp forest – yes, although the rain is light it has been, and still is relentless – I am surrounded by wonderfully tall, sky-hugging lowland pine trees, some less than two feet apart from its neighbours. The sun is still high in the sky, but it's shrouded by the trees, and so I'm walking in a twilight state, and so am being careful with face-high branches and twigs as I weave left and right.
The going isn't that easy. The mud sucks ones boots down and makes walking laborious, and moss, like a green carpet, underfoot and dead, wet leaves give an alternative challenge, that of accelerated locomotion just when you didn't expect it. Sometimes, my ambling though dense forest alternates between 'clod-hopping' and sliding all over the place. Not a pretty sight, but I wouldn't swap it for the world.
A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought. I am life from eternal life'
The forest is alive. Even in mid-October animals scurry this way and that in the undergrowth, birds fly overhead, and there's that wonderful pine, tree, somewhat dank undergrowth smell that is fascinating, distinctive and refreshing. I can't resist but to frequently, look around, inhale deeply, and find some excuse to sit on a fallen tree. Yes, I know it's wet, but I'm 'armed' and wearing a waterproof kagoule and waterproof trousers. It's bliss. There is no such thing as bad weather: just inappropriate clothing.
And there, standing in the distance, obscured by undergrowth until I move closer, is Venus. The artist will tell you that this is a human-height sculpture placed in the forest to show off the skills of human ingenuity. The ecologist would encourage you to note the sculptures 'skin' of forest colours, to denote life, and in this case to promote the idea of nature-appreciation, reforestation and more. But there's more.
The forest is alive. And just as a bird might make a nest, a beaver make a dam, and a Fox make a lair, and we would call it natural, so too, these sculptures evoke a deep spirituality that is, perhaps, natural for humankind. And so, it is fantastic to see the first sculpture of about ten.
It is almost as if the forest is pressing in to get a closer look at what humankind has done here, and it is a acceptable. Surrounded by elementals, dryads, some would say forest angels, there is a presence here, in the forest. And this sculpture 'fits in' perfectly.
'A longing to wander tears my heart when I hears trees rustling in the wind…'
And so I move on, exploring the forest. Something like a bright orange light, just for a split-second catches my attention to the right. I turn my head in that direction, look intently, but… nothing. Nothing but dense trees and fern. A trick of the light? A reflection on the side of my glasses? Or the beckoning of a Guardian of the Forest? Whatever it was, it has got my interest and I move in that direction.
Ten minutes later I'm still walking and there in front of me are two more sculptures: David and Daphne.
'When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me…Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent'
The two magnificent sculpture: David (as in, David and Goliath), and Daphne (who, and those who remember their Greek mythology will know, was turned into a Laurel tree, but Apollo made the tree into an evergreen tree thus conferring immortality upon her.
I sit here, mesmerised at the two sculptures. Two thoughts in my mind: David faced his monster and prevailed. Daphne succumbed and gave her life, and yet even then became immortal. Who says the forest cannot teach us anything? I may not have heard an audible voice as I sat on a wet log, but I do believe an elemental, a dryad, a fay, or an angel whispered into my ears words too deep to hear as sound, but penetrating deep within the labyrinthine 'corridors' of the brain, where mind, body and spirit meld. Of course, you would expect me to say that: I'm an animist.
I spent another couple of hours moving through the dense undergrowth and tall trees, and encountered all the sculptures carefully placed throughout the forest, some 'hidden' so that only the most adventurous would find them, and reap the reward of encountering these Guardians of the Forest. As above, so below.
And then I headed back to the visitors centre, still with the hustle and bustle of many people enjoying the fruits and pleasures of 'near wild'. I'm now sitting at a picnic table and am gazing back the way I had walked. Two hundred feet away from me, the 'manicured' grass gives way to the dense trees and I look on longingly, and yet I'm completely happy and satisfied. Green joy unbounded. It was a wonderful experience – to forest-bathe, to amble in dense woodland, and to encounter sculptures that evoke the deep spiritual centres within, and to meet…. well, to have met forest entities, known and unknown.
'Whoever has learned to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness'.
(All indented quotes above are by Herman Hesse, and from his book Baume: Betrachtungen Und Gedichte)


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BACKGROUND Nearly two and a half years ago, I started an effort for Apache Tika™ to help improve its robustness via TIKA-1302. Apache Tika™ is an umbrella/wrapper project that "detects and extracts metadata and text from over a thousand different file types (such as PPT, XLS, and PDF)." I documented some of the early work […]
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Mike Leigh Draws Political Parallels with Peterloo
Period pieces are my favorite films to watch. They are historically fascinating and often times illustrate how the more things change, the more they stay the same. Peterloo, directed by Oscar nominated director Mike Leigh, gives us a bird's eye view to one of the bloodiest episodes in British history, the infamous Peterloo Massacre of 1819. A massacre in which the government-backed cavalry charged into a peaceful crowd of over 60,000 that gathered in Manchester, England to demand democratic reform. Sound familiar? Not unlike, the current situation the UK is facing with Brexit and in our own backyard dealing with immigration and health reform.
With dialogue rooted in reality and improv, Leigh's start and ending images set the stage for the entire film. At the start, the melodic tones of a trumpet are being played in the midst of war chaos. Then a close up on the players face splattered with the blood of his comrades and then complete silence illustrating the impact of PTSD on the young who have enthusiastically fought on behalf of their homeland. Issues like sentencing criminals from the UK to Australia, laborers barely surviving after cut wages and some hanged over stealing a coat in an attempt to keep warm.
The color palate served up by Dick Pope acts as a silent character ranging from muted grey tones to full on Technicolor for the final battle. The passion of the reformers as one members recites Patrick Henry's 1775 speech, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" while rallying each other to confront the powers to be in hopes of changing their current situation is one of the highlights considering that this film's dialogue is mostly derived from improvisation. Watching the beginnings of the women's movement amongst a male society that devalues women is lightly touched upon giving the women in the film more to do than serve and obey.
With a king that has lost his senses and with America having a leader who isn't to far removed from the times reflected upon in this film, Peterloo reinforces what occurs when the greed of our government is greater than the need of the people they serve. This is when the deterioration of our nation becomes inevitable.
Director Mike Leigh was gracious enough to sit down and chat with me. Here are some excerpts from that conversation. You can catch Peterloo for yourself when it is released by Amazon Studios on April 5th.


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Nationwide ICE Raids Targeting Cambodian Communities
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus ·
Nationwide ICE raids on Cambodian communities are expected to take place this month, the first of 2019 and the latest in a series of targeted attacks on immigrant communities.
Learn more about how we got here from Yuri Kochiyama Fellow Ny Nourn.
For more information about Southeast Asian deportations and how to prepare for ICE raids, visit SEAraids.org


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Financial Inclusion Engagement in Provinces
A Pilot Project has been established to roll out Financial Inclusion activities in four selected provinces in PNG in 2018. These provinces have been selected based on the interest shown during the NFIP consultations that were conducted in these provinces.
CEFI has sent out letters to the Provincial Governors and Administrators of Milne Bay, East New Britain, Eastern Highlands and Madang provinces to arrange awareness workshops for key stakeholders. The key stakeholders in the target provinces that CEFI will engage with includes; LLG Presidents, provincial administration senior staff, women groups, youth groups and church leaders. Stakeholder engagements in the provinces will be preceded by engagements at the national level with key stakeholders including; Minister for Provincial & Local level government, Minister for Communication & Information, Secretary for Department of Provincial & local Level government, Secretary for Department of Communication & Information and NICTA .
The key outcome expected from the provincial engagement workshops is agreement on the list of Financial Inclusion (FI) activities to be rolled out in the provinces and the project management governance structure to oversee the rollout of the agreed activities. It is expected that a memorandum of agreement will be signed between CEFI and each provincial government.
CEFI will propose a Project Steering Committee (PSC) arrangement to be responsible for overseeing the rollout of the FI activities in the provinces. The PSC will be chaired by a senior executive from the provincial administration and will comprise key stakeholders from the province and CEFI. TOR for the PSC will be developed and presented at the awareness workshops for deliberations and to get stakeholders agreement.
It is expected that after the awareness workshops are completed for each province and buy in is secured, PSC will develop Provincial FI Work plans that will outline key activities to be rolled out in a year. CEFI will then write officially to the Governor and Provincial Administrator to seek support and resource allocation to roll out the agreed FI activities in the respective provinces.
Once support is obtained from the Governor and Provincial Administrator of the provinces; CEFI will coordinate development of MOAs in consultation with the Provincial Administrator that will be signed by the Provincial Administration and CEFI. During the signing of the MOA the provincial FI activities roll out plans will be launched together with the PSC.
The initial engagements are planned to take place in the first quarter of 2019 with Milne Bay and East New Britain in February and Eastern Highlands and Madang provinces in March 2019.
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Big, Bad May and Easy Vegetable Soup
May was a tough month for my wrist and consequently my kitchen and my blog. I have something going on in my right wrist and hand that has caused quite a bit of pain, lack of stability and range of motion and the inability to exert any pressure on it. This made typing, mouse clicking, stirring, chopping, hell even brushing my teeth or turning a doorknob very, very challenging. Thanks to the wonders of a steroid shot, I am in much better shape now and can start to catch up.
May was tough in other ways too. Incomprehensible amounts of oil are pouring, unabated, into our beloved Gulf of Mexico since the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill that began on April 22, 2010 . Like everyone else on the Gulf Coast, Kid Cayenne and I have been watching it happen with developing levels of horror, helplessness and fury.
Like hundreds of others, we gathered in the French Quarter on Sunday, May 30th, to rally against the terrible injustice and demand intervention. I don't know that it helped anything to show up, listen and nod to the speakers.
More than anything, we just wanted our presence felt... two more standing up against what is wrong and terrible and devastating. We wanted to reject complacency and to somehow represent the self respect and self worth that Louisiana deserves, to support those who were voicing their outrage and their positive ideas for ways we could all help.
Now, it's June and though the oil still spills, I have been able to do the dishes, make a nice vegetable soup (O, meditative chopping, how I missed you) and otherwise try to grasp some amount of order from the unruliness that was last month.
For the soup, a mixture of fresh, frozen and canned to make things really quick and easy...
3 shallots, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 ts cayenne pepper
1 ts salt
2 TB olive oil
1 yellow squash, diced
1 zucchini, diced
3 carrots, peeled and sliced into coins
1 can cannellinni beans, drained and rinsed
1/2 1 lb. bag of frozen vegetables (I use a mixture of corn, peas, lima beans, green beans and more carrot), thawed
1 quart of very nice homemade chicken broth if you have it, or a carton of premade if you don't
1 cup orecchiette, shell or other small pasta
1 tomato, diced
salt and pepper to taste
Parmesan Reggiano to grate over the top
In a large, heavy bottomed pan, heat olive oil and sauté shallots and garlic until soft. Season with salt and cayenne pepper. Add carrots and sauté until beginning to go golden. Add squash and zucchini and sauté until just beginning to soften. Add cannellinni beans, frozen vegetables and broth. If your broth isn't very flavorful (I had made mine with thyme and a few other herbs originally) consider adding whatever dry herbs please you at this time. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Raise heat slightly to get a high simmer. Add pasta and cook for amount of time directed on the package. Salt and pepper to taste. At the end, add diced tomato and stir in to heat. They should warm but not cook down.
Serve with plentiful amounts of shaved Parmesan Reggiano over the top and bread or crackers.


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Can Crazy Help Me Lose Weight?
I read a great article by Ron Merk on the Weight Loss Surgery Support Facebook page. It had a strange title and picture but they grabbed my attention as I felt I would probably relate. I did. It was called "Crazy People Can Lose Weight, Too". Now that's a title.
It talks about how people with an SMI (serious mental illness) could lose weight with behaviour modification, counselling and group exercise. But (and there's always a but) weight loss did not happen immediately but over a period of time. Hmmmm. And to quote the article, "This finding suggests that despite substantial challenges, persons with serious mental illness are able to lose weight with a tailored intervention."
I'm not Capital SMI. I'm more like how Ron put it, smi (slightly mentally ill), but aren't we all a little crazy. I can't use all my foibles to blame my lack of success on. I love that word "foibles"and don't use it enough, maybe I'll make it my word of the week as we head into another holiday weekend.
So whether I'm folding the empty chip bags into tiny squares to throw away (OCD) or sitting in a mini blue funk (depression), or working through one of my alter egos (multiple personality disorder), I can still lose weight if I tailor my program to myself and not take one out of a box.
Thanks for listening. D: Diane
2 Responses to "Can Crazy Help Me Lose Weight?"
Hi Diane:
Thks for the track back and a great summary of SMI 🙂 – Ron


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The attention of the leadership of National Association of Nigerian Students {NANS} South West Zone under the auspices of Comrade Kappo Olawale Samuel has been propelled towards some impersonators and unscrupulous individuals who have been fictitiously appointing some sets of students under the disguise as an office holder in our great association.
Upon their recent undue appointments by one of the impersonators known as Comrade Akinwunmi Akeem Akinshola who acclaimed himself as the Deputy Coordinator of the South West Zone of NANS even without his spirit nor body at the convention ground at Lagos State College of Health Technology, Yaba (LASCOHEALTH) which produced the leadership of the Zone on Saturday, 7th of December 2019.
In lieu of this defacing acts from the power tussled impersonators, the office of the duly elected and sworn in Deputy Coordinator of NANS South West Zone in person of Comrade Oladimeji Uthman seizes this opportunity to call the attention of the entire Nigerian Students populace across all institutions in South West region particularly the Gateway State {Ogun} to beware and keep distance from these set of impersonators and appointees from their ends who operate in the capacity of NANS South West Zone at large.
Furthermore, this is to enlighten and inform the students populace in the South West region to abstain from these set of impersonators and not to have any form of official business or relations with them because whosoever does this, is at his or her own peril.
Though, necessary steps have been taken and the issue has been duly reported to the law enforcement agencies in all South Western states and they would face the wrath of the law soon.
However, NANS South West Zone assures the entire students populace not to give room to any form of impersonation that could cause harm or vandalize the image of NANS as a reputable and responsible body and also calling the attention of security personnel in the states that falls under the region respectively to be at alert as the interest of our students is second to non under our leadership.
Most importantly, the genuinely elected and inaugurated leadership of NANS South West Zone {Zone D}, uses this medium to send a note of warning to these set of impersonators to desist from this unlawful act as information has it that their purported inauguration was also disrupted and unapproved by the institution management of the self acclaimed impersonating Coordinator.
Any sense of disobedience to the warning from the leadership of the Zone and further involvements in undue activities will lead to a regrettable moments for all involved impersonators.
Conclusively, NANS South West Zone warns the general students populace to stay away and totally disassociate themselves from these set of impersonators as they are not representing the interest of students in South West Geopolitical Zone.
_Until all are Freed,_
_All remain Slaves._


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The new 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons is roaring ahead. Two of the "core rulebooks" – the Monster Manual and Dungeon Master's Guide – aren't even available yet, but along with the Player's Handbook, next week sees the wide release of Hoard of the Dragon Queen, the first of two volumes in this year's epic Tyranny of Dragons story arc. Wizards of the Coast provided an advance copy of the adventure module for Nerdvana to review.
The adventure is set by default in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, a rich fantasy world that serves as the assumed backdrop for D&D games these days. However, it can easily be adapted to work equally well in other campaign worlds that come along, or even one of your own creation.
The Cult of the Dragon, known for venerating undead dragons called dracoliches, has mysteriously shifted focus and now aims to release the dragon queen Tiamat from imprisonment in the Nine Hells. That should be fun.
The adventure module is divided into eight "episodes," roughly designed to last a session or so each and to carry the players through at least seventh level. This should aid in planning and also make running the game more manageable for the Dungeon Master.
I think it's odd that the pages in Hoard of the Dragon Queen are flat and cardboard-y, not glossy like those in its launch companion, the Player's Handbook. The flip side of this is that they are definitely sturdy and should hold up to repeated, frenzied thumb-throughs. But it feels like an inconsistent choice. The typeface used on map labels is overly decorative, and frankly it's just hard to read. Simple is better, here.
The price is a steep one for a product like this – $29.95, which used to get you a whole core rulebook (those are now nearly $50 each), and yet Hoard of the Dragon Queen isn't even 100 pages long. One wonders why it's even in a hardback volume, as it seems too slight for that. Still, the book is designed to take you on adventures through seventh level before handing you off to the next volume, The Rise of Tiamat – but if you take both Tyranny of Dragons adventures together, that's $60 plux tax for what can be seen as one super-adventure campaign. It's not the boxed campaign settings of old, but it's the modern equivalent. That being said, you technically don't need the Player's Handbook, or the forthcoming Monster Manual or Dungeon Master's Guide, to play these adventure. The free Basic Rules PDF download and a free Hoard of the Dragon Queen Online Supplement PDF containing items, spells and monsters from the core books that are needed for this adventure, in addition to the module itself – those are all you're supposed to need to make use of this scenario, and that's really turning the D&D business model on its head and extending the meaning of D&D beyond the core rulebooks into a brand that supports however it is you want to play. That's game-changing, literally; as is the fact that development of the Tyranny of Dragons modules was outsourced to Kobold Press as the D&D in-house team tries to run leaner than it has in the past.
Hoard of the Dragon Queen is an intriguing and exciting quest that won't disappoint those looking for the iconic D&D adventure experience; the player characters will see a dragon in their very first encounter! If you don't get the Player's Handbook, also out now, your players will definitely need the free Basic Rules PDF to create their characters. If one or more members of the group are totally new to D&D or roleplaying games in general, it might not be the best introduction; you'll want to check out the D&D Starter Set instead, where you'll find a four-part module with pre-generated characters designed to take players through up to fifth level.


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Girl Writes A Letter To Tapsee Pannu Thanking Her For Initiating A Change After 'Pink'
Crimes against women are at an all-time high. We've never known about so many rapes, acts of molestation, eve-teasing, and assaults against women as we know now. Although so many measures are being taken, it all seems never-ending. But in the midst of all this rage, came a mind-boggling movie that changed the perspective of many people. A lot of women around the country were moved by the movie Pink.
Problem is people who seriously NEED to watch #Pink movie won't go and watch it. And by any chance if they did, they won't learn a thing.— That Delhi Girl! (@ankitabardhan) September 22, 2016
The movie was relatable, with each situation pulling reality closer and closer. Whether it was the struggle to fight those boys in this chauvinistic society or the hard-hitting reality of dealing with biased authorities, the movie did justice to a woman's struggle.
Among all those moved by the film, a Twitter user by the name of Shristhi Mitra wrote an open letter to the lead actress of the movie, Tapsee Pannu. In her letter, she thanked her and acknowledged her for initiating something that could enable some changes in society. In her letter, she threw light on a lot of things, but in the end, agreed that "complete transformation of the society will take some time".
"I realised that values and traditions are not everything, and no matter how much you uphold them, there will come a time when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is convenient." she wrote.
Read the full letter here:
This is a little piece of something I would like to share. Thank you @taapsee :) #PINKthefilm @SrBachchan pic.twitter.com/4mK01fBtSN— shristhi mitra (@shristhimitra) September 29, 2016
Here's the full text of the letter.
Dear Taapsee,
Hope you are well. Before you wonder who I am, let me tell you that you don't know me at all. But I felt the need and urge to write this letter to you after I watched Pink. I know the movie has done well and many congratulations to you on that. The reason I write to you is because this is much more than a film to me. It is a lesson in freedom and liberation.
Perhaps, not many would get what I am saying. I come from a small town called Shimla. I have grown up in a pretty middle class set up, which has always taught me to uphold my values and traditions. However, when I moved out of Shimla and started continuing my studies in Delhi, I realised that values and traditions are not everything, and no matter how much you uphold them, there will come a time when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is convenient. We are taught very early in life to keep our mouth shut when we want to share something that goes against family traditions. As girls, we are silenced more often but what we forget is the silence in our childhood transforms into silence in our adulthood as well. We get used to being a certain type, talking in a certain tone, and behaving in a certain manner no matter what the circumstances.
The instances portrayed in the film, we have all gone through in our lives. But how many of us have had the courage to stand up and say 'I am right, they are wrong' not many Taapsee. For you it may have been just a role that you essayed but trust me, you have transformed many lives, many mindsets. You have made girls strong, you have given them a reason to think about themselves, to love themselves enough to fight the odds in society. You have done what many actors haven't been able to do. As a girl and as an actor, you should be proud that today you have managed to make a difference. Maybe every girl will not have the courage or willpower yet. Maybe the complete transformation of the society will take some time. Maybe it will still take some time for people to understand that 'no means no'. But you have made a start, and that's what matters.
Lots of love,
A proud woman
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Mitzi Ilagan | Negosentro
Manila Foods and Beverages Expo is here again! Today, June 10, 2016, up until Sunday, June 12, this premier food event in the country is held at World Trade Center, Pasay City. More than 500 booths and 300 companies participate in this event known as the leading gathering of start-ups, pioneers in the food and beverages industry.
In celebration of 10 years of providing the finest brands to the Philippine audience, Worldbex Services International presents a vast range of food and beverage line in a 25,000 sqm exhibit area. With over 50,000 visitors, this is the ideal platform for brands to advertise their products. This event provides a satisfying gastronomical experience for the guests because aside from the free taste that booths provide, you may also want to purchase their products or even franchise for a business. Present also are manufacturers, owners and retailers who showcase their trades of diverse varieties. There are also competitions for interschool and professional divisions alongside with speakers who would conduct seminars and cooking demonstrations.
Some of the exhibitors include Del Monte, Mantika Best, Mega Sardines, Eng Bee Tin, Queen B Apiaries, Hotel Benilde, Wei Wei Cold Store, Bake et al and the like whose categories include kitchen, restaurant, processing and packaging equipments, glassware, dairy and meat products, baking needs, ingredients and food products. The Department of Agriculture is also participating presenting the different regions with their delicacies.
For those who are interested in franchising businesses, this may be a great experience for you because you will be exposed to different businesses that you may get into. You can have a one-on-one conversation with the owners and traders to be able to get first-hand knowledge and experience.
Tickets are available at the lobby. Doors are open from 10AM to 8PM. Here are the schedules for today until Sunday, June 12.


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Cocoa better, not Cocoa butter
Spent the afternoon and early evening improving the screensaver and learning my way around Cocoa better. (As opposed to cocoa butter, which would probably have been much more enjoyable if used appropriately.) I now have a preferences sheet with various sliders and a color selector, and code to load and save preferences in the correct way. In the process, I triggered yet another bug; tracking it down revealed yet another way in which the reality of the screensaver API differs from the documentation. This in turn has suggested a possible cause for the "textures vanishing when returning from full screen preview" bug, which I'll investigate tomorrow.
Also on the agenda for tomorrow is gluing together the parameters set by the preferences dialog, and the actual OpenGL snowflake animation code. Should be reasonably trivial, and while I'm in there I plan to try adding a couple more snowflake textures.
Once all that works, it'll be 1.1b1. (1.0 was the same as 1.0rc2, for those who are keeping track, but I'm not going to bother making a separate renamed release.) Assuming 1.1b1 works for everyone else, I'll probably go straight to 1.1 and announce it on MacUpdate and VersionTracker.
Anyway, by 19:00 my brain was shutting down from excessive programming. I was unable to engage in conversation; in fact, I was pretty much unable to engage with the outside world at all. I wonder if I was always like this when I was hacking code all day back in the early 90s? Probably, unfortunately. I suspect that being a highly productive programmer requires a state of mind which isn't altogether healthy.
We went to the Rosebud, I ate fish since my body was craving it. (Listen to the body, sometimes it knows what it needs and will tell you.) I made a swift return to the human race. We came back, and with the aid of coffee I fixed the aforementioned bug. I rewarded myself with a couple of mince pies and a movie.
One of the disadvantages of NetFlix is that months can elapse between adding a DVD to your queue, and actually watching that DVD. So I know that somebody, somewhere recommended that I watch Gun Shy, but I no longer have any idea who. Anyhow, it was moderately funny, but a bit too tense to be completely enjoyable. I'd probably give it 3/5.


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"Hiroshima: A Global Perspective" by Steven Leeper
I just had to share the following remarkable speech (which a friend sent to me) given last November by Steven Leeper, head of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation (whose unique background explains his insights). How do these compelling points get spread to high school and college students? (Needed yesterday!) Would it be worth a try to send it to Steven Spielberg in hopes he might depart from his glory-of-war movie genre long enough to make a film based on the "Hiroshima Perspective" and Leeper's insights about the futility and serious consequences now confronting humanity due to its "obsolete culture of war and violence that still dominates the planet?" As Leeper explains, "In a world so thoroughly devoted to the pursuit of power, to suggest that the pursuit itself is unnecessary and suicidal, is to suggest that water should run uphill." But Spielberg ought to accept the challenge as we all should. There's really no other option but to try.
Hiroshima: A Global Perspective
Steven Leeper, Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation
Presented November 1, 2012
Friendship Force International 35th World Conference
Good morning. It is truly a great honor for me to address this 35th World Conference of the Friendship Force. On behalf of Hiroshima, let me welcome you all. We're glad you're here. I'm grateful to George Brown, Debbie Powell, and everyone involved, but I have to say a special thank you to Tadaaki Morikawa. I would like all of you to know that James, as I like to call him, has been thinking about nothing but the Friendship Force for the past five years. First, he created the Hiroshima Chapter, then he brought you all here. I have been profoundly impressed by his outstanding combination of devotion and competence. And I think you have seen just now where his devotion and power come from.
Listening to his story, I hope you will have understood that nuclear weapons are cruel, inhumane, do not distinguish between combatants and non-combatants, and cannot be limited to the battlefield in either time or space. This makes them illegal weapons. They were illegal when they were developed. There were already international laws on the books that should have prevented the creation of these weapons. At this point, the international community has banned chemical weapons, biological weapons, landmines, cluster munitions and even dum-dum bullets, and yet, we have failed to ban the only weapon that has the power to destroy the entire human family.
The bomb that Mr. Morikawa has just told you about, the bomb that flattened Hiroshima out to four kilometers in ten seconds, is a toy compared to the bombs we have today. Even the relatively small bombs we carry around on submarines are ten to 30 times as powerful. The largest bomb now in the active arsenal of the US is said to be 1.2 megatons, which is almost exactly 100 times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb. If that first bomb had been 1.2-megatons, the whole city would have been directly under the fireball, and there would have been nothing left but a big hole in the ground. Everything that was Hiroshima, its buildings, cars, and people, would have been turned to little particles that would have blown up to the stratosphere where they would have travelled around and around the Earth for ten years.
Just 10 or 15 big hydrogen bombs exploding over 10 to 15 large cities and starting firestorms in those cities would be enough to cause nuclear darkness. The technical definition of nuclear darkness is ten percent of sunlight blocked. If 10% of sunlight is blocked, we will no longer grow food in most of the areas where our food is grown today. In southern Japan, we might possibly get a crop, but certainly not in northern Japan, certainly not in the US wheat, corn and soybean belt. Canada would be out of the question. Most of Europe, Russia, northern China where they grow all their rice--all of these places would have killing frosts in July and August. Billions of people would starve. The rest of us would be fighting to see who can live in Brazil or Thailand or Africa or somewhere with a growing season. Human civilization as we know it would be over, and that's with just a few bombs.
Today, more than 20 years since the end of the Cold War, the US and Russia have over 2000 warheads on launch on warning status. The missiles that carry these bombs are ready to fire at a moment's notice if either side gets an indication that the other has launched an attack. When it comes to nuclear weapons, the Cold War has never ended, and if those 2000 warheads were ever launched, this planet would plunge into a nuclear winter so deep it would probably eliminate human beings and all large mammals. When you hear someone talking about deterrence or nuking Iran, you are listening to an enemy of humanity or someone who has never stopped to think what he or she is talking about.
Why do we take this risk? Nuclear weapons are radioactive. They are extremely difficult to make and easy to find. If all nations were serious about doing so, we could eliminate them. Even if some madman managed to hide a bomb or two in a mountain somewhere, we would be far safer than we are today. So why don't we just do it?
Those who cling to nuclear weapons will talk about national security, deterrence, lack of trust, human nature and other excuses. I believe their real purpose is profit, but I am asking this question at a deeper level than that. Why is it that human beings on this planet are unable or unwilling to set aside our competition enough to eliminate what is obviously a real and unnecessary threat to our collective survival?
After the bombing of Hiroshima, a man named Ichiro Moritaki lay in bed for five months recovering from his injuries. As he lay there, he was thinking deeply about the meaning of this new weapon that had obliterated his entire city with a single blow. He later became the most influential hibakusha in Japan, the leader of Hidankyo, the largest hibakusha organization. He was instrumental in turning Hiroshima's rage away from the US and toward atomic weapons and war itself. But to me, his primary achievements are two important insights that are still far ahead of their time.
His first insight had to do with the meaning of the atomic bomb. He told us in the late 1940s that the deep meaning of the atomic bomb is that human beings are no longer able to resolve conflict through contests of destructive power. In other words, we have to give up war. Moritaki, like most survivors, knew instinctively that he had glimpsed the end of the world. The hibakusha knew and began saying almost immediately that unless we eliminate these weapons, they will eliminate us. The power of that bomb lifted its victims to a dimension beyond personal rage, national pride, or national interests. Every hibakusha I have ever met knows that this weapon threatens the survival of the human species.
Moritaki's second insight was far deeper. He told us that the atomic bomb marked the end of the civilization of power and the beginning of a civilization of love, and unless we are able to graduate from the former to the latter, we will not survive on this planet. Moritaki's civilization of power is now usually referred to as the culture of war or the culture of violence. This is the culture that still dominates global society today. His civilization of love has become peace culture, which is often mentioned, especially here in Hiroshima and around the United Nations, but which has yet to penetrate mainstream consciousness.
People in Hiroshima often pray publicly that the peace they are enjoying now will continue forever. Like peace-loving people elsewhere, they tend to think that peace will look pretty much like today's Japan except the whole world will live in this affluence and no one will be fighting any wars. Today I want to make the point that peace, if we get there, will be profoundly, fundamentally, and radically different from what's going on now. It will not involve gasoline engines. It will not involve skyscrapers. It might not involve cities. It will involve police, but not the military. It will not involve large ships and goods imported from around the world. It will not involve for-profit corporations. It might not even involve money. It will involve living with far less energy. It might involve getting up and going to bed with the sun. It will involve almost everyone in gardening and other forms of manual labor. It will involve an intensive effort to restore the natural relationships that make life on Earth sustainable.
Despite the obvious merits of peace and sustainability, we are still killing each other and destroying our ecosystem because we fail to comprehend the magnitude of the intellectual, social, political and economic changes peace and sustainability will require. In a world so thoroughly devoted to the pursuit of power, to suggest that the pursuit itself is unnecessary and suicidal is to suggest that water should run uphill.
From Jesus, Mohammed and the Buddha to Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ichiro Moritaki, sages, scholars, and activists have tried to teach us to abandon violence. They have been killed, ignored and misunderstood. We have failed to learn their lessons, but now, our heads are on the block. Mother Nature is giving us ten to thirty years to grasp the basics of peace, or else.
Let me ask you some rhetorical questions. When do you think oil will reach 300 dollars a barrel? How long can our debt- and growth-based economy continue before it collapses? How long do you think it will take for CO2 in our atmosphere to reach 500 parts per million? How long can we continue to abuse our oceans before they collapse into dead zones of sea grass and jellyfish? Do you know that 30 years ago, there were 20 dead zones in the oceans and now there are 400? How long can we continue to slash and burn our rainforests before we start suffocating for lack of oxygen? I was taught that oxygen is 21% of the air we breathe. Recently, at some times in some cities, that has dropped to 15%. According to Yahoo.com, people start getting sick at 17%. The Navy says we should wear oxygen masks if we are working at less than 19%. At 6 to 8%, we all die.
I ask these questions to remind you that we cannot, we will not keep living the way we are living. Nobody knows exactly when we will hit the wall. The Internet says everything from this year to never. The scholars I trust are saying it will be 20 to 30 years, but to me and probably to you, it is obvious that we are on a collision course with nature. We cannot continue to use oil at current rates partly because we are destroying our life-giving atmosphere and partly because we are running out of oil. Production has already peaked and will soon decline.
So what happens when the oil runs out? Our whole society is based on inexpensive, plentiful oil. The water in this bottle was pumped with oil. The bottle itself was made out of oil, and it was brought here by oil. I have heard that oil is the only reason we can have seven billion people living on this planet. For every calorie of food we produce, we use ten calories of oil. Our oil-based agriculture has sterilized the soil in most areas so badly that it will not grow anything without oil-based fertilizers. If this is true, what happens when we run out of oil? Already, a billion people are near starvation. What happens when most of the people on this planet are starving?
This is why I say our heads are on the block. If the oil runs out before we achieve a culture of peace, we will experience a paroxysm of violence that will make WWII look like a fistfight. If our societies collapse into war and chaos, we have 440 nuclear power plants ready to go the way of Chernobyl and Fukushima. We need to accomplish an enormous shift away from competition and toward cooperation. We need to do it now, and the first step is the elimination of nuclear weapons.
I would never claim that nuclear weapons are the most important problem we face. That would be oxygen, or the health of our oceans. But of all the serious global problems we face, nuclear weapons are the easiest to solve, and they are the problem that is on the table right now. The US and Russia no longer have the power to dictate who will or will not have nuclear weapons. The countries of the Middle East are losing their ability to allow Israel to be the only country in that region with nuclear weapons. An Egyptian diplomat told me sincerely and with fear in his voice, "We can't take it anymore." And that was two years ago, before the Arab spring.
The nuclear-weapon states still harbor the delusion that they can keep their nuclear advantage forever. President Obama said we can and should eliminate nuclear weapons, but maybe not in his lifetime. Hillary Clinton said maybe we can do it sometime next century. This is fantasy. We are standing at the crossroads right now. In the next few years, we will either abolish nuclear weapons, or we will see them spread across the globe, starting in the Middle East. If they spread, it is only a matter of time until they are used, so we are deciding now, as a species, whether to eliminate nuclear weapons or use them.
Furthermore, our current war culture, the civilization of power, will not last into the next century. I know this. You know this. The problem is that we are still unable to comprehend the magnitude of the solution. We, as a species, have failed to understand what Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Zoroaster, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Mother Teresa, Ichiro Moritaki, the Beatles, and thousands of other wise people have been trying to teach us for the last couple thousand years. The answer is love. We live in a world of plenty, yet continue to compete as if in a famine. We have yet to understand that we are no longer threatened by scarcity; we are threatened only by each other, our competition, and our unsustainable way of life.
Most competition today is an unnecessary habit left over from our first few billion years of evolution when pursuit of dominance was our top priority. Two thousand years ago or so, Jesus, the Buddha and others began teaching us that we don't have to compete. Jesus was born in a manger and died on a cross. Buddha was a king who abandoned his palace and went into the woods to help his people escape from suffering. Both made it clear that we don't need to be kings in castles to be happy. We can't win happiness at the expense of others. Happiness derives from our relationship to God or nature or ourselves, in the deep sense of that term. To be truly happy and secure, we need to abandon the pursuit of dominance. We need to give up violence. We need to serve and love each other. We all know this, but billion-year habits are tough to break. We've been procrastinating. We keep saying,"OK, next century we'll give up competition and violence." But now, we're hitting bottom. Mother Nature's knife is at our throat. We either kick the dominance habit, or perish by our own greed and stupidity.
The obsolete culture of war and violence that still dominates the planet is making us all lonely, miserable and crazy. Rich or poor, too many people on this planet are selfish, competitive, angry, mean, greedy, cruel, brutish, and, as a result, unhappy most of the time.
We do not have to live like this. The money and thought we waste on competition could be going into solving our problems. Every person on this planet could easily have enough to eat, clean water to drink, and a pleasant way to earn a decent living. We are making ourselves miserable by trying to make ourselves happy without caring what we do to others or to Mother Nature. The culture of war is creating hell on Earth. To turn away from hell and toward an earthly paradise, we need to make just two changes. We need to pursue happiness for all: you, me, everyone around us and the Earth itself and we need to give up violence. The nonviolent pursuit of happiness for all is the essence of peace culture.
And the first step is the elimination of nuclear weapons. This is easy. Nine nations could do it in a week, if they tried. But eliminating nuclear weapons is not the point. The weapons are a symbol, a measure of human consciousness. Right now, we are clinging to weapons that will kill the winners as well as the losers, and we are saying, "I am ready and willing to kill everyone on this planet if you threaten my territory." The US is spending billions on nuclear weapons because Americans believe those weapons are the only things keeping the Russians and the Chinese from marching into Washington or San Francisco. The Russians and Chinese, of course, are doing the same. This is a ridiculously low level of consciousness. This is the war culture at work. This is what happens when our leaders are warriors, making dominance and competition our top priorities.
On the other hand, if we decide to abolish nuclear weapons, we will be OK, we may not be friends, but we can eliminate these terribly dangerous weapons in the interest of our collective survival. That decision itself would embody an enormous step toward peace. It would actually be a higher state of consciousness that would allow us to cooperate in other areas. We could reduce carbon emissions, do something about the gap between rich and poor, develop clean, sustainable forms of energy and agriculture, and, possibly, work together to feed ourselves when we run out of oil.
I speak on this topic around Japan and around the world. For the most part, I find people everywhere utterly ignorant, unconcerned, or hopeless when it comes to nuclear weapons, but this ignorance and apathy are the only real problems we face. The vast majority of national governments are ready to abolish nuclear weapons if the people were to show the slightest bit of interest. 146 nations have said they would sign a nuclear weapons convention tomorrow, if a treaty were presented to them. That is 146 out of 193. The NGO I work for, Mayors for Peace, has 5443 city members in 155 countries. We have 60% of all national capitals. If we had a treaty to promote, we could conduct a powerful, effective campaign. I am completely confident that we would get at least 170 nations to sign on and, eventually, we would eliminate the weapons.
What we need is a nation or group of nations to propose a nuclear weapons convention, but for that to happen, we need the people to demand that their governments liberate them from the nuclear threat. So I am asking you today to do everything in your power to give your governments that message. This is not a political game. This is not a matter of right versus left or capitalism versus communism. This is happiness and survival for our children and their children. The abolition of nuclear weapons is the first step to a culture of peace, and the culture of peace is an absolute requirement for sustainability and survival.
The Friendship Force is a profound and powerful manifestation of peace culture. You are in the forefront of the effort to make this planet a friendly, cooperative, comfortable place for everyone. I know you take the issue of nuclear weapons seriously or you would not be meeting here in Hiroshima. Please take this issue home with you and do whatever you can. Thank you.
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