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Beware - Swindlers0 dots dotted by gray-dots at 6/29/2007 12:53:00 PM
Recently there are lots of swindling cases happened around. And I happen to stumble across this youtube recording that my friend pass it to me and I feel like I want to share it to you guys....
Be careful and don't be greedy.
Pit Stop0 dots dotted by gray-dots at 6/24/2007 10:03:00 PM
Just came back from Kuala Terengganu, my hometown....
Took leave last Wednesday till Friday and went back to my sweet beloved hometown.
Quite some changes has occured. School's staff room is back operational, Mr Seah's office has been renovated by my uncle, A breakfast of a soup noodle + fried egg which cost me a total of RM1.80, soon to be opened Secret Recipe and etc.
Helped my hometown church to configure the sound system and the stage as well... Our church finally has our own church building. It's a really nice building. Hopefully the place will be fully utilised for the work of Christ.
Manage to catch up with a few friends and chit chat about lots of stuff..... BUt sadly, time passes fast and now I'm back at KL and tomorrow I'll need to work again.
Plan to take leave again next month to go back...........
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Brand New Experience0 dots dotted by gray-dots at 6/16/2007 09:21:00 PM
Today, GEPC had a team from US to lead part of the worship. They are American Blacks. So those who are into music, you know how black music sounds like.
I had the chance of playing drums for them. Damn nice....
First time in my life experiencing a US Black worship session....
Truly inspiring....
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Spiderman Logic0 dots dotted by gray-dots at 6/15/2007 04:57:00 PM
Saw a quite interesting post on someone else's site and feel like wanna share with you guys.
Spiderman Logics
1. Spiderman is a super hero that dirties the New York city because every time our friendly neighbourhood springs into action, he'll leave his spider web on every wall.
2. Spiderman should have shot his web from his spinnerets, not from his wrists.
3. Peter Parker was bitten by the super spider . But does that imply that there are possibilities that there are more Spidermans if the spider bites someone else?
4. Spiderman normally sticks on the wall because there are tiny tentacles under his skin. But, did the tiny tentacles really works since he's wearing costumes and gloves ???
Think about it....
Flash Flood in KL0 dots dotted by gray-dots at 6/12/2007 10:15:00 AM
On Sunday, Andrew and I initially decided before hand that we want to go to have dinner at Fusion Haven at Sri Petaling. But when I almost wanted to go out around 7:00pm, the sky starts to get dark and soon after that, the raining starts.
So I messaged Andrew that we have to cancel our food trip due to the rain. And I resorted to have a dinner at the food court near my house. The rain is getting heavier and heavier and shows no sign of improving. So I waited for the rain to stop before I can walk home.
As time goes by and the rain doesn't seem like wanting to stop, I was getting more and more pissed because so much time wasted waiting for the rain to stop. So I went to a hair saloon nearby to get a haircut. After finish getting a haircut, the rain is still raining heavily.
Impatiently I waited for another 20 minutes, finally I decided to walk home in the rain. And so I did, it feels good. Maybe should go walk in the rain more often. It might boost your body immunity.
Then on Monday, I saw the news about the flash flood in KL. Quite interesting. Pak Lah gives the water work department a surprise visit and we get to see lots of funny responses from the people in the department. Then we see some of our elected ministers which includes the infamous Tai Chi Master Mr. Sami Velu starts to Tai Chi the responsibility around instead of working together to resolve the issue.
Here are some pics I found on the net on the flash food around KL...
1. The flood scenery in Dang Wangi
2. This one was shot at Masjid Jamek
張雨生0 dots dotted by gray-dots at 6/08/2007 08:58:00 AM
張雨生 - Those who follow the chinese music in the mid 90s will know who he is. To me, he is a brilliant and a very talented musician. He's a producer, musician, song writer, singer and etc and have written so many songs which is still popular even today. He's able to write songs a few eras ahead of him and that's truly remarkable and shows how much vision he has for his music.
It's truly a tragic event when he passed away after a serious car accident in 1998. The music arena is definitely gonna miss him.
Today I'm going to share with you a song from his last album before his demise.
It's an amazing song. I still remembered I'm hooked with the song for a very very long time. Hope you guys will like it too.
SLAVE0 dots dotted by gray-dots at 6/06/2007 01:14:00 PM
Today I'm gonna introduce to you guys a song that I wrote.
It's called Slave. Hope you guys will like it.
作曲:David Chin
编曲:David Chin
Verse 1
抛开理智 双手合十
祈求遗失 比获得真实
Verse 2
沉默都市 喧闹歧视
要接受指示 活着多讽刺
懒得去解释 睁着眼睛排斥
何时才能坚持 不装作不可一世
我有我的方式 接受完美是说辞
闭嘴就是知识 更显得你最忠实
Recollection of JUNK0 dots dotted by gray-dots at 6/04/2007 09:41:00 AM
After a long break, the JUNK is gathering again and resumed our jamming session.
It was quite funny and fun though. Did lots of funny stuff, playing the wrong stuff and etc. And impromptu Summer Song jamming kakakaka.
Looking forward for this coming week's jamming as a keyboardist is coming......
Our current setlist :-
1. Cosmosquad - Sheer Drama
2. Fourplay - 101 Eastbound
3. T-Square - Naughty Boy
4. T-Square - Omens Of Love
5. T-Square - Moon Over The Castle
6. Time Lapse Consortium - Patrolin'
7. Time Lapse Consortium - Come Back Boomerang
8. Chobits - They Come And Go
9. Joe Satriani - Summer Song
10. Los Lonely Boys - Heaven
11. Wild Cherries - Play that Funky Music
Uncyclopedia - Malaysia0 dots dotted by gray-dots at 6/02/2007 01:21:00 PM
A friend just sent me a link ... quite interesting.
Go have a look
Among the excerpts ...
Essentially a tiny peninsula found to the north of their cousins who live on an even smaller island Singapore, it is a young nation of diverse cultures and races such as F1 Formula-1 and Nascar. Malaysia's timezone is unique because it follows the system of +1/+2 PMT (Predetermined Meeting Time) which is 1 or 2 hours later than PMT. Most foreigners are having difficulty adjusting to this new timezone as they tend to show up 1 or 2 hours earlier than the local counterparts. The nation is moving foward with a vision as a collective community towards the vision of becoming a developed nation by the year 2020, 4040, 5050 or whatever catchy number. Malaysia is a nation in Southeast Asia and is made up of 13 states namely Selengor, Kedoh, Terengggganu, Kelentoh, Pahang, Penang, Malacca, Johor Balu (just north of Singkaypoh), Sabah, Sarawak (which are essentially Malaysia's eastern colonies), Police, Maliuka, Berak and Nogowi. The three federal territories Kuala Laupek, Puterijaya and Labuah don't count as states since they're too small anyway, like Taiwan. Another common state that Malaysians have is denial (no lah, where got?), which incidentally, is a river in Egypt
Favorite quotes of the Customer Service representative at TMwait Slowmyx / TMnerd Shitmyx:
(if u r using external ADSL modem)"Is the light of the ADSL light blinking of off??"
"Please unplug your network cable and turn it around and plug it back in" (Witchcraft lah, just stand up and turn around 3 times, your internet will be aaalrite!)
"What version of Windows are you using?" (If it ain't WinXP, fuxx you, we do not support Mac, Win2k or Linux)
"Please unplug your microfilter and plug the modem wire directly into the wall socket" (I can hear the pages flipping, she's either reading Kosmo! or from a frickin' manual, which I can also do, and Fuxx You very much, I already tried, my microfilter is brand new)
"You must plug your SATA modem to the IDE floppy disk and put your USB monitor to the 2-socket plug. Then only can you turn on the 30-Amp power to your Acer.
"I tak tahu..." / "I don't know..."
" "Currently, we have no service distruption in malaysia"<--- a good reply when international cable breakdown. Stupid Customer service dont even know.
" Nonit talk so much la..... Let me make report for u. U take the report number and keep quiet... Wait for technician to come( if he remembers).. Bye.... tooo..tooo..
" Now restart your comp....
" Uninstall and then reinstall the network driver. That didn't work for you? What you don't have your original disks? No problem, use this web site... what do you mean you have no Internet without the driver? Are you trying to question me?"
"Please reinstall your modem"(driver)
" I am sorry, our support does not cover that. Try calling the company that made your computer or Microsoft. (I have no idea what you are talking about and my script does not cover these sorts of things. Rather than tell you I have no talent, I am instead telling you to go somewhere else and passing the buck to them. Yet I know they also have help desks in Malaysia so I am phoning them ahead to warn them about you. You are so fuxxored.)
"Talk talk talk... Please wait while all our staffs are engaged on line...(Stupid tmnut song plays... played over and over hundred of times.. then, line disconnected" - This happened when all the staffs went to minum kopi, lepak, talk cock ...etc watever and refused to answer the phone because they know they can't do anything other than saying "Please wait while our technical workers are currently fixing the problemss"
"Huh ?"
"Cannot... cannot" -TMNET customer service on speaking to your supervisor
"Tomorrow you come lah... to tmnet center" -TMNET customer service typical panics
An official reply via email from their customer service: "Send email with details can ? We no receive your email at all." Same email recycle until customers give up.
"Suh... you made no payments" -on the bill you payed 3 months ago, now they're threating to block your connection
"Oh unplug your cable lah, then you squeeze squeeze should be ok adiiiiii!!!"
"Slow? I think you should upgrade to Streamyx 1 Meg. How much you are paying now? Just add little bit only ma."
"Unplug your telephone line, rub it towards your breast, let the telephone line gets high, then plug back in ur asshole. I'm 100% u can use ur internet to see BOGEL INTERNET."
Go take a look at the full article and have a good laugh.


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Delbert Hardecopf
ARMSTRONG – Funeral services for Delbert Hardecopf, 66, of Armstrong will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013, at Nazareth Lutheran Church in Armstrong with Pastor Vance Toivonen officiating. Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Monday at the church. Interment will be at Armstrong Grove Cemetery in Armstrong with military graveside rites by Weiby-Johnson VFW Post.
He died Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn.
Delbert Bernie Hardecopf, the son of Bernie and Beatrice (Peterson) Hardecopf, was born March 11, 1947, in Estherville.
He received his education in the Armstrong schools, graduating from Armstrong High School. After completing his education Delbert served in the United States Air Force. Following his honorable discharge he returned to the Armstrong area.
On Dec. 29, 1968, Delbert was united in marriage to Janet Richmond at the Presbyterian Church in Armstrong. The couple lived in Germany while he was in the service immediately after their wedding and then made their home in Armstrong where they began raising their family and farmed up until the time of his death.
Delbert loved to travel with his wife, taking trips during the winter months. Cruising was one of his passions. He also loved spending time with his children and grandchildren. A longtime season ticket holder for the Minnesota Vikings, Delbert enjoyed watching the games with his son to whom he passed on his love of the game.
He was a member of Nazareth Lutheran Church in Armstrong. He was well loved in the community and will be deeply missed.
Left to cherish Delbert's memory are his wife, Janet, of Armstrong; his children, Amy (Scott) Morrow, Welcome, Minn., and Andy (Vanessa) Hardecopf, Carver, Minn.; grandchildren, Todd and Brianna Morrow, Ava and Tate Hardecopf; sister, Bernice Vigdal, of Armstrong, brother, Delmer Hardecopf, and his wife, Kathy, of Armstrong and also many extended family members. Preceding Delbert in death were his parents, Bernie and Beatrice Hardecopf, along with other family members.
In lieu of flowers, Delbert's family prefers memorials, which will be sent to the Iowa Donor Network.
Online condolences may be sent to: www.henryolsonfuneral.com

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The Master and Margarita
- Lu par : Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Durée : 16 h et 52 min
- Catégories : Littérature, romans et fiction, Classiques
The Devil comes to Moscow, but he isn't all bad; Pontius Pilate sentences a charismatic leader to his death, but yearns for redemption; and a writer tries to destroy his greatest tale, but discovers that manuscripts don't burn. Multi-layered and entrancing, blending sharp satire with glorious fantasy, The Master and Margarita is ceaselessly inventive and profoundly moving. In its imaginative freedom and raising of eternal human concerns, it is one of the world's great novels.
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- Jacob
- 06/12/2011
Satisfying Satanic Satire
The core of this piece is satire, marking a path of wanton destruction through Moscow as Satan and his delightfully hooligan entourage parade from one scene to another causing chaos and watching the aftermath in the name of...well, why the hell not? There is also a love story as well as retelling of the history of Pontius Pilate.
Marked with numerous interesting characters, Bulgakov creates a readable if somewhat uneven tale. The title characters are introduced about halfway through the novel and are an attempt to create some sort of deeply affecting love story, that I don't consider all that effective given that it is pretty much the sole aspect of their personality we see is them pining for one another. However, title characters or not they are not there often and rarely without Woland or his minions at their side in order to make things interesting. The satire is effectively humorist and blasts Soviet greed well, but then greed is a very easy thing to parody.
The most interesting aspect of the novel for me were the moments when we are given a metafiction/history written by The Master. The language is wonderful and the imagery is perfectly evocative and I truly wished I had the option of reading more.
The narrator, which is quickly becoming the make or break factor of every audiobook I purchase, is, to my mind, remarkable. While the accents are all variously British, they are unique and he endows every character with a certain uniqueness and charisma (or lack thereof if the book should call for it) and should be beloved by all. I can't honestly understand the negative marks throughout the rest of audible. If you want a boring consistent drone of a voice, I think you are better listening to an automation than a legitimate audiobook.
Additionally, the translation (Michael Karpelson, 2006) is my personal favorite and has the most personality (the others I have read are much more dry in their translation and it shows heavily in the dialogue). This book was left incompletely edited when the author died, not being all that well acquainted with the rest of his work, which would explain some of the issues, but issues or not this book is a delightful read with a solid narrator.
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- Dan Harlow
- 02/03/2014
There is nothing else quite like it
Any additional comments?
Russian literature gets a bad rap for being dry, thick, and dull, when the reality is much of the most respected Russian literature is filled with fantastic flights of fancy, and outrageous absurdities. Take, for example, a small scene in Anna Karenina where all of a sudden we get narration from the point of view of Levin's hunting dog. This scene seems so natural it's easy to forget we're getting the inner-monologue of a dog. Gogol, who Bulgakov is most similar too, was famous for his absurdities: his story The Nose is about a man's nose that leads a life of its own. And even that most serious of authors, Dostoevsky, wrote his best works about the struggles of man against the powers of the supernatural. And while many good people would scoff at the idea of religion being lumped into the same category as mere "fantasy", the idea of a naked witch riding a man turned into a pig over a sleeping Moscow is not that much harder to believe than an angel falling from heaven and corrupting all of mankind.
But what is this book about? Yes, the plot is easy enough: The Devil comes to Moscow, causes all sorts of trouble, then leaves, but that's not what the book is "about". For me, this novel was about a search for truth.
Famously, Communism biggest flaw was that after awhile everyone under it grew apathetic, nobody bothered to fix or change anything because it couldn't be fixed or changed; there was no point looking for the broken pieces because it would just cause a lot of trouble. But couldn't the same thing be said of religion? How do we know that the story of Jesus and Pontius Pilate happened as it says in the New Testament? Bulgakov makes a good case for his version of events being much more realistic than what's in the Christian Bible. Yet the story we have in the Gospels talks about a man who while being crucified suffered so that man could be forgiven for all their sins and on the third day after his burial he rose from the dead and ascended into heaven. Millions of people take that for an absolute, unarguable fact.
But how do stories really get told? Aren't the best stories really just exaggerations built upon more exaggerations? Couldn't the story of Homer in The Odyssey have started out as a true tale of a man lost at sea for awhile who managed to return home (an exciting enough story as it is), but then have been built upon by countless storytellers who turned it into the epic poem we now know? And maybe that's why in this novel The Master is belittled by the editors - not just because he's written the true (and less supernatural) version of events concerning Pontius Pilate and Jesus - but because he's dared to use his imagination at all in communist Russia. After all, Russia at the time was a state built on scientific reason, absolute logic, and pure atheism; Russia was building a new world order but was failing miserable, as Voland quickly discovers and as Bulgakov so humorously explores.
One of the greatest feats the novel pulls off is creating Pontius Pilate as a sympathetic, complex character. He's not made out to be the good guy, but neither is he all evil, either. And by the end of the novel we understand the real meaning of what Jesus (Yeshua here) preached when he said all men are good (something Pilate completely disagreed with). Salvation awaits for even the most troubled of people and is where, I believe, Bulgakov was being optimistic about what would happen one day in Russia - that communism would fail (which it did 60 years later).
However, all this would be just dry academic babbling if the book itself weren't any good, and oh, boy is this book wonderful. Ranging from moments of pure insanity - a cat with a gun - to moments of beautiful tenderness such as the fate of Judas and the moonbeams, this novel covers so much ground that it's nearly impossible to pin down and say with any certainty what it's really all "about". What is is though is wonderful, funny, and touching. The Master and Margarita is one helluva story and there is nothing else quite like it.
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- David
- 15/06/2010
Worth the effort
The Master and Margarita lurches violently between different tones farcical, romantic, surreal, tragic, and back again). I enjoyed parts of it more than others. The chapters that actually deal with the eponymous Master and Margarita and their pact with the devil and his minions are wonderful: poetic, intellectual and comic, often all at the same time. Unfortunately, it takes a long time to get to these sections, as much of the novel consists of farcical satire on various comical minor characters who are probably funny if you are familiar with life in 1930s Moscow, but merely feel like a lot of irritating wittering if you're not. I found myself frequently wanting to hit the chapter skip button.
Still, this may be just a matter of personal taste, and if anyone can get you through the more irksome chapters, it's Julian Rhind-Tutt, whose performance is quite brilliant, capturing the mixture of tones extremely well, injecting a scabrous nastiness into the farcical scenes, and giving the Devil a wonderfully lugubrious smugness.
The ending is spellbinding and I'm glad I persisted with this audiobook. It's a slog sometimes, but it's worth the journey.
34 personnes ont trouvé cela utile
- beatrice
- 05/11/2010
Baffling and original
If, like me, you were perplexed by Gogol (nose?? overcoat??), you will probably be even more befuddled by this novel that includes Satan, Pontius Pilate, and housing issues in post-Revolutionary Moscow. I felt as if I were somehow missing information critical to enjoying the work, as if it were a long inside joke that other people seem to appreciate enormously, but which left me puzzled and unmoved. I could never have gotten through the book without Julian Rhind-Tutt's oustanding narration. Not only did he help sustain my interest when it flagged, but his different voices helped me track who was who in the panoply of generously-named characters, with their longs surnames, patronymics, and nicknames or aliases (always more difficult when you don't have the printed page for reference). Rhind-Tutt has a lovely range of expression, uses pacing and variations in tone to advantage, and does a terrific silky Satan.
25 personnes ont trouvé cela utile
- Darwin8u
- 09/05/2012
COMPLETE acid trip of a novel!
A complete acid trip of a novel. My favorite part was the conversation between Pilate and Yeshua Ha-Nozri (Jesus). Well, I also dug Behemoth's penchant for guns, chess and vodka. This is one of those dream-like novels requiring the reader to spend years unwrapping. Its truth comes briefly during those dangerous, full-moon moments between sleep and wake.
29 personnes ont trouvé cela utile
- Jewel
- 26/08/2011
Excellent narration of my favorite book
To me, this book is so brilliant and magical that I wasn't sure any narrator could do it justice. However, the narrator captured the spirit and exuberance of this book and brought it beautifully to life. I know it shouldn't be possible to have a favorite book, but this is mine - the best novel ever written. Bulgakov is a genius and the reader, Julian Rhind-Tutt, is absolutely wonderful.
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- Robert in Santa Cruz
- 21/11/2011
Faust on steroids
Bulgakov's imagination is incredible. This is Faust on steroids. The basic plot line revolves around the devil coming to Moscow in the Stalin era. If you can accept that as the premise, you'll enjoy this highly entertaining, often laugh-outloud funny book. Despite the sometimes outrageous scenes, the book will also make you think about such issues as good and evil, Pilate vs. Jesus, Soviet secret police, etc. No wonder my Russian friends tell me this is the most popular novel among today's Russians.
Julian Rhind-Tutt is just fantastic as a reader. He has a different voice for the many different characters, making it easy to follow a Russian story where everyone seems to have at least three different names.
Highly recommended.
7 personnes ont trouvé cela utile
- Rob Joseph
- 14/07/2011
A Superb Performance by the Narrator
This novel is without a doubt one of the finest gems of the 20th century, as others have written. But I wish to highlight this audiobook's narrator, who brings the spoken word performance to a new art form, creating exactly the right voice for each of the more than one hundred characters large and small that speak as the multi-layered story unfolds. My favorite is the urbane and mocking Professor Wolland (the Devil in disguise), but close seconds are the members of the Devil's entourage, Azezello, Behemoth (the giant cat) and Koroviev, the 7-foot-tall "former choir director." Julian Rhind-Tutt, an accomplished British character actor, provides proof that there is such a thing as performing a text. Brilliant! And one of my favorite reasons that I'm glad Audible exists.
7 personnes ont trouvé cela utile
- Conor
- 27/07/2010
The Master and Margarita
What a superb novel, and what a truly outstanding performance. Never a dull moment. Post romanticism at its best. The whole thing a kind of creepy Chagall window.
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- Brett Janis
- 19/06/2010
one the best novels ever written
This novel is one of the great works of fiction. It exists on many layers and moves from tragedy to comedy in a seemless fashion. The audio version could be better, but it is very difficult to translate from the Russian. Still, a great way to experience this masterpiece.
9 personnes ont trouvé cela utile
- Eric Hoffmann
- 08/10/2017
Modern Classic - easily accessible
The superb narration by JRT makes this work very accessible. The story is fantastic, supernatural but after a while I this time managed to immerse myself thanks to the speaker. Now I understand why this book is said to be in the tradition of Goethe's Faust. Highly recommend.
2 personnes ont trouvé cela utile
- A. Hergert
- 18/01/2019
Genial vorgelesen, super kreatives Buch
Der Sprecher hat den ohnehin gut geschrieben Charakteren und der Story noch mehr Leben eingeflößt, hat richtig Spaß gemacht zuzuhören.
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- vassilinaplakia
- 28/04/2018
Eine surreale Geschichte mit mehr als je erwartet. Muss man gehört/ gelesen haben! Ein Werk das zum Denken erregt!
1 personne a trouvé cela utile
- J. Fischer
- 16/08/2019
Great story, fantastic performance
I found this book engaging and entertaining from start to finish. I might not have understood all, or even most of the subtext but I enjoyed it all nonetheless. The performance is absolutely amazing with clearly distinguishable voices, non of which are annoying. Fantastic!


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Country star Mindy McCready wept as she sat down to answer questions about her lover's apparent suicide for a TV interview and denied having anything to do with his death.
Music producer David Wilson, the father of McCready's nine-month-old son Zayne, died on January 13 from a gunshot wound at their home in Arkansas.
McCready has opened up about the tragedy in an emotional interview for NBC news show Dateline, and broke down in tears as she recalled how she held Wilson in her arms as he died on the front porch of their house.
She tells host Andrea Canning, "I just started screaming and ringing 911. I laid down next to him and pleaded with him not to die... He was responding... with sounds."
An investigation into his death is still ongoing, but McCready vehemently denied rumours suggesting she was somehow responsible when Canning broached the subject, responding, "Oh my God, no. Oh my God, no. He was my life. We were each other's life."
When pushed to answer if she believed Wilson was murdered, she insisted, "I don't know."
McCready added, "I have never gone through anything this painful. He didn't just touch my heart, he touched my soul. He was my soulmate."
The interview follows reports suggesting the singer did not attend a memorial for her late lover last week. The full interview will air on Tuesday night at 9 p.m. ET.
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Doctor Francis McNaughton of the Montreal Neurological Institute told a conference on the Toronto Academy of Medicine that despite considerable research, the precise mechanism of laughter is still a mystery.
In other words, a man does not know what makes him laugh; the precise mechanism of laughter is still unknown. Man should know, however, that he is wonderfully and intricately made. David said, "I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well" (Psalm 139:14)
When we consider the laughter of a human being, we readily realize that man was created on a higher plane that the animals of the field. The easy, out flowing ability of man to laugh proves that he is in a class by himself. He was created lower than the angels of heaven but higher than the animals of the field. The flesh-link, the blood link and the laughter-link are all missing between man and beast.
A moose can grunt, a donkey bray, a horse neigh, a rooster crow, and a hen cackle, but man is the only living creature giving vent to hearty laughter. It is an expression of the soul.
When we contemplate these facts, we know that man must have been created in the image of God because God and man both can laugh! God has put this capacity – to laugh and know happiness – within the soul of every person.
However, God does not need to laugh to provide mirth or merriment for Himself. He is eternal joy, eternal happiness, and eternal laughter. These undoubtedly are some of the divine attributes of God.
There is no record in the Bible that God has ever laughed or will ever laugh as a result of merriment of glee or to provide it for Himself. But there is much record that He will laugh in the day of judgment.
How terrible will be God's laughter then!! The heavens will roll back as a scroll. The elements will melt. The sinner will stand without a covering, and in that day God will laugh!!!
Psa 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Psa 37:12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
Psa 37:13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
Psa 59:8 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
Pro 1:25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
Pro 1:26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Dr. McNaughton has said, "The uncontrollable laughter of a madman is the ultimate destruction of emotional control."
In the day of judgment God will give vent to the most destructive, soul-shaking laughter ever heard. God will not break down; man will. The foam-flecked lips of a madman, spouting forth an uncontrollable laughter are as nothing in comparison to the future judgment-laughter that is coming when God laughs.
Why will God laugh? Because men laugh at Him now. They turn aside in mocking laughter, rejecting the Christ who has atoned for their sins. They will not believe. On day because of this God will loose His terrible judgment-laughter – a laughter of eternal death, an appalling thing!!
You can escape the judgment-laughter of God. You can know the joyful laughter of a soul set free, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. God desires to flood your being with the joy of salvation. You can experience this transformation now and have a laughter-filled, heaven-blessed experience for all eternity. "…in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. "
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved,
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Present: Emi, Martin, Matias, Mike, Mirja, Melanie, Stephen
Apologies: Simone
Agenda points:
Promotion: How we are doing?
Posters were distributed at the meeting for putting up in various places. It was suggested that it might be useful to make either A4 posters or flyers for venues that might not want A3 posters. It was also suggested that it would be good to put a list of venues on the BB that might take posters, and then divide it up amongst ourselves. The posters are also on the BB so that people can print them themselves as required.
Festival: What are we doing?
We need to think about what we're doing in relation the EAF form (due on the 02.03.09), Four one week slots agreed, with the possibilities of performances in between or on the 'late night'. Mirja said that she might be interested in looking after this. Satirical text as a possibility for the programme? Also who wants to go the EAF night?
Gallery cupboard locks: everyone thinks they are great; the combination is (censored). Also, maybe time to have a clear out of the cupboards (again). Might be an idea to fit little bolts inside the doors to keep them a bit better closed.
Budget suspension
It's possible that we might have to suspend the budget temporarily / for the time being. The possibility of a charity auction as a fundraiser was suggested.
Any other business?
Two week slot for a VA committee show? Beginning of July? For further discussion on the bb
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When the spiked stoppers lift, you can barrel down the rest of the waterway towards the mouth of the creek. Daring zombies will stand in the water shooting flaming arrows at you, so simply avoid them, or if you're feeling extra angry, run them over. Then, when back in the swamp, head to the glowing area on your map, located at 9 o'clock on the west side of the map. Park your boat and approach the sealed door. You'll need to examine the door four separate times in order to place all four slates in their appropriate places. After the fourth piece is inserted, the door will open, and you'll be able to continue into the new location.
|BSAA Emblem #15 - As soon as you go through the once-sealed door into the new area, head forward along the small dock, and then drop down into the shallow water to your right. Before proceeding any further into the area, turn around and face the dock, slightly to the left of where you jumped in (if you're still in fact facing the dock). You should see, clear-as-day, the emblem sitting on the far wall underneath the dock. You may need to be in a specific place to see it lucidly, but it's a rather easy-to-find emblem compared to many others.
The settlement you stumble upon represents, in essence, this lengthy chapter's homestretch. As usual, things will be deceivingly quiet when you first enter, but don't expect that to last long. It's up to you how you want to explore the area; we recommend, however, that you try to explore the left side of the compound first, since as soon as you enter a hut on the right side, enemies will be drawn out to fight you, and you'll enter a charged melee thereafter. So, for the time being, browse the village's left end and take what items you find, including a Red Herb, Green Herb, and plenty of cash and ammunition.
When you finally enter the open-air hut on the right end of the village (located near where one of the paths from the village's entrance leads), you'll see a human, probably a fellow BSAA agent, dead. On the ground next to him is a S&W M29 magnum, a powerful gun with scarce ammunition (though it will come in handy in the fight to come). As soon as you enter, expect to be assailed by bow-wielding natives who are out for blood. You'll be trapped in the hut until you kill this initial wave of foes, so deal with them, and then quickly get out of dodge before the continuing barrages and waves of enemies come forth. The idea going forward is to stay fluid, since getting cornered here is extremely likely if you insist on remaining in a static position. Bad idea!
You'll deal with a plethora of enemies from here until you've finally felled the very last one, so get ready for an ammo-eating, curative item-eating brawl. Remember that you should try to use your standard pistol, which by far has the most plentiful ammunition available for it, when you can. Otherwise, if you're dealing with shield-equipped foes, wormy Cephalo, or gigantic enemies that seem to absorb everything you throw at them, switch to the big guns. Shotguns, grenades and things of this nature all work well against more staunch opponents. Just remember that you may need that shotgun ammo or those grenades later, so really try to think carefully about what you're using and when you're using it.
So, are all of the enemies downed? Great. The first thing you'll want to do once your adversaries have been slain to the very last one is run around the village and grab all of the items they dropped (including the two Blue Enigmas dropped by the robust native enemies). You may have burned through ammunition, but there should be a lot of it dropped by deceased natives. You'll also want to run around and make sure you've explored the village proper in its entirety before continuing, because there's lots to acquire here (and hence, lots to lose). Then, head to the right end of the village and look for a place to pull yourself upward. There's a locked door nearby; use the crank while your partner runs towards the bridge that appears (just make sure not to release the crank until your partner is through the door!) This will allow your partner to run through and unlock the locked door from the other side. From here, it's all a matter of grabbing all of the items you can as you head towards an elevator that leads downward, ending the chapter. The most important item of all to sniff out before ending the chapter is the Ceremonial Mask sitting in a treasure chest near the elevator. Don't miss it!
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SPEECH by H.H. The Aga Khan at the Global Philanthropy Forum, Keynote, Washingtom - 2009-04-23
President Jane Wales, thank you for those very generous comments.
I'd like to say how happy I am to share in this year's Global Philanthropy Forum.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is a special pleasure for me to be with you tonight, for I look upon you as particularly serious and informed partners in the work of global understanding and international development.
As you may know, I recently marked my 50th anniversary in my role as Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims. This responsibility connects me intimately with the traditions of the Islamic faith and cultures, even while my education and a host of personal and professional associations have acquainted me with the non-Islamic West. The relationship of these two worlds is a subject of considerable importance for me – a relationship which some define, regrettably, as an inevitable Clash of Civilizations. My own observation, however – and my deep conviction – is that we can more accurately describe it as a Clash of Ignorances.
It is not my purpose tonight to detail the misunderstandings which have plagued this relationship. Let me only submit that educational systems on both sides have failed mightily in this regard – and so have some religious institutions. That – at this time in human history – the Judeo Christian and Muslim societies should know so little about one another never ceases to astonish – to stun – and to pain me.
As a Muslim leader speaking in Washington this evening, it seems appropriate that I cite the words of President Obama, in his recent speech in Ankara. As he put it, pledging a "broader engagement with the Muslim world, we will listen carefully, we will bridge misunderstandings, and we will seek common ground." I know that the vast majority of the Islamic world shares these objectives.
Among the areas where we can find common ground is our mutual effort to address the problem of persistent global poverty, especially the endemic poverty of the developing world. Surely this is an area where we can listen and learn and grow together – establishing ever-stronger bonds of understanding. One of the great principles of Islam, in all its interpretations, is the elimination of poverty in society, and philanthropy's centrality in this duty.
When I succeeded my grandfather as Aga Khan in 1957, I was a student at Harvard – but speaking mostly French. I got extra English practice, however, from my new official routine of regular communication with Africa and Asia – and, in the bargain, was kept in great good humour by the amazing typographic errors which inevitably arose. But then computerized spell check programs came along - and all those charming idiosyncrasies disappeared!
I recently noticed, to my joy, however, that this new invention is not a fail safe protection. Consider this recent item in the publication "The Week: "Bad week for spell-check: Several Pennsylvania high school students had their last names changed in their yearbook by an automatic computer program, Alessandra Ippolito was listed as Alexandria Impolite, while Max Zupanovic was rechristened Max Supernova. And Kathy Carbaugh's photo appeared next to the name Kathy Airbag."
After reading this, I decided that maybe I should act prudently and spell check my own name. And I found that, while there was no "Aga Khan", there was an "Aga" Cooker. It was defined as one of England's oldest stoves and ovens – now somewhat outdated – but with a distinctive whistle every time it frizzled the food within!
But returning to a more serious topic let me submit this evening a few of my own reflections on the developing world that I know a central focus of my interests over fifty years. For, in coming to understand the life of widely dispersed Ismaili communities across the globe, I have also become immersed in their host societies.
The essential goal of global development has been to create and sustain effective nation states – coherent societies that are well governed, economically self-sustaining, equitable in treating their peoples, peaceful amongst themselves, and sensitive to their impact on planetary sustainability.
This is a complex objective, a moving target, and a humbling challenge. Sadly, the response in the places I know best has often been "one step forward and two steps back." Today, some forty percent of UN member nations are categorized as "failed democracies" – unable to meet popular aspirations for a better quality of life. The recent global economic crisis – along with the world food crisis – has sharply accentuated these problems.
But why have our efforts to change that picture over five decades not borne greater fruit? Measured against history, where have things gone wrong? Given the progress we have made in so many fields, why have we been so relatively ineffective in sharing that progress more equitably, and in making it more permanent?
My response centers on one principal observation: I believe the industrialized world has often expected developing societies to behave as if they were similar to the established nation states of the West, forgetting the centuries, and the processes which molded the Western democracies. Forgotten, for one thing, is the fact that economic development in Western nations was accompanied by massive urbanization. Yet today, in the countries of Asia and Africa where we work, over 70 percent of the population is rural. If you compare the two situations, they are one and a half to two and half centuries apart. Similarly, the profound diversity of these impoverished societies, infinitely greater than that among nascent European nation states, is too often unrecognized, or under-estimated, or misunderstood. Ethnic, religious, social, regional, economic, linguistic and political diversities are like a kaleidoscope that history shakes every day.
One symptom of this problem has been the high failure rate of constitutional structures in many developing countries, often because minority groups – who often make up the bulk of the population – fear they will be marginalized by any centralized authority. But did today's developed countries not face similar challenges as they progressed toward nationhood?
If there is an historic misperception here, it has had several consequences for development activities.
The first concerns what I would call the dominant player fallacy – a tendency to place too much reliance in national governments and other institutions which may have relatively superficial connections to life at the grass-roots level.
Urban-based outsiders often look at these situations from the perspective of the city center looking out to a distant countryside, searching for quick and convenient levers of influence. Those who look from the bottom-up, however, see a much much more complex picture. The lines of force in these rural societies are often profoundly centrifugal, reflecting a highly fragmented array of influences. But was this not also true during the building of Western nation states?
Age old systems of religious, tribal or inherited family authority still have enormous influence in these societies. Local identities which often cross the artificial frontiers of the colonial past are more powerful than outsiders may assume. These values and traditions must be understood, embraced, and related to modern life, so that development can build on them. We have found that these age-old forces are among the best levers we have for improving the quality of life of rural peoples, even in cross frontier situations.
Nation building may require centralized authority, but if that authority is not trusted by rural communities, then instability is inevitable. The building of successful nation states in many of the countries in which I work will depend – as it did in the West – on providing significantly greater access for rural populations, who are generally in the majority.
If these reflections are well founded, then what is urgently needed is a massive, creative new development effort towards rural populations. Informed strategic thinking at the national level must be matched by a profound, engagement at the local level. Global philanthropy, public private partnerships and the best of human knowledge must be harnessed. As the World Bank recognized in its recent Poverty Study, local concerns must be targeted, providing roads and markets, sharpening the capacities of village governments, working to smooth social inequalities, and improving access to health and education services. The very definition of poverty is the absence of such quality of life indicators in civil society among rural populations.
It is in this context that I must share with you tonight my concern that too much of the developmental effort – especially in the fields of health and education - have been focused on urban environments.
I whole-heartedly support, for example, the goal of free and universal access to primary education. But I would just as whole-heartedly challenge this objective if it comes at the expense of secondary and higher education. How can credible leadership be nurtured in rural environments when rural children have nowhere to go after primary school? The experience of the Aga Khan Development Network is that secondary education for rural youth is a condition sine qua non for sustainable progress.
Similarly despite various advances in preventive medicine, rural peoples – often 70% of the population – are badly served in the area of curative care. Comparisons show sharp rural disadvantages in fields such as trauma care and emergency medicine, curbing infant mortality, or diagnosing correctly the need for tertiary care. Building an effective nation state, today as in earlier centuries, requires that the quality of rural life must be a daily concern of government. Ideally, national progress should be as effective, as equitable, and as visible, over similar time-frames, in rural areas as in urban ones. Amongst other considerations, how else will we be able to slow, if not stop, the increasing trend of major cities of Asia and Africa to become ungovernable human slums?
From this general analysis, let me turn to our own experience. The Aga Khan Development Network, if only as a matter of scale, is incapable of massively redressing the rural-urban imbalances where we work. It is possible, however, to focus on areas of extreme isolation, extreme poverty and extreme potential risk - where human despair feeds the temptation to join criminal gangs or local militia or the drug economy. The World Bank refers to these areas as "lagging regions". We have focused recently on three prototypical situations.
Badakhshan is a sensitive region of eastern Tajikistan and eastern Afghanistan where the same ethnic community is divided by a river which has now become a national border, and where both communities live in extreme poverty and are highly isolated from their respective capitals of Dushanbe and Kabul. There is a significant Shia Ismaili Muslim presence in both areas.
Southern Tanzania and Northern Mozambique is a region of eastern Africa where large numbers of rural Sunni Muslims live in extreme poverty. A third case, Rural Bihar, in India, involves six states where the Sachar Committee Report, commissioned by the Indian government, has courageously described how Muslim peoples have been distanced from the development story since 1947.
All three of these regions are works in progress. The first two are post conflict situations, relatively homogeneous, and sparsely populated, while the third is densely populated, and culturally diverse. All three have acute potential to become explosive, and our AKDN goal is to identify such areas as primary targets for philanthropy.
We have also developed a guiding concept in approaching these situations. We call it Multi-Input Area Development – or MIAD. An emphasis on multiple inputs is a crucial consequence of looking at the development arena from the bottom up. Singular inputs alone cannot generate, in the time available, and across the spectrum of needs, sufficient effective change to reverse trends towards famine or towards conflict.
Similarly, we want to measure outcomes in such cases by a more complex array of criteria. What we call our Quality of Life Assessments go beyond simple economic measurements – considering the broad array of conditions – quantitative and qualitative – which the poor themselves take into account when they assess their own well-being.
Secretary Clinton echoed the concern for multiple inputs and multiple assessments when she mentioned to you yesterday the need for diversified partnerships among governments, philanthropies, businesses, NGO's, universities , unions, faith communities and individuals. The Aga Khan network includes partners from most of these categories – sustaining our Multi-Input strategy. I applaud her concern – and yours – for the importance of such alliances.
Northern Pakistan provides another example, in a challenging high mountain environment, of a complex approach to rural stabilization. Innovations in water and land management have been accompanied by a new focus on local choice through village organizations. A "productive public infrastructure" has emerged, including roads, irrigation channels, and small bridges, as well as improved health and education services. Historic palaces and forts along the old Silk Route have been restored and reused as tourism sites, reviving cultural pluralism and pride, diversifying the economy and enlarging the labor market. The provision of micro credit and the development of village savings funds have also played a key role.
For nearly 25 years, we have also worked in a large, once-degraded neighborhood, sprawling among and atop the ruins of old Islamic Cairo – built 1000 years ago by my ancestors, the Fatimid Caliphs. This is an urban location – but occupied by an essentially rural population, striving to become urbanized. The project was environmental and archaeological at the start – but it grew into a residential, recreational and cultural citiscape – which last year attracted 1.8 million visitors. The local population has new access to microcredit and has been trained and employed not only for restoring the complex, but also for maintaining it – as a new expression of civil society.
Because historic sites are often located among concentrations of destitute peoples, they can become a linchpin for development. We work now with such sites as Bagh-e-Babur in Kabul, the old Stone Town in Zanzibar, the Aleppo Citadel in Syria, the historic Moghal sites at New Delhi and Lahore, and the old mud mosques of Mopti and Djenne and Timbuktu, in northern Mali. Altogether, more than one million impoverished people will be touched by these projects. Such investments in restoring the world's cultural patrimony do not compete with investing in its social and economic development. Indeed, they go hand in hand.
In all these cases, it is the interaction of many elements that creates a dynamic momentum, bringing together people from different classes, cultures, and disciplines, and welcoming partners who live across the street – and partners who live across the planet. Each case is singular, and each requires multiple inputs. And it is here that those present tonight can have such an important impact. Working together on programme development, on sharing specialized knowledge, and on competent implementation, we can all contribute more effectively to the reduction of global poverty.
Let me say in closing, how much I admire the work you are doing, the commitment you feel, and the dreams you have embraced. I hope and trust that we will have many opportunities to renew and extend our sense of partnership as we work toward building strong and healthy nation states around our globe.
If we are to succeed we will need, first, to readjust our orientation by focusing on the immense size and diversity of rural populations whether they are in peri-urban or rural environments. For no-one can dispute, I think, that a large number of the world's recent problems have been born in the countrysides of the poorest continents.
Finally, we will need to address these problems with a much stronger sense of urgency. What we may have been content to achieve in 25 years, we must now aim to do in 10 years.
A mighty challenge, no doubt.
Thank you.
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This guide offers an introduction to collaborations between museums and youth-serving community organizations. While this guide is designed specifically for museums and community organizations, much of the content contained in this document can be applied to all kinds and levels of partnerships. This guide includes an overview of why to collaborate, levels of partnerships, how to start a partnership, and a variety of resources to sustain and deepen your collaborative relationships. Sprinkled throughout this document is advice from experienced collaborators as well as examples of different ways museums and community organizations are collaborating to increase access for underserved audiences, improve STEM equity, increase school readiness, support family learning, and engage different audiences. In addition to the guide resources to assist museums in creating and sustaining partnerships with youth-serving community organizations include: • video on "Creating Successful Collaborations: Museum and Community Partnerships" (5 minute video) • memorandum of understanding (MOU) sample template, • collaboration tips, • profiles of national youth-serving organizations, • sample text for invitation to collaborate on the Museum & Community Partnerships project The guide also includes Profiles of National nanoscale science, engineering, and technology ("nano") through new or expanded museum and community-based partnerships. To be eligible, existing NISE Network partners must Youth-serving Organizations collaborate with a community partner, such as a local community group, afterschool program, library, or a local chapter of a national youth-serving group. Collaborating with an existing youth-serving organization on STEM activities is an effective way for museums and university outreach programs to connect with audiences they may not regularly reach, particularly underserved audiences. The following profiles of national youth-serving organizations have been compiled to assist museums and university outreach programs in developing partnerships with a community organization or a local chapter of a national youth-serving organization. These profiles are intended to provide a brief introduction to each organization. Profiles include: 1. 4-H, 2. Afterschool Alliance, 3. Boys & Girls Clubs of America, 4. Boy Scouts of America, 5. Girls Inc., 6. Girl Scouts, 7. Libraries, 8. National Girls Collaborative Project, 9. Parent Teacher Association (PTA), 10. Y (YMCA), and 11. YWCA
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Madrid-Barajas Airport is the main airport of Spain capital city, Madrid. It is located very close to the Spanish city (around 10 km). With its 4 terminals, Madrid-Barajas Airport is Spain's biggest airport in terms of passengers.
Madrid-Barajas Airport is well connected to the city center of Madrid. You can take the metro 8 from the city center and get to the airport in just 10 minutes. This train stops at each terminal of the airport. As an alternative you can get a bus to the airport, which takes around half an hour. Another way to get to the airport from Madrid city center, or the other way around, is getting a private transfer or a taxi.


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Right to Remain Silent Didn't Apply to Printing —Michelson
HOLLYWOOD MOVIES and television shows have made the Miranda warning—legal rights that are dutifully recited by police officers to suspects during real-life arrests—famous the world over. That infamous piece of Americana ("You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law..."), surprisingly enough, was actually written and popularized by Harold Berliner, a former district attorney and internationally known printer, who died April 26 in Nevada City, CA, at the age of 86.
While attending a special meeting of California district attorneys held in response to a 1966 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Miranda vs. Arizona that now mandated all law enforcement officials to inform suspects of their 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination, Berliner and a fellow district attorney were tasked to craft a simple statement that officers could say aloud during arrests. Within a couple of hours, they penned the wording for the Miranda warning, with the iconic first seven words, "You have the right to remain silent," coined by Harold himself.
But, that wasn't the end of the Miranda warning saga for the entrepreneurial Berliner; he also popularized its usage by police departments. As a lifelong printer—who turned to law so he could afford to support his wife and eight children—Berliner still owned a Chandler & Price and Heidelberg Windmill letterpresses from a printing business he had sold that printed Catholic greeting cards, holy cards, posters and ephemera. Harold sold plastic Miranda warning cards with police department names imprinted on them all over the country, in addition to selling tags, collection bags and other printed products used by police to organize and gather evidence during crime scene investigations.
Despite a successful legal career, Berliner's passion for the graphic arts continued. He went on to found Harold Berliner, Printer, which specialized in letterpress printing of limited-edition books with fine mould or hand-made papers and Smyth sewn bindings. His last, and crowning, achievement was "Genesis," a book showcasing the first book of the bible. Harold's interest in hot metal also led him to start collecting Monotype casting machines and matrix cases. A close friend of renowned typeface designer Herman Zapf, he also created his own fonts at Harold Berliner's Typefoundry, then one of the world's largest privately owned hot metal casting foundries. Berliner eventually sold his hot metal type foundry, but remained active with collector groups of Monotype and letterpress machines, as well as hot metal memorabilia.


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The Shameful Diary of a Hopeless Romantic was edited and republished on 04/14/12.
Maggie is a dreamer with lots of goals to achieve on her 'before 30' list. She wants to fall in love, write a book, and lose weight. Only nothing seems to go as planned. She finds herself: signed up for a marathon when she can't run, with a book deal without a book, and surrounded by two hunks, Ben and Blake, neither of whom seem to know she is a woman. What's a girl to do when she's a hopeless romantic? Write about it of course.
This is Book One in the series The Shameful Diary of a Hopeless Romantic.
The Shameful Diary of a Hopeless Romantic, Book Two will be out Summer 2012.
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Where is the rest of the book?
This is a really fun quirky read. I liked Maggie from the start, even if she is a bit dim at times. The misunderstanding about the "partner" was a low moment for her mentally. Other than that major mindslip, I found her delightful, if not a touch self absorbed.
I was laughing out loud several times and giggling more often than not. The relationships are sweet and the supporting characters interesting and engaging. I loved they whole dynamic Maggie has with all her friends. I especially love he playfulness she has with Blake. They are a delight to read when together.
The whole book is Maggie's POV, which isn't bad, just very one sided. You have to guess at what others are thinking unless they say something outright.
I was thoroughly enjoying my reading/listening experience and then BAM, it ended!! Out of the blue total cold ending, no real resolutions of HEA!!!! WTF!! I feel so cheated. Now I have to decide if I spend another credit to get the rest of the story!! Oh, guess what, there is a book out there that combines both parts. Wish I knew that before I bought this!!
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APX feat. Charlotte HainingDrum & Bass
This track is very special to me. A couple years back, Drum&Bass got me into electronic music. So this is kind of a journey back to my roots. Enjoy my first ever Dn'B track with beautiful vocals from Charlotte Haining!


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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Taking seriously an apparent threat from a notorious collective of computer hackers, the Iowa Republican Party is boosting the security of the electronic systems it will use in two weeks to count the first votes of the 2012 presidential campaign.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Taking seriously an apparent threat from a notorious collective of computer hackers, the Iowa Republican Party is boosting the security of the electronic systems it will use in two weeks to count the first votes of the 2012 presidential campaign.
Investigators don't know if the threat is authentic, but it has nonetheless led the state party to confront a worst-case scenario. Their fear: an Iowa caucus marred by hackers who corrupt the database used to gather votes and crash the website used to inform the public about results that can shape the campaign for the White House.
"With the eyes of the media on the state, the last thing we want to do is have a situation where there is trouble with the reporting system," said Wes Enos, a member of the Iowa GOP's central committee and the political director for Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann's campaign in the state. "We don't want that to be the story."
Confident in the existing safeguards protecting the vote count itself, Enos and other members of the party central committee told The Associated Press they recently authorized additional security measures aimed at ensuring hackers are unable to delay the release of caucus results.
The state GOP fears such a delay could disrupt the traditional influence of Iowa's first-in-the-nation vote. Candidates who do well tend to gain momentum in the presidential race, while those finishing at the back of the pack may drop out. Experts in computer security said such concerns are valid.
"It's very clear the data consolidation and data gathering from the caucuses, which determines the headlines the next morning, who might withdraw or resign from the process, all of that is fragile," said Douglas Jones, a computer science professor at the University of Iowa who has consulted for both political parties.
"If I were one of these 'hacktivists' who had no scruples, I would be really strongly tempted to see if I could get into the computer and see if I could make 'SpongeBob SquarePants' win."
A former activist for Occupy Des Moines, Clarke Davidson, has said he posted the two-minute video on YouTube after masked men left it outside his tent near the state Capitol on Nov. 3. Other members of the protest group have discounted Davidson's story and say they oppose any efforts to shut down the vote count.
The video claims to be from Anonymous, a loosely organized group of hackers that has claimed credit for attacks on targets ranging from the Peruvian government to Paypal. It features a computer-generated voice denouncing what it calls a corrupt political system that favors corporations and calls on supporters to "peacefully shut down the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses."
Investigators aren't sure whether the video is actually from anyone affiliated with Anonymous, and state authorities have not taken any actions since the call to "peacefully shut down" the caucuses does not amount to a crime, said Jim Saunders, director of the Iowa Intelligence Fusion Center at the state's Department of Public Safety.
Unlike most presidential primaries, which are conducted by state governments, Iowa's caucuses are run by the political parties. On Jan. 3, voters will gather in roughly 1,800 precincts in Iowa's 99 counties to declare their preference for a candidate. Those results are then reported to the state party, where they are tabulated electronically and reported to the public on a website.
The GOP is also encouraging the party activists who run the precinct votes to use paper ballots instead of a show of hands, which has been the practice in some areas. The ballots would provide a backup in the event of any later confusion about the results.
"If a hacker gets in and messes it all up, we can reconstruct (the results)," said Drew Ivers, chairman of Texas Rep. Ron Paul's campaign in Iowa and a member of the state GOP central committee. "It would take a little while. It might take a day or two, but we can do it."
Among the early voting states, the hacking concerns have most spooked officials in Iowa. In New Hampshire, whose primary is one week after the Iowa caucuses, officials rely on a mostly manual process that uses paper and is less vulnerable to an attack on computer systems, said Assistant Secretary of State Anthony Stevens. In South Carolina, which follows 11 days later, State Election Commission spokesman Chris Whitmire said he was not aware of any concerns.
Ryan Gough, the Iowa GOP official in charge of coordinating the caucuses, declined to comment on specifics of the new security efforts so as not to give away "the game plan" to hackers.
But Jones said officials are likely working to prevent two of Anonymous' favorite tools. The first sends thousands of requests to a website server, rendering the site inaccessible. The second is known as a "SQL injection" and could be used to change the content of a computer database, including one used to record vote totals.
When elections officials in Washington D.C. tested an online voting system last year, University of Michigan researchers were able to use an SQL injection to quickly invade the system and make it play the Wolverine fight song every time someone voted, he said.
"These SQL vulnerabilities are notorious, widely known and yet it's a mistake people keep making," Jones said. "It is one of the first things that you try these days."


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Alan E. Kunian
HOLLISTON - Alan E. Kunian, 75, of Holliston, died Friday, April 27, 2007, at UMass Medical Center in Worcester.
He was the husband of Marjorie E. (Doherty) Kunian, who died in April 2000.
Born in Lynn, he was the son of the late Hilda (Abrams) and Harry Kunian.
A graduate of Lynn High School and of Suffolk Law School, he worked as an attorney, specializing in real estate, in the Framingham area for more than 40 years. He served in the U.S. Army from Dec. 10, 1954, to Sept. 14, 1956.
Mr. Kunian had a passion for karate and had trained under George Mattson for many years and maintained his black belt status until a few years ago. He was a ham radio operator with the call name of KA1AL. He had a love of flying and was a licensed pilot. He also enjoyed automobiles and jazz music and had a great affection for dogs.
Mr. Kunian enjoyed spending time at his family home in York, Maine.
He leaves six daughters, Joan Kunian of Portland, Maine, Robin Murby of Manchester, N.H., Danna Porcella of Upton, Lynn Iarussi of Holliston, Laurie Marcinkiewicz of Medway, Lisa Matott of Harrisville, R.I.; two sons, David Shomphe of Farmington, N.H., and Bob Shomphe of Concord; 14 grandchildren, Amanda, Jessica, Meghan, Jamie, Alexandra, Courtney, Kurt, Taylor, Nicholas, Brett, Brooke, Christopher, Garrett and Madison; and one brother, Fran Langlands.
A service will be held Monday, April 30, at 10 a.m., at the Chesmore Funeral Home of Holliston, 854 Washington St. (Rte. 16), Holliston.
Burial will follow in St. Mary's Cemetery.
Instead of flowers, donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, 30 Speen St., Framingham, MA 01701.


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Pakistan army starts offensive in NW; 4 troops die
Pakistani military officials say four soldiers and 14 militants were killed as the army launched a ground offensive in a restive valley in the northwest.
The officials say five soldiers were also wounded in Friday's operation in the Tirah Valley in the Khyber tribal area. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
Rival militant groups, including the Pakistani Taliban, have been fighting for supremacy in the valley in recent weeks, forcing thousands of civilians to flee the rugged, mountainous area.
Khyber is part of Pakistan's semiautonomous tribal region bordering Afghanistan, the main sanctuary for Taliban militants and their allies in the country. The army has launched many operations against the Taliban in Khyber and other parts of the tribal region.


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Controller Area Network (CAN network) is a vehicle bus standard that allows microcontrollers and devices to communicate with each other within a vehicle. CAN is a message-based protocol originally designed for automotive applications, but it is also used in other areas such as industrial automation.
Common tasks for interacting with a CAN network include:
- Connecting your PC to your CAN network using a variety of supported CAN interface hardware
- Sending and receiving messages using XCP protocol
- Filtering CAN messages
- Using CAN database files to encode and decode messages
- Generating code from CAN Simulink blocks
For more information, see MATLAB®, Simulink®, and Vehicle Network Toolbox™.


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EVANSVILLE, IND. (Updated Sept. 20, 3:15 p.m. ET) — Packaging giant Berry Plastics Group Inc. expects to raise about $468 million in its initial public offering, the company said in a Sept. 19 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The amount represents the midpoint of the estimated range of $16-$18 for the initial share price. Berry will sell 29.4 million shares, although underwriters have an option to buy extra shares.
Berry expects its shares to begin trading Oct. 4 on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BERY. Berry is currently owned by investment funds associated with Apollo Group Management LLC and Graham Partners Inc. Apollo will retain a majority interest in Evansville-based Berry after the offering. Minority shareholders will be management, Graham Partners and co-investors.
Berry reported pro forma sales of $4.8 billion for the year ended June 30. It had a net loss of $212 million in that period. Its largest business segment is rigid packaging, followed by engineered materials and flexible packaging. It claims to have outperformed rivals in the past 11½ years, when its sales grew 24 percent per year, compounded.
The company said it will use most of its IPO proceeds to redeem $455 million in senior subordinated notes due Sept. 15, 2016. It will use the rest of the proceeds for working capital and general corporate purposes. As of June 30, Berry's debt stood at $4.6 billion.
Berry first announced its IPO plans in March.
If the IPO achieves an $18-per-share price, the company's total value, including stock held by Apollo and minority shareholders, would be about $2 billion. The firm said it does not plan to pay dividends on stock after the IPO.
Following the release of Berry's prospectus, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services placed all its ratings on Berry, including the B- corporate credit rating, on CreditWatch with positive implications. The agency explained Berry's plan to retire some debt with its IPO is a positive step.
"If the transaction successfully closes, we expect leverage to improve to about 6.3x pro forma for June 30 2012," stated Standard & Poor's credit analyst Henry Fukuchi in a Sept. 20 news release.
Berry runs 68 U.S. manufacturing locations and 82 globally. It employs more than 15,000.
Lead underwriters for the IPO are BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Barclays and Deutsche Bank


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VICTORIA — When Mike Kelly hits the pristine waters off northern Vancouver Island, the veteran fisherman is thrilled with what he sees. "I'm seeing a tonne of sockeye," said Kelly, the owner of Tides and Tales fishing charters out of Port Hardy. "Every day I've been out in the last week, where I go we can see the sockeye jumping."
It's the kind of news that has B.C.'s fishing industry buzzing with anticipation as it prepares for what some say could be a monster salmon season.
Already, there are reports of better-than-expected runs of coho and chinook. The halibut year has been excellent too, fishermen say. But all eyes are on sockeye — B.C.'s most valuable salmon species, and one of the most exciting to catch.
The province had a historic run in 2010, with 30 million sockeye returning to the Fraser River. The huge numbers surprised and overwhelmed some in the industry.
The four-year maturity cycle means this summer could be a repeat. No one will know for sure for another couple of weeks, when the federal government will decide what kind of fishing is allowed on the Fraser. Even experts admit predicting salmon runs is a bit of a guessing game.
But Kelly said from what he sees he's confident it will be a record year.
"We're at the top end of the Island, so all those fish, as they make their way to the Fraser, go past us," he said. "We're seeing them out there now. It's widespread and phenomenal."
It all adds up to an "exceptional" year so far, Kelly said.
That's good news for B.C.'s $2.2-billion fishing and aquaculture industry, which employs around 14,000 people. Many of those small businesses, like Kelly's, ride out the annual ups and downs as best they can.
Kelly, a 40-year-old former commercial fisherman, spent more than $30,000 on a new boat just before the 2008 recession.
The economic downturn curtailed discretionary spending and scared off corporate clients of his charter fishing business, mainly from the United States. That dovetailed with the 2009 collapse of the Fraser River sockeye fishery. The one-two punch devastated many recreational and commercial fishing businesses.
"If it wasn't for my repeat clientele, I would have been in real trouble," said Kelly, who started his own charter business in 2003 and also has a young family. "It was my repeat clients that kept me afloat." Especially those with cash from Alberta's oilpatch, he said.
"The recession tapered off the amount of fun spending people would do, and they tended to watch their pennies a bit more," Kelly said. "You can track how our business is going to go based on how the stock market is doing."
Fresh and saltwater recreational fishing adds $1.2 billion to B.C.'s economy annually, with $936 million from ocean-based fishing.
A healthy fishing season has a big spinoff effect on money spent for things like moorage, boats, tackle, bait, hotels and fuel, said Owen Bird, executive director of the Sport Fishing Institute of B.C.
"There's been decent fishing on our coast consistently for a long time, as far as sport fishing interests go," he said.
"What has changed are where those fish return. The last few years there's been a real return of chinook, pink and coho salmon into the Georgia Strait area. That fishery used to be really significant and quite a great economic driver in the 1970s and 80s. It really died off almost entirely in the 1990s. So what we're seeing is a recovery or a return of salmon in the inside waters."
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans estimates there's a one-in-two chance B.C. will see approximately 22.8 million sockeye return to the Fraser River this year — which is the midpoint of a complicated government bell curve analysis for sockeye that ranges between 7.3 million and 72 million.
"The general message is there's some cautious optimism, given we've seen some improvement in returns in populations that went out to sea in 2012," Jeff Grout, the DFO's regional resource manager for salmon, said. "We've seen some general reasons to believe we're seeing some improvement in survival, to a certain extent."
There are as many as 1,500 rivers and streams in B.C. and Yukon travelled by pink, chum, sockeye, coho and chinook salmon, but the most notable routes are the Skeena River, Nass River and Fraser River, which account for 75 per cent of total salmon production in the province.
Although the south coast fishery and Fraser River gets much of the public attention, it usually only averages 40 per cent of the value of salmon caught in B.C. In 2010, the Fraser salmon rush was so large it accounted for 84 per cent of salmon value.
Ottawa ultimately decides what type of ocean fishing is allowed where in B.C., at what time, and at what amount.
To predict levels, the DFO runs test fisheries where fishermen with consistent gear fish in the same spot each year to help gauge salmon returns, Grout said. The government also analyzes historical returns and studies the abundance of food and ocean conditions that could impact the level of fish.
"Our pre-season outlook for chinook and coho populations was generally improved over some of the recent years," Grout said. "The real challenge is to figure out what has potentially caused the improvement and look at a range of different information."
Though the DFO is getting admittedly strong anecdotal reports from salmon fishermen along the coast, Grout said it won't be until the end of the month before the government gets a detailed look at specific numbers.
The federal government launched a commission of inquiry into Fraser sockeye after only 1.5 million fish returned in 2009. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Bruce Cohen found no smoking gun to explain the declines in his 2012 report, but called for more research. Cohen also expressed concern about DFO staff cuts, government amendments to the fisheries act and a freeze on new salmon farms in the Discovery Islands on B.C.'s central coast, out of caution for the potential effect on wild fish.
Ottawa's management of B.C. fisheries is a topic of debate among fishermen, though many acknowledge the DFO is right to generally take a cautious approach to the openings of certain fisheries and catch limits.
"DFO has a hard time managing it," said Darren Wright, a co-owner of Island Outfitters, which operates fishing charters as well as a tackle and supply store in Victoria. "How do you manage something you can't see? It's hugely a guessing game from DFO."
Island Outfitters' retail store, which sells fishing and hunting supplies, is 80 per cent of the company's business. A good year means more broken gear, purchases and overall interest among the public in getting out on the water, Wright said.
"A lot of people don't go fishing unless there's fish," he said. "They are looking for that good report. Once sockeye fishing opens, there will be a lot of people going."
It's tough to take children or novice fishermen out for hours on the water at this time of year only to get a few bites of coho or chinook, Wright said.
Sockeye and pink are generally easier salmon to catch, and therefore more fun for average fishermen, Wright said.
Pink salmon have a two-year maturity cycle and aren't expected to return to the Fraser in large numbers until 2015.
Tackle shops also felt the impact of the recession and Fraser sockeye collapse. In 2009, "the economy fell on its face" and the U.S. corporate clients who frequently chartered boats and stayed in lodges all but disappeared, Wright said.
"Alberta, that's what everybody has gone after now in terms of their marketing," Wright said. "Basically, the U.S. market is gone."
Key to the future of the industry is finding a way to introduce children to the sport, said Wright, who has been fishing for 20 years.
"It's a trend that's changing — kids aren't necessarily going out there trying it," he said.
"And it's like anything: if you don't try something by the time you are 14 years old, chances are you won't try it."
Ottawa issued 307,145 recreational ocean fishing licenses in B.C. in 2013-14, which is up from 291,250 during the 2008-09 recession, but still not back at the 2007-08 levels of 322,826.
The rate of growth of recreational fishing in the province has slowed from 15 per cent in 2000 to 2005, to only two per cent from 2005 to 2010, according to federal statistics.
That's mainly due to a 47 per cent drop in out-of-country visitors who travel to B.C. to fish. B.C. residents are now the primary consumers of fishing trip packages in the province, according to the DFO.
B.C.'s fishing lodges are keenly aware of the demographic problem.
At Westcoast Resorts, which runs four lodges around Haida Gwaii and the central coast, there's a strategic goal to "appeal to new markets and get new demographics experiencing our product," operations manager Morey Maslak said.
"With all the time pressures of people's lives and young families, it's definitely in our interests that people continue to experience what fishing is all about," Maslak said.
"We're at the pinnacle of that experience. As people go through their fishing careers fishing off the docks, you might end up in a lodge such as ours."
Not that it's an immediate concern for Westcoast Resorts, which is expecting to be close to selling out this year and generally operates at more than 95 per cent capacity, Maslak said.
The resort is starting to see some strength in the economy in Western Canada and the United States and to see some of the corporate business return, he said.
Westcoast Resorts is owned by the Haida Nation, through the Haida Enterprise Corporation. It's one way some First Nations have attempted to capitalize upon the success and demand of fishing in the province.For many First Nations, fishing has deep cultural and social meaning as well.
"One of the things we tell people is that the word fish is a verb and noun — the fish is for food, but to actually go fish is a verb, and that's a big part of our culture," said Ken Malloway, chairman of the First Nations Fishery Council and a grand chief of the Sto:lo Nation in the Fraser Valley.
Traditionally, fish were used for barter and trade, but in modern times the economic impact on First Nations communities is immense, Malloway said.
"It's a pretty big deal in our area. There's a lot of money around for a short time and a lot of folks are able to spend money on stuff that they normally couldn't afford," he said.
"There's lots of cars and trucks and boats and motors sold when we have a big year, and a lot of folks are able to spend money on stuff they need like washers and dryers and appliances and things like that."
First Nations have special fishing licenses and some are able to sell the fish they catch, under agreements with the DFO.
But the economy, combined with the up and down fish returns, has affected First Nations fisheries as well. In some places the number of fishermen has dropped in half, Malloway said.
"A lot of our folks did give up on it because they couldn't count on it every year," he said. "2010 was a huge year, and then we had 2009 was horrible and 2011 and 2012 weren't great."
A healthy run of fish in the Georgia Strait gets people in the Lower Mainland and Southern Vancouver Island more excited about fishing, and that leads to an upswing of people trying the sport, Bird said.
It's been a boon to communities like Campbell River, where local guides are reporting record catches this year, according to Martin Paish, vice-president of marinas and attractions at the Oak Bay Marine Group, which owns several marinas as well as lodges in Campbell River and on nearby Quadra Island.
"Campbell River has taken a bit of a beating with the closing of the Elk Falls Mill (in 2010), and changes in forest products and that type of thing," Paish said.
"One of the largest private sector employers in that town is our lodges at Painter's Lodge and April Point, where we've got around 300 staff there. It's a really important component of a community that calls itself the salmon capital of the world."
The lodge and charter industry isn't back to 2008-09 levels yet, but is on track to get there in the next couple of years, Paish said.
"The bottom fell out in 2008-09 and it had nothing to do with access to fish and everything to do with the economy," he said.
"The improving economy in combination with improving opportunity and expectation is showing a gradual rebuilding back to the glory days of the mid to late 2000s."
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Going over my Facebook feeds, I stumbled upon this new McDonald's "telly" (I have to use that term, family inside joke, LOL) commercial featuring 3 elderly guys:
This commercial made me smile. The lolos are up-to-date that they don't seem to need the best creatine supplement yet. They are young at heart and techie enough to know that there are new iPad apps available in the store, haha. The last line takes the cake, 'Sino ka nga? (Who are you again?')


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How much Metal Gear Solid can Konami fit into one package? We're going to find out with the Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection. Crammed into two blu-ray discs will be the ultimate Metal Gear fan's dream line-up: Metal Gear Solid, MGS2, MGS3, MGS4, MGS: Peace Walker, MGS: VR Missions (all HD'd up), the original MSX versions of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 and two Ashley Wood digital comics. Also featured will be an expansive 100 page art book covering the 25 years the franchise has been captivating gamers.
The PS3 exclusive set is now officially set to drop on July 9th for $49.99. Quite a bargain when you consider how many Metal Gear games you get and all the trophies you can acquire! Stay tuned as this Metal Gear geek is craving some Legacy.
Ultimate Line-Up of Fan Favorites Available in PlayStation 3 Package
Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today announced METAL GEAR SOLID: THE LEGACY COLLECTION will be available in North America and South America on July 9, 2013.
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the METAL GEAR SOLID franchise, this PlayStation 3 exclusive package will include METAL GEAR SOLID, METAL GEAR SOLID 2: HD Edition, METAL GEAR SOLID 3: HD Edition (which includes the original MSX versions of METAL GEAR and METAL GEAR 2), METAL GEAR SOLID: Peace Walker HD Edition, METAL GEAR SOLID: VR MISSIONS, METAL GEAR SOLID 4: Trophy Edition and two Ashley Wood digital graphic novels which will be released for the first time in North America. In addition, the collection will include an all-new 100 page art book highlighting marketing art from across the globe, spanning the profound 25 year history of the esteemed franchise.
The METAL GEAR SOLID series is the seminal work of Hideo Kojima, Japan's master game creator, and the progenitor of the stealth action game genre. With more than 33 million units sold to date, the METAL GEAR series has become a global phenomenon. The player controls a secret agent from an elite special forces unit who is sent on solo stealth missions through enemy installations, vast jungles, and sometimes even the thick of battle. Alone and surrounded by the enemy, even a special forces agent will find it tough to come out alive. But that is the secret behind the series' popularity-the cerebral challenge of figuring out how to avoid combat, and the thrill of sneaking through enemy territory undetected.
METAL GEAR SOLID: THE LEGACY COLLECTION will be available on July 9 for $49.99 for the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system.