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Alsalamualaykum Everyone,
Some of you may have been reading my blog since I first started it about 3 1/2 years ago, others may have just recently passed through occasionally. I used to literally be obsessed with this blog and would blog at least once everyday. Since than I've stopped blogging on here, I have a Tumblr blog page.
I've decided to delete this blog soon, I'm not gonna do it today, but in the next coming days I'm going to get around to deleting it. Anything I have written that has been of benefit to you is from Allah swt, and anything wrong is from myself and I pray that Allah will forgive me for that.
If you would like to keep up with me, my tumblr page is http://heaveniswheretheheartis.tumblr.com
and on twitter follow me @RiRi779
One Beauty of Islam
la ilaha illallah muhammad rasool allah
Friday, December 14, 2012
Saturday, December 1, 2012
The Hijab
Why I wear the hijab
I wear the hijab because it's an obligation upon every Muslim woman and Allah commanded it in the Quran. I wear it to please Allah swt. When I first started wearing it I did it because I knew it was the right thing to do and it just felt right. I kept trying to put it off until later on in life or until I got married or something, but a friend reminded me that I don't even know if I'm going to live until tomorrow. I realized that waiting wasn't worth the risk.
Why I love wearing the hijab
I love wearing the hijab because it always feels amazing when a fellow Muslim brother or sister sees me and says "Al Salamu Alaykum" just because they recognized me as a Muslim. I feel a lot more confident in the hijab than I did before when I didn't wear it. I love the feeling of knowing that I stand for something great and that anything good I do could be da3wa for someone else (or the opposite if I do something wrong because it could turn someone away from Islam) so it's a big responsibility to wear the hijab, but I'm okay with that alhamdulilah. I've learned how to change the way I dress around the hijab and I really love the look of modest clothing and all the different ways I can wear my scarf. I find modesty really beautiful.
What the hijab means to me
"Hijab" has a couple meanings to me. It has a literal meaning to me which is to wear the "veil" in order to be modest (cover the hair and the shape of the body) and protect my beauty. There's also the "inner hijab" which is about being modest in speech, the way I act in public (especially with men), lowering my gaze, not gossiping, and just having all around etiquette.
This is simply what hijab means to me. I don't follow the definition of hijab I mentioned 100% but I'm working on myself everyday and inshAllah soon I'll be able to wear the hijab as it should be worn both inside and out.
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Monday, November 26, 2012
Summer Vacation Update
I just realized that I never shared some of my photos from Egypt and Sudan with you all. I had a great summer vacation and got to spend time with both my family in Egypt and Sudan. I stayed in Egypt for only 10 days, but each of those days was filled with something new everyday. I finally got to see the Pyramids up close, I went shopping in Cairo and in the Khan el Khalili Market, and I went to Sharm el Sheikh, Red Sea. I got to experience Ramadan for the first time in Sudan and also Eid.
|Belly Dancer
|The Red Sea
|The Great Pyramids of Giza
|Family Picture
|My and my sister in Cairo
|Watching the sun go down Ramadan 2012 Sudan
|Ramadan iftaar Sudan
|Men praying outside in Sudan
|I got henna done on my hands for eid
|A mosque in Omdurman, Sudan
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
VCU Inter-MSA 2012
I attended Virginia Commonwealth University's Inter-MSA event this past weekend where students from George Mason University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Mary Washington, etc attended. It was really nice and we got to interact with each other and meet new people. Brother Joshua Salaam of Native Deen spoke at the event as well as a few other speakers. We attended a talent show and got to know each other. We also had a bonfire and enjoyed quality time together.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Last night I learned that the hijab is not a man repellent. Okay what I mean by repellent, I mean that I thought the hijab would prevent guys that weren't serious about marriage and just wanted to date me from approaching me and being flirtacious. I was wrong. 1) I couldn't understand how in the world a non-Muslim guy could imagine me being their type 2) For some odd reason, I always felt like guys automatically understood that I don't date, so I was just a bit shocked at the thought of a guy actually thinking he could possibly date me.
Have you ever had this happen to you?
Have you ever had this happen to you?
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Monday, November 12, 2012
D.C. Photoshoot
I went on a trip with one of the programs I'm involved in at my university to D.C. We went to the National Gallery of Art, had lunch in Chinatown, and ended our trip with a visit to the National Museum of the American Indian. All photos were taken by me.
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
Everyday when I go out and walk on campus, I see this boy who's a student at my university who gets around in a wheel chair. Whenever I see him, he always looks so content and I hardly ever see him alone. He's always with one of his friends.
I always get sad when I see him because I think about the state of my heart and how much I complain about tasks such as walking 15 minutes to class everyday. The other day when I saw him, I thought to myself, "why am I blessed with the ability to walk, while he is confined to a wheelchair?" I honestly don't know the answer to that question or if there is one right answer, but what I do know is that God is the Most Fair and that people don't face hardships for nothing. I really love that I can learn something from someone who's name I don't even know and hopefully apply something about them to improve myself.
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Trick or Treat for UNICEF
Last week and on Halloween night, I participated in my first ever trick or treat for UNICEF event where we went door to door asking people to donate change for children in developing countries. Me and my two friends in the picture made about $151, but together the UMW club made over $1,000! I'm really proud of how successful our event was even though it was only our first time participating.
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Saturday, November 3, 2012
Fall Photography
My university is so gorgeous in the Fall. I thought it deserved a photoshoot so I made sure I brought my camera with me on the way to work to snap some shots. I'll make sure to take more photos because my campus is beautiful in the winter as well.
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Saturday, June 16, 2012
what surahs help you feel better when you're feeling down and how can i fix my feelings of jealousy, what does the Quran say about jealousy?
I apologize for responding so late. These past few days have been hectic and I have a test tomorrow as a matter of fact, but I'm taking a break right now (a.k.a. I hardly studied and decided it's time for a tumblr break lol). I also don't like to respond to these type of questions right away unless I know I can respond well because they have to do with Islam and the last thing I would want is to respond with a wrong answer, so inshAllah I don't misguide anyone with my response. This is a really good question and inshAllah the response is beneficial to other people as well as myself.
The sourah that always makes me feel better when I'm down is surah adh Dhuha (The Morning Light.) I can't even stress that enough. When I was going through a really tough time months ago, I was really drawn to this sourah. The verses just spoke to me subhanAllah. Later I found out that when one is overcome by anxiety and distress then they should recite Surah adh Dhuha. This surah was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad pbuh when he was going through a tough time and stopped receiving revelations from Allah swt. The people at the time made fun of him and told him that his Lord had forsaken him. He pbuh was feeling really down and felt like Allah was angry with him so Allah swt revealed this surah letting him know that He was pleased with him and that he would be rewarded for his hardships.
The Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said something really profound that I think will help you fix your feelings of jealousy: he pbuh said: "When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, look to those, who have been given less." Reported by Muslim, Hadeeth.
There will always be people who have more than you and those that have less than you. If you look at those that have less than you, that will help you to be more grateful for what Allah swt has blessed you with.
Jealousy is completely normal, and even the Prophet pbuh's wives experienced it. Although it's normal to feel jealous sometimes, it's important to try to control it and not let it turn into envy. If you see that someone else has something you want and you wish it for yourself that is called ghibtah, which is positive envy. If you wish that that thing was taken away from them and given to you instead, that is destructive jealousy, which you want to avoid at all costs. There's a hadith that states: "None of you will truly believe until you love for your brother what you love for yourself". (Al-Bukhari)
So having destructive feelings of jealousy towards another does not fall under the category of loving for your brother what you love for yourself.
This hadith explains when one should be jealous of another:
"No one should be jealous of anything except two people – a man whom Allah has blessed with knowledge and he teaches it; and a man who has money and he spends it in the sake of Allah." (Bukhari)
Again, jealousy and envy are natural human emotions, but just because they're natural does not mean we shouldn't try our best to control ourselves except in the cases explained in the hadith.
The Prophet Muhammad pbuh warned against jealousy and envy and the evil feelings it creates between brothers and sisters in Islam. Hasad (jealousy and envy) is a disease of the heart and makes your heart impure, which is very dangerous for your imaan (faith.)
The Prophet pbuh said: "Beware of jealousy, for verily it destroys good deeds the way fire destroys wood." [Abu Dawood]
These are some verses in the Quran that relate to jealousy: Allah says: "Allah favored some of you over others with wealth and properties… Do they deny the favors of Allah?" [Soorah an-Nahl [16: 71] "Do they envy men for what Allah has given them of His Bounty?" [Soorah an-Nisa 4: 54] "It is We Who portion out between them their livelihood in this world, and We raised some of them above others in ranks, so that some may employ others in their work. But the mercy of your Lord is better." 43:32 "And wish not for the things in which Allâh has made some of you to excel others." 4:32
To help yourself fix the feelings of jealousy first of all like I mentioned earlier, look at those that have less than you in the hopes of feeling grateful for all the blessings Allah has given you.
Second, make duaa to Allah swt to help rid you of this problem. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) used to say in his du'aa', "Wa'hdi qalbi wa'slul sakheemata sadri (guide my heart and remove ill will from my breast)." The phrase "guide my heart" means to the straight path, and "remove ill will from my breast" means take away all insincerity and hatred.
Third, Read the Quran and look deeply into the meanings of the verses. Learn the meanings and work on applying them to your life. Especially Surat al-Falaq (The Daybreak.) "Say: "I seek refuge with (Allâh) the Lord of the daybreak"…"And from the evil of the envier when he envies." (1-5)
Fourth, having negative envious feelings to someone destroys good deeds so while your working on fixing your problem, work on increasing your good deeds to cancel out the bad ones inshAllah.
Fifth, count your own blessings not theirs. Keep yourself busy and whenever jealous thoughts cross your mind, seek refuge in Allah from the accursed shaytan.
Jazak'Allah kheir for this question. It really helped me to reflect on myself and my own problems. I'd also like to mention that I have very little knowledge if any at all when it comes to answering questions about Islam. A lot of this is just my opinion, so please refer to a local imam or skeikh if you have more detailed questions regarding rulings. I hope this helped and I didn't confuse you.
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It's the Braves versus the Jays. Bobby Cox versus Cito.
It seems like yesterday to us...Upside down flags, Kelly Gruber's tomohawk chop, Maldonado over everything, Derek Bell(!), Jimmy Key's swan song as a Jay, Winfield's double, Timlin to Carter, Pat Tabler on top of the pile. We're getting misty just thinking about it.
Have a great weekend kids, and enjoy the memories.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Relive the 1992 World Series
5 comments:
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
otis dropping the bunt...good times...
is timline the only guy still playing from that series?
- June 27, 2008 at 6:24 PM
- sager said...
Timlin's the last of the '92 Jays ... Glavine and Smoltz are the only Braves left from that sesaon, are they not?
(Hangs head in shame for having to be the first to answer.)
- June 28, 2008 at 1:00 AM
- Joanna said...
was weathers there? Tabler seemed to think David "Stormy" Weathers was there
- June 28, 2008 at 4:10 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Weathers was on the team, but didn't play in the playoffs. (He was a September call up.)
- June 29, 2008 at 1:56 AM
- Andrew said...
sager: It depends if David Wells is retired or just taking a year off to beef up for a comeback with the Yankees.
- June 29, 2008 at 10:53 AM
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Radio Reg Basking in the afterglow of the recently released Windows 7, Microsoft has rallied the faithful to share the love at its annual Professional Developers' Conference in Los Angeles, California.
Traditionally, PDC has been about looking ahead and charting the roadmap of the next few years. Previous years saw Windows Vista and then the Azure cloud. Though this PDC was short on big vision, it still gave a pretty good idea about where Microsoft is headed.
There was early code for the next version of Microsoft's Flash challenger, Silverlight. A little digging revealed that this supposedly cross-platform player is now showing signs of being, ahem, "optimized" for Windows, leaving Linux and Mac to fend for themselves. Sure, cross-platform software runs differently on different systems, such as Firefox on Windows and Mac. But adding features specifically to take advantage of one platform over the other? That's different.
Then there was the next version of Internet Explorer, version 9. Microsoft sure talked pretty about greater support for standards and an incrementally better Acid3 score. But Microsoft is already talking about a "balance between standards and the real world."
On the cloud, meanwhile, Microsoft has stripped out all the application, programming, and framework vision it promised at PDC 2008 - stuff we were told would differentiate Azure to deliver a hosted computing and storage service. Ever heard of Amazon? Even the pricing is similar. So much for the "big" PDC vision, and no-wonder PDC attendees felt a little deflated.
Reg software editor Gavin Clarke and All-about-Microsoft blogger Mary-Jo Foley strip back the PDC marketing speak to reveal web and rich-internet application thinking that dates from Microsoft's old days of building client/server software - and look at what Microsoft didn't say was coming.
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The folks over at DZone have added to their RefCardz selection with a PHP version quick reference card.
PHP is the world's most popular server-side Web scripting language. This reference card was created to help you quickly navigate some of PHP's most commonplace features, including objectoriented programming, array and string manipulation, regular expressions, and MySQL integration.
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One of the Facebook users called me Mr. IPO... hmmm... I thought it sounds funny but why not create an avatar and maybe next time, i can sell comic books on IPOs, stock investments and trading like Mr. Kiasu below. hahaha
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Here you go, Mr. IPO's avatar (the picture is definite more "saleable" than the real person)...
|Mr IPO
Click "like" on Singapore IPO's facebook page today to receive a free copy of Mr. IPO's first ebook! (to be launched one day when the postings can be compiled into a book. After all, this is how a Singapore food blog evolved into a book and iphone app!).


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"Warm Bodies" is a zombie rom-com, light on almost every ingredient, but with such a unique mix that many people will praise it highly. It's not a great romance, it's not a great comedy, it certainly isn't a great zombie movie… but how often do you get those ingredients mixed together?
And as such, to me, it winds up a fairly enjoyable movie.
R (Nicholas Hoult) is a high-functioning zombie. He lives at the airport with a bunch of other zombies, but he's different from the rest. He has rather existential thoughts for your typical undead, he collects things, plays music, and has one word conversations with his zombie best friend (Rob Coddry). He's confused, and can't remember how he got this way, but he does know that he's dissatisfied with his aimless, shuffling existence.
When out on a food run (read: eating people), R eats the brains of his victim. In "Warm Bodies", when zombies eat brains, it allows them to see and feel the memories of the deceased. On this particular occasion, R eats the brains of the boyfriend (Dave Franco) of a girl who is part of the group being attacked. After he sees the girl, Julie (Teresa Palmer), he realizes he wants to protect her from being killed, so he heads over to her first, smears his blood on her in order to hide her smell (the "Walking Dead" trick) and eventually has her follow the group of zombies home as if she was one of them.
He takes Julie back to his home aboard an airplane, in order to keep her safe. It's here that the romance between the two begins to blossom, as he shows her his collection of oddities, and plays his records for her. The two are connecting, and R is slowly curing himself, but Julie can't stay there forever.
Of course there are obstacles to her safe return.
In addition to regular zombies at the airport, there are also bone zombies, or "boneys". The boneys are zombies who have deteriorated to the point where there's nothing left to them but their skeletal and muscular systems. They do not have the same rationality that these zombies who are slowly curing themselves do. On top of that, if, somehow, they could return her to her home within the walled city, her militaristic father (John Malkovich) would shoot R on sight, regardless of his change of condition or not.
Thus the two need to find a way to get Julie home, while avoiding the mortal dangers facing both of them. There are armies standing in the way on either side, but there's also an X Factor in play. R's change in condition is spreading to other zombies. Seeing him and Julie together is enlightening them all to aspire to be human again.
There are a number of things about this film that irritated me, as a fan of zombie films. Zombies do not talk, or collect things, or listen to music (all of which he was doing even prior to meeting Julie). They do not "Get better". There's no such thing as a "Boney", but in a world where zombies are curing themselves, the introduction of an irredeemable zombie should be expected. Who else would be the bad guy? And of course, the romantic interest just happens to be the daughter of the General in charge of the entire city… nothing like direct access in order to expedite a plot!!
However, "Warm Bodies" manages to overcome the issues I have with it by being sweet spirited and light-hearted. It certainly has its share of clichéd moments, but it also has some humorous elements and some occasional charm. There are some funny moments along the line, and in general, the film provides a thoughtful enough tone as not to seem disposable teen monster romance dreck. The two leads do a decent job with the comedy and the romance, too.
So even though everything is very (s)light, "Warm Bodies" was a decent enough diversion, especially for a February movie.


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It's my first time posting on this forum, and this is despite how I've liked the Tonja Steele comic, at least until fairly recently.
Hating to be a complete wet blanket, I'll start out with some of the positive things.
I love the humor in Tonja Steele. I love the old storylines, I love the jokes and I love how there is a Don Rosa quality to the strips, meaning that you can go through the archives again and again, and still somehow catch a tiny detail that you have missed before.
Sadly, the (relatively) newer strips just don't seem to have that quality to them, especially when it comes to characters that, quite honestly, have been changed in several ways. I'm sure some people don't mind, but they just... irk me.
Lisa I can get, we all knew she had some kind mysterious past that was bound to catch up with her sooner or later. Hell, it was one of the reasons I stuck around, and while the revelation made me raise an eyebrow, I felt it added a nice flavor.
And then it turned out that Darron, our blond bartender, who started out in this strip with a frikkin' mullet and trying and failing to get a date from Tonja, turned out to be some kind of super genius, who sold inventions now and then to the military? That just doesn't hold up. It was like someone had just told me, that my childhood hero had been doing crack and was found in a dirty motelroom with a dead whore and crashed out in a puddle of his own bodily fluids.
And Damien. Dear god, whatever happened to you!? How did you turn into a boxer hooked on steroids!? I liked you so much better when you were Darrons height and practically romanced Julie before even going to the corner store for groceries.
I'm not going to start up a protest rally that demands back the old character designs. But I will say that I miss them dearly, and the only reason I come back every once in a while, is so that I can read through the archives and remember my own version of "the good old days".
There's my two-cents for ya, whether you like 'em or not.


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June 27,2014(ISN) – The National Lacrosse League has announced five finalists for the NLL Hall
of Fame Class of 2014 ballot. The nominees this year are Jake Bergey, Pat
Coyle, Chris Hall, Pat McCready and Kaleb Toth. Brief summaries of each
candidate's accomplishments are listed below. Ballots are cast by the
teams, current members of the NLL Hall of Fame and senior members of the
league's covering media.
Nominees for NLL Hall of Fame Class of 2014:
*Jake Bergey*
Jake Bergey played 10 seasons in the league from 1998-2008, all with the
Philadelphia Wings. Bergey recorded 557 points (256+301) and 531 loose
balls in 133 career games played. Bergey won two championships with the
Wings in 1998 and 2001. The forward ranks second in franchise history in
points, goals and assists, fourth in games played and seventh in loose
balls. Bergey added 30 points (13+17) and 39 loose balls in nine career
playoff games with two Championship Game appearances (1998, 2001).
*Pat Coyle*
Pat Coyle played 12 seasons in the league from 1994-2008 including seven
seasons with the Toronto Rock from 1998-2004 and four years with the
Colorado Mammoth from 2005-2008. The defenseman played in 156 career
regular season games, recording 940 loose balls and 133 points (28+105).
Coyle won the league's Defensive Player of the Year Award in 2002, the
first year in which the award was given. Coyle's teams made it to the
playoffs in 11 of his 12 seasons where he posted 12 points (3+9) along with
116 loose balls in 18 games played and won five championships (Toronto
1999, 2000, 2002 & 2003; Colorado 2006) in six Championship Game
*Chris Hall*
Chris Hall served as a head coach in the league for 12 seasons, first with
the Calgary Roughnecks from 2002-2007 before finishing his coaching career
with the Vancouver Stealth from 2009-2014. Hall's 85 regular-season wins
ranks third all-time behind Darris Kilgour (121) and Les Bartley (93). With
an 11-6 career record in the postseason, Hall's 11 playoff wins rank fourth
all-time behind Bartley (22), Troy Cordingley (12) and Kilgour (12). In
2010, Hall became just the second coach in NLL history to win the
Champion's Cup with two different teams as he led the Stealth to its
first-ever title after winning it all with Calgary in 2004. The Stealth
reached the championship game in three of four seasons from 2010-2013 and
Hall was a co-recipient of the 2010 NLL Head Coach of the Year award.
*Pat McCready*
Pat McCready played 17 seasons in the league from 1996-2012 including eight
seasons with the Buffalo Bandits and seven seasons with the Rochester
Knighthawks. McCready recorded 384 points (141+243) over his career along
with 1,593 loose balls, third-most in NLL history, and ranks third in the
league all-time in penalty minutes (468) and seventh in games played (219).
The 2011 NLL Defensive Player of the Year won three championships, two with
the Knighthawks, first in 1997 and again in 2012 as the team's captain,
along with one with the Bandits (2008). McCready added 37 points (7+30) and
189 loose balls in 31 career playoff games with eight Championship Game
appearances (1997, 1999-2000, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012).
*Kaleb Toth*
Kaleb Toth played 13 seasons in the league from 2000-2012 including 11
years with the Calgary Roughnecks after his first two seasons with the
Toronto Rock. Toth recorded 713 points (315+398) and 703 loose balls in 186
career regular season games and is Calgary's all-time leader in games
played, goals, assists and points. Toth won two championships with the
Roughnecks in 2004 and 2009 after winning a title with the Rock in 2000
when he scored the game-winning goal with one second left in the fourth
quarter. On March 2, 2013, Toth became the first player to receive the
"Forever a Roughneck" distinction with his banner raised to the top of
Scotiabank Saddledome. Toth added 71 points (31+40) and 84 loose balls in
20 career playoff games with four Championship Game appearances (2000-2001,
2004, 2009).
*(End of Nominees)*
Voters may select up to three of the five nominees on the ballot. To win
induction into the Hall of Fame, nominees must be selected on a minimum of
75 percent of the ballots cast.
The nominees were selected by the league's Hall of Fame Committee. Once
nominated as finalists, candidates remain on the ballot for a second year
if they do not receive enough votes for induction in their first year.
Nominees come off the ballot if they do not receive enough votes in the
second year, but can be re-nominated by the Hall of Fame Committee in the
future to return to the ballot. The Committee considered all of the
individuals that were suggested by fans earlier this month via the league's
Facebook and Twitter pages.
The NLL Hall of Fame was established in 2006. The 21 current members are:
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Russ Cline
Chris Fritz
Gary Gait
Paul Gait
Class of 2007 *Mike French
Darris Kilgour
Tom Marechek
Class of 2008*Sal LoCascio
Johnny Mouradian
Tony Resch
Class of 2009*Dallas Eliuk
Jim Veltman
Class of 2010 *Rich Kilgour
Dan Stroup
John Tucker
Class of 2011*Bob Watson
Class of 2012*Steve Dietrich
Class of 2013*Pat O'Toole
*Members of Media Recognized by Hall of Fame *Tom Borrelli (2007)
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18 June 2012 at 5.28pm | 15 Comments
Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna mark the 20th anniversary of their meeting by singing together in John Copley's production of La bohème this evening.
The couple first met at the Royal Opera House in 1992 when performing in the same production. Four years later they married in a ceremony on the main stage of the Metropolitan Opera. The couple celebrated 20 years since their meeting with a special cake sent in by a fan which they shared during Friday's rehearsal.
The cake to celebrate Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna's 20th anniversary of meeting © Florentina Bucos/ROH 2012
Angela, who made her international debut in the 1992 performance of La bohème, shot to fame in 1994 following her electrifying performance as Violetta in Richard Eyre's production of La Traviata, the same production in which she sang alongside Roberto for the second time with The Royal Opera in 1996. This season, Angela's performances in Faust, Adriana Lecouvreur and Tosca were broadcast across the world as part of the Royal Opera House cinema season. Next season, the Romanian soprano will perform the role of Magda de Civry in Nicholas Joël's production of La rondine.
Roberto's career also took off at the same time, following his acclaimed performance as Roméo in Nicolas Joël's production of Roméo et Juliette in 1994. Next season, the French-Italian tenor will sing the role of Nemorino in Laurent Pelly's production of L'elisir d'amore.
Watch ITV's news report about Angela and Roberto's on stage reunion


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SAN FRANCISCO — A two-day code-hacking competition at Apps World North America 2013 ended Friday after about 100 developers battled to come up with apps to disrupt and enrich our TV-viewing experience.
The result was some, well, must-see television apps.
The winner of "Best Overall Hack": Augmented Reality Gamification TV, which allows viewers to interact with what's on their TV screen, using virtual-reality magic tricks to "embed" objects right into the video.
"It's all about in-content discovery," said Dan Reitan, CEO of Mountain View-based ReinCloud and one of the hackers behind the winning app. "You'll be watching, say, Don Draper on 'Mad Men' and be able to not just click on a bottle of gin, but use your phone to order a case of it."
The hackdown was part of the brave new world of television unfolding at Apps World, an exp originally from Great Britain but being staged in San Francisco this year for the first time. And it drew some wild ideas from hackers from here and beyond.
Evelio Tarazona, a 25-year-old hacker from Colombia, created two apps, including "Telly, the Web's TV," which he said "lets you discover videos from your social neighbors and play a video feed on your tablet, TV or computer."
"Our app searches videos your friends have posted on Facebook, as well as comments they've posted," Tarazona said, "then puts all those videos into a single stream for you."
Apps World drew an estimated 7,500 attendees, who feasted on a wide array of exhibits, workshops and presentations on the emerging trends in the world of mobile apps. While the expo's tracks included mobile marketing, gaming and automotive, perhaps the sexiest part was the TV HackFest, tucked away into a conference room off the main floor.
"The goal here," said HackFest founder Richard Kastelein, "was to marry together the creatives with the technologists and see what they could come up with. And with such a vibrant transmedia community here in the Bay Area, where the storytellers and the coders work so well together, we feel we had to bring the HackFest here to the cutting edge."
After the 30 teams received their instructions Thursday morning, along with code-writing kits to help them quickly conceptualize and then build working mobile-apps for TV, the hacking began. Gathered at round tables and huddled over their glowing laptop screens, the code warriors set to rethinking the way we watch TV. And with the advent of the "second screen" phenomenon, where tablet and smartphone screens are increasingly becoming TV-viewing platforms, there was a lot of possibilities for the hackers to sink their teeth into.
Ishan Annand with Moovweb, one of the HackFest's sponsors, said there is a flip side of the second-screen trend: creating dynamic TV versions of websites.
"TV Web design today is where Web design was a few years ago," he said. "TV is a greenfield opportunity for front-end developers and designers to explore a new canvas and push the Web forward."
The HackFest took place at what seems to be a golden era in New Television as technology upends the way content is being created, delivered and consumed. According to a survey by Rovi Corp., "84 percent of connected TV owners regularly use TV apps, and 80 percent of people who are planning to buy a Samsung HDTV or Blu-ray player are interested in becoming connected because of the content portal."
Additionally, the study found that TV viewing was stimulated by "smart TV" usage, with 49 percent saying that the smart TV offerings made them watch more TV."
With the second-screen boom expected to pick up speed this year, along with rumors of a new Apple (AAPL) TV being introduced sooner rather than later, the HackFest's denizens were a sort of a portal into the future of television.
"Smart TV is the fastest-growing segment of consumer electronics," said Oren Levy, co-founder of Smartpay TV from Cyprus, who exhibited at the show but spent a lot of time watching the hackers at work. "These guys represent the next big thing, because we'll have more and more content connections on computers and tablets, and you'll be able watch anything anywhere without having to have cable. It's a whole new world."
Contact Patrick May at 920-5689; follow him at Twitter/patmaymerc.
TV apps out of the TV Hackfest
Picturesonic: Makes visual music run on a tablet, smartphone or television, allowing multiple users to jam with colors, patterns and sound effects, all in real time
Playalong: Lets viewers join in games that are superimposed over a TV show they're watching, as trivia questions related to the characters pop up on a smaller screen; users make their choices using their tablet or smartphone
Movie Night: Attempts to resolve the date-night dilemma of which movie to watch, the app helps to identify compromise movies that fall midway between the two films a couple are arguing over.


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Crowd shows support in anti-violence march
Deadly attacks sparks event
Tori Haring-Smith, president of Washington and Jefferson College, said the school had not had a shock like last month's killing in more than 200 years.
The incident is pushing many people into action. Hundreds of students and residents marched against the alarming violence that has rocked Washington.
"It's kind of a bittersweet moment," said Denise McNerney, the victim's mother, "And it is good that people are coming together."
The killing of Tim McNerney, a Washington and Jefferson College student and football player sparked the march. McNerney was walking home with a friend in the early morning hours of Oct. 8 when police said a group of men tried to rob them. They beat McNerney unconscious and he died at the hospital.
"It's not only a shock, but it's a deep shock because this has always been a safe college," Smith said.
Just a few weeks after the attack, another homicide stunned Washington. Vaughn Simonelli, 55, was shot to death in front of dozens of witnesses after a minor car crash. Police arrested a man for the shooting, but McNerney's killers still have not been caught.
His parents said only a united effort can bring justice for their son.
"If they were true human beings, they would turn themselves in and help relieve the fear that is in this community," said McNerney's father, Robert. "Because there are in fact murderers running free in Washington County today."


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text: Set your alarm clocks; one of the best meteor showers of the year is about to gear up this week! The Perseid meteors are one of the most dependable annual showers of the summer season, with a typical zenithal hourly rate (ZHR) of up towards 60-100 per hour. This year however, we could be in for a treat; there is evidence that we may intercept a fresh stream shed by progenitor comet Swift-Tuttle in 1610. We have never passed through this particular stream before; predictions are trending towards a brief ZHR of up towards 200! Don't forget, however, that ZHR is optimal; this assumes the radiant is directly overhead and that there is no light pollution. The shower peaks morning of Wednesday August 12th, although it would be worth it to peek at the sky a few days prior to see what we might be in for. This year, the timing actually favors the North American continent! Now for the bad news; the waning gibbous Moon will be rising just before midnight in the constellation Aries, and be about 63% illuminated. If this is your chief source of light pollution, try to position yourself for observing in a way that blocks the Moon behind a hill, peak of a roof, whatever is handy. The Perseids are a true treat because they occur in the northern hemisphere summer, when its generally pleasant to lay outside. And school's still out, to boot! Be sure not to miss this one; the only observing equipment you need is your eyes. If you can convince a friend to observe with you in the wee hours, you can collectively cover more sky. The radiant is located in the constellation Perseus (hence the name) which will be high in the north east. And don't forget the bug spray!


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February 16, 2012
By: Larry Rulison, Business Writer
Source: Times Union
ALBANY — H. Carl McCall, chairman of SUNY's board of trustees, was the first person to get an inside look at NanoFab Xtension, the new 280,000-square-foot building under construction at the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.
The facility, which features a 50,000-square-foot clean room at its core, didn't disappoint.
"I think it's pretty amazing," McCall said as he walked through the busy construction zone with NanoCollege chief executive Alain Kaloyeros on Tuesday. "This is a small miracle. And it's something that's going to have a transformational effect. It's going to create a new generation of jobs."
NanoFab Xtension is part of the $4.8 billion computer chip manufacturing research initiative announced in the fall by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that will be largely funded by industry.
One part of that program will be a consortium led by Intel, IBM, GlobalFoundries and others to move the industry to making chips on 450-millimeter wafers from the current 300 mm size, an effort expected to cost the industry tens of billions of dollars.
The focus on 450 mm is already having a transformational effect on the NanoCollege. At 35,000 square feet, the new clean room dwarfs the school's largest clean room now, and the school had to triple the size of its central utility building to accommodate the growth, which has a total price tag of $365 million.
The new clean room has to be so big because the manufacturing equipment for 450 mm wafers is expected to be considerably larger and heavier than the equipment used in 300 mm factories today.
And as technology advances, the production machines on the clean room floor, which are known as "tools" in the industry, will be changed, requiring as much flexibility as possible.
"These are unique facilities because they're not manufacturing, they're research," Kaloyeros said. "Here we have to have tools going in and out all the time."
Jonathan Holder, vice president for facilities and infrastructure at the NanoCollege, estimates the project is about 45 percent complete. At its peak, there will be 400 construction workers on site.
Cuomo's executive budget includes $250 million towards the new initiatives at the college, including the 450 mm program, which if successful would make Albany the epicenter of both research and manufacturing for decades and create thousands of new jobs across upstate.
"This is where it started in New York, under Gov. Andrew Cuomo," Kaloyeros said


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The Foundation for Community Association Research (FCAR) has contributed valuable research and analysis on community association issues and trends for 40 years.
The Foundation recently produced a video celebrating excellent work done by community association leaders. Dorothy Firsching, president of the board of directors of Talltree South, and Mindy Culver, vice president, appeared in the video. Watch it below!
Foundation - Board Service Video from Community Associations Institute on Vimeo.
Dorothy and Mindy were also featured in a promo for the Community Association Institute's new board member education course. See below!
The Board Leadership Development Workshop - Promo from Community Associations Institute on Vimeo.
I was recently appointed to the Foundation for Community Association Research's (FCAR) Research Committee for the 2014-2015 term, that is, July 1, 2014 through June 30,2015.
The FCAR Research Committee encourages and actively supports academic research for common interest communities by seeking out timely research projects, as well as developing sources for research in the common interest industry.
This appointment should be fascinating. I am really looking forward to it.


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text: Barbadian pop singer Shontelle (born Shontelle Layne) gained notice as the songwriter behind Alison Hinds' "Roll It Gal," a hit in her native country. The SRC label, home to friend Rihanna, offered a contract, which prompted her to put her studies behind to focus on a music career. Shontelligence, her debut album, was released in November 2008 and stalled out of the gate, despite input from the likes of Stargate. It was given a second push the following February. The album peaked at number 24 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart; somewhat surprisingly, for being such a pop-oriented album, it failed to appear on the Billboard 200 chart. She had greater success with the lead single to her second album. The regretful breakup song "Impossible," a preview of her second album, was released in February 2010 and hit the Top 20 of the Hot 100 by July. No Gravity was released in September. ~ Andy Kellman


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Today they tell the story of a guy who lost his job when his prosthetic leg started giving him blisters and he started using crutches instead. Bullshit, right? He says that using crutches had hardly any impact on his job performance, but that he was told over and over that he had to use his painful prosthetic. Under the ADA, an employer is required to reasonably accomodate a worker's disability, and it sounds quite reasonable to me that a guy use his crutches when other options for mobility cause him pain and infection.
The running joke at Consumerist all week as they've been highlighting this act is, "Don't blame the free market for this - you don't have to sign that contract." This holds some water regarding purchases, but is totally bankrupt when it applies to getting or keeping a job with a discriminatory employer. My favorite so far has been:
To those saying that this is an example of the failure of free markets, no one has ever been forced to sign an MBA. Just as capital is free to move in a free market, so is labor. The OP could have taken his labor elsewhere or not signed a contract with an MBA. Now I am in no way in favor of MBA's, but this is not a failure of the free market because we, as laborers, have the ability to take our labor elsewhere if we don't like the policies of our employers.
What I don't get is why free-market capitalists get so upset when anyone impugns the honor of the free market. Who the hell cares about your poor widdow free market when it doesn't exist? Physically moving to where you can get work with a reasonable contract is a cost that a laborer can't necessarily bear. When supply moves to accommodate demand, there's some friction. This is perfectly obvious to anyone who lives in the real world, but apparently irrelevant to dogmatic free-market capitalists who think their tautology has relevance to anyone at all. If the market were perfectly efficient and free, then it would be perfectly efficient and free. Well, okay, but let's talk about the market in which this guy is trying to find a job - where MBA clauses are ubiquetous and good luck getting that negotiated out of your employment contract.


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MATAWAN, NJ — Whether protein is needed in a sports drink may depend on the results an exerciser is seeking.
A Gatorade-funded study performed by researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, found that adding protein to a sports drink won't make a person race faster. However, a study funded by PacificHealth Laboratories Inc., which makes Accelerade Sports Drink, found that a protein-containing sports drink was more effective in rehydrating athletes than a conventional sports drink or water.
The study by Gatorade (which does not include protein) tested a non-protein sports drink to a protein sports drink and water. The study found that sports drinks improved the performance of cyclists tested compared to a placebo drink, but no additional benefit of protein supplementation existed.
"Previous studies that suggested protein was beneficial used 'ride to exhaustion' tests that do not resemble normal athletic competition," says Martin Gibala, an associate professor of kinesiology at McMaster University.
However, the study by the makers of Accelerade Sports Drink, which contains protein, found that protein in a sports drink was beneficial for rehydration. The study measured the effectiveness of a carbohydrate-electrolyte sports drink, a carbohydrate-protein-electrolyte sports drink and water after subjects lost 2.5 percent of body weight through exercise-induced sweat loss. The carbohydrate-protein-electrolyte sports drink rehydrated athletes 15 percent better than the carbohydrate-electrolyte sports drink and 40 percent better than water.
"The results clearly disprove the myth that adding protein to a sports drink negatively impacts rehydration," says Dr. John Seifert, associate professor in the Department of Physical Education and Sports Science at St. Cloud State University and principal study investigator.


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.com/2007/02/01/counterfeit_arrest/
California man busted for software piracy
Dissatisfied customers led to his demise
Posted in The Channel, 1st February 2007 21:48 GMT
A Southern California man was arrested for allegedly producing and selling thousands of dollars worth of pirated software from Microsoft and Adobe, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's department.
Gad Zamir, 64, was apprehended after authorities armed with a search warrant found $13,000 in cash, about $283,000 worth of counterfeit software and 15 computers. The arrest stemmed from an eight-month investigation.
Although warez are often crawling with bugs and spyware, it's hard to argue that they don't represent significant savings. Zamir sold copies of Microsoft Server SQL 2000 Enterprise for $7,750, just 31 per cent of the retail cost of $25,000 when it was released. He hawked Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 2 for about $280 versus a retail price of $500.
The piracy reaped Zamir the handsome sum of $750,000 since 2000. The suspect used hacked serial numbers to activate the software, according to TV station KESQ, citing detectives. Some of Zamir's customers complained to Adobe and Microsoft after they learned the numbers weren't authentic.
Zamir sold the contraband on major online auction sites.
Press release is here. ®


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I am quite new to this, i have been to the Friday soiree a year ago as a single male and now thinking of going to the Saturday night with my new squeeze and wondered what its like ?
Did you go? How did you find it?
Hello, I did not in the end go to the Ab Fab saturday night unfortunately. Although instead i went for to the Hydro Nudist Spa on a particularly sunny day which i thoroughly enjoyed and would recommend looks like a sunny weekend so thinking of going again this Saturday


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Two years ago, Californian and citizen of the world Sarah Shourd was released from prison in Iran after an intense international campaign to free her. A bit more than a year later, that effort, including pressure from the State Department, Oman (the "Switzerland of the Middle East") and even Iraq and Venezuela, also won the release of Shourd's then-fiance, Shane Bauer, and their friend, Josh Fattal. The three Americans had been hiking in 2009 in Iraqi Kurdistan when they were snatched at the Iranian border and accused of spying. Ever since, in jail and out, they've been in the world's spotlight. They'll tell their story in a book next year — and here, as Shourd marks her second anniversary of freedom.
How are you, two years later?
Most of my symptoms [of post-traumatic stress] are not inhibiting my life or my career. For the first year, nothing could stop me from working for Josh and Shane's freedom. I would break out in hives, [had] really serious insomnia. Emotional detachment allowed me to get through that time. But as soon as Josh and Shane got out, I took my feelings very seriously. I have been in therapy, and [doing] yoga and learning how to slow my breathing. [With] PTSD, you're constantly in a state of crisis. You react to really small things as if they were life and death. You learn how to coax your nervous system back down to a normal level.
You'd said after your release that you wanted to pursue Middle Eastern studies and conflict resolution. Have you?
My life and my career and my dreams are moving forward steadily, and so I don't really feel the need to go back to school. I need to move forward pretty fast, because [I lost] two years of my life. I have a blog on Huffington Post; I'm working as a part-time consultant with a human rights organization called United 4 Iran. The thing I'm most passionate about is advocating against the excessive use of solitary confinement.
I can't wait to go back [to the Middle East]. I spent one of the best years of my life in Syria before I was captured. It's difficult for me to watch the news because I have friends there, and the neighborhood I used to live in on the outskirts of Damascus is now a war zone. I want much more international pressure on Assad. My dream is that Syria will be freed as soon as possible and I [can] go celebrate with my friends in a free Syria. I feel the same about Iran.
Yet in Egypt, after the Arab Spring, elements of the pro-Islamist Muslim Brotherhood took power in the elections.
It's a slow process. We didn't develop our democracy overnight, and our democracy is far from perfect as it is. It's hard to get [Egypt's] large population on the same page; that's not what democracy is about. And in Iran, they've been fighting for democracy for decades. They're not going to give up. But these things take time.
How did you come by your worldview? How would you characterize it?
I consider the global community to be my community. I started being an activist after 9/11, an antiwar activist. I draw inspiration about what needs to happen in our country from struggles in other countries. I started doing solidarity work for the [Mexican] Zapatistas in the early 2000s, building clinics and raising funds for autonomous projects. I was impressed by their model and their values. There's a lot to learn outside our borders, so we can apply it wherever we are.
There's speculation about why you were imprisoned, and why you were released. Were you pawns in Iranian internal politics?
Of course we were pawns, and we weren't alone. The Iranian government wants to place the blame on outsiders, especially Westerners, in an attempt to control internal dissent. But they've already lost the respect of a vast majority of the Iranian people. We got tremendous support from Iranians; thousands of messages on Facebook from Iranians all over the world saying "please don't confuse us with our government."
The human rights situation should be at the center of the debate on Iran. We hear about the nuclear issue — any talk of an attack on Iran is the most frightening thing. An attack on Iran would give the Iranian government an excuse to consolidate power and repress people even more. The Iranian people are not anti-American. If we were to attack them, though, that would change. They would feel it necessary to rally behind their government for their own protection.
The Times ran a column about the "hiker hate" your case inspired. What was behind that?
As soon as your life is on the public stage, you're going to be the target of criticism and misunderstanding. There's a lot of misunderstanding about the Middle East, about what we were doing there, about where we were when we were captured. The important thing for me is that the legacy be positive. We have to turn our worst experiences into catalysts for change. If I were to internalize what was done to me — illegal detention and psychological torture, solitary confinement — I would probably want some kind of revenge, but I refuse to let hate and injustice change the person I am. I feel more certain of my values than I ever did, so people can say what they want to say. It's taken a tremendous toll. But it's also showed me what I'm made of.
You were accused of everything from being dumb American kids to being spies.
Most people don't know I was living in Syria and teaching English to Iraqi refugees, or that Shane is fluent in Arabic and worked in the Middle East for almost a decade. [We went to] a popular tourist destination where many people go to hike and river raft. We were extremely unlucky.
Your critics cited some of your writings as pro-Palestinian, along with your friendships with Syrians and Palestinians.
That's why we're writing the book: to set the record straight. I've been to visit Palestinian Israel, and I want a peaceful solution. I want Palestinians and Israelis to live in peace.
Was imprisonment the big demarcation in your life?
The most influential years of my life were the last three. In Syria, we were part of a community of artists and intellectuals and activists. That year expanded my mind exponentially. As a prisoner and hostage, I experienced a terrible side of the Middle East — the corrupt dictatorships. I've experienced the best and the worst of the Middle East, and I'll never turn my back on either one.
How would you bridge the misunderstandings between us and them?
We need as much cultural exchange as possible. When you think about how many American movies and how much American music people in the Middle East absorb, and how little we absorb of theirs, it shocks me. Many Americans' impression of the Middle East comes from our own films, many of them horribly racist and ignorant. Iran has incredible cinema, so powerful and moving. [It has] brought so much esteem that their government doesn't even censor it as they do everything else. It's Iran's gift to the world.
Aren't Americans justified in thinking that some elements in the Middle East are indeed hostile to us?
That reminds me of something one of my prison guards said. One spoke some Arabic, and I spoke some Arabic, and I said something like, "I'm not bad; why am I here? I don't hate Iran." And she said, "There's some good in Iran and some bad." There's some good in America and some bad. People need a more nuanced analysis of the world.
Why is solitary confinement your cause?
I was in solitary confinement 410 days. I had hallucinations. I had violent panic attacks. I beat at the walls until my knuckles bled. I know the toll it takes. Prolonged solitary confinement is without a doubt psychological torture. It's used in our own prisons as a routine practice; it's used for something as small as not returning a book on time.
Should it be banned?
I agree with a U.N. expert that it should be proscribed except as a very last resort. It's morally wrong. It's also costing us a lot of tax dollars to keep people in isolation. It doesn't help an individual's reform.
Was it hard for you to be around people again?
Extremely difficult. I'd been dreaming for 13 1/2 months of not being alone, but when I was released, I found it difficult to interact with other human beings. My family, people I had been yearning to see — I found myself overwhelmed, difficult to make physical contact, very jumpy.
You heard in prison that people like Desmond Tutu and Ban Ki-moon were speaking on your behalf.
That was phenomenal, to have some of the people I admire the most in the world speak up for me. That keeps you sane in prison. Even though every cell in my body felt like I was lost to the world, I knew in my mind that wasn't true and I was able to hold onto hope. I believe we were released because there was enough pressure internationally [that it became] a tipping point, simple as that. Eventually we became a liability for Iran, and they finally let us go. It's the recipe for freeing political prisoners everywhere.
After such an experience a lot of people would decide to never leave their ZIP Code again. You feel the opposite.
I'm the same person I was before. When I see something in the news, I can't have any detachment from it. There are many lives behind political decisions that are made every day.
Shane, your husband now, proposed to you in prison with a ring he wove from the red-and-white threads from his T-shirt. Do you still have it?
In that first year [of freedom,] I was in Boston to meet with Noam Chomsky. I looked down at my finger and it was gone, in the snow. I spent 45 minutes looking and I couldn't find it. But I knew the real one was going to come. I've gotten better at dealing with disappointment, let's put it like that!
Follow Patt Morrison on Twitter @pattmlatimes
This interview was edited and excerpted from a taped transcript. An archive of Morrison's interviews can be found at latimes.com/pattasks.


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I can't say enough that I'm a newbie, but it sounds like you minimalised yourself into some genetically strong stock.
"If you don't have any eggs after 4 weeks (28 days) add another frame of eggs to start the whole process over again"I have read this a few times now but wonder how this works when the conventional wisdom says the bees only live 5 to six weeks in gook flows and that the girls can not produce the special food from there head glands needed to feed the larva and eggs after they become field bees. Is this old wisdom or what.


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CRACKDOWN: The Duke of Wellington hotel at New Lambton has been caught breaching trading hours.THE decades-long tradition of after-hours staff drinks appears to be over with Newcastle licensing police vowing to crack down on suburban pubs supplying alcohol outside of their trading hours.
The Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing yesterday revealed that New Lambton's Duke of Wellington Hotel was one of five venues across NSW to be listed on the "three strikes" public register for breaching its trading hours in August.
The pub now faces closer scrutiny, with further breaches potentially putting the business in danger, after it paid the $1100 fine.
It is understood the breach occurred when four staff and a handful of friends, who were waiting for a lift home, had remained inside the venue, some still drinking at 2.20am, as some staff continued to clean up following a busy Saturday night.
The release of the breach yesterday prompted licensing police to warn other licensees that they face action if they supply alcohol after their normal trading hours or if people other than employees remain on their premises more than 30 minutes after closing.
Sergeant Wayne Buck, of Newcastle licensing police, said the legislation stated that any alcohol being handed over, whether paid for or not, was deemed as supply and would be in breach.
"They have got to be aware that staff cannot drink in the bar area of the hotel after closing time," Sergeant Buck said.
"It is fair to say we are now looking at the suburban hotels – the city hotels are now no longer our primary focus."
The crackdown means that the traditional "staffy", where staff sat around and had a drink while either cleaning up or debriefing after the night, would attract a breach under the legislation.
Australia Hotels Association Newcastle and Hunter president Rolly de With said a relatively minor breach attracting a strike could potentially put the future of the premises at risk.
"The three strikes policy was introduced to deal with rogue or recalcitrant offenders that continually failed to comply with liquor licensing requirements," Mr de With said.
"It was not supposed to be the country or suburban pub that is consistently well behaved."
The Duke of Wellington licensee did not wish to comment.


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Watamu - North Coast of Kenya Beach holiday with a difference
Hemingways Resort is one of the world's premier big-game fishing destinations (marlin, tuna, sail-fish, king fish and more). Situated on an idyllic stretch of beach, voted 'one of the best ten beaches in the world' by the Sunday Times magazine, it has immediate access to the beach and offers a sophisticated but relaxed atmosphere - as suited to family holidays as to couples or groups of friends. When it comes to beach travel, the Swahili coast, a glorious ribbon of silver and sapphire, crashing surf and bright coral, is steeped in a turbulent history pre-dating Da Gama. The Swahili culture, a fabulous fusion of Arab, African, and Portuguese has created a pace of life, a style of cuisine and a mosaic of architecture, heritage, myth and magic that is found nowhere else in the world.
Location and seasons: hotels in Kenya Hemingway's Beach Resort, on Watamu Beach, is situated approximately 90 miles north of Mombasa and its beach hotels and 18 miles south of Malindi on the Turtle Bay beach at Watamu. The resort lies within the Watamu Marine National Park and is only 3 hours from Tsavo East, Kenya's largest National Park.
Beach vacation facts: Hottest time is between November and March, rainy season is May and June (hotel closed 01 May to 15 June); sea weed on beach and strong winds May /August. September to November is cool and pleasant.
The Background Kenya's stunning coastline (485 kms from Nairobi) runs 700 km between the Tanzanian and Somali borders and is renowned for its silken white sandy beaches, coconut palms, sheltered lagoons, pellucid blue waters, remote islands, uncharted mangrove swamps and mysterious Arab and Swahili ruins, many of which date back to the 8th Century AD. An idyllic climate cooled by the monsoon winds, the Swahili coast offers a daily average of 8 hours of sunshine, and the hot steamy climate is tempered by the monsoon winds: the south-easterly Kusi, which blows from April to October; and the north-easterly Kaskazi which blows from November to March.
Accommodation The resort-hotel offers 78 rooms, all with ocean views and within yards of the beach. Room facilities include: 24-hour room service, ensuite bathrooms, air-conditioning, ceiling fans, mosquito nets, personal safes and in-room mini-bars. Rooms offered include standard and deluxe (bath and shower, three single beds, terrace), and junior suites (super king-sized beds, extra-large baths, showers and a lounge area),
Dining and bars The resort offers a variety of dining experiences - from sumptuous buffet selections and themed nights in the main restaurant to a excellent bar snacks on the open terrace of the bar. BBQs, beach sundowners, cultural dance performances and first-class seafood a feature.
Child-friendly The hotel welcomes children and offers: children's meal-times, children's play/TV room, babysitting and additional beds in rooms.
What to see and do Hemingway's is one of the world's premier big-game fishing destinations, catering for all levels of experience, from novices to experts. Immediately adjacent to the resort is the AQUA VENTURES, dive school offering a full range of PADI and BSAC courses. Also offered are diving safaris to such places as the Vuma caves, night diving and wreck diving. Additionally, the resort offers its own fully-equipped gymnasium, horse-riding, camel-riding, golf (at Malindi Golf Club), tennis and cycling. Other activities include: swimming, snorkelling, dhow trips, glass-bottom boat trips, nature trails, places of historic interest and visits to the nearby town of Malindi or to the world-famous Arabuko Sokoke Forest, one of the last of the rainforests. Trips can also be arranged to Lamu and the ruined Swahili settlement of Gedi.
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Engineered wood flooring is a highly popular flooring choice. Essentially an amalgamation of plywood, topped with a solid oak lamella or top layer, engineered wood flooring comes in as many colour and grade variations as solid wood flooring. A great option for anyone who has under floor heating, engineered wood flooring can even be fitted in bathrooms and kitchens, or indeed any areas where moisture or temperature levels are likely to fluctuate. No matter whether you're seeking to create a highly modern, or a traditional look for your interior, engineered wood flooring is well worthy of consideration.
15/4 thick, engineered wood flooring is an engineered wood flooring option which offers planks which are a total of 15mm thick. Within the thickness of the board, there's a 4mm thick, solid oak lamella or top layer which is, in many respects what determines the life expectancy of the floor. Generally speaking, a 15/4 thick, engineered wood floor should be able to be sanded 5 times in its life span. When choosing the thickness of engineered wood flooring for your project, you should take into account your sub floor, the wear and tear in the room you're planning the installation and how long you expect the floor to last. The good thing about 15/4 thick, engineered wood flooring, is that it is perfectly suited to being installed over under floor heating.


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Chris Brown's dicey relationship with the media continued this weekend when, according to RadarOnline.com, Brown's Porsche was wrecked after being cut off by two vehicles driven by members of the paparazzi.
According to a rep from Brown's camp, the 23-year-old singer was attending a charity event at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy for a Symphonic Love Foundation Event when two vehicles cut him off. The occupants of the two vehicles left their cars with cameras and began to aggresively approach Brown's car. Brown proceeded to back down an alley in an attempt to avoid the photographers but two more vehicles cut him off again, totaling the car in the process.
Brown was alone at the time of the accident and was not seriously injured.
The singer has made headlines recently for allegations that he faked community service hours, thus violating his probation stemming from his 2009 assault on Rihanna. The two young stars have reconciled since then and are expected to attend the 2013 Grammy Awards together.
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A photographer suffered a heart attack and died in New York City on Tuesday night – but not because of Lady Gaga, as some outlets online have reported.
The star walked the runway in yet another wild outfit at Cipriani 42nd Street on Monday night, causing online reports that celebrity photographer A.J. Sokalner suffered a heart attack after spotting her – which a source at his agency, ACE Pictures, strenuously denied to Access Hollywood on Wednesday.
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"He finished shooting [the event], he was packing up his cameras and he died of what is believed to be a fairly major heart attack," the source told Access, refuting several rumors. "The event was finished, he wasn't on the ladder, it was nothing to do with Gaga."
The source went on to say that A.J., who was in his late 50s, had been in poor health in recent weeks.
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"He hasn't been well for a long time, he was late 50s, he had a heart attack," the source said. "The emergency technicians arrived and his heart wasn't beating and he wasn't breathing."
Gaga has had her own brush with heart ailments recently – the singer's father recently had open-heart surgery.
"He's feeling much better, he's already looking like a million bucks," she told Access' Billy Bush last week.
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Can India Balance Its Ties with the U.S. and Iran?
Posted by Ram Kumar Shrestha on May 9, 2012
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used her visit to Kolkata and New Delhi this week to urge India to up its efforts in reducing oil imports from Iran. In remarks made in Kolkata, Clinton commended the cuts India has made in the last few years, but said that it is part of "India's role in the international community" to go further and join the U.S.-led effort to pressure Tehran to open its nuclear program up to inspections.
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In late June, the U.S. will be imposing sanctions targeting the financial institutions of nations that don't cut back on their Iranian oil imports. The heat got turned up a notch for both India and South Korea — both big customers for Tehran — since Clinton announced in March that 10 European nations as well as Japan, which is in the midst of an energy crunch after last year's tsunami and nuclear crisis, earned an exemption from the sanctions after slashing their imports.
India has not openly embraced America's plan. But new numbers show that the message is getting out there to buyers. Iraq has just knocked Iran out as India's second largest oil supplier after Saudi Arabia. (Kuwait and Nigeria come in at 4th and 5th.) And anonymous officials told Businessweek that India plans to cut its imports still further from 17.5 million tons to 14 million tons in the next fiscal year, or from 10% to 7% of India's total oil imports. Whether that would pass the bar to be included in the U.S. exemption is unclear.
India imports nearly 80% of its oil and is under pressure to secure new resources as its economy will continue to grow, albeit at slightly slower pace than in recent years. Demand is increasing across every energy market in India, but both the domestic nuclear energy sector and the coal sector have run into controversies in different parts of the country that have bogged down their development.
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Though in agreement with the U.S. that Iran must abandon any intention to weaponize its nuclear program, India does not want to alienate Tehran, which insists the program is for civilian purposes. Iran hosts a key route between India and Afghanistan that New Delhi does not want to see cut off, particularly as its interests there will continue to grow with the coming U.S. troop withdrawal. In November, India announced plans to build a new railroad along the same route from Afghanistan to the Iranian port of Chabahar to facilitate the movement of minerals into India.
The balancing act India faces was underscored at an Indian-Iranian business conference held at the same time as Clinton's visit. "Our trade problems will be resolved in spite of efforts of those who oppose us," Yahya Ale-Eshagh, president of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Mines, said at the fair, according to local media. "Economics does its own work, trade does its own work and politicians do their own work." The meetings with delegates from Tehran focused on potential trade in non-sanctioned items like agricultural products, pharmaceuticals, banking and shipping, among other industries, though Ale-Eshagh did make the pitch for India to buy more oil, too. "You need oil and we need to sell and we need good co-operation," he said, according to the Telegraph. "We will solve all difficulties."
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Sailor's Creek Outfitters is located next to the famous Civil War battlefield and within minutes of both Briery Creek Lake and Sandy River Reservoir. With more than 4200 acres of prime hunting habitat made up of rolling hills, creek bottoms, farmland, and foot plots.
Sailor's Creek offers a variety of wingshooting.
Quail Hunts
Beautiful farmland, hard flying birds, and a well trained dog or two make for one heck of a fun day of quail hunting. Our quail preserve land is a mix of hedge rows, cedars, switchgrass, lespedeza, milo, and millet, all the cover and diversity of natural habitat. We offer half day, full day and multi day trips with your dogs or ours.
Woodcock Hunts
We have over 2 miles of Appomattox River frontage, hundreds of acres of flood plains, swamps, creek drainages and thickets, all prime woodcock habitat. An average day of hunting should led to many flushes, shots, and misses, Woodcock do not offer easy shooting. Quite the opposite, in fact! They are some of the most challenging and rewarding of all upland species. All of our woodcock hunts are fully guided.You are more than welcome to bring your own dog to hunt in combination with ours.
Dove Hunts
These hunts include an afternoon of hunting, large cookout for lunch for the first 2 shoots and transportation to the fields.We are offering 3 different dove shoots for 2013. September 2nd, 7th and 14th.Hunters must fill out the registration form prior to the hunt. Check in begins at 10:30 a.m. the morning of the shoot. Lunch will begin at 11:30. Hunters will then be transported to the fields around 12:00.
Visit us online at www.sailorscreekoutfitters.com or www.quailmeadowfarms.com