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adept at, in, with or to?

Prepositions after "adept"

Is it usefull? (0 / 0 votes)

In 84% of cases adept at is used

She became adept at living the lie.

Though he is most adept at that lol.

My husband isn't that adept at my camera.

I work in Brand Management and have become quite adept at using PR (for good or bad!!).

Adept at spotting talent and reading the game, she brought out the best in her players.

Miranda, surely you noticed, why you are not adept at the Fifa game is down to practice.

If you can also master shorthand and are an adept at the type-writer, so much the better for your chances of success.

Seeming inertia FM radio presenters have become adept at ' ' reproducing ' ' new stories about our society every day.

Organizations in Kenya are adept at making people queue; they are less skilled at managing and reducing those queues.

This means, there's not much use to become adept at a specific SEO strategy most especially the black hat techniques.

In 10% of cases adept in is used

The system is adept in the use of force.

Dundee was equally adept in each sphere.

He was an adept in high and long jumping.

The mind will immediately be adept in contemplation in whatever direction you point it.

She knew the text and its meaning by heart and was extremely adept in matters of creed.

They will become more adept in decision making and management of workforce performance.

The postdigital does not ignore the efforts of the technologically adept in creating and maintaining important tools.

We are in the beginning stages, so I would not be adept in offering advice for others looking to follow a similar path.

We train and exercise our minds in this way until they're adept in the same way that we memorize our lessons in school.

Do not bother clicking through the lenses until you are adept in its use but use the 0 dioptre lens to view the retina.

In 3% of cases adept with is used

Already not very adept with beer in the tummy.

By the way, I am not very adept with the iron.

They are adept with slings and throwing stones.

Can they stay in the top four? Clarke is already proving adept with the straight bat.

It's just that I don't think group organizations are or can be as adept with this stuff.

He is cheeky, using innuendo to describe how he knows Eddie Lack is adept with both hands.

If you are not as adept with the vectors as you would need to be to make this happen, then you need to see to that.

Obama, showing that he is just as adept with wonky budget terms, fired back during his news conference on Wednesday.

Communications professionals should be very adept with these requirements, however surprisingly things are still missed.

If you would hover your mouse over the requirements, you would see that it must be a Martialhelm of Adept with 2% Sword Amp.

In 1% of cases adept to is used

All the Chinese were adept to this series.

It seems like Jamaicans have become adept to conning and hustling in order to get ahead.

However, this alone won't put a stop to him, as Max seems to be quite adept to vehicle surfing.

If you are adept to writing your own code, you can make a website do some amazing and eye-catching things.

For instance, a retrenched fellow needs pure guidance and counseling on how to adopt and be adept to a new life.

Once you become more adept to recognizing the symptoms, you'll be able to prevent more unnecessary deaths from happening.

This strategic move can help your organization deliver services faster, smarter, flexibly and more adept to handling change.

This also allows the Group to successfully adopt and adept to new and fast-growing opportunities in various business sectors.

Among many privileged, I was one of them, then privileged because our leader is an extremely enthusiastic and adept to major challenges.

Again, these represent archetypal qualities of enlightenment, and one-pointed meditation on these complex images lead the adept to his or her goal.


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Archive for March, 2013

Are you Claiming Your Web Content to Prevent Duplicated Articles?

If you are the originator of your content, be sure to claim it before someone else claims it.

Claim Web Content

First thought that comes to mind. Try making use of the rel=author attribute. For example: a WP blog allows for authorship as well as sites like BloggerSpot and From experience it would seem that when sites are joined or for a better term utilized as assets to help the later of the sites, duplicate content does not pose to be a problem when you have the capability to claim the content.

Because of the push for rel=authorship, making sure you are claiming your content no matter what site it is placed on is very important. Because of this, there has been discussion on how helpful articles directories are now a day’s.

Another thought on this as well revolves around the rel=me attribute. If you will look at the example provided by Google. Website’s allow for separate author page profiles that directly link to the article and the article directly links back to the author page profile. This cohesive linking allows for Google to determine you are the author of the content.

So, how Important are Article Directories?

Well this is the tricky part. After some testing and further research, article directories would appear to be more susceptible to duplicate web content issues than earlier day’s. Although from what I can gather from my research, I am at the thought of Google having a cut off point for how many times an article can be posted on other sites before it is considered duplicate web content.

I have placed the same content on the sources mentioned above in the first paragraph and not received any notifications about duplicate web content to this point. Nor have I seen a decrease in the stats. It leads me to believe this is fine because of the rel=authorship has been established and is firmly in place to and from these article sites.

But on the other hand the fact of posting articles in directories is still a service provided by tons of SEO companies it raises the concern of whether these directories are harmful or not. Furthermore, I have posted articles in some of these directories and have seen no loss in the results from doing so. As well as noticing no harmful outcomes from posting to article directories. Secondly, I have never seen any alerts from Google or found these articles to be duplicate web content through CopyScape services.

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But one thing to note: CopyScape is only matching a percentage of the words associated with your links beings scanned. So for example a previous article posted on Google+ shows as duplicated content on CopyScape when scanning the url. This is what is odd to me. The fact that the post is from a WP blog and is only a link posted on Google+ and not the content. This of course is the basic free rendering from CopyScape, but at this point I am not placing much faith into CopyScape.

Other than doing some checking with CopyScape, setting up Google Alerts is relatively simple and only takes a few minutes. This is just another one of those little tools in your arsenal that provides some more protection from those dubious web content scrappers and plagiarizer’s. Although I can not think of one right now, there are also places on the web you can find snippets of code that allow a web address to be attached to the content when someone copies it from the pages. There is also another script that allows for a popup message to show when someone tries to copy your content as well. This little script prevents the right clicking from the mouse on your page.

What Constitutes Duplicate Content or Spun Content?

Have played around with spun content from one unique article and four other articles that were generated from it, that were said to be unique. While the articles were spun from one unique article it would appear they are actually still unique for the most part. But I had to improve on the actual writing on each one that was created from the original. I believe this was one of the primary reasons they did not show as duplicated content. Did some extensive editing to each one of those articles. Here are some check points to help you…

If you Have any of the Below, you Were Most Likely hit by Panda…

SEO Bullet Points Keyword stuffing

SEO Bullet Points Poorly-written content

SEO Bullet Points Spun content

SEO Bullet Points Illegible content

SEO Bullet PointsDuplicate content

SEO Bullet Points Thin content

SEO Bullet Points Links pointing to you from sites that contain poor content

You Should Properly Cite Articles or Content

Properly citing the article you are pulling the content from is necessary to avoid being penalized. Make use of the canonical method and anything you place on your pages that is not yours, place it inside of block quotes. The block quotes along with the link back to the original source page and canonical usage will prevent the duplicate content issue. Just in-case you did not understand canonical, it is placed in the top of the heading on web pages. Learn more about canonical here

Although if you are searching for a way to do it quickly you could use that automated software option, but you will regret it eventually. Truth is, there is no real way to do it fast and actually should not be done to fast otherwise it will not look natural. Another reason to stay away from the automated software bundles.
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Are you Ready for the Next Round of EMD Updates?

Are you ready for the next possible .com boom with the new domain name expansion coming?

Domain Name Expansion

Empowering Spam

While this may seem like a good ideal, I believe it to be a problem at this point. Could be wrong, but it would seem that these domain names are targeting keywords and not so much opening the door to new domain names for businesses. Of course as you may or may not know by now, Google recently implemented an algorithm updates named “EMD”. Short for exact match domain.

This not only gets directly effected by this new algorithm formula change by created by Google, but causes other problems as well. Since ICANN is the manager of domain name system naming that needs to jump on this to provide more pressure on why this would be of benefit to company’s abroad.

Currently there are millions of domain names available already. Why create more domain spam for someone to purchase. The Internet is not over crowded, it is the spam causes it to be over crowded. Sorry, but is wrong for this, despite what the intent is for the company.

I understand, is a business and they are in it to make the money. Is that not the reason most go into business; to create that money train of cash. Well at least a large part of it.

Domain Name History

Of course I do remember years back when the Internet was on an ipv4 tunneling system and the .com boom flooded the internet with addresses that over-whelmed the Internet so much it placed a strain on it and the availability of domain names was becoming thinner and thinner by the day.

Once this was realized, the expansion of domain names was decided. This is what brought about ipv6 tunneling and created some of those now popular domain names you see being used today. That being said, I will take a step backwards for a second and say it could contain a positive effect in the long run.

Web Developers Nightmare

But as an advocate of spam prevention, thinking to many issue are at hand for us techies. Another example. Have you ever tried to write those wonderful regular expression that check for domain name availability or using one to check for proper url formatting? Well, if not, then this might not be so significant to you.

As a Web Developer, this could cause some issue’s. There are millions of regular expressions for checking url structure on the Internet. This will yes, create some work for web developers a like, but also may cause some serious widespread disruption throughout the web. Of course if I am jumping the gun a little, it is probably because working with regular expressions is not always the funnest thing to do.

I would tend to believe that this would also change the outcome of e-mail addresses as well. Your company might currently use the address but could be this afterwards, Looks funky for one thing, secondly will require new programming and development for proper e-mail structure checking as well.

Well, a little rant but also some food for thought. Since this was solely based on my opinion and some solid facts of past history pertaining to the Internet and domain names, it could prove to be more of a benefit. So if this is wrong I apologize in advance. Otherwise I believe it to be something of concern for web developers, SEO and more. Also curious to how it might affect domain name harvesting.

Domain name harvesting recently took a big hit from Google when the implemented the “EMD” changes. The only part that could weigh in heavily is whether the domain name endings are treated as actual keywords or as domain name endings such as .com, .net or .co are treated. Should be interesting to see how Google treats these domain names.

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Which way is Better – External Blog or Internal Blog?

March 7, 2013 2 comments
Do you blog internally or externally?

Blogging Platforms

Blogging and SEO Results

Currently I am testing out both of the theory’s myself. I have two websites that utilize the content on blogs externally and another site that does not use an external blog for content for the main websites. I use the content from these two external blogs by pulling the content from those blogs into the main sites from the feeds created by the external blogs. This can also be somewhat considered a form of content cu-ration  The third one in this theory does not use any of the content on the blog to the main site and actually does not even have a link to the external blog from the main site.

So at this point these businesses are producing blog results either way. This is great because I actually have live examples to show this data being monitored in Webmaster Tools and Google Analytic. Plus the great stats monitor in the Word Press Dashboards adds to the data that can be utilized as well.

Internal Blogging on Main Websites

More and more websites now a day’s are creating blogs which are directly incorporated right into the main websites. This does bring new content to the main sites, but also eliminates good inbound links coming from an external blog. Of course if you do not know by now, you are behind. Fresh web content is one of those wonderful factors the search engines appreciate. This new content created on the main site of an external blog tells the search engines you are wanting to be indexed again. Whether you WordPress blog pings the search engines or you produce this content on a main website blog; they know you created content and want it included in the results. Assuming it is of a rel=”follow”. Otherwise it will not be indexed.

This would be one of the other contributing factors surrounding internal blogging. You can have full-control over the links being created for one thing. For example the anchor text being used; which applies to external blog post as well, but also the fact of being able to internally link to other pages on the main website that can bring that link juice as long as it is of a rel=”follow”.

As you may know by know internal linking is one of the main contributing factors for on-page SEO that can help you rank your website pages. This internal linking can pass along the link juice from one page to the other. But not just that, it also creates a positive effect for hierarchical structure. Good page navigation is one of those other important on-page SEO factors that makes it easier for your visitors to find content and navigate around the website.

You can also use this internal linking to funnel your visitors to specific pages, such as for capturing a lead or showing off that new post you just wrote. There are lots of reasons to have full-control of what you can and can not do on your main website by creating a blog directly on it. Now let us cover the external blogging concept…

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External Blogging Separate From Main Websites

Okay, we have covered the topic of internal blogging on a main website; let us not cover some of the reasons for external blogging. Before I go any further, I would like to address the notorious spam that is running rampant on the Internet. From my point of view no one in the SEO industry likes spam unless you are one of those black hatters or a company trying to sell off that automated software that does it for you. My suggestion is to keep from spamming and that automated software. Trust me, this automated software and spamming does not help. As a matter of fact it does more damage than good to you business and brand. Stay away from it at all cost.

Next, external blogs can be a great resource for inbound traffic to a main website. For one thing you are creating a valuable resource as long as it is of quality to the visitors of the blog. Not only that, but you can still generate some quality links leading back to your main website with anchor text of choice; along with a rel=”follow” link as well.

At this point you are still getting the same effect as if it is an internal blog on a main website because you are still creating web content of quality, generating inbound links and still have control of the rel=”attribute” as well. But the downside is not being able to control the internal linking for the main website.

Now you can build links to the main site and pass along some of that link juice to you main website, but you lose that control of internal linking on the main website. Instead you are maintaining another website that will require the same effort as the main website requires. You will have to promote the external blog and the main website as well. Of course having the external blog is an effort to help build links and promote your main website, but your efforts have to be doubled since you are now maintaining to website platforms. As you will notice below the stats adequately show day’s of posting and day’s of not posting and what constant content can do for a blog.

Blog post monitoring from WordPress.

WordPress Blog Stats

As stated your internal architectural structure on your main website is an important factor for on-page SEO, hence the same applies to your external blog platform as well. In essence you are placing your efforts into two websites in an attempt to generate traffic to your main website. So you might ask the question of why create an external blog when you are just trying to drive visitors to you main website.

Reason being, more efforts increases more results is the theory behind it all. Some say having more than one website can over crowd the search engine results pages. I somewhat agree with this theory. Simple fact being, you are providing another source that produces results on the search engines. Although true, you are still trying to drive those visitors to your main website. But at the same time why can you just not exchange those blog post from the external blog to a blog post on an internal blog since you are trying to do the same thing. It really boils down to what factors you decide and what your blog is intended to do.

Plus, some do not always write web content on a blog which is appropriate for the current main website is one reason. Secondly, an external blog as mentioned provides another source to link from to the main website.  Another reason for having an external blog is that fact that some do not have the funds or resources to implement an internal blog on a main website or just not have placed this much thought into it all.

Although today, more and more main websites are being designed off the basic principle of having the blog created internally. This does eliminate having to maintain another external blog and in the eye’s of the search engines can help reduce spam. Main website by far have less spam problems than external blog platforms like WordPress. It is up to you and what direction you choose.

Make sure you promote your web content.

Blog Promoting

Promoting the Blogs

One factor that has not been covered yet; is the necessity to promote the blog post whether it is on an internal website blog or an external blog. This is one of those contributing factors that must be done no matter whether you utilize an internal or external blog. Your blog promotion is what is going to make your blog successful. Because without this blog promoting you may never get this great web content you write in front of those wonderful visitors you so much desire. This is one of those factors that really does not matter whether or not it is an external blog or internal blog.

“You must promote for success”.

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Benchmarking AMD64?

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Benchmarking AMD64?

Postby zarathustra » Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:49 am

been running both 64bit XP and 64 bit Fedora 4, speeds are crazy.

I want figures, can someone suggest a good cross platform benchmark?

regards Zara....
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OSSG FRAND Event 29/03/12

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OSSG FRAND Event 29/03/12

Postby markelkins » Sat Feb 25, 2012 9:18 pm

Open Standards, FRAND, and FOSS – London 29/03/12

http://ossg.bcs.org/2012/02/25/open-sta ... on-290312/

The BCS Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG) will be holding an event considering the relationship between Open Standards, Fair, Reasonable, And Non-Discriminatory terms (FRAND), and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) at the BCS Central London Offices, First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA (http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/london-office-guide.pdf) on Thursday 29th March 2012, from 1800 to 2100 hours.

This bookable event is free and open to all with buffet and refreshments. To book a place to attend please email Mark Elkins at mark_elkins@bcs.org

The Cabinet Office opened an Open Standards Consultation on 9 February 2012 which closes for comments on 3 May 2012. Within question one http://consultation.cabinetoffice.gov.u ... question1/ is the sub-question:

How could adopting (Fair) Reasonable and Non Discriminatory ((F)RAND) standards deliver a level playing field for open source and proprietary software solution providers?

Dependent upon on your viewpoint FRAND is possibly one of the most contentious terms that could be applied to FOSS because it conflicts with some potentially important aspects of it. As well as the view of the UK Government and the awaited outcome of the Cabinet Office Open Standards Consultation there is activity taking place in the EU Parliament that may affect the use of FOSS due to FRAND.

Aim of event
This event aims to unravel the relationship between Open Standards, FRAND, and FOSS and therefore make it clear what affect this relationship has for the practical application of Open Source. For instance – Would the use of the GPL licence and other OSI approved licences be affected?; Would the UK Government be constrained in what Open Source software it could use? or Could ways be found around such problems?

The findings from this event will be passed on to the BCS Policy Hub to feed into an overall BCS response to the Cabinet Office Open Standards Consultation. The BCS Policy Hub Consultation can be found at http://www.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/43785 where comments should be submitted by 18th April 2012.

Gerry Gavigan, Chair, Open Source Consortium (OSC), http://www.opensourceconsortium.org will discuss Royalty Free (RF) Open Standards and FRAND, which will involve active audience participation in that discussion.
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qemubuilder - are there precompiled kernel-images with ipv6 and ext3 support built-in

Are there any precompiled kernels for qemubuilder which have built-in
support for ipv6 and ext3 (and probably other nifty stuff) available?

Even better would be precompiled kernels which use the same
configuration as the debian buildd-network.

I did some research on the w³ and found nothing but out-dated stuff or
kernels without support for these built-in. Even the kernel images
provided by aurel32 [1] were not really suitable or didn't work at all.

Or do I really have to compile the kernel-images myself?

I need the images for testing package build on other than x86 / amd64

Thanks for your help in advance.

Björn Esser

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Re: MPlayer reloaded

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 05:03:09AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> I am Diego Biurrun, the MPlayer documentation maintainer, not to be
> confused with Gabucino, who has made a few appearances on this list
> before.  I am not here to start a(nother) flame war.

Thanks for your careful and comprehensive approach to resolving these
issues.  A codebase with source from many contributors using many
different licenses is seldom trivial to cope with.

At least, that's how I feel having wrestled with XFree86.  :)

So thanks again, and I hope your work leads to a productive thread and a
better definition of the MPlayer licensing problem space, if not an
upload of mplayer to Debian main -- wouldn't that be nice!  I'm
interested in trying it out myself.

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[Bug 139952] Re: VIA VT6240 SATA Controller DVD/CD Write Failures

Flavio Henrique Araque Gurgel fhagur at gmail.com
Fri Oct 31 20:37:34 UTC 2008

I have been watching this bug since 8.04
I have the same chipset and a Pioneer DVR-215 SATA DVD-RW. The problem is the same in 8.10, not possible to write CDs or DVDs.
Erasing a CD-RW works in 386, in x64 screwed a media.

What I have to add here is that the problem seems to be related to
sata_via module. I use PC-BSD in the same machine with wodim and
growisofs and both run fine with k3b as the frontend, so I'm sure it's
not a hardware fault.

Since the policy now is to send it to the upstream I made contact with
Tejun, he is taking care of it. The guys from Via are sending him a test
board. The latest patch for 2.6.28-RC2 didn't solve it.

I'm still trying to figure out where the bug is by myself.

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[ubuntu-art] Some questions about the SVG versions of the logo

Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado raulnac at gmail.com
Mon May 18 17:12:48 BST 2009

Saluton Coz :)

On Mon 18 May 2009 18:02 +0200, coz DS <c... at gmail.com> dixit:
> 2009/5/18 Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado <raul at dervishd.net>
>> First, the SVG versions are made with Adobe Illustrator: are there
>> versions made with Inkscape or other tool, containing shapes instead of
>> paths?
>> Third, about the letters in "ubuntu" and "linux for human beings": was a
>> font used or all letters are made from shapes? The strap line looks like
>> Bitstream Vera/Deja Vu sans serif, but "ubuntu" looks like hand made
>> shapes. Again, knowing the sizes and the shapes would be great.
> the letters in "Ubuntu"  are a font named  ttf-ubuntu-title.

Thanks a lot for the information! Since the shapes where so regular, I
assumed a hand-made design and not a font. I've installed it from the
Ubuntu package.

> For the first question,,, I do not think these were made in
> illustrator at at all

$ head UbuntuCoF.svg
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 11 Build 196, SVG Export Plug-In .
SVG Version: 6.0.0 Build 78)  -->

This is the file from the Ubuntu Artwork/Official page:

> ,,, illustrator files do open well in inkscape from my experience and
> the Ubuntu logo  opens and edits very well in Inkscape.

Oh, yes, I know, and that's not the problem. I tried to get the metrics
of the Circle of Friends from the SVG, and my first try was opening the
SVG with Vim and check the XML. Since all objects are paths instead of
circles and the SVG exporter in Adobe Illustrator makes heavy use of
"transform" in the objects, it was nearly impossible. Moreover, it adds
a copy of the PGF version at the end of the file, adding more than 300kB
of binary data.

> Unless you are getting another version from somewhere
> that I am not aware of  these were made in Inkscape.

Where should I get the Inkscape versions? The only place I've found
logos are on the URL I've posted above, but I'm eager to get Inkscape
versions :)

Again, Coz, thanks a lot for your reply :)

Raúl "DervishD" Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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The Forex Week In Review

The Week That Was…

Policy makers continued to dominate the foreign exchange markets this week with the key highlight being the FOMC meeting and Janet Yellen’s press conference, Yellen held the line and confirmed that the FED were on track for a 2015 move to normalise monetary policy.

The continued hawkish stance of the FED gave the USD further support and pressured the majors to test and break recent lows. The theme of monetary policy divergence remains one of the markets favoured strategies and the rhetoric has reinforced this as 2014 draws to a close.

The market expects downside in EURUSD while USDJPY should continue its ascent, post any end of year profit taking volatility the market looks set to reposition to capitalise on these thematic trades for the beginning of 2015.

  • USD  Market seems to believe the USD correction is likely done aside from any end of year short term profitaking volatility, particularly after the Fed did not put too much emphasis on downside risks to inflation in the FOMC’s press conference. Rather, the press conference focused on the strength of the labor market, which markets took as a more positive sign.
  • EUR The risk off environment has seen positions being unwound and with some of these potentially being funded in EUR, the EUR had gained some short term support at the beginning of the week onlt to be hit with an FOMC, SNB one two in recent days. The combination of the hawkish FED and the SNB looking to negative interest rates sent the EUR back to lows.
  • GBP Markets remain bearish on GBPUSD. The inflation rate is now at 1% and markets see risks of it falling further especially since oil prices have weakened. While the BoE has suggested that they could look through the low oil prices when deciding when to raise rates, the performance of GBP over the coming months is likely to be increasingly related to politics which markets believe could have a negative impact.
  • JPY The JPY continues to be driven by local risk appetite and so there could be support into year end. However the markets medium term bearish view remains. Now that the snap election is out of the way, the focus may turn back to the low inflation and growth outlook. Both of which look weak.
  • AUD Having broken below the key 0.82, the outlook for the AUD remains bearish in our view. With China’s economy showing signs of further weakness such as with the HSBC PMI, the external trade environment remains weak for Australia. In addition, markets remain cautious on the macro outlook. Declining commodity prices, especially iron ore, also do not bode well for the currency.
  • CAD Given the sharp decline in oil prices, CAD’s resilience relative to other energy exporters has been impressive. This is particularly because Canada has a more diversified economy and high trade exposure to the robust US economy. Markets remain bearish on the CAD against the USD but are also now starting to see the themes change against the other G10 currencies. Should oil prices remain low then the performance of CAD could be hindered

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  • EURUSD Short Term (1-3 Days): Bearish  – Medium Term (1-3 Weeks) Bearish
  • GBPUSD: Short Term (1-3 Days): Bearish  – Medium Term (1-3 Weeks) Bearish
  • USDJPY: Short Term (1-3 Days): Neutral – Medium Term (1-3 Weeks) Bullish
  • USDCAD: Short Term (1-3 Days): Bullish – Medium Term (1-3 Weeks) Bullish
  • AUDUSD: Short Term (1-3 Days): Bearish – Medium Term (1-3 Weeks) Bearish

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I’m so glad that you stumbled across my little blog. Please, grab a cup of coffee or wine because it’s five o’clock somewhere and stay a while! Give us a chance to get better acquainted.

My name is Kendel and I’m twenty-two years old, which means I can finally claim the ‘twenty-something’ title. I live on the Coromandel Coast and I am a student at Massey University. I study online, which means that I have the luxury of reading course materials from my bed or on the beach. It’s not the worst thing in the world. I major in public relations and minor in linguistics. 2016 is my final year at college before I’m released into the “real world”.

I have been in love with the written word for as long as I can remember. Every blogger is, right?  Little Misadventures is my third (and hopefully final) attempt at creating a little niche for myself. This is where I unleash my inner thoughts, my adventures, my trials and triumphs, and everything else as I begin this journey as “an adult” …whatever that is.

It’s a big world out there, but if you would like to get to know a Kiwi girl (without the small talk) then come along for the ride! It’s going to be a wild one.

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  1. Hi Kendel! Thank you so much for stopping by my blog. So glad to have you on board. You seem a very interesting person, with a strong personality and clear ideas of what you want.You should definitely pick up Spanish again, it’s a beautiful language 😉 (let’s pretend I’m not from Spain haha). Looking forward to reading more from you.

    Have a great day! 🙂

  2. Hi! Thanks for the follow!

    1) I, too, am a lover of the written word and can totally sympathize with the notion of wanting to work in any field that involves writing/reading! So many choices!
    2) I am SO jealous you are in New Zealand! I have always wanted to go there!

    Can’t wait to read more of your posts. Happy Blogging! – Jara

    1. Hey, no problem petal! I love your blog 🙂 I think I was actually following it on my last one too!

      Writing and New Zealand are two pretty awesome things if I do say so myself ;] I miiiight be a little biased though haha.

      Can’t wait to read more of yours too! Happy blogging!

    1. Hey petal! Aw, thank you so much! I actually haven’t gone abroad…and I’m not going to be. After a lot of thinking I decided that it wasn’t a viable choice for my college career ;[ Hopefully I’ll be able to go abroad sometime in the future though! Thank you so much for your comment! :]

  3. Hey Kendal!
    Thanks for visiting my blog and I’m glad you did. Because now I’ve found yours which is pretty awesome!
    I’ve read through a few of your posts and I’m in love with your blog already! 😀 Will definitely be checking back here often enough 🙂

    xo Grace

  4. Hi! I just found your blog and you seem like such a great, down to earth writer! I can’t wait to read some more of your Kiwi Adventures 🙂 When I visited New Zealand a few years ago, I was amazed by it’s beauty – my dream is to study abroad there after my Gap Year!

    1. Aw, thank you! 🙂 It definitely is something special. I love my little corner of the world 😀 You should definitely come back! One day (even if we’re old and wrinkly) we can have a blate! (Because I’m sure I’ll still be blogging about the millions of cats I’ll have by then).

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  5. Little Misadventures,

    I just got really excited to find a blogger who is a student as well! I’ve been searching for a while, and I’m happy to have come across your blog (not that I don’t overly enjoy all the style blogs I follow and all the hilarious lifestyle blogs that don’t apply to me yet)! I actually just started my own blog (yesterday) to document all of my experience from school, life, etc. I can’t say that it hasn’t been fun so far! I can’t wait to see what’s in store for your blog. Consider me a new follower! 🙂

    Alicia from

    1. New Zealand is the best place ever! Ha. I might be just a little biased 😉 I actually haven’t been there yet! I do want to go to them at some point though! I haven’t even been to our capital, so I have a lot of travelling to do in the future!

  6. Hi! Finally made it to your blog. Gonna mass-read your posts today. Also just learnt you’re 20 and in NZ. I spent half a year there and love it 🙂 I’ll post something about dating in NZ sometime! xo

  7. Girl, I can relate to this! I’ve had multiple blogs in the past, and still wonder sometimes if I’ve found my niche as a blogger. I’m interested to hear more about your misadventures!

    1. Gosh, this “niche” thing will do my head in! Haha. I’ve kind of grown accustom to the fact that I’ll always be the person who writes about everything and nothing at the same time 😉 It is a rare art form that I have grown to love. Haha. So glad you found my blog! 🙂

  8. Hi Kendel! I’m Amanda. I stumbled upon your blog because one of my mutual followers nominated you for the Encouraging Thunder Award. We have similar blog themes/purposes, so I thought I’d follow you! I’m looking forward to reading more of your posts. 🙂 x

  9. As a fellow 20-something-public-relations-person I love perusing through your blog posts! You’re a great writer and your blog holds some very valuable tips and advice. I look forward to reading more!

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Hugo nominated novelettes from Seanan McGuire

Posted on: July 1, 2013

Seanan McGuire has been all over Hugo nominations these last few years. I admit I’ve read very little of her work, so these two novelettes served as a good introduction to her urban fantasy. Both novelettes take place in the same universe as the October Daye series, but these aren’t stories about Toby Daye, but rather the supernatural fae and luidaeg creatures who also inhabit the world. It’s my personal opinion that Hugo nominated work should stand on its own, so don’t worry if you go into these having not read anything in the October Daye series, or anything else of McGuire’s.

This post finishes off my reviews of the Hugo nominated novelettes. Click back a couple of days to read my reviews of The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi by Pat Catigan, Fade to White by Catherynne M. Valente and The Boy Who Cast No Shadow by Thomas Olde Heuvelt.

sea salt tears

In Sea Salt Tears
(available to read for free, here)

I always like me a Selkie story, but the conceit that not all Selkies receive a skin is a refreshing twist. In a skinning ceremony, a young Selkie receives their skin because an elderly relative has finally decided to pass it on. Each family has a limited number of skins, and children know their chances at inheriting a skin are directly proportional to their status in their families. Put bluntly, black sheep don’t swim.

Liz and her friends are “celebrating” that their friend Daisy finally received her skin. And by celebrating I mean they all smile and hug Daisy and say how happy they are for her, and then retreat to the beach to drink and feel sorry for themselves. Liz is only sixteen, too young to be cynical, but too old to be as naive as the children who are still playing at the beach house. She’ll get her skin any year now, right?

A newcomer to their bonfire is a distant cousin, Annie. Liz and Annie hit it off right away, and although Annie lives far away, she tries to make it back to California for the skinning ceremonies. The story jumps forward in time quite a few times, eventually covering 30 years. As Liz watches more and more of her friends and cousins receive their skins, she starts to wonder if it will ever be her turn. Each time Liz is passed over for a skin, Annie is there for her, helping her feel better.

Not a day passes that that Liz doesn’t hope for that phone call, the call that will let her become what she’s been waiting for her whole life. And not a day passes that Annie wonders if she’ll ever be enough to make Liz happy.

It doesn’t seem to matter what Seanan McGuire is writing about, be it zombie fiction or urban fantasy or contemporary fantasy, but damn does that woman know how to get an emotional reaction out of the reader! The premise of In Sea Salt Tears isn’t complex, it’s about two women, each yearning for validation. But good luck reading this story without getting a big lump in your throat.

The Rat Catcher

Rand is a Cait Sidhe – a fae cat. He also has a weakness for Shakespeare. In London, in the year of our Lord sixteen hundred sixty six, the Court of Cats sits on the boundary between our world and the different fae realms. The Cait Sidhe have control of the shadows, through which you must pass to travel between the realms. Cait Sidhe are even more cat-life than regular cats, more contrary and vicious, and they care even less what humans think.

Rand (later known as Tybalt) is sent by his father as an ambassador to a larger fae court, where a young Roane prophet tells all in attendance of an all consuming fire that looms on the horizon. All must leave Londinium, she says, any who stay will burn.

Rand’s father, The King of the Court of Fogbound Cats is entrenched, his power is his throne. Can Rand convince at least his sisters and the many kittens of the Court of Cats to follow him away from this fire that may never come? And how, pray tell, is a cat supposed to tell his human friends at The Duke’s Theater to run as fast as their legs can carry them, before it’s too late?

While I thought the premise was neat, and I appreciated McGuire’s historically accurate setting, this story really didn’t do much for me. Unlike In Sea Salt Tears, I didn’t feel like I was given enough information to understand the connections between the Cait Sidhe and the other fae races, or to connect with Rand or the other characters we meet. I could tell there was a lot of history between Rand and his sisters and a Sidhe woman named September, but I’d obviously missed out on some previous discussions. Even though this is chronologically a prequel to the October Daye books, I definitely feel like readers who have more familiarity with that series would get more out of the story than I did.

I seem to run hot and and cold with McGuire. good thing I’ve got more Hugo nominated works of hers to read!

6 Responses to "Hugo nominated novelettes from Seanan McGuire"

I’m ashamed to admit I’ve never even heard of this author. I want to try at least one of these though, and the one I’m going to try is In Sea Salt Tears. Not only because you liked that one better, but also I just think it’s a cooler premise. I love new twists on old myths.

awesome, I hope you like In Sea Salt Tears! Seanan McGuire is a writing MACHINE, she has published a ton of urban fantasy and also write zombie fiction under the name Mira Grant. Stay tuned for my review of her Hugo Nom’d (yes, another one!) zombie novella The Last Stand of the California Browncoats. it’s a sort of prequel to her Newsflesh trilogy.

I have heard of this author and actually really want to read some of her books. I need to become organised. I’m a big shambolic mess! Which book would you recommend as a first go?
Lynn 😀

Seems like most of her works figure into the Newsflesh Zombie series (written as Mira Grant), or the October Daye urban fantasy series. FEED is the first Newsflesh book, and ROSEMARY AND RUE is the first in the urban fantasy.

so I guess which are you more interested in? Zombie horror with a really good twist, or urban fantasy (also with a twist?).

Well, pigs in space, I had no idea! I have read Feed!! In that case I’ll have to try the urban fantasy – I love a good twist.
Lynn 😀

Well, this helped a lot. I was a bit confused at the end of that book and wondering about the story there with Elizabeth and the “Annie”. It was a beautiful little love story with a horribly sad ending. She wasn’t a second prize, but Liz couldn’t stop being what she was either.

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A thought on identifiers and books

In mid-March of 2006, NISO convened a roundtable of experts and thought leaders in digital resources, at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. The goal of this meeting was to establish some consensus around the use of identifiers for text, video, music, and other media in the digital realm. In breakout discussions, three characteristics of an identifier were ultimately defined: granularity, semantic opacity, and persistence.

The granularity of an identifier refers to precisely what it identifies. An ISBN, for example, identifies a stand-alone, trade-able publication (a book or a chapter). It does not identify an illustration, a diagram, a bibliography. The publication is the extent of the ISBN’s granularity. Other identifiers (such as the DOI) can identify components of publications.

Semantic opacity refers to the degree to which the identifier is a “dumb number” – a random string of numbers that carries no intelligence. The ISBN is only partly a dumb number – it begins with 978 or 979, which indicate that the thing being identified is in the book supply chain; it then has a publisher prefix. The string following the publisher prefix is semantically opaque, and the ISBN ends in a check-digit that validates the number.

Persistence refers to how long the relationship between the identifier and the object will last. Identifiers on shipping containers, for example, do not need to be persistent after the container has been unloaded and its contents dispersed. Identifiers on books need to be persistent for a much longer period of time, as information about a book can be created long after the book itself has gone out of distribution.

Essentially, all an identifier does is say, “This thing is not that thing.” It doesn’t say what the thing is, or offer any insight about any of the thing’s characteristics. An identifier expresses uniqueness. And that’s all it expresses.

7 thoughts on “A thought on identifiers and books

  1. Uniqueness within some domain. It does give some idea of what the thing is (e.g. your explanation of what an ISBN identifies).

  2. I think I understand what you mean when you say that an identifier “doesn’t say what the thing is or offer any insight about any of the thing’s characteristics”. But how does that fit with the idea that starting an ISBN with 978 tells us that the thing is book? I guess the number on its own doesn’t say that; another reference table tells us the nature of the thing.. yes?

    1. The problem with the ISBN is that it is not truly a dumb number. The 978 or 979 prefix tells us that it’s a book-ish thing. Then there’s the publisher prefix. Some publishers get horribly attached to their prefixes – but when there’s an acquisition or merger, the prefix ceases to mean what it used to. So it’s best to regard the ISBN as a dumb number in practice, even though it actually does have some intelligence in it.

      The same is true of phone numbers. Area codes shift, people move with their numbers, etc.

      Perhaps I should amend it to say the BEST identifiers don’t say what the thing is or offer any insight about its characteristics. Because the minute they do, problems of interpretation arise.

  3. Fantastic website you have here but I was curious if you knew of any message boards
    that cover the same topics discussed in this article?
    I’d really like to be a part of community where I can get responses from other experienced individuals that share the same interest. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. Kudos!

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Published on Oct 29, 2016
This documentary was aired Tuesday October 11th 2016 on IrishTV.

It is the compelling story of people affected by Lyme disease in Ireland.

Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is an infectious disease caused by bacteria of the Borrelia type.

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection typically transmitted through the bite of an infected tick. It is one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the world.

2016 Lyme Conference In May 2016, Ireland's 2nd Lyme conference brought together doctors & patients. European speakers attended & was a great success. This 18 min video captures the atmosphere perfectly (including interviews with speakers & patients).

Living with Lyme Disease - Irish documentary team looking for backers, take a moment to watch the video, it's heart wrenching.

Check out Tick Talk's survey results, now updated for 2016!
In May (Lyme awareness month) Tick Talk volunteer Ann Maher hosted Ireland's 2nd Irish Lyme disease conference, plus talks were held in a ladies group in Galway & a school in Wicklow.

Dublin Inst of Technology student Natalia Marzec set her photographic display to the subject of Lyme disease plus a new article written by Tick Talk, has been published by MyKidsTime.

From the Health Protection & Surveillance Centre in Dublin: We are planning to hold Lyme Awareness Week 2016 on the week beginning Monday 2nd May. As usual we will be having HSE Communications alert media outlets about Lyme Awareness Week and will be seeking interviews to raise awareness at this important time.
The Lyme subcommittee task force (on lyme prevention & surveillance) will be publishing their full report during Autumn 2016....

New single released by an Irish Lyme sufferer to help raise funds for her treatment & raise more awareness in Ireland

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Read also: Kerry may erect signs amid risk of Lyme disease

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Latest news: December 1st the Matter Hospital will no longer send bloods to labs for testing for the following : Anaplasmosis, #Babesiosis#Bartonella, Brucella, Chlamydia pneumonia, Q Fever or #Rickettsiae. The reason? Why, its budget of course!

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4 comments on “Listening to Fip via Nokia S60 Radio

  1. Hi all,

    So I’ve been struggling with this whole no-FIP thing for a while now, and it’s been super frustrating (though I love the higher-bit rate service and I think tv-radio.com is great at serving up the stuff). I JUST this morning found a way to play FIP on my N95! or on any other PocketPC, or Windows Mobile device!

    Firstly, for the N95 (or N-series or E-series):
    Get the Nokia Internet Radio Player:

    Install it, then click “Options” then “Add Station Manually”
    Then add this URL:
    [audio src="http://mp3.live.tv-radio.com/fip/all/fiphautdebit.mp3" /]

    For anyone else using any other device (or for users of Nokia phones wishing to use something better than the Internet Radio app)
    Get CorePlayer Mobile from:
    (or from the torrent networks, to try it out)
    Then add, just as before the URL:
    [audio src="http://mp3.live.tv-radio.com/fip/all/fiphautdebit.mp3" /]

    This whole thing came about when I clicked on “File Info” in Winamp…

    Sweet, eh? If you’ve got questions or problems, maybe I can help.

    • Cheers for that Pete,

      We’ll update the how to page soon.

      We have the Nokia Internet Radio application too and think it’s ace, and so we’ve followed your instructions and voila, there is Fip in glorious high quality 😀

      One thing we should say is, if you’re using the internet radio player, make sure you’re using a wireless network or something on your N95 or it could get expensive, and nobody wants that.

  2. I too am a proud owner of a Nokia S60 device (the E71) and was delighted to discover that I can now FIP on my phone.

    For those who don’t know the latest version of the Symbian Operating System for Nokia devices includes an in built Nokia internet radio app which works much better than the old app that needed to be downloaded.

    If you don’t have the latest version of your phone’s firmware then go and download it from Nokia’s site.

    Once you have the Nokia Internet Radio app you simply need to open it up, add new station and enter the URL above as kindly offered by Peter Fotheringham (http://mp3.live.tv-radio.com/fip/all/fiphautdebit.mp3) et voila!

    I’ve even gone and bought myself an adapter for my phone so that I can plug in my high quality headphones just so as to be able to enjoy high quality FIP on the go. This is possibly the greatest use for a mobile phone EVER.

    Note to the LoveFIP crew, you need to update the listen to FIP section to update everyone on this fantastic news!

    Vive la FIP!

  3. I love fip!

    the nokia app doesn’t work on the N5800 xpress music which I have, but I found that if you sign up to yourmuze.fm you can create an account which you log into using the phone’s browser and then launch a link which opens in the phone’s own media player..

    works great over my giffgaff 3g connection – unlimited data for 10/month and I can put fip on through my amp with the phone on charge whenever I like, and keep my own wireless connection and netbook processsor free for other things

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Stephen Tapert (MAPH ’02) Announces Book and Exhibition at The Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin

Tapert_CoverFilm historian, writer, and filmmaker Stephen Tapert, who earned his M.A. from The University of Chicago in 2002 and later worked at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is set to curate his first exhibition at the world’s largest film museum: The Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin, Italy. Continue reading

LA MAPHers: Catch Young Joon Kwak’s (MAPH ’10) MFA Thesis Exhibition TODAY!

YOUNGJOONToday is the last day to see the exhibition! You can also see some of Young Joon’s work in Issue 1 of Colloquium.

Mutant Salon: Who Are Worth Our Love

Young Joon Kwak
MFA Thesis Exhibition

March 11 – March 17, 2014

Mutant Salon: Who Are Worth Our Love will present new sculpture, photo, video, performance, and collaborative works by Young Joon Kwak, in addition to offering attendees haircuts and other beauty treatments with Marvin Astorga & Elisa Harkins at Mutant Salon.

USC MFA Gallery
Graduate Fine Arts Building
3001 S. Flower St.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
(Entrance on 30th St. between Flower St. and Figueroa St.)

Gallery hours Mon-Sun, 10a-5p (or by appointment)

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Teaching the Body – Naomi Slipp (MAPH ’09) on her upcoming exhibit

Naomi Slipp (MAPH ’09) is a current PhD candidate in the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Boston University. As a facet of her studies, she has been planning an exhibition on American art and artistic anatomy, the topic of her dissertation research, since the spring of 2010. Directly inspired by her MAPH thesis written on the bronze anatomical casts of Thomas Eakins at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the two-month long exhibition Teaching the Body: Artistic Anatomy in the American Academy from Copley, Rimmer, and Eakins to Contemporary Artists, opens January 31, 2013 at the Boston University Art Gallery and includes over eighty works of art (many never exhibited before), extensive public programming, and an illustrated catalogue with scholarly essays.

She says of the project: “I feel inspired by artistic anatomy because these works of art visualize the uncharted and wondrous terrain of the human body, not some distant volcano or historical event, but the miraculous, complex mechanisms operating within ourselves. The study of anatomy also, historically, has brought together doctors and artists who sought to explore this corporeal space together.”

Because of this, she is also very excited about the opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration around the exhibition topic. She says: “I want to create a dialogue between these two commonly polarized fields (art and science). To that end, we are initiating collaborative programming with Massachusetts General Hospital, the College of Fine Arts, the BU Medical College & the Center for Science & Medical Journalism at Boston University, and the Massachusetts College of Art & Design. I hope to unite this diverse audience, bringing together people who are interested in art and those who are interested in medicine for a rich, shared conversation about what it means to occupy, treat, & picture our own bodies.”

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Kundalini Yoga

Introductory note from Dr. Harsh K. Luthar: I have known Pieter Schoonheim Samara for many years. Pieter is unique in the way he integrates the teachings of Kundalini Yoga and Advaita. Only the rarest and most advanced teachers have such deep knowledge of these topics. Such wisdom and insight and the ability to explain Kundalini Yoga and how it interfaces with the highest Advaitic teachings belongs only to the few who have direct experience of the nondual reality and Self  Knowledge.  Over the years, Pieter has shared a lot of his wisdom with us.

One of Pieter’s earlier articles that the editors uploaded back in 2005 for HarshaSatsangh Magazine, Volume IV, was the following.

Now Pieter has introduced the complete set of articles he has used in the past for training advanced Kundalini Teachers. I believe sincere practitioners of Kundalini Yoga who aspire to understand the underlying reality and the nature of the Self will find what Pieter offers to be of great value.

The Advaita-Kundalini Yoga Path of One Star Spirituality: By Pieter Schoonheim Samara

From time to time when one practices, in particular the Kundalini Yoga brought forth by of Yogi Bhajan, one would benefit also by reading some of these texts. The KY TT articles were originally handouts I provided to students in the Teachers Training Program to get right to the core, purpose, and realization intended by the practice and teachings, so that from a centralized perspective, a hub, the many aspects of the 35 years of teachings could be viewed and understood from a unified perspective, the intent being the sudden abidance as unconditioned uncaused, all pervasive being, where the seeming dichotomy of an inside and outside, a higher and lower consciousness, a separate individual “I” from the universal Self, is relinquished and vanishes, “Impact.” “Inside outside everything is whole.” Yogi Bhajan

The first group should be read in succession, as each one further the information in the previous one. Also they are useful to reread from time to time, as with practice new understanding arises as to the meaning of the words, i.e., you experience the meaning of the words that would not have been imaginable prior to practice.

The KY TT articles are:

Additional Articles regarding yoga practice and resulting experience
of radical Self awareness:

“Speak but the Word and my Soul will be healed” – Non-Dual spiritual
Texts, the reading of which, for someone practicing Kundalini Yoga,
results in a sudden recollection of the Self by the Self, the “I” of
our “i”, giving arise to the sensation of coming out of a state of
amnesia or stupor and into a grounding Singularity of pervasive
uncaused unconditioned Being:

  1. Also, read the Stories and teachings of Christ in the New Testament Gospels in relation to the reading and rereading of the above texts, and you will “hear” that the whole story and the entire teachings are really expressing the Path of Sudden Enlightenment, as explained in Maya-Non-Dualism.  When the non-dual teachings of Christ are “heard” – as in “Those who have ears to hear, let them hear what the spirit has top say….” One experiences a sudden recollection of who and what each of us really is, as never having been separate from either each other, the world, its Creator, or the singularity of all pervasive Being that shines through each one’s Heart.

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Lowongan kerja September 27, 2007 – Oktober October 09, 2007

Our Client, a Multinational oil & gas company under PSC term with BPMIGAS, is looking for candidates to fulfil the following position;

Principle Accountabilities:
1. Plan, develop and facilitate the implementation of the CP&B and WP&B which include generation of Operation Division plan, OPEX and Operational CAPEX, consolidation of Exploration and Development plan, CAPEX and OPEX, so as to ensure alignment with Strategies and Initiatives, Corporate-Plan and Budget (CP & B) and compliance to PSC requirement.

2. Consolidate and facilitate the development of PSC terms from respective Countries and Regional Planning to ensure alignment to GOP global strategy to maximize producing PSC value through benchmarking of crude evacuation plan, Gas sales agreement and operating agreement.
3. Participate and assist PSC extension and renewal exercise undertaken by Countries and Regional Planning team to ensure alignment with PSC target and aspiration through prudent tracking, timely triggering and provision of basic proposal.
4. Prepare PSC strategy framework as guided by overall framework design criteria in ensuring decisions on relinquishment or PS acquisition meeting GOP long-term plan and target through value generation tracking, timely triggering and providing of basic proposal.
5. Participate in respective Countries and Regional Planning PSC audit execution by Host Authorities and/or partners so as to ensure good governance and prudent operatorships.

1. Degree in Economics or Engineering with Business Planning experiences (min 5 years of experiences in oil & gas industry), Master Degree will be an advantage.
2. Having deep knowledge and understanding on all aspect of Production Sharing Contract.
3. Having deep knowledge and skill on PSC Work Program & Budget.
5. Having good strong relationship with BPMIGAS, DITJEN MIGAS, and related parties
6. Strong analytical and leadership skills.
7. Excellent communicator – both in Indonesian and English; effective at presenting conclusions and proposals

Interested applicants may send their comprehensive CV (English) to with position name as the email subject, no later than October 9, 2007.

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Season’s Greetings

December 24th, 2011

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Many thanks to Theobalds Butchers for providing such a brilliant and unusual festive window (and a lot of meat throughout the year).

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  1. Lovely picture – it looks like a great place to shop. Merry Christmas!

  2. Frightening Christmas sentiment – but pretty apposite for the world at this juncture. Have a good Christmas,

  3. Fiona says:

    Merry christmas mad dog! Thanks for your delicious postings this year. Just made sausage rolls… And will make it to theobalds next year! Xxx

  4. Thank you so much, have a wonderful time too and next time in London you´re taking me to Theobald´s!

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    Have a wonderful Christmas day.

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[xmonad] Patch: changes in Prompt and new module

Gwern Branwen gwern0 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 26 02:42:38 CEST 2012

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Carsten Mattner
<carstenmattner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guess I'll have to report then that the launcher patch has been
> working well for a couple weeks of daily use now. Therefore I
> suggest to apply it upstream in XMonadContrib.

I haven't been following this discussion very closely since it started
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Making Furniture Interactive

December 14, 2007

Thermal Chair write up

Filed under: Final Project,Marc Manzke — marcmanzke @ 4:29 pm
Tags: , , , ,

 This chair is intended to provide thermal comfort for commuters.  Overall I feel the project was a success, the chair is very effective at cooling the occupant at its 160CFM capacity.  Please see poster PDF for full destription.Thermal Chair Concept PosterFiberglassing 1fiberglassing 2fiberglassing 3fan housingfan test modulefan test module 2fan test module 3 Final ChairComplete Chaircomplete Chair 2

November 6, 2007

ferrofluid displays

Filed under: Examples,Marc Manzke — marcmanzke @ 9:33 am

crazy oil and electromagnets

November 4, 2007

Bruce Shapiro

Filed under: Marc Manzke,Sandbox,Uncategorized — marcmanzke @ 10:18 pm

interesting applications of lots of steppers and a lot more.

Bruce Shapiro Video

October 31, 2007

thermal comfort chair

Filed under: Final Project,Marc Manzke,Proposals — marcmanzke @ 12:04 am

For the non-vehicular (self-propelled) commuter, the Thermal Comfort Chair is intended to provide personal, localized thermal equilibrium primarily immediately following a commute. As a commuter arrives to work or home their metabolic rate is significantly higher than that of their coworkers. That commuter is unfortunately at the whim of the air handling system that cannot accommodate temporary, or personal needs. Rather than sweat it out, the Thermal Comfort Chair is an active heat sink for the body so you can return to equilibrium and obtain a productive comfort level.
thermal comfort chair

October 30, 2007

vector fan

Filed under: Exercise 6: Motorized Mechanical Movement,Marc Manzke — marcmanzke @ 11:44 pm

I built this “jet” from a couple 12 volt, 0.5 amp case fans that can move alot of air. I built a simple cardboard enclosure to regulate the outflow / thrust of the fans.

Filed under: Exercise 5: Mechanical Movement,Marc Manzke — marcmanzke @ 11:25 pm

I brazed together this robo-bug out of copper tubing and wire. It translates flex movement to rotational movement of its legs via braided bicycle cables. A pair of springs return the legs to their original position. The most interesting part of the build was brazing the tubes together with simple flux, solder, and a torch. I had to wrap more complicated joints with copper wire before brazing to hold things together and provide a stronger finished joint.

October 6, 2007

LED digit clock 2

Filed under: Exercise 4: Four State Machines,Marc Manzke — marcmanzke @ 9:01 pm

LED digit clock is a nixie-style clock with sound activated state machine. Eight LEDs are embedded in a machined block of acrylic. The block is braced against overturning moment with a short section of aluminum angle which is tapped with socket head bolts. Hot and ground are then routed from each LED to the arduino which also powers a small op amp and microphone.

Coding the clock necessitated a series of 10 code arrays to govern the physical outputs of 0 through 9. Other functions output the values of hour, minute and second counters to the physical array. The four states of the clock are a default counting state which blinks the entire array on the minute every minute. The second is a slightly more elaborate display on the hour. Left alone the clock will attempt to attract attention via these two states. If one asks the clock what time it is, the microphone / op amp assembly triggers a recognition sequence to indicate reaction to the audio stimuli. This state is immediately followed by outputting the actual time in sequential hour:minute format. The clock then returns to its default minute counting state. Will post code on another page.

digits diagram

digit 4

October 5, 2007

LED digit clock

Filed under: Exercise 4: Four State Machines,Marc Manzke — marcmanzke @ 9:32 pm

digit clock teaserLED digit clock is operational, it has run for several hours accurately. full documentation to come ASAP.

September 11, 2007

key lamp

Filed under: Exercise 2: Add a Switch,Marc Manzke,Uncategorized — marcmanzke @ 1:41 am

I’m constantly worried about leaving important personal items (keys, wallet, phone, etc.) where they shouldn’t be. Since leaving my wallet on the 28X Airport Flyer last year, I’ve made a conscious effort to know where my belongings are at all times. I’ve noticed recently that i’m prone to leaving my keys in the door of my apartment. Key lamp uses a homemade switch consisting of two aluminum plates, and a block of cherry wood to provide a handy key storage / warning device. When keys are inserted into the block, the keys themselves complete the circuit and dual 3000 mcd LEDs light in recognition of the presence of keys. The next step in this system would be to wire it into the deadbolt of my appt so when i leave the keys in the door the annoying flashing would remind me to take them out from inside the apartment.
key lamp components
Warning flash

I intended to code 3 states into my lamp. The default being off but still monitoring the switch for the presence of keys. the second is warning mode wherein the lamp would flash annoyingly in order to remind me to take my keys out. The final state would be to remain at full brightness to provide light for navigation. Because i get home from studio after midnight on a regular basis, i often run into things in the darkness of my apartment. The third state would provide minimal light until i can turn on appropriate lights. I have only managed to code the first two states, but the third is on its way.

September 5, 2007

(interactive) Furniture

Filed under: Assignments,Exercise 1: What Is?,Marc Manzke — marcmanzke @ 11:29 pm

unitoilet prototypeIn exploring existing models, I became interested in passively interactive furniture. These pieces are not made interactive through mechanical or electronic systems, rather they are responsive through physical form. In some cases they are not interactive and are only objects of interest.

Universal toilet by Changduk Kim and Youngki Hong reconsiders the accessibility of disabled toilet. The unit does not require the user to twist or turn in order to move from wheel chair to toilet. The full text can be found here.

The second piece of interest is one of Zaha Hadid’s recent forays into furniture design exhibited in NYC. The full text can be found here

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Astrata Group Inc. Fundamental Company Report provides a complete overview of the company’s affairs. All available data is presented in a comprehensive and easily accessed format. The report includes financial and SWOT information, industry analysis, opinions, estimates, plus annual and quarterly forecasts made by stock market experts. The report also enables direct comparison to be made between Astrata Group Inc. and its competitors. This provides our Clients with a clear understanding of Astrata Group Inc. position in the Computers and Electronic Equipment Industry.

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Astrata Group Incorporated operates in the Telematics sector of the GPS industry. The company focuses on advanced location-based IT products and services that combine positioning, wireless communications, and information technologies.

The company provides advanced positioning products, as well as monitoring and airtime services to commercial and governmental entities in a number of markets including homeland security, public safety, transportation, surveying, utility, construction, mining, and agriculture.

The company's products and services include surveying instrumentation using GPS and other augmenting technologies, such as wireless communication and lasers; fleet management for specialized machines, such as guidance for earth-moving equipment; positioning and IT technology for remote asset management and associated Telematics products, field data collection equipment, and products and airtime communications services for major volume track and trace applications. Positioning technologies employed by it include GPS, laser, optical and inertial navigation systems. Communication techniques employed by the company include GSM cellular and satellite communications.

The company addresses the market for fleet management, workforce management, remote asset management and tracking, and emergency services by providing hardware for GPS information and data collection, as well as the software needed to access and analyze the data through the Internet. Its products combine positioning, wireless, and information technology and add measurable value to location-based information. The company offers airtime to communicate data from the vehicle or field location to the customers data center or provide access over the Internet to the data and application software. This allows real-time performance and monitoring data to be accessed and analyzed by supervisory, maintenance, or financial users and make real-time decisions for productivity improvement, cost reductions, safety improvement, or other critical decisions to be fed to the field.

In June 2007, the Singapore Civil Defense Force (SCDF) awarded a contract for the company's new Intelligent Immobilization System technology (the Immobilizer).

In June 2007, the Singapore Civil Defense Force (SCDF) awarded a contract for the Company's new Intelligent Immobilization System technology (the Immobilizer).

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Astrata Group Inc., in November 2008, has entered into the North American markets through a newly formed joint venture company with Colorado-based PassTime. The new company, which would be majority owned and controlled by Astrata, would be known as PassTime Telematics, Inc. (An Astrata Group Company), and would target the U.S. Vehicle Fleet and Asset Tracking along with Home Land Security markets using Astrata's range of advanced GPS tracking and PassTime's Customer Management Solutions.

The company's competitors for Telematics lines are @ Road, Inc. (acquired by Trimble in February 2006); Xata Corporation; Trimble; Minor Planet Systems plc; Navman NZ Limited; Digicore Holdings, Ltd.; Seimens VDO Automotive; CET and SES Systems Pte, Ltd. (subsidiaries of Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited); and Cybit Positioning Solutions.

Astrata Group Incorporated was founded in 1986.

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  4.2.5. Long-Term Solvency
  4.2.6. Growth Over Prior Year
  4.2.7. Financial Ratios Charts
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9.2. Economic Factors
9.3. Social Factors
9.4. Technological Factors
9.5. Environmental Factors
9.6. Legal Factors

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10.3. Internal External Matrix

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SWOT Analysis

SWOT, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, is an analytical framework that identifies the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable for a company.

Enhanced SWOT Analysis

Enhanced SWOT is a 3×3 grid that arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats into one scheme:

  • How to use the strengths to take advantage of the opportunities?
  • How to use the strengths to reduce likelihood and impact of the threats?
  • How to overcome the weaknesses that obstruct taking advantage of the opportunities?
  • How to overcome the weaknesses that can make the threats a reality?

Upon answering these questions a company can develop a project plan to improve its business performance.

PESTEL Analysis

PESTEL (also termed as PESTLE) is an ideal tool to strategically analyze what influence different outside factors – political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal – exert on a business to later chart its long term targets.

Being part of the external analysis when carrying out a strategic assessment or performing a market study, PESTEL gives an overview of diverse macro-environmental factors that any company should thoughtfully consider. By perceiving these outside environments, businesses can maximally benefit from the opportunities while minimizing the threats to the organization.

Key Factors Examined by PESTEL Analysis:

  • Political – What opportunities and pressures are brought by political bodies and what is the degree of public regulations’ impact on the business?
  • Economic – What economic policies, trends and structures are expected to affect the organization, what is this influence’s degree?
  • Sociological – What cultural and societal aspects will work upon the demand for the business’s products and operations?
  • Technological – What impact do the technological aspects, innovations, incentives and barriers have on the organization?
  • Environmental – What environmental and ecological facets, both locally and farther afield, are likely to predetermine the business?
  • Legal – What laws and legislation will exert influence on the style the business is carried out?

IFE, EFE, IE Matrices

The Internal Factor Evaluation matrix (IFE matrix) is a strategic management tool helping audit or evaluate major weaknesses and strengths in a business’s functional areas. In addition, IFE matrix serves as a basis for identifying and assessing relationships amongst those areas. The IFE matrix is utilised in strategy formulation.

The External Factor Evaluation matrix (EFE matrix) is a tool of strategic management that is typically utilised to assess current market conditions. It is an ideal instrument for visualising and prioritising the threats and opportunities a firm is facing.

The essential difference between the above mentioned matrices lies in the type of factors incorporated in the model; whilst the latter is engaged in internal factors, the former deals exceptionally with external factors – those exposed to social, political, economic, legal, etc. external forces.

Being a continuation of the EFE matrix and IFE matrix models, the Internal External matrix (IE matrix) rests upon an investigation of external and internal business factors integrated into one suggestive model.

Porter Five Forces Analysis

The Porter’s five forces analysis studies the industry of operation and helps the company find new sources of competitive advantage. The analysis surveys an industry through five major questions:

  1. What composes a threat of substitute products and services?
  2. Is there a threat of new competitors entering the market?
  3. What is the intensity of competitive rivalry?
  4. How big is the bargaining power of buyers?
  5. How significant is the bargaining power of suppliers?

VRIO Analysis

VRIO stands for Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization. This analysis helps to evaluate all company’s resources and capabilities and bring them together into one aggregate table that includes:

  • Tangible resources
    • Financial
    • Physical
    • Technological
    • Organizational
  • Intangible resources
    • Human
    • Innovation and Creativity
    • Reputation
  • Organizational capabilities

The result of the analysis gives a clear picture of company’s competitive and economic implications, answering the questions if the resources mentioned above are:

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Dark Round Social Icons 2

Inspired by Dark Social Icons from Pixeden.com, this pack contains 30 social media icons (15 icons in 2 sizes) inside a dark round button. On hover, each button switches to its respective social media color. Pack includes: Technorati, Last.fm, Dribble, iTunes, Picasa, Vcard, Yelp, deviantART, Tumblr, Netvibes, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Delicious, AIM, and Amazon.