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The Hurt Locker

September 8, 2015

THLThe Hurt Locker is based on accounts of Mark Boal, a freelance journalist who was covered an American bomb squad in the war in Iraq for two weeks in 2004. , he went with the members 10 to 15 times a day to watch their tasks, keeping in touch with Bigelow via email about his experiences. Boal combined his experiences into a fictional retelling of real events. He said of the film’s goal, “The idea is that it’s the first movie about the Iraq War that purports to show the experience of the soldiers. We wanted to show the kinds of things that soldiers go through that you can’t see on CNN, and I don’t mean that in a censorship-conspiracy way. I just mean the news doesn’t actually put photographers in with units that are this elite.” Bigelow was fascinated with exploring “the psychology behind the type of soldier who volunteers for this particular conflict and then, because of his or her aptitude, is chosen and given the opportunity to go into bomb disarmament and goes toward what everybody else is running from.”

An elite bomb disposal unit is put under pressure by its new commander (Sgt William James), who’s addicted to the adrenaline rush of war. The unit only has a month or so left of their tour of duty in Iraq. However, James is indifferent to danger, doing things the hard way and putting the lives of his men in danger.

Themes: War, courage, fear, family.

A production bus full of Iraqi refugees (hired as extras) overturned on a road heading to production. Nobody was seriously injured. A few people suffered bruises and one person was reported to have a broken nose.
Several key American crew members were stopped and questioned and/or had their baggage rummaged through by American airport security prior to going and/or coming back from Jordan. Even one of the producers was held for questioning upon returning to Los Angeles.
Part of the shooting took place during the Muslim month of Ramadan, which is observed by fasting from sunrise to sundown. Non-Muslim crew members hid out and ate in tents and specialty hotels with windows covered by carpets (out of respect, and per the Jordanian law). Smoking, eating or drinking in public during daylight hours is banned in many Middle Eastern countries during Ramadan, including Jordan, and is punishable with jail time.
The crew members were American, Jordanian, Lebanese, English, Irish, German, Moroccan, Danish, Tunisian, Canadian, South African, Icelandic, Iraqi, Libyan, Circassian, Palestinian, Armenian, Swedish, Australian, Canadian, and New Zealanders.
The expression “the hurt locker” is slang for a situation involving trouble or pain, which can be traced back to the Vietnam War. According to the movie’s website, it is soldier vernacular in Iraq to speak of explosions as sending you to “the hurt locker”.
THL 2Guard at Liberty Gate: [after catching James coming back into the camp after having snuck out] What were you doing out there?
Staff Sergeant William James: Visiting a whorehouse.
Guard at Liberty Gate: Okay. If I let you back in, will you tell me where it is exactly?

Staff Sergeant William James: There’s enough bang in there to blow us all to Jesus. If I’m gonna die, I want to die comfortable.

Sergeant JT Sanborn: I’m ready to die, James.
Staff Sergeant William James: Well, you’re not gonna die out here, bro.
Sergeant JT Sanborn: Another two inches, shrapnel zings by; slices my throat- I bleed out like a pig in the sand. Nobody’ll give a shit. I mean my parents- they care- but they don’t count, man. Who else? I don’t even have a son.
Staff Sergeant William James: Well, you’re gonna have plenty of time for that, amigo.
Sergeant JT Sanborn: Naw, man. I’m done. I want a son. I want a little boy, Will. I mean, how do you do it, you know? Take the risk?
Staff Sergeant William James: I don’t know. I guess I don’t think about it.
Sergeant JT Sanborn: But you realize every time you suit up, every time we go out, it’s life or death. You roll the dice, and you deal with it. You recognize that don’t you?
Staff Sergeant William James: Yea… Yea, I do. But I don’t know why.
Staff Sergeant William James: I don’t know, JT. You know why I’m the way I am?
Sergeant JT Sanborn: No, I don’t.

Staff Sergeant William James: This box is full of stuff that almost killed me.

Contractor Team Leader: We have a flat tire, can you help us?
Staff Sergeant William James: Sure, yeah. You got any spares?
Contractor Team Leader: Well, we have spares, but we used up our wrench.
Staff Sergeant William James: How do you use up a wrench?
Contractor Team Leader: Well, the uh, guy over there with the red thing on his head, he threw it at someone.
Staff Sergeant William James: Ha ha! Alright.
[gives thumbs up to Eldridge]
Contractor Team Leader: Thank you.
[introduces the soldiers]
Contractor Team Leader: This is Chris. This is the wrench man.
Staff Sergeant William James: Hello, Wrench Man.
Contractor Team Leader: That’s Jimmy.
Sergeant JT Sanborn: You know you can shoot people here. You don’t have to throw wrenches.
Contractor Feisal: Fuck off!

Opening Quote by Chris Hedges: The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

THL 3Colonel Reed: You the guy in the flaming car, Sergeant James?
Staff Sergeant William James: Afternoon, sir. Uh, yes, sir.
Colonel Reed: Well, that’s just hot shit. You’re a wild man, you know that?
Staff Sergeant William James: Uh, yes, sir.
Colonel Reed: He’s a wild man. You know that? I want to shake your hand.
Staff Sergeant William James: Thank you, sir.
Colonel Reed: Yeah. How many bombs have you disarmed?
Staff Sergeant William James: Uh, I’m not quite sure.
Colonel Reed: Segeant?
Staff Sergeant William James: Yes, sir.
Colonel Reed: I asked you a question.
Staff Sergeant William James: Eight hundred seventy-three, sir.
Colonel Reed: Eight hundred! And seventy-three. Eight hundred! And seventy-three. That’s just hot shit. Eight hundred and seventy-three.
Staff Sergeant William James: Counting today, sir, yes.
Colonel Reed: That’s gotta be a record. What’s the best way to… go about disarming one of these things?
Staff Sergeant William James: The way you don’t die, sir.
Colonel Reed: That’s a good one. That’s spoken like a wild man. That’s good.

Spc. Owen Eldridge: Aren’t you glad the Army has all these tanks parked here? Just in case the Russians come and we have to have a big tank battle?
Sergeant JT Sanborn: I’d rather be on the side with the tanks, just in case, than not have them.
Spc. Owen Eldridge: Yeah, but they don’t do anything. I mean, anyone comes alongside a Humvee, we’re dead. Anybody even looks at you funny, we’re dead. Pretty much the bottom line is, if you’re in Iraq, you’re dead. How’s a fucking tank supposed to stop that?
Sergeant JT Sanborn: Would you shut the fuck up, Owen?
Spc. Owen Eldridge: Sorry. Just tryin’ to scare the new guy.

Sergeant JT Sanborn: I can’t get it in.
Sgt. Matt Thompson: What do you mean you can’t get it in? Pretend it’s your dick.
Sergeant JT Sanborn: How about I pretend it’s your dick?
Sgt. Matt Thompson: Well in that case you’ll never get it in.

Staff Sergeant William James: [Speaking to his son] You love playing with that. You love playing with all your stuffed animals. You love your Mommy, your Daddy. You love your pajamas. You love everything, don’t ya? Yea. But you know what, buddy? As you get older… some of the things you love might not seem so special anymore. Like your Jack-in-a-Box. Maybe you’ll realize it’s just a piece of tin and a stuffed animal. And the older you get, the fewer things you really love. And by the time you get to my age, maybe it’s only one or two things. With me, I think it’s one.

Staff Sergeant William James: Everyone’s scared about something, you know?

Staff Sergeant William James: You’ll get it, though. You’ll get it.

Staff Sergeant William James: [to Iraqi street kid] I wanna buy another DVD. But, if it’s shaky – look at me – out of focus, or any way not 100%, I’m gonna chop off your head with a dull knife. How do you feel about – I’m just kidding, I’m just kidding
[hands him his money]
Staff Sergeant William James: you’re a good kid,
[hugging kid’s head]
Staff Sergeant William James: you’re a good kid, aren’t ya…

Sergeant JT Sanborn: [as team mate approaches unexploded bomb] You know, these detonators misfire all the time.
Spc. Owen Eldridge: What are you doing?
Sergeant JT Sanborn: I’m just saying shit happens, they misfire.
Spc. Owen Eldridge: He’d be obliterated to nothing.
Sergeant JT Sanborn: His helmet would be left. You could have that. Little specs of hair charred on the inside.
Spc. Owen Eldridge: Yeah. There’d be half a helmet somewhere, bits of hair.
Sergeant JT Sanborn: Have to ask for a change in technique and protocol, and make sure this type of accident never happen again, you know? You’d have to write the report.
Spc. Owen Eldridge: Are you serious?
Sergeant JT Sanborn: I can’t write it.

Staff Sergeant William James: – Victory? ‘Thought it was Camp Liberty.
Sergeant JT Sanborn: – Oh, no. They changed it ’bout a week ago. Victory sound’ better.

Staff Sergeant William James: Everyone’s a coward about something.

Colonel Reed: ‘What’s the best way to disarm a bomb?’
Sgt. James: ‘The way you don’t die.’

On returning home, James says to his son, ‘The older you get, the fewer things you love. With me, I think it’s only one.’

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Utah charter schools receive less money overall per student than district schools.  Eliminating the  October 1  headcount for charter schools means the gap between what school districts and charter schools spend per student will get BIGGER.

District schools and charter schools both fill important needs in our communities.  The educational funding gap in Utah puts charter schools at a disadvantage.  We are all in the business of educating the children of Utah in the best ways we possibly can.  Not all children learn the same way, have the same motivating interests/abilities. Therefore, having a variety of public school options is in the best interest of the children of our State.    Why punish charter schools for offering an option that, quite frankly, alleviates a burden from district schools, as well as giving Utah parents an opportunity to find the best educational fit they can for their children?

Moreover, eliminating the  October 1  headcount for charter schools, and replacing it with ADM plus growth, will not solve the larger problems plaguing Utah education finance. Utah's education system should reward student competency, not a school's ability to keep a child in a seat.  Eliminating the October 1 headcount will relieve pressure to address the real problem , which is exactly the wrong direction to go!

The issues we, as educators, face are complex and require the efforts of all to make education in Utah more equitable, balanced, and collaborative. Financial pressure is real, but cutting down one side to try and "build up" the other is not going to address the real problem. Put aside the bias and realize that the educations of our children are at risk if the state of Utah continues to divide us. Both district and charter schools must find ways to support one another, not break each other down.

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Eligible investigators include collaborating researchers who have received a PhD or equivalent research doctorate within communication sciences and disorders (CSD) or a related field, and practitioners who have received a degree in audiology, speech-language pathology or a related field. Researchers and clinicians must demonstrate experience working together and their mutual interest in the proposed research topic. Research questions may originate with the researcher or the practitioner, but must be of substantial interest to both investigators’ areas of expertise. Deadline for submission is April 16.
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Townsville, always warm and humid but always pretty and welcoming. We arrived here on Thursday afternoon, April 7th to a warm welcome from Murray’s older brother, John and his wife, Maree. Staying three nights we were able to catch up with everyone in the family who lives there. It also allowed us to live out of the trailer for a few nights, get the washing up to date and take a look around a place we often fly into but rarely explore.

Night one was spent with Melissa’s (niece to Murray) children and John and Maree. I cooked dinner which was a challenge to the children as it was something they hadn’t had before. They did well. Yoga was also a challenge with Lachlan becoming quite keen about it.

Friday saw us just hang at the house getting the washing done. We, of course had happy hour, John’s son Michael turned up from Ingham. Dinner was with all John’s family and a wonderful night full of laughter and fun was had by us all.

Saturday after a swim and breakfast we set out with John for a tour of sights in Townsville. First was Castle Hill. A steep drive to the top and beautiful views followed out to magnetic island and three sixty degree panorama of the city. While Murray and John explored another section of the hill I struck up a friendship with a local iguana, who wasn’t impressed by me encroaching on his territory.

From here we drove to Jezzine Barracks to take a closer look.  This is a 15 hectare heritage precinct. It commemorates the military and aboriginal heritage of Kissing Point. It was established in 1870 and was in continuous military use from 1885 to 2006. These barracks are now a museum open to the public. After all this exploring lunch was definitely on the agenda which we had down at the Strand in the cool of a lovely restaurant/bar, The Watermark. (Sorry no photos were taken, we must have been too busy eating and enjoying the view.)

We spent Saturday evening with Nerida (Murray’s older sister), Garth and their family having a barbecue and once again enjoying stories and laughter.

What a lovely few days we had with Murray’s Family in the home of the North Queensland Cowboys.  Sunday we planned to move on to Cardwell but once again our plans changed. Stay tuned for this one, it’s a nail bighter.

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Javier Lopez

Born: 09/13/1994 (Age: 19)
Bats: Right Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3" Weight: 180
Primary Position: SS
Skinny build; wiry top with mildly thicker bottom half; room for growth into frame; could put on another 10 lbs of muscle and still stick at SS.
Evaluator Tucker Blair
Report Date 07/12/2014
Dates Seen 7/9/2014 - 7/11/2014
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Hustles out of the box on everything; loses focus at times in the field; might be thinking too much in certain situations

MLB ETA Risk Factor OFP Realistic Role Video
2018 High 40 30; Organizational Player Yes
Tool Future Grade Report
Hit 35 Wide stance; heavy lean on back leg; launched load off back foot; becomes unbalanced at times; plus bat speed; hands will drift and become noisy; dropped his back shoulder often during the entire series; induced popups and did not allow for consistent contact; shows below-average ability to recognize spin; better with depth than tilt on secondary pitches; currently a FB hitter that will jump quickly on any mistake FB in the zone.
Power 45 Average raw power; mostly 5 o'clock at this time; plus bat speed and expressed load are largest factors for power; power is largely dependent on the hit tool; likely never plays to average in-game.
Baserunning/Speed 50 4.24 home to first; good second gear and really grinds for every step; likely loses a step once he grows more into his frame; currently an above-average runner; not a weapon on the base paths.
Glove 50 Displays above-average range; footwork is below-average; becomes choppy and does not set up for throws; backhands plays where he had time to set up feet; footwork around the base is average at best; shows mild instincts in field but makes up for any lack of instincts with hustle; lost focus and made a poor error where the ball bounced right over his shoulder in which should have been an easy out.
Arm 60 Plus arm with hard throws from the SS hole and off pivots turning double-plays; weapon that is capable of making throws from anywhere at SS; would work at any other position as well.

Lopez is an intriguing prospect that I have now seen in consecutive years. I also saw him earlier this season with Greensboro. Last season, I largely viewed Lopez as a potential breakout player who needed more repetitions. After sitting on a series this season, I see the same player except for slight mechanical changes in the swing. He does not have nearly the amount of noise as last season, although it is still a noisy swing in general.

Overall, I do like the raw tools that Lopez displays. He can stick at SS, which will slightly boost his value in the long-run. The bat has too much noise, and it's hard for him to consistently piece together good AB because there are so many moving parts. He swings the bat well in BP, but loses a lot of this in-game. I doubt Lopez will ever be able to piece it all together, but there is a small chance he can be enough for a solid utility option down the road.

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[MotherJones] Can the world survive China’s headlong rush to emulate the American way of life?

The government estimates that 400,000 people die prematurely from respiratory illnesses each year, and health care costs for premature death and disability related to air pollution is estimated at up to 4 percent of the country’s gross domestic product. Four-fifths of the length of China’s rivers are too polluted for fish. Half the population—600 or 700 million people—drinks water contaminated with animal and human waste. Into Asia’s longest river, the Yangtze, the nation annually dumps a billion tons of untreated sewage; some scientists fear the river will die within a few years. Drained by cities and factories all over northern China, the Yellow River, whose cataclysmic floods earned it a reputation as the world’s most dangerous natural feature, now flows to its mouth feebly, if at all. China generates a third of the world’s garbage, most of which goes untreated. Meanwhile, roughly 70 percent of the world’s discarded computers and electronic equipment ends up in China, where it is scavenged for usable parts and then abandoned, polluting soil and groundwater with toxic metals.

The emergence of China as a dominant economic power is an epochal event, as significant as the United States’ ascendancy after World War II. It is in many ways an astonishment, starting with the ideological about-face that enabled it, the throwing over of Maoist values for plainly capitalist ones starting in the late 1970s. So thorough is the change that the 19-foot-tall portrait of a stolid, potato-faced Mao Zedong that still looms over traffic-choked, commerce-suffused Tiananmen Square looks paradoxical, even startling, in seeming need of an update in which Mao winks—or sobs—in blinking neon.

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Okay, to be perfectly honest, Let’s Play Ball has yet to become a Major Motion Picture. But I was curious to see what it might look like if and when it did hit the silver screen. So I splurged to have a Hollywood Book Trailer made. It features a montage of scenes from the novel and a voiceover description of the high points.  It’s a substantial cut above the relatively simple book trailers I already have on YouTube for my three novels, as those are limited to still shots and captions. I wanted to see my characters come to life, and for a minute or so, they did.

It’s a real kick to see your story dramatized. The actresses who play the fraternal twin sisters in my story are beautiful young women. The actors portraying both the kidnap victim and one of his alleged kidnappers are handsome guys, athletic looking enough to be the ballplayers they’re supposed to be. What’s more, the entire “cast” features good actors and good acting. The scenes require them to show glee, sorrow, fear, hatred—the whole gamut.

Not surprisingly, the trailer is more action-packed than the book. My story does indeed feature a kidnapping at the beginning and a hostage scene near the end. In between, the violence abates as the relationships between the characters come into focus. The big-picture political ramifications of what has taken place are paramount. The trailer doesn’t lie: the book has both action and hot sex, just not on every page. The voiceover is delivered in a solemn male voice suitable for describing the most suspenseful story of the year. All in all, an expensive but fun project. The results can be found at


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I wasn't able to find Hawkes items with that 83 Hawkes Sterling marking in the catalogs I reviewed. I did not notice 2-digit numbers in those catalogs. So it might be early or just not in catalogs in our collection.

I did find some references to colored glass and sterling mountings in the book, The Complete Cut & Engraved Glass of Corning by Sinclaire & Spillman. They discuss the blanks used during that time as well. Attached are the pages from the book.

I hope the information proves helpful. Let us know if you need further information. A photograph would be beneficial for further researching.

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“The Devil We Know” by Robert Baer

by Josua H. Liberatore When I went to hear ex-CIA operative Robert Baer speak about his new book in 2008, I got a mixed impression of his journalistic offering. On the one hand, his former line of work, his fluency … Continue reading

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The Federalist Project 9

“Debating the Constitution” and Federalist 45 – 47 In his concluding discussion of the great Federalist/Anti-Federalist debate, Rakove solidifies a few procedural points developed first in the introduction regarding “the perils of originalism.” The active argumentation that cast intense public … Continue reading

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Mutltiple cases of voter fraud under investigation in Ohio

Mutltiple cases of voter fraud under investigation in Ohio

mellowese“One disenfranchised voter is one too many,” Attorney General Eric Holder has observed repeatedly in his quest to overturn state voter ID laws. How many cases of voter fraud is one too many he doesn’t say. It is hoped that the nation’s chief law enforcement officer would find 19 cases troubling.

That’s how many are under investigation by the Hamilton County (Ohio) Board of Elections from last November’s general election, reports Cincinnati ABC affiliate WCPO (h/t John Fund, NRO):

Twenty-eight subpoenas have been issued as a result of the investigation, which includes 19 Hamilton County voters and nine witnesses who still need to answer questions to satisfy the board.

One resident at the center of the controversy is Melowese Richardson, who admits to voting twice, although she maintains that there was no effort on her part to defraud. She claims that she voted at her local precinct after submitting an absentee ballot on Nov. 1 because she was afraid the first ballot wouldn’t be counted in time.

It might be easier to swallow Richardson’s story if it weren’t for details that suggest shenanigans:

  • Three additional absentee ballots — for Montez Richardson, Joseph Jones, and Markus Barron — all came from Melowese Richardson’s home address, all with handwriting similar to hers.
  • Her granddaughter, India Richardson, a first-time voter in the 2012 election, also cast two ballots.

The allegations of fraud come at a time when the president and Democratic Congressional leaders are vowing to push through legislation that will reduce hurdles for voters. One such obstacle they point to is long lines at polling places, which they claim cost them hundreds of thousands of votes in November.

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Monday, 29 August 2011

The World of Technology

I really didn’t expect that the match between Man United and Arsenal could end in such a way. It was really humiliating to see the much weakened Arsenal team lost 8-2 to the in-form Man United. Anyway, I think the teams that can possibly break down the Man United defence now are Man City and Liverpool. Do you agree with me?!

Nowadays, Digital Single-Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera is becoming one of the hot items among the youngsters and perhaps some adults too. Because everyone is now emphasising more on taking quality pictures rather than blur pictures. And various functions provided in a DSLR can really add in some spices to the pictures which a normal digital couldn’t, for example the light capturing, focusing and many others. Not only that, the technique of taking a good picture and the angle too must be at the tip of your fingers. That’s why a professional photographer needs a DSLR to give their best shots!

But sadly, 7 out of 10 people who hold a DSLR do not really know how to use it to perfection! They don’t even know the basic stuff e.g. ISO, the function of shutter speed, the aperture size etc. And the funniest part is that they use the AUTO mode rather than the MANUAL mode to capture pictures. Ok, not only I who observe this, but my friends too! So, why this “kids” want to spend so much and wanting badly to have a DSLR mainly is because “Just for the fun!” Besides, I think they might feel better to have something big hanging around their neck so that everyone can observe that they are using a DSLR. Hmm... I guess you can get what I mean when you go to these PC fairs or Motor Shows! Anyway, these people are just wasting their money to take normal pictures which a normal digital camera can take too!

Phew… It is really making harder for people to find good professional photographers nowadays. Because you can easily get people taking similar quality of pictures as these so-called professional photographers. That’s why you must now really know how good the skill of these people is before paying them for your photos.

Enjoy and have a nice day.

Monday, 22 August 2011

Becareful of Where You Are!

I actually saw a nice deal on Groupon just now. It was a 3D2N trip to the largest man-made lake in South East Asia, the Kenyir Lake. But unfortunately, the deal is meant for 2 person! Argh... No need to think about that because I thought of going for a trip alone again! Ok now, no work and no place to go! "Really sitting at home to grow molds." I wish I can have some plans for next week. Hmm... Let me think about this later! Ha-ha.

Early in morning, I will definitely go for the newspaper first before I do any other things! But most of the time, the newspaper really sadden my heart. I think most people definitely know about the ACID ATTACKS which are happening nowadays and it is like happening almost everyday. These people are just insane and going randomly for innocent targets on the streets. Maybe they can get the amount of pleasure that they want but it's really a great pity that they damaged one's future especially the physical appearance of their victims. Criminals are still at large and they can be anyone on the streets. But what we can do to save ourselves is to protect as safe as possible. Hopefully, these guys will be "punished" soon before they go for the next target!

So, I recommend some important tips to protect ourselves and not easily being attacked or targeted:-
  1. Be aware of the people of the surrounding especially when you are walking alone.
  2. Be more cautious and alert if you suspect someone suspicious is near you.
  3. Take extra pre-caution especially when you are alone on empty streets or in any car-parks.
These steps are not meant for females only because males can also be their target! Not only adults, but also young children and old folks too! Hope that these tips are really helpful!

Enjoy and have a nice day...

Sunday, 21 August 2011

Does An Occupation Really Matters?

Wow, I like this new blog format! Glad that the "undo" button is finally here! Ha-ha...

So what do I have for this week? Meeting friends, going to church, watching EPL matches, movie online or cinema and so many other stuff, but spending quality time with family on weekends is always the most important activity as compared to others! I will definitely have a mixed of feelings if I am told to work at somewhere which is far away from KL. I will miss the people around me but I will not miss the place! Anysomehow, I got to be back here one day because this is where I belong to...

Most of the time, I really have weird ideas or opinions as compared to my friends. When you were asked what type of workers in the world makes you appreciate more than the others! I guess most people will say the construction workers (because they built our shelters) or the doctors (because they keep us away from sickness) and bla bla bla.... But mine is actually the garbage collectors! I know you must be laughing over there. =p So let's spend some time and think about them. Actually without them, you will never have a clean environment to stay. Ok, maybe you can have better waste management! Not only that, they actually need a lot of courage to take up this challenge e.g. social discrimination and this is what I salute them most. You know, people are like that! They hate "dirty" people. Me too the same! But what choice do they have if people around them have this kind of mentality?! Do you mean that they should live in a live with no family, no outings for them and just stay at home only if there is no work?! I even saw people giving them a big bag of garbage instead of some snacks to them during festive season! Swt-.-" to the MAX!

They are humans too! Without them, you will be living in the world of rubbish. I used to give them a smile every morning when I see them passed by my house. Hope you can do so! They too need some dignity and recognition for their fantastic work. Hmm. So how about be a friend with them?! Ha-ha. I think it's time for you to reflect on this. So does an occupation really matters? Treat everyone out them the same! Even there is any great people's son, they too the same! Because GOD made everyone the SAME!

Enjoy and have a nice weekend...

Wednesday, 17 August 2011

Trip to the North (Part 2)

My trip to the north didn't stop at mid-week, instead I travelled back down to Sitiawan, Perak to visit another good friend. Here, we had another "visitor"!

Hmm.. When it comes to talking about the journey, it was really suck! Sucks to the MAX! Due to some changes by the bus company, I reached Ipoh, Perak late and I couldn't get on the last bus to Sitiawan, Perak. Luckily, my friends were kind enough and rescued me from the stranded town!!! No doubt, it was a very tiring journey and I had to take all the troubles to travel up and down with gifts from Alor Setar, Kedah (Trip to the North (Part 1)). But it was all worthy to do so.. One thing for sure was that, my journey was not all about visiting my friends but it was to hunt for good foods and places as well!

First meal (supper) in Sitiawan, Perak...

I got no choice but gotta just upload this picture... =p

Breakfast with food which you can't get from KL. 卤面 and Kam Pua

Tua Pek Gong Temple at Pasir Panjang, Perak

Various statues e.g. 十八罗汉，二十四孝，十二生肖，西游记 and so on at every corner in the sanctuary

A snap at the Monkey Garden (花果山)

Lunch at Pearl Harbour Restaurant at Panchor, Perak

Snap-shots at Marina Island, nice view facing Pangkor Island...

Only can be found in the host's house, red wine mee suan (红酒面线) for tea break

Dinner time!!

Beer talk at the beach on Marina Island

Gong Pia, famous in Sitiawan for next day's breakfast! From top: Authentic (pure), with onions and with pork

Promoting Pulut cendol

And it was time to say "Good-bye" and "Thank you" again to Christine and Shuen Nie for the wonderful trip!

Here is the end of my "Trip to the North a.k.a Run away from KL" trip. Hopefully, I still have the time to travel around and meet up with friends again next time!

Enjoy and have a nice day.

Monday, 15 August 2011

Trip to the North (Part 1)

Sometimes I find that people can be so ignorant on Facebook and it can really make me to have the thoughts of deleting my account on Facebook. Any somehow, my action is not fair to my other good friends which I really keep in touch with. Hopefully, my frustration level can still be kept within the limits.

After months of plannings, I have made my trip to Alor Setar, Kedah finally. Though it was a very short trip, but it was indeed a very good trip. Everything was very well planned and arranged by my friend at Alor Setar, or else my trip will be visiting the one and only sky scraper in Alor Setar which is Menara Alor Setar. My travel journey to there was very well planned but I actually arrived there much early than expected.

Arrived at Shahab Perdana Terminal, Alor Setar Kedah in the early morning...

Various tourist spots which I visited.

Clockwise: Royal Museum (Muzium DiRaja), Pekan Rabu, State Government Office, Alor Setar Clocktower, Fountain, Nobat Hall (Balai Nobat), Alor Setar Tower (Menara Alor Setar) and Masjid Zahir.

Lunch at Alor Setar Mall, Alor Setar

Paddy Museum at Kuala Kedah (Admission fee: RM3 per person, RM2 per camera)

Nice shots by my friend!!

Paddy field at Kuala Kedah (before harvesting)

Paddy field at Kuala Kedah (After harvesting)

My whole trip was not only in Alor Setar and Kuala Kedah, Kedah. =) And I managed to have a trip down to Penang with her family as well. What I can say is that, they completed my previous Penang trip. I was so glad that they brought me to the Snake Temple at Bayan Lepas (Penang) and tasted some good food such as Kuey Ciap and Roti Babi as well. Yummilicious... After that, we headed back to Alor Setar the next day.

Snake Temple at Bayan Lepas, Penang

Good dinner and supper when we were back to Alor Setar.

Breakfast on the last day. Clockwise: Durian and salted egg pau, Mee Jawa and "You" 油 noodle

The last destination of my trip, our great former PM, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad Birth Place.

Very delicious home-cooked food before I say good-bye..

It was time to say Good-bye at the bus station, picture with the host, Ying Jun... Without her and her family, my trip to Alor Setar will be meaningless.

P.S. Trip to Sitiawan, Perak to visit another friend...

Thanks and have a nice day..

Tuesday, 2 August 2011

A Birthday That Will Never Be Forgotten

When I told my mum that I was leaving her at the hospital this afternoon, I was carried with a very sad and heavy heart. But I always tell myself that "I shouldn't look back"... For many years already, I am pretty sure that my mum has the "relief" too because she knows that I am independent enough to live alone.

One week ago, I was lucky enough to get cheap deals from Groupon and got my whole family to Damansara Village for a steamboat dinner. Mainly it's because my mum loves to eat steamboat a lot and secondly, it was her birthday. One coupon was meant for 2 person only, so I bought 2 and the additional person has to spent at least RM 18 from the menu. Anyway, we spent about 2.5 times more than that...

So, here are some of the pictures..

The outside view (Imbi branch)

Other than steamboat set, you may dine-in for many other interesting cooked dishes. Prices are reasonable.

Among the 7 pictures, only the pork slice and jelly fish were not part of the "deal". Trust me, it was really a good good deal! Thanks to Groupon!

The co-owner's book, TEOHLOGY... I can still remember that he was one of the famous radio personality many years back. I love his midnight ghost stories!!!

After the dinner, we had a home-made birthday cake for my mum and as for dessert. And unrealisingly, we actually became the white rats for my sister's first chocolate banana cake. =p Anyway, it turned out to be not too bad and not too good either...

Enjoy and have a nice day...

P.S. All the best to my mum... =)

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LEAPS and FELs of Europe meetings at Elettra

On March 12-13 Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste hosted the 2nd meeting of General Assembly (GA) of the League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources (LEAPS), a strategic consortium that includes 16 Synchrotron Radiation and Free Electron Laser (FEL) user facilities in Europe based in 10 different European countries .
This followed the LEAPS Launch Event in Brussels on November 13, 2017. The main topics of the GA meeting were the LEAPS Governance Structure and the LEAPS Strategy Paper to be forwarded to the EU Commission during the Bulgarian Presidency Conference on Research Infrastructures in Sofia, 22-23 March.

>Read more on the Elettra and FERMI website

Image: LEAPS General Assembly and Coordination Board group picture.
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COSMIC impact: next-gen X-ray microscopy platform now operational

A next-generation X-ray beamline now operating at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) brings together a unique set of capabilities to measure the properties of materials at the nanoscale.

Called COSMIC, for Coherent Scattering and Microscopy, this X-ray beamline at Berkeley Lab’s Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS) allows scientists to probe working batteries and other active chemical reactions, and to reveal new details about magnetism and correlated electronic materials.
COSMIC has two branches that focus on different types of X-ray experiments: one for X-ray imaging experiments and one for scattering experiments. In both cases, X-rays interact with a sample and are measured in a way that provides, structural, chemical, electronic, or magnetic information about samples.

The beamline is also intended as an important technological bridge toward the planned ALS upgrade, dubbed ALS-U, that would maximize its capabilities.

>Read more on the Advanced Light Source website

Image: X-rays strike a scintillator material at the COSMIC beamline, causing it to glow.
Credit: Simon Morton/Berkeley Lab

A colour photography pioneer comes to light thanks to the synchrotron

The colour prints of Louis Ducos du Hauron, an unknown pioneer of colour photography, have been put under the infrared and X-rays at the ESRF, the European Synchrotron (Grenoble, France) to better understand the methods he used. A team of researchers and curators from the ESRF, CNRS, C2RMF , Musée d’Orsay, École nationale supérieure Louis Lumière, the faculty of Science and Engineering of the Sorbonne University, the Chimie Paris Tech and a private photography conservator and curator has published the results of this study in Angewandte Chemie.

Who invented colour photography?

To this question, most people would reply “the brothers Lumière”. Their procedure “autochrome” is recorded into posterity because the brothers commercialised it with success. However, a photography pioneer has been kept in the shadow: Louis Ducos du Hauron. This is despite the fact that he patented an animated image-processing method in 1864, the same year that Louis Lumière was born. He was the first one to produce three-color prints using three negatives printed into three colour positives (one red, one yellow and one blue), in a similar manner to how printers today function.

As if he were a cook, Ducos du Hauron spent his life creating “recipes” – procedures based on scientific experimentation- to achieve a faithful reconstruction of reality through colour photographs. He photographed each scene through green, orange, and violet filters, then printed his three negatives on three thin films of dichromate gelatin containing red, blue, and yellow pigments, the complementary colours of the filters used for the negatives. When the three positives were superimposed, a full-colour photograph resulted.

>Read more on the European Synchrotron (ESRF) website

Image: General principle of three-color carbon printing developed by Ducos du Hauron. (Full image here)
Credit: ESRF

The United Kingdom officially joins European XFEL

At signing ceremony in Berlin, UK becomes twelfth member

Today, the UK joined European XFEL as the research organization’s twelfth member state. In a ceremony at the British Embassy in Berlin, representatives of the UK government and the other contract parties including the German federal government signed the documents to join the European XFEL Convention. The UK’s contribution will amount to 26 million Euro, or about 2% of the total construction budget of 1.22 billion Euro (both in 2005 prices) and an annual contribution of about 2 % to the operation budget. The UK will be represented in European XFEL by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) as shareholder.

Chair of the European XFEL Council Prof. Martin Meedom Nielsen who was present at the signing said: “All member states are very happy that the United Kingdom now officially joins the European XFEL. The UK science community has been very active in the project since the very beginning, and their contribution of ideas and know-how has been always highly appreciated. Together, we will maintain and develop the European XFEL as a world leading facility for X-ray science.”

>Read more on the European XFEL website

Picture: Buddy Bartelsen for British Embassy Berlin

Investigation of metal deposition in organs after joint replacement

Synchrotron analysis shows potentially harmful metals from implants can find their way into human organs.

The hip replacement is considered to be one of the most successful orthopaedic interventions, with 75,000 performed each year by the NHS alone. However, the implants used to replace hips contain metals, such as chromium and cobalt, which are potentially toxic and which can be deposited into tissues around the implant site due to wear and corrosion. A team of researchers used X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) on the I18 beamline to show that these metals can also find their way into organ tissues. Their results suggest that chronic diseases, such as diabetes, may create conditions in which mildly toxic trivalent chromium (CrIII) particles from replacement joints are reoxidised within the body to form carcinogenic hexavalent chromium (CrVI). Their results have been published in the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology.

>Read more on the Diamond Light Source website

Image: Overview of the study (entire figure to see here).

Tuning the electronic structure of a 2D material

Stacked 2D materials possess an array of tunable properties that are expected to be important for future applications in electronics and optics.

When some atomically thin—or 2D—materials are stacked like Lego bricks in different combinations with other ultrathin materials, new properties often emerge that are potentially useful for next-generation device applications. For example, tungsten disulfide (WS2) is a semiconductor that belongs to a family of 2D materials (transition-metal dichalcogenides, or TMDs) that have received an enormous amount of interest due to their many advantageous properties that can be tuned by mixing and matching them in stacks with other 2D materials.

In this work, single-layer WS2 was stacked on a thin flake of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), all on a base of titanium dioxide (TiO2). This heterostructure provided a stable, non-interacting platform that enabled a team of researchers to directly and accurately probe the WS2 electronic states and excitations, including the effects of interactions between the electrons themselves (many-body effects), at a level of detail not previously possible.

MAESTRO’s exquisite sensitivity

MAESTRO (Microscopic and Electronic Structure Observatory), a facility at ALS Beamline 7.0.2 that opened to scientists in 2016, can handle very small sample sizes, on the order of tens of microns, which is key to studying 2D materials. Scientists are continuing to push MAESTRO’s capabilities to study even smaller features—down to the nanoscale. The endstation also features the ability to fabricate and manipulate samples for x-ray studies while maintaining pristine conditions that protect them from contamination.

>Read more on the Advanced Light Source website

Image: Rendering of the atomic structure of a 2D layer of tungsten disulfide, or WS2 (blue and yellow), on top of layers of 2D boron nitride (silver and gold). Above that is a representation of the WS2 conduction band (pink-edged metallic surface) and valence bands (green- and blue-edged metallic surfaces). The results of this experiment suggest that the observed increase in valence-band splitting could be due to the presence of “trions,” exotic three-particle combinations of holes and electrons (red circles), in the conduction and valence bands. The background shows the raw WS2 electronic-structure data, as measured in the experiment.
Credit: Chris Jozwiak/Berkeley Lab

Study suggests water may exist in Earth’s lower mantle

Water on Earth runs deep – very deep. The oceans have been measured to a maximum depth of 7 miles, though water is known to exist well below the oceans. Just how deep this hidden water reaches, and how much of it exists, are the subjects of ongoing research.

Now a new study suggests that water may be more common than expected at extreme depths approaching 400 miles and possibly beyond – within Earth’s lower mantle. The study, which appeared March 8 in the journal Science, explored microscopic pockets of a trapped form of crystallized water molecules in a sampling of diamonds from around the world.

Diamond samples from locations in Africa and China were studied through a variety of techniques, including a method using infrared light at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Researchers used Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS), and Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source, which are research centers known as synchrotron facilities.

>Read more on the Advanced Light Source website

Photo: Oliver Tschauner, professor of research in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, holds a diamond sample during a recent round of experiments at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source.
Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab

Twin Orbit operation successfully tested at BESSY II

The first “Twin Orbit User Test week” at BESSY II in February 2018 was a big success and can be considered as an important step towards real user operation.

Physicists at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been able to store two separate electron beams in one storage ring. The twin orbit operation mode can serve users with different needs of the time structure of the photon pulses simultaneously and offers elegant options regarding the future project BESSY VSR.

The Twin Orbit operation mode makes use of non-linear beam dynamics and provides two stable well separated orbits for storing two electron beams in one storage ring. The bunch fill patterns of both orbits can be chosen, to some extent, independently, which allows for fulfilling normally incompatible user needs, simultaneously. For example, one orbit can be used to store a homogenous multi bunch fill to deliver high average brilliance for photon hungry experiments, whereas only one single bunch is stored on the other orbit for timing experiments, providing a much lower pulse repetition rate.

>Read more on the Bessy II at HZB website

Image: A synchrotron source point image of a bending magnet of the Twin Orbit modus. The second orbit closes after three revolution and is winding around the standard orbit at the center. (full image here)
Credit: HZB

Researchers obtain nanometric magnetite with full properties

When reducing materials at the nanoscale, they typically lose some of their properties. The experiments have been carried out at the CIRCE beamline of the ALBA Synchrotron.

Magnetite is a candidate material for various applications in spintronics, meaning that can be employed in devices where the spin of the electron is used to store or manipulate information. However, when it is necessary to create structures of the material at the nanometric scale, their properties get worse. A study, recently published in the scientific journal Nanoscale, has proved that, with suitable growth, magnetite could be used to create nanostructured magnetic elements without losing their properties.

“Oxides have been proposed to be used for spin waves in triangular structures for computing. And our results suggest that magnetite could be used for this purpose, “says Juan de la Figuera, scientist from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

>Read more on the ALBA website

Image: Beamline involved where nanometric magnetite has been obtained, keeping its full properties.
Credit: ALBA

Major upgrade of the NCD beamline

The NCD beamline, now NCD-SWEET, devoted to Small Angle and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS, WAXS), is offering users further experimental possibilities and higher quality data.

The SAXS beamline of ALBA has gone through a major upgrade in 2017. Upgraded items in the SAXS WAXS experimental techniques (SWEET) involve a new monochromator system, a new photon counting detector (Pilatus 1M), a new sample table with an additional rotating stage, and a beam conditioning optics with µ-focus and GISAXS options.

The original double crystal monochromator (DCM) has been replaced by a channel-cut silicon (1 1 1), improving the beam stability at sample position up to 0.9% and 0.4% of the beam size horizontally and vertically, respectivelly.

>Read more on the ALBA website

Figure: Vertical beam profile with the Be lenses into the beam (Horizontal axis unit is mm). The plot is the derivative of an edge scan along the vertical direction. The horizontal beam profile shows a gaussian shape as well.

Scientists work toward new canola varieties as clubroot spreads across the Prairies

Scientists are in a race against a disease that threatens canola, one of Western Canada’s most important crops, and they are looking to the Canadian Light Source to learn more about the genetic resistance to this disease.

Clubroot causes swelling on the canola roots eventually killing the plant. Finding a way for those roots to resist this soil-borne disease is the cornerstone of the strategy for managing the disease, says Gary Peng, a scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Saskatoon Research and Development Centre.

“The consequences of clubroot in a canola field can be devastating. It can wipe out the whole crop,” said Peng.

The first case of clubroot in canola was reported in 2003 in several fields in the Edmonton area. The infestation spread rapidly to fields north of the city and the disease is now found in more than 2,000 fields in a wide band across Alberta. In Saskatchewan, it was first detected in 2008, but significant evidence of the disease attacking the roots of canola plants wasn’t identified until 2011, according to the Canola Council of Canada.

>Read more on the Canadian Lightsource website


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In version 3 you can set dhcp-parameter-request-list to a comma
separated list of option numbers. Don't know if this works in version
2, but it is in the dhcp-options man page.

     option dhcp-parameter-request-list uint16;

       This option, when sent  by  the  client,  specifies  which
       options  the  client  wishes  the server to return.   Nor-
       mally, in the ISC DHCP client,  this  is  done  using  the
       request  statement.    If  this option is not specified by
       the client, the DHCP server  will  normally  return  every
       option  that  is  valid  in  scope  and that fits into the
       reply.   When this option is specified on the server,  the
       server  returns  the specified options.   This can be used
       to  force  a  client  to  take  options  that  it   hasn't
       requested,  and it can also be used to tailor the response
       of the DHCP server for clients that may need a  more  lim-
       ited  set  of options than those the server would normally

I hope this is useful...

>Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:44:44 -0800
>From: "Craig Johnston" <agspoon at>
>To: dhcp-users at
>Subject: Passing option-209 to PXE client w/ ISC DHCPD 2.0pl5
>Does anyone remember if there is a way to coerce the ISC DHCPD version
>2 (2.0pl5) to send options to a PXE client that does not explicitly
>request them.  I can do this in version 3 of DHCPD via the
>vendor-option-space mechanism, but this is not available in version 2
>of the server (the version my network switch uses).
>I want to be able to specify the PXE filename via option 209 (plus
>option 208 to enable it).  I know how to set the option (option
>option-209 "myfile";), but the server will not return these parameters
>to the PXE client as they are not specifically requested.

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Anais Bordier and Sam Futerman, twins separated at birth.

I posted about this documentary some months back, and today finally got to watch Sam and Anaïs’s journey starting from when they found each other.  It is very interesting that Sam decided to start documenting this so early after she first received Anaïs’s initial Facebook message and they were able to show so much of their story.

I’m still in the afterglow and don’t have anything articulate to say other than you should watch it.  It’ll make you feel things.

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Archive for the ‘Books we read at Maponya Mall’ Category

I am looking very forward to the Maponya Mall reading programme tomorrow! It’s going to be a wonderful learning experience as well as a great opportunity to give back to the community!

I hope a lot of kids show up!

I have decided to read this book:

A Fly Went By – By Mike McClintock from the Dr Seuss collection. It’s a marvelous book filled with rhymes and short phrases and I really love the story! I definitely think the kids will enjoy it and it will enhance their phonological awareness because it is so rife with rimes and alliteration!

I hope you enjoy the day tomorrow and stay excellent!

Hi team!

I have posted the three books I am going to be reading at the Maponya Mall reading programme.

I have chosen these books because they are child friendly and easy to relate to. They also contain fun illustrations and each book has a unique and appropriate story!

My third book (Rene)

I Don’t Want to go to Hospital!

My second book (Rene)

It’s a George thing!

My first book (Rene)

Princess Poppy – Friends Together

Image I thought about using this book at the Maponya mall service learning experience on Saterday, would love to hear your opinions?

Hey guys, this is one of the books I am thinking of reading at the Maponya Mall service learning programme on Saturday, what do you guys think? And what books are you thinking of reading?


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queens film history

Before heading out to a museum, always read the fine print under the visitors section regarding the hours and entrance fees.  I’m finding that many of the museums either of certain days and times have free admission and or the entrance fees really are “pay what you wish” and that the full price admission ticket is only “suggested”.

mad men

Friday nights, the Museum of Moving Image in Queens has free admission.  I made my way out there to see the “Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men” exhibit which is on view through December 6th.   This exhibit takes you through the historic events and other influences and the idea generation behind the brilliant minds of the writers and directors.  It gives you a look into wardrobe throughout the decades and some props used in the show.  You can also see inside the room that the writers spent many hours, Betty Draper’s kitchen and other views inside the real Mad Men era of NYC.  The museum (or Weiner) restricted all photos – which leaves me with nothing else to say except that its definitely worth a look.

kaufmanFinding myself in a neighborhood I rarely visit, of course, I had to find a local place to have dinner.  My partiality for movie studios and NYC history, led me to a restaurant outside the 90 year old Kaufman Astoria Studios which has been the production house of some more recent shows such as Nurse Jackie and Orange is the New Black.  Read up on its history and legacy here  http://www.kaufmanastoria.com/our-legacy/

The restaurant I ate at is located just outside the studio’s doors and is called The Astor Room.  It was back in the 1920’s when the movie studio opened to use as the commissary for the actors and crew who at work in the studios.

You can see in the above picture, the remnants of what reminds me of a cafeteria from when I was in grade school. Today its a cozy spot with a menu far from the likes of a cafeteria menu.  The restaurant has live music and happy hour specials.

The museum, studios and restaurant together make Astoria a destination for good old fashion fun and another view into a snapshot in time from long ago.

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A wanderlust at heart, I believe there is no better city to explore than NYC. With so much culture to experience, both old and new, my mission is to share my under the radar findings to enhance the experiences of the locals and the full-time NYC wanderers. I want my experiences and this blog be your go-to place for insider tips as you travel and explore this great city.
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Putting Yourself Back Together

To have the life you want, you must first put the man back together.

What have you wanted from life but at one time or another someone told you, you couldn’t have it, couldn’t achieve it. What is buried deep, deep inside of you dying
to come out? You see we don’t always get what we want in life but we always get our standards. The quality of your life comes for your actions, your beliefs.

I heard a wonderful story last week; A Father sits at the table, reading his paper and enjoying his morning coffee when his son runs in excited to spend the
day doing Father and Son activities. The Father wanting a few more minutes to himself takes a page from his paper. On it was a picture of the world. He tears it into
20+ pieces and said to his son, “once you put this picture back together we will head out for the day”. Thinking he would have more time to himself, he goes back
reading his paper. Shortly after his son calls him and says “Daddy I’m done”, in amazement the Father asks how he finished it so fast. The boy replied:
“A piece of paper fell to the floor and I noticed on the other side was a picture of a man. I turned the pieces around, and I put the man back together”. You see,
when you put yourself together, the world has no choice but to fall into place.

What story are you telling yourself that is holding you back? Stand up to your inner critic because once you silence the critic within, the critics outside can do you
no harm. Whatever life you want, wanting it is not enough. You have to believe you can have it, believe you deserve it. You have to wake up every day and work for it.
When you get tired you need to remember that what you are doing in that moment will change you into the person you are looking to become and shaping the future you
are looking for.

Everyday is a new day. Every moment is a new moment. Live the life you want because you have been living the life you don’t want for too long..

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  1. Loved reading the above! Read your world vegan day one first. Im just at the other side of a rough day with the b/friend so maybe im a little bit vulnerable/impressionable. Or maybe Im just vulnerable/impressionable! Judgement aside(as you suggest) I certainly feel rather confused these days in many ways. So perhaps it’s your sheer conviction that makes me ‘smile inside, and cry outside’. I understand that your posts are both narrative & motivational. At least that’s how I experience them. There is no doubt that in my life that I am searching – unconsciously perhaps – for something to grab me, something I know is meant ‘just for me’. I have dabbled in quite a few things & enjoyed everything to one degree or another and have felt free again in some ways though not all. Through reading your post I recognise that feeling of being free, and able to do the great things that you want to do. In my life now I have decided to share it with my b/friend. It is the newest ans sometimes scariest choice I feel I have made. I don’t make our relationship a betterment project but within it I am feeling feelings that alone I did not even know existed. That, and I am learning about how different people can be(which is also learning about ‘me’!, how I fit in etc). I am fascinated by people but I am also sensitive to being one in a world of them:-D I love the ideas of Taht Nhich Hahn. Check him out if you want – he has a lovely soft good humoured message to relate. Xx

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Apple is making investors nervous

Apple seems seems to succeed every time in taking everyone by surprise. They just officially confirmed that Steve Jobs will introduce the iCloud service and iOS 5 during the WWDC keynote on June 6. It’s extremely strange for the company to pre-announce anything.

But OK, they did. Let’s see how it will play out on the stock. If I look at some blog posts of the last 10 days, there is positive outlook and negative outlook. The stock was in a channel for the last 5 months, now closing almost at the january high. This channel has made a lot of people nervous and brought up the wildest speculations :

Positive signs

Warnings :

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How Social Media can Boost your Small Business

Social media can be a truly effective tool to encourage more sales for many new and existing small businesses. In a study conducted by the Internet Advertising Bureau UK, it was found that close to 80% of consumers will be happy to return for repeat orders based on the brand’s positive social media presence.

Are you being seen on social media at all?

Customers expect to find a business or brand on social media sites, so if there is a lack of presence, or you have a particularly poor one, your business is certainly going to miss out on a lot of potential sales.

If you own a small business, or you are a sole trader, you need to focus on your target market. You do this by going where your customers are hanging out on social media platforms, and speaking directly to them. You have to understand your customers – you need to know everything about them, where they live, their preferred lifestyles, their interests and hobbies. Knowing what sort of person makes up your average customer will help you understand which social networks they are most likely to use.

Understanding your customer profile, and knowing where they will be hanging out will help you develop an effective social media strategy to capture your target audience. Once you know how to engage with your audience, then you need to work out how you are going to use all this positive activity.

Translating your activity into sales

Ask yourself what you are trying to achieve with your social media activity. Do you want to sell tickets to a special event? Are you trying to drive traffic to your website? Do you want to capture email addresses for your newsletter? Are you selling a product or service on your website that can be purchased cheaper through social media via a code or voucher?

Notice how I asked what you wanted to do with your activity? Before you can do anything with the buzz you are creating on social media, you first need to create buzz and engage your customers before you try to sell them anything. Never try to jump the gun on this one. You have to build up trust in your social media followers and earn their loyalty before selling to them. To start the hard-sell from day one will come across as quite distasteful, and can switch off your potential customers interest in your business with a single post.

Handle your social following carefully

Knowing what to do with social media to make it successful is the key to making it work for your business. It takes time to build social relationships, so the last thing you want to do is blow it by openly selling your product or service too soon.

Try to ask your followers questions to engage them in two-way conversation with you. Having their opinions heard and appreciated will make them feel valued, and they will love you for that. The questions you ask them can be business related or general – even discussing the breaking headline news of the day can lead to engaging conversations and and a good foundation of trust between you and your followers.

Solve a problem that customer has, and they will love you for life! Sharing common quandaries with others in your network, asking for opinions, personal experiences, recommendation and sharing advice will all lead to loyalty and returning custom.

Understand the difference

Unfortunately, there are still new business owners who are coming into the world of social media for the first time with the belief that it should be treated in the same way as traditional advertising. Putting an obvious advert into a newspaper or magazine is a very different thing to having a social media profile.

When you buy advertising space in a magazine for example, you will only be concerned with creating your advert to get the right message across to sell your product or service. The rest of the magazine is not your concern, and you don’t get involved in the production.

A magazine reader will buy the magazine because of the information that it contains, and will never buy a copy simply because it carries one of your adverts. You place your advert within that magazine because the reader will be the sort of person that may like what you have to offer.

You have to think of your social media profile as the ‘whole magazine’ and not just the single advert you place in it. Your followers will come to your page or profile for the same reason they will pick up a magazine to read. They will come for the information, the answers to their questions, the social engagement, and the latest news. If you can provide them with this, then they will be more willing to accept the occasional sales-specific post, especially if it offers some value to them.

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Local Foods Connection Blog

Local foods, hunger relief, sustainable agriculture

2007 Spring Farm Work Days February 22, 2007

Filed under: Uncategorized — localfoodsconnection @ 6:30 am

Dear Friends,

You can help Local Foods Connection, visit a farm, and learn about sustainable agriculture by joining us on one of our farm work days this winter and spring! Below please find a link to a file containing a list of farm work days for February through April, as well as instructions for preparing for farm work.

Anyone can help on a farm; no experience is necessary! The farmer will teach you as you work. You will meet new people, learn a skill, and have a great time. If you are interested, let us know as soon as possible.

Farm Volunteers

Volunteers giving  medicine to a sheep.

Farm Volunteers

Volunteers planting garlic.

Open this file for more information!:

2007 Spring Farm Work Document

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Christmas is upon us

By: Terry Moore

As usual, the run up to Christmas is so busy you almost don’t have a chance to relax and celebrate the season of giving. This Christmas Hibiscus Matters collected supermarket vouchers for the Hibiscus Coast Community House’s foodbank, which always struggles to fill its shelves at this time of year, and for Love Soup, which will put them towards its free Christmas dinner. So far a total of $930 has been collected, with more expected to come in next week. Thanks to all who donated, in particular New World Whangaparaoa, the largest donor with $500. Hibiscus & Bays Local Board deputy chair Janet Fitzgerald was also extremely generous, as always, and many members of the community called in with vouchers.

Having a chance to give something tangible back is the best part of this job – whether it be through writing a story or supporting the business community by providing a local platform for their advertising via the 22,450 papers we distribute twice a month.

Hibiscus Matters wishes all our readers, advertisers, columnists and delivery people a happy and safe Christmas. We look forward to another year of giving back! Our next paper is out February 1.

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PRI's Environmental News Magazine

Political Season

Air Date: Week of September 6, 1996

Peter Dykstra of Atlanta's CNN (Cable News Network) Environmental Unit shares his insights with Steve Curwood about what the presidential nominees are up to this fall election season. And what they're leaving out.

CURWOOD: This is Living on Earth. I'm Steve Curwood. The nearly year-long prelude is finally over, and from now till November it's the real thing: the contest for the White House with Bob Dole and Bill Clinton the main contenders. Pollsters have predicted that environmental concerns will play a major part in this year's elections and we'll be looking at how the debate evolves throughout the fall. This week we turn to Peter Dykstra, who heads up the environmental unit at CNN. He says that so far, both the Dole and Clinton campaigns are steering clear of the tough environmental issues.

DYKSTRA: There still is, according to the proverbial high place sources, something of a gag order on Al Gore to make this a primary issue. The consultants for the campaign going back 2 years or even 4 years ago didn't want to hear, we are told, much about issues such as climate change and global warming. They felt it's the MEGO factor. MEGO is an acronym for My Eyes Glaze Over. And they felt it wasn't a sexy enough campaign issue and therefore shouldn't be discussed by the Vice President or anyone in power.

CURWOOD: So Clinton, in your view, is taking, is playing it pretty safe. I mean a couple of weeks ago he said he was going to spend, what? Two billion dollars to clean up some Superfund sites and abandoned industrial sites, you know, the so-called brownfields. And this is pretty non-controversial, you're saying.

DYKSTRA: There isn't really a huge lobby or a groundswell of public opinion that wants to keep urban industrial sites dirty. And it's not by the standards of the Federal budget a backbreaking sum of money, either. That those comfortable issues are the ones where you're likely to see more discussion.

CURWOOD: But you don't think we're going to see the President talk about the tougher ones. There's of course global warming. But at home there's the question of, say, grazing rights or salvage logging, or protection of the Red Rock wilderness in southern Utah. We won't see anything on that, is that your prediction?

DYKSTRA: I don't think Bill Clinton is going to tell us all that we need to change our driving habits. I don't think he's going to tell us that we need to change our consumption habits. Nor is he going to go out to a western timber town and tell people to stop cutting trees. Certainly not between now and the November election. And by the same token, Bob Dole spoke in midsummer in a timber mill town in northern California and gave sort of a rip-snorting, almost anti-environmental group speech, if you will. And that, I thought, was very surprising, because the Republicans have been very, very clearly backing off that hard line.

CURWOOD: In fact, some pollsters told them recently that attacks on environmental protection weren't washing in the 104th Congress. And that they needed to turn the image around. It doesn't seem that Dole has heeded this advice.

DYKSTRA: Being behind in the Presidential poll as he has been through the summer, I think he has to find where he can distinguish himself from Bill Clinton, and this is clearly one of those issues. Whether or not it will gain any ground for him, I don't know.

CURWOOD: What about the Congressional races? Which ones are you watching?

DYKSTRA: I'm really fascinated by the geographic split. If you look at areas in the South or in the Western US, there are a lot of races here in Georgia. Max Cleeland, a Democrat, and Sky Millner, a Republican, they're both disowning to some extent environmental values, and, if you will, trying to out-brown each other, whereas Senator John Kerry and Governor Weld in Massachusetts, Congressman Dick Zimmer and Congressman Torricelli in New Jersey running against each other to replace Bill Bradley, are both looking to stake a claim as someone the environmental organizations would like. The northeastern part of the country, it's still a very strong issue to run on to say you're pro-environment. In the rest of the country it's hit or miss.

CURWOOD: Peter Dykstra heads CNN's Environmental Unit. He spoke to us from Atlanta. Talk to you again soon, Pete.

DYKSTRA: Thank you.

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This or That #47

This or That #47

Are you typically hesitant about lending your books to others?

“It depends” is not an option

I feel like I need to insert the hashtag #sorrynotsorry…But I always feel hesitant, it doesn’t even matter if I have lent a book/movie to them before and they returned it…You just don’t know what’s going to happen, it might be that one time you lend your book out and they just never return, you might never see them again. So even though I might lend my book out, I have so much hesitation in my mind.

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