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Did you know that Twice Played Sports on Highlands Road has a great selection of used soccer shoes, at fantastic prices? If your kids outgrow their soccer shoes in a single season, it makes sense to stop by and check out their selection.

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Without a doubt the most valuable lessons and experiences critical to Taylor-Swanson’s early professional woodworking career came during the 10 years he spent building yacht interiors. The first two years were spent in an Anacortes, WA boatyard where yachts up to 82’ yachts were fabricated from start to finish. Later he moved to Tacoma, WA to hone his craft with a company that built luxury yacht interiors for vessels up to 240’. It was during this decade that Taylor-Swanson found himself surrounded with nothing but the highest expectations for quality and craftsmanship. The values that prevailed throughout this period – strict attention to all details without compromise – eventually became the foundation of Madera’s business ethos.

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This trick comes in handy to so many of us when thinking of doing little mess and also, keep the meal in shape. All you need to have at your hands is a dental floss, some time and you are ready to show to your guests what a cooker are you! And trust me, there is no better and bigger sattisfaction than the words and compliments heard from your loved ones with regards to your cooking skills!

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Architecture In Malaysia
Top 20 Buildings

In common with most countries, architecture in Malaysia comes in a wide range of styles. Buildings range from the magnificent (Petronas Twin Towers for example) to the hideous (some of the older low cost housing blocks).

Loke Hall is the headquarters of the Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM).

The Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM) chooses for its headquarters one of Kuala Lumpur’s most attractive heritage buildings, Loke Hall which was built in 1907 as a town house for Loke Chow Kit. It was thought to have been designed by Anglo-Indian architect A.K Musdeen.

Architecture In Malaysia - Top 20 Most Attractive

When it comes to deciding which are the most attractive buildings in Malaysia, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Here is my list of Top 20 Buildings in Malaysia. I have excluded mosques, temples, churches and bridges which are covered elsewhere on this website. My list, which is in no particular order, is biased more towards older buildings, being something of an oldie myself!

KL Twin Towers
  • Petronas Towers. This is an obvious choice. KL’s famous twin towers are 88 storeys high reaching 452m above street level. The building was the world’s tallest from 1998 until 2004 when it was surpassed by Taipei 101.
  • Another obvious choice is the stately, copper-domed Sultan Abdul Samad Building on Merdeka Square. This colonial era government building is still one of Kuala Lumpur’s most iconic landmarks.
Sultan Ibrahim Building in JB
  • The imposing Sultan Ibrahim Building in Johor Bahru dominates the JB skyline and was the tallest building in Malaysia until independence. The foundation stone was laid in1940 but construction was not completed until 1942, by which time Malaya was under Japanese occupation. It housed the State Secretariat until 2009 when that function was relocated to Kota Iskandar, the new Johor State Administrative capital. The building has been unoccupied for some years. There was talk of converting it into a museum but it is not clear when this will happen.
Hubback's Ipoh Railway Station masterpiece
  • Ipoh Railway Station is nicknamed the Taj Mahal of Ipoh for its sense of scale and grandeur. It was completed in 1917 and had a hotel on the upper floor which closed down a few years ago. It was designed by Arthur Benison Hubback, a government draftsman/architect who also designed Kuala Lumpur’s railway station.
OCBC's art deco branch in Kuala Lumpur
  • The OCBC building on Medan Pasar Besar in Kuala Lumpur is a fine example of art-deco architecture with clean, elegant lines and functional design. It was built in 1937 with basement parking for bicycles.
Seri Menanti Old Palace Museum
  • Seri Menanti Old Palace is a four storey wooden structure built between 1902 and 1908 as a royal palace for the rulers of Negeri Sembilan state. Its unique style and the fact that it was built without the use of nails make it worthy of inclusion on this list of architecture in Malaysia.
Blue Mansion, Penang
  • The Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion in Leith Street, George Town, Penang is a beautiful example of a Chinese courtyard home. Also known as the Blue Mansion it operates as a boutique hotel.
  • Also in Penang is the Khoo Kongsi, a clan house for the Khoo family and one of the most ornate and magnificent examples of a clan house in the country.
Melaka Sultanate Palace
  • Malacca Sultanate Palace is a replica of the original wooden Sultan of Malacca’s palace which was burnt down by the Portuguese in 1511 Although it is recent, the stunning exterior gives a good idea of how the original might have looked.
Kuala Lumpur International Airport
  • Kuala Lumpur International Airport was designed over 20 years ago and completed in 1998 but it continues to impress as one of the world’s best airport designs.
Treasury Ministry, Putrajaya
  • Malaysia’s administrative capital city, Putrajaya, boasts many fine government buildings. One of my favourites is the Ministry of Finance complex.
Royal Museum, Alor Setar
  • Istana Kota Star is a palace in Alor Setar, Kedah and includes the Balai Besar and the Royal Museum. Thai and Malay architectural elements are incorporated in the unique design.
  • Another palace makes the list - this time the Istana Jahar in Kota Bharu. It was built in 1887 and is now a museum.
Dutch era Stadthuys building in Malacca
  • Even older, the Stadthuys in Melaka is an example of Dutch colonial architecture from the 1650’s. It is one of the landmark buildings in Dutch Square that help give Melaka its characteristic feel.
State Secretariat, Seremban
  • Wisma Negeri is the State Secretariat building in Seremban. It is modern, having been built in 1987, but its distinctive buffalo horn roofline brings to mind the Minangkabau architecture of western Sumatra.
  • There are many wonderful shophouse designs in Malaysia but one of the most elaborate and ornate I have seen is this fine example in Kuala Pilah.
  • The colonial British administration used to build courthouses in every town of any size in Malaya. This court complex in Batu Gajah is one of the best surviving examples from that era.
  • Also in Perak is Galeri Sultan Azlan Shah in Kuala Kangsar. This museum is housed in a former palace which combines European and tropical influences in its design.
  • The Pavilion building in Kuching dates from 1909 and is a rare mix of English Renaissance and English Colonial architecture. It was built as a medical centre but is now a textile museum.
Terengganu traditional house at Muzium Warisan Melayu
  • There are many examples of gorgeous traditional Malay houses all over the country and the designs vary from state to state. This example from Terengganu has been reassembled at the Muzium Warisan Melayu at Serdang.

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As I write this blog post to you guys, I am eating peanut butter straight out of the jar for “lunch” and am drinking a full cup of cold coffee. Not iced coffee, mind you, this was hot about, oh, four hours ago. It is almost 3pm, and I have gotten about 30% of my “to do” list done, and that’s a lot for me. And so I decided that today, of all days, with Mother’s Day coming up on Sunday, I should write about balance. And how it is total, and utter crap.

The really funny part of this blog post is that I started “writing” it last week. In the shower, which is where I get most of my ideas. Maybe it’s because it’s one of the few times in my life where I don’t have anyone else with me, and even though there are plenty of child sized interruptions, something about the water and the peace and quiet makes things pop into my head like “Did I remember to hand in Jack’s preschool graduation form???” (no, I did not) and “I should write a book and here’s how I’m gonna start it!”.

The thing is, for a while I thought “balance” was something that not only I could achieve as a parent, it was something I should achieve. Something to aspire to. We have all read those articles about “FINDING BALANCE”. Take a bubble bath! Find a hobby (ed note: hahaha)! Make some me time! Make sure you are finding that balance! Like it’s something I can jot down on my list:

  1. Call and make kids dentist appointments
  2. buy more pull ups
  3. find balance
  4. get oil change
  5. Try to get Sharpie off closet door

Balance sort of turned into another thing to fail at as a parent. OMG I forgot to find BALANCE! Oops! I don’t have time to work out or volunteer or spend enough time with friends, now I’m failing not only at parenting but as a PERSON since I am so unbalanced! Crap! Between all that growing a human being and birthing them and making sure they’re fed and bathed etc etc etc I now have to work in some balance somewhere. Hmmm…balance…Do they sell that at the Dollar Spot?

The other little pickle is that…kids? They aren’t exactly balancers for life. More like unbalancers. If there is one thing I can say children do for sure it is unbalance you. Literally and figuratively. My back will never be the same after carrying five children. And I will never be the same. Plus, forcing balance sounds kind of like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? You can try and keep kids and yourself to a rigid schedule but childhood will find a way through that. And rather than think that I can and should get them all onto this super duper little schedule that suits my needs maybe I can remember that they are children, and babies. And while they need structure and structure is great, maybe I need to tune into their own needs and not bend them to what I want them to be doing at any given time.

And let’s say you DO get them on a super duper schedule (claps for you) get ready for someone to throw that right the hell off. Stomach bug, night terrors, illness, growth spurts, LIFE IN GENERAL. It’s gonna get you. And it’s going to knock you right off balance.

And I mean, YES mommy needs her downtime but also, they need me. Balance, this unicorn of parenting, is gonna have to wait. It is just fine to be doing your best as you go along. It’s just fine to just do what needs to get done, try and do some of what makes life fun, and call it a day, and be content with that. Or you know what? Days where you just get the bare minimum done and you roll into bed and are like YEP DONE WITH TODAY. That’s fine. It’s fine. It’s okay to hang on to that extra 10 or 20 or 30 pounds because you know what? You have a baby, and you just don’t WANT to work out right now thankyouverymuch (raises hand). That can wait till they’re in kindergarten (or middle school, whatevs). Right now you have tiny little butts to keep clean and breastfeeding burns calories anyway so eat the damn cinnamon bun and don’t look back.

When you need a break, try and take a break. Tune into your own needs, as a parent, as a mother, and work on that. Can you push through times and find new strength? Awesome. Can you work on knowing when you need to say f*#k it to that huge pile of laundry and put your feet up and not care? Work on that. Do what you gotta do, when you gotta do it, and that, my friends, will be the closest you come to balance.

Let go of the idea that life, and your children’s lives, can ever be or ever should be “balanced” and let go of the guilt of not getting more done, not doing more, not doing “IT ALL”.

Maybe one day when they’re all grown up I’ll be able to sit on a porch somewhere and read a book in total silence and do my yoga every day and meditate and make time for all those things I didn’t do when they were little and tugging at the hem of my skirt to be picked up and fed and sung to and carried around. And I will miss it, oh man will I miss it.

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Traditional Canadian Style Open Canoes

Originally designed for use by the Native Americans, these boats were then taken on by hunters, trappers and explorers throughout the North American continent. These days’ modern canoes have not changed much from their original size and shape, but instead of being made from Birchbark they are constructed from plastic or composite materials. The beauty of open canoes is their huge carrying capacity, allowing paddlers to go tandem, paddle with the whole family, and if needed, take enough camping equipment to disappear away from it all or embark on multiday adventures.

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Single layer construction canoes cost less than other types of canoes, these are popular for families to use as recreational canoes.

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Hornets 44

HORNETS' players needed little motivation before Sunday's win at Whitehaven's Recreation Ground. The thoughts of the players, coaching staff and everyone connected with the club were with Paul Owen.

Damian Ball expressed the views of all the squad when he said: "I don't think we need to document the circumstances surrounding the club this week.

"It's obviously very disappointing for the players and everyone connected with Rochdale Hornets. I think the performance today emphasised how we feel about the situation. We all dug in for each other.

"There had been a magnificent build up surrounding this game. We went up on Saturday and were together all weekend. We bonded really well and I think the performance reflected that.

"It was devastating news for everyone at the club, but it's something we will use to drive us on for the rest of the season. Martin read out a letter from Paul at a team meeting and it spurred us on no end.

"Before we went out the last thing Martin said was let's win this for Paul Owen. You could see it in everyone's eyes today that they wanted to do it for Paul.

James Bunyan's unavailability meant that Ball was required to play at right centre, a role with which he isn't unfamiliar with.

"I actually started as a centre at York so it wasn't too much of a problem," he said. "I've always said I would play anywhere on the field for Martin and I stand by that.

"It's a team game and it's from one to 17 not from one to 13. We are professional players and everyone has to adapt to the circumstances."

In a great team performance Ball picked out on-loan stand-off Radney Bowker as the star of the show.

"I think Radney was the best man on the field," he said. "He showed he is SuperLeague quality. Everything he did turned to gold. It's great for him because he has had some disappointments at Salford. I'm over the moon for him"

Hornets started in exhilarating fashion as Bowker broke from his own 20-metre line and careered towards the Whitehaven line. David Larder and Jon Roper carried on the move and Chris Irwin was on hand to touch down. Nanyn converted.

Nanyn and Steve Kirkbride exchanged penalties before the home side enjoyed a purple patch helped, it has to be said, by numerous errors by Hornets. Aaron Lester sneaked in from acting halfback and Paul O'Neill collected Ian Watson's up and under.

He evaded Hornets' cover to sprint the length of the pitch and score. Kirkbride converted both tries to give the home side a 12-point lead.

Despite this Hornets' fans knew that if their team cut out the mistakes the tries would come. And come they did in some style. Watson chipped through and collected and his audacious flick sent Wes Rogers clear to score. Nanyn added the extras.

Four minutes later Matt Long and John Hamilton drove the ball forward. The ball was moved right and Paul Smith's long-ball sent Nanyn in at the corner. Hornets went into the break only two points behind.

Early in the second half the inspirational Bowker again exposed the home defence with a blinding side-step. The ubiquitous Larder was on hand to collect his pass before handing on to Roper who touched down against his home-town club. Nanyn was on the target with the kick.

Watson knocked over a drop goal and shortly afterwards Gareth Price swatted off several home defenders as he embarked on a bullocking run. Roper was in support to take the pass and set up Bowker for a score. Nanyn goaled.

Watson's astute kicking and his team-mates' willingness to chase kept the Cumbrians deep in their own half. Hornets were rewarded when Watson's long pass created space for Nanyn.

He barged over out wide for his second of the day. Nanyn's aim was unerring as he slid over a superb touchline conversion.

Whitehaven cashed in on a Hornets' mistake to score, but it was too little too late for the home fans who were streaming from the ground with 12 minutes left.

Bowker compounded the agony of the remaining fans as he danced his way past six defenders and waited for the cavalry to arrive.

Price was first on the scene to carry on the move and Marlon Bill had only to fall over the line to complete the move.

Nanyn showed his adaptability with the boot as he launched goal number seven from wide out on the opposite touchline to his previous kick.

Watson's late drop goal was the final nail in the coffin for the Whitehaven side, but in truth they looked dead and buried far earlier.

Once again the hardy band of Hornets' supporters who had journeyed north were rewarded with a magnificent display of attacking rugby.

Sadly John Hamilton was stretchered off in the 43rd minute with a broken leg and this took some of the gloss off the victory.

HORNETS: Chris Irwin; Mick Nanyn, Damian Ball, Jon Roper, Marlon Billy, Radney Bowker, Ian Watson, Paul Southern, Richard Pachniuk, Gareth Price, David Larder, Matt Leigh, Paul Smith. Subs (all used): Warren Ayres, Wes Rogers, John Hamilton, Matt Long.
Scorers: Tries: Irwin (5); Rogers (31), Nanyn (35, 64), Roper (46), Bowker (58), Billy (72). Goals: Nanyn 7, Watson 2dg.

WHITEHAVEN: Gary Broadbent; Steven Wood, Danny Lockhart, Howard Hill, Paul O'Neill, Leroy Joe, Steven Kirkbride, Matt Sturm, Aaron Lester, David Fatialofa, Chris McKinney, Spencer Miller, Garry Purdham. Subs (all used): Carl Sice, Marc Jackson, Ryan Campbell, Dean Vaughan.
Scorers: Tries: Broadbent (19); Lester (24), O'Neill (28, 68). Goals: Kirkbride 4.
Penalties: 1-6 Attendance: 1282
Referee: Colin Morris (Huddersfield)
Half-time: 20-18


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[Victoria Alexander] Camille, the widowed Lady Lydingham, has met a prince she thinks would be perfect as her next husband. She’s always wanted a prince after all. So, she decides to give him the perfect Charles Dickens’ Christmas with the perfect English family. Unfortunately, eccentric is a more accurate description of her family than perfect. What’s a girl to do?

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As to where the characters came from—who knows? I knew Beryl (Lady Dunwell from My Wicked Little Lies) had a twin sister—Camille. I also knew she and her sisters were brought up to marry for money and position, and they did. Now, Camille and her youngest sister are widowed and Beryl is on her second husband and has—shockingly enough—fallen in love with him. Of course, she does expect that he will be prime minister one day.

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[Manga Maniac Cafe] What are your greatest creative influences?

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Something to drink—coffee, coke zero, iced tea, or water.

My bearded collies—Louie and Reggie. If they’re not under my desk or plastered against the air conditioning vent in my office I find it hard to work. Because if they’re not with me—they’re doing something I won’t like. Eating a sofa pillow, counter surfing in the kitchen, creating chaos, that sort of thing.

[Manga Maniac Cafe] What is the last book that you read that knocked your socks off?

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In terms of non-fiction, I absolutely adored The Sinner’s Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe by Tony Perrottet. I love the way Perrottet tells a story.

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Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.

I'm Mario Ritter. This week, music from banjo-playing singer Abigail Washburn. And we answer a timely question about a tragic fire one hundred years ago that changed working conditions in American factories.

Triangle Factory Fire

Our question comes from Bogota, Colombia. It is such a big question this week that both Faith Lapidus and I will answer it together.

Mercedes asks about a fire at an American factory that killed many women workers who were locked inside.

That tragic event was the Triangle Waist Company factory fire. It happened in the Greenwich Village area of New York City on March twenty-fifth, nineteen eleven. The fire in the upper three floors of the ten-floor building was over in less than half an hour.

But one hundred forty-six people were killed in that short time. The large majority were young women, some of them girls.

It was the worst workplace disaster in New York City history until the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in two thousand one.

A shirtwaist was a main piece of clothing for women at the time. The Triangle Waist Company was the largest maker of these garments. Isaac Harris and Max Blanck owned the business and were known as the “Shirtwaist Kings.”

Experts say they were successful, in part, because of the complete lack of protections for workers in those days. There were no rules about pay, hours or safety. The employees at Triangle generally worked fourteen-hour days, six days a week. Most were young, female and immigrants. They had to pay for their materials and any sewing mistakes they made.

Max Blanck and Isaac Harris also had little trust in their workers. And this lack of trust led to many of the deaths that spring day.

The fire broke out just before five o’clock in the afternoon. The workers were minutes from ending their work day. Reports say the fire started on the eighth floor, probably from a cigarette in a waste container.

The many hanging shirtwaists fed the fire. It spread very quickly. There was telephone service from the eighth to the tenth floor where the owners were. Mr. Blanck and Mr. Harris were warned about the fire. They climbed to the roof and then to another building.

But the workers on the ninth floor did not know of the fire until the smoke and flames surrounded them.

The building had no water sprinkler system, although others in the city did. It also had just one fire escape – metal stairs on the outside of the building. Some of the workers were able to climb down the fire escape before the poorly made metal structure collapsed.

Other workers tried to ride the elevator down to the first floor. But in time the fire blocked it. Many victims then jumped down the elevator shaft to avoid being burned.

Some workers tried to escape through an exit door to a stairwell. But soon fire and smoke made it impassable. Workers then raced to another door that led to another set of stairs. But they could not open the door. Earlier, the door had been locked from the outside so the workers could not leave early or steal anything.

Women began to gather at the windows of the burning building. A huge crowd had gathered below. The women were yelling for help. They crawled out onto the edges of the windows. People in the crowd screamed “Don’t jump.” But some of workers jumped to their death. When the fire engines arrived the ladders reached only to the sixth floor.

It was over just a few minutes after the fire fighters arrived. One hundred twenty-nine women and girls and seventeen men were dead. The youngest victim was fourteen-year-old Rosaria Maltese. She had come to the United States from Italy four years earlier. Her mother and sister died with her in the fire.

Most of the victims were Jewish women, many from Russia. One victim, Fannie Rosen, had only been in the United States for six months. It was her second day on the job at Triangle Waist Company.

Just last month, the remaining unidentified victims of the Triangle fire were finally named. The work was done by researcher Michael Hirsch. Mr. Hirsch became interested in the fire after he learned that one of its victims lived on the same street he lives on in the East Village area of New York.

Mr. Hirsch’s four years of work will make a big difference at the one hundredth anniversary observance March twenty-fifth. For the first time, the names of all the fire’s victims will be read at a memorial service at the building where the tragedy happened.

Two years before the fire, a Triangle workers’ strike led to a huge general strike of women garment workers in New York City. The women were demanding the right to organize for safer working conditions, better pay and other rights. While many garment workers in other factories joined unions as a result, the Triangle workers did not. The fire was seen as even more tragic because of this.

Max Blanck and Isaac Harris were charged with responsibility for the deaths from the fire. However, they were found not guilty. They received insurance money and continued in the business. In fact, Mr. Blanck again locked workers in a factory in nineteen thirteen. He was arrested and fined a small amount.

However, many things did change as a result of the Triangle tragedy. A special committee was created to investigate factory and worker safety in workplaces across the state. It reported many violations and supported new safety laws. And the International Ladies Garment Workers Union gained many members, greater respect and more power.

The Triangle factory fire is being remembered this month. The Public Broadcasting System’s television program “American Experience” broadcast a documentary called “Triangle Fire.” The cable channel HBO is also broadcasting a documentary co-produced by Michael Hirsch. It is to air on the anniversary weekend of March twenty-fifth. New York University has a special exhibit about the tragedy. NYU now owns the building which housed the Triangle Waist Company. Other related stage and art shows are also being held in the city.

Abigail Washburn

Abigail Washburn writes and performs songs influenced by bluegrass music. She has made albums with the traditional music band Uncle Earl and a group of musicians called The Sparrow Quartet. Washburn recently released her second album performing on her own. “City of Refuge” is influenced by bluegrass as well as other kinds of music. Bob Doughty tells us more.

That was the song “Corner Girl” from Abigail Washburn’s latest album, “City of Refuge.” You can hear her playing the banjo, a traditional bluegrass instrument. But Washburn is also influenced by other kinds of music.

One song on her new album includes folk singers from Mongolia. On others you can hear the traditional Chinese instrument called the guzheng.

Abigail Washburn has a special love for China. She speaks Mandarin and has spent time living, travelling and performing in China. She has said that trying to create an album completely free of Chinese influence would be like ignoring a big part of who she is.

Here is the song “Chains,” which has a very different sound.

Abigail Washburn says she considers herself an outsider or foreigner in most situations because she has traveled so much in her life. But she says that music gives her a feeling of being home. She says music is a refuge because it offers common ground for all people. We leave you with her new album’s title song, “City of Refuge.”

I’m Mario Ritter. Our program was written by Dana Demange and Caty Weaver who was also the producer.

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Chrome: Google did it again.

Wow..What a great marketing strategy. (I will say that it’s not marketing)
Chrome is a new browser coming out... which is developed from scratch in Google. Now observe these.
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  2. This gave time for people to read and know about browser well before they will experience the browser itself.
  3. This will give a complete understanding of browser to the users, before using it.
  4. I typically don’t read get started document of any software, unless I feel difficult in using it, now I have read everything about Chrome because I was not having the actual browser in hand.
  5. And after reading I found that its really great work by Google. They are now getting hold of internet with a browser running on every desktop and then an Operating system running on every mobile (Android)
This will look like that the whole world belongs to internet.
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What is Green Marketing?

Myself and some colleagues have been talking about what “Green Marketing” really means. It seems every other magazine or newspaper is talking about “green” this or “green” that and they aren’t talking about watering your lawn.

We came across a term called the “Green Fog” which seems to describe the problem well. Consumers are becoming slightly jaded and unable to determine if companies really are more sustainable than their competitors. They are starting to wonder if it is just marketing hype.

What we need is a standard for being “green”. Just as we have the ISO-9000 for quality perhaps we need the Eco-9000 for green-ness. Come to think of it, perhaps the ISO people already have a standard. I really should take a look.

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Browsing: Diary of John Adams, Volume 3

Docno: ADMS-01-03-02-0008-0002-0004

Author: Adams, John
Date: 1789-09-24

[Notes of Debates on the Residence Bill, continued] Sept. 24. Thursday.

Mr. Grayson. moves to strike out the Words, “in the State of Pensilvania.”1
Mr. Butler. The Center of Population the best Criterion. The Center of Wealth and the Center of Territory.
Mr. Lee. The Center of Territory is the only permanent Center. Mr. Macclay. See his minutes.2
1. That is, following the words “river Susquehannah” in the House bill, and thus assigning the federal capital to Maryland; all the senators present from the South voted for this amendment, but it lost by ten votes to eight.
2. Maclay's “minutes” of this day's debate are very full, but it would have been remarkable if he had offered to let JA see them, since they accuse him of grossly unfair conduct in the chair (Journal, 1890, p. 162–165).
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Browsing: Papers of John Adams, Volume 9

Docno: ADMS-06-09-02-0175

Author: Adams, John
Recipient: Genet, Edmé Jacques
Date: 1780-05-09

To Edmé Jacques Genet

[salute] Dear Sir

I thank you for your Note of yesterday and the Papers inclosed. The Proposals for a general Pacification, by the Dean of Gloucester, whether they were written by him, or another, were probably intended to feel the pulse, of France, or Spain, or America, nay it is not impossible that they might be intended to Sound, So inconsiderable a Portion of Existence as Mr. John Adams: but it must be Something rather more plausibly written: Something a little more consonant to Reason, and to common Sense, which will draw out of Mr. Adams, his sentiments on the great Work of Pacification, if ever he should enter into any detail upon this subject, before general Conferences take place, which he at present believes he shall not do.1
Concealing however my Name, you may take these few observations upon these Proposals.
1. England may be heartily sick of the imprudent Part she has taken.2 This Point I shall not dispute with the Dean of Gloucester. Yet I wish she would give some better proofs of it, than she has done, hitherto. But of America, I can Speak with Confidence and Certainty, and So far from being Sick of the part they have taken, they look upon the past Madness of Great Britain, which has compelled them to overcome all the Prejudices, and weak Passions, which heretofore bound them to her, and to become independant as the greatest Blessing which Providence, ever bestowed upon them from the first Plantation in the new World. They look upon it, that a Council of the wisest statesmen and Legislators, consulting together on the best means of rendering America, happy, free, and great, could not have discovered and digested a system so perfectly adapted to that End, as the one which the folly and Wickedness of Britain has contrived for them. They not only See and feel, and rejoice in the <glorious> Amelioration of their Forms of Government, but in the Improvement of their Agriculture, and their Manufactures, and in the discovery that all the Omnipotence of British Talents, has not been able to { 291 } prevent their Commerce, which is opening and extending every year, as their Population is increasing in the Midst of the War.
To suppose that France is Sick of the <War> the Part she has taken3 is to suppose her to be sick of that Conduct which has procured her more Respect and Consideration in Europe than any step she ever took. It is to suppose her sick of that system which enabled her to negotiate the Peace between Russia and the Ottoman Port, as well as the Peace of Teschen:4 that system which has enabled her to unite in sentiment and affection all the maritime Powers, even the United Provinces, in her favour and against England. It is to suppose her sick of that system, which has broke off, from her rival and natural Ennemy, the most solid Part of his Strength. A strength that had become So terrible to France and would soon have been So fatal to her. I dont mean to enlarge.
As to the Propositions themselves it would be wasting time to consider them. Of all the malicious Plans of the English against America, none has ever been more so than this. Tis calculated only to make America the Sport of Britain, in future, to put it in her Power, to be forever fomenting Quarrells and Wars. And I am well persuaded, that America, would sooner vote for a <Thirty><Thousand> hundred Years War.5
I may be thought, again too sanguine. I have been too sanguine these twenty Years, constantly <too> Sanguine: yet eternally right.

[salute] Adieu

[signed] John Adams
I dont see Captain Waters's Engagement yet in any <other> of the Papers.6 I would have sent it to England and Holland for Publication, if I had known it could not be printed here.
1. Genet's note of 8 May (Adams Papers) enclosed peace proposals from an unidentified issue of the London General Advertiser and Morning Intelligencer (from Genet, 11 May, below); they were also printed in the May issue of Gentleman's Magazine (50:221–222) under the heading of “Proposals for a General Pacification. By the Dean of Gloucester.” For the specific proposals, which included the partition of America, with Britain retaining the territory between the Connecticut and Delaware Rivers and the land below North Carolina, and the cession of Gibraltar to Spain, see JA's letter of 9 May to the president of Congress (No. 62, below). Such proposals were being considered in the spring of 1780 in the course of informal contacts between the British and French governments (Morris, Peacemakers, p. 101–102).
Although JA's doubts as to whether the plan was by Josiah Tucker, dean of Gloucester, proved groundless, they may have stemmed from the apparent variance of the specific proposals made by Tucker from his previous writings. In both The True Interest of Great-Britain set forth in Regard to the Colonies (London, 1774; reprinted at Philadelphia in 1776, Evans, No. 15119) and Dispassionate Thoughts on the American War Addressed to Moderates of All Parties (London, 1780), Tucker had argued that it was in Britain's economic self-interest to withdraw completely { 292 } from the colonies and give them the independence they so desired. Such action would remove the expense of maintaining a colonial presence, but would not mean the loss of the American markets or sources of raw materials, for even as independent states the former colonies would be drawn economically to their former mother country. Tucker's position in his pamphlets, therefore, does not seem dramatically different from Thomas Pownall's in his Memorial or from JA's position in his reworking of Pownall's pamphlet (A Translation of Thomas Pownall's Memorial, 19 April – [ca. 14 July], above).
2. In introducing the proposals, Tucker began “all the powers at war are heartily sick of the imprudent parts they have taken.”
3. The preceding five words were interlined.
4. For the Treaty of Kutschuk-Kainardji (1774) and the Convention of Ainali-Kavak (1779), and the Treaty of Teschen (1779), see vol. 8:index, under Treaties.
5. In a letter of 10 May (Adams Papers), Genet thanked JA for his observations on the peace proposals, but stated that he had decided not to publish them so as to avoid the appearance of paying too much attention to the Dean of Gloucester's “Agri Somnia.” That is, the empty visions of a sick man.
6. See JA's letter of 3 May to Genet, note 1 (above).

Docno: ADMS-06-09-02-0176

Author: Adams, John
Recipient: Huntington, Samuel
Recipient: President of Congress
Date: 1780-05-09

To the President of Congress, No. 62

[salute] Sir

I have the Honour to inclose to Congress, Proposals for a general Pacification, by the Dean of Gloucester.1
Proposed to the English, Americans, French and Spaniards, now at War.
1. That Great Britain Shall retain Newfoundland, with the Desert Coasts of Labradore, also Canada Nova Scotia, and the Country bordering on the Bay of Fundy, as far as the Bay and River of Penobscot.
2. That all the Country from the Penobscot River to the River Connecticut, containing almost all the four populous provinces of New England, Shall be ceded to the Americans.
3. That all the Country from the Connecticut to the River Delaware, containing the whole of New York Long Island, and the Jersies with Some parts of two other Provinces indenting with them, shall return to Great Britain.
4. That all the Country from the Delaware to the Northern boundary of South Carolina, containing the greatest part of Pennsylvania, all Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, shall be ceded to the Americans.
5. That all the Country from the Northern boundary of South Carolina to the extreme point of the eastern Florida, containing three whole Provinces, shall be retained by Great Britain.
6. That West Florida, chiefly barren Sand, and the Fortress of Gibralter (totally useless) Shall be ceded to Spain, in order to Satisfy { 293 } the Punto2 of that nation, and that the Spaniards shall give Porto Rico in Exchange—an Island, on which they seem to set no Value, and which indeed is of no Use to them, though large in itself, Stored with good ports, well situated, and capable (in the Hands of the English) of great Improvements.
7. Lastly that the English Shall give up the Conquests they have made on the French in the East Indies who shall do the like to the English in the West Indies.
I shall make no Remarks upon this Plan. But there is no Englishman thinks of a wiser, or at least who dares propose one. All who talk of Propositions, throw out something as absurd, and idle as this, which will convince Congress that We shall have no Peace for Sometime.
The French Armament which sailed from Brest the second of May, under the Command of M. De Rochambeau of the Troops and M. de Ternay of the Fleet—and the Armament from Cadiz of twelve ships of the Line besides Frigates and other armed Vessels, with Eleven thousand five hundred Land Forces, with a fine Train of Artillery which were to sail about the same time or earlier,3 both destined for America, as it is supposed, will I hope bring the English to think of some Plan a little more rational.

[salute] I have the Honour to be, with great Regard, sir your most obedient servant,

[signed] John Adams
RC (PCC, No. 84, II, f. 35–36); endorsed: “No. 63 Letter from J Adams May 9. 1780 Read Sept 20 Dean of Glocester's plan of pacification.” LbC in John Thaxter's hand (Adams Papers); notation by Thaxter: “No. 62.”
1. For the source of these proposals and additional comments by JA on them, see his letter of 9 May to Genet, and note 1 (above).
2. That is, to satisfy Spanish honor.
3. The Spanish fleet commanded by Como. José Solano sailed from Cádiz on 28 April and arrived at Guadaloupe on 9 June. Its twelve ships of the line convoyed 146 transports and other vessels carrying 11,000 troops (Dull, French Navy and Amer. Independence, p. 188–189).
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I know most people think that musicologists lead a charmed life, but hopefully this epistolary post will show the world some of the trials and tribulations that effect musicologists everywhere.

28 May 2017, 11:28pm

I'm freaking out! Through no fault of my own, UCSB has put my library account on hold and blocked me from ordering I.L.L.s (Interlibrary Loans)—Just like that, I'm cut off! What about all my books? And the sheet music? No more photocopies from Munich or London?!

I have so many intense emotions right now, emotions that I believe are best expressed through the riveting lyrics and choreographic wizardry of "Makes Me I.L.L." by *NSYNC. Thanks to Jess Roy for giving voice to my pain (and for knowing all the lyrics by heart). "You can say I'm crazy if you want to / That's true, I'm crazy 'bout you / You could say that I'm breakin' down inside / 'Cause I can't see that my lending account is blocked for something I'm pretty sure is all your fault!"

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29 May 2017, 4:12am

Thanks to everyone for their support through this trying time. Your sincere concern is what keeps me going. I still haven't heard from I.L.L. Maybe because they're ignoring my constant texts and phone calls. Maybe because it's the middle of the night. Maybe because it's a holiday... who knows!?!?

Alissa "Aune" Aune alerted me to this song by Run-D.M.C. "You Be I.L.L.in'" which captures my state of mind as I grapple with the feelings that come as a result of the library having "left [me] standin' in [my] I.L.L.in' stance."

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29 May 2017, 1:32pm

Well, the folks at I.L.L. have finally contacted me... and things just keep getting worse! They say I didn't return the book before the due date and I say that I did! Can you believe it?!? But you know what? I'm going to decide to put a bold face on it. No more weeping over cereal in the kitchen in the middle of the night for me! I'm going to brave this new chapter in my life with all the heroism I can muster! That's why this Gaelic folksong feels so right: "'I.L.L.ean bithibh sunndach" enjoins Scottish immigrants to be happy as they sail across the ocean... leaving their beloved books, I mean, country behind... and to embrace their new adventure like...

I can't do it!!!! Please I.L.L., check your stacks again! Don't send me to the metaphorical Canada of booklessness!

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31 May 2017, 9:31pm

Um... This is all quite embarrassing... It turns out I may in fact be responsible for this little I.L.L. snafu after all...

You see, I turned in a book by Sándor Balogh entitled Moldvai csángómagyar furulyás dallamok és énekek on May 26. The only problem is that that book wasn't due then. The one that was due was by Sándor Balogh entitled Moldvai hangszeres dallamok... Which I found on my shelf yesterday after the nice people at the library emailed me.

I blame the California public school system!! Yeah! If I had been given more quality instruction in Hungarian in my teens, this sort of thing wouldn't have happened! Come on Proposition 98! I thought you had my back!!

You know what? Enough finger pointing! This is silly. I accept the blame here. I also admit that I acted rather rashly the past couple of days. I said things to the UCSB library, terrible things. I only hope we can patch things up. We used to be so close. We used to have such great times. Remember all those books you lent me? And then how I returned them in a timely manner? Those were the days! I want to have that again! Here's a song to express my hope in a future with you: "I.L.L. Be There" by Jackson 5. "Let me fill your heart with joy and laughter / Togetherness, well it's all I'm after, / Just call my name, and I.L.L. be there."

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TUESDAY, June 1 (HealthDay News) -- A constellation of factors -- including flaws in the health care system, insurance and education levels and biological differences between the races -- may explain why blacks often do worse than whites after undergoing heart transplants, a new study suggests.

The researchers also found that the race of the person who donated the heart doesn't affect whether the person receiving it will fare better or worse after the transplant, according to the report published online June 1 in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

"It does not matter whether a white, black, Hispanic or Asian donor heart is transplanted into a patient of any other particular race," senior study investigator and Johns Hopkins transplant surgeon Dr. Ashish Shah said in a news release. "Other factors must be the reason for any differences in how well people do after transplantation, in particular why blacks have poorer outcomes."

Shah and colleagues examined more than 20,000 medical records of patients who received heart transplants in North America between 1997 and 2007. They found that matching donor hearts by race -- transplanting hearts into patients of the same ethnic group as the donor -- made no difference in the life span of recipients.

Thirty-five percent of the black recipients died after five years, regardless of the race of the person who donated the heart. For white and Hispanic recipients, the death rates were 26 and 28%, respectively. There weren't enough Asians included in the study to provide valid percentages for this group.

"This problem is not just about biology or race, it is also about the health system that supports our patients," Shah said, noting that patients with public insurance had a higher risk of dying than those with private insurance.

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WEDNESDAY, April 25 (HealthDay News) -- So, what does the "G" stand for in G-spot? Maybe it's "G" as in Holy Grail, because a Florida gynecologist contends that he has finally found it.

By means of a seven-hour dissection, Dr. Adam Ostrzenski said, he located the elusive source of female sexual satisfaction deep within the vagina. He makes his claim in a paper published online April 25 in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

But several experts are highly skeptical of Ostrzenski's assertion, saying his paper is long on speculation and headline-grabbing potential and short on proven scientific research.

Ostrzenski, director of the Institute of Gynecology in St. Petersburg, said he performed the layer-by-layer vaginal dissection on the cadaver of an 83-year-old woman who had just died of head trauma.

The existence of the G-spot is a matter of intense debate. It was actually named after scientist Ernest Grafenberg, author of the landmark 1950 article, "The Role of Urethra in Female Orgasm."

Part of the controversy is that -- unlike the clitoris -- the G-spot has never been seen or felt as a distinct structure. Although many women have reported sexual pleasure stemming from the anterior (frontal) part of the vagina, nobody could document a more precise source or describe its size and appearance.

Ostrzenski said the structure uncovered in the study had three distinct sections, sat at a 35-degree angle inside the urethra, and "has a bluish, grape-like appearance."

He said he plans to perform similar forensics on the bodies of women of various ages.

If Ostrzenski and others can consistently reproduce the discovery, he said, "it may absolutely change our view of how the orgasm is created; it will change the understanding of sexual function. It may help in the treatment of the dysfunctional aspect of sex."

Not so fast, cautioned one of three experts who strongly criticized the study.

Barry Komisaruk, a distinguished professor in the department of psychology and associate dean of the graduate school at Rutgers University, submitted the trio's concerns in a journal commentary.

Komisaruk, a behavioral neuroscientist, said the study author made vastly unwarranted conclusions from a single tissue sample without performing appropriate scientific tests. For all anyone knows, he said, rather than locating the G-spot, Ostrzenski may have found a sign of disease, such as a tumor.

The study also lacked "microscopic analysis to determine if it is glandular or erectile tissue, whether the 'vessel' is a blood vessel or a secretory duct, whether the tissue has a nerve supply, and whether it is normal or pathological tissue," Komisaruk said.

"We submit that the author's claim to have discovered 'the' G-spot does not fulfill the most fundamental scientific criteria," wrote Komisaruk and his co-authors.

For claims to be taken seriously, he said, they must be backed by "dissections using microscopic and chemical analysis, in women of all ages. Not only dissections, but observations of this body region in life, using modern imaging and other methodologies, correlating with those who do or do not claim to have a 'G-spot,'" along with other research.

Study author Ostrzenski said he could only speculate as to why nobody had made the discovery before him. "The location of the G-spot is quite deeply situated and maybe that is the reason," he said. "The second aspect is that the vagina exists in separate layers and surgery is usually performed on the upper part."

Besides his own work, Ostrzenski said that genetic findings, studies of vaginal electrical activity and centuries of descriptions from women support the G-spot's existence.

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MONDAY, July 28, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Runners may live an average three years longer than people who don't run, according to new research.

But, the best news from this study is that it appears that you can reap this benefit even if you run at slow speeds for mere minutes every day, the 15-year study suggests.

"People may not need to run a lot to get health benefits," said lead author Duck-chul Lee, an assistant professor of kinesiology at Iowa State University. "I hope this study can motivate more people to start running and to continue running as an attainable health goal."

It's not clear from the study whether the longer lifespan is directly caused by running. The researchers were only able to prove a strong link between running and living longer. There could be other reasons that runners live longer. It could be that healthy people are the ones who choose to run, noted the study's authors. The investigators did try to control the data to account for such factors though.

Current U.S. guidelines for physical activity call for a minimum of 75 minutes per week of running or other vigorous-intensity aerobic activity, or 30 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise most days of the week.

But people who exercised less than that still received significant health benefits, according to the new research.

Running modest amounts each week -- less than 51 minutes, fewer than 6 miles, slower than 6 miles per hour, or only one to two times -- was still associated with solid health benefits compared to no running, the researchers reported in the Aug. 5 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

The study also suggested that you can have too much of a good thing. People who regularly ran less than an hour per week reduced their risk of death just as much as runners who logged three hours or more weekly.

The study involved more than 55,000 adults aged 18 to 100, who were followed during a 15-year period to determine whether there is a relationship between running and longevity. About one quarter of this group were runners.

Participants were asked to complete a questionnaire about their running habits, and researchers kept track of those who died during the study period.

The researchers discovered that people who didn't run had a life expectancy three years less than that of runners. Running was linked to a 30 percent lower risk of death from any cause and a 45 percent lower risk of death from heart disease or stroke, compared to no running.

Even less-avid runners received significant benefits. Running a minimum 30 minutes to 59 minutes each week -- which equates to just 5 to 10 minutes a day -- was associated with a 28 percent lower overall risk of death and a 58 percent reduced risk of death from heart disease, compared with no running.

"The mortality [death] benefits in runners were similar across running time, distance, frequency, amount and speed," Lee said. The benefits held firm even after the researchers took into account for factors such as weight, smoking, drinking or health problems.

However, runners need to keep at it. Persistent runners -- those who had been running regularly for an average of six years -- had the greatest benefit, the study authors found.

Improved heart and lung function appears to be key to running's health benefits, Lee said. Runners in the study had 30 percent better fitness than nonrunners, and their fitness increased with the amount of time they spent running.

Dr. Michael Scott Emery, co-chair of the American College of Cardiology's Sports and Exercise Cardiology Council, found it "a little surprising that 5 or 10 minutes of running had such an impact on health."

Emery, a cardiologist in Greenville, S.C., said, "This shows your biggest bang for the buck is just getting up and doing something, even if it doesn't meet current guidelines. Even a little bit is better than zero."

But, he noted that running does have more potential for injury than walking, including joint problems, ankle sprains, shin splints, back pain and muscle pulls.

People might gain similar benefits from walking the same distance for a longer period of time, he suggested.

"Running has more potential for injury, but walking takes longer," Emery said. "You have to find your own mix, your balance."

Lee agreed that people interested in running should start out slow and build up over time.

"Running is a vigorous-intensity activity, thus it is recommended that inactive people can start walking to reduce injury risk before they start running," he said.

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Has the Victory’s 2016/17 kit been leaked?

Some poor store attendant might be losing their job after a Victory fan spotted what looks to be Melbourne Victory’s playing kit for the upcoming season.

@kgeorgievski (The man with the Sth End banner) came across the kit on Friday evening available for sale at a sports store in the city.

The club previously stated on Twitter today when responding to a fan that the planned kit unveiling was planned for later this month. Looks like someone beat them to it.