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Tell me a little bit about why you started blogging.
The first time I ever read a blog or any concept of a blog was scripting Dave Winer’s site probably like 2000, 2001. I just somehow started seeing links to it, and I said: “Wow this is… this is really cool, this is like a person – it’s a fact, but it’s all opinion” – you know what I mean. I get so much more of an idea of what’s important and what isn’t.
And so I didn’t really know anything about a blog was or anything about it or who Dave Winer was, but I realized that he was an expert and that it was really interesting to me to get some news that way about what was important, rather than like CNET.
So what I did is went to Scripting News probably once a day or two or three times a week, I think I started getting emails pretty early on just to know what’s important, what’s going on.
I was doing other stuff, I was at a tech company, but just to know what was going on for conversation purposes, I found that was better than anything out there – CNET or anything.
I was sort of aware of blogs from that point on. I dabbled in blogging, and I realized I liked it.
Some people like blogging, some people don’t, some people because it’s their pastime or hobby and they just find that if they want to unwind or spend some time, and it happens that they want to write something about it: I’m one of those people.
In 2005 I was at a point where my career was stalled. I had sold a company and was spending the money, living on a beach. It was actually a really good life, but I was running out of money, and I got a call from a former business partner, my friend Keith Teare and Keith had a start-up called RealNames in the ’90s – it was a client of mine when I was a lawyer.
So Keith says, “Hey I want to start-up a start-up with you,” and I realized I was pretty much out of the loop, the Internet for me was new – I had a blog, email and that was it. So I started doing fairly disciplined research on these start-ups and realized two things quickly: one is that Flickr, del.icio.us, and others were being covered by blogs and news sites, but no single site was sort of “the place to go” to get news on start-ups.
And I thought, “Why am I not posting this on the web for other people to see? If I post this on the web, the CEO of Technorati is going to read this, and the next time I run into him at a cocktail party, it might be a conversation starter.” So for networking purposes, it seemed like a really good idea.
No, no, no – at that point I thought, why don’t I post my research on the web? So my first month, I think every post was titled, “Profile – Technorati,” and I think Bloglines and Technorati were my very first posts on June 11th of 05. I think Technorati just re-launched.
It was very formatted – it was very semantic, too structured, but very quickly I started getting followers and links coming in – occasional comments and that’s great feedback: it’s what feeds the blogger, and “Like wow, people are reading this,” and so it just started growing.
Meanwhile, Keith wanted me to move up to Silicon Valley from LA, so I moved up here and got a house to form the business side of it — we were starting at GO — and TechCrunch just keeps growing and growing.
At that point did you have ads on your site?
Nothing at all, not even Google ads. I reached out to him and said that I really, really want to be part of this, and he looked at it, and he’s like we’ll let you in, and that was when we first started getting revenue.
So the business — the decision when you thought it was a business — was actually a fairly quick realization.
Yes, it was. It took six, seven months but I realized I can at least make some revenue from this.
When was the moment that you knew that this could be something pretty big?
I think summer of ’06 — about a year in — I think we had a party at August Capital, we always had our summer parties there. I think the fire code said we could have 600 people, we had about 3000 people trying to get in, it was like a mob, and um, people got wasted.
A very well known blogger got a DUI on the way home. Start-ups were going crazy they were paying us for little demo booths, everybody was happy – it was good, it was really good. And I thought, “Okay, maybe there was something here long term. Maybe there’s business here, perhaps we could do more events, bigger events, maybe the blog can be something that’s a real business in the long run.
So when you brought [TechCrunch CEO] Heather Harde in, that was a clear signal this is a business?
Ross Levenson was Heather’s boss at FOX Interactive. I knew them both because they were always buying companies, so I was constantly calling them. Heather was running M&A. I remember one time I was in FOX’s office; I don’t know why they let me in but I just sort of ran out of a meeting and bee-lined for her office.
So they knew me and were annoyed by me, but when Ross left and it seemed unclear what they were doing, and I went after Heather. It took me six or seven months to get her to say okay, but I knew that she was the person I wanted: she had Harvard MBA and had M&A – I mean she just seemed like perfect executive material for TechCrunch.
One thing I learned early in my business career was that I always thought to be good at business you got to be well rounded. You look at top CEOs and how they’re pretty mellow but not smooth in a bad way, but they’re not an emotional wreck. I found that I’m very emotional, and I think that makes a very good blogger, but that makes me a very poor manager.
Heather is the epitome of steady, and it made a lot of sense to me to bring her in.
Just from the pure blogging side of it, what do you think your keys to success were?
I like writing, and I think I’m not a terrible writer, I wrote a book at the law firm I was at — Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati — and the title was IPOs – Actual Guide for Executives. I wrote it with the idea of like a For Dummies book. For Dummies books are really really good because they focus on not a lot of wasted language and writing a sentence that like… you’re not. Some people write flowery language because they think it impresses the reader but it’s actually much much harder to write a clear sentence that conveys meaning in a very direct way.
And if you want to be vague or humorous do that too, but don’t be vague or humorous because you’re too lazy to write a clear sentence. A big part of my training was writing very clear contracts, and so between the book and the contracts I think I taught myself how to write concise, clear sentences, but I’m not the next great American novelist.
So, I think I have capable writing but what I think what really helps TechCrunch to be successful is that I care about start-ups; I really believe that entrepreneurs, particularly high tech entrepreneurs, are the most interesting people in the world right now.
They might be dirt poor or a Harvard MBA making a great living as an accountant or a lawyer or an investment banker or whatever, but something in them says I don’t just want to have a chill life.
They say, “Something is itching in me to prove that I can make it in the most competitive in the environment imaginable.” And they do. Sometimes they’re 17 year-olds, still in college or high school, and sometimes 60 year-olds and they’re done with their main career, and they want to start swinging it. I find these people infinitely fascinating because they’re not making a rational choice from a risk to return ratio, they just aren’t. They’re taking their life’s savings, they’re taking their good job, and they’re throwing it out the window to build something that has a one-in-50 chance of being funded at all, and even once it’s funded, it has a 1-in-10 or 20 chance of getting even that money back to investors.
It’s just nuts, and I love it like what drives these people, what drives them is this insane notion that they have to do it.
I’ve noticed in my own personal experience with you, and I’ve also heard this from a blogger that knows you very well, that nobody works as hard as you do and the reason I’m raising that is because one of the things that we learned in the 2008 State of the Blogosphere was the highest authority blogs posted the most frequently. The top 100 averaged 12 posts a day.
That goes back to the quality that you started with you: to be a good writer and write quality stuff.
We have a good team here, and I look for them to write three to four posts a day, and three is fine. I try to get them to write one or two posts on the weekend. So we’re talking about less than 25 posts a week, and the average is like 15 to 20 for each writer. And that’s a lot.
Can you talk about tools that you use and things that help your business that help your business either in your creating the content or marketing it?
YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace are all major traffic drivers for us. Digg is as well.
I’m going to kind of get towards wrapping up – but what do you think about being at the very top of the pyramid in the blogging world?
I’m the world’s tallest midget.
What kind of advice do you have for bloggers who aren’t the world’s tallest midgets, whether its building traffic is monetizing, editorial?
I’ll tell you, I’ve started a few four or five companies now and the biggest success is TechCrunch, and I never intended to start a company so I just scratched the niche and I found what I love. I mean this is clearly what I’m supposed to be doing with my life.
Not starting a payments company, which was the first company I founded; not starting a Netflix clone in Canada which was the second business I started, which is doing ok. Not starting a domain name auctioning business, which is also still an awesome business but I hated its dirty business.
If you find something you love like, say, knitting – I mean how many knitting blogs do you guys track? A lot right? Knitting is like a major blogging category, and you know these people just love knitting, I’ll bet there’s a couple of people who are making money from these knitting blogs, right? I have to imagine they’re making a living.
For foreign investors selling knitting supplies!
So if you’re not blogging about what you love I’d say you’re not probably going to be successful no matter what you do. The other thing is, blogging is maturing. If TechCrunch didn’t exist and I was starting it today, I’m not sure it could grab the open space because it’s sort of taken, and not that that means you shouldn’t do it but it’s going to be harder. You know I think a lot of the guys that work for me and have equity in TechCrunch. By the way, could absolutely be out there writing their own blogs, any of our top writers I think could be out there writing their own successful blogs. They decided to team with me instead, and that’s obviously good for me, but they have equity in TechCrunch I think they might end up doing better this way.
Some of them might leave at some point and start their own blog, once they’ve made a name for themselves. I’m actually okay with that as long as we stay on good terms. So I don’t know what the answer is. What I did at the beginning was a link like hell to everything, so if I wrote about Bloglines or Technorati, or Digg or del.icio.us or whatever. I linked to every post to like 30 other blogs, and I made sure that I was trackbacking them properly because in my opinion like you see a trackback and you click on it. You see who’s linking to you, and you read it, and you do that five times, and that’s probably stuck in your head, and hopefully, at some point, they link to you.
Robert Scoble in Dec ’05 said, “Hey there is some good blogging going on over at TechCrunch, I mean that made my life! You just take baby steps, and you can become successful.
Let’s go back to your business model because there’s an ad model but then your event business kind of was born out of the party business.
Totally born out of party business. I think parties are a lot more profitable. But you know let’s take a country and let’s call it Lichtenstein, I don’t know if there’s a single person lives there. I mean how big Lichtenstein is?
How do you know that? Okay, so I’m in Lichtenstein with 17,000 people, and I noticed that there’s a robust start-up scene or dog breeding scene or whatever it was. You take control of that space, and you can blog, but you’re probably not going to get enough page views with the total population of 17,000 to make enough money from Google or whatever to feed yourself, but you know maybe you hold a small event. You get a sponsor and then maybe start getting a name for yourself with that, and I think you can theoretically do it that way. Our business right now is half events, half pure advertising. And I wouldn’t want to give up either one.
I think you need to build a brand.


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Write it down in your garden journals. Today, I harvested my first tomato.
It is a Brandywine, from a plant I bought on impulse, even though I had plenty of tomato seedlings at home. I bought it because it had really cool packaging, sort of like a carton with one side cut out so the plant was fairly protected, but you could see how healthy it was. The package had bright, interesting, old-fashioned looking print describing this great heirloom tomato. I saw right through all the marketing, and bought the over-priced plant anyway!
I've posted this picture of the garden from this evening just as the sun was setting behind me. On the right hand side of the picture, a little more than half way down, you can see a speck of red which is another Brandywine tomato I hope to pick in a day or so.
Other highlights from the picture: Top left - the corn, which is starting to have more ears. Top middle - second planting of corn. Down in front - peppers. Kind of in the middle - green beans. Over on the left - sunflowers and zinnias. On the stake - a fake owl which is supposed to scare the rabbits away. (It hasn't scared anything away as far as I can tell!) Not in the picture or hidden are the cucumbers and squash, pole beans, eggplants, cherry tomatoes and marigolds.
So, you don't have a garden journal to record this event or your own gardening events? Why not!? My garden journal has some useful (to me) information from past years. For example, I've determined from my current garden journal, which goes back to 2001, that July 19th is the earliest I've harvested a tomato in these past 6 years. I encourage everyone to keep a garden journal.
The latest I've harvested a tomato was in 2004. I can't find reference to picking a tomato until August 1st that year! What could have happened? Well, that year on July 25th and 26th the high temperatures were 67 and 68 degrees, so maybe we just had a cooler summer?
I am happy to have reached this milestone in the garden, and am looking forward to many more tomatoes in the days ahead. With that and the peppers, it soon will be Salsa Time!
That is really impressive Carol. I use my blog as my gardening journal and have even posted on this topic before but I think you take the cake in record-keeping.
I noticed that the number of days between picking your first tomato over the years can come down to only 1 day. Do you have a grading system for not wanting to pick that first tomato too early or too late?
Congratulations, Carol! Our plants are fizzling as yours begin.
The garden is laid out in such a decorative fashion - it looks like a subject for needlepoint.
GCTD,I don't have a grading system for my tomatoes. I would actually like to start harvesting tomatoes much earlier in the season.
Annie, Good idea on the needlepoint.. I am going to have my mom make a an applique quilt that represents the garden layout.
I think the bunnies are eating half of your green bean crop!! You should be having more with all those plants!

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[Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 27, 2015] Huawei was awarded "Best NFV/SDN Solutions" at the 2015 LTE World Summit on June 24 for its innovative CloudEdge packet core network solution.
Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Wireless Packet Core Network, accepts the award on behalf of Huawei.
Based on Cloud-Formation architecture, Huawei CloudEdge becomes foundation of target network. CloudEdge incorporates three elements: Virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC), Virtual Multiservice Engine (vMSE) and Virtualized Unified Intelligence Center (vUIC).
vEPC can virtualize network functions to improve resource efficiency while vMSE can easily integrate 3rd party services and shorten the time-to-market for new services. vUIC can expose network capabilities to OTT for service and business model innovations.
To date, Huawei has conducted over 30 Proof of Concept (PoC) tests with top global operators including DT, VDF, and China Mobile.
Meanwhile, Huawei was awarded "Best Contribution to 5G Development" for its continuous contributions to 5G standardization and innovation at the 2015 5G World Summit.
With the rapid development of mobile broadband and the Internet of Things, the oncoming massive number of connections between people to people, people to machine and machine to machine will quickly begin to blur the boundaries between the physical world and the digital world.
By 2020, an everything-connected world will become a reality with 5G becoming the key enabling technology. Although the standardization of 5G will begin in 2016, 5G technology has been a very hot topic for quite some time. The major challenge with 5G is determining how to achieve the vision of 10Gbps throughput, 1ms latency and 100 billion connections. With the help of its extensive experience in 2/3/4G and industry-leading 5G research, Huawei won the first 5G award in the industry.
Chaobin Yang, CMO of Wireless Product Line, accepts the award on behalf of Huawei.
"We would like to take this opportunity to thank the judging committee, all industry colleagues as well as Informa for this first 5G award," said Chaobin Yang, CMO of Huawei's Wireless Network Product Line.
LTE/5G world summit is one of the most influential mobile communication summits, and the judging committee of awards consists of leading operator representatives, authoritative analysts and media. "Best Contribution to 5G Development" is the first industrial Award on 5G.

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I love reading books about Paganism and Druidry. I don’t even mind reading beginner books despite that this is a path that I’ve been on for a few years. There is usually some spark or new perspective that gives my path a burst of energy or enriches my life. However, there is something so gloriously satisfying about reading a book on spirituality that doesn’t assume you are just starting to figure things out. Living Druidry by Emma Restall Orr is a book that honors the path you’ve already taken and the steps you are preparing to take.
Living Druidry is a book that wants the reader to get messy. The reader is encouraged to dig deep and find the ugly, mystical, and beautiful while cultivating a path that serves the discovery of self and usefulness for the community. There is no shying away from tough topics (drugs for example) and no dumb-ing down language in an attempt to make a transcendental experience easier to take in. Topics range from energy work, Gods, and reaching a trance state. But the topics don’t really do justice to the style and range covered in this book.
Mostly, I am entranced by the authors style and tone. The “educational” part of the book is a told in a rich narrative. There is a lesson to learn, a nugget of knowledge you might be able to shine off and take home. However, the point isn’t the knowledge. The point is that the reader must take that knowledge and use it, make mistakes with it, and experience it so that it transforms into a wisdom that might be useful in one’s own practice and path. Interspersed throughout the book are italicized sections that gracefully describe the authors own experiences or thoughts. The reader is given a glimpse into the real experience of Druidry through this Priestess’s eyes.
I really recommend this book to anyone who is earning to let their wild soul out a little more. If you are tired of “how-to” Pagan books, this one is going to be a pleasure to read!

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9th July, AMSTERDAM.- The Long Drive show (longest golf ball) lives its third season and arrives for the first time in Holland thanks to the Long Drivers European Tour (LDET); Amsterdam Old Course Club near Amsterdam will held the HOLLAND LDET CHAMPIONSHIP. The competition will take place on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th of July.
We will also have a DJ-Car by Red Bull (the new partner for the rest of season) and the Wings Team during 2 hours before the big final.
video of the official training session today at Amsterdam Old Course.
July 18th 2015 – AMSTERDAM (Holland). John McSloy, the Scottish player of the Volvik LDET, wins the Holland LDET Championship after beating Dewald Lubbe with a best hit of 336 yards after playing 3 sets in the big final and it´s his first final victory in three seasons. The fifth tournament of the season was held at Amsterdam Old Course, near the capital.
Weather started sad and cold, so hitters took more than usual to warm up and the best shots came late. The qualifying groups started promptly at 11 am, and the first records just passed over the 300 yards. However, the sun rose up and the long drivers increased the power of their hits but a strong wind gone against all the time, specially in the grid where it sent a few balls out of bounds.
In the morning, the most interesting marks have been for the Dutch Martijn Bruins with 334 yards, the best in group 1; Timo Petrasch (GER) with 341y, in two; the Spanish Adrián Sánchez reached the 337y and passed first in the third group; and, the American Maurice Allen, the current leader of the Volvik LDET ranking, passed as the best of group four with 341y.
44 sets to go ahead!
The spectators at the Amsterdam Old Course enjoyed the matchplays, quarters and semis thanks to the competitiveness displayed by the best hitters in Europe. They had to play up to 44 sets in the matchplays to meet the champion of this fifth tournament of the tour. The "Longest ball of the day", awarded with Pure Grips products and a Mutant Driver, has been for Maurice Allen has managed to reach 362 yards. The current # 1 ranking hadn’t a good day and finished fourth in the Dutch round.
The Scottish John McSloy finally won a tournament in three seasons and left on the road other LDET important names like Maurice Allen, Dewald Lubbe... McSloy won unopposed Lubbe who sent three rounds of balls out of the grid. McSloy reached the victory in two sets with a best hit of 336 yards.
The fifth stop of the Volvik LDET circuit will be the Italy LDET Championship which will be the second time for this country and which will be held on 22nd and 23rd August. The event will take place at the Chervò Golf San Vigilio near Verona. See you there long drivers!
Thanks to Golf.NL for the media coverage: Video of the Holland LDET Championship at Amsterdam Old Course last weekend 17-18 July.

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Apple CEO, Steve Jobs has today explained why he will not be using Flash on the latest Apple products.
In an open letter to the Apple website, Jobs said that the software was unreliable and not secure. He highlighted the Symantec 2009 report which pin pointed certain security issues with the Flash program.
He stated: "We do not want to reduce the reliability and security of our iPhones, iPods and iPads by adding Flash."
In this, the first in-depth explanation of the ban, Jobs refuted the claims by Adobe that he had banned the product to protect the Apple app store. He stated that his decision was entirely based upon the technology of Flash itself.
Jobs also criticised Adobe's comments which attacked Apple for not allowing open source programs. He said that he does allow open programs, namely HTML5.
"What they do not say is that almost all of this video is also available in a more modern format, H.264, and viewable on iPhones, iPods and iPads," he wrote.
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Police arrested nine people there on suspicion of violating the city's pedestrian interference ordinance, Olympia Police Cmdr. Tor Bjornstad said. All were released Saturday afternoon from the Olympia City Jail, and no one was cited, Olympia Sgt. Ken Carlson said. During the half-hour confrontation at the I-5 entrance, traffic backed up in both directions, with a single lane occasionally open.
Supporters also chanted "Whose Port? Our Port!" and other phrases and provided water to people who had been hit with pepper spray.
Earlier, about 9:45 a.m. Saturday, Olympia police officers in riot gear used pepper spray and physically removed protesters who were blocking the entrance to the port.
There, a larger number of protesters also stood by and shouted at police. A smaller group that included some of the truck drivers who were waiting to move military equipment to Fort Lewis stood in quiet support for the police actions.
Paramedics treated several protesters hit with pepper spray, including one young woman screaming in pain. The line of protesters at the port's gates, some wearing goggles and other protective gear, withstood several sprays. Officers also picked them up and threw them away from the road they had blocked.
After being pepper-sprayed, Olympia Port Militarization Resistance member Eran Rhodes said, "My face is on fire right now because I was holding a peace sign. Not a single attempt of an arrest was made. They came in beating people up."
OlyPMR member Matt Lester also criticized the police tactics.
"If this isn't fascism, I don't know what is," he said.
Protesters appeared to be ready for pepper spray, with a group they call "medics", who used water as an eye rinse, as well as vinegar and a diluted Maalox to help lessen the effects for those hit.
Many also wore goggles and handkerchiefs to protect themselves.
"I knew what I was doing was going to get me arrested or attacked with chemical weapons or batons," said Evergreen State College student Davi Rios, who was among those arrested for attempting to block the Plum Street entrance to Interstate 5.
OlyPMR member Andrew Yankey, however, said that during the police action at the port Saturday morning, police ripped off protesters' protective goggles and sprayed them directly in the face.
"I was dragged and sprayed in the face repeatedly," he said. "My goggles were ripped off my face and stolen."
James Steele, an Evergreen student who was also arrested from the I-5 blockade, said he was hit with a pepper-spray pellet that caused him to cough and throw up.
Another person was cut, but not badly injured, when officers sawed the PVC pipe, he said.
"We were trying to be humans to them, and they were not respecting us at all," he said after being released from the Olympia City Jail at about 4:30 p.m.
Bjornstad said officers tried to talk to the protesters to get them to move. The use of pepper spray and batons was "based on what we get from the crowd. We gave them lots of warnings and lots of time, but there comes a point where that's our only option," he said.
Law enforcement officials with Lacey, Tumwater and the Thurston County Sheriff's office assisted Olympia police, Carlson said.
"It was a long day for a lot of people who were called in on days off. A lot of people had to be reassigned," he said.
Carlson said law enforcement officials were set to meet this morning to decide where resources are needed.
Port officials thanked police for their forceful response. Port spokeswoman Grant said once the barricades were gone, cargo was able to move steadily until the end of the day shift at 4 p.m.
"The port would like to commend the Olympia Police Department for removing the barricades and clearing the streets so that cargo could leave the port today. This was important so that truckers, longshore workers and military staff could do their job," she said, relaying a comment by port Executive Director Ed Galligan.
The protests were part of a weeklong series of demonstrations by the group Olympia Port Militarization Resistance. OlyPMR has been protesting the use of the port by the USNS Brittin, which landed at the port Monday to unload equipment that was used in Iraq by the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team).
Saturday's actions by police came a day after protesters were able to halt two trucks from removing military equipment — including a Stryker — that had been unloaded from a ship coming from Iraq.
Olympia police said the department did not have enough officers available to remove the protesters Friday, and that they were unprepared to physically remove several small children who were among about 40 protesters.
Edited 11/13/07 to correct the name James Steele, and clarify the role of the protester's "medics"

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Echuca has long been a popular getaway for Melbourne and Bendigo folk alike. But few know that there are also a range of excellent wedding venues in Echuca. It’s always great to get out of the city: your spouse and your guests will doubtless thank you for the opportunity!
For a stylish, yet classic wedding, you can’t really go past a vineyard. And Echuca has an abundance of vineyards offering wedding ceremonies and receptions. The Echuca Moama wine region sprung up around fertile soil and proximity to the Murray– an abundant source of water for the vines. Some of the best selling wines in the region are port wines. Echuca also has a great coffee and chocolate culture, which is sure to add a hint of luxury to your wedding experience. For those who appreciate the fine wine and food, there really is no better option. But really, nothing is more picturesque than a wedding among the vines. There will doubtless be wedding photos that you will always treasure.
Before or after the wedding, your guests will doubtless appreciate a little exploration time. Before or after they leave the venue, they will find plenty to do and see around Echuca. For the nature lovers, there is easy access to both cycling and walking trails through the bush. The Barmah National Park with its river red gums is particular popular with nature lovers. Your guests can also explore the Murray via the world’s largest fleet of paddlesteamers– one Echuca’s main attractions.
Of course, the natural beauty is a huge part of what makes Echuca an ideal wedding venue. It’s a beautiful and a convenient locale. It’s less than three hours from Melbourne by car, and just over one from Bendigo. If your guests aren’t local Victorians, it’s not even that hard to access via the Melbourne airport. A simple bus ride can take them to Southern Cross Station, from which there are further bus and train options. And once they arrive, there is abundant accommodation available!
If you’re looking for a wedding venue, Echuca and one of its many vineyards is a great choice. When exploring your options, you will be surprised by the quality and diversity of your options.
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That’s exactly what CMS Pro delivers. CMS Pro allows small business owners manage their entire site, or change their web site design in seconds.
Knowledge-base http://ckb.wojoscripts.com/ contains short-codes, latest patches and many useful info related to cms pro.
All know bugs are fixed.
Full installations do not require patch.
Unzip patch_1.00.zip into current CMS pro 5 directory, and clear browser cache.
Prior to update follow install instructions.
New Slider Manager module included, with animations and layers.
functionality as the rest of the pages.
-Now you can assign different theme to eachpage.
New file manager with multiple uploads support.
Added support for new PayPal api.
You can now assign premium modules to home page.
This feature gives you an option to have articles/ shop/forum/events or portfolio on home page.
WYSIWYG Editor has been replaced with more advanced fully html5 complaint editor.
You can now search and insert youtube videos, html5 video from local files, new image and font css3 effects etc….
New menu in admin are has been added to provide useful information regarding your CMS pro, server and php.
MySql driver has been replaced with MySqli, for better performance and future compatibility.
New plugin added. Elastic slider.
Fixed pages not being published.
Fixed gateway images not displayed.
Unofficial Update 07. Jan. 2012.
Dates are now displayed in your own language.
Admin menus will not be available if user does not have valid permission to it.
Premium Modules now have their own menus.
Dedicated template for each plugin.
—Each plugin can have its own theme, based on default theme.
Dedicated theme for each premium module.
Prior to this fix follow install instructions.
Update 2.5 has fix included.
New: Module section it’s now split into two different sections.
– Special membership types that are not available to front end users.
– New face lift for admin area.
Prior to fix follow upgrade instructions.
– Adding Gallery images without use of flash.
– Added option to assign large image width/height.
– Ability to show/hide date.
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– Compatible with Rss 1.0 2.0 and Atom.
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– Admin area has been completely redone, in order to support full ajax features such as saving, modifying and performing other tasks.
– Added option to assign prettyPhoto from link menu in advanced tab (Relationship page to target (rel).
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Located in Narashino, Japan. This beautiful townhouse has futuristic design with concrete like as main material. It was completed in 2014 by fuse-atelier.
The townhouse placed on the border of commercial and residentail area that follows from the station, even large-scale stores nearby. The client requests a concrete house that ensuring a freedom spacious living space but stil privacy with contiguous houses.

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Add to calendar 2018-12-11 11:00:00 2018-12-11 16:00:00 America/New_York Veterans Legal Services at Bedford VA 12.11.18 Veterans Legal Services will be at the Bedford VA on December 11, 2018. See Flyer for details.Call Paul Cheney to schedule an appointment: 781-687-2575.
Veterans Legal Services will be at the Bedford VA on December 11, 2018. See Flyer for details.
Call Paul Cheney to schedule an appointment: 781-687-2575.

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I created my Pineapple Colada Sparkler Cocktails and DIY Pineapple Straw as part of a sponsored post for VitaFrute by VEEV. All opinions are entirely my own and I throughly enjoyed to Party Organically.
is festive, colorful and an event where everyone feels at home.
But, of course, you have to have a signature cocktail.
it allows me to effortlessly "party organically"
and be free to mix and mingle with my friends.
with pineapple juice and topped with sparkling water.
Serve over ice and you are done!
Refreshing, tropical and delicious, the perfect combination of coconut and pineapple.
and the Coconut Colada mix is made with hydrating and nutrient packed coconut water.
It is a cocktail that you can feel good about drinking.
so making these pineapples was a must.
punched a tiny hole at the top and added sprigs of rosemary.
Just glue them onto straws and you are ready to start sipping.
there is a flavor for every occasion.
for you and 30 friends along with other great prizes.
To enter all you have to do is Pin your best party tip.
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The rosemary on the pineapple tags are genius...plus I love your shirt!

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ANDREW Sullivan would go to the Gladstone Skate Park to ride his bike every day if he could find the time.
The Gladstone man has moved to Caloundra but loves coming back home.
"I am on holidays up here at the moment. I am getting as much time down here as I can," he said.
"It's great riding with the crew and seeing everyone try their new tricks."
He preferred the park when it was quiet and liked to see people riding different kinds of equipment.
"The scooters have a pretty good time at this park," he said.
"They love it, so do us on bikes but you rarely see someone on rollerblades."
In jeans, he was working up a sweat.
"I don't usually wear jeans and I am finding it hotter than usual," he said.
"But I can't stop, I just have so much energy."
He said his favourite part of the park was the box.
"It's probably the easiest to do tricks over," he said.
"I don't have a favourite trick because I can do a lot of different stuff. At the moment the wall rides are going pretty well."
There are a few things he would like done to the park to make it better.
"It needs more ramps as big as the biggest one here," he said.
"They should design the bowl so water doesn't pool in it when it rains.
"There could also be a bit more variety."
There is a change on its way that Andrew is looking forward to.
"It gets so hot down here in the middle of the day, I can't wait until we get some shade," he said.
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Posted on February 28, 2018 by Norwich Radical	in Student and tagged #UEAVotes, elections, student activism, student politics, students, UEA, UEA SU, UEA SU elections 2018, Welfare Community & Diversity.
The statements of those candidates for the position of Welfare, Community & Diversity officer that responded by the deadline are presented here, unedited, along with their manifestos. Candidates are listed in alphabetical order.
I’m Amanie Mathurin, a third year Media & International Development student running for the post of Welfare, Community & Diversity. Intersectionality is at the heart of my campaign because I believe university is shaped by our distinct identities and experiences as individuals. This is why my campaign is centered around creating a campus which is as inclusive as possible.
Some of my priority areas include lobbying the university to implement rent caps for campus accommodation & negotiating rent caps for off campus accommodation through the local council. I will also work towards ensuring an effective, inclusive, intersectional campus wide approach to mental health which incorporates cultural sensitivity & specific focus on liberation groups. The diversification of the curriculum is another important aspect of student life which I hope to improve by equipping course reps to collect ongoing feedback to be presented to their heads of schools. Additionally, I am committed to improving and publicizing procedures for reporting hate crime as well as raising awareness around how we can work together to fight racism, islamophobia and discrimination both on campus and within the wider community. My goal is to continue building a campus where all students feel protected and represented!
Hi! I’m Lucy, I’ve been a student campaigner for three years, and I’m running for Welfare, Community and Diversity officer because in that time I’ve seen how appalling the treatment of students at UEA has gotten. Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of things to love about UEA – but skyrocketing halls rent, 5 week counselling waiting times and the uni’s failure to properly enforce a zero tolerance policy to sexual assault are not among them. From my work on campaigns like Reclaim The Night and UEA Fossil Free, and as a Non-Portfolio officer this past year, I have the experience to work with the SU and make effective demands from the uni to start making change on these issues. With the help of the student body, of course.
As the Nightline Bear, I saw this election as a great opportunity to raise awareness of Nightline and welfare issues on campus. We have achieved a lot in recent times, but there are still significant issues that need addressing and we hope this campaign brings attention to that. As an essential part of the UEA welfare structure Nightline should have a space that allows it to deliver quality confidential service to students effectively and without having to share space with SSS, another vital part of UEA wellbeing. It impacts both services to have to compromise on space.
I have great respect for the Welfare Officer position. A lot of what Nightline has accomplished in recent times would be unachievable without significant assistance from the SU Welfare Officers. All the candidates for this role are excellent welfare advocates, so I hope whoever wins- Bear or human- continues to work with Nightline to bring greater support to UEA students and improve support structures campus-wide.

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In April 1984, when we returned to India from Canada, we moved into my grandparent’s home in Vasant Vihar. My earliest memories of the 90 year-old phenomenon that was Papa (otherwise known as Triloki Nath Saraf) are blurred, few and far between.
All I remember from my early childhood is that he was hell-bent on me becoming a doctor and getting an arranged marriage, both of which he changed his mind about later. I, in turn, would tease him by telling him I wanted to become a dentist instead and he would mock outrage and laugh with me.
I was fortunate to grow up with him, and my fiery grandmother Bhabi. I’m not sure why we call them Papa and Bhabi, but the entire family does and has for as long as I’ve known them. The two of them fought like cats and dogs, but the rare moments of intimacy, when they both finally agreed on something, were more beautiful than any sappy love story.
When I think of him, there are random episodes that come to mind. I remember a visit to India International Center for lunch where he warned me not to spill my coffee, right before spilling his own coffee all over the table. It was one of his favorite stories to tell anyone who would listen. I remember a story told of him trying to silence my brother Arjun and I and some of our cousins by pressing mute on the remote control because we were running around the family room laughing and generally making a racket.
Papa, a communist as a student, became a civil servant after college. Although his lifestyle in his early days was modest, he worked hard, and with integrity to educate his four sons and give them the opportunities he hadn’t had.
He was a huge champion of education and believed it provided abundant opportunities to better yourself and your situation. With time and success he joined the UN and was posted both in Rome and in New York before retiring back to Delhi.
He spoke at my High School History class during my presentation of India’s role in the non-alignment movement. Truth be told, I never really understood the topic, nor do I to this day, but Papa was amazing. After I had stumbled through a few overhead projection sheets, he held the whole class captive with his talk, packed with information but engaging with personal anecdotes. I remember this being one of the only glimpses I ever had into Papa as a professional.
We all knew he loved to read, he loved to talk about what he read and he loved most of all to tell stories of his past. It didn’t matter if he’d told us fifteen times already, he still told it with all the energy and excitement as if he was telling us for the very first time. He could talk for hours on end about his days as a communist, the British times, raising his four sons, his early married life – anything at all.
When I moved to University I was inaugurated into a new family tradition. No one arriving at D-8/2 Vasant Vihar could show up without a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label. I got very funny looks from the Duty Free Cashiers at New Delhi Airport every time I scooped one up.
I remember a family holiday in Singapore, where he was so enthusiastic about the idea of stocking up that tried to make each of us carry 1-2 bottles so he could buy at least 7-10 bottles of scotch. Thankfully he was restrained…and I know now where my obsessive-compulsive tendencies come from. In fact that explains almost every member of our family.
Papa was adorably rigid in his schedules, including his daily glass of Johnny Walker. His meal times were set, his tea time was set (5pm in the family room) and every once in a while when he got excited he would go out (or later on send for) half a dozen samosas that we would dip in ketchup and hot sauce and have with our tea.
Papa, the ultimate foodie, from some point in middle-age, decided that he only had a few years left in life, so he might as well eat everything. Samosas, cakes, cookies, any decadent culinary delight and Papa was on board, in spite of what any of the doctors said.
This was all Papa needed to champion his cause. For the next two years all we heard was that he had two years left. Although in those moments we groaned and moaned, these are actually among my favorite memories of him.
When I entered adulthood, Papa (his dreams of me become a doctor long forgotten), began encouraging me to write. He always pushed me to be a writer, and in fact it was the year he passed away that I quit my job to pursue writing – and I am convinced that he (known for his mischief), was in some way responsible.
With time my visits became fewer and far between, thanks to limited vacation time. During these visits the changes in his physical health became more apparent. It was harder for him to speak, harder for him to move around and he required nurse care 24 hours a day.
On January 6 2009, 5 minutes after the clock struck 12 on the day of my birthday, Papa called me from the house phone. I immediately thought my father had told him to call me, but he had not. Papa mumbled incoherently for some time then muttered something about his voice being ok now. I assured him it was fine.
He mumbled incoherently some more before saying something about getting his mouth cleaned. Then more mumbling till true to form, he finally hung up without properly ending the conversation. This 1 minute and 20 seconds was my good-bye from Papa.
I don’t know whether he knew somehow or somewhere that it was his time, but there is no other logical explanation for his calling me at 1:30 in the afternoon from the house phone. He wouldn’t have even known my cell phone number in Canada. Whatever the explanation, I’m glad I had that chance to say good-bye even if I did not realize that that’s what it was at the time.
Four days later I got a message in the middle of the night. Papa was gone.
Papa was a powerful personality in life, up until the very end, he was so frustratingly stubborn but all the more loveable for it, and his intelligence and intellectual capabilities far surpassed anyone I know. Though, like everyone else, I am very sad to have lost Papa, I am happier to have known and loved him, to have been able to grow up with him, and be witness to all of his loveable quirks.
There was never going to be a day I would be ready to say good-bye to him, but that time was inevitable and I’m content to know that he went peacefully. After all that is all you could want for someone you love.

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Dear Fellow Studio City Stakeholders Please Consider Attending our Special Sustainability Committee Meeting.
The Committee is holding their meeting Thursday June 8th at 7:00PM in Editorial 2, Room 6.
The Committee will be discussing sidewalk replacement and tree removal/replacement, Urban Forestry establishing tree trimming protocols, guidelines for of Sustainable/Environmental/ Green projects brought to the Board and more. We hope to see you there.


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Oriental is a breed of cat that was officially recognized in 1977 in USA.
Oriental and Siamese cats belong to eastern group of cats.
Eastern cat’s character is so unique that it can hardly be compared with any other breed. Eastern cats are real actors, full of enthusiasm, energy and being sure that the whole world should turn around them. They are very curious and will make everything to participate in Your life. Feelings of Eastern cats are easily hurt in case You ignore them. But just give them a bit of Your love and Eastern cats will give You their heart forever.
Eastern cat’s look is also unique. They have long, slim boby, long tail, wedge-shaped head and very big and wide ears, that ideally are placed low on their heads. Their eyes are almond-shaped.
There is no big difference between Siamese and Oriental cats. The main difference is the colour of their eyes. True Siamese cats cannot have other eye colour besides light blue. Oriental cat’s eyes are green. The colour of hair of oriental and Siamese cats is also different.
Siamese and Orientals are the most elegant representatives of eastern group of cats. They charm You forever with their grace, high intellect and striking intuition, making all hearts world over beat rapidly when someone hears about Oriental cats.
Being close once with Siamese or Oriental cat You will probably try to put them out from Your memory, but You will never manage to put them out from Your soul. Eastern cats are animals that like to be on Your knees, Your bed, Your table, and in Your heart!


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Assuming NO limitations on the technology what would recruiters vote for as their top features to add to search engines?
2. Some control over the business logic in the ranking algorythm. - to much popularity means too much mob mentality.
3. The ability to perform 2 searches and create a concordance of results in a 3rd search - Example get a list of all terms that have to do with JAVA and then perform a resume search with the entire list as an input into one of those complex search strings that all you souring gurus are fond of.


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So...a lot has not happened over the last four or five months with regard to opportunities for Pro Investors at Streetshares. By following the investment opportunities that do post on the website it is apparent a few Pro Investors are still able to participate in new loans on a limited basis. However, it is also apparent that most of us who supported Streetshares' efforts to fund loans for Veteran business in the past are not excluded. Very little information has been shared by the company in this regard. Private inquiries result in somewhat vague responses regarding future plans for the Pro Investor platform. Announcements are alluded to, but then deferred for one reason or another. This detracts from the original freshness and seeming transparency I experienced earlier on. Signs of growth no doubt, however, Streetshares would likely do well to pay attention to that part of its original investor base that supported operations in good faith and with their own hard earned dollars. I'm hopeful this post will reach some of the many investors who regularly invested and reinvested in the Pro Investor problem, but have, at least for now, been kicked to the curb. In particular, it would be good and I feel, appropriate, to hear from Peter Renton who has still been able to engage in new, ongoing loans as a Pro Investor. Thanks all.
"We put our 5% Veteran Business Bond investor money to work first, followed by StreetShares Pro investor money on a FIFO (e.g., "oldest-accounts-fill-first basis"). Pro investors who have been with us for awhile get first dibs."
I have been with Streetshares almost since the beginning which is why I expect I am able to stay pretty much fully invested.
Thank you Peter for your information re: why some Pro Investors are being excluded from ongoing investment opportunities. Can't say I'm good with it, but "it is what it is". Would have preferred the company to have been forthcoming with their decisions and changes...not a strong suit of this otherwise apparently good venture.
I was glad to see on RetireBeforeDad.com, the up to date write up which further illuminates some of Streetshares planned changes to platform such as auto reinvestment of earned interest back into their bond accounts ... those currently paying 5%. Again, it would be good if Streetshares put this kind of information out to its customers/investors in a timely fashion vs. relying on third party bloggers and websites.
Last question/comment for now....do not understand why 2018 1099s are not available on the website as they were in 2017. Did not receive these forms by U.S.P.S. either. Per my CPA, they should have been distributed by 02/15/2019 for tax year 2018. Any thoughts? Did some investors get theirs and if so, in what form? Hoping this company can start capitalizing on some of the missed opportunities that have occurred in connection with communication and building relationships with their customers/investors.
I put money into StreetShares almost 3 years ago and pulled the money back out almost immediately when I saw obvious and glaring red flags. Caveat Emptor.
I'm a merchant cash advance veteran exploring the p2p lending waters.
Just wondering where your thoughts are on Streetshares....? I realize that is a very open ended question, but it's intentional. Interested in knowing your sentiments regarding ongoing investment with this company.


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The Established Church as the People of God of the New Covenant, isn’t a correct statement as it is only individuals who qualify according to their faith and righteousness.
In the New Testament no emphasis is given to any select group, but only to the whole company of what the NT calls ‘the elect,’ ‘the saints,’ ‘the disciples,’ ‘the brothers and sisters.’ If we recognise that all born again, baptised believers make up the Body of Christ and the People of God, we won’t make the mistake of identifying the true church with the Established Church. The real church is always the whole People of God, the whole ekklesia, the whole Body of Christ, the whole communion (fellowship, koinonia) of the disciples of Jesus. It includes lay persons, clergy and non-church people. All faithful Christian believers make up and belong together to the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the holy nation.
This implies a second conclusion: that as Christians, all members of the Church are fundamentally equal. All equally have been called by God to belong, all equally have been justified by Christ, all equally have been sanctified by the Holy Spirit. All equally have been called to respond to the message, the person and the work of Christ, by their faith, their commitment, their cooperation, their trust and their love. In principle also, all are equally responsible for the Church’s work in the world, its mission to spread to Gospel.
The gifts of the Spirit result in different services, tasks, functions and offices, but they are secondary to the fundamental membership in the Church which is based on true belief, and to the life of discipleship which stems from keeping the Commandments and doing the works according each individual’s situation. What counts more than any ministry or office, however exalted, is whether we live authentically as members of the chosen People of God.
Do we live in faith, hope and love in covenant relationship with God and with our fellow disciples of Jesus?
For, more than anything, the Church is the community of the disciples of Jesus. Everything else is secondary and subordinate to that. The shared call to baptism and discipleship has meant that from the beginning all kinds of people, sometimes persons naturally opposed, have joined the church and belonged to the congregation.
Jews and Gentiles, free citizens and slaves, rich and poor, men and women, have shared with one another in the life of the Church as fellow disciples of Jesus Christ, their Lord. An important point is that only through Jesus, has every Christian become the People of God in the New Covenant.
1. Has God rejected His ethnic people and been unfaithful to his promises?
2. Have the Jews ceased to be a People of God?
These are difficult questions, which have been debated by Bible scholars and theologians for many years. To both of these questions the Apostle Paul has given a decisive ‘No!’ But as we see today sadly: most Jews continue to reject Jesus.
So; who exactly is the Israel of God now?
We know from Romans 9:27, that Israel is as numerous as the sands of the sea and 1 Peter 1:1 and James 1:1 both send greetings to the Twelve Tribes, scattered abroad.
The Jews alone do not fit either of these criteria.
The truth, that God has kept hidden from general knowledge, is that the ten Northern tribes, taken to the Caucasus region by Assyria did not remain there and they migrated across Europe, Jeremiah 31:21, they now comprise most of the Western peoples and have become the Christian nations.
Note: that Jesus came to be our Redeemer. To redeem someone means to reinstate them, to buy them back again from a fallen state.


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Individuals as different as H. L. Hunt (Money is just a way of keeping score) and Mae West (The score never interested me, only the game) have commented on how money affected their lives. Last year, I wrote an article called This Just In: Apparently Money Can Buy Happiness in which I cited research suggesting that people with more money are happier than those with less but not necessarily in proportion to increased wealth. This is borne out through our experience with our clients. Being able to maintain a comfortable lifestyle seems to be a much greater barometer of ‘happiness’ than great wealth.
Attitudes about money often shift as people move from full-time employment to retirement and helping people make that transition is an important part of our work. We sometimes encounter those who are afraid they don’t have enough money to take that step. In fact, more than once, individuals or couples have delayed calling us, afraid the news might be bad. They didn’t want to hear us say that they needed to keep working in order to cover their expenses in retirement. Fortunately, that’s rarely the case. In fact, after nearly thirty years advising people about their investments, I can recall only a couple instances when we couldn’t find a way to make the numbers work.
Our approach to retirement finances is quite simple – we just require a balanced budget. Whether retirees keep their investment accounts and continue paying on a mortgage or reduce their account balances (or utilize a reverse mortgage) to pay it off doesn’t really matter. We just want income to cover outgo.
If that doesn’t seem helpful, you can do a web search for ‘Retirement Income Calculator’. When I tried it, I found over 150 million links. A list that large is probably of little value either, so here are two calculators for your consideration, both from companies we trust: first from our primary asset manager Dimensional Fund Advisors and second from the well-known Vanguard family of funds. Of course, we and other planners are available to provide a professional review of your situation should getting a more detailed answer seem like a better idea.
A frequent question is ‘How are we doing with our retirement savings?’. Well, averages certainly don’t tell the whole story but here’s a chart from the Economic Policy Institute showing the median (mid-point, not average) amount of family retirement savings by age group.
What does this tell us? That unfortunately, most families have saved very little for retirement, even those in their late 50s who should be in the best financial condition of any age group. Perhaps it also tells us that no one should be afraid to seek advice about their retirement finances.
When is the best time to plant an oak tree? 50 years ago.
Please take positive steps right now to ensure that your own retirement will be a comfortable one. Collect the relevant facts, make or adjust your plan based on that knowledge and consider changes to your financial behavior that will improve your results. We, of course, would be happy to help.


text: Sports Massage is great for pre/post workout. It can help to increase range of motion, flexibility and recovery . These session can often include a lot stretching techniques for you to take home with you.


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You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.
All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.
For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.
And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered.
And your most fertile valleys were full of war-carriages, and the horsemen took up their positions in front of the town.
He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the woods.
And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.
And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.
And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.
But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.
And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?
Twisting you round and round like a ball he will send you out into a wide country: there you will come to your end, and there will be the carriages of your pride, O shame of your lord's house!
And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position.
And I will put your robe on him, and put your band about him, and I will give your authority into his hand: and he will be a father to the men of Jerusalem, and to the family of Judah.
And I will give the key of the family of David into his care; and what he keeps open will be shut by no one, and what he keeps shut no one will make open.
And I will put him like a nail in a safe place; and he will be for a seat of glory to his father's family.
And all the glory of his father's family will be hanging on him, all their offspring, every small vessel, even the cups and the basins.
In that day, says the Lord of armies, will the nail fixed in a safe place give way; and it will be cut down, and in its fall the weight hanging on it will be cut off, for the Lord has said it.


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"The positive side of the changes, is that literally everything looks nice now," he said. But he then thundered, "I get angry when I'm in the bakers, and there are no Schrippen (the Berlin slang for white rolls) only Weckern (the Swabian term). And its exactly the same for plum cake," he went on, which the relative newcomers call Pflumendatschi (a Swabian term.) "That makes me really the last defender of the Berlin dialect."
Thierse added: "I hope the Swabians realize they are now in Berlin. And not in their little towns, with their spring cleaning. They come here because it's all so colorful and adventurous and lively, but after a while, they want to make it like it is back home. You can't have both."
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The Joiners Arms is closing down this time next week. To celebrate its 18 years of flying the rainbow flag, we photographed some of the venue's best-dressed regulars.
Next Thursday the 15th, The Joiners Arms is set to close. London, as we all know, is in desperate need of more luxury housing, and the Hackney Road boozer – without a doubt one of best gay venues in the capital – is being shifted so developers can plough all that history and character down, before replacing it with lots of nice new sterile housing.
The pub's been looking for a new premises for months, but are a bit up against it at the moment, so if you have any tips make sure to let them know here. For now, we thought it would be nice to photograph some of the regulars for the fashion shoot above and below.


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NSL Photography Blog: Protect your photographs: Read your gallery and online storage companies' terms of service!
Protect your photographs: Read your gallery and online storage companies' terms of service!
Do you use Twitter, the real-time information network which can permit you to connect to others to offer them timely information, news and data they might find useful?
Do you share photos or videos via your Twitter feed? Where do you store your photos and videos in order to share them via Twitter? Do you use TwitPic in order to share those photos and videos?
If you've answered yes, my advice to you is simply, dump TwitPic, and immediately delete your photos and videos from the storage service!
In May, World Entertainment News Network (WENN), a news and photo agency, announced it had become the “exclusive photo agency partner” of Twitpic, one of the companies on the Internet which provide a service which allows users to upload images and video to it, then link them to their users' Twitter feed.
The deal allows the World Entertainment News Network to sell the images and videos stored at Twitpic for publication.
The deal consummated between WENN and Twitpic, simply means that anything you post on Twitpic can be sold or licensed for a profit without you knowing about it, or receiving any compensation for your work whatsoever.
By staying at Twitpic, you're giving WENN and Twitpic the right to use your photos and videos anyway they want and get paid for it.
And how much do you make when your photos and videos are licensed or sold by WENN?
Zero, nothing, nada, zip, not one thin dime!
If I were you, if you're a Twitpic user, I'd dump the service after I deleted each and every file you ever uploaded to them. That's exactly what talk show host Ellen Degeneres has done.
Then before you sign up with anyone else to store your photos, read their terms of service, and whenever they make changes to it, read it all over again, to make sure you know what you're doing.
By the way, Twitter now lets you upload images directly to them for sharing via its service, but I would think twice before using them. The Twitter terms are just as oppressive and burdensome as Twitpic's.
I hope this get you to start reading those “Terms of Service” you've usually ignored.
I have been using Twitpic and knew nothing about this. I guess I have to start reading these terms for now on. I may not be a pro, but this grab is outrageous. As soon as I post this comment, I'm dumping these people!!!
Thanks for the post Ned. I just deleted my photos at Twitpic and resigned my account after reading your article.
I had watched Ellen's show when she was talking about how angry she was with Twitpic. I'm happy someone is publicizing this on the net and for photographers. I've been surprised no on was talking about it. Twitpic are nothing but thieves as far as I'm concerned.
What chutzpah Twitpic has. It's outrageous. I'm dumping them today, right after I delete my photos.
How can they do that? Isn't that illegal. Those photos are copyrighted. How can they take the photos just because of where they were uploaded?
Someone needs to complain to the Justice Department!!!
Twitpic might have miscalculated. If enough people realize what a rights grab this is, they could loose most of their customers and be forced to cease business. They'd deserve that fate too.
I hope they do go out of business. People didn't put their photos on Twitpic for someone else to make money on them at their expense.
I just deleted my photos and I deleted my account at Twitpic. Good riddance to bad trash.
What arrogance! We now know that Twitpic is nothing more than a bunch of "twits!"
Thank goodness you're publicizing this Ned. Thanks. I've just deleted my photos and account too.
You and Ellen make a good team on this Ned. Thanks.
Ned, I had to read your article several times before I could believe the gall of Twitpic. I never used them, but know serveral people who have and have emailed them a link to your blog.
Thanks for providing a great service, through your blog to the photography community.
Geez, what an unbelievable story of corporate greed. Thanks for enlightening us Ned.
I got bored of Twitter a while back and canceled my account with Twitpic. If I hadn't, I certainly would have done so after reading your article Ned. Thanks.
This kind of thing make me very angry. I don't understand this kind of greed. It's way beyond good business.
What an amazing story of corporate greed! Thanks for alerting us Ned.
What was the BOD smoking when they let these changes through? Did they think the changes would have no adverse consequences? Did they think their customers would allow them to steal their work merely with the stroke of a few keys?
I'm with Ned and Ellen. Get the heck out, which I did earlier today.

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Lateral Fender: It protects boat and pier against impacts with UV filter and flexibility.
Flex Fender: It allows big sailboats and motor yachts to approach the pier.
Cleat: There are two types of cleats having drawing endurance from 3 tons to 10 tons. Suitable for yachts up to 15 – 25 meters.
Ladder: It prevents corrosion by placing on the sea when they are not used by means of float system ladder stand.
Extra floater: It has lifting capacity of 100 kg.
It is used to provide extra floating ability to the floaters under the points which gangways are fixed with pole brackets.
Safety rail: It is used to create safe passing areas.
Coastal balcony: It allows gangways to lower in parallel with the pontoon.

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I eat eggs for breakfast almost every day. Whether baked with veggies, scrambled, or a boost of protein in my smoothie (don’t diss it till you try it!), eggs are one of my favorite and most versatile things to eat. But the same omelet can get old once in a while, which is why I was super excited to have my hand at making some Shakshuka after recently trying it while dining out.
A few blog posts back, I talked about Middle Eastern breakfast being one of my favorite types of meals. Though Shakshuka is of Middle Eastern origin, particularly popular in Africa, it never really crossed my family’s table growing up. Instead, it was more common for it’s relative, galayat bendora (stewed tomatoes with olive oil and spice), pictured below in the center, to be prepared and served at breakfast time.
If you’re into breakfast with a kick that’s rather healthy and packs the protein, you’re going to want to try to make some Shakshuka. It’s so easy and makes a wonderful breakfast or even dinner if you’re feeling low maintenance in the evening.
Place your onions in a well-oiled pan like a cast iron skilled. Simmer for two minutes.
Next, add the jalapeño and cumin to the onions. Stir and let simmer for one minute.
Add the crushed tomatoes, chili powder, and salt and pepper. Make sure mixture is even distributed and let simmer for about 10 minutes on low heat, adding a little bit of water half-way. Stir occasionally and add a little water if it starts to burn and dry out.
Now the fun part. Scoop out six little cubbies for your eggs (just place the mixture somewhere else in the pan). Crack an egg in each.
Let the eggs cook for about 10 more minutes on low heat uncovered, or cover for a more thoroughly cooked egg (like we did, pictured above).
Remove from eat and throw some sprigs of parsley on top for a kick of color and more flavor.


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Internationally renowned pediatric surgeon and scientist David Hackam, M.D., Ph.D., will become the new pediatric surgeon-in-chief at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
Hackam will assume the role in September as the Robert Garrett Professor of Pediatric Surgery, holding additional professorships in oncology and pediatrics. He will work closely with Johns Hopkins’ Pediatrician-in-Chief George Dover, M.D., to jointly oversee clinical operations of the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. In this capacity, Hackam will direct not only general pediatric surgery, but also surgical subspecialties in the departments of Cardiac Surgery, Orthopaedics, Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery, Neurosurgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and Urology. The move reflects both a new institutional direction and important recent shifts in the field of pediatric medicine as a whole.
Hackam, a leading authority on intestinal inflammation and bowel disease in infants, comes from the University of Pittsburgh, where he is a professor of surgery; associate professor of cell biology and physiology; director of the Center for Pediatric Surgical, Translational, and Regenerative Medicine; and the medical school’s associate dean.
“David Hackam’s steadfast commitment to elucidating the basic mechanisms of disease to illuminate new treatment modalities makes him a superb choice to help transform pediatric surgery clinically and scientifically, as well as for the expanded leadership position at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center,” says Paul B. Rothman, M.D., dean of the medical faculty and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Hackam brings with him a team of six scientists who are at the forefront of unraveling the pathology of intestinal disease in infants and working on developing new therapies to manage such conditions. Notably, Hackam and a collaborator from Cornell University recently developed an artificial intestine for the treatment of infants with severe intestinal disorders. The model is currently being tested in animals.
“We are thrilled to welcome David, who is not only a brilliant clinician and scientist, but also a transformative leader whose vision, passion and curiosity render him a perfect fit for Johns Hopkins,” says Jonathan Efron, M.D., interim director of the Department of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
“David and his research team are a real ‘magnificent seven,’ whose work has reshaped our understanding of intestinal inflammation and whose ongoing research is on the cusp of transforming the way we treat some of the most devastating intestinal conditions in children,” Dover says.
Hackam says his decision to join Johns Hopkins was predicated on the institution’s commitment to family-focused patient care and was driven by Johns Hopkins’ reputation as an incubator of top-notch talent and its rich tradition in translational research.
Hackam’s top priority at Johns Hopkins will be to transform what he says is a superb, historic and vitally important training program into the best pediatric surgery program — one that bridges excellent patient care and outstanding clinical training with scientific discovery and innovation.
Hackam plans to reshape Johns Hopkins’ pediatric surgery curriculum by intensifying the use of simulation training and by sharpening the focus on scientific research. The emphasis on science stems from Hackam’s belief that good surgeons are more than clinicians and must understand the basic mechanisms that fuel the diseases they treat in the operating room.
“We must work to cure disease both surgically and nonsurgically, but in order to do so we must unravel the basic malfunctions on cellular and molecular levels that culminate into manifest disease,” Hackam says.
“We owe it to our patients to go beyond what’s in the textbooks, not because the information in them is not true or relevant, but because all the answers we need may not be there,” Hackam adds, noting that the solutions to some of the most vexing quandaries facing pediatricians today are only limited by a clinician’s imagination, creativity and thirst for knowledge.
Training in the basic sciences will become increasingly indispensable for the modern pediatric surgeon, Hackam notes, because the field is undergoing a third renaissance — a transformation of the discipline spurred by discoveries in genomics over the last decade. These new insights, Hackam says, will allow for an ever-more-precise and individualized treatment — one that optimizes the effects of therapy by factoring in each patient’s genetic makeup and environmental influences.
“If I were a patient, I’d want my surgeon to be at the forefront of it all,” Hackam says.
In addition, Hackam plans to create six surgical centers of excellence in the following areas: fetal surgery, trauma and burn surgery, pediatric surgical oncology, surgical management of children with severe intestinal disorders, surgical treatment of children with complex blood vessel malformations and surgical management of children with short bowel syndrome — a condition defined by insufficient gut tissue due to acquired or congenital disease.
Hackam’s interest in intestinal disorders was sparked by a fateful encounter during his early years as a newly minted attending surgeon in a community hospital. A premature baby he cared for suddenly took a turn for the worse and became critically ill with a common yet devastating intestinal disorder known as necrotizing enterocolitis or NEC. Marked by the rapid and irreversible death of intestinal tissue, NEC occurs in some 12 percent of premature babies, claiming the lives of one in four who develop the disease. NEC is among the hardest-to-treat conditions, with therapy limited to the surgical excision of the dying portions of a baby’s intestine. The approach, while life-saving, often leaves the infant with insufficient intestine putting the child at risk for a range of long-term complications. Hackam became close with the baby’s parents. The infant did reasonably well for a while but eventually died. The experience was sobering, pushing Hackam on a quest to unravel the mechanisms of intestinal inflammation that culminate into NEC. His research has already generated some critical insights. Recently, Hackam and team showed that a molecule that normally regulates the body’s immune response to bacteria— a protein known as TLR4 (toll-like receptor 4) — is also behind the malfunction that fuels NEC in preemies. In the premature gut, Hackam and team found, TLR4 has a different role — to regulate cell differentiation and intestinal growth. When a baby’s intestines become colonized with bacteria shortly after birth, the immature TLR4 protein goes haywire. One of the byproducts of this phenomenon is the shutoff of oxygen supply to gut cells, which causes rapid death of intestinal tissue — the very essence of NEC.
In yet another recent discovery, Hackam and colleagues showed that sodium nitrate, a substance found in breast milk, can stave off NEC in preemies by increasing oxygen supply to the gut. Furthermore, the research team showed that adding this substance to infant formula can prevent NEC in premature mouse pups and baby pigs. Human trials are on the horizon.
NEC is a leading cause of intestinal loss in children, causing what is known as short bowel syndrome. Children with short bowel require feeding support for life due to intestinal deficiency that renders them unable to absorb enough nutrients. Many require transplantation, but donor tissue is hard to come by, and post-transplant immune-suppressive therapy poses long-term challenges and risks. Hackam and team are hoping to solve this problem by devising a new way to grow intestinal tissue in the lab from a patient’s own stem cells, which would also obviate the need for antirejection medication after transplantation.
To that end, Hackam and collaborator John March, a biomedical engineer at Cornell, have created an artificial gut. The model consists of a scaffold made of biodegradable synthetic compounds seeded with gut stem cells. The model is believed to be the first one to successfully recreate the delicate fingerlike projections of the human intestine, known as microvilli, whose main function is to absorb nutrients. The model has proven successful in baby mice and is currently being tested in piglets.
The second of four children, Hackam was born in Stafford, England, to an electrical engineer and a nurse. Growing up in this “academically minded household,” Hackam says he does not remember a time when he was not interested in medicine. He studied applied math and genetics as an undergraduate at the University of Western Ontario, where he also earned his medical degree. When Hackam’s first rotation in medical school turned out to be surgery, he was deeply disappointed, for he had wanted to be a pediatrician all his life. Then, as soon as he set foot in the operating room, he fell in love with it. In 1995, Hackam took a three-year hiatus from his surgical training and ventured into basic science, earning a doctorate in cell biology from the University of Toronto in 1998. After completing his internship and residency at Toronto General Hospital, he became a fellow in pediatric surgery at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in 2000. Hackam joined the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine faculty as an assistant professor in 2002 and rose swiftly through the ranks, becoming Watson Family Professor of Surgery and a professor of cell biology and physiology in 2010. In 2004, Hackam became co-director of the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh’s Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Center. In 2011, he was named the university’s associate dean for medical student research. He became president of the Society of University Surgeons this year.
Hackam and his wife, Lisa, a ballet teacher, have three sons and a daughter.


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A double CD set with one CD consisting of songs and the other featuring instrumental music.
Calum MacLean (Calum an Tàilleir) was born in Oskaig, Isle of Raasay in 1915, and was educated locally before entering the University of Edinburgh, gaining a first class degree in Celtic in 1939. His further studies took him to Ireland where in due course his work as a collector began. MacLean worked assiduously collecting nineteen bound volumes of transcribed lore and a further five full bound volumes of his diaries. In 1951 MacLean began to formally work at the newly founded School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh as their first appointed collector. He was the first person to undertake the full-time systematic collecting of Gaelic songs, stories and traditions in the Highlands and Islands. Everywhere he went he found the best contacts and tradition bearers and gathered in a vast amount of oral material straight from people’s memories. In 1956 MacLean was diagnosed with cancer and in 1960, at the age of forty-four, his life and work were tragically cut short.
This double CD set arises from a major project at Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, funded by the AHRC, and undertaken by a project team comprising Dr John Shaw (Principal Investigator), Dr Andrew Wiseman (Researcher) and Naomi Harvey (Researcher). The project was based on material held in the National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin, and in the School of Scottish Studies Archives, University of Edinburgh.
CD1 comprises a wide range of singers and songs from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, while CD2 consists of instrumental music, equally diverse and also from the Highlands and Islands, all collected by Calum MacLean. This is a remarkable and unique Scottish Tradition Series collection, adding even more depth to the Series.
The album was mastered by Peter Haigh of Pier House Studios and the design is by John Slavin of Designfolk.


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A cluster of suspected whooping cough cases in Colorado was actually most likely a "pseudo-outbreak," according to an investigation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The cases, reported in the summer of 2009, seem to have been mistakenly diagnosed when patients' test samples became contaminated at one medical clinic. However, the CDC says, a cluster of whooping cough cases from the winter before likely was a true outbreak.
The pseudo-outbreak does not diminish the importance of the "real" cases of whooping cough that continue to crop up each year, said lead researcher Sema Mandal of the CDC.
"We've had strong evidence of other outbreaks," Mandal told Reuters Health, citing a 2010 outbreak in California as an example.
Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a bacterial infection that causes uncontrollable, severe coughing. Worldwide, it infects between 30 million and 50 million people a year, and kills about 300,000 -- mostly children in the developing world.
In the U.S., most children are immunized against whooping cough with the DTaP vaccine, which is given as a series of shots starting at the age of 2 months.
But cases still occur. According to the CDC, 27,550 cases were reported nationwide in 2010, with many more probably going unreported. There were also 27 deaths, nearly all in infants younger than one year.
California saw an outbreak of more than 9,000 cases, including 10 infant deaths, that year.
But in the Colorado outbreak, researchers suspected something was amiss.
Between November 2008 and September 2009, 125 cases of whooping cough were reported in the southwestern part of the state, mostly in children.
But in many cases, patients did not have classic symptoms -- like the distinctive "whoop" sound that's heard when people try to inhale during a coughing attack.
Many of the suspected infections were also in people who'd been vaccinated.
When the CDC investigated, it found differences between the cluster of "winter" cases that were diagnosed through April, and the "summer" cluster diagnosed from May through August.
While nearly all people diagnosed in the winter had classic whooping cough symptoms, only 63 percent of the summer cluster did. And people diagnosed in the summer were more likely to have only small amounts of pertussis DNA in their test samples -- which suggested the samples may have been contaminated.
Indeed, the CDC found pertussis DNA on surfaces at the clinic where most of the cases were seen. Of the sites the team swabbed -- from nurses' laptops to sinks to glove containers -- 61 percent had detectable pertussis DNA.
The researchers suspect that pertussis DNA from vaccines contaminated clinic surfaces, and then contaminated samples taken from patients to be sent to out for testing.
On top of that, Mandal pointed out, after the true winter outbreak, doctors were on heightened alert for whooping cough, which means they may have been testing more people than necessary. And that alone raises the odds of mistaken diagnoses.
Pertussis pseudo-outbreaks have been reported a few times before, for instance, in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Tennessee between 2004 and 2006.
In response, the CDC has published "best practice" guidelines to try to avert the problem. One recommendation is for clinics to separate the area where providers prepare and give the DTaP vaccine from the area where they collect throat secretions from patients for pertussis testing.
Other "simple steps," Mandal said, are for providers to always wear gloves for collecting samples and for preparing and giving vaccines, and then immediately dispose of the gloves.
But people should not get the impression that whooping cough outbreaks aren't real, the CDC researchers stress.
"Pertussis is a real problem, and we strongly recommend vaccination," Mandal said.
Immunity against whooping cough from the childhood DTaP vaccine can wane over time, so experts recommend that pre-teens get a booster shot with the "Tdap" vaccine. Pregnant women who haven't had the booster should get one dose of Tdap after the 20th week of pregnancy, according to the CDC.
Maternal antibodies against pertussis will be passed on to the baby, which offers protection against the infection early in life.


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Would anyone have any information of the Trakehner stallion Domhardt by Coktail(Copernicus in Australia)? He was the Australian Advanced Dressage Champion by his owner Libby Lang.
I believe Connie Kempter brought Domhardt over from Germany with Kassiber, Polarschnee, Königsberg and Coktail.
Oh...and he was exported to Singapore.
I know Domhardt from my stay in Jakarta (1988-1992). At that time he was owned by Mr Ardi Hapsoro Hamidjojo. His family owns the stable Trijaya Equestrian Center in Jakarta/Indonesia. Fax 0062-21-787 3652.
I think that that Domhardt still belongs to Ardi, who is living in Brunei right now and is the stable manager of the Trijaya Jerudong Equestrian Park.
So far Ardi has competed several times with Domhardt at the Samsung Competition.
Thanks for your help Birke!
I was hoping that he was still entire and that they were breeding from him. I will contact the equestrian center.


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Sorrento Moon by Deslea (Imagine Me And You), 2010. Music by Tina Arena.
Background: This is a fluffy romance vid and technically not as sophisticated as recent works such as Heavy In Your Arms and This Is How A Heart Breaks. However, it achieves its aim, and I do like that it has a little more variety than some vids for this movie – I’ve tried to make maximum use of the limited footage.
Geeky Things To Note: Really nothing of technical interest. It’s just really good fun with a nice feel.
Sources: Imagine Me and You (2005).


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Andargé Asfaw is an award-winning photographer, educator, and author. His powerful portraits and luminous landscapes have been exhibited in several national and international exhibitions, and are held in private collections worldwide. Andargé’s work appears in national and international publications and includes imagery from the U.S., Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America. His book, Ethiopia from the Heart, was released in June 2007. Andargé maintains a commercial photography studio, F/Stop Studio.
There is a story behind every image that I capture. When I look into the eyes of someone in my photographs, I am captivated by their presence. In my landscapes, I seek the wisdom of the past. Leaves, a cave, a pile of stones, all represent the soul of a place.
The colors and mood of light are a constant source of inspiration. I translate my images into printed work using all different types of media. My background in alternative photographic processes, such as platinum, palladium and cyanotype, has expanded the way I look the photographic print. I use film, digital, and various camera formats.