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Make a Statement with Cool Printed T-shirts

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T-shirts are something that look good on both boys and girls. There are several designs in tees available in the market, and sometimes the mind boggles over which print or color to go for. If you’re looking for something that would go with all sorts of lowers, then printed t-shirts are a must have. Printed T-shirts can be accessorized with blingy necklaces and earrings and you’re all set for a party. Wear vibrantly colored chinos underneath and a rocker chic attitude. As for the male folk, wild and bold prints definitely shout for attention. Cool printed tees can even be sported at workplace! You could actually kill your formal look, by combining a stylish printed T-shirt with a semi-formal jacket(during winters) or a scarf. There are many other styles of t-shirts that you could experiment your look with. There are the V-necks, round necks, collared ones, polo necks in medium or long length as well as cut sleeves, short sleeves, long sleeves etc.

Apart from different styles, there are many brands as well that offer uber cool printed shirts. Some of the names would be Lee, Allen Solly, Vero Moda, Mickey, USI, Tantra, Adidas, Calvin Klein Jeans, Miss Bennett, Nike, Pepe, Puma, United Colors of Benetton, Wrangler and many more top notch brands. Wouldn’t it be great if you could avail all of these brands at one place? Yes, you can do that, and how? Buy printed t-shirts online that are not only good to look at, but also supreme in quality. Shop now!

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How to maintain White Calvin Klein Jeans T-shirt?

Trendy Calvin Klein jeans T-shirts for women is a casual stand-by that can be worn in almost endless number of occasions and ways. When worn with a perfect pair of denims, they add a style and a great look, and are ideal for hot summer days, humid monsoon and even for colder days. Cool white T-shirt is a must have in every man’s casual wardrobe because he can wear it in almost all occasions and seasons. In wintertime, team it up with a trendy jacket and in rainy season, wear it with nice shorts and in summers wear it with basic jeans. However, each and every mark, from a small stain to dark spots, is clearly visible. That is why; white T-shirts must be washed with more care and in a different manner than colored apparel in order to maintain their brightness and prevent dinginess. And, for this, you need to follow some simple things.
Always wash white T-shirts separately from colored clothes, this will help avoiding discoloration. For washing clothes, always use the recommended amount of detergent and water temperature. You can get that information from the garment care label, so read it carefully before washing!  If you are washing clothes in hard water, the use some vinegar, this will help your favorite white t-shirt from graying. Avoid washing many clothes at the same time, especially when using the washing machine, do not over-load it! A simple tip- Always dry your clothes in the sunlight, it maintains the brightness naturally!


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Communications at Risk: The Security Implications of VoIP and SIP

Today's businesses often rely on Unified Communications (UC) and Real Time Communications (RTC) to run their day-to-day operations, but these applications may fly under the radar when it comes to security protection. Because we live in an IP world, with VoIP and SIP common to all types of networks, reliance on traditional internet and data networking tools for real-time communications exposes UC networks to the same types of cyberattacks that affect all data networks. More importantly, it exposes the network to the inherent vulnerabilities of SIP communications that the traditional tool sets don’t address. This webinar will examine the security implications of using VoIP and SIP, how to best protect real-time communications traffic with tools you already have as well as with new tools, and how to orchestrate protections to prevent UC security from becoming just another isolated security silo.

On Demand
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When you attend this webinar, you will:

  • Understand some of the exposers are vulnerabilities relative to UC and RTC
  • Learns ways to reduce these exposures and reduce overall attack vectors
  • Understand how Behavioral Analytics can play a part in securing the environment
  • Understand how to share threat intelligence for overall better security posture

Featured Speakers

  • Chris  Cook
    Chris Cook
    Senior Product Manager, Security

    As a 20-year technology industry veteran, Chris has both product and marketing responsibilities for Sonus View, security analytics platforms as well as broader security topics. Before joining Sonus, Chris was in the UEBA (User Entity Behavior Analytics) space as Director of Sales Engineering for Seceon Inc. both shaping product and studying competitive market trends. Along with years of experience in the security industry, Chris was instrumental in building the initial Security as a Service offerings at EiQ Networks. Chris also had ownership of global DNS product lines at TZO/DYN, as well as network and configuration management at Bay Networks/Nortel. Chris currently holds a CISSP certification, (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), from (ISC)2.

  • Peter  Krass
    Peter Krass

    Peter Krass is a contributing editor to UBM. A long-time business and technology journalist, Peter has previously held senior editorial positions with Inc.,InformationWeek, Smart Enterprise, Planet IT, and BusinessWeek newsletters. He's also written for publications and sites that include Optimize,CFO, CSC World, On Wall Street and Insurance Networking News.

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IP Addresses

IP Address Autonomous System Number (ASN) Internet Service Provider (ISP) / Organization Location AS198921 Unix Storm - Michal Gottlieb Unix Storm - Michal Gottlieb Poland

Server Locations

LocationPoland (PL)
Latitude52.2394° (52° 14′ 21″ N)
Longitude21.0362° (21° 2′ 10″ E)
Local Time

IP WHOIS Information

IP Address Range91.227.122.0 -
Subnet Size512 IP addresses
CIDR Notation91.227.122.0/23
Net NameUnix-Storm-Michal-Gottlieb
Date Registered
Date Updated
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RegistrantUnix Storm - Michal Gottlieb (ORG-USMG1-RIPE), Minska 38, 54-610 Wroclaw, Poland, Poland (PL), RIPE # Filtered

IP Address Range77.0.0.0 -
Subnet Size318,767,104 IP addresses
CIDR Notation77.0.0.0/8,,
Net NameEU-ZZ-77
Date Registered
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StatusALLOCATED - delegated entirely to specific RIR (Regional Internet Registry) as indicated.

DNS Resource Records

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Domain WHOIS Information

This is the WHOIS information that includes important registration and owner details. Where applicable, you will find registrar info, important dates, name servers, and registration data. Registration data in most cases will include the Name, Organization, Address, City, State or Province, Postal Code, Country, Phone Number, and email address for Registrant, Administrative, and Technical contacts.


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IP Addresses

IP Address Autonomous System Number (ASN) Internet Service Provider (ISP) / Organization Location AS9341 PT Indonesia Comnets Plus PT Indonesia Comnets Plus Indonesia

Server Locations

LocationDepok, Jawa Barat, Indonesia (ID)
Latitude-6.3433° (6° 20′ 35″ S)
Longitude106.4989° (106° 29′ 56″ E)
Local Time

IP WHOIS Information

IP Address Range202.62.11.0 -
Subnet Size256 IP addresses
CIDR Notation202.62.11.0/24
Net ReferenceAPNIC
RegistrantIRT-ICON-ID, PT Indonesia Comnets Plus, JL PLN EHV Gandul Cinere, Depok 16512, Indonesia (ID), APNIC

IP Address Range202.0.0.0 -
Subnet Size16,777,216 IP addresses
CIDR Notation202.0.0.0/8
Net ReferenceAPNIC
RegistrantIRT-APNIC-AP, Brisbane, Australia, Australia (AU), APNIC

IANA IPv4 Address Space Allocation

Allocation Date
StatusALLOCATED - delegated entirely to specific RIR (Regional Internet Registry) as indicated.

DNS Resource Records

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Node Name Class Type Data TTL IN A

Domain WHOIS Information

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The domain name is The domain registration date is .

IP Addresses

IP Address Autonomous System Number (ASN) Internet Service Provider (ISP) / Organization Location AS26619 Flycom Comunicaciones Flycom Comunicaciones Colombia

Server Locations

LocationMedellin, Antioquia, Colombia (CO)
Latitude6.2518° (6° 15′ 6″ N)
Longitude-75.5636° (75° 33′ 48″ W)
Local Time

IP WHOIS Information

IP Address Range179.0.0.0 -
Subnet Size16,777,216 IP addresses
CIDR Notation179.0.0.0/8
Date Updated
Net ReferenceAPNIC
RegistrantInternet Assigned Numbers Authority, see, Australia (AU)

IANA IPv4 Address Space Allocation

Allocation Date
StatusALLOCATED - delegated entirely to specific RIR (Regional Internet Registry) as indicated.

DNS Resource Records

In this section you will find important DNS resource records for SOA records, Name Server records, and MX records are included when available. Additional supporting data includes serial numbers, refresh rates, retry times, TTL, priority, and length to expire will be shown.

Node Name Class Type Data TTL IN A

Domain WHOIS Information

This is the WHOIS information that includes important registration and owner details. Where applicable, you will find registrar info, important dates, name servers, and registration data. Registration data in most cases will include the Name, Organization, Address, City, State or Province, Postal Code, Country, Phone Number, and email address for Registrant, Administrative, and Technical contacts.


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Caramel Chocolate Pear Cake

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A birthday cake for a good friend of mine.

Side sponge is layers of cocoa and caramel sponge, sandwiched with chocolate ganache. It’s a new technique I tried for a fist time. I think it went quite well.

It contains cinnamon poached pears, caramel mousse and chocolate mousse.
It’s not real mousse, as I didn’t use any egg for that part. I just used whipped cream and gelatine to make mousse like jelly.
Somehow, I still have this strange feeling against using raw egg in cakes.

Technically, if you warm egg yolk to certain point and also use Italian meringue, you should be safe to use raw egg (cos it is not raw any more) . But all those small efforts takes time. Some recipe book even omit those steps to make mousse safe to eat. So, I just simply avoid it till now.
But I think I might try next time…. it might be the time to up my skill.

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Bit messy picture, but here it is.

It cut well, but it was due to slightly too much gelatine, so bit more wobble next time. And I need to adjust quantity for each part as you can see.

All in all, I liked the cake, so I shall try again!

(Oct 2013)

5 thoughts on “Caramel Chocolate Pear Cake

    1. Oh, I need to work on the recipe. I’ll try to make it again sometime soon, and load recipe with more picutre. Decoration on the side is done by making square sheet of sponge (1 sheet each of cocoa and caramel), and make 2 strip each, about 5cm high each. Then sandwich with ganache (4 layer then), and slice it to 7mm-ish, and stand them up all around the cake tin. Dahhh… it’s quite simple but I cannot explain well with word. Need picture or something… I’ll try. Thanks!

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False Statements and Opinions

There are so many false statements and opinions that can easily be countered in the newly-released Library documents that we could write for days. Check out some of the comments after the recent 27east.com article about the Library.

One of us commented on 27east.com.  Here are some highlights, along with additions:

In defending an appointed board in the Westhampton Free Libraryelectedboardreport Final (page 6), the Library Board likens the Westhampton Free Library to “The American Red Cross, Peconic Bay Medical Center and the WHB Historical Society” among others, groups that receive “government subsidies” and have appointed boards. This is a false analogy. There is a separate earmarked line item on our tax bills specifically for the WHF Library. The American Red Cross isn’t listed on our tax bills.

In the Executive Summary 4.11.16 (page 2) the Board states, “According to the the Handbook for Library Trustees regarding lawsuits and other risks, ‘it is the board’s responsibility to reduce risk to a manageable level so that service programs or even the survival of the library is not threatened.  A poorly managed incident, lawsuit or judgment against the library can have consequences far beyond the immediate impact of the event.'”

The above statement is taken from the top of the “Risk Management” section, pages 34-35 of the Handbook.  The statement before the statement the Board chose to highlight says, “The public library is exposed to a wide variety of risks in the conduct of its business. These include natural disasters such as fires and storms, patron accidents of various kinds, negligence, willful misconduct and other criminal activity.” Nowhere in that section is library board governance mentioned.  The Handbook recommends having proper insurance, careful record keeping and inventory management, paying attention to personal safety, physical facilities and loss prevention strategies with effective security and fire suppression systems. But let’s read that section as the Westhampton Free Library can’t have a publicly elected board of trustees.

This one is priceless!  On page 10 of the Report on the Selection of Library Trustees, at the conclusion of their “Prevailing Wage Law and Public Works” section, the Board writes, “These developments leave the Westhampton Free Library Board of Trustees with some degree of uncertainty concerning whether work done at the library would, in the future, be subject to prevailing wage.”  Then, at the top of page 12, the Board writes, “Counsel definitively advised that the Prevailing Wage Law would not apply to the library even if it should move to a publicly elected board of trustees.”  Our tax dollars are actually being spent on these absurdities in an attempt to disenfranchise the Library taxpayer.

In denying Americans the basic right to vote, the appointed Board conjured remote and unlikely scenarios that might occur if we were “allowed” to vote for our trustees (italics ours).

“The request to change from an appointed board to a publicly elected board could…have unintended consequences for both the employees and the cost of operations.  Following, is a review of the possible legal ramifications of the requested change.”

Should our employees be deemed public employees, they would not be covered by the NLRA.”  Guess what folks?  They would be covered by another entity.

It is conceivable that a federal court could determine the employees are not protected by the NLRA and at the same time a New York court could determine the employees are not protected by the Taylor law possibly leaving our current employees with no protections.”  There are certainly protections for the employees. And we could argue that possibly none of this would happen.  Their statement is ridiculous.

“Since the legal research has not yielded a precedent” though we used tax dollars to pay powerhouse labor attorney Richard Zuckerman to help us obfuscate, we seven trustees (six of us brand new) simply want to deny the Library taxpayer the right to vote.  It’s plain and simple.  We set forth to “prove” that which we already believed–that the board should remain appointed–with lots of omissions, opinions, falsehoods and mumbo-jumbo.

“All we can say is that the change from an appointed Board to an elected Board is so new….”  Really?  For just three easily found examples, let’s look to three Suffolk County association libraries like the WHF Library and the years they moved to an elected board of trustees:  South Country Library in Bellport, the 1950s; Port Jefferson Free Library, 1990; Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton, 1996.

The Board makes it very difficult now to trust anything they write or say.

The Board also queries in defense of the Library Board remaining appointed, “With few volunteers, paltry voter turnout at all levels of government and a politicized process likely linking candidate likability with library funding, is an election the best means of seating qualified candidates?” So, these possible circumstances are bad for library elections but can, of course, be said to exist for village and school board elections–but in those circumstances it’s okay? How about we start appointing our Westhampton Beach Village mayor?


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Last Wednesday, one of my dearest friends was graduating from school.  Our friend group all took inspiration and dress up a little for this amazing milestone. My outfit was typical for my style, and super AFFORDABLE! I wore a black body suit from forever 21 (similar), a floral skirt from Ross, and my Aldo Yalissa […]

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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Schools,Colleges and Universities Management Software - FREE

School Management System

is a step towards taking the education to the next revolution after internet. It becomes inevitable for every institution to keep its repute high and make their, a flagship institution; this challenge can only be met with planned administration and by having the desired control over the activities happening in and around the campus.

There is no other way except to seek the help of Information Technology’s to keep their winning edge over their Educational business. Link2School is one such tool to help you run your campus completely equipped with technology and growth. The comprehensive campus management system will help you to go live and create a platform for you as the management, the students, the instructors and the parents to communicate and express their thoughts.

Modules and functionalities of Link2school

Link2school is user friendly end to end school management software. It has built-in help authoring tool, which guides users to understand and operate all modules in software. It is highly secured application that allows users to access the information securely. Link2School supports multi language facility effectively and efficiently. This software is incorporated with RFID Tags, Smart cards and Biometric, etc.

The modules of Link2school are

School Management

School management module allows the administrator to maintain the comprehensive details and facilities available in school. Application displays route map of school, so users can easily understand the school route. Set the number of working days as per week, year and create academic term for school based on academic year. Calendar displays the list of events and task scheduled in the school. Intimate the exam timetable, results publish date and school functions through notice board.

Staff Management

Staff management module maintains staff details and list of staff available in school. Automated staff id is created for staff during staff registration. Administrator defines the leave structure and applies leave for staff. Administrator has rights to approve or reject leave applied by staff. Track staff discipline and issue memo for lacking discipline.

Student Management

Student management enables administrator to maintain student details and view the list of students registered in school. Generate automated roll no for student enrollment during registration. Administrator or class faculty applies leave for student. Track student behavior at any time and points are rewarded based on discipline. Create conduct master record for both positive and negative behavior of student. Maintain complete conduct details of student in discipline history.

In this module school management maintains education details of student. Designing of Annual lesson plan helps to complete syllabus within academic year. Prepare Learning centre plan based on Annual lesson plan. Staff explains about concept, activities and resource required for subject in Learning centre plan. Administrator schedule assignment and review assignment submitted by student.

Examination module allows staff to evaluate student skill through the examination. Schedule exam time table based on class and assign pass percentage for each subject. Enter the mark and grade achieved by the student in examination. Publish exam result and promote student to desired class. Monitor term wise assessment and cumulative assessment of each student.

Fee Management

According to school rule fee structure is customized based on class and academic term. Students pay the fee through different mode such as Cash, Cheque, Credit Card etc. Issues fee receipt for paid student.

School maintains separate attendance for student and staff. Attendance details are recorded and maintained automatically. Track In-time and Out-time of student entered into school. Check whether students present or absent and display reason for leave taken by student. Staffs enter comments for the applied leave.

Library Management

Library management is most flexible and suitable for school management system maintaining general, junior and senior libraries. Store all types of media such as books, magazines, CD, etc. One of OPAC library management facilitates to search material in wide range of information about any media. It provides barcode, create Dewey Decimal Code, maintain library rule, set loan period, generate book catalogue and print ID card for student and staff. Library management reduces work and time.

Scheduling module is designed to auto generate timetable based on constraint such as number of periods set per day and maximum number of periods for each subject and staff. Automatic timetable generation is time consuming task for school. Administrator view generated timetable including no of free periods and no of teaching periods according to class and subject.

Utility Management

In school management system, utility management is very important security module. It enables administrator to set privileges for accessing all modules to users.

Administrator can effectively generate any type of reports. Generate customized reports based on student performance, student attendance etc. There are more than 90 customized records.

Student Live

Student can access this software from anywhere and anyplace. Students easily interact with staffs and other students to share their knowledge. Through this portal, students apply leave and view approval status of leave. View assignment and submit assignment within particular period.

Staff Live

Separate portal is provided for staff to access the details of students and review assignment submitted by student. Through web portal staffs apply leave from anywhere and anyplace. Staffs can interact with other staffs, student and parents with collaboration tool.

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  1. It seems like good school management software. It offers good features that are really helpful for school or universities. Tracking time of kids or employees is a big issue today. There are various time tracking software available in the market that offers reliable time management solutions.


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Floridians Are (Almost) as Heavily Armed as Texans

The would-be burglars haven’t gotten that memo. Police: Miami Homeowner Shoots Man Trying To Break In

So he tried to break into a Miami home at 6:30 in the morning. He set off an alarm, not once but twice. The homeowner was at home, and he was armed.

The guy was trying to break in using bolt cutters. He got shot and was sent to the hospital in critical condition.

But that isn’t the disturbing thing.

One neighbor told CBS4’s Marybel Rodriguez that same man has broken into homes in the area multiple times.

“Four times in mine, four times in another and his home, two times,” said neighbor Isabella Nunez.

Residents who live in the upscale neighborhood near Midtown say it’s concerning.

And he has been caught by police in the past. So why is he not in jail?

This is the 3rd time in a month a South Florida homeowner has had something to say to someone breaking into his home. You would think the bad guys would take a hint.

Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0. Self-defense is a human-right.


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Monday, September 7, 2009

It's a Good Speech

If you haven't heard about all the furor regarding the President's planned remarks for the public school students of America on Tuesday, Sept. 8th, you must have been vacationing at some lovely remote island for the last week! It's been crazy: our local paper is LIT UP with folks sounding off about the radical left and intolerant right and the "propaganda" and other such nonsense. I even jumped in to the conversation, speaking up for a parent's right to preview curriculum and be informed of content in advance. Boy, did that stir up some of the commenters! I can't believe how hateful and heated some members of our community have become.

If you haven't read the text of the speech yet, really, you must go here and read it for yourself. In my opinion, it's a fine speech. Our school district is recording it and giving parents the opportunity to review it for themselves. Some folks (without even previewing the speech, I might add!) are even planning to request that their students be allow alternate activities for the duration of the speech. I'm not bothered by any element of it enough that I'd remove my students from the assembly at school, but I am planning to talk with my kids about it around the dinner table on Wednesday night.

It's a good speech. And it will be an awesome opportunity to talk with my kids about why we work hard in school. And why we strive for excellence in all we do. And what a blessing free education in this great nation of ours really is. . . It's a good speech. You should read it. I'm glad I did.

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Aus said...

Morning lady - I have to admit I did a little flip on this one too! My issue was really 2 fold - first off was 'why can't we have the content of the speach? The text wasn't released until the weekend (after schools were closed for the long weekend leaving admin's and parents 4 hours on the morning of the speech to respond!) That's a 'trust' issue that is mine personally with Mr. Obama - and has no place for further discussion here! My other issue was just - it's not the place of the President to be talking in schools! I objected as loudly when George I wanted to do this back in '91 when my older kids were in middle school.

You are correct - it's a good speech and says the right things - and no I don't find the content objectionable - but I couldn't have told you that until last night - and that's and issue for me!

Anyway - well said and spot on!

hugs - aus and co.


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Of Easter and the Resurrection of Christ

As we approach the Easter season, it may be valuable to reflect on the meaning of the season. It is, after all, Easter that gives meaning to Christmas, and the atonement and resurrection of Jesus Christ give meaning to Easter.

Few if any events of ancient history are as well attested as the resurrection of Jesus Christ. His rising from the tomb after His death at the hands of the Roman executioners is a hard fact. It is a particularly hard fact to grapple with if one is of the mind that religious phenomena are “spiritual”—by which critics mean “unverifiable.” Their efforts for nearly two thousand years have been to try to change the subject or impugn the witnesses or make the reality appear somehow merely symbolic, allegorical, or fabulous. But the resurrection of Jesus Christ remains as startlingly real today as it was to the Greco-Roman world of 34 A.D. The emergence in the 1830s of powerful new evidence of the Savior’s resurrection from the dead makes objections to its reality impossible to sustain.

The list of witnesses of the resurrected and immortal Christ is a long one, spanning continents, ages, and sexes. It begins with Mary Magdalene, in Jerusalem, who went to the tomb early on Sunday morning after Jesus’ execution, expecting anything but to see Jesus alive once more. She was there to finish the process of anointing the body, which she and others could only hastily begin on Friday evening. To her wonderment and sorrow the tomb was empty. Rather than expecting that the dead was alive once more, her one thought was to find where the body now was. To a joy that none but she could describe, Mary was told by Jesus Himself that He was risen from the dead. Mary also became the first to testify of the Savior’s resurrection, as she quickly reported her experience to the disciples (John 20:1-18).

The record reports how later, in the evening, the resurrected Christ appeared to these disciples, who included at least ten of His apostles in company with others of Jesus’ followers. As if to answer future skeptics, Jesus made a point of the physical reality of the resurrection from the dead. First, to attest to the death, he had those present handle the mortal wounds in hands, feet, and side (the last inflicted by the Roman soldiers to assure the death of Jesus before they removed His body from the cross), as He declared to them, “handle me and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.” (Luke 24:36-40; John 20:19-21) Next, to demonstrate the full functionality of a resurrected body, Jesus ate a piece of broiled fish and part of a honeycomb (Luke 24:41-43). This is tangible evidence, intentionally offered by the Savior to emphasize the fact of His physical resurrection, with a very physical body.

Sometime that same day Jesus walked for an extended time with two disciples as they journeyed to the nearby village of Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35). A week later the apostle Thomas, who had been absent the week before, was added to the list of physical witnesses, as he in turn was shown the mortal wounds of the risen Christ (John 20:26-29). Again in Galilee Jesus met His disciples for a meal of fish and bread and then taught them about charitable service while sitting with them around the fire. To these and other interactions of the mortal disciples with the immortal, risen Christ, is the record in Paul’s letter to the Corinthians that “above five hundred brethren at once” saw the resurrected Christ, to which Paul adds his own personal witness (1 Corinthians 15:6-8).

The Book of Mormon, first published in 1830, is another witness, from a separate people on another continent, of the Christ who had lived, died, and been resurrected far away in Jerusalem. Across the ocean, in ancient America, Jesus Christ appeared to 2,500 more disciples who became personal witnesses of their resurrected Savior. “And it came to pass that the multitude went forth, and thrust their hands into his side, and did feel the prints of the nails in his hands and in his feet; and this they did do, going forth one by one until they had all gone forth, and did see with their eyes and did feel with their hands, and did know of a surety and did bear record, that it was he, of whom was written by the prophets, that should come.” (3 Nephi 11:15)

To these ancient testimonies, the list grows with modern day witnesses of the resurrected Christ. Add the names of Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon, and Oliver Cowdery, “That he lives! For we saw him, even on the right hand of God; and we heard the voice bearing record that he is the Only Begotten of the Father” (Doctrine and Covenants 76:22,23; see also Doctrine and Covenants 110:1-10).

The testimony is sure. You can accept it or not, but you cannot change the fact that Jesus, once dead, rose again from the dead, as He and the prophets foretold and as He and the prophets since have reported. With that knowledge, Easter becomes more than a quaint relic of just another “faith tradition”. It becomes a celebration of the greatest event in the history of the world.

(First published February 22, 2009)

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Snow Dogs, Meet Snow!

It’s not often that it snows in the desert, but it did yesterday. The last time we had this kind of weather just outside of Los Angeles was at least three years ago, and since Sierra and Bodhi are younger than that, and were both adopted from southern California shelters, I’m guessing they’ve never seen the fluffy white stuff before.

The flakes fell for hours and actually stuck, turning the dog ramp in back of the house into a bone-colored magic carpet for dogs. Sierra and Bodhi ran outside, stopped short, and looked around in wonder. It then took Bodhi .5 seconds to decide it was an Endless Buffet from Heaven, and he began to eat as much snow as he could. When Sierra started doing the same, he tried to guard the snow from her. Anywhere she’d lower her head, Bodhi was there saying, “That’s mine! I don’t know what it is, but it’s mine!” Adolescent boys! The cold and snow also made the dogs frisky, and they interspersed eating the snow with playing in it. Here’s a video.

My husband immediately decided we should put on our snow gear and take the dogs for a walk in the mountains in back of our house. This probably would have worked out better if we actually had any snow gear. But I learned something new, namely that the waterproof action of rain boots does not actually extend to snow. Soggy, squishy socks aside, the hike was an excellent adventure. We carefully made our way up the trails, the dogs straining against their long lines, anxious to explore. Sierra seemed right at home, while Bodhi shivered until we began moving along more quickly. Here’s a brief video clip of my husband running with the wanna-be sled dogs : http://bit.ly/h27MR4

I know that for many of you the snow is nothing new, and has even become an inconvenience. But for us, that beautiful white blanket across the mountains and trees was magical. I’ll be sorry to see it go.

You can view the rest of the photos here. Enjoy!

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  1. Walks With Wolves says:

    Don’t mind if I subscribe. I love reading about other adventures with people and their dogs!

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

Hope you’ve had a love-filled day.

Well, as you are probably figuring out, I just can’t stop creating blogs.  As I learn more about the platform, and I explore what others are doing with it, I just keep getting more and more ideas.

Animals of Western New YorkMy latest one is geared at the folks who help us lead thousands of school children on field trips at the Center…  It’s called “Animals of Western New York”.  It might also be helpful to students and teachers in our region.

I plan to feature animals that our visitors are most likely to see when walking our trails in April-May-June – our heaviest fieldtrip season.  I will try to include a few relevant facts (the ones kids seem to ask the most about), as well as some tips for walk leaders on activities and lessons they can do related to each animal.

Give it a look, and let me know what you think:

6 thoughts on “Happy Valentine’s Day!

  1. I agree with Mary . . instead of being Winter Woman . . we should call you Blogging Woman! Happy V-Day Jen and can’t wait to see this blog become just as popular as your is!

  2. Bravo! I love it. You have so much passion and ingenuity, and you DO something with it. Such initiative. I look forward to watching your new site grow, and enjoying it with my morning coffee, as I watch the sun rise from my computer window.

  3. Oh, pick me! (Hand waving wildly in the air!!!!)

    Love the new blog. Now I’d like to know what animals rely on feathers for food.

    Thanks for all the cool information!

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Western India Regional Council of
The Institute of Chartered Accountants Of India

To All Chairmen, office bearers and members of Regional council and Branches and DCO Heads
Dear Colleague,
It has been decided to grant extension to students, who were registered for practical training on or after 1st May, 2012 and completed one year of their practical training but not completed the GMCS-I course are, required to complete GMCS-I Course latest by
31st December, 2014.
The above students are advised to register at the portal www.icaionlineregistration.org or contact the nearest Regional Council/Branch for registration in GMCS-I Course and complete the same at the earliest but not later than 31st December, 2014.
You are requested to give due publicity to this matter by publishing it in your newsletter/hosting it at your website etc., so that the above category of students who have not completed the GMCS-I within the specified period could availed of this opportunity and undergo the training timely but not later than 31st December, 2014.
Yours sincerely,
(CA. M. Devaraja Reddy)
Chairman, Board of Studies

The Council at its Special Meeting held on February 2, 2011 decided that
the General Management and Communication Skills Course, presently being organized for 15 days for the CA students should be organized twice during
the period of articleship training as under:
(i) GMCS-I (15 days) : during 1st year of articled training
(ii) GMCS-II (15 days) : after completion of 18 months of training but before        completion of articled training
In view of the above decision, it is hereby informed that GMCS-I & II Course shall be implemented in respect of those students, who have registered for articled training on or after 1st May, 2012. Students, who have registered for articled training prior to 1st May, 2012 shall be governed by the existing GMCS curriculum.
We wish to clarify that Rs. 5,500/- per participant is to be charged for each course of GMCS as well as GMCS-I as per existing guidelines.
Board of Studies

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Distraction Dilemma: Breaking, Breaking News

As I drove out of the supermarket parking lot yesterday, I congratulated myself. Proud that I remembered to bring my groceries with me!

Years ago on a nice spring evening, a Thursday, I exited the same supermarket parking lot minus the eight bags of food and drink items I had just purchased.

Back in the days when my daughter was on the crew team at her high school. Moms (always the moms, let’s be honest here) took turns hosting the team on the Friday nights before Saturday morning regattas. We put on big spreads which, if memory serves, mostly featured some kind of pasta casserole, bowls of salad and buckets of garlic bread. I’m sure there must have been a vegetable side dish and dessert too.

On that Thursday before my turn at hosting the team dinner, I drove after work to the supermarket nearest my house with the “Crew Dinner To Buy” list in my purse. It was dinner time – I was hungry, I was tired, so was everyone else. My body may have been at the store – but my mind was still downtown – at the law firm  – too many client matters remained on that “To Do” list.  I walked up and down the aisles, pulling the items for the anticipated bunch of carb-craving teen athletes in a semi-automated fashion.

The check out lady smiled as she scanned my purchases – having a big party? Yes, I probably said. I paid, left the store and steered the overflowing cart outside the store and left it in the “pick up” area against the silver bars en route to the parking lot.  My intent must have been to get into my car and drive around to the pick up lane to retrieve the eight bags from the cart.

But instead I drove home. Two miles away.  I pulled into my driveway. Still thinking about work, I am sure. Knowing I had emails to check and a project to complete. Parked. Then opened the trunk to find it empty. Because I had left all of the bags in the cart in front of the supermarket. A swear word was likely emitted at that point.

That is the last time I recall being as distracted as I have been in recent weeks.

I did drive right back to the store. Luckily, the cart was where I had left it 10 minutes earlier, I put the bags in the trunk, drove home, took the groceries out, unpacked them, made dinner for my family, caught up on work  – and then hosted the crew dinner the next night. You know the busy/working/mom drill.

I no longer work downtown (still a mom though, and now a grandmother too, just for the record so you can tell that maybe through increased age alone, I’ve earned the right to have distracted moments.)

But now I am distracted much of the time. No longer by lawyering. Or by my kids. Or by my husband. Not by events on my calendar. And I do not have a sudden onset of ADD nor any neurological problem (I get checked.) No, my distraction comes from my own inability to focus for more than 10 minutes without having an insistent craving to turn on the news.

So I do. I check my twitter feed. I look up news alerts. I listen to the radio. I have the TV on in the background. All for fear of missing some new crisis that might have happened while I was doing the laundry or taking a shower.

The crises keep erupting, one piling on top of another, breaking news breaking into new breaking news, breathless reporters and chatty commentators. And yes, I could turn it off. Yes, I should turn it off. But I keep checking for updates.

Last night at book club we talked about this. A few of my friends are not as dominated by the need-to-know-now as I am. Lucky them! Others seem to be able to stay in control of their news needs. I’m jealous.

Part of my problem is I am less busy in the summer. I’m not taking a writing class this summer. With the end of the school year, my college-advising volunteer projects have slowed. Fewer meetings, a lighter schedule, more unstructured time.

Anticipating this summer lull, I created my own structure. A big project.  My Work-In-Progress. I am writing a novel. Writing at least four days a week.  The plan is to complete the draft by the end of August before fall semester begins and I am back in the classroom (with homework.)

What’s my “WIP” about, you ask?

A working mom, a lawyer, with two kids (how creative to use my own life as inspiration!?) dealing with friendships that go awry, possibly unscrupulous clients and unexpectedly competitive colleagues.  I even wrote an outline. And I’ve already written 50 pages – 15, 556 words, to be exact. Only 64,444 more words to go!

If only I could be more disciplined. More disciplined and not as susceptible to distractions. Like I once was as a law firm partner. Busy, busy, busy. Far too occupied to fret about possible news of ultra-scary national and world events.

Or maybe that was a less complicated time when breaking news didn’t break every ten minutes. Focus, I keep telling myself. Look away from the media. But it is difficult. Distraction is my biggest dilemma this summer.

I am certain I am not alone in feeling this way.

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When “Job Creators” Really are the Villain

I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard conservative commentators on cable TV, radio and the print media vilify people who they accuse of attacking the means by which wealth is created in this country  Their favorite retort goes something like this: “Why are people bashing these businesses?  They are the job creators that have made our economy what it is today.  Without them a lot of people would not have an income”.

These over simplistic remarks are often touted by right-wing corporate mouth pieces in the media who financially gain from spreading corporate propaganda.  They attack people who have a legitimate beef about ethical violations of some businesses and how they use their acquired wealth.  To imply though that they are attacking “job creators” is a straw man argument.  This bogus accusation is intended to redirect legitimate complaints of citizens instead of rightfully informing the public about questionable practices that wealthy and sometimes self-serving executives within the corporate structure are pursuing.

So, before we all start feeling sorry about any negative sentiments expressed toward the new “corporate citizen”, let’s clarify some misunderstandings here.  The free market system we have in place today is the best economic system that mankind has devised thus far in their history.  It’s not perfect but compared to other systems it affords a lot of people the means to not only live a comfortable life but can be an opportunity to make some people very wealthy beyond their dreams.  There has and will always be however the need for people to establish watchdog mechanisms that prevents human greed from destroying productive enterprises

For the most part the U.S. and European economies have advanced this system to a level that has elevated the average citizen to a lifestyle that is the envy of all others around the globe.  Sure, Western capitalist nations have their share of poor people but not at the levels of 3rd world countries or even some of the up and coming developing nations like China and India.

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With this success however and with the creature comforts that have been derived from free-market economies also comes the responsibility to reward people fairly where the bounties that those free markets generate is not hoarded amongst a privileged few. All that we have is NOT solely the result of one man or one woman whose entrepreneurial spirit activated a sequence of events that led to job creation for many others.

Entrepreneurs who are credited with advancing an idea that generates wealth are themselves only a component by which an idea comes to fruition  An “aha!” moment that sparks the beginning of some business venture derives from other factors they had no direct hand in.  They are however gifted to put together and transform an idea into a means by which revenue can be generated.  Some though are simply more shrewd than others by taking someone else’s stroke of genius and calling it their own.  Do the names Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Bates come to mind with this thought?

To take it a step further, anyone who is familiar with the PBS’s ten-episode documentary  series “Connections” back in the late 1970’s is aware that all ideas do not come from a single instance but are a cumulative effect from factors that preceded each idea.  To say one person invented the telephone disregards all the genius and manpower that was put in to the telegraph which came before it, which itself developed as a result of the knowledge available about electrical currents.   Without these cumulative, shared experiences no one person could have created much of the technology we enjoy today.

Secondly, once the idea is hatched, that entrepreneur, unless independently wealthy, must seek financing for their idea to take shape.  In most cases it comes from another entrepreneur who takes other people’s money and loans it out; money from the savings of common citizens who in part allow it to be loaned to individuals with job creating ideas.  So without the wealth that accumulates in such depositories, many businesses would likely not get started.

When the financing aspect has been achieved then it will require a labor force to construct the plant that a product will be developed and manufactured in, followed by another block of laborers who will work in that plant and produce the product that generates the income for their proprietor as well as for themselves.  An idea by itself has no material value if it cannot be produced to generate wealth.

The legitimate argument of course can be made that the “idea person” is due a portion of the rewards it generates and for as long as it generates those rewards.  Likewise that reward can and should elevate in proportion to the level the business that results from that idea is successful and grows.  Conversely an equally legitimate argument can be made to what degree does that person have more right to the wealth their idea generated when they have no hand in making, marketing and distributing the goods and services of a business.  They have to depend on others they find to make this a reality.

I think most people are intelligent enough to see where I am going with this.  The value of a person’s contribution to a wealth generating effort is often arbitrary and becomes disproportionate when clever people convince less intelligent people who their worth is somehow set in stone somewhere by some unseen power who controls the universe.

When the light comes on for these less intelligent people they attempt to reason with the owners of the business that more of the wealth they helped generate should be distributed fairly to reflect the part they have in its creation and its growth.  Both groups have an interest in seeing that a business is successful and should be willing to make sacrifices during lean economic periods to ensure its survival.  These worker collectives are known to us as unions and the greedy efforts of owners and investors to keep the greatest part of the wealth to themselves is seen as union busting.

So, to return to the screed made by corporate mouth-pieces that attack those critics of corporate greed; is it a fair assessment to accuse some attacking these so-called “job creators” as they challenge the notion of who should get what from the collective efforts of many?

And what of those people who are not even employed by a business who go after corporations where their products are contributing to toxic wastes in the air we all breathe and the water systems we rely on for drinking?  Or when people’s trust are violated and their meager resources are squandered to profit a few as was the case that required massive bailouts for financial institutions?

When are “job creators” really bad people?   When violations of the public trust are spotted by workers and citizens who depend upon them for a paycheck and the wealth they create, are they really out to destroy them for some nefarious motive?   You be the judge.  As I see it, only a self-serving entrepreneur who makes their money off of distorting the facts would falsely present such a scenario.

One response to “When “Job Creators” Really are the Villain

  1. This bogus accusation is intended to redirect legitimate complaints of citizens instead of rightfully informing the public about questionable practices that wealthy and sometimes self-serving executives within the corporate structure are pursuing.

    Thank you. It’s like don’t call them out on cooking the books or insider trading because they’re “job creators.” Please.

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Three shawls, a pair of mittens …

The titel says it all: You will get shawls and mittens for this Sunday.

So far, this year hasn’t been really productive on the knitting front – 10 projects are currents marked with “2017” on my ravelry page (technically, there are twelve mittens, but since Philipp’s scrap socks and the lavender sock are currently in time out, I won’t count them).

Of these 10 projects, 3 have been for me – a fourth is currently on the needles (and, as I said – the lavender socks are in timeout. I might gift them, though. We’ll see.), but the rest has all been knit for wonderful people in my life.

After I had finished my father’s mittens, I got a lovely email at the beginning of February – Susanne from Nadelspielereien was throwing a birthday party, I got invited! YEAH! The email included the best invite ever: Bring your crafting! Now for those of you who read Susanne’s blog (if you speak German you should totally do it!), you know that Susanne is an avid cross stitcher, sews like a boss, and is incredibly talented at crafting and organising kids’ birthday parties, and upcycling, and decorating, and, simply, the best recipient for a handmade gift, because she knows how much time and love goes into it. Naturally, after accepting the invite, my first thought was: “What to knit her?”

I had gotten a couple of gift cards for bookshops for Christmas (which is the best, after books), and I had treated myself to Hunter Hammersen’s Curls 2, a wonderful book with a great collection of shawls that can be knit with any yarn in any size at any gauge you like. After going over the patterns twice or thrice, I settled on Subterfuge and bought yarn.

Susanne loves the sea, I knew that much, and I wanted to have colours that reflected the sky and the sand – which was exactly what the yarn did when I started knitting it up.

Subterfuge has two sides, on being a bit more subtle than the other one. I realised that I preferred the “wrong” side over the left one, but it is wearable either way, and really beautiful.

The yarn was a bit fuzzier than I would have liked it, but you could see the stitches okay, and so I powered on.

In the end, I ran out of time (the rows get long really quickly), and I would have preferred it to be a bit bigger, personally, but in the end, there are 460 metres of yarn in this shawl (that’s 503 yards), and I hope it is big enough.

I bundled it up, took the cake I had baked for dessert (food was going to be buffet-style, and I loved the concept, because everything was delicious and it went incredibly well together. I haven’t forgotten about the peanut soup, the apple crumble, and the puff pastries filled with salmon and/or bacon!!) and off I went. The evening was great – we were all women, mothers, colleagues, bloggers, Scottish Dancers, librarians, teachers, and I was incredibly thankful that I got invited!! Susanne said she loved the shawl, and although she is allergic to wool (AAAAAAAAAARGH!), I hope she can wear it despite.

During the party, I cast on for another birthday present. Anyone who has read this blog for quite some time surely knows that Monika, Little M.’s gran, is REALLY knitworthy – over the years, she has gotten an assortment of socks and shawls, and she loves everything dearly.

For her birthday, I had decided on making her The Big Skinny, a simple but fun pattern by Little Church Knits. The garter stitch shawl is knit in aran weight, and after spending a lot of time in the LYS, comparing yarn colours, I finally settled for camel and mint, which reminded me a bit of the 50’s, but seemed to be exactly Monika’s colours:

The shawl is big and uses up a lot of yarn for sure – the border instructions were a bit confusing, but with the help of a fellow raveler, I managed to figure it out.

Since this is 100% merino yarn, it’s wonderfully soft, but not too heavy – perfect for wearing it during Spring and Autumn in the evenings, or during winter time.

Since the ends of this shawl are really long, it even looks fancy when tied.

When Monika got the shawl, she looked at me, looked at the colours, simply said: “Mine!”, put it on and wore it for the rest of the day. YEAH! I have already considered making one for myself – with grey as the main colour and berry for the border.

The last project (before the great blanket desaster) was for a friend of mine. Lenka and I met … thanks to serendipity, I presume, because we “met” through a random post on tumblr. It was pure happenstance, but we have been getting on like a house on fire, and I could not be happier to have met her. Lenka is kind, caring, smart, has a great sense of humour, a sharp wit, and is as enthusiastic about all things Witcher as me (it’s her I have been writing the fanfiction story with. Just sayin’.).

Lenka wants to be a psychiatrist when she has finished her studies, and right before her first big medical exam last October, she got a package with something handknit from me:

This shawl was so much fun to knit, it was my summer project, and the pattern is Wendy’s Fern by Princesse Grenouille. I bought the yarn during my splurge at Tinkus last year:

And it is simply wonderful, 100% merino, a bit splitty, but so, so soft, and the colours this yarn comes in are amazing.

The shawl has a design that has been very popular for quite a while: A mixture of garter stitch and simple lace, and it was a pleasure to knit from start to finish. According to the picture Lenka sent me, it was also a big hit.

Since the shawl was met with so much enthusiasm, I thought MITTENS when her birthday came up, and set to work right away. The pattern is Fallberry Mitts, a knitting pattern, in size M, knit with some leftover merino yarn from Zitron (yes, I might have a theme going on).

These mittens were so much fun to knit, and, apparently, come in quite handy, too!

That’s all so far. Caught up with the most important stuff … Except … one shawl. But I will safe that for later.

For now, I am going to work on a pair of socks.

And yes, these are for me. 😉

All the love!
Julia 😀

Hi all!

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I am most pleased to announce that the Hat for my Dad’s Head is officially finished! … After overcoming certain difficulties (a-HEM), I sewed in the ends last Monday.

I like this hat very much. Philipp tried it on a couple of times and it was a bit big for him, and I haven’t managed to kill the little “nipple” despite my efforts, but my dad was very pleased when he opened the package and happily announced the moment he’d unwrapped the hat: “Oh great, for holiday!” He is also away for a three week trip in late fall/early winter this year (it’s a recreational holiday, like when your doctor prescribes a trip to Bath in England) to the Eastern Sea, so this will suit him very well. He can wear the hat with no problem and I don’t think it is too big … I might have knit it a bit shorter, but so far, it seems fine.

Wanna see what the finished hat looks like?

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I think this is the cutest thing ever. If you have read this posting, you might remember that I told you of a family of stuffed bears that I have – Little Bear modelled my North Sea Hat last year.

Since I knit this during the chief amount of Round 2 of NerdWars (we have our own blog! Come and see!), I used Philip Pullmanns “His Dark Materials” series as a tie-in:

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Ravelled here.

Okay, folks, I’m off to some more knitting … After all this gray I needed a bit more colour:

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This is almost finished and I intend to get it done this weekend.

Have a lovely, lovely time so far! I’m trying to establish a more regular blogging routine and I hope you’ll like it!

Lots of love!
Julia 😀


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My King

Carry me to an ocean away from my insecurites.

Carry me to a light that glimmers by the bay.

Whisper your love to me beside the warmth of a bonfire.

Watch the sunset slowly leave our sight.

Listen to the tides soar and retreat.

And when my crown has grayed,

carry me  in your arms once more.

I find myself gazing up at the stars at night until I get lost in trance.
I would sit on my bed beside the bedroom window, hugging my pillow and looking out at the gloomy sky.
I see the stars twinkle like they are talking to each other, or transmitting messages.
I wonder if one is for me and I just do not know.
Covered in a black blanket and hidden under a moonlit sky, the whole world seems so vast.
And as the city lights blink from the distance I feel the cool night air kiss my hair.
… and I wonder if you’re out there
looking up at the stars too, thinking the same thoughts, and getting lost in the exact same reverie.


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Category Archives: Hungary

Η «ομάδα του Βίζεγκραντ» με κοινή θέση κατά των προσφύγων | TVXS – TV Χωρίς Σύνορα

Ο Ούγγρος πρωθυπουργός Βίκτορ Όρμπαν δήλωσε πως το «μπλοκ του Βίζεγκραντ» (Σλοβακία, Τσεχία, Πολωνία, Ουγγαρία) προσέρχεται στη Σύνοδο της ΕΕ στη Μπρατισλάβα με κοινή σκληρή θέση για το προσφυγικό. Υπενθυμίζεται πως πρόσφατα ο υπουργός Εξωτερικών του Λουξεμβούργου ζήτησε την αποβολή της Ουγγαρίας από την ΕΕ, καθώς όπως, κατήγγειλε, στο θέμα του προσφυγικού παραβιάζει κατά συρροή τις ιδρυτικές αξίες και αρχές της Ευρώπης.

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Inside Hungary’s ‘Work-Based Society’

The maximum amount of unemployment benefit was cut from 120 per cent of the minimum wage to 100 per cent. The time span wherein unemployment benefits can be received has been reduced by two-thirds, from 270 to 90 days. The result, as we’ve seen, is that fewer people get less unemployment benefit for a shorter period of time, whilst the share and number of unemployed getting no unemployment or social benefit has increased – and those on workfare have risen.

In the government’s slogan of a “work-based society” the word “work” is used as a substitute for “cheap wage-labour”. This is also reflected in the decreasing real wages of public sector and increasing wage differentials within the labour market. Government departments are increasingly likely to rely upon workfare to fill vacant positions, spreading a deep sense of insecurity amongst those working in the public sector.

via Inside Hungary’s ‘Work-Based Society’

Budapest: thoughts on December 24 | openDemocracy

As conditions are now set in Hungary, they require action in order not to be deprived of existing benefits, and non-compliance becomes a factor in reducing rights or in some cases, is actually criminalized. If a person does not accept the (first) public employment opportunity offered, he or she will be excluded from receiving jobless benefits or public work for three full years. If a child is absent from school for 50 hours without certification, the family allowance will be withheld for six months. More recently conditions increasingly comprise a series of behavioural rules. A long-standing rule that is now extended to new (for instance some disabled) groups is mandatory cooperation with some sort of authority. These are in principle supposed to assist reintegration, but most of them do no more than handle the administration of recipients, formally documenting their willingness to cooperate.

Since 2010 the law has also specified as part of conditionality “the obligation to insure the orderliness of the residential environment.” Local governments add whatever content they choose to this legal framework, which can go far beyond keeping the public area around the house and the garden fence in order. I will admit that, as far as I could acquaint myself with the rules adopted by local authorities, most local governments do not abuse the opportunities offered by the law. However, in areas where prejudices against the poor and Gypsies are thriving, we can find many humiliating conditions that sharply interfere with the private lives of residents. To underline the cynicism of the forces in power, poor families will find it impossible to meet some of these prerequisites. A random glance at these local decrees alights for instance on the following – “a) the height of grasses on the land may not exceed 15 cm, and b) weeds may not exceed 15 percent of the usable land and may not be higher than 15 cm.” The interference also covers the inside of the homes. One condition for aid is that, “the home must always be clean, in order and freshly whitewashed,” and that “to ensure healthy personality development the personal space in the residential areas must be a minimum of 6 square meters per person,” while other rules stipulate that “it is necessary for all persons residing in said property to maintain personal hygiene through regular care of their persons and to secure the cleanliness of personal clothing on a continuous, day-to-day level and to store same in a clean place.”

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Free Sample Kit from: Bass Kleph – Make Me Forget

I found this free sample kit from Bass Kleph; the samples are taken from his single Make Me Forget

It has 14 samples including the drum kit, bass, leads and some FX, and if you have a NI Maschine it is already mapped to it, but don’t worry if you don’t have one, all the samples are ready to import them on every DAW/Sampler/Pad as 44kHz 24 Bit .WAV files.

Here is a video from Bass Kleph showing you how to play the song with the samples:

You can download the kit at: http://bit.ly/TJqRfn

If you liked the song you can get it at Beatport.

And follow Bass Keph on Facebook and Twitter.

Have fun!

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Ableton – One Month Left to Remix Christopher Willits – Free Stems and Prizes

Feeling lucky? Want to do a Remix? How about a contest… This blog started for collaboration between musicians and you can do it just by downloading Christopher Willits stems and making a remix with them… get creative!

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There’s still time to get your submission together for Christopher Willits‘ Remix Project. For this competition, Christopher has shared 121 free stems from the recording of his album,Tiger Flower Circle SunDownload the stems and enter a remix by February 1 for a chance to win a boxed copy of Ableton Live 8, a SoundCloud Pro account, a release on Ghostly International, and more.

Looking for some inspiration to get going with your own remix – or just interested to see what others have come up with? Listen to competition entries here.

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The three weird buttons that will stop procrastination forever! You will shriek and wail when you think of all the procrastination you did before you had these!

The issue:

Sometimes, it’s difficult to avoid being distracted by the wide variety of enticing modern entertainment options. It’s always possible to physically unplug your Internet router and turn off your phone, but most people aren’t going to do that on a regular basis.

An individual could purchase a set of wireless buttons that would have various effects, for example:

  • Turn off the Internet for a set period of time, forcing the button-owner to actually work / read a book / interact with other people (Fig 1).

  • Turn off the lights until the next morning, preventing the button-owner from staying up incredibly late (Fig 3).

  • Lock the fridge and kitchen cabinets for a certain period of time, preventing casual snacking.

Here are three buttons that may be of general interest:

Fig 1: This is basically a “NO INTERNET” button—it’s time to do work with no interruptions! When you press this button, your phone locks you out entirely, your TV refuses to turn on, and your router blocks most Internet traffic (i.e., video sites, social media traffic, instant messaging) and temporarily stops fetching incoming emails.

This one also doubles as a “read a book” or “actually interact with other humans” button!

Fig 2: Work is over! Time to relax. Your work email won’t be checked until the next morning and any work-related phone apps are paused. If you have any work-only contacts, their calls to you go straight to voicemail. I hope you have a 9-to-5 job and aren’t on-call, or else you will definitely get fired if you push this button!

Fig 3: This button returns your house to caveman times, because it’s time to actually go to sleep! Your computer and phone now refuse to let you log in until the next sunrise, your TV and stereo refuse to turn on, and your house’s lights are limited to 10% of their normal brightness.

PROS: Allows you to behave as if you  have self-control!

CONS: Requires installation of phone and computer applications. You might become so dependent on these buttons that you forget how to survive without them!


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What Sport Burns the Most Calories Per Hour?

Team sports, like basketball, burn more than 800 calories an hour.

To lose weight and stay in shape, it is important to burn more calories than you consume. Exercise and sports can burn significant calories. The number of calories you burn depends on your weight and physical capabilities, the sport or activity and intensity level. For optimal health benefits, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends five hours of moderately intense aerobic activity each week.

Team Sports

One hour of playing basketball burns up to 847 calories or more, depending on your weight, physical capabilities and intensity level. Touch football burns up to 872 calories or more per hour. Other team and individual sports that burn 500 calories or more an hour include softball or baseball, squash, rowing and tennis.

Whether for fun or competition, swimming is another sport that burns considerable calories. Swimming laps can burn between 511 and 763 calories per hour, depending on your weight and physical capabilities. Different strokes work various muscles and burn different amounts of calories. The butterfly stroke, for example, may burn up to 900 calories an hour. Other swimming strokes that burn significant calories include the backstroke and breaststroke.

Winter Sports

Popular winter sports and activities that burn a high number of calories include skiing, snowboarding and sledding. According to FitSugar, cross-country skiing and ice skating can burn 436 to 544 calories per hour, depending on intensity level. Other calorie-burning winter sports include downhill skiing, ice hockey, snowshoeing and sledding.

Burn More Calories

Whichever sport you choose, apply moderate- to high-level intensity to burn the maximum number of calories. Moderately intensive exercise means you can talk while playing a sport. Vigorous exercise means you can’t say more than a few words between breaths. According to the CDC, one minute spent on vigorous sports or activities is the same as two minutes at a moderately intense pace. Speak to your doctor to determine which sport or activity best suits your health and physical capabilities.

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/474836-what-sport-burns-the-most-calories-per-hour/#ixzz1d3F2JjJd

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Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Episode 1 Review

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Alright, so I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned this on my blog before but… I love Naruto. I love Naruto so much. I’ve watched it since I was a kid on Cartoon Network and Toonami. My love for Naruto has never wavered, even though I stopped watching Naruto Shippuden in the middle of it. In fact, I loved Naruto so much that it pained me to watch the 4th Great Ninja war. I recently finished it and it brought me a lot of pain and anxiety, but I did it.

But what I want to do with you guys today is review the first episode of Boruto. I’ve never done a review before so we’re just gunna see how this works. And this is coming straight from the heart so be prepared.

The Official Review

IF THIS AIN’T SOME NONSENSE, THEN I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS. How did they— I’m honestly shook out of my life. I was so excited for the first episode and then the first thing I see is some ugly evil guy, talkin’ ‘bout some “I can take you to where I brought the 7th hokage.” WHERE??? Where did you bring him??? I must be mistaken. Can somebody PLEASE just… LOCATE this LOCATION on Google Maps for me. Donde esta??? Where???

I didn’t ask for this. I can’t believe in the very first episode of this series they told my weak little soul that MY BOY NARUTO D— THEY TOLD ME THAT— I—I can’t… I can’t believe the nonsense that I personally witnessed. They over there, talkin’ ‘bout some my boy Naruto died. WHACHU MEAAAAAANNNNNNN? Esta CONFUSED. HURT. But mostly— CONFUSED.

Can somebody please show me the list of people who tried to kill Naruto??? Maybe half the bad guys in the series, lol. So… Kishimoto is trying to tell ME that NARUTO got killed by some guy who looks like he just emerged from some trash compactor landfill??? You can’t be serious. Say it ain’t so. Like I said, if this ain’t some nonsense, then I don’t know what is. I truly don’t know. Honestly, truly.

And who gave my boy Boruto the Kakashi??? Who hurt him??? Who slashed my son’s son??? Let me find out. I’m a full-fledged shinobi starting today, okay. I’m going to the Leaf Village myself and somebody better come at me with the facts.

And why do bad guys like to be like, “Remember how I killed this guy that’s close to you? Hahaha.” I remember when MY BOY NEJI died and Obito was out there in those streets, talkin’ ‘bout some, “Look at your boy Neji. Why you tryna fight me? I just killed your mans.” And guess what happened to him? Obito died. Why didn’t anybody tell him??? Talk trash about the Uzumaki squad and you die, like, easy as that. I can’t believe the nonsense. Now Boruto REALLY gunna kill you.

Anyway, y’all can tell I’m heated. I’ve been talking about the same scene for ummm… all of this review, lol.

Okay, so, moving on.

So, my boy Shikadai has apparently been Boruto’s Day One, just like Shikamaru to Naruto. He’s just like Shikamaru; Shika my BOYYY. Can we just talk about for a quick second how Shikamaru always believed in Naruto??? Like, #SquadGoals. Anyway! They kind of made it seem like Shikadai was Boruto’s lil… butler or something? Like, no, let my boy Shikadai live for himself and occasionally help Boruto’s crazy self out, lol. But I like him. He seems good.

Soooo, this Denki kid. Boruto catches some kids in these streets messing with him and saves him. I thought, “Awwww, that’s cute, maybe they can be really close friends now.” But wait, hol’ up. This kid goes and gets bitten by a snake, smh. Orochimaru is that you??? And that snake turns him evil. Okay, I don’t have to give an entire play-by-play of the episode do I? Let me just tell y’all what’s on my mind. Is Denki the Kawaki guy at the beginning who said that Naruto caught those hands??? Is this another Tobi/Obito/Madara thing again??? Does he want us to think that Denki turns evil and later kills Naruto and fights Boruto? Tbh, it’s working, lol. And I didn’t read the manga, so maybe some of these are answered, idk.

And I’m sorry but… WHY DID HE MAKE THOSE KIDS SO UGLY??? Like… they’re supposed to be cute lil kids that make you go “aww” but the only “aww” I have is “aww, tragic.” When I first saw Boruto I was like, “…Dang, that kid is ugly.” And he made Naruto ugly too, with that “I just got out the military a few weeks ago” haircut. How did everybody in Team 7 glo’ up but Naruto, the main character? I’m confused. Hurt. But mostly confused.

AND WHERE’S MY BOY KAKASHI? What am I? Confused. Hurt. And what can’t I do? Go on. Somebody find my boy Kakashi.

And wait, if a snake bit that Denki guy… is that the work of Orochimaru? But like, I thought he “turned good” or something? I liked him for the first time at the end of Naruto when he was goofing off in the background, lol. And what’s up with him and Yamato? I read that he was spying on him or something but I’m not sure.

I thought this episode was okay. I’m not opposed to Boruto in anyway; I’m excited for the show. But if Kishimoto starts killing off the original squad, he can dial the number 1-800-THESE-HANDS. I’ll be sure to pick up.

If you’ve never watched Naruto, you should definitely check it out. Naruto is definitely a highlight of my life.

Thank you for reading this wild review!

P.S. I do not own any of these pictures; I got them off of Google! All credits to their original illustrators!

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NEW YORK — More so than her obsession with unlivably small apartments in New York and the angst of being in your mid-thirties without much to show for it, the playwright Melissa James Gibson, 39, is interested in the particulars of words.

“I just love language,” Gibson says in the basement of Soho Rep, where her new play, “Suitcase or, those that resemble flies from a distance,” is playing. “I think about it a lot, along with intention and communication. How we try so hard to meet each other and yet there’s so much room for misunderstanding. How we can mean one thing and say another.”

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“Suitcase” is Gibson’s follow-up to 2002’s “[Sic],” which had the longest run in the history of Soho Rep. Her new play features two graduate students, Jen and Sallie, toiling away on their dissertations in tiny living spaces and dealing with the tenuous relationships they have with their respective boyfriends. As if to show how insular the characters’ worlds are, Jen and Sallie never leave their desks and nearly all of the conversations occur over the telephone or via apartment intercoms. This leaves plenty of room for miscommunication.

As written, Gibson’s plays feature no punctuation, but she does offer stage directions, line breaks and capitalization. “A play is a blueprint,” she muses, likening a performance to a jazz riff. “The actors and directors are really interpreting the text along the way.” For a recent excerpt of “Suitcase” in The New York Times, Gibson had to add periods and commas. “It locked down the language and interrupted the rhythm as I heard it in my head.”

Unlike her characters, who are often stuck in a rut, with “Suitcase,” Gibson is poised for another hit. In her thus-far short career — she is also a drama teacher and a college counselor at St. Ann’s in Brooklyn, though she is taking this year off — she already has developed certain trademarks beyond the way her plays look on the page. There are the pithy aphorisms (“Yes friends of friends should befriend one another and enjoy one Massive Tenuous Relationship It would be easier for the rest of us”); witty banter emanating from linguistic tics (a dissertation is “ongoing” but also “un-going” so that “Its un-going is ongoing”), and found objects (“[Sic]” employed an old auctioneer’s tape for a character trying to be an auctioneer, while “Suitcase” uses home movies from the Thirties and Forties of Gibson’s mother-in-law as a child).

And sometimes even the linguistic tics are found objects, as in one particularly hilarious insult out of “Suitcase.” “Years and years ago, a friend of a really close friend of mine was taking a Spanish language class and they were trying to one-up each other with gross things they could say in Spanish,” Gibson remembers. “And one of them said, ‘Talking to you is like eating a hair omelette,’ and that always stayed with me as a particularly potent and awful thing.”

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Alex Fasolo.

Magpie reveals dark side of depression

Collingwood Magpies forward Alex Fasolo has spoken about his battle with depression, claiming there are still dark times where he thinks "about death a lot."

Nathan Buckley hails 'courageous' Alex Fasolo

Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley has hailed forward Alex Fasolo after his role in their 15-point AFL win over Gold Coast.
Mark Robinson and Nathan Buckley.

Buckley slams AFL journo over Fasolo interview

Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley has lashed out at an AFL journalist for attempting to interview Alex Fasolo after being told not to for medical reasons.
Mark Robinson and Alex Fasolo

Collingwood slam journo over insensitive tweet

News Corp's Mark Robinson has been lashed by Collingwood and supporters after an "ignorant" tweet about player Alex Fasolo
Alex Fasolo.

Fasolo takes time out for depression

Collingwood forward Alex Fasolo has taken time out of the game to battle depression, a mental health illness he has been struggling with this season.

AFL warns Fasolo, but no penalty

Despite being caught urinating into a cup during a pre-season game, the AFL has let off Collingwood's Alex Fasolo with a warning.

Magpie probed by AFL for urinating

Collingwood forward Alex Fasolo is under AFL investigation for allegedly urinating into a cup during last Friday night's pre-season game.


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A ballet of new watch complications: exceptional mechanical at Baselworld 2013

Out-of-the-box approach to time @ BASELWORLD 2013 – The World Watch and Jewellery Show

Switzerland’s Basel
is once again calling the watch lovers from around the world for a new editon of prestigious Baselworld (April 25 to May 2, 2013) – the biggest and one of the most important events in the watch and jewerly industry sector. At a glance, BaselworldThe World Watch and Jewellery Show means 104,000 visitors from 100 countries, 1,815 exhibitors from 45 countries, 3,300 journalists from 70 countries, and 160,000 m2 exhibition area (in 2012).

has completed a new hall complex. With an overall investment of CHF 430 million, the project is the biggest investment ever to have been made in Switzerland’s exhibition industry. The hall complex which is 220 metres long, 90 metres wide and 32 metres high provides a total of 38,000 square metres of exhibition space on the ground floor and the two upper storeys that span the Exhibition Square. Exhibition Centre Basel is now able to offer 141,000 square metres of show ground, with no less than 74,000 square metres of this being provided by Hall 1 that runs along Riehenring.

Alongside renowned watch and jewellery manufacturers, such as Omega, Chopard, Rolex or Patek Philippe, a number of the
world’s most well-known fashion brands will also be exhibiting in Basel and giving visitors an initial peek at their new watch and jewellery lines. For several years now, a close bond has existed between BASELWORLD, the most important watch and jewellery show globally, and the leading fashion houses with their designers. This liaison has its roots in the early 1970s when Gucci was one of the first fashion houses to introduce watches of its own.

Here are some of the new exceptional mechanical masterpieces presented at BASELWORLD 2013.

HARRY WINSTON at Baselworld 2013 | HARRY WINSTON Histoire de Tourbillon 4 watch

Histoire de Tourbillon 4‘s heart is a tourbillon inside three concentric cages, each rotating at a different speed and at a different angle. Histoire de Tourbillon 4 exclusive timepiece (20-piece limited series) has two, fast rotating barrels to deliver superior energy with lower friction. The variable inertia balance is controlled by 18k gold timing screws in the rim. Bold, contemporary colours and an “open grid” dial configuration accentuate the movement, as do the domed sapphire crystals which are arranged on multiple levels.

BREGUET at Baselworld 2013| Breguet Type XXII 3880 10 Hz Or Rose watch

The iconic Breguet Type XXII this year extends to a new iteration in rose gold, with a movement vibrating at an increased frequency of 10 Hz (72,000 vibrations/hour) thanks to a silicon escapement with flat balance spring. This high frequency delivers outstanding precision and regulating performance for a chronograph whose seconds hand sweeps the dial in 30 seconds. The red and white markers on the minute scale, on the inner bezel ring, show whether the hand is on its first or second rotation. In addition, this exceptional timepiece incorporates a flyback function, a second time zone with 24-hour indicator, date, and small seconds making one complete revolution in half a minute.

FRANC VILA at Baselworld 2013| FVi NÂ°8 Tourbillon Intrepido SuperLigero Skeleton watch

SuperLigero approach means the association of ultra-thin materials and proven sturdiness. “Lightnium”Â, an aluminium and lithium alloy used in aeronautical engineering was picked up by the watchmaking both in development movements and in the aesthetic expression of these creations. The FV No.8i 8-piece limited edition features the famous bezel with its combined elliptical and circular shape that has become a brand signature. It is equipped with a hand-wound tourbillon movement with Lightnium bridges, silicon escape-wheel and lever, as well as an oscillating weight adorned with CÃ´tes de Geneve.

GIRARD-PERREGAUX at Baselworld 2013| GIRARD-PERREGAUX Tourbillon Bi-Axial Titane DLC watch

In 2013, the Bi-Axial Tourbillon watch has a 8-piece limited edition with black DLC titanium case. This timepiece is equipped with two concentric cages enabling the regulating organ to perform multidimensional rotations. An inner carriage bearing the balance, the balance-spring and the escapement, spins once around its axis every 45 seconds; while an outer carriage makes a full turn in one minute and fifteen seconds, thus enabling a rotation around a second axis.
The second emblematic signature feature is the perfectly aligned architecture of the bridges, reflecting the creations of Constant Girard and his successive research that gave rise to the “Tourbillon with Three Gold Bridges”. 8-piece limited edition.

BADOLLET at Baselworld 2013 | BADOLLET Ivresse watch

The refined aesthetic of latest manufacture timepiece by Badollet, the work of Eric Giroud, is equalled only by the mechanical complexity that brings this timepiece to life. The flying tourbillon movement, exclusively designed and developed for Badollet, is deliberately hidden from view, revealed only through the transparent case back whose sapphire crystal takes the shape of the infinity symbol, a tribute to time as the universal driving force.

HUBLOT at Baselworld 2013| HUBLOT Classic Fusion Tourbillon Squelette Black Ceramic luxury watch

Classic Fusion Tourbillon Squelette Black Ceramic’s openworked movement entirely designed, developed and produced by the Hublot watchmakers is resolutely graphic. The polished and satin-brushed black ceramic case of this 99-piece limited edition radiates a sophisticated, contemporary appeal. And the most beautiful of all horological complications – the tourbillon – is revealed in all its splendour at 6 o’clock. In a nod to brand history, the hands echo the design of the very first Hublot watches, providing a fine demonstration of fusion between past and present.

MAURICE LACROIX at Baselworld 2013| MAURICE LACROIX Masterpiece Seconde Mystérieuse watch

Masterpiece Seconde Mystérieuse watch (125-piece limited collection) is, first of all, mysterious. It brings a new face to time measurement. Driven by a new proprietary movement, the ML215, – the twelfth to be entirely developed by the brand – it indicates seconds on a linear display combining vertical and horizontal scales, read per 15 seconds. The mystery comes from a blued steel hand that rotates on its axis, creating the illusion of levitation. Hours and minutes are shown at 2 o’clock; the rest of the dial is cut away to reveal rhodium- or ruthenium-plated bridges whose geometric form lends an infinitely contemporary feel.

HYT at Baselworld 2013| HYT H1 Pink Gold – Black DLC watch

Revolutionary and inspired, HYT takes an out-of-the-box approach to time. A hybrid wristwatch combining horological mechanics with fluid mechanics seems like an impossible dream, and yet… Two reservoirs take position at 6 o’clock. As one compresses, the other expands, pushing the liquid through the capillary. As the hours go by, the fluorescent liquid advances. The meniscus, in the shape of a half moon, marks the breaking point with the other fluid in the tube, indicating the time. At 18:00, in a retrograde movement, the fluorescent liquid reverts back to its original position. Overlapping the minute regulator in the centre is the small seconds counter that looks for all the world like a waterwheel.

DE BETHUNE at Baselworld 2013| DE BETHUNE DB16 Régulateur Tourbillon

The architecture of the DB2509 calibre is built around a silicon and titanium tourbillon beating at 36,000 vib/h, one of the fastest and lightest on the market. This movement also drives a power indicator, seconds, as well as a retrograde display of the age of the moon. Hidden on the back of the watch, this masterpiece will surprise connoisseurs looking for subtle details. The classically understated dial thus provides readings of the perpetual calendar and spherical moon-phase indications, sublimated by the Manufacture’s signature silver-toned guilloché motif. The steady, rhythmical beat of the jumping seconds embodies the very essence of the horological emotions procured by this stunning creation.

MANJAZ at Baselworld 2013 | MANJAZ Yin and Yang Tourbillon watch

MANJAZ combines the entire Swiss expertise and tradition with Chinese philosophy. This concept has been forged under the guidance of watchmaker Cédric Grandperret. The prime purpose is to highlight the supreme horological complication, the tourbillon.

Positioned at 6 o’clock, it enhances the symmetry of the dial and its geometrical play: vertical Côtes de Genève, Roman numerals and a guilloché disc engraved with the brand logo. Moreover, Manjaz is also keenly aware that a modern touch is very important, and the dial is finely crafted, hollowed and sublimated. The 41 mm pink gold case provides a perfect setting in which to magnify this cosmopolitan harmony. The Yin – powered by the MAZ-001 calibre – and the Yang – by the MAZ 022 calibre – face off in a splendid mechanical duel. It will now be up to enthusiasts to choose between these two protagonists.

ANTOINE MARTIN at Baselworld Watch Fair 2013 | ANTOINE MARTIN Slow Runner watch

“Slow Runner” or “decelerating time” was an original idea from the Manufacture Antoine Martin who drastically reduced the frequency to 7,200 semi-oscillations (vibrations) per hour, meaning 1 Hz, while preserving the qualities of a high -precision watch. On the practical side, the escapement and balance-spring are made of silicon. One essential point is that the giant 24 mm-diameter balance generates so much kinetic energy that it cannot be disturbed. Moreover, the balance features two gold adjustment screws, the balance rim is in grade 3 titanium, and the ultra-precise balance- spring production process enabled watchmakers to optimise its inner point of attachment and its curve. All these technical details serve just one mission: that of slowing time down in order to sublimate it.

ARMIN STROM at Baselworld 2013| ARMIN STROM Tourbillon Water watch

The complication of the ATC11 calibre located at 9 o’clock is distinguished by its 18-carat white gold lever, as well as by a construction placing the balance and the seconds pinion along the same axis. The hand-wound calibre has a 10- day power reserve. It is driven by two barrels of which the winding mechanism is visible through the dial: an opening onto the mechanism bearing the unmistakable Armin Strom signature.