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Rabu, 08 Februari 2012
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NES Emulator - HalfNES v0.043 - ReleasedPublished by Dweezledap on 2011/12/28 (501 reads) What's New: Fixed more file loading bugs Fixed crash due to a race condition that only occurred on Linux Improved sprite rendering code, sprite 0 hit is more accurate, battletoads snake pit level shouldn't shake any more. | |||
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Killed a solid 12 hour today, first event too. Usually get the shop to myself on those days, where I nurture a near-obsessive method of organizing to keep chef happy. 200+ wedding. Back of the groom's house! Had to bring our own lighting which kept popping breakers and it was a plated event which did set the chef's mood more or less restrained in terms of savage outbursts ambiguously thrown as the evening grew; towards the owner of course, a CIA grad who is generally calm during the fire. Owner is still quite one tired bastard though.
Spent hours bouncing between random prep and slamming dishes in hose water (which kept me sharp until the green all girl waitstaff got bored - one griped about not wanting to stand around and by then it was time to shut it down) Wound up wearing an apron like a hijab to keep the mosquitoes off my neck during the dish times. First time shucking oysters today - there is a strange element I find when prying those interesting bivalves apart. Always had an odd thing about most shellfish too. I generally don't care for lobster. They eat shit. Then again so do I in a way. Steamers aren't fun for me though - that texture again! Never had an oyster but I know how to clean them with the quickness. And I respect the edges - quick, careless movements'll sure learn ya...
Great food overall though - tonight included deep fried mini reubens, pulled pork sliders, duck spring rolls (the uncooked translucent "southeast Asian" kind). Destroyed it unloading the van too at the end - back at the shop - even though when I opened the back door *WHACK!* right in the shin comes out 5 oval plastic platters trying to save em as they slide.
Tomorrow I clean the grease trap. Day before I undid the pipe that leads into the grease trap cause the 1/2" opening (from a 3" pipe) got jammed; middle and right sink barely was draining, plunger to little avail. I maintained well enough composure when I gagged as the chef was standing over me laughing and apologizing when the aroma of rotten food and grease wafted into my eager face. Sometimes when I think about making that gagging noise I want to make it louder to make myself laugh at how the sound well, sounds!
Spent hours bouncing between random prep and slamming dishes in hose water (which kept me sharp until the green all girl waitstaff got bored - one griped about not wanting to stand around and by then it was time to shut it down) Wound up wearing an apron like a hijab to keep the mosquitoes off my neck during the dish times. First time shucking oysters today - there is a strange element I find when prying those interesting bivalves apart. Always had an odd thing about most shellfish too. I generally don't care for lobster. They eat shit. Then again so do I in a way. Steamers aren't fun for me though - that texture again! Never had an oyster but I know how to clean them with the quickness. And I respect the edges - quick, careless movements'll sure learn ya...
Great food overall though - tonight included deep fried mini reubens, pulled pork sliders, duck spring rolls (the uncooked translucent "southeast Asian" kind). Destroyed it unloading the van too at the end - back at the shop - even though when I opened the back door *WHACK!* right in the shin comes out 5 oval plastic platters trying to save em as they slide.
Tomorrow I clean the grease trap. Day before I undid the pipe that leads into the grease trap cause the 1/2" opening (from a 3" pipe) got jammed; middle and right sink barely was draining, plunger to little avail. I maintained well enough composure when I gagged as the chef was standing over me laughing and apologizing when the aroma of rotten food and grease wafted into my eager face. Sometimes when I think about making that gagging noise I want to make it louder to make myself laugh at how the sound well, sounds!
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Sketch Crawl 23 Berlin
July 12, 2009Hi folks!
I didn't do too much sketching on the town today, but I did manage five mini drawings in my mini PaperBlanks book. I'm really enjoying the format (9 x 6.5 cm) i.e. it fits in my pocket and I'm also taking advantage of pen and its non-smudginess...
I started at home, with the terrarium I'm building and the chaos of tools and plants piled on top of it.
I then started looking for the cat, being that he's usually contorting himself into interesting poses... But he unfortunately didn't stay put long enough to get a decent sketch in. Ah well, gesture drawing is nice to loosen up.
Misjudged scale or clever cropping? You decide. My flatmates found an interesting old rice starch box with a rusty lock and branded logo.
While waiting for a bus, I sketched this clematis. I didn't have long to wait, thus it's pretty unfinished.
On my way home I paused to draw an old gas lamp post - they're still being used here. Many people walked past me, a few back again from their various errands. It's nice to just stop and watch life flow past for awhile. As documenter of things, one adapts another pace, not unlike that of nature. Make like a tree!
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Agenda for the evening
6:30 - Cocktail Hour
Ted Hu – Vocal
7:00 – Welcome Guest
“Village In The City”
7:30 - Dinner
7:45 – Guest Speaker
8:00 – Sri Lankan Drums
8:15 – Ballroom Show Case
8:30 – Sri Lankan Dance
8:50 - Bids, raffles
9:00 – Ballroom Lessons
10:00 – Dancing
Village In The City
11:30 - END
Menu
Cocktail Hour
Red and White Wine
Cocktail Mixers
Cheese & Crackers
Dinner
Fried Rice – Vegetable
Fried Rice – Shrimp
String Hoppers
Pasta and Sauce
Beef Curry
Pork Stew
Chicken Dish
Coconut Sambal
Egg Plant Salad
Sautéed Potato
Kella Mallum
Salad
Fruit Salad
Tea & Coffee
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Afghanistan er verdens farligste land for kvinder skarpt forfulgt af DR Congo, konkluderer en rapport fra Thomson-Reuters Foundation.
Violence, dismal healthcare and brutal poverty make Afghanistan the world's most dangerous country for women, with DR Congo a close second due to horrific levels of rape, a Thomson Reuters Foundation expert poll said on Wednesday.
Pakistan, India and Somalia ranked third, fourth and fifth, respectively, in the global survey of perceptions of threats ranging from domestic abuse and economic discrimination to female foeticide, genital mutilation and acid attacks.
"Ongoing conflict, NATO airstrikes and cultural practices combined make Afghanistan a very dangerous place for women," said Antonella Notari, head of Women Change Makers, a group that supports women social entrepreneurs around the world.
"In addition, women who do attempt to speak out or take on public roles that challenge ingrained gender stereotypes of what's acceptable for women to do or not, such as working as policewomen or news broadcasters, are often intimidated or killed."
The poll by TrustLaw, a legal news service run by Thomson Reuters Foundation, marked the launch of its new TrustLaw Women section, a global hub of news and information on women's legal rights.
TrustLaw asked 213 gender experts from five continents to rank countries by overall perceptions of danger as well as by six risks. The risks were health threats, sexual violence, non-sexual violence, cultural or religious factors, lack of access to resources and trafficking.
Some experts said the poll showed that subtle dangers such as discrimination that don't grab headlines are sometimes just as significant risks for women as bombs, bullets, stonings and systematic rape in conflict zones.
"I think you have to look at all the dangers to women, all the risks women and girls face," said Elisabeth Roesch, who works on gender-based violence for the International Rescue Committee in Washington.
"If a woman can't access healthcare because her healthcare isn't prioritised, that can be a very dangerous situation as well."
LITANY OF PERILS
Afghanistan emerged as the most dangerous country for women overall and worst in three of the six risk categories: health, non-sexual violence and lack of access to economic resources.
Respondents cited sky-high maternal mortality rates, limited access to doctors and a near total lack of economic rights. Afghan women have a one in 11 chance of dying in childbirth, according to UNICEF.
DR Congo (former Zaire), still reeling from a 1998-2003 war and accompanying humanitarian disaster that killed 5,4 million people, came second mainly due to staggering levels of sexual violence in the lawless east.
More than 400.000 women are raped in the country each year, according to a recent study by U.S. researchers. The United Nations has called Congo the rape capital of the world.
"Statistics from DR Congo are very revealing on this: ongoing war, use of rape as a weapon, recruitment of females as soldiers who are also used as sex slaves," said Clementina Cantoni, a Pakistan-based aid worker with ECHO, the European Commission's humanitarian aid department.
"The fact that the government is corrupt and that female rights are very low on the agenda means that there is little or no recourse to justice."
Rights activists say militia groups and soldiers target all ages, including girls as young as three and elderly women. They are gang-raped, raped with bayonets and have guns shot into their vaginas.
Pakistan ranked third largely on the basis of cultural, tribal and religious practices harmful to women. These include acid attacks, child and forced marriage and punishment or retribution by stoning or other physical abuse.
"Pakistan has some of the highest rates of dowry murder, so-called honour killings and early marriage," said Divya Bajpai, reproductive health advisor at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
Some 1.000 women and girls die in honour killings annually, according to Pakistan's Human Rights Commission.
TRAFFICKING
India ranked fourth primarily due to female foeticide, infanticide and human trafficking.
In 2009, India's then-Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta estimated that 100 million people, mostly women and girls, were involved in trafficking in India that year.
"The practice is common but lucrative so it goes untouched by government and police," said Cristi Hegranes, founder of the Global Press institute, which trains women in developing countries to be journalists.
India's Central Bureau of Investigation estimated that in 2009 about 90 percent of trafficking took place within the country and that there were some 3 million prostitutes, of which about 40 percent were children.
In addition to sex slavery, other forms of trafficking include forced labour and forced marriage, according to a U.S. State Department report on trafficking in 2010. The report also found slow progress in criminal prosecutions of traffickers.
Up to 50 million girls are thought to be "missing" over the past century due to female infanticide and foeticide, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) says.
Some experts said the world's largest democracy was relatively forthcoming about describing its problems, possibly casting it in a darker light than if other countries were equally transparent about trafficking.
Somalia ranked fifth due to a catalogue of dangers including high maternal mortality, rape and female genital mutilation, along with limited access to education, healthcare and economic
resources.
"I'm completely surprised because I thought Somalia would be first on the list, not fifth," Somali women's minister Maryan Qasim told TrustLaw.
"The most dangerous thing a woman in Somalia can do is to become pregnant. When a woman becomes pregnant her life is 50-50 because there is no antenatal care at all. There are no hospitals, no healthcare, no nothing.
"Add to that the rape cases that happen on a daily basis, the female genital mutilation that is being done to every single girl in Somalia. Add to that the famine and the drought. Add to that the fighting (which means) you can die any minute, any day."
Poll respondents included aid professionals, academics, health workers, policymakers, journalists and development specialists.
Violence, dismal healthcare and brutal poverty make Afghanistan the world's most dangerous country for women, with DR Congo a close second due to horrific levels of rape, a Thomson Reuters Foundation expert poll said on Wednesday.
Pakistan, India and Somalia ranked third, fourth and fifth, respectively, in the global survey of perceptions of threats ranging from domestic abuse and economic discrimination to female foeticide, genital mutilation and acid attacks.
"Ongoing conflict, NATO airstrikes and cultural practices combined make Afghanistan a very dangerous place for women," said Antonella Notari, head of Women Change Makers, a group that supports women social entrepreneurs around the world.
The poll by TrustLaw, a legal news service run by Thomson Reuters Foundation, marked the launch of its new TrustLaw Women section, a global hub of news and information on women's legal rights.
TrustLaw asked 213 gender experts from five continents to rank countries by overall perceptions of danger as well as by six risks. The risks were health threats, sexual violence, non-sexual violence, cultural or religious factors, lack of access to resources and trafficking.
Some experts said the poll showed that subtle dangers such as discrimination that don't grab headlines are sometimes just as significant risks for women as bombs, bullets, stonings and systematic rape in conflict zones.
"I think you have to look at all the dangers to women, all the risks women and girls face," said Elisabeth Roesch, who works on gender-based violence for the International Rescue Committee in Washington.
"If a woman can't access healthcare because her healthcare isn't prioritised, that can be a very dangerous situation as well."
LITANY OF PERILS
Afghanistan emerged as the most dangerous country for women overall and worst in three of the six risk categories: health, non-sexual violence and lack of access to economic resources.
Respondents cited sky-high maternal mortality rates, limited access to doctors and a near total lack of economic rights. Afghan women have a one in 11 chance of dying in childbirth, according to UNICEF.
DR Congo (former Zaire), still reeling from a 1998-2003 war and accompanying humanitarian disaster that killed 5,4 million people, came second mainly due to staggering levels of sexual violence in the lawless east.
More than 400.000 women are raped in the country each year, according to a recent study by U.S. researchers. The United Nations has called Congo the rape capital of the world.
"Statistics from DR Congo are very revealing on this: ongoing war, use of rape as a weapon, recruitment of females as soldiers who are also used as sex slaves," said Clementina Cantoni, a Pakistan-based aid worker with ECHO, the European Commission's humanitarian aid department.
"The fact that the government is corrupt and that female rights are very low on the agenda means that there is little or no recourse to justice."
Rights activists say militia groups and soldiers target all ages, including girls as young as three and elderly women. They are gang-raped, raped with bayonets and have guns shot into their vaginas.
Pakistan ranked third largely on the basis of cultural, tribal and religious practices harmful to women. These include acid attacks, child and forced marriage and punishment or retribution by stoning or other physical abuse.
"Pakistan has some of the highest rates of dowry murder, so-called honour killings and early marriage," said Divya Bajpai, reproductive health advisor at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
Some 1.000 women and girls die in honour killings annually, according to Pakistan's Human Rights Commission.
TRAFFICKING
India ranked fourth primarily due to female foeticide, infanticide and human trafficking.
In 2009, India's then-Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta estimated that 100 million people, mostly women and girls, were involved in trafficking in India that year.
"The practice is common but lucrative so it goes untouched by government and police," said Cristi Hegranes, founder of the Global Press institute, which trains women in developing countries to be journalists.
India's Central Bureau of Investigation estimated that in 2009 about 90 percent of trafficking took place within the country and that there were some 3 million prostitutes, of which about 40 percent were children.
In addition to sex slavery, other forms of trafficking include forced labour and forced marriage, according to a U.S. State Department report on trafficking in 2010. The report also found slow progress in criminal prosecutions of traffickers.
Up to 50 million girls are thought to be "missing" over the past century due to female infanticide and foeticide, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) says.
Some experts said the world's largest democracy was relatively forthcoming about describing its problems, possibly casting it in a darker light than if other countries were equally transparent about trafficking.
Somalia ranked fifth due to a catalogue of dangers including high maternal mortality, rape and female genital mutilation, along with limited access to education, healthcare and economic
resources.
"I'm completely surprised because I thought Somalia would be first on the list, not fifth," Somali women's minister Maryan Qasim told TrustLaw.
"The most dangerous thing a woman in Somalia can do is to become pregnant. When a woman becomes pregnant her life is 50-50 because there is no antenatal care at all. There are no hospitals, no healthcare, no nothing.
"Add to that the rape cases that happen on a daily basis, the female genital mutilation that is being done to every single girl in Somalia. Add to that the famine and the drought. Add to that the fighting (which means) you can die any minute, any day."
Poll respondents included aid professionals, academics, health workers, policymakers, journalists and development specialists.
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I've discovered the words "was", "would", and "could" muck up a story
I've discovered that I have run into a pattern of using the words was, would, and could when writing my novel.He was walking to the store.
It would be better if he did it himself.
If only I could have seen it coming.
I've read so many books where sentences like those above are common place.
Since I am the kind of writer who rewrites everything one hundred times, I've discovered how much time I've lost by using these same types of verbs. They are sedentary verbs. That means they just sort of sit there but they don't do anythng exciting.
He walked to the store.: I can see that.
Have him do it himself. : Dynamic,
Why didn't I see it coming? : Makes you want to cry.
I love rewriting. It's actually my favorite part of writing.
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