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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is a Japanese/British film about a POW camp during World War II directed by the controversial Japanese film maker Nagisa Oshima. I have a few complaints, but overall it's a well-made, engrossing movie exploring some fairly large questions about culture and human nature.
The movie centers around four characters: two prisoners and two jailers. The titular Mr. Lawrence is the sole English character who speaks both languages, and he has a fairly good grasp of Japanese culture. Also held prisoner is a South African soldier, Jack Celliers, notably played by David Bowie, who the camp commandant, Captain Yonoi, becomes obsessed with. Also key is Sergeant Hara, a man who oscillates between cruelty and compassion.
The movie's plot is somewhat murky, as the events are intricately linked to the complex motives of its characters. I'm not going to try to offer a complete synopsis - I don't think it would begin to make sense - but I'll focus instead…
Peace on Earth (1939) and Goodwill to Men (1955)
"Peace on Earth" is an animated short from 1939. It was made by Hugh Harman, one of the founders of the Warner Bros. animation studios. "Goodwill to Men" is a remake made by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera fourteen years later. The two pieces are extremely similar, so I'll talk about them together.
As works of animation, these are beyond topnotch. "Peace on Earth," in particular, is absolutely breathtaking. If this had been made a half-century later, it would still have been cutting edge. The remake is also great. You can drop every association you have with Hanna-Barbera: this is beautiful work. Both versions were clearly labors of love, stories the animators and directors clearly believed needed to be told.
If you've never seen these, the fact they exist is utterly shocking. In fact, if you've never seen either of these - and especially if you've never heard of them - you owe it to yourself to stop reading and watch the original. It…
Joyeux Noël (2005)
This was an enjoyable, though not amazing, entry into the genre of 'Christmas war movie'. Joyeux Noël is a French movie based loosely on the Christmas Truce of 1914. if you were asleep in history class and a dozen other pop-culture references, the Christmas Truce refers to a series of informal cease-fires along the front lines of World War I.
We think this movie did a really good job of conveying aspects of that event, mostly around the way it probably felt. The surreality of the situation was compelling, and the tension was well done around what a person is told to feel toward people of another country, versus how they react when face-to-face. Also I liked the fact that different minor characters reacted completely differently.
The movie followed a half-dozen or so characters from three units. I did really like how multilingual the movie was. No characters speak an unnatural language for the courtesy of the audience.
So we have two brothers and a preacher from Scotland, a lieutenant…
This was highly ranked on a list over at Rotten Tomatoes, so I decided to check it out. It's a Christmas war movie, which seems to be a fairly sparse sub-genre, especially when compared to the almost absurdly large Christmas action movie genre. It's a stark and fascinating film, at times sad, beautiful, and funny. It's got some issues which hold it back from being a bona fide classic, but it's still worth watching.
The movie follows a unit of "whiz kid" soldiers in World War II who are sent to gather intelligence. When the movie opens, half of their unit is already dead and most of the rest are sick of combat. Every synopsis I've seen focuses on the movie's second act, when they have a series of bizarre encounters with a German squad culminating in a Christmas celebration. There's some good film making on display here. These scenes are tense, funny, and engaging.
Gradually, we learn the Germans want to surrender, but there are some complications.…
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion: The Boy Who Found Christmas (1955)
What. The. Hell. Is. This. Shit.
I mean, besides awful. It's clearly awful. This show stars Buster Crabbe, a guy who would definitely take a different name if he were working in Hollywood today. And his son. And a comic character actor playing himself, sort of, which makes no sense, but nothing here makes sense. But let's get back to the fact that there is no excuse for how terrible the kid is.
The kid is truly terrible; both at acting and in the story. The 3 minutes of plot in this 30 minute slog tell the story of how this brat, disappointed that the train with his christmas presents is stuck in a sandstorm, runs off to try to bring the packages himself. Alone. Through the desert.
The whole base turns out to look for the kid, and we get some really boring footage of the kid, I guess scared by being alone? I don't know. I didn't feel bad for him and I'm sorry he didn't die alone in the desert for being a thoughtless moron. But instead, the adults catch up with him and forgive him …

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Eighteen beautiful ballads, as recorded by Eva Cassidy, arranged for piano, voice and guitar. Eva was never a songwriter, but rather chose to sing songs that touched her deeply. Her arrangements of popular American, English and traditional music have become classic interpretations of the 21st Century. Includes photographs and an introduction by Hugh Cassidy, Eva's Father.


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A Usina Hidrelétrica Euclides da Cunha, localizada no Rio Pardo no município de São José do Rio Pardo (SP), é um empreendimento de geração de energia pertencente à empresa AES Tietê que entrou em operação em 24 de novembro de 1960.

Características

O barramento desta usina é feito de terra, com comprimento de 312 m. O reservatório gerado pelo barramento apresenta uma área de 1 km² e volume de 18,45 x 106 m³. As turbinas instaladas são do tipo Francis de eixo vertical, com queda bruta de 92 metros. A potência total instalada é de 108,8 MW.

É considerada uma usina hidrelétrica a fio d'água.

História
A Usina foi encomendada pela Companhia Hidrelétrica do Rio Pardo (CHERP) em 1954, sendo suas obras iniciadas no ano seguinte pelo DAEE e pela empresa Noreno Brasil S.A. Teria capacidade de geração de 139 MW e deveria ser entregue em outubro de 1960. Por conta de alguns atrasos a usina seria inaugurada em 24 de novembro de 1960 a um custo de Cr$ 1,4 bilhão.

A primeira etapa da usina seria concluída em 21 de abril de 1961, com a geração de 49 MW, sendo que a segunda etapa seria concluída em 1963.

Em 20 de janeiro de 1977, ainda sob controle da Cesp (Companhia Energética de São Paulo), a ocorrência de uma tromba d'água no Rio Pardo e falhas operacionais fizeram o nível de água do reservatório subir até galgar a barragem, gerando o rompimento da estrutura por overtopping. A onda de cheia proveniente deste acidente levou também à ruptura em cascata de outra barragem localizada a jusante desta, a da Usina Hidrelétrica de Limoeiro (Armando de Salles Oliveira) além da destruição das usinas Rio do Peixe e Santa Alice da Companhia Paulista de Energia Elétrica. Este evento se configura até hoje como o maior acidente envolvendo Usinas Hidrelétricas no Brasil. O acidente paralisaria a usina por quase 2 anos.

A enchente danificou equipamentos elétricos que ficariam cobertos de lama, obrigando o governo paulista a gastar Cr$ 70 milhões em obras emergenciais para recuperá-los. Por conta da burocracia, as obras de reconstrução seriam contratadas apenas 15 meses depois. A empresa CBPO venceria a licitação em 30 de maio de 1978, confirmando noticia do jornal Folha de S.Paulo que já havia antecipado o resultado da licitação dois meses antes, gerando suspeitas de corrupção, que seriam investigadas pelo Tribunal de Contas do Estado
O custo de reconstrução das barragens de Limoeiro e Euclides da Cunha havia sido estipulado inicialmente em Cr$ 300 milhões. Após a licitação os custos saltaram para Cr$ 450 milhões. Os trabalhos de reconstrução das barragens de Limoeiro e Euclides da Cunha deveriam ser iniciados em junho e serem concluídos em novembro, para aproveitar o período de chuvas.

Após o acidente, a usina foi redimensionada e sua capacidade de geração diminuída para 108,8 MW, e a CESP adotaria um sistema de monitoramento meteorológico para diminuir os riscos de novas enchentes destruírem as barragens das hidrelétricas.

Em 1999, a usina passaria ao controle da AES Tietê.

Ligações externas
 Página da UHE Euclides da Cunha

Euclides Cunha
São José do Rio Pardo
Usinas hidrelétricas do Rio Pardo
Usinas hidrelétricas a fio d'água
Euclides da Cunha

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Something about Seashells
by Dr. Ray McAllister
At a soiree some years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting R. Tucker Abbott, recently deceased, who is known to most of you as the author of a series of beautifully illustrated books about seashells. After the meeting we repaired to his hotel where I picked his brain about sea shells for about 2 ½ hours, while all the ladies except Sue Fish talked woman talk. Sue and I queried him about everything we always wanted to know about mollusks, but didn't have anyone to ask. Let me regale you with a few of the tidbits we learned.
Have you ever heard that the Chinese manufacture valuable wentletrap shells out of rice flour, so skillfully that most people, even conchologists (shell specialists), cannot tell by looking at them that they are synthetic! Well Tucker says it ain't so. Just a good story that crops up every so often.
And how about the shells that coil clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise south of the Equator? Joseph Conrad (I believe) says so in one of his books, and it is widely believed. Again, it isn't so!
While Coriolis Force operates on all moving things, including seashells as they grow, the term in the Coriolis Equation for velocity is so small for growing shells, that natural forces and genetic determinants make them coil the way their genes say. There are some clockwise coiling shells and some that coil counterclockwise, but few that coil both ways and none that he knows of that are directed by the location north or south of the Equator.
Rarely a shell that should normally coil in one direction will be discovered coiling in the wrong direction. Such shells are extremely valuable to a collector, but it will do no good to take larval shells to Australia to get opposite coiling. It doesn't work.
Tucker also told us the name of the most valuable shell in the world, but I've forgotten it. I'd always thought it was the Glory of the Seas Cone shell (Conus gloriamaris), but it isn't, at least not any more. Years ago, only a very few of these shells were known and each was worth a small fortune. Then more and more showed up and the price dropped. Natives of the Indo-Pacific region, who fish for shells for the souvenir and collectors markets, found that they could catch the Glory of the Seas Cone by spreading a fine mesh net on the bottom with bait in the center. The snails crawl up on the net, get their foot caught in the mesh and are captured. By the way, foot is the proper term for the part of a snail that carries the shell along! That's why the scientific name pelecypod, for hatchet foot!
I asked him if our Atlantic cone shells were poisonous. I've caught Crown Cones in Florida and handled them very carefully. He said that all cone shells are poisonous; some much more than others. There are several in the Pacific that are so deadly that they can kill a strong man!! Fortunately our Atlantic cones are not so bad.
Several cases of stings by Crown Cones and other Atlantic cones have been described. They apparently feel like a bad bee sting. The stinger is one of the many possible modification of the snails foot. Some snails use a radula (file like part of the foot) to rasp holes in other snail shells, or in sea biscuits, so they can eat the insides. Others modify the radula into a harpoon like stinger. Ah, the wonders of my ocean!
Interestingly enough, long ago I spent some time on Johnson Island, in the north central Pacific. Our main recreations were diving, and watching the MATS planes that landed on our airstrip, to get a glimpse of a real live female stewardess. One day a boat pulled up to our dock as we were washing our dive gear, and a young man held up a cone shell about 6 inches long. Look at this beauty, he said. I looked and immediately knocked it from his hand and into the water. Good god, man, I said, don't you know that cone shells may be deadly? Read R. Tucker Abbott's books about shells sometime! He was livid, and said Tucker Abbott is my uncle. But he had not read the books and did not know the cones were poisonous. When I dove down and carefully retrieved the shell, it was dead and there was nobody home. He hadn't known it, though, and could have died for his ignorance as is reported for a football player from Hawaii, who lasted almost two hours after being stung by a beautiful cone.
How does a spiny oyster (Spondylus americanus) build its long curved spines? And for that matter, the same question might be asked for many other similarly ornamented shells. Well, Tucker says there are shell secreting cells in the mantle of the spiny oyster (which is really a kind of scallop). When the animal decides to enlarge its home, these cells deposit a layer of calcium carbonate around the edge of the shell and make it bigger. Periodically it sticks a finger of mantle and shell secreting cells up into the water for two or three inches and starts to make new shell around this fleshy protuberance. As it deposits carbonate, the fleshy part slowly withdraws into the shell leaving a long beautiful spine behind.
I was glad to know this because I've wondered about it ever since I found my first spiny oyster in about 120 feet of water off SE Florida. He also said there is only one species of Spondylus locally. When it grows on a reef, the spines are usually poorly developed and the shell is more massive. Perhaps reef critters bump the fleshy spikes and they withdraw without completing the spines. On the sand and rubble flats in deeper water, the spinys grow long beautiful spines that make them worth $25 or more to the collectors and tourists..
Very often one find the spiny oysters growing on a small fragment of shell or coral in the deep water. They commonly are coated with an encrusting sponge which is quite distinctive. I look for the sponges to find the spinys, but only take one or two a year, so as not to rape the reef. Tucker tells of the Venus Cone, which has long thin spines situated in such a way as to form a cage around the foot. As the cone wanders along the bottom, the shell is held high by the extended foot, but if attacked, lowers the shell quickly so that the cage protects the vulnerable soft foot. Id often wondered what purpose such extreme ornamentation served.
Tucker did not say this, but I suspect the long spines on the spiny oyster and the Venus Cone, for example, may deter another mollusk, the octopus, from eating them. We learned a great deal more from Tucker Abbott, but there is a limit to what you can absorb in one sitting, so Ill save more stories for another time, or, better yet, get one of the R. Tucker Abbott shell books and learn for yourselves.
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Becky Brill, of the city of Joplin, was kind enough to drop by and leave us an update on the status of the nominations that went before the Missouri Advisory Council on Historic Preservation on Friday. For those of you following the status of the Joplin and Wall Historic District and the South Main Street Historic District, Becky had some good news! Both districts were approved by the council and were recommended to be placed upon the Federal Register of Historic Places as commercial districts (which bring important tax benefits). That final decision will be made by the Federal government in Washington, D.C. Becky's comment noted that that decision will probably come in October. Let's hope for good news in the fall!
For those of you who missed our initial coverage of the nomination of the districts, here's the post with all the details.
Today's Joplin Globe features an article on the Missouri Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and its consideration of several areas in downtown Joplin for historic district status. The two areas that the city wants to join the Sunshine Lamp District include an area located between Joplin and Wall and 1st and 3rd streets and would be known as the Joplin and Wall Historic District, the other would be the South Main Street Historic District, an area on the west side of Main Street between 1st and 2nd Streets. If the Missouri Advisory Council on Historic Preservation signs off on these nominations, they would then be forwarded to the Federal Register of Historic Places. If placed on the register, buildings in the districts could qualify for Federal and state tax credits.
Here's a link to a draft of the Joplin and Wall Historic District nomination.
The draft provides a list of the properties, a brief description of each, as well some history. Such recognizable buildings are the Joplin Supply Company building, the Greyhound Bus Depot across from the library, and the old court house post office building.
Here's the link to the draft for the nomination of the South Main Historic District.
"The South Main Street Historic District (Photos 1‐8; Figs. 1‐4) is located in the City of Joplin, Jasper County, in southwestern Missouri. This one‐block long linear district encompasses less than one acre and occupies all of the west side of South Main Street between West First and West Second Streets and consists entirely of commercial architecture dating from the turn of the twentieth century through c. 1910. The district is located at the northern periphery of the central business district and contains ten buildings of one and two stories in height, all of load‐bearing masonry construction. Two buildings are non‐contributing elements within the context of the district as a whole and the remaining eight are contributing.
The Miles Block as it appeared around 1902.
The district primarily concerns the strip of beautiful buildings on the west side of Main Street from 2nd street up that include the striking Miles Block.
For those of you interested in learning more about the architecture used in the construction of these buildings, as well as for some brief histories, we encourage you to read the drafts in greater detail. The Council will meet this Friday to discuss the nominations.
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LeRoy Fleenor, originally a journeyman printer, started Fleenor Paper Co. in 1962 after witnessing the large volume of paper that was wasted in the printing industry. After creating a machine to convert waste paper into packing material, LeRoy sold the product to his first customer, Macy's Movers, out of the back of his truck.
LeRoy left the company in 1984, and Fleenor Paper Co. was ultimately purchased by his daughter, Rebecca, her sister-in-law, Janine Rochex, and Rochex's brother, John. It is now 74 percent women-owned.
The company is on target for $20 million in revenue in 2005, thanks to the sale of millions of disposable "paper blankets" to movers like Bekins and Allied Van Lines each year, along with packing material, paper tablecloths for restaurants and even shredded Easter basket paper.
Rebecca Fleenor, who started 20 years ago as the company receptionist, moved up the ranks through inventory control, accounting, paper purchasing, and operations. Along the way, she said, she fell in love with the business. She was chief operating officer before being named chief executive officer in 1996.
But, she'd like to point out, her success was not just because of family legacy.
Under her leadership, Fleenor Paper Co. just expanded its manufacturing facility from a smaller building in Oakland to a 130,000 -square-foot building in Stockton, which also houses a number of new machines. The company recently acquired its first office space in Alameda, and has also expanded its nationwide distribution capabilities to include 15,000-square-foot hubs in Hawaii, Alaska and Seattle.
Fleenor brought a woman's touch to the leadership of the company with her ability to recognize and reward talent in places where it previously would have gone unnoticed — and with her willingness to make promotions based more on hard work and less on academic degrees.
Ramon Cazares didn't speak English when he began working in the Fleenor manufacturing plant. It was his work ethic and loyalty that caught Fleenor's eye.
Soon, he was promoted to forklift driver. He moved up to the position of foreman, and then production manager. Currently, he is an operations manager, overseeing a Fleenor plant.
Regardless of the success stories within, the challenge remains in maintaining a steady stream of supply: bulk paper that has been damaged or print runs that have to be scrapped because of mistakes. Printers loathe to waste paper — the lifeblood of Fleenor's business — and take pains to avoid such mistakes.
The solution seems to be Fleenor's philosophy about ethics and business relationships, which she said has kept the company going through the inevitable lean times.
One striking example is Fleenor's decision to tell a paper supplier that she was paying a competitor more.
A difficult decision to be sure, but the reward was a loyal supplier who became even more loyal. And in a business where you have to "wine and dine" your suppliers, that is no small feat.


One of the key aspects of the teaser video is the highlighted 'Pro' text in the phrase 'Be Proactive', which indicates that the company will also launch the Realme 3 Pro at the event. Both the devices are successors to the Realme 2 and the Realme 2 Pro respectively, which were released last year in India and were warmly welcomed by the Indian consumers. Realme CEO took a jab at the recently released Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 and 7 Pro in another tweet.
3 Days To Go ?
Keeping the game going, Realme posted a second teaser video on February 1, reminding its fans regarding the launch date of the devices. Moreover, the second teaser video shows off the dual rear camera setup of the device and the number '3' being formed out of water, hinting at the fact that the Realme 3 and/or Realme 3 Pro might be water resistant.
Regarding the features, the Realme 3 Pro will sport a waterdrop notch display. The smartphones will be kitted with the MediaTek Helio P70 chipset. Leaks suggest that it will sport a rear mounted fingerprint sensor on top of a diamond-cut back panel design. The new Realme smartphones may run ColorOS 6, which is a custom skin based on the latest Android 9 Pie.
As far as pricing is concerned, the Realme 3 and Realme 3 Pro are expected to be priced in the sub-20k segment. The correct price and specifications of both the smartphones will be publicised when the company officially launches them. The devices are set to launch on the 4th of March in an event which will be held in New Delhi, India.


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Home » Taste of Different Foods » What Does Salsa Verde Taste Like?
In this article, we'll answer your burning questions about salsa verde. You'll find out what it tastes like, how it's different from red salsa and how to make it in your very own kitchen.
Can I Use Salsa Instead of Salsa Verde?
Does Salsa Verde Freeze Well?
There are big differences between all the different kinds of salsas. Fruit salsa is sweet, red tomato salsa is slightly sweet, savory and zesty, and salsa verde (also called green salsa) is usually tart.
The reason for this is that salsa verde is frequently made with green tomatoes or tomatillos, which are super sour Mexican tomatoes in papery husks.
Other ingredients salsa verde is prepared with include cilantro, garlic, lime, chili pepper and onion. Sometimes a bit of sugar is thrown in to soften the sour taste. The result is a pungent condiment that pops in color and flavor.
The texture of salsa verde will depend on what it's made with as well as whether it's pureed or not. Pureed salsas are thinner but smoother, often with a soup consistency.
Salsa verde may also be made chunky-style with bits of intact ingredients, but is version is usually at least partially blended. Tomatillo-based salsa verde has an almost gelatinous quality contributed by its featured nightshade fruits.
You may expect salsa verde to be the milder sauce between the red and green options, but much of the time, it's as spicy or even spicier.
If you go to an authentic Mexican restaurant, you may find the salsa verde to be on the fiery side. Your best bet is to ask before you try it.
You can use any kind of salsa you'd like. Feel free to swap salsa verde for red salsa if that's what you prefer in your vegan tacos and burritos. It's just make what you're eating tangier.
If you're cooking a sauce that's based on salsa verde, switching to red salsa will make a huge difference. Enchiladas made with salsa verde sauce are completely different if made with red salsa, usually sweeter and less zesty.
Yes! Salsa verde can be frozen and thawed to a perfect consistency. The caveat is that you'll want to freeze the kind that's been pureed until completely smooth. Tomato chunks may get squishy.
When you freeze salsa verde, make sure that you're using an airtight container so that it doesn't get any of that freezer burn flavor.
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Audio Spillage's Drum Spillage 2 is the (surprise!) second version of their Audio Units-format synthetic percussion plug-in for Mac OS X. Where it differs from the Steven Slate Drums of this world is in its proud emphasis on synthesized drum sounds. If you're after a vintage Linn, DMX or other sample-based beat machine, this is not the droid you're looking for. But if, like me, you miss Waldorf's Attack and you like to roll your own sounds, Drum Spillage 2 is definitely of interest. Remember, too, that a fair number of classic drum machines, like the TR808 and CR78, used totally synthesized sounds. Perhaps a drum synthesizer, albeit running as software rather than an unruly clump of wires, gets closer to the spirit of these machines than static samples?
The first thing that made me smile about Drum Spillage 2 is its aesthetic. Like Apple with iOS 7, Audio Spillage have eschewed the dreaded skeuomorphic design that infects many plug-ins, and instead, present the user with a beautifully spartan and utilitarian graphical interface. There are 16 pads arranged in a four-by-four grid. Hit some keys from C1 upwards and waveforms pop up on the corresponding pad. It's a wonderfully simple way of connecting real-world controller with virtual response, and it makes programming Drum Spillage 2 a doddle as you never get lost: you always see what is playing where. Whilst this kind of interface has been done before, Audio Spillage's implementation is leaner, cleaner and therefore more immediate than others.
The second smile was courtesy of the sound. It's crisp, clean and punchy-sounding, very like something I'd spend hours patching up on my modular only to forget about and ruin the next day. I programmed some beats and was impressed by the contrast between the traditional synthesized kicks and snares and the crazier gibberings of some of the pads. Cycling through the factory banks reveals all manner of zinging, whooping and metal-bashing.
Drum Spillage 2 arrives with 15 of these factory banks, which are both eminently musical and experimental. 'Electro' is the most 'normal' of the kits, coming closest to 808 territory. However, even here, the programmers throw us some beautifully mournful percussive tones that sound like goats lost in Scottish fog. A lot of the kits seem to revel in wildly bizarre tones that leap out of the speakers, but they are always part of an ensemble which features usable bread-and-butter sounds too. Audio Spillage are to be commended on their balance here: too wacky and Drum Spillage 2 would be left languishing, never a go-to plug-in; too staid and it would be out-competed by aforementioned sample libraries.
The sounds themselves are produced by 12 different synthesis algorithms, and are wonderfully tweakable via each pad's individual instrument editing screen. Again, Drum Spillage 2's interface is paramount here: some of the algorithms are quite complex, but at no time did I feel confused or swamped by parameters. Which is handy because even the simplest synth, the cowbell, features four LFOs plus amp and filter envelopes, all of which can modulate each other and some of which are sync'able to host tempo. Each model has a common bottom pane of LFOs, amp and filter section. At the top are individual level and pan controls, along with Crush (sample rate) and Decimate (bit-reduction) controls with which you can turn even the gentlest of sounds into outrageous noise. Lovely.
The more complex algorithms such as membrane, noise and FM offer even more possibilities. This makes Drum Spillage 2 tremendously powerful as a soft synth. I would say that even if you're not in the market for a drum synth, if you're a synthesis nut you should buy this plug-in just for its sound-design possibilities. As an example, I took the boomy bass drum model, extended the release, modulated it via all four LFOs (each modulated by the successive LFO), passed it through the distortion, modulated the filter with the stepper, sent it through the resonator at really low frequencies and got instant Bebe and Louis Barron. It was pure Krell evil. I headed back to the pad screen and clicked the little keyboard logo to the left of the relevant pad and then the individual pad sound was mapped across my whole keyboard. No keygroups to wrangle with, no squinting and cursing at tiny key numbers — one click and you're good to go. Since Drum Spillage 2 lets you send 16 individual outs to your host, you can still stick your favourite reverbs or delays on anything you desire. This wonderful tweakability and openness should be a model for all soft synths.
Each pad has its own synthesis screen, so you can tweak individual sounds to your heart's content. Any gripes I have with this plug-in are petty. Being grumpy and old, I prefer my drum kits mapped in the traditional manner beaten out by our ancestors around MIDI fires way back in the dawn of time. If kick on C1 and snare on D1 was good enough for Homo Erectus, why change it? And where are my goddam hats? Sadly, I can't moan on for too long because the way you swap or copy sounds in Drum Spillage 2 is ridiculously easy: you just drag and drop. And they give you an MPC pad mode. Dang it. The CPU usage seemed a tad high occasionally, but even if I mashed all the keys down at the same time, I couldn't provoke any audible glitches. Sometimes when I was trying to adjust modulation via the little pink value strip, I'd click the bigger parameter value next to it. Lastly, I would have liked more factory kits, but 15 isn't bad. Perhaps Audio Spillage can issue additional kits by celeb synth-botherers? I would love to hear what real patch fanatics could cook up.
In a fortnight or so of testing Drum Spillage 2, it hasn't crashed once or misbehaved itself in any way. The best thing about it is how it actively seduces you away from its own presets — it's so damn easy to fiddle with. It can deliver rich, evolving complexities that would be impossible from sample-based drum plug-ins. This can be bad because you will inevitably end up falling down a rabbit hole of increasingly insane synthesis, stacking up cross-modulated LFOs willy-nilly simply because you can. The bottom line is this: if you want to escape the same old stock 909 snares and 808 bass drums that clog our airwaves, if you want to actually explore percussive sound synthesis, this is definitely the plug-in for you.
Bass Drum: The most 808ish, potentially boomy.
Bass Drum 2: Thicker and more thowmping.
Snare Drum: The most 808/606ish but very adjustable not to be.
Wood Drum: Quite boxy and cardboardy (in a good way).
Synth Clap: Very tweakable, I couldn't quite get my fave 808 sound but very usable.
Cow Bell: Works as a cowbell and also a great synth for pseudo-gamelan.
Clave: Can be quite piercing.
Hi-hat: Can vary from smooth 808ness to grittier, lo-fi fare.
Cymbal: Great for any metal-bashing, not just cymbals (try with external gating).
Membrane: Reminds me of Logic's Sculpture a lot. Can do convincing-if-quirky mallets.
Noise Drum: This actually features four noise sources in one synth and is immense.
FM Percussion: All the usual FM madness.
Very reasonably priced for what you get.
Preset kits come with non-standard mapping.
Potential CPU problems in older Macs?
Could do with a few more preset kits.
Drum Spillage 2 is an enormously capable and flexible plug-in that doesn't sacrifice power for ease of use.


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The NSSL is looking towards expansion in 2014, the league's 5th season.
The National Scholastic Skateboarding League is a non-profit charitable organization that supports middle and high school teams in Orange County and San Diego and has become an outlet for students who might not be as involved in school to participate in a non-traditional sports program. It brings structure and a sense of responsibility to team members: all skaters must maintain a C-average or better to join in the fun. The league's Friday night events, which feature skaters on 45-second runs in the street course, bowl and on the mini-ramp, is a way for these boys and girls to showcase their individual talent in a structured team environment. And it allows them to be recognized for a sport they are truly passionate about, which is evident in the amount of enthusiasm and general stoke seen at any given league event.
One way individual skaters and teams are recognized is at the season-ending awards night and fundraising event, to be held at the new private Volcom Indoor skate park at headquarters in Costa Mesa on Saturday, June 15.
At the annual dinner, a silent auction & raffle will be held to support the league's next season. Also, the winner of the coveted Woodward Scholarship will be announced as well as the winners of the inaugural $1,000 Skater Scholarship (underwritten by Volcom and Suburban Plumbing); one of which will be awarded to a high school junior or senior team member and the other to a current college or career technical school student.
The NSSL currently has over 300 scholar athletes members, both boys and girls, participating in the league. All students produly wear their school's t-shirts, apparel donated by league sponsors like Tilly's, Volcom, Etnies and Vans. In April, the season's best met at the Finals held at the Vans Indoor skate park in Orange, Calif. There, top skaters from San Diego went head to head against the OC's finest.
"The level of skating from when we started to now has just gone through the roof. Now, every contest is just a battle. We've gotten our name out there and we are finally garnering some respect amongst the kids, which has been great," said NSSL Head Coach Tristan Stegmaier in a phone conversation.
Tristan is a special education teacher at Northwood High School and grew up skating. He has been involved in the league since the start four years back and is currently the Head Coach of three teams in Orange County.
Tristan Stegmaier, seen here on the far right with the mic, and other volunteer judges at the Finals earlier this yea.
The NSSL was originally launched as the Orange County Skateboarding League in 2010 and included 4 area teams. Now, the nation's first (and only) school-sanctioned skateboarding league boasts 26 teams and is looking to continue to grow.
According to a recent NPR feature on the NSSL, "An industry survey last year found there are more than 12 million skateboards in the US...as the number of public skate parks grows."
Add to this the rise in popularity of events like X Games and Street League Skateboarding, and it seems only natural that the league is looking to expand to include teams in Los Angeles and northern California…and beyond. Imagine skate teams in schools across the country!
"One thing that is really cool about the league, and this could be a heartbreaker, but not everybody is going to be able to pursue a skate career - whether or not they put in the work to be filming everyday and think they are going to get sponsored or if they are already on a team. Sometimes you have sponsors and it just goes nowhere and maybe you're left thinking 'what do I do now?'" explained Dominick during a phone conversation.
"I think this is really why the league is so cool, because you aren't so heartbroken if you don't go the pro skater route. And you never know, you might be really good at something else that you never thought of and be way more psyched on that than skating, but you will still continue to skateboard. And that's the main thing, you don't want to think you have to throw away your board when you get a job - you've gotta be a skateboarder for life."
Dominick Walker was a student at Costa Mesa High School when Katrina approached him to get involved in the league as a junior. He went on to become a 2x Orange County Skateboarding League champion before graduating in 2011, when he immediately began working as an intern at NSSL and served as the coach for his team. Now, at 20-years old, he has since moved on to pursue a career as a professional skater and currently rides for Active Ride Shop in Costa Mesa and is on the flow team for Spitfire, Thunder and Element. He credits his participation in the league for providing the structure in his life to get him to where he is today.
"I had never had a job in my life - I just grew up skateboarding and going to school. To have the experience of waking up in the morning, getting into a routine and going to work in general was cool because I knew that I was going to be doing something I liked. It was all about skateboarding, so I was hyped on that. I was put in a position to be a leader, being the skate coach as well," said Dominick.
"On top of that, it was a real good experience for me to explore different fields. Not only was I put into a position of being a leader as a coach, but being involved with the league as an intern gave me the opportunity to see skateboarding through a different light. I wish all the kids could have an internship after they graduate because it really makes you believe you can still work in the skateboard industry. And for some kids, maybe still be able to pursue a skate career."
"Katrina was always around the school and when she started forming the teams she asked me if I was interested...For the remainder of my time at school I was skating in the league."
Replacing Dominic as league intern around this time last year was another former NSSL member and recent high school graduate. Sean Istaste, who just turned 19 in March, grew up in Florida but now lives right next to Etnies in Lake Forest. He started skateboarding around age 13, when he moved to California, and he graduated from Northwood High School last year. He spends his days at college, working for the league and, of course, skating. He also credits his involvement in the league with giving him direction and a sense of purpose.
"I started skating when I was 13, and sadly when I was 15 I fell into the cool kid habits of high school and didn't really skate for about a year. I got back into skating when I was 16 because Tristan told me about the league. I rallied a bunch of my friends and we got a team together and it's been all skating since then," explained current NSSL inter Sean Istaste.
The NSSL's 5th season will start in March 2014, but in the meantime there are summer skate camps, skate park tours, career day field trips and other league fundraisers that will take place throughout the summer and into the coming school year. For more on the league, head to nsskateboardingleague.org, or check them out on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.


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Alyson Shontell Jun. 5, 2013, 5:03 AM
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Yesterday afternoon, at about 2:00 PM, Zynga New York's 45 employees were called to an all-hands meeting.
Many grabbed beer from the fridge as they headed toward the front of the room. Nothing good came from unexpected, mid-day meetings anymore.
The large welcome area used to be a place where OMGPOP employees would have weekly meetings and brainstorming sessions. Now it marked painful departures of respected peers, like Dan Porter, who led the team to a $180 million Zynga sale one year prior and left in April. Other key executives such as Zynga New York's head game designer and head producer followed Porter out the door.
Sensory-numbing beverages were now essential for these gatherings.
As weary employees drew near, they were greeted by the familiar face of the office HR woman. She stood beside a blonde Zynga executive from San Francisco who looked like he'd been ripped off the cover of Men's Health.
The pair yanked the bandage off quickly. In no more than five minutes, they informed everyone that the office was closing. The entire room, minus a few who'd stay to help transition advertisers, no longer had jobs. There was paperwork that needed to be signed for severance packages. Empty boxes were distributed for belongings. Porter's replacement, Sean Kelly, was nowhere to be found.
"There were no hard facts or figures. No real explanation. Just typical corporate BS," one former employee who was in attendance tells Business Insider. "Everyone was just like, 'Yep.' Not surprised at all. It was like the weight had been lifted off our shoulders, that a decision had finally been made."
In hindsight, the writing was on the wall. Porter's unexpected departure in early April was the biggest indicator that the New York office's days were numbered. His team used to have four or five IPs to manage, but lately, the projects had stopped rolling in. There were no assignments beyond fixing a few Draw Something 2 bugs in the immediate future.
"You could almost feel things were slowing down," this person says. "We were all chomping at the bit for something new.
It was hard for the New York office not to take Zynga's layoffs personally. Mark Pincus said in a company-wide memo that the cuts would aid Zynga's mobile-first strategy. But hardly any of the desktop-first Farmville 2 team, comprised of former Facebookers, had been let go.
"We thought, 'You just laid off your most talented mobile team,'" the former employee says. "We were totally under-utilized."
Instead of feeling sorry for themselves or enraged at Pincus, the employees felt nostalgic. Surprisingly, they began to party.
"Most layoffs are sad. You imagine big corporate settings where security is there to lead people out of the office so they don't make a scene. This was the opposite," says the former employee. "Music was being played loudly, and people were ripping up Zynga hoodies and T-shirts. Anything that was Zynga was completely left there. The sentiment felt positive."
Zynga trophies, golden statues that are gifted to employees during quarterly meetings, were strewn. Beer was guzzled as people swapped stories about the good-old startup days. Employees missed sharing one bathroom in a tiny, cramped office while they watched their hit game, Draw Something, explode from zero to 30 million users and get snatched up by Zynga last year.
The OMGPOP employees say they never felt welcomed by their publicly-traded employer, which may be why yesterday's layoffs didn't sting much.
"It never felt like anyone other than Pincus was really happy about us," says the former employee. "I think everyone else was just pissed off because Zynga acquired a company that no one had really heard of before to do mobile."
Once the boxes were packed and the Zynga gear was sufficiently destroyed, the former employees walked across the street to a bar. Few people expressed regrets. They knew they had been through one hell of a year.
"We regret nothing, not even being acquired," the former employee says. "We got the chance to push Draw Something to the level we wanted, and we never took anything for granted….We lived through this experience that is very unique. It was a great ride. I think a lot of these people will be meeting up again in the future."
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President Rogo welcomed everyone to the friendly Westwood Village Rotary and invited Phil Gabriel up to the podium to lead the pledge. Jim Crane followed with the invocation.
Jim Collins continues to recover and we miss him.
A card for Andy Anderson was at the table for members to sign and President Mark said he was planning a visit if anyone wants to join him next week. Pat and Andy are near and dear to us even if not here at our meetings weekly. Please also keep in your thoughts and prayers, Rick Cullen.
Chris Gaynor's senior craft talk was our program today! He started off by sharing that 32 years ago today he married lovely Rose. They both went to UCLA although they never met here. Her parents are from Hong Kong and came to the US for college. Her mom went to law school, was a concert pianist and came to the US at the age of 16 for college and had three girls. Chris said he was speechless after seeing all three sisters. (He was actually speechless at our meeting too for a minute recalling his luck and his wife's beauty - so sweet!) He met Rose thru a friend who was dating Karen, her sister, who played tennis. They married nine months before her sister Karen and his friend.
Chris' father, mother, sister, brother, aunts, and his son are ALL Bruins!
Born in LA, his parents bought their first house in 1955 and still live there. Chris shared he put 40% down with 6% interest on his first house in the 1980s for $110K. Then moved to Pacific Palisades and bought a home for $285k in 1983 they sold that home in 1996 for 500+ and shared how he insisted to his wife of 27 years the importance of living without debt.
They have 2 children Nicole born in 1986 and their son, Scott. Both went to collage, have jobs, and are now "off payroll!" Scott went to Sonoma State also played tennis.
Chris' dad is also a CPA so he was NOT going to be a CPA ha ha Then went back for his Masters at Northridge and found out he was good at accounting. Chris was a competitive swimmer and taught lessons and thru a client started working at PwC in 1975 as a 25 year old. He worked as the assigner and shared accounting horror stories. In 1978 he started working with his father in BH then moved to the West side in the 1980s. In addition to tax, Chris also learned he has a knack for controversy aka as audits. As long as HE is not audited he finds them fascinating Govt holds IRS or attorneys or especially tax attorneys to a higher standard should they ever be audited bc they should know better!
Please never use the commercials on TV -phone Chris, Steve Day, Gordon Fell If you are a professional in CA who owes back taxes. Also does estate planning.
He stresses to his clients, "Time goes quickly, set money aside and save bc people are living longer It costs more to live as you age especially with health costs Who will support you at age 99?"
Chris loves to travel, has gone to the US Open every year since 1997. Last year brought family to Tanzania and shared pics from the Western Serengeti.


That pure summer feeling plus a clear mission: to jointly unleash the fifth element. The "World of Elements Festival" took place in Fort Asterstein on September 3rd, 2016. Historic walls, mystical forests and the finest electro beats in a never-before-seen fantasy world with three spectacularly designed dance floors enticed electronic fans to the extraordinary venue.


Not Quite Nigella is food enthusiast and blogger, Lorraine Elliott. As for the title of Lorraines's blog, it is "an acknowledgment of the role that Nigella Lawson played in getting me to learn how to cook". Lorraine began blogging in 2007. The response from her audience was so overwhelming, she started blogging full time in 2009 and hasn't looked back.
Oh, and before you ask. Yes, Lorraine has met Nigella Lawson and Nigella loves the name of the blog.
1. What is your favourite food and why? At the moment, it's pastries filled with custard. It's winter and I'm carb loading. Carb loading for what, I don't know!
3. What is your favourite holiday destination? It would be Japan or America. I love visiting both for different reasons but both of them are a writer's dream.
4. Who inspires you the most? People that go out of their way to be kind to others.
5. Who would you invite to a dinner party? Prince, Amy Schumer, Banksy and Tina Fey along with my friends.
6. What are you reading at the moment? I was given some retro cookbooks for my birthday so I'm flicking through them. There's a lot of frightful concoctions involving both jelly and aspic, as well as pineapples and sausages.
7. Best advice you have ever received? You could be the tastiest, juiciest peach in the world but there is always going to be someone that comes along and says that they hate peaches. It's 100% true :) Also, look after and be grateful for your health.
8. Who are you following on instagram or twitter? I'm a strange social media person. I mostly follow random people and my friends.
9. Favourite movie or television program? The Killing (US version). It's a slow paced and beautifully acted show wrapped around a murder mystery. I love getting invested in a whole show and watching it for lots of seasons.
Like Avocado fries? Here's a quick tutorial from Not Quite Nigella.
How to Make Crunchy, Delicious Baked Avocado Fries!
For Lorraine's Raspberry Passionfruit Layer cake recipe (image above), click here.


Taking care of your eyes on a regular basis is equally important to all body parts you often take care of. Most people think that they just have to go to the eye doctor and get check-ups on a regular schedule. This is not actually enough. Proper eye care always involves taking proper care of the entirety of your body while avoiding various bad habits that do have a negative effect on your eyesight. If you want to properly take care of your eyes, Point Grey eye clinic offers important tips to remember.
Most people think that eye diseases are not common but that is not actually the case. When you age all becomes even worse as you will be much more susceptible to the appearance of eye diseases. Regular examinations are necessary in order to identify diseases that would affect your eyes. Eye doctors can easily perform various tests in order to see if there are some potential eye disorders or diseases you will have to treat. As you age, eye exams need to be included in your monthly health care routine. The most common eye disorders and diseases include conjunctivitis, cataracts, dry eyes, diabetic retinopathy, blindness, orbital tumors and glaucoma.
When you properly take care of your body you will also take care of your eyes. Being healthy offers various advantages and will help you deal with different conditions that affect your eyes. As a pretty simple example, vitamin deficiencies can easily affect your sight. Vitamin A lacks will lead to night blindness. Remember that 90% of blindness cases are actually involving other health conditions that are responsible or make things worse. You need to be sure that overall health is a priority for you. That is especially the case if you have eye problems. They will only become worse in the future.
We naturally have bad habits. In many cases we do not even know about them. Proper eye care automatically means that the bad habits need to be removed. Smoking is a great example of a bad habit that does increase the possibility you will be affected by blindness.
Unfortunately, the number of accidental injuries that affects eyes is growing at the moment. Most of the problems appear because people do not respect workplace safety rules. For instance, you might not wear your goggles as you are welding something in a garage. It is really important you do all that you can in order to protect your eyes. This means that in all that you do on a daily basis you have to be sure that eyes are properly protected. Safety practices and safety in general are always imperative for those that want to maintain eye health.
On the whole, eye care is more complicated than what many think. However, just taking care of your body, resting, respecting safety procedures and going to the eye doctor often will help you much more than what people believe.
Posted on February 5, 2017 by Luke.	This entry was posted in Health and tagged Accidental Injuries, Point Grey, Removing Bad Habits. Bookmark the permalink.


Split avocados in half, remove the pits, and use a butter knife to carefully slice the avocado flesh into cubes. Scoop the avocado cubes out to the mixing bowl. Add lime juice and mash avocado with a potato masher to the desired chunky consistency. Add the rest of the ingredients and gently stir to combine. Taste and adjust seasoning with salt, pepper, and additional lime juice . Serve immediately. Leftovers can be kept in the refrigerator overnight by coating surface with a generous amount of lime juice and covering with plastic wrap.


Dinner rolls help complete any decent family meal, but can the frozen dinner rolls in lieu of some fresh, homemade ones! You won't believe how easy rolls are to make, and once you hop in the kitchen and try them out, you'll never go back to the mediocre store brought brands. They're buttery and light and far superior than any pre-baked rolls.
For the full recipe and video instructions, click on the link below.
Making your own dinner rolls is surprisingly easy, and when you taste these buttery, pillow-light rolls, you'll agree they are superior to any store-bought variety. See how to bake your own dinner rolls at home.
thanks... this was great... video, superb.
My rolls turned out excellent!
Wow! Loved it!. I'm going to give it a try.
Can't wait to try these tonight!
So simple I could follow. I'll try for my first attempt at baking.
These look so simply and delicious. Can't wait to try it.
If only all instructional cooking videos followed this technique. The audience does not need to see the cook---only the process. Very easy to follow, eager to try. Thanks so much!
hey thanks for the wicked tutorial but what flour do i use please, 'plain four', 'self raising' or 'all purpose'?
You can check out the full instructions and play the video here.


Insurance News Best Re has moved its headquarters to Labuan. It has 2 new entities there providing general reinsurance and family re-takaful business respectively. The gross written premium is expected to reach US$350 mil this year.
Best Re plans RM480 million investment in two new entities that will provide general reinsurance and family re-takaful business.
Insurance News Great Eastern Takaful targets RM180 mil AP in 1st year of operations. The company launched its takaful product lineup today, almost 1 month ahead of the original target of Jan 2011 and is the 1st out of the 4 new takaful licensees to do so.
KUALA LUMPUR: Great Eastern Holdings Ltd expects RM1 billion in contributions by 2015 from its new takaful business via its new joint venture company, Great Eastern Takaful Sdn Bhd.
Insurance News Great Eastern Takaful will use distribution channel of OCBC Al-Amin and also leverage on KAT's 140,000 members and probably recruit soldiers who opt for early retirement to become their agents. 2 new products were launched: I-Idaman and I-Abadi, focusing on protection and investment respectively.
NEWLY-FORMED Great Eastern Takaful Sdn Bhd has set a target to win more than RM1 billion in premiums by 2015 by focusing on Malaysia and regional countries like Singapore and Indonesia.
Insurance News Pacific Insurance will be sold to Fairfax for RM201 mil in cash, plus incremental NTA from 31 Dec 2008. The price represents 1.68 times NTA at 31/12/2008. The deal is expected to complete by March 2011. As a comparison, RHB Insurance was valued at 1.85 times book value while Jerneh Insurance was priced at 1.07 times.
PETALING JAYA: PacificMas Bhd has signed a share sale agreement to sell its entire equity interest in The Pacific Insurance Bhd (PIB) to Fairfax Asia Ltd.
Insurance News Prudential has set itself targets of doubling 2009 value of its Asian life and asset management pre-tax operating profit and doubling its 2009 Asian premiums. Both targets to be achieved in year 2013.
LONDON: The boss of Britain's biggest insurer Prudential Plc has outlined a plan to double Asian premiums by 2013, a move seen as bolstering his grip on the top job after a bungled takeover in the high-growth region.
Insurance News The Malaysian Association of Suppliers and Managers of Foreign Workers said that the insurance companies will be making a clean profit of more than 90% on the Foreign Worker Health Insurance Scheme. The allegation is totally lack of common sense!
KUALA LUMPUR: The directive requiring all foreign workers except domestic maids to have health insurance will only benefit insurance companies, said the Malaysian Association of Suppliers and Managers of Foreign Workers.
Insurance News MAA has not reached agreement with potential buyers of its general insurance business because it is holding out for more than RM300 mil. The price previously negotiated with AmG Insurance was RM274.8 mil. MAA has until August 2011 to raise capital to meet CAR requirement.
MAA Holdings Bhd (1198) has yet to sell its general insurance business arm to AmBank Group because it is holding out for more than RM300 million.
Insurance News Kurnia delivered a weak quarterly results with lower underwriting surplus before expenses and higher management expenses.
KUALA LUMPUR: KURNIA ASIA BHD swung into the red with net losses of RM3.74 million in the quarter ended Sept 30, 2010 as it was impacted by higher management expenses while there was an underwriting deficit.
Insurance News The Malaysia Deposit Insurance Corporation Bill 2010 was tabled for 1st reading in Dewan Rakyat. The bill will provide for the establishment of an explicit national takaful and insurance benefits protection system.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysia Deposit Insurance Corporation Bill 2010 was tabled for first reading in Dewan Rakyat on Tuesday, paving the way to increase the deposit insurance limit from the current RM60,000 to RM250,000 for next year.
Insurance News MAA is considering raising more capital, either via rights or medium term note to meet the capital requirements by BNM. MAA is still in talks with various parties to sell its general insurance arm.
KUALA LUMPUR: MAA HOLDINGS BHD is mulling over raising more capital to increase its buffer.
Insurance News The government will speed up the review of TPBID scheme, after having had discussions with the insurance industry in August to September. The proposed mechanism will be presented to the government early next year after follow-up consultation with various interested parties. The average claim for private and commercial vehicles older than 10 years is about 17.5% higher than vehicles less than 10 years old.
Insurance News Actuaries are good candidates for financial institution board and risk management committee members because they have a different way of thinking about risk, possess advanced risk analysis skills and have vast experience gained at board level. As a professional group. actuaries are also supported by strong standards to ensure the quality of their analysis and advice.
The Institute of Actuaries of Australia (IAA) has called for more of its members to be included on the boards and risk management teams of insurance companies.
Insurance News The proposed private pension system will be voluntary. The development of the framework will be addressed in the 2nd Capital Market Masterplan targeted to be released before year-end.
PETALING JAYA: The second Capital Market Masterplan (CMP2) for Malaysia from 2011 to 2020, which is expected to be released before year-end, will address key areas such as the development of a private pension fund framework, boosting retail participation in the local stock market, working capital improvement and higher attention to governance.
Insurance News PruBSN launched a new product called PruBSN Ummah, a savings and protection plan that helps to defray the high cost of performing haj. Part of the savings can be withdrawn any time after the 5th certificate year. PruBSN has also partnered Amanah Raya Bhd to provide will writing services to participants of the plan.
PRUDENTIAL BSN Takaful Bhd (PruBSN) expects significant contribution from its latest family takaful plan, PruBSN Ummah, after receiving positive response since its launch earlier this month.
Insurance News In memory of Hemalatha Kasippillai, a staff of Hannover Re based in KL, who was unfortunately killed in Mumbai terror attacks 2 years ago.
PETALING JAYA: Every Nov 27, S. Nishalini and S. Dhinesh say a silent prayer for their mother Hemalatha Kasippillai.
Insurance News The Foreign Worker Health Insurance scheme proposed under ETP will kick in on 1 Jan 2011. The annual premium is RM120, lower than RM200 previously announced.
PUTRAJAYA: All foreign workers employed in Malaysia must be covered by medical insurance, in a Government ruling which will take effect on Jan 1 next year.
Insurance News Christopher Wei, who recently quit as the Group Chief Marketing Officer of AIA, is joining Great Eastern as its new Group CEO effective 10 February 2011. Interestingly, the previous Group CEO of Great Eastern, Ng Keng Hooi, has actually crossed over to AIA. Christopher is an associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society.
Insurance News HLTMT launched a new product "HLTMT i-Ihsan" and is expecting RM1 mil contributions in 6 months from the product. The product has high sum covered multiples and is targeted at lower income segment.
HONG Leong Tokio Marine Takaful Bhd (HLTMT) wants to have more young customers, especially among those defined as Generation Y.
Insurance News The AIA takaful JV is officially named AIA AFG Takaful Berhad. It targets to start operation in Q1 next year.
KUALA LUMPUR: Alliance Financial Group Bhd's subsidiary Alliance Bank Malaysia Bhd has entered into an agreement with American International Assurance Bhd (AIA) to set up a joint-venture company, AIA AFG Takaful Bhd.
Insurance News The ING Takaful JV aims to be profitable in year 4 of operations; Great Eastern Takaful also previously set the same target. The ING JV aims to launch its first product in April 2011 and eventually will expand into Indonesia and Hong Kong.
ING and Public Bank Bhd(PBB) new takaful firm aims to be profitable by its fourth year of business as it taps Malaysia's underserved insurance market, and eventually expand into Indonesia and Hong Kong, its owners said today.
Insurance News M&A of insurance companies often fails due to disagreement on price. Traditional valuation methods such as price earnings ratio and net asset value are not appropriate. Some recent failed M&As include P&O with Prudential, Tahan with Tokio Marine, Shriram, Fairfax and Allianz, Prudential with AIA.
PETALING JAYA: The stake sale or takeover negotiations among insurance companies often come to nought as both parties are unable to agree on a price.
Insurance News BNM has approved the sale of Pacific Insurance to Fairfax Asia. The details of the sale including the price has yet to be announced.
PACIFICMAS Bhd said it has got the approval from the Minister of Finance through Bank Negara Malaysia to dispose its entire stake in The Pacific Insurance Bhd to Fairfax Asia Ltd.
Insurance News For insurance companies with both conventional and takaful licences, should they use the same agency to sell both products or should they have separate agency channels? Companies like Great Eastern, Prudential and AIA seem to prefer one agency while MAA prefers separate agencies. It is not clear which way ING will go.
PETALING JAYA: The dual agency concept, where conventional and takaful policies are sold by the same agents, is gaining popularity, especially among bigger insurance players, as an effective way to boost market share and deepen the penetration rate of insurance in the country.
Insurance News Nor Shamsiah will replace Dato' Zamani as the new Deputy Governor.
Bank Negara Malaysia wishes to announce the appointment of Puan Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus as Deputy Governor for a three year tenure effective 16 November 2010. Puan Nor Shamsiah takes on the position of Deputy Governor following the retirement of Dato' Zamani Abdul Ghani on the completion of his term on 15 November 2010.
Insurance News The proposed acquisition of P&O by Prudential has been called off.
KUALA LUMPUR: Pacific & Orient Bhd has called off the preliminary negotiations for the proposed divestment of an equity interest in Pacific & Orient Insurance Co. Bhd to Prudential Holdings Ltd.
Insurance News Has insurance industry lost its focus? Instead of selling on protection, are we now emphasising too much on investment return? Insurance veteran Captain Chia thinks so. The unhealthy trend nowadays in the industry is consumers are pursuaded at shopping malls, through SMS/internet to buy insurance for its short premium payment period and high illustrated return. Many have lost track of the fundamental of insurance which is "love and responsibility". The consequences are low persistency, lack of needs based selling and also agents shying away from customers when investment return is worse than illustrated. Insurance products should not be sold on its return. Your views?
Insurance News It seems that the sale of Pacific Insurance to Fairfax Asia will need to complete by 17 April 2011.
Insurance News ING will demerge its banking and insurance operations by having 2 IPOs for its insurer, one in US and one in Europe.
AMSTERDAM: Dutch banking and insurance group ING yesterday said it was planning two initial public offerings for its insurance activities as part of a split of the group.
Insurance News The role of the actuary will evolve in the years ahead "to deliver more robust ERM, including designing potential scenarios rather than solely performing retrospective statistical analysis", according to Aon Benfield. "Managing emerging risks is an opportunity for actuaries to add significant value to the risk management function."
Aon Benfield is highlighting what it sees as the future "critical" role of actuaries in managing emerging risks for the re/insurance industry.
Insurance News Takaful Malaysia will look for growth opportunities in countries like Indonesia as the competition in the local industry becomes stiffer following the issuance of 4 new takaful licences. Takaful Malaysia's Indonesian venture currently contributes 5% of the group revenue. The strategy in Indonesia for Takaful Malaysia is to focus on bancaassurance.
STIFFER competition in the local takaful industry, brought on by the issuance of new takaful family licences to four new players, is driving Takaful Malaysia to look beyond the country for more growth opportunities.
Insurance News SC said it has consulted the unit trust fund managers on the broad framework of PPF. Meanwhile FIMM said that SC is still working with MoF to come up with the final framework before they engage the industry and players in the market.
THE Securities Commission (SC) has denied it left unit trust fund managers out in the cold on the proposed Private Pension Fund (PPF), saying that it has consulted them on the broad framework of the scheme.
Insurance News The improvements in corporate governance practices and capital positions of insurance and takaful industry has been uneven between institutions and overall progress could be further accelerated. M&A would be 1 option to accelerate this. The role of signing actuaries may be expanded to support the more robust risk management particularly with respect to underwriting and solvency assessments.
KUALA LUMPUR: Meanwhile, in the insurance and takaful industry, Zeti said there had been continued improvements in corporate governance practices and further strengthening of the capital positions of individual institutions.
Insurance News Allianz wants to expand distribution channel by tapping the internet or social media networks and conducting worksite marketing with non-financial based companies, in addition to the current agency force and bancassurance channel. The new channels would bring in close to 10% of revenue over the next 3 to 5 years.
KUALA LUMPUR: Allianz Malaysia Bhd will focus on two main fronts which it is confident will generate new revenue streams for the company and put it on a stronger footing in the competitive insurance landscape.
Insurance News Insurance companies may be required to appoint dedicated risk heads. The role of signing actuaries is under review. BNM will issue regulatory framework for takaful by end of this year.
Insurance News FIMM opines that the no. of scheme managers for the proposed private pension fund should not be limited to 5 or 6. It should be opened to unit trust companies, insurance companies and takaful operators that have got the economies of scale in managing such scheme.
MALAYSIA'S unit trust fund managers are still in the dark about the proposed private pension scheme (PPS) but they stressed that it should be run by existing companies and not by brand new start-ups.
Insurance News Zakri Mohd Khir will take over the role of CEO for Allianz General from Ng Hang Ming. Zakri was previously the non-independent and non-executive director of the parent company - Allianz Malaysia Bhd. There is no immediate news on where Ng Hang Ming is heading.
PETALING JAYA: Zakri Mohd Khir is now the new chief executive officer of Allianz General Insurance Company (M) Bhd (AGIC) pending approval from Bank Negara.
Insurance News The number of life insurance companies in Malaysia will officially reduce from 16 to 15 soon as Etiqa is reaching the final stage of merging Mayban Life to Etiqa Insurance. The number of Takaful operators will also reduce by 1 accordingly.
ETIQA says it has reached the final stage of its merger process as it transfers the businesses, assets and liabilities of Mayban Life Assurance Bhd to Etiqa Insurance Bhd from today.
Insurance News Great Eastern Takaful's targets: a) Expand operations to Indonesia and Brunei by 2H 2011 b) Penetrate Singapore and China markets within 3-5 years c) RM1 bil contributions in the next 5 years.
KUALA LUMPUR: i Great Capital Holdings Sdn Bhd (i-Great), the parent of the new joint venture (JV) takaful licensee Great Eastern Takaful Sdn Bhd, hopes to expand its Islamic insurance operations in Indonesia and Brunei by the second half of next year.
Insurance News Some highlights of Great Eastern's Q3 results: regular premium ILP in Malaysia grew 55% in 2010; CAR above 200% in Malaysia; group profit grew 15%; group weighted premium rose 12%.
27 October 2010 – Great Eastern Holdings Limited today reported Group profit attributable to shareholders of $168.6 million in Q3-10 compared to $33.6 million in the same period last year.
Insurance News Takaful operators can expand fast especially in a new market by allowing their products to be white-labelled or to be the outsourcing partner of a local player in that new market. Some key success factors for proper takaful industry development include strong legal and shariah framework and mutual recognition of financial standards and products.
THERE is a rising trend of outsourcing and white labelling in the takaful industry as companies seek to expand faster.
Insurance News The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) has banned universal life products in India. More than 500 life insurance products were banned since 2007 for being opaque or against the interest of policyholders. There are differing views on the role of appointed actuaries (AAs) in ensuring products are fair and equitable, given the different hats that AAs may wear. There are also suspicions that the product bans are not purely due to equity issue but are driven by parties who try to meet their self interests.
Insurance News AIA is expected to list on HK stock exchange on 29/10/2010.
HONG KONG: Troubled US insurer AIG has won approval for a Hong Kong share sale of its Asian unit, AIA, worth up to US$15 billion (RM46.4 billion), in what could be the world's second biggest stock offering this year.
Insurance News Another ex-Prudential staff, Bill Lisle, has joined Mark Tucker in AIA. Bill was once the CEO of Prudential Malaysia.
AIA Group Ltd. has appointed Bill Lisle, a former agency development head for Prudential Corporation Asia, as group chief distribution officer based in Kuala Lumpur.
Insurance News MAA Takaful signed an agreement with LIMRA and CERT for the development and implementation of a comprehensive Shariah-compliant Leadership Development Programme.
KUALA LUMPUR: MAA Takaful Bhd is expecting RM1 billion in total revenue in five years time with the strengthening of its distribution channels, says chief executive officer Salim Majid Zain.
Private Health Insurance will be mandated for all foreign workers to address under insurance and to avoid unpaid bills in government hospitals. Employers and foreign workers to share premium of RM200 p.a. Coverage includes accidental death due to employment injury, disablement (total & partial, permanent & temporary), medical benefits (occupational & non-occupational).
The Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) proposes to increase life insurance penetration (as % GDP) from the current 3% to 4% in 2020 and the ratio of number of life policies over population from the current 47% to 75%. This is to be achieved by separating the current combined tax relief for EPF and insurance to RM6,000 each. An Employee Insurance Scheme with auto term coverage will be created, CI and HB covers optional.
Insurance News FSA inked an agreement with HLTMT to distribute its takaful products.
FIRST Sovereign Advisory Sdn Bhd (FSA), the country's first licensed Islamic financial advisory firm, hopes to form partnerships with more takaful and financial companies over the next 12 months.
Insurance News Matt Harris was appointed as CEO for Chartis effective 3 August. He was previously CEO of Chartis NZ.
CHARTIS Malaysia Insurance Bhd, a property-casualty and general insurance provider, has appointed Matt Harris as chief executive officer (CEO) from August 3.
Insurance News Charlie believes that Prudential has solid strategy that does not require many changes. Putting right people in critical positions is key to ensure initiatives are executed to meet objectives. On products, quality beats quantity, product launch should be of value, less can be more. He believes that Pru's competitive advantage lies in service excellence mandate for staff, leading by example policy for management and professionalism & stability of distribution channels.
PRUDENTIAL Assurance Malaysia Bhd, under the stewardship of Charlie Oropeza, has been about having the right people in critical positions and adjusting its initiatives to support economic and market environment, and competition.
Insurance News Heavyweight Chinese investors could potentially bid for Prudential, with the intention of offloading Pru's US and UK divisions, keeping only the flagship Asian division. Factors that may affect the potential bid include the relative pricing of AIA's IPO and whether Pru's US and UK divisions can be offloaded at an attractive price.
Insurance News The confirmed buyer of Jerneh Insurance is ACE INA, for a transaction amount of RM654 mil, subject to final adjustments to transaction price to reflect book value at disposal date.
Reference is made to the announcements dated 18 May 2010 that JAB and Paramount Global Assets Sdn Bhd ("PGA"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Paramount Corporation Berhad ("PCB"), have submitted an application to Bank Negara Malaysia ("BNM") for the approval of the Minister of Finance ("MoF") pursuant to Section 67 of the Insurance Act 1996, to enter into an agreement with a potential buyer for the proposed disposal by JAB and PGA of their respective 80% and 20% equity interests in JIB to the said potential buyer.
Insurance News PruBSN launched 3 products: PruBSN Protect (Term), PruBSN ProtectPlus (Term with increasing SA) and PruBSN CrisisCover (covers 36 CIs, optional death monthly income).
KUALA LUMPUR: Prudential BSN Takaful Bhd (PruBSN) had on Monday, Sept 13 launched three insurance plans -- PruBSN Protect, PruBSN ProtectPlus and PruBSN CrisisCover.
Insurance News Niosh is calling for insurance coverage to be provided to the mentally ill.
PETALING JAYA: Insurance coverage should be provided for the mentally ill, while their parents should be given income tax relief, said National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (Niosh) chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye.
Insurance News Great Eastern China, which currently has its presence in Chongqing and Sichuan, is targeting a branch in Shaanxi this year and another 6 in the next 3 years. The Singapore PM visited their Chongqing head office recently.
AFTER stamping its mark on western China over the last four years, Singapore's leading life insurance group Great Eastern Life now wants a greater footprint in the country by expanding across the central and eastern regions.
Insurance News KATM, Great Eastern's JV partner in takaful, is no stranger to the OCBC group and in that sense to Great Eastern. OCBC owns significant share of both Great Eastern and Pacific Insurance and KATM has significant ownership in Pacific Insurance. The takaful JV may be able to capitalise on KATM's 140,000 members.
The Great Eastern Life Assurance Co Ltd says its alliance with Koperasi Angkatan Tentera Malaysia Bhd (KATM) will provide access to the latter's 140,000 members nationwide.
Insurance News Charlie Oropeza, the CEO of Prudential, was presented with "Outstanding Entrepreneur" award which recognises outstanding individuals for displaying entrepreneurial attributes.
PRUDENTIAL Assurance Malaysia Bhd, an insurance and financial services provider, yesterday announced the award of "Outstanding Entrepreneur" given to its chief executive officer Charlie Oropeza (picture) at the Asia-Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards 2010 Malaysia.
Insurance News New bancassurance product from HLA with the following features: Term Life, double SA on accidental death, refund of premiums (including extra loadings) on expiry.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9 (Bernama) -- Hong Leong Bank (HLB) has launched a bancassurance plan that promises customers a refund on premiums paid.
Insurance News 1 more article on the issuance of 4 new takaful licences and its impact. Most of the points have been covered and reported previously.
Malaysia'a takaful industry is expected to step up its performance now that an additional four operators have been issued licences to start business next year, said industry players.
Insurance News OAC wants to build its agency force and brand name. The acquisition of Tahan Insurance would increase its agency force from 2,600 to more than 3,000 and strengthen its brand.
PETALING JAYA: Building the agency force and brand name are two key areas Overseas Assurance Corp (M) Bhd (OACM) will bank on to strengthen its position in the insurance market with the acquisition of Tahan Insurance Malaysia's general insurance business.
Insurance News AIG has filed an application last Thursday to list AIA on the HK Stock Exchange. CIMB is 1 of the 11 bookrunners.
PETALING JAYA: CIMB Group has been selected as one of the 11 bookrunners for AIA Group Ltd's US$15bil initial public offering (IPO).


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Какой лучший способ хранить фразы для печати? Лист? Словарь? Итератор?
Сейчас я имею такой код, но наверное это не лучшее решение ...
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A: в общем-то все равно. Однако, с точки поиска по индексу, список медленнее поиска по ключу в словаре.  Кроме того, при определенной сноровке текст программы будет мнемоничнее именнно со словарем, как вы и выбрали.
Кроме того, через словарь в Python часто реализуют отсутствующую структуру типа switch или case, благодаря чему например поддержка вашей проглядывающей  мультиязычности будет изящнее.

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