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Asian adventure day 16. Kuala Lumpur day 10.
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Railways, Travel
Day 10 and last day in KL as tomorrow I head North for the border and into Thailand to make my way to Bangkok. With it being my last day I was determined to make the most of it and thankfully, the weather played ball insofar that it didn't actually rain today!
I was up early as usual but this time I headed straight out, breakfasted on roti, then made my way to the old Kuala Lumpur station to begin my trip on the electric train service to Port Klang, a trip I've done many times in the past. I'm not going to blog about it in detail here as I took copious notes so it's worth doing as a separate trip report. The Klang valley rail routes are being modernised, which is causing a lot of chaos in the interim, but no pain, no gain – as they say.
I really enjoyed being able to get out and about again and see the changes in the decade since I last traversed the route (some good, some bad). On the way back I stopped at Klang itself in order to get some shots of yet another metro extension, the Bandar Utama – Klang line. I photographed some of the Northern works the other day but this was my first chance to see some of the Southern works. The station at Jalan Meru on the North bank of the Klang river is especially impressive due to its size and height.
To the right of the new metro is the 1961 double-deck bridge which is 'preserved' with the lower level used as a walkway/cycle path but it's in a bit of a state.
I'd visited Klang a few times as it's the base of SMH rail, a company maintain the 'blue tiger' locomotives for KTM but also build other traction for export, including monorail cars for India. What I hadn't done is explore much of the town or even cross the river. This time I did and found a thriving Indian community with so many clothing and bangle shops it reminded me of India. That said, there were what looked like some excellent Chinese eateries too. Oh, and a humongous new park and ride multistory carpark next to the railways station that looks very recent but has 4 of its 5 floors abandoned.
Heading back to town I stopped off at Subang Jaya, the only intermediate station on the 'Skytrain' service from KL Sentral to Skypark Terminal. Converted from a former freight line the route opened to passenger services in 2018. It's not been a success. I travelled on the hourly service the other day. I was one of only 4 people on the way out and the only passenger on the way back. Today there were two of us! The reason I wanted to catch it today was that the stock on the route is formed from old EMUs from 1995 and today I'd seen a vintage Class 81 on the route. The Class 81s were designed by UK company Hunslet but built by Jenbacher. They were based on the Class 323 units used in the UK and sounded exatly the same. They were withdrawn in 2012 when the new Chinese units arrived as they were in a real state due to a lack of spares, but in 2018, 5 of the 18 strong class were refurbished and returned to service. Only now they've been re-tractioned and the familiar 323 whine is gone. Even so, it was great to be travelling on one again.
Set 05 approaches Subang Jaya from the airport.
I had no problem finding a seat!
I timed my visit well. It seems the service is going to be mothballed from February 15th due to a lack of patronage, the large subsidy required and the fact the units are required elsewhere. There are doubts it will ever return. Plus I'm told 81s are rarely used on the route, so I was lucky!
Whilst I was waiting for the service I nipped out on the nearby MRT system to kill some time and stopped off at the imaginatively named SS16 station. Built high above the suburbs it give an interesting view of suburban life in KL.
KL 'Coronation Street' – or 'Neighbours'?
Now I'm back at home packing, ready for moving on tomorrow. I was going to nip out to Jalan Sultan for a last beer but my 'local' is closed today and everywhere else is packed which made me change my mind. It's been fun here, so I don't mind. But I'll miss my early morning alarm call from the Muezzin at the Mosque across the road, and Roti Canai breakfasts. Still tomorrow's another day and there's lots more to see and do yet…
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Asian adventure day 15. Kuala Lumpur day 9.
Posted by Paul Bigland in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Musings, Photography, Travel
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Musings, Photography, Travel
The best laid plans and all that…
I'd fully intended to have a day out with the camera today but yet again, the weather conspired against me. When I looked out of the hotel window at 7am this morning the rain was already on the way through heavy grey skies, which put the kibosh on my plans. So, another day working from Bigland Towers KL branch it was then! It was a wise choice the day was one of perpetual heavy showers. I was here in January 12 years ago but I don't remember the month being as wet as this. Ah well…
Having reconciled myself to working from home I did nip out for for food and enjoyed another excellent roto canai breakfast. For most people the holidays seem to be over which meant Chinatown was much quieter than it has been the past few days as a stroll around before returning home confirmed. Back at home I settled into a similar routine as the one I had when I was here over a decade ago. Work rest and play – only without the same photographic opportunities due to the weather!
The day passed speedily and profitably enough. The rain even held off long enough for me to have a wander, get my daily exercise and explore outside the bounds of Chinatown as I was looking to stock up on some Indian Ayurvedic soap. Malaysia's one of the best places for buying it outside of India but the only place I could find sold it in bulk and I'm not ready to carry a couple of kilos of it around just yet!
By 18:00 I was more than happy to nip out for the beer that I'd planned to have the other night but just as I did the heavens opened once more and we were treated to yet another torrential downpour. I wasn't going to let it put me off so I sat outside a familair haunt to shelter from the rain and watch the world go by as I recreated an old picture,
When I was here in Kuala Lumpur for several weeks in 2012 there was a particular Chinese restaurant on the corner of Jalan's Sultan and Hang Lekir that became a favourite haunt. The food was good and reasonably priced, the beer cold and the location was ideal for people-watching. Across the road was a collection of hawkers stalls, one of which prepared and sold claypot chicken rice. I often used to sit and watch the chap juggling the various pots as it was a popular place and he was always busy. Here's the picture I took from across the street on the 15th January 2012.
I went back in 2017 but my favourite restaurant had closed down and the pavement outside was covered in stalls. It's still closed now but there's a new Indian foodstall that's taken over the pitch so I can sit, have a beer and recreate the picture – because the same guy is still cooking those claypots! Here's how he looks almost exactly 11 years later. He's wearing well!
Tomorrow's my last day in KL so (come hell or high-water) I'm getting out to explore…
Posted by Paul Bigland in Food and drink, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Photography, Railways, Travel
Food and drink, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Photography, Railways, Travel
Whilst the Chinese new year has been quiet these past few days (apart from fireworks every night) the holiday finally burst into life this morning. I'd been out for breakfast to a new cafe serving a range of Indian dishes including my favourite Roti Canai. Apart from the excellence of the food the restaurant was great for watching the food being prepared as there was a sub-kitchen with a griddle at the front where a young Indian lad was cooking Murtabaks, Rotis and keeping busy with a wok. He was happy for me to get shots of him working which made for great shots like this.
Throwing Roti dough from the pile of balls you can see in the foreground. The dough thrown around in a circular motion to stretch it wafer-thin then its folded over several times to form the layers that help make rotis so light.
Heading back to the hotel I found the local Chinese temple was packed with people celebrating the new year and a group of lion dancers had turned up to add to the festivities, which made quite a spectacle. The combination of raucous percussive and acrobatic performances drew a large crowd. Here's a few pictures.
Prayers and incense inside the temple.
Two lion dancers leaping from post to post. The skills they display are amazing as the co-ordination needed between the two men is intense. One slip…
The lion flicks oranges into the crowd.
The whole area was buzzing as so many people appear to still be on holiday because of New Year – and not just the Chinese community. I'm assuming many building sites remain closed judging by the numbers of young Indian men I saw out and about. The numbers made me decide against venturing far as I suspected all the trains would be packed. Instead I wandered over to the old station for a couple of hours to take pictures there. It's on my doorstep after all. The place was busier than I've seen it since I arrived, manly with Indian families catching trains up to the Batu Caves to visit the Hindu shrines there. Mind you, the fact the train service is so poor now added to the numbers waiting. When there's only one train and hour instead of two they're bound to be busy.
A KTM Komuter service to Batu Caves calls at KLs original main station.
Despite the absence of a lot of trains I had a pleasant couple of hours mooching around the wonderful old station whilst managing to get a few worthwhile library images including shots of the new fleet of Intercity electric trains that have been purchased to expand the service. They're in a different livery to the earlier ETS fleet so stand out.
Set ETS213 calls at KL whilst working a service from Butterworth to Kuala Lumpur Sentral. Clearly, the nose cone over the coupling has taken a beating at some point. On the plus side, I only saw one broken window on this set!
Retiring to my hotel for a couple of hours to edit pictures I'd intended to maybe pop out for a rare beer tonight and get some pictures but the weather had other ideas. We've actually had a warm and fairly sunny day. So much so I decided to leave my brolly at home when I went out to eat. That was a big mistake! Whilst I was out we got hit with a torrential rainstorm which meant I got a soaking on the way home, so tonight's been another quiet one at home listening to the thunder and fireworks. Maybe tomorrow…
Have I really been here a week already? Time's flying! I've settled into routine that's governed by the weather as we've had a lot of rain these past few days – especially today. I'd planned to have a day out exploring but when I looked out of the window at 7am this morning the weather really wasn't playing ball. Heavy grey clouds dominated the skyline and it wasn't long before the torrential rain arrived – hardly the conditions for decent photography so I decided that a day sat in my hotel room editing hundreds of pictures would be a better use of my time. You can find the results of my efforts in this gallery. Eventually the rain eased long enough for me to nip out and find some brunch. I fancies something different this morning so I checked out a couple of eateries around the old market which is now full of tourist shops, but the nearby streets still have some traditional local eateries. One was packed, but I did find a table in this establishment where I enjoyed a very typical Malaysian breakfast – Roti Canai. Accompanied by a rich curry sauce these flatbreads are both delicious and filling.
I wandered home via a very subdued Chinatown. The combination of the weather and the fact it's Sunday had really dampened its spirits, not that I was too bothered as I'd plenty more to do at home. Trying to keep on top of picture editing on trips like this can be quite a chore. You're torn between going out with the camera as you're only passing through and there's so much to see, but you also want to show off what you've taken. At least the weather solved that conundrum for me!
By mid afternoon I was edited out (researching captions is even more time consuming than editing) so I decided to have a mooch around on the trains to check out a possible new location and check on engineering work outside Sentral station. Sadly, by the time I'd got to my first location the heavens opened again – and this time they stayed open! I did manage to find one thing of interest, this old Japanese Bo-Bo-Bo locomotive imported for use on contractors trains.
The three bogie arrangement has never caught on in the UK, only the 'Chunnel' shuttle trains use it, but it gained traction (if you'll pardon the pun) in both Italy and Japan. If anyone can supply any background on this particular type of loco I'd be grateful.
Sadly, the location scouting was a bust. Still, it was my first trip out on the LRT system on this visit, which was quite entertaining as the trains were packed with loads of young Indian men out shopping as they'd got a day off from the building sites they'd have been working on during the week. It was the same when I got back to Chinatown. Guys were huddled under walkways and bridges trying to make the most of their holiday whilst staying dry! I sought shelter in my usual eating house and stuffed myself with chicken curry, rice and veg before waddling home to dry out and relax.
With it being the weekend Dawn and I had arranged to video call each other through the wonders of Whatsapp. My, how technology has changed! No more waiting for letters or making expensive telephone calls, now you can talk to each other face to face for free! As someone who travelled a lot in the 'olden days' I still can't quite get used to how easy it is to keep in touch now – but it's lovely being able to do so. The distance between us just melts away…
The rain finally stopped so I went for one last wander around Jalan Sultan to watch the world go by and look at filming a short video that illustrates a problem the street suffers from. This stretch of Jalan Sultan's a vibrant place to eat with all manner of restaurants, cafe's and street stall to suit every taste (and budget). The smells are delicious. But. It's also a one-way street that's often so clogged with cars its like having a slow moving metal wall down the middle. All those fumes and noise hardly add anything you'd want to eating alfresco. If only the street could be pedestrianised the way nearby Jalan Petaling and Hang Lekir are..
Posted by Paul Bigland in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Photography, Travel
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Photography, Travel
It's been a quite one here in Kuala Lumpur, mainly because the weather has been awful! We've had thunderstorms most evenings whilst I've been here although they've cleared pretty quickly but this morning I woke up to heavy rain which stayed with us until the early afternoon. I decided this seemed like a good day to work from home so spent much of the day indoors, taking it easy and editing some of the several hundred pictures I've taken over the past few days. The desk in my room's adjacent to the window so I could watch the world go by as I worked, observing people huddled beneath umbrellas as they went about their business. The streets were actually pretty quiet but that was hardly surprising as many shops and restaurants have closed for the next few days. The Chinese community takes New Year seriously with many businesses closing for several days or even a week.
Eventually, hunger and the need to stretch my legs got the better of me so I mid-afternoon wandered through Chinatown to see what was going on. The answer was – very little! Some businesses were beginning to prepare for the evening and the Malay food stalls on Jalan Cheng Lock were open as usual. I fueled up on curried chicken rice, jackfruit and salad for the princely sum of 8 ringgit (£1.50) before returning home to continue work. You can find the results of my efforts here and here.
This evening I played tourist and visited the 'River of life', which is rather good. It's an art installation on the confluence of the two rivers from which Kuala Lumpur allegedly got its name. The rivers are filled with smoke then illuminated at night. The backdrop is spectacular as it's formed by the Masjid Jamek and business district.
Tomorrow I'll be back to exploring. There's so much to see that the few more days I have here will soon fly by. Hopefully, the weather will play ball – unlike today.
Posted by Paul Bigland in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Photography, Railways, Travel
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Photography, Railways, Travel
It's a short blog from me tonight as I've had a very busy day and I've a bucketload of pictures to sort out after travelling the length and breadth of the Klang valley. It's been a fascinating experience as I've been able to say how the different areas connect, the styles of housing, where certain communities have bases – and how the whole place hangs together. Admittedly, it's not the bread and butter of your normal tourist, but then I did all that stuff a few times back in the 1990s. I've plenty of material for a couple of blogs on the importance of public transport and how it makes cities livable, but that's for the future.
Tomorrow's Chinese New Year so I'm going to take a break from exploring and stay local. Well, I am in Chinatown after all. To be honest I've no idea what may happen as I've not bothered checking so anything and everything will be a surprise. If everything shuts down that's equally fine as I've plenty to keep me occupied, but I suspect that won't be the case.
In the meantime, here's a couple of pictures taken during the day.
A Putrajaya line metro arrives at the interchange station of Sungeh Boluh to the North West of the Klang valley. The picture was taken from atop yet another station multi-storey car park. This line is only part open. The majority of the route (which heads South-East) is due to open in March, which is unfortunate timing as I'll just miss it.
Here's what's known as a challenging work environment! I'd hate to have been the person putting the safety case together for this lot. This is the new Shah Alam metro line under construction at Glenmarie. Building over a live railway and roads complex whilst surrounded by pylons and high-voltage cables? Nice!
I know I've been concentrating on railway pictures these past few days – so much so that I've had a complaint from my sister! – but I promise to post some other stuff from Chinatown tomorrow. It's not that I haven't been taking any, it's just that they've not been a priority. Anyways, here goes…
This is the local fish and meat market which is tucked away down a series of alleys near where I'm staying. Public Health inspectors look away now.!
I've had another day exploring the changes around the Klang valley today which started by heading to the opposite end of the Kajang line to the one I'd previously explore. The route down to Kajang opened a few months after my last visit to Malaysia in 2017 so this was my first opportunity to explore. Starting at Pasir Seni station just outside my hotel, the route traverses the centre of KL underground with the first surface station being out at Taman Pertama. The line then runs above ground all the way to Kajang where the terminal station's built next to the KTMB 'Komuter' station. I found it a fascinating trip as I'd only ever explored that part of the Klang valley by conventional rail. What struck me was how much new building has been going on. We're not talking small, low-rise developments either. Take a look at this lot around Taman Pertama station! The picture was taken from the rooftop of a multi-storey carpark at the next station on the line.
At Kajang there was a similar car-park (both are part of the station infrastructure and billed as 'park and ride') that allowed me to get similar shots only with the advantage of having the conventional railway as a contrast..
A Kajang line service reaches the end of the line. The trains are from Siemens 'Inspiro' family. The bodyshells were built by CRRC Nanjing Puzhen and shipped to Malaysia where the vehicles were assembled. There's 58 four-car sets available to provide services on the line.
An Inspiro passes Cheras Christian Cemetery en-route to Kajang.
An Inspiro leaves Kajang and heads for the city centre seen in the background. You can just make out the twin Petronas Towers in the right background. What I find interesting about the Klang valley is that, despite all this development, it's still quite green – as can be seen from this picture. It's hilly and most of the hills are left untouched. The undergrowth's really quite thick too, almost qualifying as jungle, whilst other areas are more manicured.
Yet more new high rise developments under construction right next to a metro station. Note how these are normally built atop large car-parks, then have a garden area and shared facilities surrounding the actual tower blocks. Many of these complexes have direct access to the metro stations in the form of covered walkways.
as the trains are driverless passengers can get a grandstand view of the journey. Here I've blurred passing underneath central KL…
Needless to say, I've a lot more photos to edit and get on my Zenfolio site, this is just a taster. Now I'm back at the hotel after having a few hours people-watching in Chinatown. I'll elaborate on that tomorrow. Right now I'm about to switch off for the evening and relax. We've got another heavy thunderstorm hitting us this evening. We've had one every day since I arrived, but at least I'm out of harm's way as the rain is torrential! Time for an escapist film methinks…
Asian adventure day 9. Kuala Lumpur day 3
Posted by Paul Bigland in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Musings, Photography, Railways, Travel
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Musings, Photography, Railways, Travel
Having been pretty much confined to Chinatown these past few days so that I could catch up with picture-editing, blogging and financial stuff I spread my wings today. It wasn't difficult. My hotel room window looks out over the new Pasir Seni underground station on the Kajang line MRT. When I was last here this was still a building site as the central underground section of the new line had yet to open although some of the outlying (elevated) route had. Fast forward to 2023 and history repeats itself, today I used the station for the first time to travel on the first section of the Putrajaya line which only opened in June 2022.
I'm always impressed by the Klang valley metro networks. They're incredibly photogenic due to the fact most of the routes are elevated and they have amazing backdrops. They're also a massive investment in public transport which is desperately needed to stem the rise of car dependency and improve air quality in the valley. My one concern is that in the time I've seen the network grow I've also seen car use grow. Central KL's traffic jams appear to have got worse, not better and rail ridership remains low (not helped by the poor performance and cuts to the KTM 'Komuter' services. Here's an example of how photogenic the area is.
Metros everywhere! – seen from Kwasa Damansara MRT station. The new Putrajaya services are the trains painted red.
One of the beauties of these routes is that they're driverless, so passengers get to experience the best seat in the house that's normally reserved for the driver.
Having changed routes at Kwasa Damansara MRT station I travelled on the Putrajaya line as far as it currently open to the public, which is Kampung Batu, the interchange with KTM Komuter services from central KL to Batu Caves. What a contrast that was. KTM services have been reduced from every 30 mins to hourly, which is a PITH to be honest as they're not that reliable at the best of times. Still, I did manage to make it to Batu Caves where I grabbed this shot of the local passenger services whilst I waited to see if one of the cement trains would turn up.
I was lucky as soon after one of the popular 'Blue Tiger' locomotives turned up with a long cement train and immediately ran round to begin shunting.
The 'Blue Tiger' was designed and built by ADtranz. 20 of them were supplied to KTM back in 2003-04. They're probably the most reliable loco in the fleet. They're certainly the most popular – and the most powerful. The 'blue tigers' weren't a commercial success for ADtranz or Bombardier – who took them over. Only 61 were ever built.
Moving on from the caves my next stop was at Sentul which was the site of the railways main workshops – the Malayan Crewe that in its heyday was reported to have employed 5000 people. All that's long gone but there's still an EMU depot nearby and a few roads full of retired and redundant trains like this.
Literally put out to grass!…This is one of the Class 83 EMUs built by Hyundai and Marubeni in 1996. The 22 3-car sets were one of three different fleets that were the mainstay of KTM Komuter services until 2012 when the new Class 91 EMUs arrived from China. Many like this one are dumped and used as a source of spares to keep their sisters running as they're used on the 'Skypark' airport rail link and also work local services between Butterworth and Padang Besar and Butterworth – Padang Rengas.
In keeping with the colonial theme my final stop was at the magnificent but sadly fading former main station in Kuala Lumpur. I was rather shocked to see how tatty and underused the place is now. It used to be buzzing – even just 6 years ago. Now it's not just the buildings that are empty, the platforms are too…
Covid seems to have removed a lot of the traffic due to many of the nearby banks, offices and hotels having closed. This has been compounded by the opening of the new MRT route at Pasir Seni. Ironically, the two are linked by a new bridge but that sees hardly any traffic. The main station building is a delightful Indo Saracenic structure that used to house a hotel. I stayed there in 2009. It was very rundown but still quite an experience. Sadly, it closed in 2011. The restaurant on the ground floor has also gone. The concourse of the building became (yet another) half-hearted railway museum but that's disappeared too, leaving parts of the building occupied by a few railway staff and that's about it. Meanwhile, the structure's in slow decline. It's such a shame. There used to be regular daily freight services from sidings at the North end. Every evening a couple of bogie parcels vans would depart for the north but today I saw these sidings have been lifted, as have the others on the opposite side of the station where you could often find the odd loco stabled. On the bright side, these have been replaced by a pair of electrified tracks for stabling EMUs. Even so, it's a story of decline, not growth. I'll have more of a mooch around the building later this week.
Returning home I found the light had changed enough to finally allow me to get a decent picture of this major new addition to the KL skyline. Trying to gauge its size is difficult, especially up-close. That's my hotel at what appears to be the base of the tower. In reality it's at least 500m away! Having posted the picture on Twitter I've been informed that – at 118 floors tall this edifice is twice as big as the 'Shard' in London and is (in fact) the 2nd tallest building in the world!
After my travels I've had a quiet evening in, partly helped by the fact we had a very heavy thunderstorm with torrential rain, which was great fun to watch from my hotel room window, but it can't have been good for business for all the street-traders. Once it stopped I did nip out for food but Chinatown feels very subdued. I'm assuming people are keeping their powder dry for the forthcoming New Year celebrations – as am I!
Posted by Paul Bigland in Food and drink, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Musings, Photography, Travel
Food and drink, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Musings, Photography, Travel
Sorry folks, I've been spending much of today working my way through all the pictures I've taken this week which means the long blog about my rail trips being delayed. I've still got a lot of picture captions to do as there's not much point blogging about the trip if I can't identify the locations of some of the pictures. I've decided to have another day working from home here at Bigland Towers KL branch in order to clear the decks of everything I need to do.
To be honest, it's been lovely not to be under pressure. I was up at 06:00 and pottering around soon after as I had a load of washing to get sorted. Clothes don't get particularly dirty here, but they sure get sweat-soaked, so a constant rotation of fresh clothes makes life much more pleasant – both for me and anyone in my vicinity! At least stuff dries very quickly in the 30 degree heat…
Having done my dhobi duties I went for an early morning wander around Chinatown which is very quiet that time of day as most businesses are still shut. The empty streets gave me time to explore and look up and around which is how I realised just how much damage Covid has done to the Malaysian economy. Several very large high-rise hotels are now derelict having never reopened after lockdown. Some of the smaller ones succumbed too, including a few backpacker hotels and the associated bars frequented by their customers – like the well known 'reggae' bar. My tour through the backstreets showed me gaps where little stalls have vanished too. There used to be an old Chinese street barber on Jalan Sultan. He had a mirror fixed to the side of a building and a barbers chair bolted to the pavement and little else other tan a tiny metal sheet roof to protect his mirror and clippers from the rain. In truth, he was a miserable old bugger, he had a big sign up saying 'no photographs' and he refused to cut foreigners hair, but he'd been here for donkey's years. Now he, his mirror and his chair have vanished. But then so has much of the trade. Tourists are reappearing but the area's so much quieter than it used to be. The Chinese are starting to return, but the Russians are otherwise occupied at the moment and even the numbers of backpackers (or more likely 'flashpackers' nowadays) and European tourists are well down.
None of that prevents me feeling happy to be back and relaxing into life here. I spent a lot of time here 10 years ago as I was trying to get a lens repaired – but all the spares came from Thailand which had been devastated by floods, so it took weeks, but then I was working for the International Railway Journal then so took time to organise an interview with the (then) President of Malaysian Railways and spent an interesting couple of days with himself, his Senior Managers and other KTMB staff. Happy days!
So I feel quite at home here and I'm looking forward to wrapping up the bits I need to do before spending some more time exploring. In the meantime, here's a few pictures from today showing life in Chinatown.
This is where I eat. It's a great Malaysian street food place on Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock, just around the corner from the famous Jalan Petaling. It's run by a delightful Malaysian bunch like this woman who're only too happy to talk you through what's available. A massive mixed plate of rice, vegetables and a meat or fish dish will cost you around 7 ringgit 50, or £1.40! The food's delicious. You'll never go hungry here.
The alleys off the side streets are some of my favorites as you never know what little businesses you'll find tucked away in them. Here's a traditional Chinese food stall getting ready for the day (and they work long days) with the chap on the red stool cracking on with the washing up from the night before.
A sight that's become very common nowadays is pavement bric-a-brac stalls like this one as people sell stuff to help make ends meet.
A shot from this evening's perambulations. 10 years ago this street would have been chokka at this time of night…
If you're interested in seeing older pictures from Kuala Lumpur that I have in my archives, click on this link. Don't worry, they're not all of railways – honest!
I'm going to call it a day as this point in order to get back to picture editing. Expect more stories from KL tomorrow.
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rail ale
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Royal Wedding 2018
Rugby Observer
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Scores on the doors
Simon Heffer
Sleeper trains
Sowerby Bridge
Spectator magazine
St Pancras station
Station buffets
StopHs2
Teresa May
The 'Beast from the East'
The Daily Express
The end of the line
The Grauniad
The Great Central railway
The Moorcock Inn
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The Railway Children
The Rodelblitz
Tony Allen
Traffic congestion
Trans-Pennine electrification
Transport for Wales (TfW)
Twilight years
Twitter (and how not to use it)
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Victoria Prentis MP
Virgin West Coast
Vivarail
WCML
Wildlife Trusts
YorkshireStopHs2


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Dorukhan Toköz (ur. 21 maja 1996 w Eskişehirze) – turecki piłkarz grający na pozycji pomocnika w Trabzonsporze.

Kariera klubowa
Wychowanek Eskişehirsporu, w którym trenował od 2009 roku. W 2015 roku został włączony do pierwszej drużyny tego klubu, a w sierpniu 2017 przedłużył kontrakt do 2022 roku. W czerwcu 2018 podpisał trzyletni kontrakt z Beşiktaşem. W 2021 przeszedł do Trabzonsporu.

Kariera reprezentacyjna
Młodzieżowy reprezentant Turcji w kadrze U-21. W seniorskiej kadrze zadebiutował 22 marca 2019 w wygranym 2:0 meczu z Albanią, a pierwszego gola strzelił 11 czerwca 2019 w przegranym 1:2 spotkaniu z Islandią.

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Linki zewnętrzne
 Profil na stronie klubu

Reprezentanci Turcji w piłce nożnej
Piłkarze Eskişehirsporu
Piłkarze Beşiktaşu JK
Piłkarze Trabzonsporu
Urodzeni w 1996
Ludzie urodzeni w Eskişehirze
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw Europy w Piłce Nożnej 2020

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East Anglian Daily Times > News > Business
Social responsibility award for brewer
Published: 11:20 AM November 15, 2007
Updated: 2:50 AM February 18, 2021
SOUTHWOLD-based brewer and leisure retailer Adnams has won the Corporate Social Responsibility category at this year's National Business Awards, sponsored by Orange.
Adnams scooped the title at a glittering ceremony at London's Grosvenor House Hotel, hosted by Sir Trevor McDonald in front of 1,200 business leaders, VIPs and press.
The company is best known for its range of beers, including Adnams Bitter, Broadside and Explorer, which are now sold in pubs and supermarkets nationwide, but also operates its own pub estate, the Swan and Crown hotels in Southwold, the Cellar & Kitchen Store retail chain and a wine business.
Adnams views CSR as a way of doing business rather than a series of initiatives.
Placing emphasis on good community relations, it founded the Adnams Charity to celebrate its centenary anniversary and endeavours to aid its community wherever possible. Initiatives include supporting the local high school, donating to charities in the area and helping cleaning Southwold beach.
Other steps taken include building a new distribution facility on the outskirts of the town, built to the highest environmental specifications, and has also designed a new lightweight bottle which will further reduce the firm's carbon emissions by 415 tonnes per year.
Neil Laidler, director of enterprise, Orange Business Services said: "All the winners of the National Business Awards like Adnams demonstrate drive, passion and optimism for business. We are proud to be associated with such successful British business talent and congratulate Adnams and all of the other winners on achieving this fantastic accolade."

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The New Tees and uniforms are in production. The Platinum however is still an enigma.
Stotler's team, Herb, Levi and Brady are on her now. We have all the pieces to the puzzle. Herb has done such a phenomenal job engineering and dialing in these Turbos with a meager budget. I wish I could provide him more funding and am very appreciative of all his efforts. I couldn't be in better hands.
Stotler Racing & Custom Marine The Best!
Serious poker runners are going to be all over Herb once they see the performance vs expense and maintenance. Stotler's power units are an all round bargain in the world of exotic marine propulsion.
More power, more torque, less maintenance, less octane, fewer rebuilds. Stotler Turbo.


1.Dependance of ambient sounds from daytime and weather is added.
2.Additional phrases for soviet infantry.
3.New explosions and collision sounds (sounds of impact with obstacles).
4.New ambient sounds (cannonades, etc).
5.New sounds for all the weapons (except for Maxim machinegun).
New sounds are from "Close Combat 3", "Close Combat 5" and "Theatre of War" games.
Be the first person to review Front Sound Mod v1.01 [English].


Q: How long has DJ's Painting & Remodeling Inc. been in business?
A: Our company was founded in 1991 by David Juarez. He began the business while attending Illinois State University, using his previous painting and management work experience in the Chicago suburbs during his summer breaks. The company immediately expanded their services to include remodeling and construction services due to customer demands and requests. Today, our full-service design and remodeling team includes highly qualified carpenters, electricians, plumbers, audio-visual specialists and decorators. Headquartered in Bloomington-Normal, we proudly offer our dedicated service and attention to detail to customer throughout Central Illinois.
A: Every member of our team is covered by Workman's Compensation and General Liability insurance, fully protecting our customers. In addition, we carry additional umbrella liability insurance for your protection and peace of mind.
A: Our staff will be happy to provide you with a list of our satisfied customers. We encourage you to contact any of our references, which may include someone you already know!
A: Our prices are very competitive with other insured, quality painters and remodelers in the area. If you do see a difference in price, it is most likely due to our commitment to thorough preparation and quality. In order to get the most accurate estimate possible, please contact us to schedule a free consultation for your project.
A: Before any work begins, we will present you with a highly detailed contract to be signed with us. This thorough listing will let you know exactly what you are paying for, and eliminates the additional charges often found when dealing with other less-reputable companies.
Q: How will my project be supervised?
A: Every project is immediately assigned a team leader. This person will conduct an initial on-site walk-through and will create a set of objectives and goals. Once work begins, the team leader will provide our office with multiple progress reports every day along with required daily on-site inspections. This thoroughness results in our high standard of quality and complete satisfaction.
A: We are proud to be a full service painting and remodeling company. Our skilled team can handle any project, from minor screen repairs and paint touch-ups to complete room makeovers and roofing jobs. Contact us today to schedule a FREE consultation to discuss your project ideas.
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A: We strive to create the minimal amount of disruption possible for our clients. That's why, at the end of every day, we clean and vacuum all areas involved in the project. Entire-housing cleaning services are available upon completion of your project if requested.
Q: Can DJ's Painting & Remodeling, Inc. help me with color and interior design services?
A: We understand how overwhelming and consuming projects can appear to be. Our team will gladly work with you on color selection, and our strong relationships with area architects and interior designers allows us to recommend the perfect professional to match your individual taste and style.
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A: Because every job is unique, we will provide you with a detailed outline covering the responsibilities of both parties before any work begins. In most cases, you only need to remove any small collectibles, pictures, and valuable items; we will take care of the rest.
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A: Yes, we offer our clients a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Our company's reputation for quality and efficiency is based upon your complete satisfaction with our services. We will sit down with you and discuss your expectations before a contract is signed, ensuring that all of your needs and wants are completed to your satisfaction.
A: If you are looking for a warranty on your painting project, you need to rely on an experienced painting contractor as product warranties are difficult to prove and claim. DJ's Painting offers a warranty to show responsibility for the quality of the job we perform, providing you with a detailed listing of the aspects of a job that are covered and those that are not. As a professional contractor, our warranty is based on the details of the job, how it's performed, and the types of products used. Damage or abuse caused after the completion of a job, as well as the condition and design affects of your home on the paint job, will not be covered by a painting contractor. A reasonable warranty for most exterior paint jobs is 1 year, while most interior paint jobs will not require a warranty as they last for many years.
A: For most projects, we require a 10% security deposit at time of contract with the balance due upon completion of the project, payable by cash or check. For larger jobs, we provide our clients with a payment schedule.
Q: I'm ready to get a quote! What do I do?
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Q: Pandas: Calculate true positive rate for each row I have a dataframe like this, with one column being the label and the other columns being predictions
    label   pred1   pred2   pred3
0   Apple   Apple  Orange   Apple
1  Orange  Orange  Orange  Orange

I would like to extend this dataframe with the true positive rate (TP/TP+FN) for each row. This column should look like this:
   Score
0   0.66
1   1.00

I am unsure on how to go on about this. Are there pandas functions that would help with this task?
Executable code: https://www.online-python.com/WP7wbgcqMS

A: Here is one approach where we convert the data to long format and check if the label equals the prediction.  The average of the True/False values will be your Score.
import pandas as pd

d = {'Label': ['Apple','Orange'], 'pred1': ['Apple','Orange'], 'pred2': ['Orange','Orange'], 'pred3': ['Apple','Orange']}
df = pd.DataFrame(data=d)

df = df.melt(id_vars='Label', value_name='pred')
df['match'] = df['Label'].eq(df['pred'])
df.groupby('Label')['match'].mean().reset_index(name='Score')

Output
    Label     Score
0   Apple  0.666667
1  Orange  1.000000

A: maybe like this
temp = df.T.apply(lambda x: x[0]==x).astype(int)
(temp.sum()-1)/(temp.count()-1)

Out:

0    0.666667
1    1.000000

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Jozin may refer to:
 Jozin, Iran
 Józin, Sochaczew County, Poland
 Józin, Sokołów County, Poland


Viewers unfamiliar with Parade's End are in distinguished company. When the BBC approached Tom Stoppard with a view to adapting Ford Madox Ford's doorstop tetralogy, Britain's most garlanded playwright hadn't read it, either. "It's one of those classics that never really achieved mass readership," he says.
Stoppard, author of award-winning plays such as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Arcadia, is much in demand by Hollywood – he won an Oscar for co-writing Shakespeare in Love and is often called in as "script doctor" (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Bourne Ultimatum). However, it's more than 20 years since his last foray into British TV – 1989's original screenplay The Dog It Was That Died.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Newtonsoft.Json;

namespace RiotSharp.StaticDataEndpoint
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Class representing a spell of a champion (Static API).
    /// </summary>
    [Serializable]
    public class ChampionSpellStatic
    {
        internal ChampionSpellStatic() { }

        /// <summary>
        /// List of alternative images.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("altimages")]
        public List<ImageStatic> Altimages { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// List of the cooldowns for each level of the spell.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("cooldown")]
        public List<float> Cooldowns { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// String representing the cooldowns for each level of the spell.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("cooldownBurn")]
        public string CooldownBurn { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// List of the costs for each level of the spell.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("cost")]
        public List<int> Costs { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// String representing the costs for each level of the spell.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("costBurn")]
        public string CostBurn { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Type of cost (mana, energy, percentage of current health, etc).
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("costType")]
        public string CostType { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Description of the spell.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("description")]
        public string Description { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Effects of the spell (damage, etc). This field is a List of List of Integer.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("effect")]
        public List<List<double>> Effects { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// String representing the effects of the spell.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("effectBurn")]
        public List<string> EffectBurns { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Image of the spell.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("image")]
        public ImageStatic Image { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        ///  String identifying a spell (champion's name + key to activate the spell, example: "AatroxQ".
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("key")]
        public string Key { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Tooltip when leveling up this spell.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("levelTip")]
        public LevelTipStatic LevelTip { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Maximum rank of this spell.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("maxRank")]
        public int MaxRank { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Name of this spell.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("name")]
        public string Name { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// This field is either a List of Integer or the String 'self' for spells that target one's own champion.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("range")]
        public object Range { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// String representing the range for each level of the spell.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("rangeBurn")]
        public string RangeBurn { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// String representing the cost for the champion when using this spell (example: "{{ e3 }}% of Current
        /// Health".
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("resource")]
        public string Resource { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Sanitized (HTML stripped) description of the spell.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("sanitizedDescription")]
        public string SanitizedDescription { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Sanitized (HTML stripped) tooltip of the spell.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("sanitizedTooltip")]
        public string SanitizedTooltip { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Tooltip for this spell.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("tooltip")]
        public string Tooltip { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Various effects of this spell.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("vars")]
        public List<SpellVarsStatic> Vars { get; set; }
    }
}

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Railways Ground is a multi-use stadium in Faisalabad, Pakistan.  It is primarily used for football and is currently the home ground of Lyallpur FC in Pakistan Premier League. The stadium holds 10,000 spectators. people.

References

Football venues in Pakistan


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Hazari može značiti:

 Hazari, narod
 Hazari (zvjezdane staze), agresivna rasa u serijalu Zvjezdane staze (Zvjezdane staze: Voyager)


0221 utc Music, maybe organs?
Lightnin' is messing with the reception.
0233 "Along Comes Mary" by The Association S-5/7 with slow deep fades.
Thanks for the show, J.Poet. Real nice sounding signal at S9 and getting close to +10. Signal is on 6925.55 AM.
Pictures of Matchstick Men playing now. Good stuff.
Sep 11/ 6925.5 AM / 0229-0300+.
Selection of 60s rock music by The Association, The Byrds, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Jefferson Airplane, Status Quo, Ted Nugent/Amboy Dukes, and much more.
Despite heavy noise from my location here in Omaha, copy was much easier tonight on this frequency than the the usual 6876 I normally hear this station.
Noise, however, eventually overtook the station by ~0300.
S7 carrier being seen, no use-able audio heard.
Usually on 6876 I can hear you, or at least get some signal.
Chalk it up to the propagation gods.


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Cabela's African Adventures
Cabela's African Adventures game information, screenshot, videos and reviews. Check Cabela's African Adventures details.
Website: http://www.activisionhunt.com
Publishers: Activision Blizzard, Activision Value Publishing,
Developers: Activision, Cauldron, Fun Labs,
Genres: Action, Shooter, Sports,
Platforms: Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC
Frequenty Asked Questons about Cabela's African Adventures
What is the release date of Cabela's African Adventures?
Cabela's African Adventures was released on October 15, 2013.
Which platform is Cabela's African Adventures available on?
Cabela's African Adventures is available on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC.
What is the age rating of Cabela's African Adventures available on?
Teen.
Who is the developer of Cabela's African Adventures?
Activision, Cauldron, Fun Labs, .
Who is the publisher of Cabela's African Adventures?
Activision Blizzard, Activision Value Publishing, .


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Batracomorphus diomede är en insektsart som beskrevs av Knight 1983. Batracomorphus diomede ingår i släktet Batracomorphus och familjen dvärgstritar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

Dvärgstritar
diomede


A set of 15 screens designed for your needs. Explore your personal or business transactions. Track employees income and outcome spending. Check beautiful graphs render from available data.
A set of 15 screens designed for your needs. Explore your personal or business transactions. Track employees income and outcome spendings. Check beautiful graphs render from available data.


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In a recent interview with the U.K. radio station Planet Rock, METALLICA frontman James Hetfield spoke about guitarist Kirk Hammett's...
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine was recently asked by TeamRock to offer his critique of "Hardwire... To Self-Destruct" and this is what...
Yesterday, Metallica has streamed all the new songs from their album "Hardwire.. To Self Destruct" every two hours. The first three...
Happy Halloween and happy "Atlas, Rise!" day! Metallica made good on their promise to release a new song on Halloween, with "Atlas,...
James Hetfield: 'I Don't Know Why We Waited So Long'
Around 500 METALLICA fans were lucky enough to attend a special question-and-answer session with the four members of the band on October...
Metallica will stream new track Atlas, Rise! on Halloween
Metallica have announced that they'll release their new single Atlas, Rise! on Halloween. It'll be the third track lifted from their...


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Q: MD RAID Array Often Starts Without All Drives I find that, when I start/restart my system, my MD array often doesn't start with all of the drives even though the device-names haven't changed at all.
I'll have to stop the array and reassemble it, and then it will start and mount like it should. Why is it so willing to start without all of the devices? It's been this way for about a year (it only gets restarted every month or two).
There doesn't appear to be any MD-related logging from before the shutdown but this appears to be from during the startup:
May 24 11:48:20 dustinhub mdadm[1843]: DeviceDisappeared event detected on md device /dev/md/0
May 24 11:54:38 dustinhub kernel: md: md0 stopped.
May 24 11:54:38 dustinhub kernel: md: unbind<sdh1>
May 24 11:54:38 dustinhub kernel: md: export_rdev(sdh1)
May 24 11:54:38 dustinhub kernel: md: unbind<sdi1>
May 24 11:54:38 dustinhub kernel: md: export_rdev(sdi1)
May 24 11:54:38 dustinhub kernel: md: unbind<sdc1>
May 24 11:54:38 dustinhub kernel: md: export_rdev(sdc1)
May 24 11:54:38 dustinhub kernel: md: unbind<sdb1>
May 24 11:54:38 dustinhub kernel: md: export_rdev(sdb1)
May 24 11:54:38 dustinhub kernel: md: unbind<sdd1>
May 24 11:54:38 dustinhub kernel: md: export_rdev(sdd1)
May 24 11:54:39 dustinhub kernel: md: md0 stopped.
May 24 11:54:39 dustinhub kernel: md: bind<sdf1>
May 24 11:54:39 dustinhub kernel: md: bind<sdg1>
May 24 11:54:39 dustinhub kernel: md: bind<sdh1>
May 24 11:54:39 dustinhub kernel: md: bind<sdi1>
May 24 11:54:39 dustinhub kernel: md: bind<sde1>
May 24 11:54:39 dustinhub kernel: md/raid:md0: device sde1 operational as raid disk 0
May 24 11:54:39 dustinhub kernel: md/raid:md0: device sdi1 operational as raid disk 4
May 24 11:54:39 dustinhub kernel: md/raid:md0: device sdh1 operational as raid disk 3
May 24 11:54:39 dustinhub kernel: md/raid:md0: device sdg1 operational as raid disk 2
May 24 11:54:39 dustinhub kernel: md/raid:md0: device sdf1 operational as raid disk 1
May 24 11:54:39 dustinhub kernel: md/raid:md0: allocated 0kB
May 24 11:54:39 dustinhub kernel: md/raid:md0: raid level 5 active with 5 out of 5 devices, algorithm 2
May 24 11:54:39 dustinhub kernel: md0: detected capacity change from 0 to 12002359508992
May 24 11:54:39 dustinhub mdadm[1843]: NewArray event detected on md device /dev/md0
May 24 11:54:39 dustinhub kernel:  md0: unknown partition table


Have you noticed dwarfs in public places? I'm sure that yes. When we saw a dwarf we feel uncomfortable and I think that small people also are tired of prying eyes and a lot of children's questions. Today our academic editing service decided to tell you about one group of dwarfs which created another life for themselves. They separated from society and built the real fairyland. They live there in reality and every day give two performances for the tourists. They earn money and are happy on that they can live their lives in a separate world, where there are no big people. Do you want to feel like a real Gulliver? Let's visit the fairyland of dwarfs in China. If this text will seem exciting for you, you can order the other essays wherever you want. We know that students have different life situations and we are not interesting in them but always offer our help.
Prima facie, Chinese town Kunming is the ordinary place where live the ordinary people. But in reality, it has one peculiarity – the unordinary village full of small people. Dwarfs have a difficult life in our world and they are tired of eternal ridicule from people, misunderstandings in transport and in other areas of life. And at this place they are almost happy and feel like full people. So, they fairyland of dwarfs is not the fantasy or fiction, it is the real village near the Kunming (Yunnan province) and here live 120 dwarfs. The youngest if 18 years old and the oldest is 48.
The kingdom of dwarfs appeared thanks to the successful Chinese businessman Chen Mintszin, who sympathized with poor people greatly. He imagined what a difficult life they had in the big cities and created the way to help the small people. Despite their growth, they are normal people who want to eat and to drink, who need money and want to go to work. There were thousands of opinions about the creating of such village. Some people considered it to be the real freak show but others are sure, it's a great way for small people to self-actualize.
If you listen to the dwarfs themselves you will understand that they are very happy here. They feel comfortable in their funny clothes and tiny fairy houses. In their own world there is no place for the big people with their laws. Every day they meet only with tourists that are rather admired with dwarfs.
You are wrong if you think that this village is something like the big circus. No, it is the real small town with the hospital, school, café, shops (including the souvenir shop and even flower shop), police and fire service. The entire infrastructure was created specifically for small people. Their life is quite real here, they go to work, ride bikes, go for a walk, go shopping, meet each other etc. They are busy here, they feel that somebody need them and that is why everyone is happy.
It seems to me that all the fairy and little houses dwarfs built themselves. Houses are built in the form of mushrooms and trees. They are tiny but very comfortable. Dwarfs are happy to organize a special country tour for curious tourists. Each small person is dressed in theatrical costumes. Here you can meet a lot of Dwarves, elves, monks, angels, businessmen, centurions and even celebrities. It is the main part of their life. Twice a day there is a special performance here called the "Dwarfs kingdom" and in such a way they earn money. When they have dree time they play poker and badminton, learn English at free lessons and have a great time with their neighborhoods.
Whether it was a gesture of kindness or the next attempt to make money on the people?
One of the citizens told that as they are small people, and are used to the fact that the big people pushed around them and exploit them. There are no big people in our village. And everything we do, we do with great pleasure for ourselves. The town of little people became a local landmark, a kind of amusement park for tourists. If the small man or woman wants to live there they know about the main rule – the growth should not be more than 130 cm. The city was created in 2009 at that time talented dwarfs gave the first performances. The first citizens came to the village on April 2013 and since that time the city became very successful. It was a great project and a kind gesture of kindness for people who have no place in a large modern world. Those people who think that Chen Mingjing is profiting from someone else's grief are wrong. But Mr. Chen is adamant and he knows the true motives of his act.
All the actors are serious about their work. They work a lot, have a lot of rehearsals, learn the roles etc. They understand that it is the type of their life and are thankful for it. Read also about the signs that it's high time for you to change the job - http://livecustomwriting.com/blog/stop-its-high-time-to-quit-job. In average every small actor has about 100-250 euro per months. It is great money for them and often all the dwarfs save them as they don't need to pay for the flat or food. Everything for them is free. They live not in private houses but in ordinary hostels. They have the shared kitchens where food is prepared for all of the citizens. In general these people are very friendly.
I can't understand those people who are afraid of dwarfs and don't want to visit such places. What are you thinking about? Do you want these poor people to live in special districts or cages? They are real people and they work as actors of mere motion. They are happy doing it! They are not alone across the whole country, they live among the same people, everyone is equal, no ridicule, humiliation, insults and pain. In one Ukrainian tourist city Lvov you can visit the special café called Legends House (you are able to read more about the restaurants in the USA http://livecustomwriting.com/blog/most-popular-quick-service-restaurants-in-the-usa). This is not the usual café and among waiters and waitresses there are a lot of dwarfs. Such was the idea of the restaurant director and I think that small people are thankful for the opportunity to have the real and well-paid job.
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(White Plains, New York--October 11, 2016) The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers® (SMPTE®), the organization whose standards work has supported a century of technological advances in entertainment technology, today announced that filmmaker, innovator and entrepreneur Douglas Trumbull, this year's recipient of the SMPTE Progress Medal, will join SMPTE President Robert Seidel, vice president of engineering and advanced technology at CBS, in presenting the opening keynote at the SMPTE 2016 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition (SMPTE 2016) on Oct. 25 in Hollywood, California. Composer and researcher Daniel Teruggi, director of the Research and Experimentation Department at the National Audiovisual Institute in Paris and recipient of this year's SMPTE Archival Technology Medal Award, will present the SMPTE 2016 Symposium keynote on the preceding day, Oct. 24.
The SMPTE 2016 Annual Technical Conference keynote will discuss the past, present, and future of media and entertainment technology and supporting standards work, a key theme for SMPTE 2016. Trumbull will depict the evolution of cinema technology, from Cinerama and Cinemascope to immersive experiences including virtual and augmented reality, and will present never-before-seen clips from his work developing a 3D 120 fps cinema system called Magi. Seidel then will continue demonstrating the evolution of broadcast technology by providing a glimpse back in time with remarkable outtakes of John Glenn's return from space and a highlight reel illustrating the benefits of digital television. He will also discuss current trends such as 4K television and over-the-top (OTT) streaming services, and then look ahead to what may be in store for the future.
"With their incredible experience and transformative involvement in the evolution of media consumption, Doug and Bob can provide a truly unique overview of the tremendous achievements our industry has made over the past century — and they'll also offer an informed look ahead at what we might accomplish in the next 100 years," said Barbara Lange, SMPTE executive director. "We are proud to open our centennial year Annual Technical Conference with a joint keynote from these two industry leaders."
Trumbull's career in filmmaking and entertainment technologies includes pioneering work as a photographic effects supervisor on "2001: A Space Odyssey" and on subsequent titles such as "The Andromeda Strain," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," and "Blade Runner." He has also directed the feature films "Silent Running" and "Brainstorm," contributed to the design of groundbreaking theme park attractions, and invented simulation ride technology. In the 1990s he helped to bring IMAX into the commercial feature film marketplace. Now through Trumbull Studios, he is pushing the boundaries of the giant screen, higher frame rates (HFR), extreme-brightness 3D and virtual digital production with his revolutionary Magi process.
Trumbull holds more than 20 patents, including one for the first entertainment simulator ride, "Back to the Future: The Ride" at Universal Studios theme parks, and another for the Academy Award®-winning Showscan® process for high-speed 70 mm cinematography. He was recently awarded the coveted Gordon E. Sawyer Academy Award for his contributions to cinema technology, and at the Oct. 28 SMPTE Centennial Gala, he will join James Cameron in accepting SMPTE's top honors. Trumbull will receive the SMPTE Progress Medal, and Cameron will receive Honorary Membership.
Over his career at CBS, Seidel has played a key role in the evolution of the network's broadcast technology. He directed the design and installation of the CBS Broadcast Origination Center and later led the engineering team that made broadcasting history on July 23, 1996, when WRAL-HD, the CBS affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina, became the first television station to transmit in high-definition (HD). He has received an Emmy® Award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for his innovation in portable satellite uplink systems used for worldwide news gathering, and in 2014 he received the National Association of Broadcasters Television Engineering Achievement Award.
The SMPTE 2016 Symposium also will provide a glimpse into the future. The daylong program, titled "Preserving Stories for the Future: A Technology Perspective," will kick off with Teruggi's keynote.
Teruggi has been the coordinator of the FP6 European project PrestoSpace, devoted to the development of new technology for digital preservation, and the FP7 European project PrestoPRIME, dedicated to the long-term preservation of digital audiovisual content. He is a member of the Europeana project and Foundation and general secretary of the International Federation of Audiovisual Archives (FIAT/IFTA). Within these projects, new technological devices and new methods for digitization and long-term preservation were successfully developed with many industrial applications and developments. Teruggi has composed nearly 80 works, mainly for the concert and always using electroacoustic devices with or without acoustic instruments. He is the author of numerous research articles on sound and musical perception, and musical analysis. Teruggi is a founding member of the International Electroacoustic Musical Studies network.
"On SMPTE's 100th anniversary, it's fascinating to see how much technology has transformed not only the way we tell stories but also how we preserve them," said Andrea Kalas, president of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and program chair for the SMPTE 2016 Symposium. "With Daniel's presentation, the Association of Moving Image Archivists is happy to pay tribute to SMPTE's role in preserving heritage by bringing to the symposium a fascinating set of discussions on the changing role of the archives in 2016. Why restore films anymore, how do you archive a video game, and what does archiving have to do with human biology? These are just a few of the provocative sessions. We look forward to some lively discussion."
Full SMPTE 2016 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition registration is required to attend the Opening Keynote by Trumbull and Seidel, and registration for the SMPTE 2016 Symposium is necessary to attend Teruggi's keynote. SMPTE Centennial Gala tickets are available for separate purchase or along with conference registration packages.
Further information about SMPTE 2016, the 2016 Symposium, and the SMPTE Centennial Gala is available at www.smpte2016.org. Additional information about SMPTE is available at www.smpte.org.


Many people groups have no voice today. These verses describe them as dispossessed, oppressed, and needy. What groups come to mind when you read those descriptions?
Follow social media to stay informed. Two suggestions include @WorldVision and @Samaritan'sPurse.
Share news to raise awareness and to encourage prayer and support. Go beyond following by sharing and creating dialogue.
Support efforts financially. You can sponsor a child through monthly gifts or give to trustworthy organizations giving these groups a voice.
Consider a short-term missions trip to put hands to your voice. Who says vacation can't be about speaking up for the voiceless?
Consider getting more involved in the future with a second career or during retirement. A full lifer has much to offer to the growing lifer.


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Madonna's new clip: the apocalypse hits, but all she wants to do is dance
By creammagazine, April 9, 2015
Madonna debuted the video for her new single Ghosttown this morning via indie app Meerkat – and the clip is one slick little production.
Looking like it's been airbrushed to the Nth degree, Madge looks all of 22 years of age, gallivanting in heels and a cape like she never learnt that lesson falling off stage at the Grammys.
The clip shows a post-apocalyptic scenario where streets of New York have been blasted to rubble and dust. And so what's there left to do when the end of the world is nigh? Kick up a storm and dance, if Madonna gets her way.
Joining her in a tango or two is actor Terrence Howard who featured in such prominent films as Dead Presidents and Mr Holland's Opus and scored a Best Actor Academy Award nomination for his role in Hustle & Flow.
We're not certain what all this dancing post-apocalypse is about but, once again, thanks to the beauty of video airbrush, its one pretty little picture. Antonino Tati
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This guest blog post is provided by Export Development Canada (EDC), Canada's export credit agency, which provides financing, insurance and bonding solutions to help Canadian companies respond to international business opportunities.
What is the biggest barrier for Canada's small businesses in growing their sales abroad? According to a 2008 Conference Board of Canada Study, and echoed by Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (CME)'s 2014 Management Issues Survey, the biggest challenge SMEs face is identifying good market opportunities.
It's also what Export Development Canada (EDC) is hearing from its customers. Smaller Canadian companies need information — plain and simple — on opportunities in various countries and in their area of expertise. And they need to know how to access procurement opportunities. Otherwise, it's challenging for many to even know where to start. At the same time, research shows that exporting can help companies improve productivity and help businesses stay in business longer.
Put yourselves in their shoes: A typical Canadian SME, especially the very small one, is likely struggling in the domestic market right now. It's easy to say, 'start selling into Europe or emerging markets,' but many of them just don't know where to start. It can be pretty intimidating.
To that effect, EDC partnered with CME to build the Enterprise Canada Network (ECN), a web site that allows Canadian companies to register and connect to business, technology and research opportunities posted in the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) and other databases, in order to build global partnerships.
Essentially, ECN is a one-stop shop for SMEs looking to sell their goods and services. ECN can help these companies find business leads and educate them on the ABCs and 123s of going into specific markets. The platform connects Canadian businesses and researchers to qualified global procurement opportunities so that, in theory, a Canadian company can find its next business partner at the click of a mouse. But it's not as simple as a matchmaking dating site; there's a lot of work involved upfront. The country partners (e.g. CME in Canada) have done a lot of background work to ensure the fit is a good one for both parties before an introduction is made.
The overall objective is pretty clear: to help Canadian companies find new market opportunities and grow domestically and abroad. And we're pretty confident ECN will do just that.


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Is MQCC™ LearnItRightCrypto.com "Soliciting Investments", "Providing Advice on", "Investing in", "Buying or Selling Securities"?
MQCC LearnItRightCrypto.com is a global education initiative of MQCC.org, a division of MortgageQuote Canada Corp. (MQCC); a Canada-based company which operates a real estate lending, real estate investing and real estate credit intermediation business model in the Canadian "provincial" jurisdictions named: Alberta, British Columbia (BC) and Ontario (ON). As a real estate credit intermediary, MQCC trades primarily in the highly specialized field of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Private (Non-Institutional, Non-Syndicated, Non-Regulated) Equity Mortgage (PEM®) brand of mortgage transactions.
As a real estate credit intermediary, MQCC is licensed by real estate finance regulators in Alberta (RECA - the Real Estate Council of Alberta); British Columbia (the Financial Institutions Commission of BC); and, Ontario (FSCO - the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (License #12279). Pursuant to regulatory rights and permissions, MQCC is free to discuss matters related to: "Soliciting Investments", "Providing Advice on", "Investing in", "Buying or Selling Securities" so long as the securities are classified as non-pooled (ie: non-syndicated) private equity "mortgage securities"; synonymous with the term "real estate secured debt securities". MQCC does not trade in non-real estate secured securities, nor does MQCC trade in the investments promoted public capital markets (reporting and non-reporting issuers).
MQCC does not sell ICO initial coin offerings; it does not sell cryptotokens; it does not solicit investments from the capital markets for non-real estate secured financial instruments.
MQCC pioneered world's first application of blockchain principals to the finance sector (to develop a peer-to-peer electronic debt system in order to enable peer-to-peer binary digit mortgage transactions without having to go through a bank) at least as early as May 9, 2005 (visit www.bitmortgage.com to see a cursory-level white paper on the matter).
MQCC pioneered the world's first "cryptofinance system" to effect binary digit real estate secured peer-to-peer (& private) lending and investing transactions. The term "peer-to-peer" is synonymously known as "cryptolending"; "private lending" or "Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Lending"; and it's obverse: "cryptoinvesting"; "private investing" or "Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Investing" (learn more at the cursory-level white paper on the matter at www.bitmortgage.com).
Definition of "Crypto"
As explained in the MQCC cursory-level white paper on the matter at www.bitmortgage.com; the term "crypto" when applied in vocabulary words, means "secret" .
In the context of finance, or industry, MQCC educates persons on the principles of "crypto" or "secret" financial systems, technology, products and services.
CRYPTO DOES NOT MEAN INVESTMENT or SECURITIES.
Dictionary Definition of "Crypto":
crypto [krip-toh]
1. secret or hidden; not publicly admitted.
2. a combining form meaning "hidden," "secret," used in the formation of compound words:
cryptograph.
Also especially before a vowel, crypt-.
Origin of crypto-
combining form representing Greek kryptós hidden.
See crypt
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Why Trust MQCC LearnItRightCrypto.com for your bitcoin, cryptocurrency and blockchain-related learning needs?
Well, for one thing, MQCC.org is internationally recognized for developing the world's first ISO 9001:2015 registered, blockchain (proof-of-work) technology for application in the finance sector, on May 9, 2008. (See www.mqcc.org or www.bitmortgage.org).
Further, MQCC™'s blockchain technology is the only one in the world which is continuously certified to ISO 9001:2015, since May 9, 2008, which means MQCC ensures "that materials, products, processes and services are fit for their purpose."
The ISO 9001:2015 certification is recognized for consumer safety, by federal government departments and agencies in 119 countries.
Why have I not heard of MQCC or LearnItRightCrypto.com, earlier?
There was no need to; but with the increase in global demand and exponential price increases in 2017, the marketplace needs a trusted provider of information in matters relating to bitcoin, cryptocurrency and blockchain.
Why is MQCC introducing itself now?
You are incorrect. MQCC has "always" been introducing itself. Remember, MQCC is a functioning business with divisions in finance, systems, technology and consulting. Between pre-2005 and 2007, after discovering the base sequences that led to the development of blockchain technology (techniques, skills, methods and processes) and subsequent systems (MQCC Blockchain System™) the objective was to achieve global public recognition without disclosing the underlying intellectual property. This was effected through public registration of MQCC's end-to-end business operations, at an enterprise level (operations, conformity and audit) to the consensus based, internationally recognized, Quality Management Systems Standard: ISO 9001:2000, on May 9, 2008. The MQCC Quality Management System is branded as the "Unified Quality Management System uQMS™ and governed the operations of MQCC's financial services related to loans, mortgages, investments, wealth management, peer-to-peer and private investing-lending and brokerage services.
MQCC uses it's blockchain systems and technology to create financial products and conformity systems for all industry groups (conformity systems reduce financial losses, improved customer satisfaction and continually improve in a manner that ensures that statutory, regulatory and process (SRP™) requirements are met.
Through the passage of time, MQCC marketed it's uQMS™ built on the MQCC Blockchain System™ to Canadian and International finance sector participants and launched a comparatively aggressive public relations campaign to heads of Canadian and International Federal, Provincial and Regional departments, agencies, regulatory bodies and industry bodies (most public relations correspondence or contact information is listed at that about.mqcc.org page).
To be honest, nobody cared; or did not have time to understand our claims. Indeed, MQCC proved, that it would save some "publicly traded" Canadian banks non-trivial financial savings on a per year-basis through reduced material inefficiencies caused by reduction of statutory, regulatory and process non-conformity, yet no-one cared.
When the bicoin brand of cryptocurrency reached $19,000.00 from $1000.00 in less than 12 months, lay persons and retail consumers started paying attention to what was happening, MQCC decided to reach out to the public and show you how to correctly understand concepts of blockchain.
What proof do you have that you developed the blockchain before "Satoshi Nakamoto" and own the Bitmortgage®
visit www.bitmortgage®.com; this will explain all of the aspects; namely certification of the MQCC peer-to-peer mortgage lending business process [using blockchain systems and technology] certification to ISO 9001:2000 publicly published on May 9, 2008.
visit www.mqcc.org to learn about the MQCC ISO 9001:2000 certificate published on May 9, 2008; 6 months before "Satoshi Nakamoto" published the peer-to-peer electronic cash document.
As of today, we ask all interested parties to email info@mqcc.org with your contact information. MQCC™ will be hosting information sessions on individual, small-group and large-group basis, globally, over the passage of time. At present, we are only entertaining one-on-one information sessions and compiling a list of interested individuals for group meetings.
Does MQCC LearnItRightCrypto.com have an online training program?
Not today. Presently, all presentations are done in "real-time", in closed door sessions in the MQCC appointment offices in Calgary, Canada.
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Remember: In matters of Commerce, the knowledge you gain is the knowledge you earned; the operative meaning of the terms: "crypto", "private" and "peer-to-peer" is SECRET. Consider this point, as you discover the world of cryptofinance and MQCC.
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