I had always wanted to try Mamak in the city however never made it there and didn't really fancy having to queue for hours outside. If you haven't heard of Mamak it is a Malaysian restaurant which is renowned for having amazing food, hence the constant queue to get a seat!
I was therefore very excited to hear that Mamak was to be opening in Chatswood in Eat Street. In their own words, Eat Street is a new addition to the Chatswood eating scene, and is located at 1-5 Railway Street. To date the restaurants that have opened on 'Eat Street' are Mamak, Crazy Wings, Bavarian Bier Cafe, Rocket Restaurant, Three Beans Cafe and Izakaya Arigato with The Bells Thai Restaurant and Chicken 18 Plus coming soon.
As always I did a bit of research on Mamak before going to eat there as I never want to find myself in a situation at a restaurant where I cannot eat anything or the restaurant doesn't understand my allergies and I therefore cannot be guaranteed a safe meal! Being active on Twitter I decided to tweet EatStreetSYD to find out if they could help me out. Jess Brown the face behind the EatStreetSYD Twitter account was extremely helpful and found out that I could have the Nasi lemak (fragrant coconut rice accompanied by an ensemble of sambal, peanuts, crispy anchovies, cucumber and hard-boiled egg, arguably Malaysia's national dish) with fish curry, the chicken/beef satay sticks, Sambal udang (stir-fried tiger prawns with fiery sambal sauce and possibly the curry's (however she said I would have to check about these dishes when I got there).
On my lunchtime visit to Mamak I was pleased to find that I did not have to wait and was seated immediately, however it did take awhile to attract someones attention to take my order once I had decided what to eat. I started with a Teh tarik, a classic Malaysian sweetened tea, 'stretched' for a frothy topping for $3.50. Basically this means that a mixture of black tea and condensed milk is poured back and forth repeatedly between two vessels from a height, giving it a thick frothy top. This drink wasn't too sweet, but sweet enough to be very different to a plain black tea. However I would recommend drinking it before or after your meal as it doesn't mix too well with the spiciness of the meals.
For my meal, having seen a write up on the Nasi lemak here I decided to try it as it seemed like something a bit different. I would have liked to try a couple of other dishes but since I was on my own I would not have been able to stomach it!
The rice wasn't as fragrant as I expected, although I didn't really know what to expect with coconut rice. The fish curry had a great flavour to it and I was a big fan of the roasted peanuts. The sambal sauce wasn't as hot as I would have expected but gave it a nice kick, contrasted by the refreshing taste of the cucumber. Finally the anchovies only had a slight fishy taste (which is good considering I cannot stand anchovies on caesar salad) and took me back to my travels around Asia where these are a common addition to a number of dishes.
The best part about it was that the Nasi Lemak was only $7.50, and although you have to add $3 for the fish curry (you can also choose from chicken, lamb and vegetarian curry) it still works out to be a pretty cheap lunch these days.
Next time I visit Mamak, as there will definitely be a next time, I plan to try the Sambal udang so stay tuned.
Have you eaten at Mamak? What did you try?
I work in chatswood so we hit up Mamak last week at lunch time. We arrived at about 1pm – 1.30pm so we didnt have any problems getting a seat either. I had the Roti Kaya – a roti filled with a sweet coconut & caramel filling. I love roti kaya so it was definately a winner! My friends got a curry of some variety, a fried chicken dish of some variety and some roti canai to try which they said they were very happy with. Its pretty cheap & essentially fast food. I'll defs go back though!
Sunny – I have heard the Roti is amazing, it's a shame I cannot eat it! Thanks for the comment.
Hi! What a fantastic blog!
Well done and I'm so glad you liked Mamak Chatswood.
Thanks for your mention of Eat Street!
Thanks Jess 🙂 No problems – I want to try everything at Eat Street so stay tuned for more posts!


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she was inspired by the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Westminster School of Art in England.
She painted in a French post-impressionist manner, stylistic links with Cubism and the Group of Seven.
She was friends with members of the Group of Seven especially Lawren Harris and had joined the
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Electronic And Print Media
Influence Of Media
Role Of Media
Media Violence
Discuss the importance of media convergence in the new media age
Thanks to the development of technology, today, we testimony the development of new media, which is the change process of the digital computer (Manovich, 2002). Manovich (2002) states when cinema was appeared in our life hundred years ago, people totally realize the importance of the new media revolution and it was also the possibility that new media became available to our life. He also argues that these days, web sites, computer games, digital images and more new media objects witness individuals have entered a new media age.
With the new media innovation, traditional media and new media collided in many times (Lawson-Borders, 2006). Lawson-Borders (2006) believes that convergence is as a possible field that to use computers and the internet to deliver multimedia contents when collaboration happens between print and broadcast. In addition, media convergence is an inevitable result of the development of media. Media convergence is important because it can enrich media content, increase media authenticity and produce better journalism (Zhang, 2008).
This essay will discuss the importance of media convergence in the new media age. Firstly the essay will explore the background of new media and media convergence. Then two examples of media convergence will be illustrated to show the importance of media convergence. After that, some opposite aspects will also be mentioned. The definition of new media has changed dramatically. The most popular identification of new media is that use computer to demonstrate and illustrate everything, such as web sites, E-book and so on (Manovich, 2002).
Manovich claims that new media quite distinguish from the production. He said that computing and media technologies were two parted progress, but when they converge, they may represent what the new media is. The five key differences contents between old and new media is numerical representation, modularity, automation, variability and transcoding (Manovich, 2002). There are several reasons why new media emerged to people's life. Firstly, Manovich (2002) maintains that the coming of information society makes the development of media industry not only so fast, but also very urgent.
Our society has never liked nowadays that is full of desire to information which have incredible amount, clearly and multifarious classification and the transmission speed even in seconds. Furthermore, Manovich (2002) states that with the Internet as a representative of new and high technology, especially the development of information technology provides the possibility to the development and reform of the media industry. Even in a quiet part, it is the development of this technology to promote the progress of the media industry and the revolution (Manovich, 2002).
The conception of media convergence was defined in several ways. But it was first proposed clearly by Professor Paul at the University of Massachusetts. He said that media convergence means various media present a development trend that is multi-function integration (Paul, 1983). Media convergence was also defined by Nachison, who was the director of American Press Institution's media center. He said"the strategic, operational, product and cultural union of print, audio, video and interactive digital information services and organizations" (Nachison, 2002).
Lawson-Borders (2006) states that with the development of media technology, media organizations will further to unite and the media convergence has a big impact for individuals that people may see this phenomenon everywhere. Lawson-Borders also believes that when the traditional media face to the pressure of competition in the new media age, the market constantly being invaded. On such occasion, the traditional media must explore new business models, make the best of its own advantages and integrate with emerging media in a multi-level and diverse way.
Thus, they could better to possess media market (Lawson-Border, 2006). Zhang (2008) argues that in the development of media emergence, technical background, consumer background and industry background jointly improve and restrict the media convergence in both width and depth. It seems that media convergence brings individuals numerous advantages in the new media age. 'IPTV' is one of the examples to show the importance of media convergence. IPTV was defined as an emerging technology, which uses the Internet Protocol (IP) to transfer digital video content (Held, 2007).
Held (2007) maintains that because the only delivery mechanism of IPTV is the Internet Protocol, IPTV could receive different types of content both from the Internet and personal IP-based nets. People may use IPTV to watch diversity programs,"from music videos to television shows, full feature movies, rock concerts, and a variety of special events, such as boxing matches, football games, or even Broadway musicals. "(Held, 2007:2) Held (2007) claims that installing a personal network, individuals could see different television contents via IPTV, including some potential activities such as download a movie or subscribe a television service.
The advantage of using IPTV is that one could use on demand business to choose their favorite TV programs. For example, people could watch the famous fashion show Victororia's Secret via IPTV and there is no time limitation (Held, 2007). Held (2007) also states that the traditional TV is unidirectional broadcasting pattern, which greatly limits interaction between the television audience and television service providers, also limits the personalization and promptness of program.
In addition, IPTV spread the world via the Internet and the audience also all over the world, but digital TV is limited in cable television in the locality. It is true that IPTV brings numerous merits to people's life. As an integration product of television and network , IPTV has made individual's life more convenient, people may use it at anytime and anywhere to enjoy colorful TV content. Also the emergence of IPTV has proved that media convergence has vital significance in the new media age.
Another example to prove the importance of media convergence is an integration of the BBC and new media. BBC is a very famous British public service broadcaster and it is also the largest broadcaster in the world (Collins and Purnell, 1996). Ten years ago, the BBC began to explore the digital living space of the media convergence and their own development problems (Raboy, 2008). Raboy (2008) argues that the media convergence of the BBC has three kinds of way. The first one is BBC launched network platform (Raboy, 2008).
He said that in 1991, the BBC researchers registered domain name of the BBC on the Internet. In 1998, the BBC Online emerged, it transformed into a "portal" website and provided a large number of program related background materials and extensibility reports to users. In 2007, BBC iPlayer came into the individual's life, it provided about 1. 5 million online radio and television programs for the majority of Internet users (Raboy, 2008). Furthermore, Raboy (2008) states that BBC expanded mobile platform which the user may use the streaming media via the connection of
WiFi and use the iPhone and iPod touch to install iplayer. In addition, the BBC provided digital interactive TV service in 2008, the audience may use the TV button to choose the digital service function (Raboy, 2008). He believes this TV service mainly provides audio, video, pictures and text form about latest news information, education, entertainment content such as live Wimbledon, formula car, BBC outdoor concerts, the national election, political activities, and iPlayer Internet service.
It seems that the media convergence of the BBC makes itself has a broader development space in the new media age, not only limited to traditional media. The media convergence of BBC affected people's life in a large extent. Individuals not only through the radio and television form to obtain the news, but also through the network, mobile phone to get the latest information and watch TV programs. The media convergence of BBC also proved the importance of media convergence in the new media age. While some scholars speak highly of media convergence, it is also not necessary in new media age.
It seems that media convergence could not alter individual's lifestyle in some kind of degree. Hockly (2011) argues that for old generations, they contact to computers later in life. Thus, they do not feel very comfortable reading everything on the computer screen. They would rather according to the traditional lifestyle to print off an email or online article. Besides, he also claims that for some younger generations, they may adept at using computers but they need to learn more sophisticated IT skills.
It seems that not all individuals adapt to the media integration product and change their ways of life. From what has been discussed above, it is obviously concluded that media convergence is really important in the new media age. With the innovation of technology, people could not live without new media in today's society. New media and traditional media collision not only reflects the media develops to a certain stage of the inevitable result, but also give us a more colorful life in today's society.
The example of IPTV and media convergence of the BBC has proved that media convergence brings numerous advantages for individuals. Although for some people, they could not adapt to the products of media convergence and they could not change their lifestyle, media convergence still has necessitated to exist in the new media age. In the future, there will be more media convergence production available for our life, and the prospective of media convergence will be better.
Freedom of Speech and the Mass Media in Kenya
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Social Justice Movements in the Age of Convergence Culture
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Thomas Hardy, Author of "The Convergence of the Twain"
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This sterling silver puffy heart features a beautiful rendition of one of the insignia used by the United States Navy. Because these charms peaked in popularity in the early 1940s during the height of WW2 and were often given as sweetheart tokens of love and affection, there is a wonderful selection of hearts for every branch of the U.S. military.
The detail is fabulous. It's a very nice quality puffy heart as the base, with a flat top. To this has been applied a detailed eagle perched on a shield with the elements of the United States flag. The top half of the shield has tiny stars, and the bottom half has vertical stripes. The anchors extend beyond the edge of the heart. Very three-dimensional, and perfect for the lover of hearts with American historic or patriotic design. The background under the applied emblem is darkly patinated and in excellent condition.
The back of the heart is marked sterling, and has been professionally engraved with the name 'Mabel' in beautiful script. The heart has a soft patina and with no dings or dents is in excellent vintage condition. Circa 1940s.


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View the Proposed Resolution of Protest
The Board of County Commissioners serves as the chief administrative body of the county. The statutes governing actions, duties, and responsibilities of the County Commissioners are laid out in Title 30A M.R.S.A. The County Commissioners have final authority over the operation of all county offices by elected or appointed county officials. The county promotes economic development by supporting the activities of the Piscataquis County Economic Development Council, http://www.pcedc.org/. The County Commissioners must act as a board and not on an individual basis in exercising this authority. (Title 30 A§102). The Board also serves as the municipal government of the unorganized territories within the county borders.
Piscataquis County is comprised of 92 unorganized townships (UTs), 17 organized townships, and two Plantations. The County Commissioners may provide services such as solid waste and fire protection to the unorganized townships. The county also maintains roads owned by the county within the UTs.
Piscataquis County has three County Commissioners who are elected for four-year terms. The Current County Commissioners are:
James White — Chairman of the County Commissioners, Elected November 2014. Term expires December 31, 2022
306 Wharff Road, Guilford, Maine 04443
District 1 includes the towns of Abbot, Blanchard Twp, Guilford, Kingsbury Plt, Monson, Parkman, Sangerville, Shirley, Wellington and Willimantic.
Andrew R. Torbett -- Elected November 2020. Term expires 12/31/2024
Atkinson, ME 04426
District 2 includes the towns of Atkinson, Bowerbank, Dover-Foxcroft, Medford, Orneville Twp and Sebec.
Wayne E. Erkkinen -- Elected November 2016. Term expires December 31, 2024.
Harford's Point Twp.
Greenville Jct., Maine 04442 - 0436
District 3 includes the towns of Barnard Twp, Beaver Cove, Big Moose Twp, Brownville, Cove Point Twp, Ebeemee Twp, Elliottsville Twp, Frenchtown Twp, Greenville, Harford's Point Twp, Katahdin Iron Works Twp, Kineo Twp, Lake View Plt, Lily Bay Twp, Milo, Moosehead Jct Twp, Shawtown Twp, Spencer Bay Twp, Williamsburg Twp and all other unorganized territories not otherwise listed.


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The VA continues to "set the telehealth table." That line is from 2010 when the VHA's telehealth pioneer Adam Darkins observed: ""The patients have to do less travel, and they can get problems resolved quickly.… They feel the care coordination system is their lifeline." The program was cited as having 43,000 Veterans enrolled with a long road ahead. Fast forward to 2014 -- the VA's Telehealth program served 690,000 veterans in its most recent fiscal year, or 12% of all veterans. And the long-term study of members of the Geisinger Health Plan showed a 44% reduction in readmission rates of those monitored in a 4-year telehealth study.
Silicon Valley VCs ignore older adults -- true or false?
Start with the premise -- Silicon Valley VC firms matter for entrepreneur success. Is this true? And especially, is it true for early stage companies, with founders that are known to VCs; or do angel investors or startup money from friends and family matter more? Instead of speculating, consider the leading Silicon Valley VC firms -- and examine their online featured list of investments. Note mention in this article that the venture 'industry has gone back to its IT- and IT-enabled services roots.' So let's take a look at their historical successes. Sequoia Capital -- health-related investments are disease oriented, big hits include LinkedIn, PayPal, Instagram, Kayak, and eHarmony. For sure, the full list contains many useful tools for people of all ages, but unless we're talking diabetes and glucometers, nothing much that is age-related for seniors.
Read more about Silicon Valley VCs ignore older adults -- true or false?
Startup mania is one thing -- but bigger companies like tech too. AARP has a Longevity Network to encourage startups and an updated market overview report -- and funds are blossoming -- see Linkage Ventures and Aging 2.0. Then there's the StartUp Health billions and billions, and RockHealth (more billions) -- yada yada yada. With all of that money flowing and hype flowering around startup wannabes, who knows what other incubators, accelerators, and motivators in 2015 are ahead? The new year starts off at CES in Las Vegas -- will it bring new companies to light that are focused on seniors? Meanwhile way back here in what's left of 2014, a number of firms that are NOT startups by any definition have recently announced new offerings -- each of these acknowledges and encourages seniors to use cell phone, tablet, and smartphone technology today. List is alphabetical, and all content is taken from press announcements and/or the organizations' own websites.
Proliferation of device types is also proliferating malware. 159.8 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones (66.8 percent mobile market penetration) during the three months ending in January 2014, 51% were Android devices, 41.6% were Apple iOS and rest were 'other'. There were 70 million tablets in the USA around then as well, 51% Apple, and 40% Android. Both device types are of interest to the malware hacking communities. Researchers at Georgia Tech showed how to hack an iPhone in 60 seconds, removing the Facebook app and replacing it with an imposter.


10. A wife should always excuse the husband to the children if he comes home late.
12. The wife must never use work in the day as excuse to deny him at night. Let him be the one to say, "Oh, you must be tired after all the stress of the day!" It is best that way.
13. The wife never goes to sit down in her husband's office unless in an urgent case or an emergency. A good husband too will not come and sit in your office.
14. A good wife does not embark on any kind of expenses without consulting the husband even if it is your own money. A good husband too will not control your money.
21. A good wife never entertains guests in her home without the husband's knowledge and consent. Not even your own relations.
NB: My dear fellow woman, I want you to know that THE POWER OF A GOOD WIFE IS IN HER WEAKNESS. Please, as stupid as this may sound to you, use it and watch your husband become your lover once again. This is my secret recipe for a happy marriage and full control of my home. I did all the above and I was the one running the home; NOT MY HUSBAND! His love and respect for me was second to none. And I know that's why God has also granted us long life to enjoy each other the more.
Also forward this to your female friends, especially the married ones, this will help them very much.


Rumor Has It: If Robert Muller is fired as Special Counsel, the Department of Justice (DOJ) will replace him with Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City, and an informal adviser on cyber security to the White House. Neither the Republican controlled House nor Senate plan on voicing any opposition. According to several DOJ sources, should Giuliani be unable to assume the position, the job will go to Devin Nunes, the current chair of the House Intelligence Committee. A high profile White House aide recently speculated to a group of reporters. "We're expecting full compliance from our people in congress."
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Q: Cofibrations and mapping spaces in compactly generated weak Hausdorff spaces Assume that $X$ and $Y$ are compactly generated weak Hausdorff spaces (CGWH spaces for short). Assume that they are also well-pointed (so the inclusions of the base points are Hurewicz cofibrations).
Is then the mapping space $Y^X$ of pointed maps from $X$ to $Y$ again well-pointed (with base point the constant map from $X$ to the basepoint of $Y$)?
More generally, if $A\to X$ and $B\to Y$ are (unpointed) Hurewicz cofibrations in CGWH,
are the natural maps $B^X\to Y^X$ and $B^X\to (Y,B)^{(X,A)}$
cofibrations as well?
This seems to hold if $X$ is compact. Are there more general results?

A: If the inclusion $A\to X$ is a cofibration, then $A$ is a $G_\delta$ subset of $X$ (i.e. the intersection of a countable family of open subsets), as one can deduce easily from the fact that $\{0\}$ is $G_\delta$ in $[0,1]$.  If $T$ is uncountable and discrete then the basepoint in $[0,1]^T$ is not $G_\delta$.  Thus, the functor $(-)^T$ does not send the cofibration $\{0\}\to [0,1]$ to a cofibration.

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Nominal String Diagrams
Lead Research Organisation: University College London
Department Name: Computer Science
Notations are the formal manifestation of thought. Conventionally, the established idea of 'notation' is one dimensional, as a sequence of symbols; but the last decade has seen a very exciting development: formal two dimensional notations, based on graphs.
"String diagrams" represent a mathematical connection between one-dimensional (term) and two-dimensional (graph) syntax, exploiting the existence of shared mathematical structures (called 'monoidal categories'). However, the one-dimensional manifestation of a string diagram, as it emerges from the mathematical theory, is not always the most practical or most convenient for people to manipulate.
Graph languages have been developed independently in other contexts, for example digital circuit specifications, from rather different principles. The popularity of these notations suggests that in some sense they more appealing, yet these notations lack structure and are difficult to reason about mathematically. Graphical programming languages have been proposed numerous times and for a long time, but they consistently failed to reach the mainstream of programming. These recurring attempts testify to the fact that such languages are attractive, yet their failure shows that getting them right is not exactly easy. The mathematical structure of programming languages also has diagrammatic and graphical counterparts, but these have not been yet studied enough. These are "hierarchical" structures in which diagram graphs can nest or can even be used as labels of nodes in other graphs.
In this proposal we aim to reconcile both kinds of notations, as emerging from the mathematics of string diagrams and from the practicalities of circuit and system design. The key idea that can bring these two together is the concept of 'name'. Names, used as labels, can greatly simplify certain term representations of graphs and make algorithmic processing of such terms easier. The mathematical theory of names ('nominal theory') is subtle, but by now quite well understood. We believe that nominal theory can bring together term and graph manipulation, via rewriting, in an elegant and effective way. And we further believe that this unify theory will lead to new insights into theoretical (and practical) models of digital circuits and other kind of systems.
Zanasi is an expert in the theoretical aspects of string diagrams, Silva is an expert in nominal techniques, and Ghica is an expert in practical applications of string diagrams to language and circuit analysis.
Dec 20 - Nov 23
EPSRC
EP/V002376/1
Fabio Zanasi
Info. & commun. Technol. (100%)
Fundamentals of Computing (100%)
University College London, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
Fabio Zanasi (Principal Investigator)
Alexandra Silva (Co-Investigator)


We are always on the lookout for beautiful bowls we can use for any number of household, kitchen, and entertaining duties, and these hand-carved alabaster marble bowls fit the bill. The natural white of the alabaster brings an organic elegance to any surface, and each bowl's marbling is slightly different, creating a subtle variance. From holding keys and loose change to serving up nuts and other salty snacks, we're sure you'll have just as many uses for them as we do.
2"H and 3" in diameter.