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<title><![CDATA[Kallang Pudding site gets one bid]]></title>
<link>http://luxuryasiahome.wordpress.com/?p=13143</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>luxuryasiahome</dc:creator>
<guid>http://luxuryasiahome.bg.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/kallang-pudding-site-gets-one-bid/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[AN Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) tender for an industrial site on Kallang Pudding Road closed ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AN Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) tender for an industrial site on Kallang Pudding Road closed yesterday with only one bid received.</p>
<p>The $10.8 million bid came from Orion-Four Development. Based on the site area of 61,819 square feet and a plot ratio of 2.5, the bid translates to a unit land price $69.88 per sq ft per plot ratio (psf ppr) - the same as a committed bid received by URA in August.</p>
<p>Dominic Peters, director of industrial services at Savills Singapore, said he is surprised that just one bid came, especially as the site seems well located.</p>
<p>He said that if URA awards the site, the unit land price of $69.88 psf ppr will be about 20 per cent lower than the $85 psf ppr paid for an industrial site in Ubi Avenue 4 this month by Sim Lian Land.</p>
<p>In that tender, only two bids were received, with Orion-Four Development being the losing bidder. Mr Peters said this could have reflected cautious market sentiment. On the lack of interest in the Kallang Pudding site, he said: ‘There could be some concern that there may be an over-supply of industrial space in that vicinity.’</p>
<p>Prices for industrial sites appear to be falling.</p>
<p>In March, Sim Lian Development’s unit 3 Link Development emerged the highest bidder for a 60-year leasehold industrial site at Ubi Avenue 4/Ubi Road 2, offering $23.9 million or $88.74 psf ppr.</p>
<p>In February, another Sim Lian unit, Trio Link Development, paid $142 psf ppr for an industrial site in Playfair Road in Ubi/Paya Lebar/Eunos area.</p>
<p><em>Source : Business Times - 8 Oct 2008</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Fricker Fracker]]></title>
<link>http://gospeedracer.wordpress.com/?p=224</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>GoSpeed Racer</dc:creator>
<guid>http://gospeedracer.bg.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/fricker-fracker/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Fricker Fracker
If you ever get the opportunity to hear Fricker Fracker play flute, do so! I saw on ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Fricker Fracker</h2>
<p>If you ever get the opportunity to hear Fricker Fracker play flute, do so! I saw on <a href="http://plurk.com/redeemByURL?from_uid=21089&#38;check=-1740673756&#38;s=1" target="_blank">Plurk</a> he was performing on BYTE island and I went to investigate. The music was soothing and relaxing. Good stuff :)</p>
<p><a title="Fricker Fracker plays the flute by ** GoSpeed Racer **, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gospeed_racer/2923483650/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3090/2923483650_0c02c54d54.jpg" alt="Fricker Fracker plays the flute" width="500" height="354" /></a><br />
Fricker Fracker</p>
<p><a title="Cherie Parker - 1 by ** GoSpeed Racer **, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gospeed_racer/2922631805/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3289/2922631805_07e536ecc9.jpg" alt="Cherie Parker - 1" width="500" height="443" /></a><br />
Cherie Parker</p>
<p><a title="Todd Action and Bevan Whitfield by ** GoSpeed Racer **, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gospeed_racer/2923484050/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2388/2923484050_16a4e35272.jpg" alt="Todd Action and Bevan Whitfield" width="500" height="334" /></a><br />
Todd Action and Bevan Whitfield</p>
<p><a title="Listening to Fricker play on Byte island by ** GoSpeed Racer **, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gospeed_racer/2922633059/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3058/2922633059_d4b591dee7.jpg" alt="Listening to Fricker play on Byte island" width="470" height="500" /></a><br />
Me!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Star article explores money in Missouri attorney general race]]></title>
<link>http://germangeneral.wordpress.com/?p=3</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>germangeneral</dc:creator>
<guid>http://germangeneral.bg.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/star-article-explores-money-in-missouri-attorney-general-race/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Both candidates for Missouri attorney general have raised serious funds in the weeks since campaign ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Both candidates for Missouri attorney general have raised serious funds in the weeks since campaign contribution limits were removed, and both appear poised for a frenzy of television advertising in the weeks leading up to Election Day. ...<br><br />
http://rturner229.blogspot.com</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama, McCain compare their positions in debate]]></title>
<link>http://cnniinthefield.wordpress.com/?p=872</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>CNNI blog producer</dc:creator>
<guid>http://inthefield.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/08/obama-mccain-compare-their-positions-in-debate/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you overlook the contrasting styles and the sparring, this debate, like the others, really does g]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you overlook the contrasting styles and the sparring, this debate, like the others, really does give the candidates a chance to compare their positions. One example - healthcare - is a big issue for U.S. voters, families and businesses.Obama favors an ambitious government-assisted plan to make sure everyone in the country can have affordable, private health insurance. They couldn't be turned down. "It should be a right for every American," he said.</p>
<p>McCain favors a tax credit to help people buy private insurance on their own, but he wouldn't force any company to offer it.</p>
<p>"The fundamental difference between myself and Mr. Obama - notice he starts talking about government."</p>
<p>In this election, Americans really do have a very clear choice and when you watch the debates, you see it.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Spell Selection]]></title>
<link>http://onehotnelf.wordpress.com/?p=46</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>onehotnelf</dc:creator>
<guid>http://onehotnelf.bg.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/spell-selection/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I recently had the pleasure of mentoring a new Tree in our guild into T6 content, and I learned a fe]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently had the pleasure of mentoring a new Tree in our guild into T6 content, and I learned a few things along the way. First of all, I got a bit of an insight into a few bad habits people learn when their group outgears content (this happens more and more with the new 2.4 badge rewards). Secondly, I had the chance to think about my own spell selection (while trying to teach the ideas to somebody else), and I came up with a few tips which have improved my own healing performance.</p>
<p>First of all, one important tool for tuning your healing output is Recount. Now, the first important tip with recount is that healing meters DO NOT MATTER. The second one is that HEALING METERS ARE EVERYTHING.</p>
<p>Confused? Good. What I mean is that healing is not a race to the highest healing output. Different encounters favour different classes of healer, and sometimes nothing you can ever do will come CLOSE to touching a CoH priest. Other times, you will whup him so bad he won't know what happened. This is why healing meters do not matter.</p>
<p>As far as why they're everything, if you're not showing strongly on the healing meter (allowing for class and gear differences), you're probably not contributing enough. I run recount and leave it set to "Healing Done", and I switch backwards and forwards between the current fight and overall data for the raid. The great thing about recount is that it shows the percentage of healing done with each spell, so you can see what mileage you're getting from your choices.</p>
<p>Another great thing about recount is the "Deaths" section. You can see the last 10 seconds or so before each death of anyone in the raid: damage taken, mitigation, healing, and so on. This is a great way to find out what's going wrong, and if the MT or your heal target ever dies, you need to be checking this out, so they don't die the same way next time.</p>
<p>The biggest thing I've learned from checking out deaths? Druids often picked the wrong spell. The number of times I've seen Bigdamage, Bigdamage, Lifebloomtick, Bigdamage, Dead is quite amazing. LIFEBLOOM? What were you thinking? One lifebloom tick did ZERO. Two ticks wouldn't have helped, nor would a two-stack. What this guy needed was BURST healing. Anyway, I'll deal with what <em>should</em> have happened later.</p>
<p>Anyway, enough side-tracking and onto the guts of the post. Spell Selection. I'm going to assume you're healing the MT and throwing out some raid heals as well; adjust as necessary, if you've been assigned to an OT or you're just on raid heals.</p>
<p><strong>The Spells</strong></p>
<p><em>Lifebloom</em><strong><br />
</strong>This spell forms the core of a druid's healing. At the very least, you will generally want to be keeping a 3-stack on your MT. DO NOT plan to ever let it expire. The "bloom" portion is nothing compared to the sustained healing output of the ticks. Lifebloom is also a very cheap option for topping up a raid member, if you are confident they won't be receiving more damage (warlocks who've life-tapped in a low- to zero-raid-damage fight).</p>
<p><em>Swiftmend<br />
</em>This is an instant-cast burst heal on a cooldown, and it requires the target to have a Regrowth or Rejuvenation hot active at the time. It consumes the hot. This is a good instant burst heal, but be wary of over-using it: you can be left on cooldown when you really need it. While it's usually left for raid heals (or a tank dropping dangerously low), it can provide a nice burst to your HPS when used on your tank rotation.</p>
<p><em>Rejuvenation</em><strong><br />
</strong>Correct use of rejuvenation is crucial to raid healing. It's instant cast, it's relatively cheap, and (all-important) it's swiftmendable. This spell is great for putting out strong raid healing, and I would generally select it over lifebloom, in spite of the higher mana cost. Sprinkling rejuvs across the raid is a great way to deal with light sustained damage, and lets you instantly "rescue" anyone that has it active with swiftmend, if they are unlucky (or inattentive) enough to take some burst damage.</p>
<p>Rejuvenation is also a great extra hot on a tank, and again, lets you deal with additional burst with a swiftmend.</p>
<p><em>Regrowth</em><strong><br />
</strong>This is your main burst spell. It provides good HPS (Heals Per Second) and applies a nice long hot to your target to boot. I think this is the most under-used spell in a druid's arsenal: I regularly see newer healers hardly touching this one, and it's a true shame. It's a great way to top your tank up, if hots aren't keeping him full. It's a good lead spell, to provide early burst on hard-hitting pulls. Finally, it's a nice quick rescue spell for raid members who are taking heavy damage.</p>
<p><em>Healing Touch</em><strong><br />
</strong>This spell has limited uses in raiding: it drops you out of tree form, it's expensive, and it's slow to cast. My primary use for it is macroed with Nature's Swiftness, as an emergency rescue heal. It can be useful when you just have to have the burst healing: it heals for big numbers, and crits are ENORMOUS. If you're unlucky enough to be solo-healing a tank taking heavy damage, a combination of HT, Regrowth, and Swiftmend can pump out some truly amazing HPS, at the cost of mana efficiency.</p>
<p><em>Tranquility</em><strong><br />
</strong>Again, this has limited use in raiding, because your priests and shammys can crank out massive group healing when needed. I keep it on my bar (macroed in a castsequence with barkskin) for emergencies.</p>
<p><strong>Selecting a Spell<br />
</strong>This is what it all gets down to. What situations you should be looking for, and which spell to select. Over time, I've managed to categorize heal targets down to a couple of simple types, and there's usually a "best" spell.</p>
<p><em>Long-term sustained damage<br />
</em>This is where lifebloom shines. You want to keep lifebloom 3-stacked on your main heal target, and if you find yourself with time and mana to spare, roll a 3-stack on a second (or third) tank. I would avoid leading with lifebloom though, unless you're very confident the tank won't take too much early damage. Regrowth is a good opener, dealing with any initial damage, and letting you swiftmend after stacking lifebloom up if the tank is getting low. If you're worried about putting out too much early threat, use rejuvenation instead, start stacking lifebloom, and you can swiftmend if needed.</p>
<p>If lifebloom doesn't keep your tank full, keep rejuvenation up as well, and use regrowth to top him off. HT and swiftmend can pick up even more slack if needed.</p>
<p><em>Light Raid Damage<br />
</em>Rejuvenation is king here. Instant cast and reasonably cheap. I prefer it over lifebloom because it lasts longer, is swiftmendable, and doesn't leave a lot of its healing until 7 seconds later (by which time another healer has topped off the person anyway).</p>
<p><em>Burst Damage<br />
</em>This is the area with the most choices, and the least time to make a decision. You can blow your NS+HT (or NS+Regrowth), you can rejuv then swiftmend, you can regrowth. You could even risk that they'll last three seconds and start casting HT. You can yell over vent for the target to take a healthstone, because the healers are already swamped and won't get there for a few seconds. And you need to decide NOW, because half a second could be disastrous.</p>
<p>This is the toughest type of damage to deal with, and the raider probably first saw a mechanic designed to cause it in kara, with Illhoof. You'll see this sort of mechanic regularly, all the way to Illidan (Dark Barrage in phase 2) and beyond. It's very similar to the sort of damage you get when somebody pulls aggro, but isn't squishy enough to get 1-shotted (and these tips apply there too).</p>
<p>Anyway, back to the choices, and most people have too many. I've cut it down to just two or three. If death is really imminent, NS+HT. It's an instant (if your macro is right) burst for a huge amount (crits regularly hit for more than some players' total health). I do try to save this one for somebody important: if the off-tank who's not needed for this fight is about to die, still try to save him, by all means, but save your Nature's Swiftness.</p>
<p>If I decide that the guy isn't within a second or so of dying, or isn't important enough to blow the cooldown on anyway, I pick regrowth. Some people call for rejuv then swiftmend, because it lands a direct heal half a second sooner, but I have a few problems with that:</p>
<ol>
<li>I need to be sure that swiftmend isn't on cooldown, otherwise the rejuv is useless. Checking wastes time, and being wrong could mean an unnecessary death.</li>
<li>I use my swiftmend cooldown, which I might need in a moment anyway, and I only save half a second.</li>
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<p>Regrowth lands a decent direct heal with a 2-second cast time, and if the burst isn't enough, you can immediately swiftmend it. This is, by far and away, my preferred method of dealing with burst damage when you're not using NS. Continued spamming of regrowth produces good sustained healing, although you may like to start stacking up lifebloom as well in some situations (a fury warrior who pulled aggro, and looks like having to hold the mob for a while, or phase 2 on Gortogg Bloodboil, for example).</p>
<p>There is a third option, if the person taking the damage already has a hot rolling, and that's to lead with swiftmend. This is situational, and I've been caught out before because the hot expired an instant before I hit swiftmend, or I didn't realise that swiftmend was on cooldown. If I do decide to mash swiftmend to lead, I'll be heading straight for regrowth immediately afterwards, expecting swiftmend to fail.</p>
<p><strong>The Alternatives</strong></p>
<p>This "healing strategy", if that's the right word, isn't the only one available to druids. I'm not going to detail any others, because I don't really know them well: this strategy is one I've developed and refined over time, and I feel it's the best for me. When I get new trees to mentor, this is what I teach them.</p>
<p><strong>Numbers and Wrap-up</strong></p>
<p>The numbers I tend to see on Recount vary depending on the encounter, but an average fight sees about 55% lifebloom, 35% rejuvenation, and 10% regrowth. If there's more raid healing to be done, I'll see higher numbers on rejuv; more burst-healing (Illhoof, for example), and regrowth pushes much higher. Part of those rejuv and regrowth numbers are on the tank, but very little or none of my lifebloom is on non-tanks.</p>
<p>I find this keeps me high on the healing meter (which doesn't matter, remember), keeps my targets alive, and pulls my weight in raid healing. One drawback is that my overheal is quite low; in fact, it's quite often noticeably lower than even that of healers who see much lower effective numbers than me.</p>
<p>Wait, that's a drawback? Sure it is. Overheal is important, because that extra healing which lands might have healed a big spike on the tank instead of being wasted. It's not a big deal on farm content, but if there's even a slight chance of the tank dying, you want overheal. It's your insurance against not enough heals being ready in time to deal with spikes that do occur.</p>
<p>So, why is it ok that my overheal is so low? Well, for two reasons. The first is that the whole point of resto druids is to provide some spike mitigation with our hots anyway. You're seeing at least 1 good-sized hot tick every second on each tank, and often more. The second reason is that it isn't my job to overheal the tank with direct heals: that's the job of the holy pallies.</p>
<p>Still, it is something to consider, and you need to adjust appropriately, particularly when you're not in a 25-man raid with several different types of healers, each filling their specific niche. I would expect my regrowth and overheal numbers to be much higher in a 10-man where I'm the only healer assigned to keep a particular tank up.</p>
<p>All of that said, there is room for a resto druid who uses more direct heals. We have one in our BT raid: he sees numbers around 50% lifebloom and 50% regrowth, and tends to put out less effective healing and more overhealing. Is the reduced effective healing a bad thing? No, it just means my focus on hots got to the damage a moment before his direct heal did, and his heal ended up as overheal instead. Is he as "good" a healer as me?</p>
<p>Personally, I don't think so. I think my healing strategy is a better use of a druid's strengths. BUT, his strategy tends to focus on using some of his strengths while making up for the druid's reduced direct healing options by focusing heavily on the ones that are available. I think we should leave that to the pallys and priests, but who knows? Do we wipe because he uses his strategy? Maybe, but probably not. How about because of my strategy? Ditto. Probably.</p>
<p>What I can say is that I've used this strategy in all sorts of places, from 5-mans and kara through to every boss in Mount Hyjal and Black Temple, and it's been a winning strategy for me.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Un "systema" de combate evolucionado]]></title>
<link>http://systemaspain.wordpress.com/?p=19</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>systemaspain.com</dc:creator>
<guid>http://systemaspain.bg.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/un-systema-de-combate-evolucionado/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[La mayoría de las artes marciales proceden de épocas ancestrales en las que la guerra formaba part]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>La mayoría de las artes marciales proceden de épocas ancestrales en las que la guerra formaba parte de la realidad cotidiana. Las armas al uso eran espadas, hachas, cuchillos, etc. cuyo manejo han seguido cultivando por tradición numerosas artes marciales. Pero han olvidado las armas modernas.</p>
<p>El manejo de armas tradicionales aporta indudables beneficios para quién lo practica, pero la realidad presente requiere incorporar armas modernas. El "Systema" ruso, al provenir del ámbito militar, las incluye en su entrenamiento desde principios del siglo XX. Cuando los gobernantes sovieticos decidieron restringirlo para uso exclusivo en algunas unidades de élite, también procedieron a su modernización y actualización. Por ello, nos hallamos ante un sistema de combate muy evolucionado, con una más que testeada versatilidad y eficacia en modernas operaciones militares reales.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Fairground Art]]></title>
<link>http://bellanta.wordpress.com/?p=334</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Melissa Bellanta</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bellanta.bg.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/fairground-art/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Geoff Weedon and Richard Ward, Fairground Art: The Art Forms of Travelling Fairs, Carousels and Carn]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Geoff Weedon and Richard Ward, <em>Fairground Art: The Art Forms of Travelling Fairs, Carousels and Carnival Midways </em>(London: White Mouse Editions, 1981)</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">'Previously the first shows to have enjoyed enlarged fronts with a profusion of carved and gilded ornament, seem to have been the Marionette Theatres and the Ghost Illusion Shows... Spine-chilling illusions and supernatural transformations ... [had in fact been part of magic lantern shows as far back as the late 18th c, in which ] they terrified audiences with images shone onto muslin screens with the aid of moveable magic lanterns'. The new Ghostly Shows came after Pepper's Illusion in 1863. 'The performance usually concluded with a humorous skit'. 123</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Talks about the way these merged with moving pictures. The larger Ghost Shows were admirably placed to do this, as they had existing seating for audeinces and a stage upon a large cloth screen could be lowered on rollers. Radford and Chappell's Gjost Show had Animated Photographs by a Professor Vito in its celebreated Phantoscope, and by 1899 Wall's Phantoscope was showing an entire programme of films.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Many of the showfronts in this era had a 'profusion of scrolwork, pillasters, figurines and ornate borders'. 127</p>
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<title><![CDATA[From banks of Godavari to Google on wheel chair]]></title>
<link>http://oceanic12.wordpress.com/?p=496</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>arun</dc:creator>
<guid>http://oceanic12.bg.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/from-banks-of-godavari-to-google-on-wheel-chair/</guid>
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Naga Naresh Karutura has just passed out of IIT        Madras
in Computer Science and has joined Go]]></description>
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<p>Naga Naresh Karutura has just passed out of IIT        Madras<br />
in Computer Science and has joined Google in Bangalore        .<br />
You may ask, what's so special about this 21-year-old when there        are<br />
hundreds of students passing out from various IITs and        joining big companies like Google?</p>
<p>Naresh is special. His        parents are illiterate.<br />
He has no legs and moves around in his        powered wheel chair.<br />
(In fact, when I could not locate his lab,        he told me over the mobile phone, 'I will come and pick you        up'.<br />
And in no time, he was there to guide me)<br />
Ever        smiling, optimistic and full of spirit; that is Naresh.<br />
He says,        'God has always been planning things for me. That is why I feel I am        lucky.'<br />
Read why Naresh feels he is        lucky.</p>
<p>Childhood in a village<br />
I spent the first seven        years of my life in Teeparru,<br />
a small village in Andhra        Pradesh,<br />
on the banks of the river Godavari.</p>
<p>My        father Prasad was a lorry driver and my mother Kumari, a house        wife.<br />
Though they were illiterate, my parents instilled in        me<br />
and my elder sister (Sirisha) the importance of        studying..</p>
<p>Looking back, one thing that surprises me now        is<br />
the way my father taught me when I was in the 1st and 2nd        standards.<br />
My father would ask me questions from the text book,        and I would answer them.<br />
At that time, I didn't know he could not        read or write but to make me happy, he helped me in my        studies!<br />
<a href="http://oceanic12.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/ar1.jpeg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-498" title="ar1" src="http://oceanic12.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/ar1.jpeg" alt="" width="450" height="598" /></a></p>
<p>Another memory that doesn't go away is the        floods<br />
in the village and how I was carried on top of a buffalo by my        uncle.<br />
I also remember plucking fruits from a tree that was full of        thorns.<br />
I used to be very naughty, running around and playing all the        time with my friends.<br />
I used to get a lot of scolding for disturbing        the elders who slept in the afternoon.<br />
The moment they started        scolding, I would run away to the fields!<br />
I also remember finishing my        school work fast in class and sleeping on the teacher's        lap!</p>
<p>January 11, 1993, the fateful day<br />
On the January        11, 1993 when we had the sankranti holidays,<br />
my mother took my        sister and me to a nearby village for a family function.<br />
From        there we were to go with our grandmother to our native place.<br />
But        my grandmother did not come there.<br />
As there were no buses that        day, my mother took a lift in my father's friend's lorry.<br />
As        there were many people in the lorry, he made me sit next to him, close to        the door.<br />
It was my fault; I fiddled with the door latch and it        opened wide throwing me out.<br />
As I fell, my legs got cut by the        iron rods protruding from the lorry.<br />
Nothing happened to me        except scratches on my legs.<br />
The accident had happened just in        front of a big private hospital<br />
but they refused to treat me        saying it was an accident case.<br />
Then a police constable who was        passing by took us to a government hospital.</p>
<p>First I        underwent an operation as my small intestine got twisted.<br />
The        doctors also bandaged my legs.<br />
I was there for a        week.<br />
When the doctors found that gangrene had        developed<br />
and it had reached up to my knees,<br />
they asked        my father to take me to a district hospital.<br />
There, the doctors        scolded my parents a lot for neglecting the wounds<br />
and allowing        the gangrene to develop.<br />
But what could my ignorant parents        do?<br />
In no time, both my legs were amputated up to the        hips.</p>
<p>I remember waking up and asking my mother, where are my        legs?<br />
I also remember that my mother cried when I asked the        question.<br />
I was in the hospital for three        months.</p>
<p>Life without legs<br />
I don't think my life        changed dramatically after I lost both my legs.<br />
Because all at        home were doting on me,<br />
I was enjoying all the attention rather        than pitying myself.<br />
I was happy that I got a lot of fruits and        biscuits</p>
<p>The day I reached my village, my house was flooded with        curious people;<br />
all of them wanted to know how a boy without legs        looked.<br />
But I was not bothered;<br />
I was happy to see so        many of them coming to see me, especially my friends!<br />
All my friends        saw to it that I was part of all the games they played;<br />
they        carried me everywhere.</p>
<p>God's hand<br />
I believe in God. I        believe in destiny.<br />
I feel he plans everything for you. If not        for the accident,<br />
we would not have moved from the village to        Tanuku, a town.<br />
There I joined a missionary school, and my father built        a house next to the school.<br />
Till the tenth standard, I studied in        that school.<br />
If I had continued in Teeparu, I may not have        studied after the 10th.<br />
I may have started working as a farmer or        someone like that<br />
after my studies.<br />
I am sure God had        other plans for me.</p>
<p>My sister, my friend<br />
When the        school was about to reopen, my parents moved from Teeparu to        Tanuku,<br />
a town, and admitted both of us in a Missionary        school.<br />
They decided to put my sister also in the same        class<br />
though she is two years older.<br />
They thought she        could take care of me if both of us were in the same class.<br />
My        sister never complained.<br />
She would be there for        everything.<br />
Many of my friends used to tell me, you are so lucky        to have such a loving sister.<br />
There are many who do not care for        their siblings.<br />
She carried me in the school for a few        years<br />
and after a while, my friends took over the        task.<br />
When I got the tricycle, my sister used to push me around        in the school.<br />
My life, I would say, was normal,<br />
as        everyone treated me like a normal kid..<br />
I never wallowed in        self-pity.<br />
I was a happy boy and competed with others to be on        top<br />
and the others also looked at me as a        competitor.</p>
<p>Inspiration<br />
I was inspired by two people        when in school; my Maths teacher Pramod Lal<br />
who encouraged me to        participate in various local talent tests,<br />
and a brilliant boy called        Chowdhary, who was my senior.<br />
When I came to know that he had joined        Gowtham Junior College<br />
to prepare for IIT-JEE, it became my dream        too.<br />
I was school first in 10th scoring 542/600.<br />
Because        I topped in the state exams,<br />
Gowtham Junior College waived the        fee for me. Pramod Sir's recommendation also helped.<br />
The fee was        around Rs 50,000 per year,<br />
which my parents could never        afford.</p>
<p>Moving to a residential school<br />
Living in a        residential school was a big change for me because<br />
till then my        life centred around home and school<br />
and I had my parents and        sister to take care of all my needs.<br />
It was the first time that I        was interacting with society.<br />
It took one year for me to adjust        to the new life.<br />
There, my inspiration was a boy called K K S        Bhaskar<br />
who was in the top 10 in IIT-JEE exams.<br />
He used        to come to our school to encourage us.<br />
Though my parents didn't        know anything about Gowtham Junior School or IIT,<br />
they always saw        to it that I was encouraged in whatever I wanted to do.<br />
If the        results were good, they would praise me to the skies and if        bad,<br />
they would try to see something good in that. They did not        want me to feel bad.<br />
They are such wonderful supportive        parents.</p>
<p>Life at IIT- Madras<br />
Though my overall rank in        the IIT-JEE was not that great (992),<br />
I was 4th in the physically        handicapped category.<br />
So, I joined IIT, Madras to study Computer        Science.<br />
Here, my role model was Karthik who was also my senior in        school.<br />
I looked up to him during my years at IIT-        Madras.<br />
He had asked for attached bathrooms for those with        special needs before I came here itself.<br />
So, when I came here,        the room had attached bath.<br />
He used to help me and guide me a lot        when I was here..<br />
I evolved as a person in these four years, both        academically and personally.<br />
It has been a great experience        studying here.<br />
The people I was interacting with were so        brilliant<br />
that I felt privileged to sit along with them in the        class.<br />
Just by speaking to my lab mates, I gained a  lot.</p>
<p>Words are inadequate to express my gratitude to Prof        Pandurangan and all my lab mates; all were simply great.<br />
I was        sent to Boston along with four others for our internship by Prof        Pandurangan. It was a great experience.</p>
<p>Joining Google        R&#38;D<br />
I did not want to pursue PhD as I wanted my parents to take        rest now.<br />
Morgan Stanley selected me first but I preferred        Google<br />
because I wanted to work in pure computer science,        algorithms and game theory.</p>
<p>I am lucky<br />
Do you know why        I say I am lucky?<br />
I get help from total strangers without me        asking for it.<br />
Once after my second year at IIT, I with some of        my friends was travelling in a train for a conference.<br />
We met a kind        gentleman called Sundar in the train,<br />
and he has been taking care        of my hostel fees from then on.</p>
<p>I have to mention        about Jaipur foot.<br />
I had Jaipur foot when I was in 3rd        standard.<br />
After two years, I stopped using them.<br />
As I        had almost no stems on my legs, it was very tough to tie them to the        body.<br />
I found walking with Jaipur foot very, very        slow.<br />
Sitting also was a problem.<br />
I found my tricycle        faster because I am one guy<br />
who wants to do things        faster.<br />
One great thing about the hospital is,<br />
they        don't think their role ends by just fixing the Jaipur foot;<br />
they        arrange for livelihood for all.<br />
They asked me what help I needed        from them.<br />
I told them at that time, if I got into an IIT, I        needed financial help from them.<br />
So, from the day I joined IIT,        Madras ,<br />
my fees were taken care of by them.<br />
So, my        education at the IIT was never a burden on my parents<br />
and they could        take care of my sister's Nursing studies.</p>
<p>Surprise        awaited me at IIT<br />
After my first year, when I went home,<br />
two        things happened here at the Institute without my knowledge.<br />
I got        a letter from my department<br />
that they had arranged a lift and        ramps at the department for me.<br />
It also said that if I came a bit early        and checked<br />
whether it met with my requirements, it would be        good.<br />
Second surprise was, the Dean, Prof Idichandy<br />
and        the Students General Secretary, Prasad<br />
had located a place that        sold powered wheel chairs.<br />
The cost was Rs 55,000.<br />
What        they did was, they did not buy the wheel chair;<br />
they gave me the        money so that the wheel chair belonged to me and not the        institute.<br />
My life changed after that.</p>
<p>I felt free        and independent.<br />
That's why I say I am lucky.<br />
God has        planned things for me and takes care of me at every        step.</p>
<p>The world is full of good people<br />
I also feel if        you are motivated and show some initiative,<br />
people around you        will always help you.<br />
I also feel there are more good people in        society than bad ones.<br />
I want all those who read this to feel        that if<br />
Naresh can achieve something in life, you can too.</p>
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<title><![CDATA["Emi" Emily Dumps Alex!]]></title>
<link>http://dailythomson.wordpress.com/?p=30</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dailythomson</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dailythomson.bg.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/emi-emily-dumps-alex/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Today,
An &#8220;Emi&#8221; Emily Dumped Alex C. Her boyfriend. She says she was only going out wi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Today,</p>
<p>An "Emi" Emily Dumped Alex C. Her boyfriend. She says she was only going out with him to make him happy. Even though their relationship only lasted 7 days a full week, Alex said it was packed with 7 months of fun. Alex was crushed today, but people say he will be able to make it through.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Our Reporters are now saying that people are now calling Emily Evil, and they are trying to make her friend group over-turn her and kick her out. But Alex's Friends always criticized him. They were back-stabbers.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Only time will tell what will come out of this unfortunate event.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Japanese Film Noir at San Sebastian Film Festival]]></title>
<link>http://mercilessangel.wordpress.com/?p=76</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hasejun1985</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mercilessangel.bg.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/japanese-film-noir-at-san-sebastian-film-festival/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[
This year&#8217;s San Sebastian Film Festival hosted a retrospective of Japanese Film Noir or Japon]]></description>
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<p>This year's <a href="http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/in/index.php" target="_blank">San Sebastian Film Festival</a> hosted a retrospective of Japanese Film Noir or <a href="http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/in/seccio_listado.php?id=207" target="_blank">Japon en Negro</a>. A complex genre born out of imported American detective films, Japanese film noir is essentially American film noir digested by the Japanese post-war psyche. It even has its own nationalistic spin. The retrospective was thorough, beginning with the first post-war Japanese detective movies, tracing the genre through the Yakuza films of the 1960s. Even more recent works from directors like Takashi Miike of the 1990s were featured—Miike was one of the main influences on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splat_Pack7" target="_blank">"Splat Pack"</a> filmmakers like Eli Roth and Rob Zombie. Rarely do you see a film festival trace a genre back so thoroughly.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Attoboy]]></title>
<link>http://yeskarthi.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/attoboy/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Karthi</dc:creator>
<guid>http://yeskarthi.bg.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/attoboy/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I don&#39;t know if you follow the scientific journals and news or not.
But lately there has been ta]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div dir="ltr">I don&#39;t know if you follow the scientific journals and news or not.<br />
But lately there has been talk about how they are generating light<br />
pulses who&#39;s length is measured in &#39;attoseconds&#39;.</p>
<p>So how long is an attosecond? It is 1/1000 of a femtosecond. How long<br />
is a femtosecond? A femtosecond is one millionth of one billioth of a<br />
second. Or in scientific notation, a femtosecond is 1*10^-15 (1E-15),<br />
and thus, an attosecond is 1*10^-18 (1E-18). Or for short (pardon the<br />
pun), an attosecond is an insignificant amount of time.</p>
<p>Does this mean when your boss gives you an attoboy, they are giving<br />
you an insignificant amount of praise?</p>
<p><i>form : The embedded muse.</i>
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<p style="font-size:10px;"><a href='http://posterous.com'>Posted by email</a> from <a href="http://karthi.posterous.com/attoboy">Karthi (posterous)</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Simple Things VIII - Relaxation]]></title>
<link>http://internaltaiji.wordpress.com/?p=292</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>zenmindsword</dc:creator>
<guid>http://internaltaiji.bg.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/simple-things-viii-relaxation/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Straits Times dated 4 Oct 2008 has an article reproduced from the New York Times entitled ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Straits Times dated 4 Oct 2008 has an article reproduced from the New York Times entitled "Fitness : Masters of Relaxation".<!--more--></p>
<p>The following are some interesting quotes from this article :-</p>
<p><strong>Relaxation. Its is a trait that is often under-appreciated, coaches and athletic trainers say.</p>
<p>Yet it can make the difference between doing your best and not well, between feeling dragged down or soaring.</p>
<p>"Its the paradox of athletics," said Rick DeMont, associate head coach for men's swimming at the University of Arizona and a former Olympian. "Tension is slow, tension is inefficient. You need to be relaxed."</p>
<p>And relaxation can be taught...........Yet relaxation also is a mysterious state and hard to describe. It is one of those situations in which you know it when you achieve it.</p>
<p></strong>Yes, relaxation can be taught. Yet its common to think of it as difficult to achieve.</p>
<p>But if relaxation can be taught then it should not be difficult to achieve. The problem really lies in one's resistance to letting go, to believing that what is taught is the right way to go. A case of wanting to learn but resisting the learning and then blame the style for having shortcomings.</p>
<p>Sometimes the way can be found in the small details, in the most fundamental things. But if one consistently ignores these basics then should it be surprising that one can't find the answers and end up looking outside to other styles for answers instead.</p>
<p>So when learning relax the mind, the self first. If one can't put down the self, the ego, the self-perceived smartness then one might as well learn on one's own instead of following a style because the truths of a style takes some digging before one can find them. The impatient, the disbeliever, the smart ones, those in a hurry will just miss them because they lack the patience to dig deep.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Simple Things VII - You Not Him]]></title>
<link>http://internaltaiji.wordpress.com/?p=290</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>zenmindsword</dc:creator>
<guid>http://internaltaiji.bg.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/simple-things-vii-you-not-him/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So the issue of correct timing came up in the performance of form because in moving too fast one]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So the issue of correct timing came up in the performance of form because in moving too fast one's body cannot catch up. <!--more--></p>
<p>In this case the necessary remedy is to simply slow down.</p>
<p>But trust a "smart" student to then search the internet for information on timing instead of just practicing to find the answer to correct timing.</p>
<p>So he found some information relating to the timing of the form as performed by a master and asked if there is a relation.</p>
<p>The answer is simply you are not him. What timing works for him need not necessarily work for you. If you bother to practice instead of just looking for info the time spent practicing may already revealed the answer because such things are not rocket science.</p>
<p>Simple huh? But if one does not practice then even a simple thing may seem complicated.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Energia Solar--Lo Ideal]]></title>
<link>http://gium.wordpress.com/?p=7</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>gium</dc:creator>
<guid>http://gium.bg.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/de-la-energia-solar/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sistemas de Energía Solar, la Mejor Energia Potencial
Energia Solar
Sobre los últimos años la tec]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 style="text-align:center;">Sistemas de Energía Solar, la Mejor Energia Potencial</h2>
[caption id="attachment_12" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Energia Solar"]<a title="energia solar, energia alternativa" href="http://laredcriolla.com/sanjuan/energia-alternativa-productos/" target="_blank"><img class="size-full wp-image-12" title="energia-solar" src="http://gium.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/1076973_fire_planet_2.jpg" alt="Energia Solar" width="300" height="300" /></a>[/caption]
<p>Sobre los últimos años la tecnología detrás de los sistemas de la <a title="energia solar, energia alternativa" href="http://laredcriolla.com/sanjuan/energia-alternativa-productos/" target="_blank">energía solar</a> se ha desarrollado enormemente. Como cualquier otra tecnología, el sistema de energía solar tiene ventajas y desventajas correspondientes a una nueva tecnología y para considerarse antes de hacer una inversión sobre otras formas de energia alternativa.</p>
<p>Beneficios:</p>
<p>La vista hacia utilización de energía solar ganó mucho renombre unas tres décadas atrás. Con las vulnerabilidades de la energía vistas evidentemente durante la crisis de aceite 1979, el mundo se despierto a la realidad que era hora de buscar <a title="energias alternativas" href="http://laredcriolla.com/sanjuan/energia-alternativa-productos/" target="_blank">fuentes alternativas</a> de energía.</p>
<p>La energía solar es una de las fuentes alternativas más acertadas de la energía hoy. La ayuda de gobiernos, las compañías industriales grandes, y los <a title="desarrollo sustentable, medio ambiente" href="http://laredcriolla.com/sanjuan/energia-alternativa-productos/" target="_blank">grupos ambientales</a> continúan el paso hacia el desarrollo del uso de energía solar. La tecnología solar ha sido muy ventajosa a los hogares situados en las áreas alejadas donde las compañías eléctricas no pueden alcanzar. Estas casas pueden hacer su propia electricidad con sus propios sistemas de la energía solar.</p>
<p>No se ha encontrado ningunas interferencias importantes referente a la producción de la <a title="energia solar, energia alternativa" href="http://laredcriolla.com/sanjuan/energia-alternativa-productos/" target="_blank">energía solar</a>, hasta ahora.</p>
<p>La desventaja: La novedad de los sistemas de la energía solar aun causan falta de confianza especialmente por los consumidores conservadores. Mucha gente todavía compara la novedad con falta de fiabilidad.</p>
<p>Inversión monetaria:</p>
<p>El precio de su unidad de la <a title="energia solar, energia alternativa" href="http://laredcriolla.com/sanjuan/energia-alternativa-productos/" target="_blank">energía solar</a>, más costos de instalación, puede alcanzar una cantidad exorbitante. Sin embargo, no debe preocuparse excesivamente puesto que su capital será devuelto en una cantidad de tiempo muy corta en relación a la garantía mínima de 20 anos proporcionada por la mayoría de los distribuidores del sistema de la energía solar. El costo de mantenimiento es también insignificante porque hay muy pocas piezas movibles en sistemas de energía solar. Con cuidado apropiado y adecuado, sus células solares pueden durar el curso de una vida.</p>
<p>Por otro lado, el coste inicial de un sistema de <a title="energia solar, energia alternativa" href="http://laredcriolla.com/sanjuan/energia-alternativa-productos/" target="_blank">energía solar</a> puede ser muy abrumante para un consumidor con bajos recursos financieros.</p>
<p>Funcionamiento:</p>
<p>La luz del sol es la fuente principal para su sistema de energía solar lo cual lo hace lo último de materia renovable. La “energía renovable” connota que la energía está derivada de fuentes naturales y naturalmente se repone. En la mayoría de las áreas, la luz solar es abundante y se mantiene como una constante fuente de energía para su sistema de energía solar. Las baterías, que sirven como reservas solares, se incluyen en su sistema de energía solar. Estas reservas se utilizan para continuar la fuente de poder a su casa durante los períodos en que el sol es inaccesible, como durante la noche.</p>
<p>La gran desventaja es que no todas las partes del mundo cuentan con la luz del sol a diario. En Antártica, por ejemplo, se pasa seis meses bajo claro de luna, y solo los otros seis meses tiene luz del sol. Los cambios del tiempo como las que ocasionan tormentas, lluvia y la presencia de nubes oscuras también disminuirán la producción energética solar puesto que la luz del sol se limita.</p>
<p>Mobilidad:<br />
Los sistemas de la energía solar son unidades relativamente enormes con varios componentes. Un hogar equipado con un sistema de la energía solar adquiere un valor más alto comparado a una residencia suscrita a la compañía eléctrica local. El coste adicional del sistema de la <a title="energia solar, energia alternativa" href="http://laredcriolla.com/sanjuan/energia-alternativa-productos/" target="_blank">energía solar</a> aumenta el precio total de su casa. Debido al tamaño y la permanencia del sistema se asegura que cualquier intento quitarlo muy probablemente fallará.</p>
<p>Pero debido también al gran tamaño de un sistema de la energía solar para dueños de la casa se les hace impractico llevarlo a un nuevo local.</p>
<p>Si le gustó este artículo y desea mas información sobre como economizar en gastos de electricidad o información sobre productos de energía solar, visite este web site: <a title="energia alternativa, energia solar" href="http://laredcriolla.com/sanjuan/energia-alternativa-productos/" target="_blank">http://laredcriolla.com/sanjuan/energia-alternativa-productos/</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Simple Things VI - Can Tell]]></title>
<link>http://internaltaiji.wordpress.com/?p=288</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>zenmindsword</dc:creator>
<guid>http://internaltaiji.bg.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/simple-things-vi-can-tell/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How can you tell if someone has understood the lessons of the basic form?
Actually its not that diff]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How can you tell if someone has understood the lessons of the basic form?<!--more--></p>
<p>Actually its not that difficult to tell.</p>
<p>The beautiful thing about forms is that their lessons are interlinked. So if you fail to learn something properly in one form, this will carry over to the next form.</p>
<p>So when I saw the opening move I knew that the lesson of the basic form has not been learned yet even though I was not shown the basic form.</p>
<p>And of course if you can't apply it you still have not absorbed the lesson yet.</p>
<p>So the next time you think forms are useless because you can't use the techniques you might want to relook at your mastery of the basics.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The mudslinging started fast in McCain-Obama debate]]></title>
<link>http://cnniinthefield.wordpress.com/?p=869</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>CNNI blog producer</dc:creator>
<guid>http://inthefield.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/08/the-mudslinging-started-fast-in-mccain-biden-debate/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The mudslinging started fast. In just the second question he answered, Senator John McCain went out ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The mudslinging started fast. In just the second question he answered, Senator John McCain went out of his way to accuse Barack Obama of involvement with the institutions at the center of the U.S. financial meltdown. And Obama responded in kind.Have you been watching the graph at the bottom of the screen? Uncommitted voters in the state of Ohio are listening and responding electronically. They clearly don't like it when the candidates turn against each other. In fact, that was widely predicted before the debate got underway: experts said that both candidates risked alienating undecided voters if they attacked too fiercely. As we've watched, they've been careful but critical too.</p>
<p>So far in this debate, we've heard good questions ("How can we trust either of you when both parties created this economic crisis?") and familiar answers.</p>
<p>Have you been impressed?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Questions for Refugee Camp journal entries]]></title>
<link>http://inthealthaid.wordpress.com/?p=150</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>inthealthaid</dc:creator>
<guid>http://inthealthaid.bg.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/questions-for-refugee-camp-journal-entries/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Questions 1-3 are compulsory. In addition, please choose any one question from 4-7 to answer. In tot]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Questions 1-3 are compulsory. In addition, please choose any one question from 4-7 to answer. In total your journal entry should comprise of 4 answered questions. You are expected to include specific references from the Refugee Camp.</p>
<p>Please don't answer in point form- it's a journal entry on your thoughts not a formal paper.</p>
<p>Questions</p>
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<p>1) Discuss the importance of cultural differences/ intercultural communication as presented in the Refugee Camp or as talked about by your guide.</p>
<p>2) Compare the significance of mental health in International Health Aid as presented at the Refugee Camp and as discussed in class.</p>
<p>3) What do you feel is the most prominent issue that is faced by both health care organisations and the refugee camp population?</p>
<p>4) Discuss the importance of local staff as presented at the Refugee Camp exhibit. Include observations on what MSF or other aid organisations do to ensure that locals staff is well trained.</p>
<p>5) What are some of the challenges faced by refugees in terms of nutrition/malnutrition?</p>
<p>6) What are some of the security challenges faced in a Refugee Camp that is in an active conflict situation?</p>
<p>7) What are some of the challenges aid organisations face in providing acute health care at Refugee Camps?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Simple Things V - Basic Form II]]></title>
<link>http://internaltaiji.wordpress.com/?p=286</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>zenmindsword</dc:creator>
<guid>http://internaltaiji.bg.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/simple-things-v-basic-form-ii/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[One of the simplest lesson from the basic form is about circles.
Yet this lesson can be easily misse]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the simplest lesson from the basic form is about circles.<!--more--></p>
<p>Yet this lesson can be easily missed out as is evident.</p>
<p>Maybe circling looks very simple and hence one can be lulled into thinking that its no big deal after all and hence one can move on to other more interesting things. But being able to do is not the same as being able to apply.</p>
<p>If one is unable to apply the circles then one has not really understood the lesson no matter no beautiful one's circles are perceived to be in one's mind.</p>
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