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Parking is always difficult in my neighborhood. I wanted the car for tomorrow available to me, so I could at least use the car for fun tomorrow. It might be a good day to take a drive and take some pictures. After all, I pay $814 per week and that's not including gas, and that's only to have the car in the mornings!! I better get my money's worth.
But anyway, So I'm trying to park the car right before the storm hits, a lot of parking spaces... all next to big trees and power lines.. SHIT!! this is an out-take from my parking search=
heads up -- I curse a bunch. -at the 49 second mark, if you didn't catch it, that is a transformer shorting out, right next to me.
Monday, October 29, 2012
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3 comments:
- Kalei's Best Friend said...
I bet you were tempted to park it on the sidewalk!. Can't blame u if u did dude!.... I sympathize and NO you don't curse that much
- October 29, 2012 at 9:15 PM
- Star said...
Love the header photo. Thanks.
- October 30, 2012 at 2:15 AM
- Martin van Duijn said...
Well, did you find a spot within reasonable distance from where you live?
- October 30, 2012 at 6:00 AM
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What we ordered? Biscuits & Gravy with Walnut Sage Sausage, Potato Leek Soup, Peanut Butter Chocolate Bar
What we liked? The soup was warm, the biscuits fluffy, and the PB Chocolate bar was gone in 5 bites.
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Month: April 2016
Be a Fool
Walk a little faster
Scream a little louder
Don't be afraid to be a fool
Fools are much wiser and braver than most
Because they dare to try
They have the courage to be "weird"
To stand out in the crowd
To share their inner goof with the world around them
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Let Me In Love
I have never been with anyone I could not forget.
It's not butterflies, but it's honest.
So you can imagine my surprise when one certain person refused to leave my mind.
Outside of expectation, without explanation… I just love you…just for being you.
So raw so beautiful, completely purely you.
I didn't know what hit me
All of the sudden there was you
Holding all of my heart
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They said you would come
But I never believed I would find you
Yet here you are
In the most horrific of timing
our lives racing against one another
each grasping for a much different goal.
I wish you could only understand just how much I love you
For all that you are
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Fate brought us together
Let us not allow fear to hold us back
I know in my heart you are my love
Nothing could be any clearer
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The ray of the sun
Drunk man wishing. Alone on destine hill. He dreamed she was near. He dreamed he was in her embrace and her tender fingers were caressing his face. She took his hand and kissed each finger and she whispered.
"Dear Johnnie. Whiskey is always fair. Blocked away the memories. Love just stirred up wants we do not understand. Love is cruel and cold. The flesh never is content. Feel the ray of the sun. This is true. The sun will rise, whiskey can be bought and love will break your heart."
Old Poet awoke to warm sun on his face and empty whiskey bottle. He looked to the sky and he thanked the liquor and booze gods for the whiskey angels.
Sacred lover
Old rustic songs sang by Leonard Cohen…
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"Allow your life to unfold naturally" – Dr. Wayne Dyer
Complaining is Complaining
Most people do not realize that as they continue to find things to complain about, they disallow their own physical well-being. Many do not realize that before they were complaining about an aching body or a chronic disease, they were complaining about many other things first. It does not matter if the object of your complaint is about someone you are angry with, behavior in others that you believe is wrong, or something wrong with your own physical body. Complaining is complaining, and it disallows improvement. – Abraham Hicks
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New York-based Visible World works with marketers to deliver ads to specific audiences and households based on zip codes, using data from cable set top boxes and other sources.
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In part 1 of this series, we banished the bullshit that men want sex all the time.
In part 2 of this series, we busted the myth that women don't want sex for sex. .
Now we banish the third myth:
"Men want more sex than women do"
This is probably the longest held belief. Going back to that evolutionary theory, it makes sense: males who are constantly horny are more likely to spread their seed and therefore produce offspring with the same trait of being extra horny. Except that, once again, HUMANS are more complicated than that.
Earth shattering new research is being done about female desire, and it's coming (!) out that women may actually have more voracious appetites for sex than men have. The problem is we just don't know it. One study tested physical arousal and perceived arousal at the same time – an instrument called a vaginal plethysmograph measured blood flow in the vagina, and the women typed a number on a keypad to indicate how aroused they felt when viewing various scenes (hetero sex, lesbian sex, gay male sex, and monkey – literally – sex.)
This is what the study by Dr. Meredith Chivers of Queen's University in Canada discovered...
The picture on the left shows the instrument that Dr. Chivers used: the vaginal plethysmograph. From the lab's website: "The vaginal and clitoral gauges are used to measure women's physical sexual responses. The vaginal gauge is a small, plastic, tampon-shaped probe about 6 cm long and 1.2 cm wide. […] instruments are used to measure changes in blood flow within the walls of the genital region. Each instrument has a light source and a light detector; the light source is used to illuminate the region that the light source in contact with, and the amount of blood that is circulating within the walls of that region determines how much light is back-scattered and detected by the light detector."
So the women tended to physically desire sex just as often, if not more often, than men – they just didn't recognize it. If you're a woman who DOES recognize your sexual appetite, you may feel like a freak. You aren't. Women actually have really strong sex drives.
So what did we learn?
- Men don't necessarily want sex all the time
- Women can want sex for the sole purpose of sex
- Women can have much more voracious sexual appetites than men, and just not recognize it
If you want sex on a more frequent basis than your partner, you're actually more normal than you think. Don't NOT initiate sex because it's "weird" to want it all the time. If you want it, initiate it. There is absolutely no shame in that.
"I want sex more than my boyfriend does."… to that we say: AMEN.
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Based on the foregoing we can start this chapter by stating that the so-called "fast-road-to-knowledge-without-any-effort" which is called "faith" is nothing but a bottomless hoax. It is ignorance enshrouded in a cloak of high-sounding phrases, which, so it is held, can only be understood by a "few chosen". It is a mixture of not provable and, thus, unproved beliefs which don't gain validity by any however large mass of believers nor by any concoction of wishes, whims, fancies, unsustainable hopes and menacing authority.
Knowledge is not and cannot be obtained in any easy way. It requires a constant effort, a never-ending study and the permanent updating of the knowledge, the data and the informations throughout life. It is the continuous process of thought applied to questions and problems posed by nature and its interconnections with human beings. It is the process of deducing conclusions and applying them to the reality which surrounds us and in which we live. It is what makes the human characteristic of "homo sapiens-sapiens". The continued co-existence of faith and reason in the modern world is the biggest contradiction of all possible contradictions.
We call ourselves "homo sapiens-sapiens" in this specific instance not because we like to give ourselves high-sounding names and titles but because knowing is the main characteristic which distinguishes us from other, lower ranked, animals which are called "lower ranked" precisely because they lack the capacity to think. Other animals may be stronger, faster, and more resistant but our species has the highest capacity that evolution could develop through a try-and-error method: the capacity to observe data, think about it and determine what to do with it. However spectacular resolving the "mysteries" of the universe may seem it is just one instance of the truly infinite areas and circumstances for which we apply the capacity of reasoning in the eternal quest to insure our subsistence as a species against all others species who would overrun us at the slightest sign of surrender.
The history of the development of the different species as well as the history of the development of the various organs forms an ascending ladder towards the highest possible capacity. Other species ran and are still running into blind alleys. Nature itself condemned 2.5 million species to disappear during the process of evolution. We are the product of those individuals of the lower ranked animals, which were able to pass on their higher capacities in a way that did not end in the next blind alley. In fact, we are the product of a continued line of avoiding every possibility of getting into a blind alley. Should we ever run into a blind alley our species would stagnate and, eventually, disappear. We may make individual mistakes but should same affect the whole species we would face destruction. Those who cling to faith and its related areas are doing the utmost possible to get us there.
To know we have to think, thinking being the process used by our mind to, basically, observe facts, combine these facts, reach logical conclusions and act on these conclusions. The process is, of course, much more complicated than here stated but it serves to briefly describe the faculty we possess, the faculty to identify and integrate the material provided by our senses, i.e. reason.
Reasoning is an extremely extended and complicated integration of our perception of reality which philosopher Ayn Rand has described into its finest details in her writings. She overturns all what earlier philosophers have up to her considered to be the act of reasoning and established the whole significance of this faculty.
Our thinking capacity operates with economy. We do not have to remember millions upon millions of different cats but only the concept "cat" which joins the main characteristics, which are common to these animals. This done, the process goes on by joining the various common characteristics of separate concepts into an abstraction, an abstraction being a selective mental focus that separates a certain aspect common to several concepts from all others. We look at all cat-like animals and establish their common characteristics with other animals and join them into a higher abstraction of "mammals". Further on, the faculty of reason serves to establish abstractions from abstractions and so forth, in an ever-widening sphere of economic condensation, never forgetting that at all and any time the line which allows to trace the way back to its origin, reality, is not and must not be interrupted.
While Platonists, neo-Platonists and other such called "realists" (Philosopher Ayn Rand later termed this position "Intrinsicism") understand that such abstractions, for example "cat", exist in reality as specific concretes in another dimension, their counterparts, the Nominalists and the Conceptualists, consider that abstractions do not really exist but are just some sort of "names" or ideas used by our mind as labels to put some concretizing order into what in reality seems to be an incomprehensible chaos.
Both schools of thought are united by either a real (Platonists) or an inherent (Nominalists and Conceptualists) mysticism. Truth lies with neither one nor the other school. The universe exists as an absolute reality but we need to use a faculty that extracts from this reality the common characteristics, which identify the existing units. The faculty used, as stated already, is called reason; Ayn Rand called the integration of man's mind (the function of our brain) and the objects of reality Objectivism.
The main part of every language consists of abstractions, concretes being used only to point out certain specifics. Were we not to speak in the abstract we would be totally unable to speak, for were we to say anything about cats we would have to enumerate them all before proceeding.
We only use concretes when we refer to specifics, such as "my home", "my son's car", "my wife's blue dress" and so forth. Even in these instances the abstractions involved become evident at once for the only concrete involved is "my".
Specifically concrete concepts make up the smallest part of all concepts, which again points to the extreme economy used by our brain to work. Examples of concrete concepts are personal names, such as Ludwig van Beethoven. It is impossible not to understand what is meant by this name (or to the name of our neighbor) once we have learned to comprehend what is meant by it. Even with more common names, such as John Smith would be, we can always add additional concrete concepts to make the meaning clear. We can add the name of the city where John Smith was born, his date of birth, and even if two John Smith's would have been born in the same city, the same day and the same hospital we could still state the difference between them by naming the name of the parents, the different times of birth, etc. until there is no longer any possibility of mistaking what we mean by that specific name. We could even add photographs, fingerprints, DNA references, etc. to individualize the concept.
Objectivity indicated Ayn Rand in her article "Who is the Final Authority in Ethics?" (The Objectivist Newsletter, Feb. 1965) involves both a metaphysical and an epistemological concept, for it relates to both existence and consciousness. Within Metaphysics, it states that reality has an independent existence from what the observer would like it to be. On the level of man's conscience it imposes the requirement that the knowledge of reality must be obtained by reason using the rules of logic. This means that no contradiction between both is allowed. Hence, truth is not automatically accessible but must be obtained through the mental process just mentioned. This means also that there is no shortcut to knowledge, no "revealed" truth and, thus, no substitute for this process, no possibility to avoid the responsibility of thinking. While metaphysically reality is the final instance, it is one's own mind that must understand this fact. If it refuses to accomplish this task and insist with capricious beliefs, disaster is directly ahead. This means that every idea can only and must only be validated by reality. If it is not, it is rubbish or, at best, it belongs to the realm of fantasy.
In other words, again referring to Ayn Rand, the main axiom is that "Existence exists" and this carries with it two additional axioms which state that what one perceives exists and that one oneself has consciousness, which is the capacity to perceive what exists. Existence is the condition for consciousness to exist, for if nothing existed there could be no consciousness, since a consciousness with nothing to be aware of is a contradiction in terms. Prior to identify itself as consciousness it has to be conscious of something. A consciousness with nothing external to be conscious cannot be called consciousness.
This is the precise point where Ayn Rand's Philosophy of Objectivism makes all earlier philosophical thought invalid. It is not "Cogito, ergo sum", but the other way round. First comes existence and only then consciousness, the capacity to be aware of what exists. We must start by using our capacity to think to understand what surrounds us but it is reality itself, which stands at the very start, as the object on which our thoughts depend if we want to know the truth. This said I can now state that this is only a rephrasing of what Rand said.
This complementation of reality and consciousness lays at the basis of what Chris Matthew Sciabarra expresses so clearly in the chapter "Knowing" of his book "Any Rand: The Russian Radical" when he says – using Rand's line of reasoning - that the realists (Intrinsicists, i.e. Platonists) regard "the referents of concepts as intrinsic, i.e. as "universals" inherent in things either as archetypes or as metaphysical essences which can be perceived only by some non-sensory or extra-sensory mean. The realists are deeply committed to an objective reality, but since for them this reality lays in another "world" or "dimension" their "Objectivism" is a totally mystic view, the knowledge of which is subject to "divine revelation".
Such a position created an opposition, composed by Nominalists and Conceptualists. While Nominalists state that our ideas are only images of concretes and that abstractions are merely "names" with no relation at all with reality, Conceptualists hold that such "images" are not such but only some sort of ideas. They turn everything into consciousness, with total disregard for an objective reality. For both Nominalists and Conceptualists concepts are subjective, i.e. products of man's consciousness, unrelated to reality.
Rand saw that these apparent antagonists – which can also be termed Realists and Subjectivist – are only two sides of the same false coin. She stated: "Men have been taught that knowledge is impossible (Skepticism) or that it is available without effort (Mysticism). These two positions appear to be antagonists, but are, in fact, two variants on the same theme, two sides of the same fraudulent coin: the attempt to escape the responsibility of rational cognition and the absolutism of reality – the attempt to assert the primacy of consciousness over existence".
Rand's reply to both positions is not Hegel's much adored synthesis. Rand wiped out the inherent limitations of both positions. By doing so, she destroyed both and set up a clearly different explanation. Existence must be recognized as what it is: true reality, with consciousness as the faculty required to perceive it and reason as the tool to understand and integrate it into a comprehensible whole.
For the purpose of this writing, we do not need either to enter into the direct epistemological implications of what has been said above nor into the description of the mechanics of the Objectivist Epistemology. The literature on Objectivism is the proper place where the reader should look for. The theme is incredibly exciting but to follow it in this writing would surpass its purpose and extend it into areas, which, while directly related with it, be only a summary of what Ayn Rand and Objectivist intellectuals have written with far greater depth.
Here I will only add the following: While mystics and sundry "philosophers" (among them Kant) have done the very impossible to deny the reality of the faculty of reason and its usefulness, they must inevitably recur to it when speaking or writing their nonsense. Paraphrasing Ayn Rand when she speaks about axioms, the enemies of reason have to use it even to translate their gibberish thinking to their readers. Would they not do so, they would not even been able to speak or write. Only senseless babbling would be the result. Even by using reason to transmit their foolish ideas they come to nothing. Reason defeats its enemies by the fact that they have to accept it and use it in the process of any attempt to deny it.
The foregoing explains why mankind is composed, either consciously or unconsciously, by two groups, which are, as said before, merely variations of the same interpretation:
a) People which either think that the reality in which they live is not real but only an image of "real" reality (whatever they may mean by this) and that this image can thus be changed by appeals directed to the "maker" of the "real" reality and
b) Those accepting that the reality in which they live is only an idea which can be simply changed by wishing it.
The first ones are Intrincisists (for them the good resides in some sort of reality, independent of man's consciousness, to cite Ayn Rand on the theme), the second ones are Subjectivists, holding that the good resides in man's consciousness, independent of reality. Both believe that whatever they think is good can and must be applied without mercy to their fellowmen.
While religions represent the Intrincisists who want to apply what they feel is right on everybody and eliminate those who will not accept their way, Subjectivists adhere to the belief that since their ideas cannot be wrong they must be imposed on everybody with instant elimination of anyone who doesn't want to follow their rules.
The first ones have their representatives in the theocracies and their endless, bloodthirsty Inquisitions. The Robespierres, the Lenins, and other such Stalitlers, as I call their synthesis, represent the second ones. Both are enemies of mankind, though same has not been noticed yet.
Against this grows the strength of Ayn Rand's Objectivism. Ayn Rand clearly showed that our life takes place in a stable and, thus, comprehensible reality, that there is no "further" reality than the one where we live in and that we have to use reason, the faculty which distinguishes us as a species, to discern it, understand it and deduce from it the correct decisions to build a life proper to a rational human being. The accent lays on "rational" since many consider themselves "human beings" while constantly forgetting the main characteristic that distinguishes a "human being" from all other species.
In a rational society, that is an Objectivist society, the epistemological rule is that "Emotions are not tools of cognition". Emotions are the result of the thinking process, not the cause of it: a rational person feels pride for its accomplishments, elation for its positive undertakings, for its capacity to create and produce. We feel love for finding a person who shares our values (rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness and pride) and happiness for living in a world whose fundamental structure, in spite of all aberrations of traditional philosophies and religions, is based on the virtues mentioned. In such a world, we are unique individuals.
It is precisely reason, the capacity to think, that makes us unique. Since reality is what it is and not some indiscernible fog, as many would want to oblige us to believe, we can understand it, and this allows us to change and/or adapt the things that make up reality for specific purposes of our own survival. Through the faculty of reason, we can adapt reality to our wishes and requirements. We can make it a livable world where we enjoy comfort, wellbeing, health, richness and long life and where we can apply our productive capacities to achieve our deepest wishes. Since we have evolved into a rational species, we are truly the "makers" of reality as long as we respect the key Francis Bacon gave us when he said: "Nature (i.e. reality) to be commanded must be obeyed". This means that we have to apply the natural laws correctly and by no means arbitrarily. For reason is also a double-sided sword. It can be used to produce much evil when we start from the wrong basis, as the enemies of mankind have done and do when they consider themselves "better" as a race or as holders of a certain political basis, as the religions (which hold Communism as their belief of a perfect society), the Communists (Socialists as they call themselves) and their pendants, the Nazis (National-Socialists) and all those who hold to an altruist "ideal" (living for the next of kin and not for oneself) did and will do as soon as they see a new chance for their destructive drive.
We can become destroyers of our fellowmen and of ourselves; we can "produce" starvation, sickness and poverty. We can become tyrants to ruthlessly rule over our fellowmen, we can become dictators to determine the suffering and early death of our fellowmen, we can become bloodthirsty despots.
We call these kinds of destroyers evil men because they hurt and even cut our own peaceful and productive interests in favor of their and their followers destructive purposes. Those men, which have productive purposes for their own, are refrained from unleashing their productive power and their efforts are reverted to work for evil. It is here where we enter what is usually called "Hell on Earth". Not many have the inner strength to reject the obligation to work for tyrants to survive; not many have the courage of committing suicide when facing such circumstances; not many are willing to set up an opposition. Most think that they are subject to an incomprehensible destiny, which cannot be changed. Tyrants and dictators build their power on such beliefs.
Hence, we can use reason for destruction. To stop this way of using it we require a specific mode of conduct, a code of ethics. Those following the teachings of Objectivism reject any submission to destruction and operate towards the establishment of a benevolent society. To do so however, they need a guide, a rule, not a ruler, which separates good from evil. Out of the knowledge that the reality in which we live is real and the knowledge that we have to use our capacity to think to understand and adapt reality to benevolent purposes, comes the knowledge that a code of ethics, a moral guide, must be built by using the unique authority of our thinking capacity.
The moral guide required is fundamentally different from all those which have ruled human societies so far, rules basically set up to defend and glorify the kings, dictators and governments meddling with our life. We will now enter this area and we can already state what Ayn Rand promised through her teachings: While those ruling mankind since times immemorial have been using fear as their weapon to bring death to man as his punishment for refusing to accept their "moral" code, Objectivism offers life as the reward for accepting a totally different type of thinking, acting and living.
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Natural Pigment Solutions
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"Consumer demand for natural food ingredients rather than synthetic has greatly increased in recent decades. As a result, the natural food colorant market has grown to over $1 billion dollars annually. Synthetic food colorants commonly added to processed foods, such as FD&C Blue No. 1 and FD&C Green No. 3, carry toxicity concerns while natural food colorants, such as β-carotene and Annatto extract, are considered safe or even beneficial. Despite the market potential, no natural pigments suitable for obtaining the colors blue, green, and purple have been found. Most efforts to complete the natural color palette have focused on pigments derived from plants while pigments derived from microorganisms remain relatively unexplored. The goal of my thesis project is to discover and characterize new natural blue, green, and violet colored pigment compounds produced by microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, and algae) and to evaluate their potential for use as natural colorants. Since many microbial pigments have shown antioxidant, antibacterial, or anticancer properties, new pigments are also tested for therapeutic potential. The photograph, taken from an east window of a UIC College of Pharmacy research laboratory, shows an array of solutions of new natural blue, green, and violet microbial pigments encountered during my research."


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UNplug solar controller aims to help you take your fridge off the grid
Where's the middle ground between having a small solar charger for your gadgets, and having a rooftop solar array capable of powering your entire house? The UNplug might know.
Solar energy is rapidly becoming a viable option for many homes and businesses, and every week seems to bring news of another new solar financing vehicle or a drop in prices, but it's still out of reach of many of us, just in terms of the initial costs. I'd love to put solar on my house, but I'm not in a position just yet to make that financial commitment.
However, I do have a few solar chargers and gadgets that serve me well for charging small devices at home or in the woods, but they aren't nearly big enough for the task of powering even some of my household needs. I've often pondered the idea of building a small standalone solar energy system that can provide clean electricity for at least some of my home's needs, that wouldn't take a major investment, and that could essentially be a small step toward having a more resilient homestead.And I know I'm not the only one, because the internet is full of plans and articles and forums for building your own DIY solar system, so it's clearly an idea whose time has come. Most of those plans, however, are often intended for off-grid and remote applications, and not integrating into an average grid-tied house, which is where so many of us could really use it. But a new crowdfunding campaign for a device that aims to bridge the divide could help people take that one step off the grid, starting with their fridge.
The UNplug solar controller was invented by Markus Löffler in response to his own power blackout experience, where several days without electricity meant a lot of spoiled food. Löffler, an entrepreneur and software engineer living in Altadena, California, developed the UNplug device to serve as a simple and inexpensive way to begin going solar, because it serves as the brain of a micro-solar system, starting as small as a single solar panel and a small battery bank.
According to Löffler, just the 100 million or so refrigerators, laptops, and modems running every day in the U.S. is responsible for adding some 33 billion pounds of CO2 to our atmosphere each year, so if we could start taking even some of those off the fossil fuel grid, it could begin to have a big positive effect:
"How can we save money and have a quick and positive impact on the environment? Here's the answer:
By using the greenest energy source there is… solar. No moving parts, the power is just absorbed through solar panels. With this free energy, you turn your power needs "off the grid" during the most critical "peak" times in a day. Between 10am and 6pm when energy costs are the highest. At night UNplug automatically switches you back to the electricity grid." - UNplug
During the day, UNplug feeds electricity from the solar panel into the appliances connected to it, and charges the battery bank, and then when the sun goes down, it seamlessly switches over those devices to using grid power. In the event of a blackout, UNplug then powers those same appliances from the battery bank, allowing certain crucial electricity needs to continue to be met during an outage.
The UNplug could allow homes to take at least some of their daily electrical loads off the grid, such as the fridge or other household devices, while also serving as an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) in the event of a power outage. The device doesn't function all by itself, of course, and requires solar panels, batteries, an inverter, and other accessories, but according to Löffler's campaign page, a small system could be set up for an additional $570 or so, on top of the cost of the UNplug, so the entire investment could be under $1000. (His shopping list is here.)
Find out more about Löffler's projects at Solar Trap, or check out the UNplug crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.


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Students at a Longbridge college had road safety messages delivered to them by emergency services this morning, with a demonstration of a road traffic collision in the college car park.
West Midlands Police, Fire and Ambulance Services reconstructed a crash scene outside Bournville College, allowing students to see them in action.
Earlier in the morning, road safety messages were delivered to students as part of a Crash Reduction Event.
West Midlands Police Sergeant Michael Dunbar who took part in the event said: "The roadshow is designed to deliver hard-hitting messages to young drivers by making them aware of their responsibilities on the road and the potentially fatal consequences of speeding or not paying attention while driving.
"The emergency services deal with a high number of road traffic collisions involving young people and we are doing all that we can to educate our youngsters – both drivers and passengers – in an attempt to drive down the number of tragedies on our roads."
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This is a two-part Op-Ed series on breast cancer screening. Read Otis Brawley, MD's counterpoint here.
On Monday September 9, the journal Cancer published our study that reviewed 7,301 women diagnosed with breast cancer among women cared for at the major Harvard Medical School hospitals from 1990 to 1999, and the 609 women who died from these cancers. We found that 71 percent of the women who died from breast cancer were among the 20 percent of women who were not participating in screening. This relationship was particularly clear for women who were not being screened in their 40s compared to those who were being screened. To my surprise, at least one of the major television stations was concerned that our findings would increase the confusion over screening. Since all of the scientific data overwhelmingly support screening beginning at the age of 40, it is unclear why they would have suggested that our analysis should cause confusion. The confusion has been caused by those who suggest that mammography screening should not begin until the age of 50, and then can be done every two years. Our results should end the controversy once and for all.
From 1997 to 2009 most of the major organizations, including the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), agreed that women should begin screening at the age of 40 and most organization agreed with the American Cancer Society that these women should be screened every year. In 2009, a USPSTF Panel changed their breast cancer screening guidelines and decided that women could delay starting screening until age 50 and could be screened every two years instead of every year. This caused major confusion. In fact, the members of the USPSTF had no expertise in mammography screening. There were no radiologists on the panel. There were no breast surgeons and no medical oncologists who care for women with breast cancer. When issues were raised about the flaws in their analysis, they refused to respond to the concerns because they lacked the expertise and data to respond. Their reasoning was so poor, that the Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Head of Health and Human Services, ruled that the government would not follow their guidelines.
The USPSTF analysis actually showed that the most lives were saved if women began screening every year beginning at the age of 40, but they ignored their own results because they decided that the "false positives" outweighed the fact that lives would be saved. They raised concerns by using the term "false positive", but neglected to tell women that the vast majority of these were nothing more than being recalled from screening for a few extra mammographic pictures or perhaps an ultrasound. The worst result was the anxiety caused by the recall. The USPSTF Panel members, failing to really understand the facts themselves, essentially, decided that it was better for women to die from breast cancer than to make them anxious with recalls from screening. In fact, using the same modeling as the USPSTF had used, it was shown that if women now in their 30s followed the USPSTF guidelines as many as 100,000 lives would be lost that could have been saved by following the American Cancer Society guidelines.
Somehow the guidelines have been twisted through misinformation so that it is now suggested that screening every two years starting at 50 is the recommended guideline, and that earlier and more frequent screening is confusing to women. In fact, most major medical groups still advise women to follow the American Cancer Society guidelines which are based on the scientific evidence. The USPSTF guidelines are based on the faulty analyses and the subjective decision of inexperienced members who decided that women cannot tolerate the anxiety of being recalled from screening for additional evaluation and should be allowed to die instead.
Subsequently, papers were published in support of the USPSTF guidelines that raised concerns that mammography was finding cancers that would never be clinically important — so called "overdiagnosis". Claims were made that tens of thousands of cancers would disappear on their own if left alone. These papers were not, actually, supported by the scientific evidence. Actual scientific analysis showed that there is no overdiagnosis of invasive cancers. The earliest form of breast cancers called "ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)" has always been problematic, but invasive cancers found by mammography, given enough time, have lethal potential.
There should be no confusion:
1. The most rigorous studies of mammography screening, called randomized, controlled trials, have shown that screening beginning at the age of 40 saves lives.
2. Why would anyone think that breast cancers will stop growing for a year so that there is no difference in the size and stage of cancers among women who are screened every year vs. every two years? Annual screening saves more lives than screening every two years.
3. When screening is introduced into the general population, the death rate from breast cancer declines, as shown in multiple studies in multiple countries. In the United States the death rate from breast cancer had been unchanged since 1940. Screening began in the mid 1980s in large numbers in the U.S., and, as expected, the death rate began to decline, for the first time in 50 years, in 1990. As more and more women have participated in screening the death rate has continued to decline. Each year, in large part due to screening, more than 30 percent fewer women die from breast cancer than would have died had screening not been instituted. Therapy has improved, but doctors who treat women with breast cancer, not the opponents of screening who do not actually take care of women with breast cancer, will admit that therapy saves lives when cancers are found earlier.
4. Our recent study should eliminate all doubt. Since we looked at women who had died of breast cancer, those who want to limit screening cannot say that our results are due to fake cancers. We found that more than 70 percent of the women who died of breast cancer were among the 20 percent of women who were not participating in screening. There is no other explanation for these results. If screening was not a factor, then 20 percent of the deaths should have been among the 20 percent of women not being screened while 80 percent of the deaths should have been among the 80 percent of women who were participating in screening. Our results were strongest among women ages 40-49. It is clear that they benefit from screening. The data have shown this for decades. Our study merely confirms the fact that screening saves lives.
There should be no confusion. The most lives are saved by screening women every year beginning at the age of 40.
Dr. Kopans is the author of more than 225 scientific papers and numerous book chapters, including the textbook Breast Imaging, which is now in its third edition. He teaches at Harvard Medical School and practices as a senior radiologist of breast imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital.


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Buying Pre-Owned? See Why a Used Subaru in Bedford is a Great Deal
Ninety-seven percent. That's the estimated number of Subaru vehicles produced and sold over the last decade that are still out on the roads today. That's ten years' worth of sedans, wagons, hatchbacks, and SUVs that are still commuting to work, going adventuring on the weekends, and tackling terrain with legendary all-wheel drive. It's also ten years of happy drivers who know that--when they buy a used Subaru--they're really investing in a worthy vehicle.
You can browse our used Subaru inventory to see amazing deals on dozens of well-equipped, capable, and stylish models. Sort used from Certified Pre-Owned Subaru, or filter by year, model, body style, mileage, or price to narrow down your options. Specify your preferences, and our dynamic inventory selection will show you only those vehicles that match your needs and wants. It's the easiest and most fun way to buy a used car in Bedford!


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Glossary of Terms
A transparent, water-based dye, originally produced from the indigo plant, that is used to color leather. The leather is dyed all the way through in an immersion process, so that the natural characteristics of the leather are visible.
A two-toned leather, often with a high sheen, made with all the benefits of modern-day technology but designed to look aged.
BLUE or WET-BLUE
Leather hides with the hair removed that have been tanned (preserved) but not yet finished. Chromium salts used in the tanning process cause the hides to turn light blue in color. Also referred to as raw material.
buffed leather
Leather from which the top surface of the grain has been removed by an abrasive cylinder. Also referred to as brushed, nubuck or sueded leather.
The hide of a young or immature bovine animal not exceeding 34 square feet in area and 1.00 millimeters in thickness.
("White" Tannage): A technology introduced in the 21st century, used to replace chrome, which is not biodegradable, with an alternate tannage. Usually employing a mineral called gluteraldehyde, chrome-free leather will biodegrade in an environmentally-friendly way at the end of its useful life.
combination tanning
The process of first chrome-tanning leather and then further tanning it with vegetable agents, resulting in leather that is firm, yet supple. Sometimes referred to as retanning.
corrected leather
Leather whose surface has been partially removed by buffing and upon which a new surface has been built by various finishes and embossments. This process should remove only the top of the hair follicles. Also referred to as top grain.
Leather that has been tanned and dyed, but not finished.
A revolving cylindrical vat which can hold up to 10,000 s.f. of leather, used for processes such as washing, tanning, aniline-dyeing and milling leather hides.
embossed leather
Leather embossed with a raised pattern either imitating or resembling the grain pattern of some animal or with a decorative design.
The final methods and processes of preparing leather for use, occurring after the tanning process, which makes the leather serviceable and aesthetically pleasing. It includes applying color, sheen and protective agents to the leather.
Full grain
Leather bearing the original skin surface, from which nothing except hair has been removed by buffing. The naked eye can see the peaks and valleys of the natural surface of the skin.
The outer side of a hide, which includes the pores, follicles and other natural characteristics, after the hair has been removed.
The term that describes leather's softness and feel.
hand antiqued
The process whereby skilled craftspeople hand-rub a contrasting color onto the surface of the leather to accentuate the natural grain or embossing.
The process by which tanned hides are tumbled in rotating drum s using a combination of heat and a misting of water to soften the hand or enhance the grain.
naked leather
Leather that has been aniline-dyed in the drum and then topcoated with aniline dyes devoid of oil-based pigments. Naked leathers are pure and transparent but are less well-protected against staining and fading than semi-aniline leathers.
natural grain
Leather whose grain has not been altered in any way, such as by buffing, applying pigments or embossing, revealing the natural appearance of the grain.
Full-grain, aniline-dyed leather that is buffed to create a soft and velvety nap.
A surface luster that develops on pure anilines and nubucks, which grows more beautiful with use and the passing of time.
An oil based coloration applied superficially to the surface of leather. Opaque and insoluble in water, it provides color and uniformity, as well as extra protection to the surface of the leather.
The process of producing a smooth grain surface on leather by pressing it under a pressurized, heated metal plate.
pure aniline
Leather which receives its only color from aniline dyes and exhibits natural markings and characteristics.
Leather which has been aniline dyed, incorporating a small quantity of pigment in the topcoat, not so much as to conceal the natural characteristics of the hide, but affording additional protection.
The process of dividing a hide horizontally into layers. A cowhide typically can be split into three usable layers, the top layer known as the skin or grain surface, and the center and bottom splits known as suede.
The horizontal split of a leather hide, usually with a velvet-like nap. Typically, suede hides average 18 square feet.
The process of stabilizing perishable raw hides by the use of tanning materials into the permanent form of leather. This is known as the preservation process.
The process of applying a contrasting color to the raised area of an embossed hide, usually applied with a roller.
Vegetable Tanning
The conversion of raw hides into leather by soaking in tannins extracted from trees and plants mixed with water. The result is leather that has greater body and firmness than chromium-tanned leather.


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Thank the long train journeys to work, I came up with 2 stories this week. One is a continuation of last week's prompt. The other is a totally new story.
Hope you like them. 🙂
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Posts from other blogs I found interesting.
Thank the long train journeys to work, I came up with 2 stories this week. One is a continuation of last week's prompt. The other is a totally new story.
Hope you like them. 🙂
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A nomination for the Creative Chaos Awards by Charles. 🙂 Thank you!
On the 1st of April, I had two things that cheered my mood—and this is not another fooling story. I was awarded the Creative Chaos Award by Subhan Zein (the guy is one hell of inspiration to me) and my blog's hits climaxed 2,000! What a feat!
Though I created my blog sometimes in November 2011, I made it public in February 2012 and in two months I have had 2000 hits—an average of 33 clicks per day!
This is awesome. I am dedicating the award to all writerly folks from the Friday Fictioneers at Madison Woods Blog who made this feat possible—all for you!
To accept this award, you must:
1. Tell 3 completely weird things about your habits. If you claim to have no weird habits, you're lying and we'll have to send an investigative team for further analysis.
2. You must tell why you look at the "glass…
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Are you up to the challenge?
Important Appeal from one of your readers!I don't know if there's any way to post a message that everyone can see but for all the blogspot people, it's very hard for those of us who aren't members of blogspot to ever get to post a comment. If the word matching is turned on, it never thinks you've matched and sometimes when it's not the comment just hangs up while it blinks back and forth to the word matching but never posts… I note from comments that I'm not alone. Definitely helps when people turn off the word match but maybe blogspot needs a heads up?
Hope you can help!
Now for this week's prompt. As you know I like to be topical so I'm thinking Easter. However, I'm thinking a little outside the box! The prompt is quite simple but the trick this week is to prepare for NEXT week!
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I am going to try this tomorrow. 🙂
Plots! Where do they come from? How do you come up with them? That's what I wanted to know before I became a writer. In fact, the idea of coming up with plots was the single most thing that prevented me from writing. Words, character development, description, dialogue… all of that I can do. But how do you come up with a plot?
Now that I've done a few of them, it seems simple, but at the beginning it was daunting. Hallie Ephron's "Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel" has some great pointers. The place to start, though, is to open yourself up to possibility. Here's a little exercise for you… I'll give you a topic and you write as many plot ideas as you can come up with. But first, I'll be nice and give you an example.
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Another award nomination by http://gjscobie.wordpress.com/. Thanks! Appreciate your support.
Another award nomination by Thanks! Appreciate your support.
Some interestings historical facts surrounding poetry. 🙂
Many of the posts here, and much of the discussion, revolves around one aspect or another of 'story'. However, the modern understanding of 'story' seems to be based mainly in the world of prose. This is a relatively recent evolution in the history of storytelling (it could be argued that Western fictional narrative, and its more 'informal' language, grew out of the 'histories' – and only became popular when books first became widely available in the fifteenth century).
If we go back to the first storytellers, while they may not have originally thought of themselves as poets, that is what they were. In order to remember extremely long tales, certain formulations, certain rhythms were used to aid memory.
The oldest known version of the "Epic of Gilgamesh" was originally five independent Sumerian poems that date from as early as the Third Dynasty of Ur (2150-2000 BC). Four of the poems…
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50 icon SPRING 2016 | THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN SOCIE T Y OF IN TERIOR DESIGNERS
The new year begins! The 360
Leadership Conference, sponsored
by the Business + Industrial Furniture
Manufacturers Association (BIFMA)
in January, provides the inspiration
for the ASID Board to explore the
challenges and opportunities ahead
for the interior design industry (left to
right): Director at Large Teresa Sowell,
Director at Large Sarah W. Colandro,
Chair Sandy Gordon, Director at Large
Jo Rabaut, Chair-Elect Charrisse
Johnston, and ASID CEO Randy Fiser.
Design & Construction Week,the co-location of two of the biggestannual trade shows for residentialdesign and construction professionals,is a perfect place for the buildingindustry to come together and aNETWORKING IS LOCAL—AND GLOBAL. For interior design professionals everywhere,nothing beats face-to-face encounters with people, products, and projects.
perfect place for ASID staff to meet
members and others influencing the
built environment. Attending the
Las Vegas event in early 2016 are (left
to right): Nancy Jardee, Cambria senior
vice president Marketing; Bianca Lettieri,
Cambria Business Development;
Randy Fiser, ASID CEO; Celeste Lehmann,
Cambria marketing representative -
Orange County; and Olga Odeide, ASID
director, Industry Partnerships.
The quest for longevity and
healthy aging, health-related
technologies, and health disparities
are addressed at the Health Matters
Summit, the fifth annual convening of
leaders from a variety of health fields.
Sponsored by the Clinton HealthMatters Initiative, former PresidentBill Clinton hosts and moderatesdiscussions on ways to implementsystemic health improvements.
Presented by Contract, the 37th
Annual Interiors Awards Breakfast in
New York honors the winners of projects in 14 categories and celebrates a
Designer of the Year and two Design
Legends. ASID staff members and
friends celebrate these accomplishments, too.
Student Portfolio Competition final-ists take the stage at LAUNCH: TheASID National Student Summit held atSCAD in February. Judges made theirselections based on concept, content,and context, generating a group offinalists who epitomized the spirit ofthe competition in originality,ingenuity, and creativity.
Nothing is better than a sneak peek
at the next frontier in office design.
ASID offers a glimpse of its new office
space under construction in Washington, D.C., during a tour hosted with the
National Building Museum. The space
is being constructed and designed
with the goal of achieving both LEED
and WELL Platinum certifications.
ASID Researcher Susan Chung dis-cusses the pre- and post-occupancy
research ASID is undertaking to
gauge the wellness aspects of the new
space. ASID VP of Communications and
Marketing Laura Horsley and Chung
can't resist a prerequisite "hard hat"
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Are you tired of the Navigational applications which don't deliver the results as per your requirements? If yes then the only application which will make you smile is an application called the And Nav. Basically there were two versions of And Nav that are And Nav1 as well as And Nav 2. While And Nav1 resembled more like the Google Maps but doesn't had the real time navigation which was the biggest drawback as it didn't had the real time turn by turn navigation and only had the static navigation which is based on user input (e.g. start and end points), but not on live GPS data.
The And nav 2 was based on the Open Street Map (OSM) so that it can provide real-time audible turn-by-turn route guidance which is of great help if you come across a new place. It also has other features like Text to Speech etc and also have the facility to access your contacts, high-quality graphics and fast internet access, all combined in an easy-to-use interface.
Features of And Nav 2:
And Nav2, is basically a free and a fully featured application which not only gives accurate mapping details but also provides the turn by turn navigation application features and also it supports most of the additional features which ranges from the Location-Lookup, POIs, Text-2-Speech Instructions, Traffic-Feeds, Contact-Search, 4-day Weather Forecast, Via-Points, Avoid-Areas, and many more. Though this application is still in the beta version, we can expect more from this application once this is launched on a stable platform.
You can easily download the application by following the below mentioned options. Just scan the QR Code which is mentioned below to download the And Nav 2 application. Alternatively you can also download this application from the Android Market Place.
Download And Nav 2 Application:
AndroidAdvices App Ratings : 3.5 / 5
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Are there australian maps with this app?
Yes, check it out.
Garmin GPS unit is better, as we dont have to spend a fortune to be online all the time?
Yeah, Garmin GPS is quite better than Google Maps too.
What exactly does this do that Google Maps doesn't? It only has a score of 3.2 and I'm not going to install just for the sake of it.
One or more minors are added than compared with Google Maps.
this seems useless… no maps have been updated for 2 or more years.
also, nothing for Canada.
I tried to find this app in the market place and there is nothing there.
what gives?
why would you tell us about this in your emails?
not available for india or i can say mumbai
another great application is Maps by Coderminus.
Where you are from?
the link provided was for an app called Kolle Meter Reading. the actual link is
Yes, thanks for the App link.


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Gary Wolstenholme, the British amateur champion, appears to have fired up at least some of the American team against whom he will try for a slice of Walker Cup history at Ganton in Yorkshire this weekend.
"I didn't intend it to be that way, but I may have slightly riled a couple of them," said the 43-year-old, already the only Britain and Ireland golfer to appear on three successful sides and needing three wins out of four to take Sir Michael Bonallack's record points total.
Wolstenholme did not name names, but added: "I know one player was pretty vociferous and a couple of comments were made. But that's okay - it's a bit of fun and adds something to the matches maybe.
"If somebody takes umbrage at something that may or may not have been inferred then that's their problem."
The cause of any ill-feeling was a newspaper interview in which Wolstenholme, conqueror of Tiger Woods at Porthcawl in 1995 and a member of the winning teams at Nairn in 1999 and Sea Island two years ago, spoke about his approach to match play.
He stated: "On the first tee you go up to your opponent and say `I'm playing a Titleist 2'. If he's playing Titleist 2 that's tough. It's up to him to change it. You're letting them play your game.
"You go on the first green and say `Repair any pitch marks that you see. You don't need to ask.' He's playing your game.
"I always look people in the eye when I shake their hand.
"I'm not afraid of an individual, whether it's Tiger Woods or Bill Clinton."
Wolstenholme returns to the course on which won his first British title in 1991 and helped England win the home internationals.
"If somebody feels intimidated by the presence I have on the course I think that's their problem," he added.
"I want to set my own name in stone - that's what drives me on."
America lead the 38-match series 31-6, one contest having been halved, but Britain and Ireland won the last two by crushing 15-9 margins and tomorrow and Sunday will attempt an unprecedented third win in a row.
Both day's play comprises four foursomes and eight singles, two players from each side being omitted from each session.


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Browse our Catalog to see and learn about the beauty, quality and craftsmanship of a Carlisle floor.
What is a "Wide Plank Floor"?
Compared to the typical strip width of 2-1/4" to 3" offered in most of today's mass produced wood flooring, a 5" wide board would definitely be considered wide. On the other hand, you can find pine flooring boards as wide as 30" in homes along the Eastern Seaboard that were built 200 years ago.
You can find homes along the Eastern Seaboard with wide plank flooring over 30″ wide. These floors have lasted for over 200 years. Today, each Carlisle floor is made with same artisan quality craftsmanship to shape and refine custom flooring that will last for generations.
Carlisle has been crafting custom flooring since 1966, and our planks go up to 20" wide, our average width is 8–10" wide. That's nearly double the widest width of mass produced wood floors. Here at Carlisle, we take a completely different approach – and use completely different trees – to craft wood floors in these wider dimensions.
A true wide plank floor cannot be mass produced. From the careful selection of the most mature timber, a year-long drying process to proprietary grading and artisan quality craftsmanship and finishing. It is a process of patience, dedication and superior quality that we call SlowCraft™. It means every board, in every wide plank floor we sell, is made to order.
Carlisle has been crafting custom flooring for over 50 years. Our planks go up to 20" wide – our average width is 8–10" wide.
In addition to the rich grain patterns and detailed craftsmanship that comes from our SlowCraft™ process, our wide plank wood floors create a floor with fewer seams, which elevates the luxurious feel of any room. In fact, a Carlisle wide plank floor can reduce the number of seams by 80% compared to a typical wood floor.
For instance, in a room that is 20 feet wide and 20 feet long and using standard 3" wide strips that average 3' in length, you would have a total of 640 edge and butt seams. The result would be a very busy appearance that actually obscures the look of the wood itself.
However, using Carlisle wide plank flooring that measures 8" wide, with an average length of 7', the floor would have only 120 seams. This greatly simplifies the look and allows the beauty of the wood to stand out.


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We had classic American food on Friday in Hannover when we went to Mel´s Diner. This was really nice because this is not normal. Usually the menu at German restaurants include schnitzel, brats, and schnitzel or brats. I like those things but it's nice to have American food for a change. 🙂
These pics were taken on Nov. 20th, so this means Olivia turned 5 months.


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Over the course of my teaching career, I've spent a lot of time thinking about what to teach next. Lesson planning is a constant internal monologue: What's next? What's important for my students now? Where do we go after that? In the early days of my career, I was obsessed with what I perceived my students were lacking. They couldn't spell. They couldn't punctuate. They can't. They won't. They don't. As an educator, it is all too easy to fall into that trap.
When I was obsessed with what I perceived my students weren't able to do, I was also making rash and frustrated decisions about what was most important to teach them next. But what is important to teach our students? The case can be made that all subject areas are important, but students often lack the educational opportunities to put their learning from these subject areas to work in the real world.


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Port Elizabeth's rich cultural heritage guarantees history lovers a unique insight into the Bay and the Eastern Cape's diverse and remarkable past.
The culture of South Africa is incredibly diverse and heavily influenced by its racial and colonial history. There is a great disparity between rich and poor, with a middle class that has been growing rapidly in recent years. In addition to the native and colonial diversity of the country, there is also an increasing immigrant population, with Indian South Africans being the largest among these groups. This unique mix of peoples, languages, and cultures all make up the culture of South Africa today.
Port Elizabeth has historical and significant figures from Nelson Mandela Bay that include, amongst others, Govan Mbeki, political activist and father of former President Thabo Mbeki; Oliver Tambo, political activist and life-long friend of Nelson Mandela; Athol Fugard, actor, director and playwright; Olive Schreiner, well-known author and writer of "The story of an African Farm"; and Cliff Drysdale, a well-known tennis player.
Top Cultural Tourist Attractions in Port Elizabeth:
- The Horse Memorial
- 7 Castle Hill Museum
- The Pearson Conservatory, St George's Park
- Port Elizabeth City Hall
- St George's Park Port Elizabeth
- Shark Rock Pier
- Donkin Reserve
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Carnarvon Dale
Whether you're looking for luxury sojourn or a laid-back holiday with affordable accommodation, we can make it happen!
Once we have all your information and understand the vision for your holiday, we'll start planning your trip.
With all your plans in place, all you need to do is pack your bags, hop on a plane and travel over land and sea to your destination of choice!


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Earlier this month we had heard rumors that Sony would be unveiling its next flagship, the Xperia Z5 in September. Fresh rumors out of Germany now suggest that the Japanese electronics giant is planning to introduce two new high-end Android handsets around the time too.
The German website winfuture.de reports that the two new Android smartphones are Xperia S60 and Xperia S70 which Sony will be releasing before the IFA conference in Berlin. According to the report, the dealers say that these two devices will be available across Europe as early as mid-August, and one even named August 18 as the date of delivery.
The Xperia S60 and Xperia S70 will mark the beginning of a new series of smartphones from Sony, the 'S' series. Very few details of the handsets are available as of now except that they will have 32 Gigabytes of internal memory. They will be available in four color options each. The Xperia S60 will come in black, white, yellow and coralie flavors while the Xperia S70 will be available in black, white, gold and green variants.
As for their price, both the Xperia S60 and Xperia S70 are said to be absolutely high-end with the Xperia S60 costing somewhere between €650 and €700 ($715 and $770) and the Xperia S70 ranging between €780 and €840 ($855 and $925). However, there is no official confirmation about these devices so better to take it with a pinch of salt.


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TRUSS Small Woven Leather/Plastic Top Handle Bag in Blk/White
New to the collection is the Leather Top Handle that is woven with strips of black leather and plastic. This is the handiwork of Don Lupe, one of our master leather weavers in Oaxaca. Created on a box loom, the shape is formed by weaving the leather and plastic through nail prongs that guide the weave. It's a very intricate process that takes at least a day to complete, and then we attach the top handle, magnetic closure, and little feet at our workshop in Oaxaca.
This size holds your cell phone and other essential but should you need a day bag, we recommend going for the medium size! All our leather is sourced from Leon in Mexico. This style is unique to TRUSS and takes 2-3 days to weave and assemble by artisans in Mexico.
Proceeds from your purchase aids in the development of artisan communities in Mexico and our work with the women's education foundation Fondo Guadalupe Musalem."
Handwoven body using leather and plastic
Rolled Leather Top Handle
Protective bottom studs
Leather is sourced from Leon, Mexico
Bag is woven and assembled by hand in our workshop in Oaxaca
Tote Size: 7.8" x 5.9" x 4.3"
Handle Drop: 4.3" approx
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For the past couple of years or so, I used this blog as a place to park my short stories. Originally, my idea was to set up a website through which I would offer my short fiction to readers at a modest price, while engaging in network marketing.
Building a website proved a bit beyond my technical expertise and was too time consuming. Eventually, I gave up on that project and decided to feature my stories here at Blogspot. Still, some six to eight months after adding Google Ad Sense to my blog, I had earned a whopping 25 cents.
It was obvious that traffic to my blog was virtually non existent and my works of art, my short stories, were not being viewed. Ultimately, I would like to either get my fiction published online or offline. All things considered, keeping the stories up here just seemed...well...counter productive, so I removed them and decided to create a new format for my blog. From now on it will be just that; a blog.
I want to cover all things Gothic; but beyond that, I have not decided just what direction I want to take here. Some entries may be of a more personal nature while others may discuss groups, bands, art and music, people or the sub culture in general. I only hope that the entries here will garner a readership and serve as a focal point and resource for the Gothic community. So then, I'd like to welcome you all to the new Gothic Embrace.


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I sampled a little bit of the peanut butter parfaits, chocolate pie, and cheesecake we were going to share for dessert. What none of us liked was the watermelon juice...I love watermelon, and I've never tried a juice I couldn't drink...but I couldn't get this one down. (It was free, though, for signing up for a Native Foods customer program.)
The weather was PERFECT. We couldn't have asked for a better day.
So...Ryan asked me before we got on the boat if we should be concerned about seasickness. Tornado and I are the ones who usually get motion sickness. I told him we would probably be fine. For the first hour, I was thinking he had worried for nothing. And then it set in...ugh, I felt very seasick. I think if I could have just sat down the whole time, instead of walking all over the place, keeping up with the kids, I would have been okay. (But they did NOT fall overboard, Mom.)
Tornado started feeling woozy right about the same time that I did. He had to go to the restroom, and while we were in there...he puked. It made him feel a little better, but he was still a little out of it, as you can see (above). I think he even fell asleep on our way back into the harbor.
They even had soft-serve! It was delicious!
We got back into the car for our (approximately) 5 hour trip up to Sequoia National Park. We stopped at Whole Foods to buy the food we would need for the next couple of days. (I wasn't relying on there being anything for us to eat up there.) I was trying to hurry, but it's really hard for me to hurry in a health food store. I love checking out all of the new products.
It was dark by the time we made it up the mountain...wow, it was an incredibly winding road. I'm glad we got to drive the road at night, actually, because it just seemed so enchanting. We were surrounded by these abnormally large trees and deep ravines. There was just so much wildlife and just so much green everywhere, lit by the moonlight...we half expected an elf or a Hobbit to pop out at any moment. It definitely made us excited for our next day.
That's Dash standing in front of the General Sherman, the world's largest tree.
The largest Whole Foods in SoCal is located in the same shopping area as Veggie Grill. I ran inside and stocked up on a few items for our apartment. Like I said before, I hate having to rush while in a new Whole Foods. I would have liked to mull slowly down every single aisle, looking for products I've never seen. I actually didn't see that many new and different things. They do sell Daiya cheese, which was thrilling. They also had fresh pizza made with Daiya. And I had been wanting to try Amy's new rice macaroni and cheeze (also made with Daiya). It was delicious, but I only ate 2 bites because it has 520 calories and 22 grams of fat in one container. It was great for the kids, though.
I was disappointed in my ordering choice at RFD. I got the burrito, which I thought was going to be more like an enchilada covered in sauce. But really it was just like a burrito I eat all of the time at home. It wasn't that it tasted bad at all; I was only disappointed that it wasn't what I expected. It was huge, and I didn't eat much of it (getting to the end of our trip, and I'm starting to feel a little full).
Our last morning we spent packing, tidying up our apartment, and trying to eat up what was left in the fridge, etc. Ugh, it is so depressing to throw away good leftovers, etc. (It's also depressing to throw away a whole, perfectly-good bottle of water before going through security at the airport - only to walk 30 feet and have to purchase another bottle.)
Before we left, we went up on the roof of our apartment building to enjoy our last ocean views of the trip.


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50% silk, 50% superwash Merino
231 yards (211 meters) per 100 grams
5-6 stitches per inch on US 5-7/3.75-4.5 mm
$36 per 100g skein - dyed in a batch of 5 skeins
I love, love, love how these skeins emerged; almost exclusively a host of neutrals, but with enough celedon and mustard to bump up the interest. They look amazing with one of our earlier Exquisite Sport offerings, Nepenthe, if you're looking for two skeins to work with together, and they also work incredibly well with our other new green Exquisite Sport ...who haunts & hallows the sacred forest.
As a side note, this is the last offering of Grace DK, as we're going to discontinue this base whilst keeping Grace Fingering, because we also have Beautiful DK, a truly lovely Silk/Merino base, in our lineup.


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Cllr Clare Collins-Doyle Resignation – Lakes Ward
Unfortunately we have to announce that Clare Collins-Doyle has tendered her resignation from the Council due to work and family commitments. Clare sends her thanks to all her colleagues and will continue to support the Council where she can.
There will therefore be a vacancy in Lakes Ward – details of this vacancy will be available shortly.


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Sydney Seaplanes TransferThe best holiday experiences are about a unique adventure. You can now combine our luxury water taxi services with Sydney Seaplanes, allowing you to experience the spectacular sites of Sydney from two unique and beautiful vantage points.
Begin your journey in a private water taxi, cruising past the sites of Sydney in style and end it with the awe-inspiring experience of gazing down at the city from above. There is no better way to enjoy the beauty of Australia's most famous beaches and landmarks than by combining these two iconic experiences in a package deal. We'll provide transfers from hotels and wharfs along the city waterfront to the Sydney Seaplanes boarding dock at Rose Bay.
Your journey to Rose Bay wharf is up to you. Majestic Water Taxis has the whole city waterside covered, with hundreds of destinations to choose from. Begin your adventure by cruising the harbour, exploring hidden gems such as the Botanical Gardens before traversing across to Sydney sea planes, absorbing the many iconic sights on the way.
The Treat of a Lifetime
Fly over the city iconic buildings and land marks as you sore through the sky's to the many destinations Sydney Sea Planes offers such as Jonah's at Palm Beach, Cottage Point Inn Hawksbury River, Berowra Waters Inn Hawksbury River, Peats Bite Hawksbury River or a romantic picnic lunch. And on your return Majestic Water Taxis will be waiting to take you on your final journey home
A Scenic Ride to Remember
After your scenic journey in a water taxi, you can enjoy the treat of a lifetime as you gently glide over the city, bushlands and beaches in a remarkable seaplane. Sydney Seaplanes grew from a modest affair to one of the largest seaplane operators in Australia, with a handsome fleet of planes including the 13-seat turbo prop amphibious Cessna Caravan. This growth is a direct result of the iconic experience they provide as an integral part of Sydney Harbour.
Unique Venue
Sydney Sea planes now boast a new function centre in its newly renovated terminal, The Empire Lounge. Acquiring its name from the 1938 flying boats, the Empire Lounge is Australia's first purpose built Seaplane Terminal. This world class venue hosts a luxurious Lounge, Terminal, discreet VIP space, Function area and flying boat museum. With stunning water views surrounding, this is Sydney's next 'it' spot to spoil yourself or others, for Sydney locals or tourists alike.
Book with Majestic Water Taxis Today
Whether you're on holiday, having a wedding, a party or organising a corporate event, this unique adventure across water and sky will be unlike any other experience found in the world. Get in touch with Majestic Water Taxis today to find out more. Call us on 0439 625 377 or email us on .


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Weighing 222kg and with 8ft hips, Bobbi-Jo Westley weighs 222kg and with 8ft hips, and figure doesn't appeal for the general perception of sexy but that is exactly what makes her appealing to some. The 43-year-old model, from Pennsylvania, is known in the Super Size Big Beautiful Women modelling community for extreme figure and fans love her so much they pay for erotic webcam sessions.
"I'm very confident and it's my body so if I want to show the world me naked or in bra and panties that's what I choose to do. I'm famous for my hips and for my butt. It's the first thing that people notice."
"I love salad; I can eat it all day. I also like barbecue chicken and barbecue pork chops. I love macaroni and cheese and I love rice too. I'm not much of a sweet eater but I do like big cakes."
"People often think it is fake and that I have had surgeries. But I'm definitely 100 per cent real. There is nothing fake about these curves. I get 40-50 messages a day from men asking if they can marry me or have a baby with me. They really like my confidence.
"I've had men who I never thought would want me but have tried to pull me. They come from all over the world – the UK, Australia, India, Unites States – it's hard to keep track."
"I just like doing it. I like playing dress up. I'm not ashamed of my body."
"Some people mock me and my size but I don't pay any attention to negativity. Most people hate people because they have taken their low self esteem. So they have to make fun of somebody else to take it off them.
"I don't care what others think about me or what others say about me. I am confident in my skin – it's who I am. My hips and my butt is what makes me."
"I do think about it – obviously it's not healthy for me to have this body frame. But I just take it one day at a time and I live life. It scares me sometimes because I do have asthma and when I walk, I do gasp for air. I am still able to walk – it just takes longer than the average person."
"I would like to run and play with my kids like being in a swimming pool and being able to get out without help. I'd like to be able to actually sit in a bathtub and relax."
"Sometimes I lay down at night and think to myself if the next breath will be my last. There is a possibility I could have the world's biggest hips. And if that happens that would be awesome. I've never been a record breaker before. But if the doctors tell me I need to lose weight or I'm going to die then I'm going to everything to lose it. I'm not ready to die. I want to see my kids and grandkids grow up."
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Leaf BlowersTroy-Bilt® offers a full line of handheld, electric & gas leaf blowers in a variety of sizes to help you clear leaves & debris from your lawn.
Leaf Blowers by Troy-Bilt®
Troy-Bilt® has a full line of 4-cycle gas, electric and cordless leaf blowers in a variety of sizes. And gas leaf blowers – like our 4-cycle backpack model – are JumpStart™ capable, which eliminates pull starts. There are several things to consider when choosing a leaf blower. The size of your yard, amount of leaves or debris you need to clear, and ease of use are all factors that will help narrow your search for the perfect leaf blower. Electric handheld leaf blowers are ideal for smaller yards, while 2-cycle and 4-cycle backpack leaf blowers and wheeled leaf blowers are best for cleaning up larger yards.


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A flavour-packed New Zealand made Christmas present for a foodie, or your festive host.This gift hamper includes a handpicked selection of decadent festive flavours for entertaining family and friends. It's also a great way to bring leftovers to life on Boxing Day.
This gift box includes: 1 preserve, 2 chutneys, 1 sauce, 2 fruit spritzers, 1 fruit compote, 1 dulce de leche, 1 spreadable fruit, 1 fruit for cheese + tea towel.
- Carefully packed in a bespoke cardboard gift box, and couriered to your preferred physical New Zealand address.
- You may also wish to add a personal message, this can be done as part of the check-out process.
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How to Kill Innovation: Keep Asking Questions – Scott Anthony – Harvard Business Review

Resource-rich companies have the "luxury" of researching and researching problems. That can be a huge benefit in known markets where precision matters. But it can be a huge deficit in unknown markets where precision is impossible and attempts to create it through analysis are quixotic. Entrepreneurs don't have the luxury of asking "What about…" questions, and in disruptive circumstances that works in their favor.
So what's the alternative? Substitute early action for never-ending analysis. Figure out the quickest, cheapest way to do something market-facing to start the iterative process that so frequently typifies innovation. Be prepared to make quick decisions, but have the driver of the decision be in-market data, not conceptual analysis. In other words, go small and learn. Pitch (or even sell) your idea to colleagues. Open up a kiosk in a shopping mall for a week. Create a quick-and-dirty website describing your idea. Be prepared to make quick decisions.
The future can't be analytically derived. Of course it's almost always valuable to think comprehensively about a new idea. But maintain a healthy balance between analysis and action. If you get stuck in "What about…" loops, you'll never get the results you seek.
Até a HBR já entendeu isso, e tem tanta gente que continua dando tiro no pé, perguntando, perguntando, perguntando…
E olha outra pérola que saiu nos comentários do mesmo post:
…by the time everything about a potential market is described by solid fact there is no longer an opportunity for economic profit from that market.
Esse comentário foi do August Jackson.


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Joey Stephens is a Project Manager working out of Premier's Denver branch. He says his favorite thing about working here is seeing the satisfaction our customers get from standing back and taking in the beauty and craftsmanship of their new Premier roof! Joey began his roofing career in late 2008 at Columbus Copper & Slate where he started as a laborer and worked his way up to Project Supervisor.
He grew up in a small town in eastern Ohio called New Philadelphia. He says, "My entire family still lives there and it will always feel like home sweet home to me." He attended The Ohio State University (GO BUCKEYES!) taking classes in Architecture and Construction Management.
He enjoys camping, mountain biking, snowboarding, woodworking, and playing video games in his spare time. He has a digital video game library that includes every single game ever made from the Atari up through the Nintendo 64.
Joey lives with his girlfriend Sara and their precious little chiweenie (Chihuahua/dachshund mix) named Chula, whose only fault is that she loves too much.
Joey's Favorite Quote:
"Nothing in this world that's worth having comes easy" – Dr. Bob Kelso (Scrubs)


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