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The Ocean Beach MainStreet Association (OBMA) held its annual meeting and recognized members for contributions to the community on Oct. 24, simultaneously celebrating the 35th anniversary of the organization.
Members of the community were recognized for volunteerism, creative promotions of their businesses and best use of the storefront improvement program, among other recognitions. They were celebrated with noisemakers, kazzos, party hats and more.
The festivities were highlighted with music and an Ocean Beach trivia quiz hosted by Sevy and Ryan from Glasz Productions, and three special Ocean Beach songs performed by Billy Lee and the Swamp Critters.
The group began the awards portion of the program by reciting the OB Pledge of Allegiance with the signature two-fingered peace signs in the air. In honor of the organization's anniversary celebration, for the first time, a People's Choice winner was chosen in each category by members.
Also, the community got to vote for the Customer Service Business of the Year. In total, six award categories honored 22 organizations/individuals for their outstanding efforts.
Each year, exemplary merchants are recognized by various OBMA committees, including those of promotions, design, economic restructuring, crime prevention, organization and, this year, the Customer Service Business of the Year Award.
Customer Service Business of the Year was open to the public through social media sites and the OBMA website and added a fun, interactive community element to the celebration. The People's Choice winner was chosen in each category by members.
"It was great fun to celebrate OBMA's 35th birthday and to recognize the individuals and businesses who have helped make this community so special throughout that time," said Denny Knox, executive director of OBMA.
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• OB Woman's Club (Donna Bergeson) for the re-launch of the Ocean Beach Woman's Club (new logo, website, membership drive, community outreach, etc.)
• James Gang Printing (Leigh Ann and Paul Bearce, Jim and Elizabeth Berdeguez) for creation of Ocean Beach community-themed merchandise.
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Design Committee
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• Newport Avenue Antique Center (Craig Gerwig & Scott Allgaier) for utilizing the city's storefront improvement program to enhance the design of the storefront.
• Te Mana Café (Marguerite & Jason Cruz) for their island-style renovation of indoor/outdoor dining areas.
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• Lifeguard Statue at Veterans' Plaza and Byron Wear for honoring the lifeguards and enhancing the waterfront.
• The Ocean Beach Playhouse (Lynne & Paul Bolton) for bringing a community theater to Ocean Beach — a place where musicians, actors and performers, as well as residents and local business owners, can meet.
Crime Prevention Committee
• San Diego Police Department Lt. Natalie Stone, Western Division, for outstanding dedication to the safety and well being of the community.
• Officer Efren Peregrina, Western Division; Officer Doug Campbell, Western Division; and Sgt. Jack Knish, Western Division, for outstanding efforts to improve the quality of life in Ocean Beach.
Organization Committee
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• Union Bank — Major sponsor of the OBMA annual awards celebration
• Point Loma Masonic Center — Community Partner Award
Customer Service Business of the Year
These awards go to the businesses that exemplify the spirit of Ocean Beach and reflect a positive awareness and activity in the community through exceptional customer service.
• First place: Catrina Russell, Coldwell Banker
• Second place: Beach Community Acupuncture (Nicole Murray, LAC)
• Third place: BO-beau's Kitchen + Bar (Luna)
Assemblywoman Toni Atkins attended and recognized the OBMA for its continued efforts in the community and commendations for productivity in the community. "You are problem solvers. That's what you do," Atkins said. "You look to make thing happen in this community and address issues, and that's what makes you so successful."
Many other local dignitaries provided proclamations at the event, celebrating the significance of the association's longevity in the community. Among the proclamations were those extended by interim Mayor Todd Gloria and county Supervisor Ron Roberts. state Sen. Marty Block and Atkins also recognized each of the award winners.
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Game hardware suffered the most, falling 37% to $187.3 million, down from $295.9 million a year prior. NPD said Microsoft's Xbox 360 was the top selling game console for the 15th consecutive month, though NPD said all videogame devices posted annual declines.
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A temperature that looks warm but is really only tepid? It's so obvious I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned before but I can find no reference to it.
... the mains were…..well lets say a tad cold, Jims especially which basically had burnt cheese covering a look warm burger that was cold in the middle. ...
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so I don't think something hotter than a lookwarm or cool believer could stand me (THAT is the question, certain prince of Denmark would say). ...
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... we found it fine if you used it by 4.30pm, nice and hot anytime after that till about 9.00pm you might be lucky to get look warm water. ...
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Outstanding eggcorn.
Just wondering…is Paul Newman's famous character, Cool Hand Luke, an oxymoron? "What we have here is a failure to communicate."
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
It's possibly an eggcorn, but not surprisingly obvious, at least not to me.
I'm not convinced that the meaning is "a temperature that looks warm but is really only tepid". I would suggest, instead, some relationship to glancing.
Perhaps "a look warm burger that was cold in the middle" has merely been "shown the griddle," in the sense of having spent too little time there.
Of course, this analysis doesn't hold directly for "a lookwarm or cool believer". For that, I suppose we need to turn to metaphorical extension.
Not a clear eggcorn to me either. Seems likely just a substitution of the extremely common 'look' for the totally opaque 'luke', based on their phonological similarity without any clear semantic justification.
(Not to deny that it is a fun one.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
More common, apparently, is luckwarm :
Chickens should have luckwarm fresh water at all times. ... To help over heated birds give them luckwarm water and put them in the shade.
I don't like drinking luckwarm soda. I was travling a country where refrigerators were not … You can't really do anything with opened, luckwarm soda.
(The repetitions, of course, bolster the argument that this is standard for those who wrote it.)
Again, with a certain amount of ingenuity a semantic connection can be made out ( luck usually lands you near the 50/50 middle, neither really hot nor really cold), but I think it's mostly just trying to avoid the puzzling "luke".
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
It's hard to extract imagery for this one. The only thing I can offer is a real stretch: If it doesn't look as if steam is coming off from it, then it's probably look warm.
(Peter and I have had past discussions on how eggcorn hunters are masters of self-deception. The more imagination you have, the more you can rationalize just about anything!)
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Of course, this analysis doesn't hold directly for "a lookwarm or cool believer". For that, I suppose we need to turn to metaphorical extension.
Actually, the use of "lookwarm" in the context of Christian religious belief may come closer than the other examples in representing the "only looking warm" sense of the word. The word "lukewarm" is used only once in the venerable King James version of the Bible, in the passage in the Revelation of St. John where Jesus is speaking to the church in Laodicea (Rev 3):
"I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked."
Any talk of "lukewarm believers" is probably an echo of this passage in Revelation. The lukewarm church of Laodicea is full of hypocrites who say one thing but are really something else. They only "look warm."
Not sure what DavidTuggy means by "phonological similarity." The sound distance between the word part "luke" in "lukewarm" and the word "look" (in AmEng, at least) makes me think that something is motivating the substitution.
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The phonetic difference between IPA [u] and [ʊ] (e.g. kook [kuk] and cook [kʊk) is very slight, as contrasting vowel sounds go. Not to deny that they do contrast in English, though there are relatively few languages like English that maintain that contrast.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Kem's last post gave me an idea: the problem may be one of dialect/language. I'm in a hurry, so I was able to discover the location of the author of only one of Peter's examples. The first one was written by a young man with a Scottish surname who lives in Glasgow. I can't be sure he's a Scots speaker, of course, but if he is, his spelling of "lukewarm" makes sense and probably isn't eggcornish. My Concise Scots Dictionary uses the same vowel as English "shoe" for the pronunciation of "look" in Scots. So the writer may simply have been giving a phonetic rendering of his usual pronunciation.
I like "look warm" very much (whether it's an eggcorn or not), and I thought that the variant "looks warm" would help to cinch the matter. But I couldn't find any examples of "looks warm beer/coffee/tea/liquid/faith/belief."
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I'd never realized until Il ooked it up now that there's no relationship between Luke and lukewarm.
That lukewarm comes from the ME word "luke," which itself means "lukewarm" and which shows up in our language in no other obvious place.
I think the "look warm" mental switch is, "looks it, but isn't."
Any comments on luckwarm (see above)? Hate to see it just get lost in the discussion.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Well, I think the forum is sometimes quiet in response to a contribution not because it's uninteresting, but rather because it defies definitive analysis.
"Luckwarm" is a head-scratcher. It seems unlikely to be a common misspelling of "lukewarm"—vowel contrast between "luck" and "luke" is pretty pronounced in most of the dialects I'm familiar with. But I'd be interested to know how "lukewarm" is pronounced in, say, Fife, or the Orkneys or among the Scots speakers in N. Ireland—regions in which other words spelled "luke" or "leuk" are pronounced like "luck."
And because it's an unlikely-looking spelling, the ol' eggcorn radar starts going off. But what could "luckwarm" mean to anyone? Does getting the desired temperature between hot and cold seem like a game of chance? Or maybe luckwarm water is water as tepid as the luck most of us feel we have in most things. But those seem like really big reaches. Like "look warm," this isn't really convincing as an eggcorn to me.
Perhaps it's a malapropic misremembrance of the term on the part of someone who's rarely seen/heard it. But I would have thought that this was pretty darn common.
See? That's why I don't post when I haven't been able to come to any kind of conclusion. But maybe my failure will kindle ambition in someone else's breast….
It's good to poke around for places where "luke" and "luck" might be pronounced alike (or "luke" and "look"), but this one is too widespread (930 raw ghits vs. 341 for "lookwarm") for me to accept easily that it is limited to, or arose only from, such dialects.
We're used to forms where we are pretty sure of the pieces but don't really see how they add up to the meaning of the whole. How many have any idea what "jerk" means in "jerkwater (town)"? And what has the water got to do with it? Can you explain how "eaves" and "drop" add up to "eavesdrop"? But you aren't in much doubt about the identity of the roots in question.
My guess is that in both "lookwarm" and "luckwarm" people are mostly just heading for that kind of identifiability-without-transparency: even if the meaning combination is opaque, at least we know what is being combined. Then our inveterate ingenuity in making some sort of sense kicks in.
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*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
The google counts on this one are actually kinda messy. As Peter noted, there are both 1-word and 2-word versions, and they end up complicating things. "Look warm" is very hard to count, and there are people using both Luckwarm and Lookwarm as noms de Web. So I went after the biggest fixed phrase I could find: "lukewarm water." Here are the counts I got (raw hits/unique hits):
luckwarm water 149/52
luck warm water 493/64
lookwarm water 51/21
look warm water 875/49
In raw hits, the forms with "look" actually win hands-down: 926 vs. 642. But the "look" numbers are obviously inflated by cross-links and quotations; if you factor those out, the "luck" varieties do indeed come out on top: 70 vs. 116. That's a big difference percentage-wise, but these are really small counts. One energetic poster on a cooking forum could close the gap singlehandedly if they used "lookwarm" a lot. You may well be right about dialect versions, but I don't think you can tell much from the numbers—these are both too rare.
I think my "malapropic misremembrance" and your "identifiability-without-transparency" are probably about the same thing, and I agree it's the most likely explanation.
All this said, I still have a strong intuition that lookwarm is an eggcorn. Luckwarm sounds to me more like a malapropism. But the imagery of something "looking warm" but not really being warm makes just too much sense to be a sound accident. I don't know how I could prove it to you all, short of finding someone who said "lookwarm" and getting them to confess that they wanted to convey the image of something only looking warm. I'll make an attempt to contact one of these lookwarmers and see what they say.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
A bit off the topic:
In a Nahuatl dialect I know some about, the verb stem nēsi 'appear, look (like X is true)' has a truncated adverbial form nēs 'apparently, ostensibly(/ostensively:-)), sort of'. A friend, as a joke, likes to refer to nēskahven ( kahven being a borrowing from Spanish café 'coffee') as the translation for Nescafé. It looks like it's coffee, but …
The 'sort of' meaning fits with assigning something similar to look in lookwarm .
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
A followup. I contacted the author of one of the "lookwarm" samples, and got the reply below (The sample is at http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2008/01/06 … bates.html ).
"I looked over my old comment and decided it was just a mental slip. As I have gotten older, I have noticed that when I am very tired or stressed my writing is effected in weird ways: 1) I leave out negative words that I intended to type (e.g. no, not, never, doesn't becomes does). 2) Other words I spell incorrectly in a weird way. I substitute the spelling of a sound-a-like word for the intended word or part of word."
No evidence here for eggcorn imagery transfer.
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July 10, 2006
Almost 60 rising high school seniors arrived on the Wabash campus Sunday afternoon as participants in the 2006 Opportunities to Learn About Business program.
OLAB, as the program is known by those involved, is a week-long, intense immersion into the world of business — from the stock market to product development, and from labor negotiations to advertising.
It is, perhaps, the most unique program ever devised at Wabash, and I believe it's one of the most innovative summer programs for high school students anywhere in the country. OLAB really is that good.
And the program has almost died several times in the last decade.
Each of the students participating, boys and girls, come to Wabash not knowing what to expect or what will happen to them. All they know is that they were accepted into a competitive summer business program and awarded a scholarship worth about $1000 to attend OLAB free of charge.
Over the years, Wabash has partnered with organizations like Junior Achievement and the Indiana Chamber of Commerce to fund the nearly $60,000 budget. As times have changed, so too have the sponsors. Every year a major sponsor is lost, there is the very real threat that OLAB's four-decade history will end.
There has never been a thought of charging for the program; the scholarships are critical to the program's success because the students come from every possible socio-economic background.
Fortunately, local, regional, and state organizations — and individuals — have seen enormous value in OLAB and continually step forward to keep the program thriving. And thanks to their generosity, several thousand young people have left Crawfordsville at the conclusion of OLAB with skills, experiences, and memories to last a lifetime.
OLAB is indebted to all of its sponsors, especially the John B. Goodrich Charitable Trust, an ongoing financial sponsor and partner for years. The program is also blessed to have local sponsors like the Kiwanis Club of Crawfordsville and MainSource Bank of Crawfordsville, who make scholarships for OLAB students possible. The Benjamin A. Rogge Fund at Wabash College is also a significant, local sponsor.
Why is it important for OLAB to continue for generations to come? Because by the end of the week-long program, each and every "graduate" will tell you that it was one of the most remarkable experiences of their lives.
The students come from all over the state and even from as far as Oklahoma and Iowa. They're thrust into small companies, hammered with lectures and workshops, then develop and market a "product" to sell on the open market.
OLAB is essentially a semester's worth of business courses folded into a single week!
On the surface, OLAB may not sound like a life-altering experience. But the intense 16-hour days, camaraderie, competition, innovative thinking, and social life combine to make it more than any summer camp you can imagine.
Among this year's students are five high school seniors from Montgomery County: Nick Barreto and Morgan Busch from Crawfordsville; Jake German and Jacob Surface from North Montgomery; and Kali Harshbarger from Southmont.
Bump into any one of them a week from now and ask them about their time at OLAB. They'll probably tell you that they made great friendships, learned a lot, have too many memories to count, and were totally exhausted when the week came to an end.
Those collective experiences for 60 high school seniors each year are made possible because of the generosity of the program's sponsors. And though very few OLAB students enroll at Wabash a year after the program, the College is committed to providing the resources and facilities to keep OLAB going year after year.
OLAB is pleased to have the D.J. Angus-Scientech Foundation, Carmel Rotary Club, James Dinkins family, Eugene and Marilyn Glick Foundation Corporation, Indiana Sports Corporation, and JPMorgan Chase Bank as the financial backbone of the program.
If you, your club, or your business is interested in learning more about OLAB, contact Marilyn Smith in the Wabash Advancement Office at 361-6063.
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I'm having no luck finding the rattle-cans I found before, nor any specs for the ones I do find. (I should have saved that info, but was assuming I'd get updated info when I needed it...)Canoe wrote:If it comes with that silver already on it, then you're at the mercy of what the paint is. You can layer it for more insulation value.Ratty wrote:So. Does that mean that my pool cover painted with silver , (plastic bonding), paint is good or bad? It's just heavy duty bubble wrap.
If it's not silver already, then see what paint will reflect the most, both for sun (visible) and heat. If you can get a very shinny aluminum paint, then it may actually have aluminum particles as pigment instead of colourized mica pigments. The aluminum particles would likely be the best bet for reflecting the most heat away possible.
The problem with an aluminum or silver paint is, what pigments did they use and how reflective is it, both for sunlight and for heat (infra-red). Without knowing, you'd be taking a gamble with how well it will perform.
But, you could use White Krylon Paint:
- Will not reflect away as much heat as a paint designed to, or using pigments that, reflect heat away.
- Will reflect away more visible light and heat than a "looks like" aluminum paint, which is using darker-than-white pigments to fake the look of aluminum/silver.
- Gloss White reflects slightly more.
- Will certainly perform much better than not coating the blue bubble wrap, just not as well as foil-sided bubble-wrap or the aluminized mylar space/emergency blankets.
and let us know after how well what you end up with worked on-playa.


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Valentine-Varian House / Museum of Bronx History
Varian Park, 3266 Bainbridge Avenue at East 208th Street
Bronx, NY 10467
The Valentine-Varian House is a two-story Georgian farmhouse built of feldstone by Isaac Valentine in 1785 near the Boston Post Road. The house survived British occupation and a number of nearby battles during the Revolutionary War. The Valentines sold the home and surrounding 260-acre property to Isaac Varian in 1792 and the Varians (including a later Isaac Varian who was Mayor of NYC from 1839-1841) kept the home in the family through the 19th Century.
The house was purchased at auction in 1905 by William F. Butler and Butler's son donated the house to the Bronx County Historical Society in 1965. The house was moved diagonally across the street to a small lot adjacent to Williamsbridge Park and became the headquarters of the Society.
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Sugar, rum, and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.
— Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
What it is:
A soda tax is a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages and those sweetened with caloric sweeteners.
To decrease the consumption of sugary beverages and to generate revenue for obesity-related medical costs.
Who is for it:
Most recently, California Senate Majority Leader Dean Florez introduced his soda tax bill for California.
California Center for Public Health Advocacy helped Florez draft the bill.
The soda tax was first introduced in 1994 by Kelly D. Brownell, PhD., Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale.
The current Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Thomas R. Frieden, and the above-mentioned Brownell argue for the taxation of sugary beverages in this 2009 New England Journal of Medicine article.
New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
Dr. David A. Kessler, author of my personal favorite, The end of overeating.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest
Without coming right out and saying it, Dr. Nestle implies her interest in the tax with several related posts.
President Obama: "It's an idea that we should be exploring," the President said. "There's no doubt that our kids drink way too much soda. And every study that's been done about obesity shows that there is as high a correlation between increased soda consumption and obesity as just about anything else. Obviously there is resistance on Capitol Hill to those kinds of sin taxes," he continued. "Legislators from certain states that produce sugar or corn syrup are sensitive to anything that might reduce demand for those products. And look, people's attitude is that they don't necessarily want Big Brother telling them what to eat or drink, and I understand that. It is true, though, that if you wanted to make a big impact on people's health in this country, reducing things like soda consumption would be helpful." — President Barack Obama to Men's Health
Who is against it:
Beverage companies, and the American Beverage Association (ABA).
The ABA has this to say about the tax, "Families are still barely making it from paycheck to paycheck. Adding to their burden with a tax on their groceries should be the last way to tackle the state's budget problems." I think they need a heftier argument. Since when have sugary beverages become a staple of Americans' groceries? They go on to say, "...this tax will threaten thousands of well-paying, New York jobs in the beverage and related industries." Lack of jobs in New York? I can only hope that there would be a lack of jobs in the sugary beverage industry and other junk food industries!
Let's see, who has our best interest in mind: doctors, professors, and directors of major health agencies......or beverage companies?
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Friday, July 5, 2013
#Egypt : The First Friday After #Morsi
I will try to write something analytical later.
15 comments:
- Anonymous7/05/2013 04:08:00 PM
so this is Baradeis inclusive dialougue???ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7/05/2013 05:15:00 PM
Hmmmm. Lots of throwback.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7/05/2013 07:36:00 PM
and egyptian media dont show or say anyReplyDelete
this is a black day for egyptian journalism
- Anonymous7/05/2013 09:09:00 PM
Zeinobia: did you watch the video of the irhabi with the big zebiba and then a woman who is dressed like a Ninja (this is what i call these women with this wahhabi garb where you cannot even see her eyes because she is wearing sun glasses) and both these morons and criminals were threatening el-i3lam el-fased and the Copts and the Shi3a and as usual the kuffar and el-3ilmaneyeen oh and the usual suspects el-sahayna with burning their homesReplyDelete
How disgusting and what a bunch of cowards but I tell them if you do not like Egypt then move to the despicable wahhabi kingdom and remember Ihna el-masryeen mesh intum
I cannot see how any one can have peace with these creeps
PS: I just read that 23 homes of Copts were set on fire in Luxor! How despicable and may be indeed Egypt should be divided where all these nut cases reside in one part and I'm sure they will destroy it in no time and we kuffar and 3ilamniyeen and Shi3a and Sufis and liberal Muslims live and yeruhu fi dahya
- Anonymous7/06/2013 08:46:00 AM
You say "The Grand Emam of Al Azhar addressed the Egyptians in a voice message urging them to stop killed each other. Unfortunately the Muslim brotherhood and its members as well supporters do not listen o Sheikh Ahmed El Tayib"ReplyDelete
But according to the figures 17 have been killed. 14r of these are MB members. Killed by liberals and the army who have imposed "democracy through a military coup. Can you not see how twisted and biased your comments are.Replies
MB members having weapons, Molotov cocktails and one aim: the aim of becoming a martyr... Isn't that what Morsi told his supporters? To fight until the end. And aren't the supporters willing to shed blood? In the name of Allah(swt) because they claim to have Allah(swt) on their side and on their side only..Delete
Not only now, but for the complete past year of Morsi's rule.
Now where is the bias?
- Anonymous7/06/2013 06:52:00 PM
Morsi clearly called on his supporter not to use violence so the bias is in your liesDelete
- Latifa7/06/2013 06:57:00 PM
ministry of social affairs is seeking reversal of the clause in the constitution which ensured that NGO's could only be closed by court order and to take back the power the had under Mubarak to enable the ministry to arbitrarily with no legal oversight do that themselves. Of course this will allow them to shut down the MB. Doesnt sound like a very liberal or democratic move.Delete
- Anonymous7/06/2013 08:51:00 PM
Latifa: you wroteDelete
>Of course this will allow them to shut down the MB. Doesnt sound like a very liberal or democratic move.
The last ones to hang on the coattails of democracy are el-ikhwangiyya because in-order to have a democracy you must first have secularism or 3ilmaniyya!
So let me ask you would el-ikhwangiyya accept a woman or a Copt or a Shi3a to become the president of Egypt? The obvious answer is no which means that they reject democracy
el-Ikhwan have no clue what democracy really means but when they realize that they need it they yell for help and plead: Democracy!
Now do i think that they should be banned? The answer is no I do believe that the best way to get rid of them and of radical Islam is to defeat their likes not in fighting but in the market place of ideas and to restore to Islam what it is supposed to be: A real religion and it has nothing to do with politics
Egypt belongs to us all liberal Muslims, Copts, Shi3a, Sufis women and el-kuffar wa el-3ilmanyeen and el-ikhwan
Now do you get it?
- Anonymous7/06/2013 01:13:00 PM
This el-ikhwangiyya thinkReplyDelete
>But according to the figures 17 have been killed.
And this is indeed sad
> 14r of these are MB members.
OK but where is your evidence? Or are you just bi-tifti? See provide us with evidence or shut up
> Killed by liberals
Where is your evidence that they were killed by "liberals" as bi el-daleel wa el-burhan
Now do you see why your comments are ridiculous?
>and the army who have imposed "democracy through a military coup.
The last people to lecture about democracy are el-ikhwangiyya like you
Ya ayuha al-3abqari el-kabeer democracy pre-supposes secularism right? then el-ikhwan cannot embrace democracy
Let me give you an example can a woman or a Copt become the president of Egypt? If the answer is no then Egypt under el-ikhwan is not a democracy
Now do you get it?
>Can you not see how twisted and biased your comments are.
No the poorly educated and therefore biased is you
As I say the best medicine for el-ikhwan and their vile teachings is critical education and you are really an example of why Egypt has lagged behindReplies
- Anonymous7/06/2013 07:00:00 PM
based on comments in the press... no one is denying that it was MB kkilled in Giza, at the barrack and in upr egypt. Check your facts. Deaths are lamentable on all sides but at present they are the MB being attacked and Morsi and badie urging non violence. a sensible move on their part and insincere you may say but a reality in whatever case.Delete
- Anonymous7/06/2013 08:39:00 PM
You wroteDelete
>based on comments in the press...
Can you give us links and remember that if you do not have the evidence then you do not claim that you know do you get it?
>no one is denying that it was MB kkilled in Giza,
My question is very clear where is the evidence is this asking for much?
>at the barrack and in upr egypt. Check your facts.
Let me tell you he who has a claim is the one that should provide the evidence to support such claim which means ya 3abqari it is you that should provide the evidence and all we kuffar and 3ilmanyeen can do is watch you making a fool of yourself
Now do you get it?
>Deaths are lamentable
No one is debating such fact but I hope that el-ikhwangiyya realize that they should start to care about deaths inflicted on the non ikhwangiyya as in the case of the recent Shi3a killing or the atrocities inflicted on the Copts at Maspero and the hideous attack on the cathedral and the recent attacks in Luxor
akhwanat masr was for sure a clear evidence that el-ikhwangiyya do not care about everyone in Egypt
>on all sides but at present they are the MB being attacked
Then prove it and why is it difficult to prove it you tell me
> and Morsi and badie urging non violence.
Morsi is a creep and where was he when those four Shi3a were killed and where was he during the attack on the Coptic Cathedral. He is a criminal
As for Mohamed Badie what right does he have to run Egypt? and are you aware that that creep wanted to leave Egypt when he realized that things was not going his way?
al-Murshad!! my rear end
Badie is a creep
>a sensible move on their part and insincere you may say but a reality in whatever case.
Not in the least they are being nice because they have to. They are cowards and parasites and I will be the first one to buy them tickets and get them to move to the land of the wahhabis because ihna el-masriyeen mesh huma they do not care about Egypt
- Anonymous7/06/2013 11:30:00 PM
Zeinobia: you want to watch a crime unfolding? and the victims for gods sake are children that were killed in cold blood in Sidi Gaber by the fascist ikhwangiyya and notice that skinny criminal with the beard and he is carrying al-Qa3ida flag! How disgusting and criminalDelete
So to get to heaven in the stupid world of these criminals you have to grow a beard but killing children is OK
How can anyone live with these animals
There is no way there can be a god who would allow such crime or accept his followers to commit such crime and no wonder Islam is being dragged down
The only hint of humanity in this video is the woman who screamed in horror when the children were being thrown from the water tank and here is the video
Where is the humanity? It is gone
- Anonymous7/06/2013 02:31:00 PM
A most amazing rebuttal to: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-egypts-misguided-coup/2013/07/04/64bd121c-e4b4-11e2-a11e-c2ea876a8f30_story.htmlReplyDelete
"Western rules of geopolitics do not apply to our "occidental orient". We do not follow rules, we create our own. Moreover, this is not an army of mercenaries such as the ones you cited, but a national army comprised of a son from every Egyptian family. Furthermore, our "crowds" were in the 20-30 million range; more than the entire populations you cited. Finally, refer to your declaration of independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." Not only has the Islamic terrorist Morsi government been "destructive of [our] ends", they have also directly threatened us and our peaceful existence. "We shall fight on the seas and oceans, We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our [land], whatever the cost may be, We shall fight on the beaches, We shall fight on the landing grounds, We shall fight in the fields and in the streets, We shall fight in the hills; We shall never surrender" (Churchill). We are indeed facing the same enemy the US has been violated by a dozen years ago this September. We are fighting for the sake of the peace and prosperity of the entire world as is and has always been our wont. And we will triumph over the forces of evil religious terrorism. Please exercise some unrestrained critical thought outside the box before you comfortably and arrogantly presume to understand a 7000 year old culture."
Both pro-Morsi Islamists and the anti-Morsi Rebel group accuse the U.S. of supporting the other and allege elaborate conspiracies against Egypt.ReplyDelete
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Nathaniel Wallich Collection
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As part of the Wallich and Indian Natural History project, the plant drawings, specimens and correspondence are being reunited online in a collaboration between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Natural History Museum, London and The British Library, with additional input from the Indian Botanic Gardens, Kolkata, and the National Archives of India.
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Milestones:Pinawa Hydroelectric Power Project, 1906
Pinawa Hydroelectric Power Project, 1906
On 9 June 1906 the Winnipeg Electric Railway Co. transmitted electric power from the Pinawa generating station on the Winnipeg River to the city of Winnipeg at 60,000 volts. It was the first year-round hydroelectric plant in Manitoba and one of the first to be developed in such a cold climate anywhere in the world.
The legacy of Manitoba Hydro's predecessor company, Winnipeg Electric Railway Co., was the ability to prove that rivers in Manitoba, Canada could be developed to supply low cost electricity for streetcars and emerging domestic and commercial markets. The proof was in the successful development of Pinawa in 1906. This brought about competition from the emerging municipal utility, City of Winnipeg Hydro, which later developed the second hydroelectric plant on the Winnipeg River, Pointe du Bois in 1911. The two utilities battled to keep rates lower than anywhere else in North America. In 2002, Manitoba Hydro purchased the smaller Winnipeg Hydro and electricity rates are still the lowest in North America.
Although the plant itself is conventional by the standards of the 1900s, the ability to provide solutions to construction problems in the primitive wilderness surrounding the Winnipeg River were unique at that time. In addition, the operational problems of a plant faced with frazil ice formation at the onset of each winter had to be considered and dealt with. These were met with success.
The Pinawa plant with an ultimate rating of 22 MW was the first in a series of 13 plants on the Winnipeg, Nelson, and Saskatchewan Rivers in Manitoba for a total capacity of 5000 MW. The most recent plant, Limestone with a rating of 1340 MW, was completed in 1992. There is also an undeveloped hydro potential of some 5000 MW for the future.
The Milestone plaque may be viewed at the Manitoba Electrical Museum and Education Centre, 680 Harrow St, Winnipeg, MB R3M, Canada http://www.hydro.mb.ca/corporate/history/electrical_museum.shtml
The following articles may be of interest:
- "The Pinawa Story", Lindsay Ingram, IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, January/February 2007. The reader's attention is drawn to the many photos taken during the period.
- "A Window on the Past", Lindsay Ingram, IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, July/August 2005.
The first article above uses the following very important article as its basis:
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, 60,000-Volt Hydro-Electric Plant, V.D. Moody, June 23, 1906, Electrical World, Vol.47.
Mr Moody was a junior engineer with the New York consulting firm owned by Dr. Fred Stark Pearson which provided all required services for its completion.


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Edmund Strang
For many people in the Valley - especially Derby - Ed Strang was Mr. Scout in the Valley symbolizing a lifetime of dedication to Valley youth and the Boy Scouts.
Pioneer Scouter and the oldest Cubmaster in the United States, Edmund D. Strang died May 31, 1995, at the Hospice in Branford after a brief illness. He was the husband of Caroline Booth Strang.
Mr. Strang, son of the late Edmund J. and Anna Strang, was born in Derby, March 8, 1910 and was a lifelong resident. A graduate of Derby High School, he was captain of the football and basketball teams.
Ed joined Boy Scout Troop 3 in 1922 and became Troop 3's second Eagle Scout in 1927. In 1927 he was asked by Scoutmaster Rev. Alfred Budd to organize a program for the younger brothers of the scouts. Cub Pack 3 was formed three years before Cub Scouts became an official program in the United States. Ed served as Assistant Cubmaster and Cubmaster for 68 years and was the longest tenured Cubmaster and oldest Cubmaster in the US.
Having lost his father to the 1919 influenza outbreak, Ed was able to attend Scout Camp in 1922 at Camp Irving only due to a campership he received from a local businessman. Ed so thoroughly enjoyed summer camp that he stayed the whole summer, returning the following years as a member of the camp staff and eventually serving as the Camp Director of Camp Irving for many years.
While serving as Cubmaster, Ed also became Scoutmaster of Troop 3 and held that position from 1935 to 1960. Ed served as the troop coordinator and held the weekly Patrol Leaders meetings at his home for more than 50 years. During his tenure as Scoutmaster Ed led Troop 3 Scouts at the 1937, 1950, 1953 and 1957 National Scout Jamborees. In 1939 Ed helped organize Explorer Post 33 for the older scouts. He led groups of 40 Explorer Scouts on 3 week trips to Europe on four occasions in addition to numerous trips to Canada and New York City. Under his encouragement and example 194 Troop 3 and Post 33 Scouts achieved the rank of Eagle Scout.
During World War II Ed was drafted into the US Army at age 33 and he served two years in Hungary as a Cryptographer in the allied Control Commission. During that time he helped form George Washington Boy Scout Troop 1 in Budapest. During this time he also delivered a letter from Pope Pius XII to Cardinal Mescenti in which the Roman Catholic Church denounced communism.
Upon returning to Derby after the War Ed served on the Governor's Committee for handicapped youth and in 1949 he was instrumental in bringing Little League to the Valley, serving on the Derby Little League's Board of Directors since its inception. He coached the Laurels for 12 years and 3 league championships.
A lifelong member of the Derby United Methodist Church, Ed served as Sunday School Superintendent in the 1930's and was a 30 year trustee. He was a member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, He was Past President and secretary of the Derby Shelton Rotary Club and was a Paul Harris Fellow. He was also on the Board of Directors of the Derby Veteran's Community Center, Oak Cliff Cemetary and he was a past vice-president and 50 year member of the Housatonic Council BSA Executive Board. He was a 60 year member of the Housatonic Council Camping Committee, serving as it chairman since 1955. He was a co-founder of the Housatonic Scout Reservation which opened in 1961. The 186 acre camp located in Goshen was renamed the Edmund D. Strang Scout Reservation in 1990.
Ed organized an exchange scout program with the Woodlands Verndun, Canada Scout Troop for over 40 years and for the past 20 years he coordinated exchanges with scouts from Derby and Peterborough, England and Limerick, Ireland. Having retired in 1975 after 42 years as Derby Office Manager of United Illuminating, he enjoyed travelling with his wife to England to visit his many Scouting friends.
For 70 years he served as Interlocutor of the Pack 3, Troop 3 and Explorer Post 33 annual Scout Minstrel Show. In addition to Interlocutor, he was the manager, director and the driving force behind the show for 50 years.
Ed has been honored by the National Boy Scouts of America many times having received the Silver Beaver Award, the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, the Spurgeon Award for Exploring, the James E. West Fellowship and the Silver Antelope Award, which was presented to him by Governor John Rowland on behalf of the BSA's Northeast Region. Ed was awarded Regent for Life by the National Eagle Scout Association .
He was also honored by the community for his service to youth having received the first Valley Lawyers Association's Liberty Award, the first Chamber of Commerce Gold Seal Award, the Valley United Way's Flynn Humanitarian Award, Derby-Shelton Boys & Girls Club Man of the Year, Derby Senior Center's Man of the Year and the Nutmeg Athletic Club Alumni award.
The Methodist Church awarded Ed the Cross and Flame Award and he was the first non-Catholic in Connecticut awarded the Bronze Pelican Award by the Archdiocese of Hartford. Strang Road was named in his honor and his portrait was hung in the Derby Aldermanic Chambers following the Ed Strang Day celebration. The city sponsored event featured movie actor Brian Dennehy, who returned to Derby to honor his former Cubmaster.
Upon the awarding of the Silver Beaver Award to Ed in 1939, the late Lucien Desaulniers, Housatonic Council President and former editor of the Evening Sentinel, said of Ed, "Ed is the type of leader who just doesn't happen very often, and there can be no doubt but that Ed Strang is a man devoted to a cause, fortunate for us that cause is the Boy Scouts of America."


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Minnesota appears to be at the height of flu season.
A surge in flu cases in south-central Minnesota prompted 14 hospitals in that area Wednesday to restrict visitors to protect patients and staff from the viral infection. The region is currently experiencing flu patient volumes that in some locations exceed the peak of the H1N1 outbreak in 2009.
Kevin Burns, regional director of public affairs for Mayo Clinic Health System, said beginning immediately the following restrictions apply:
• Visitors are limited to immediate family members (patient spouse or significant other, parent, sibling or child)
• Limit of two visitors per patient at a time
• No one who is ill (has symptoms of influenza including fever or chills, muscle or body aches, sore throat, cough, stuffy nose, headache and fatigue) will be permitted to visit
Burns said the visitor restrictions are similar to those implemented during the 2009 pandemic. He said United Hospital District in Blue Earth is the only south-central Minnesota hospital that has not adopted the same visitor restrictions.
A spokesperson for the Blue Earth hospital said flu cases surged around Christmas, but they have not had enough cases recently to warrant visitor restrictions.
Health care providers in the area are also urging businesses to relax their absentee policies. Burns said businesses could make it a lot easier on hospitals, clinics and urgent care locations if they did not require employees to bring in a provider note explaining their flu absence.
"Health care providers throughout our region are very busy and very active caring for patients and their families, and if we can reduce the paperwork at least temporarily that will be a more efficient and effective use of health care professionals' time and more efficient and effective for getting employees back to work in a timely manner," Burns said.
Health providers are also encouraging schools in south central Minnesota to encourage hand washing and urge parents to keep their sick children home.
Minnesota's flu season may seem unusual given the severity of some cases and the recent surge in the disease. But aside from the early start to the season, public health officials say the influenza picture that's developing appears to be pretty typical even though our recent mild flu years may have made it seem like flu is nothing to get too concerned about.
Kris Ehresmann, director of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Minnesota Department of Health, said at a minimum this appears to be a moderate flu season. Although she thinks it's more likely that it will be classified as severe by the time the season ends in late May.
"We're seeing what influenza can be and it's not an insignificant illness. It can be very severe. And this year is really just a reminder of that," Ehresmann said.
Health Department statistics show that the predominant flu strain circulating in Minnesota is H3N2. This type-A flu virus circulated widely in the state a few years ago. It does tend to be especially hard on elderly people, but anyone can get it.
Ehresmann said it was squeezed out for awhile after the pandemic flu virus, H1N1, showed up in 2009. Now H3N2 has taken over again.
A version of the H1N1 pandemic virus is also circulating this year, although it is now considered to be a seasonal type-A flu virus. Some people in Minnesota have also been infected with a B-strain of flu.
For now it appears that the flu vaccine is well-matched to the circulating strains of influenza. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in a study that 92 percent of the viruses its scientists have cultured do match the vaccine. In addition, the Minnesota Health Department says most of the virus cultures it has grown also match well with the vaccine.
Yet, getting vaccinated doesn't guarantee that a person won't get flu. On average the vaccine is about 60 percent effective according to a study done in Minnesota. Some of the people who have been hospitalized with the flu this season have been vaccinated. For example, people who are 65 years and older have some of the best flu vaccination rates in the state — over 75 percent — and yet most of the people who have been hospitalized for flu are over age 65.
Still, according to Ehresmann, even if the vaccine is not perfect, it is better than nothing.
"Sometimes what can happen with vaccination is that although it doesn't keep you from getting the actual disease, sometimes it can help to make it milder," Ehresmann said.
Some who have been vaccinated still developed very severe infections. Some of this variation in effectiveness could depend on the strength of a person's immune system or if the individual was exposed to other dangerous infections while recovering from the flu.
Pregnant women are some of the most susceptible people to complications from flu.
"Because of the changes taking place in their body being pregnant and changes in circulation," Ehresmann said. "Your whole system is changing to accommodate another life."
But the group experiencing the highest number of flu complications is people age 65 and older. They represent 57 percent of the adults who have been hospitalized for flu this season.
Infants and young children and people with chronic health conditions are also at greater risk for more serious influenza and greater complications from flu.
The Health Department said there is still time to get vaccinated for flu as there are still several months left in the flu season. There are currently no shortages of the vaccine in Minnesota.
If detected early, flu can be treated with antiviral medications to lessen the severity of the infection. The Health Department says there have been a few spot shortages of antiviral drugs, but the agency says shortages have not been widespread.
A few pediatric clinics in Minnesota are running out of their privately purchased supply of flu vaccine and having trouble finding additional doses. The state heatlh department said the clinics still have doses of publicly purchased flu vaccine that are typically reserved for low-income children as part of the Minnesota Vaccines for Children program.
The situation is not a vaccine shortage, but an accounting issue that can be quickly resolved, Ehresmann said.
"What we're recommending to them is that they can use some of their public vaccine supply so that they can continue to provide immunizations seamlessly while they are waiting for their private supply to be restocked," Ehresmann said.
She said clinics must document what they take from their public vaccine stockpile and backfill those doses when their vaccine order is replenished. She says clinics are also prohibited from using any of their public flu vaccine supply to immunize adults.


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Sen. Lamar Alexander recently echoed the NRA's Wayne LaPierre when he said, "Video games is a bigger problem than guns… Because video games affect people."
This is so stupid one rolls his eyes at the need to write a column explaining why.
First of all, the idea that we need to abridge the First Amendment for video games but not the Second Amendment for assault rifles has some very obvious deficiencies.
Secondly, the evidence linking aggression to violent video games is, to put it kindly, highly contested. Most of the evidence comes from an Iowa State researcher named Craig Anderson who has spent over a decade trying to prove a link between the two and has come away with much-derided studies showing that young girls are more willing to administer "loud noise blasts" after playing "Street Fighter II" than after playing "Oh No! More Lemmings."
Aha! That explains that Aurora movie theater massacre (minus the AR-15 you can buy on-line).
Furthermore, researchers like Christopher Ferguson of the International Society for Research and Aggression have grown irate at their findings being misrepresented by others trying to arrive at a pre-determined conclusion.
"We have done a number of studies of video game violence with both children and adults and find no evidence to support links between video game violence and youth violence," Ferguson told PC Gamer.
Ferguson went on to point out that violence has declined to 40-year lows even as video games have grown in complexity to the point where it feels like they're trying to give you PTSD in case you never got a tour in Afghanistan.
I think of the two years I spent playing "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" in college. And by playing, I don't mean "completing the missions." I mean bludgeoning hookers, going on Columbine-style shooting sprees across the digital Miami Beach and cutting up bystanders with chainsaws. That was just what we did in college.
Needless to say, this did not make me or anyone else I know remotely homicidal.
Video games have followed the standard arch of all new information technologies that become bugaboos of the Morality Brigade. The internet, television, movies, comic books, rock 'n roll, jazz—at one point, all of these were decried as the preferred entertainments of sinners, jackals and perverts. When the novel began its ascension, no one thought all the snobbiest critics would one day despair at its decline because back then they were too busy fearing the immoral influence such a base art form would have on society. Hell, Socrates—yes, that Socrates—thought writing (as in, the written word, as in people recording literature, history and philosophy) was a terrible, damaging technology.
Therefore, the idea that a hilariously corny game like "Street Fighter II" could make anyone violent is laughable but only because Guile and M. Bison look so silly now that a few years have gone by. Give it a couple decades and we'll be freaking out about a new method of popular escape and chuckling at today's grandpas like LaPierre and Alexander, who once attempted to pin a haunting national tragedy on tomorrow's equivalent of a gallant adventure-and-romance pamphlet from 17th Century France.


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This beautiful, boho ring is made using London blue topaz and 14k gold.
Ring details-
-Main stone is a 8x5mm London blue topaz.
-Side stones are 3.5mm white sapphire, AA grade.
-Ring is cast solid in your choice of 14k rose, white or yellow gold.
-Twig band is thin but sturdy, about 1.6mm wide.
-Each stone is set into 6 prongs, giving this ring a vintage boho vibe.
Want custom stones? Feel free to get in touch for a quote!
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Buyers are responsible for any customs and import taxes that may apply. I'm not responsible for delays due to customs.
Just contact me within: 5 days of delivery
Ship items back to me within: 7 days of delivery
Request a cancellation within: 2 days of purchase
But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
Because of the nature of these items, unless they arrive damaged or defective, I can't accept returns for:
Buyers are responsible for return shipping costs. If the item is not returned in its original condition, the buyer is responsible for any loss in value.
I occasionally take custom orders similar to the pieces I have listed in my shop, please contact me if you have something in mind. I can always swap out stones/metal though! If you do order a custom design, I do reserve the right to resell the design or something similar in my shop.
I will not copy or make another designers work. Please don't send me pictures of another artist and ask me to make something similar.
I do accept returns on non customized pieces. Items need to be sent back within 7 days of arrival, in the same exact packaging it arrived in. Please insure your item, as I will not cover any damages or loss of package on the way back. I do stick very firm to my return policies timeline, so as long as you get in touch within 5 days and ship it back within 7 in the same condition you will get a full refund.
I can rush only a few orders a month, even less during my busy season. Please contact me before purchasing an item you would need sooner than the current make time.
If your orders current make time falls on a Saturday or Sunday, your order will ship the following Monday. The 4 week make time does not include delivery time.
Current male time is the full amount listed, but everything is shipping on time.
Different stones and metals can require different care, but to keep your ring nice and new there's a few easy steps you can follow.
1. Never wear your ring in hot water, pools, baths or hot tubs. Remove jewelry before applying lotions, soap and makeup so there is no build up on your stones and metal.
2. If buildup occurs, gently wash your ring with organic soap and a soft brush. Use warm water to soak the ring and scrub gently with the soap, it should take off any of the residue. If you can't get it all of after soaking, you can use a jewelry cleaner on most stones, but not all.
3. Soft stones like turquoise, moonstone and labradorite need extra care. Be sure to not hit your ring on things, and take if off before doing any activities.
5. I recommend taking all jewelry off (no matter the metal or stone) before doing anything active. Examples are gardening, hiking, working out at the gym (weightlifting). While 14k gold is strong, you can still damage your metal and stones.
6. Place all sterling silver rings in a airtight container when not worn.
I offer one free resize on all purchases, so feel free to contact me if you need your ring resized!
All items are sent in a rustic burlap ring box.
All of my white gold is non plated, and I will not plate my gold if requested. Non plated white gold has a warm tint to it, 18k white gold has a very soft yellow underglow.
I get asked this almost daily, but I don't work with natural alexandrite. All alexandrite shown in my rings is Chatham alexandrite, which is the highest quality lab created gems on the market. Natural alexandrite is rare, extremely expensive (think more than a diamond in some cases) and it's hard to verify it was mined ethically. At this time I only work with Chatham alexandrite.


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rajjr_tx needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 35 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
ZapTags is a new startup that uses mobile devices and barcodes to create a link between physical objects and mobile users. A user can create a tag (a QR barcode) and associate one or more different information with the tag called actions. Actions can include information, web addresses, videos, contact info, geo location info, pictures, files etc. Once the tag is zapped (imaged using the mobile device camera), the information setup by the tag creator is transferred to the mobile device. The application knows how to understand and render the appropriate UI for the action type. Each tag is therefore unique to the creator.
Anyone who has a mobile device (iPhone/Android to start). This is intended for both personal and corporate use. For example a teenager might create a flyer containing information, map, pictures to an upcoming party and hang them up at school, or a company might create an ad that has a map and some coupon information. The usage is totally up to the user.
I'd like something that represents the Zap (which is the camera on the mobile device) and the Tags (which are the QR Codes). I have a blue/gray/white color palette in mind, but I'm willing to be impressed by your creativity.
This logo needs to work for both a mobile device and a web site, so please keep that in mind. Also consider how I might use it (or part of it) for an application button/badge on the mobile phone.
I'll be trying to give good feedback, and there is likely to be some follow on work for the winner (badges, web collateral etc.)
Good luck.
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Taking It Easy: Initial Mods for Our 2011 Ford F250Posted in How To on January 1, 2012
We've only had our 2011 Ford Super Duty for a few months now, and it's already been an even more pleasant experience than we managed to have with our old '03 Super Duty. It's not that we don't love our big, old Super Duty. In fact, we've grown very fond of it and will probably find another life for it instead of putting it out to pasture.
But now we've got a new '11 F-250 to work on. And you know it was only a matter of time before we started in with the modifications. After all, we're not Truck Trends. Instead we modify trucks and test them out in off-road conditions. Sure, it's a ton of fun, but we also get valuable experience in the dirt that we can relay to the manufacturers and to readers. That's why we just couldn't leave well enough alone—even on our new truck.
But we wanted to start lightly. Though we have some big plans for this F-250 in the future, it's not often that we get a stock truck to start from scratch with, and we want to make our decisions carefully.
A big priority was to get the truck a little higher in the air with a Daystar spacer lift. It didn't necessarily need brand new, bigger, and more expensive tires just yet (there is still a lot of tread we haven't burned off these stock ones), but we already put a dent in one running board and bent the other, so a little more ground clearance would be nice.
We could also improve ground clearance by getting rid of the running boards, altogether. But this truck is already a tall one, so a pair of Bestop PowerBoards will give us the step to get in, and without the loss of ground clearance when the door is closed.
For our first engine modification, what project vehicle would be complete without an aftermarket air intake? That's why we had Airaid send us out their MXP Series air intake for the new 6.7L Power Stroke diesel that lays under the hood of our truck.
For some first steps, we feel like we did well and took it easy, not going too crazy with a brand new truck. After all, we should probably at least put a scratch or two on the bumpers and wheels before we pull them off and get radical with this F-250.


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The African Wildlife Foundation has been awarded a major grant from USAID Regional Center for Southern Africa (RCSA) to lead a conservation initiative across national borders.
The African Wildlife Foundation has announced selection of five Charlotte Fellows for 2000-2001. The Charlotte Conservation Fellowship Program began in 1996, in memory of AWF supporter Charlotte Kidder Ramsay, who strongly endorsed AWF efforts to encourage young African professionals to work in conservation. The program provides educational and financial assistance to Africans pursuing master's or doctoral studies in subjects such as species and ecosystem conservation, community conservation, and resource economics.
Kenya's parks and game reserves, dazzling though they are, can never include enough terrain to sustain the large herds of elephant, zebra, wildebeest and other migratory animals that are Africa's unique heritage.
An estimated 70 percent of Kenya's wildlife lives on private or communal land at any one time. But land outside protected areas is filling up with farms and villages. Increasingly, wildlife is competing with people and their livestock for the same space and water causing resentment and sometimes violence.
In 1979, AWF member Frank Rus, of Naperville, Ill., decided to make a trip that travel agents described as impossible, traveling the Congo River 1,100 miles from Kinshasa to the end of navigation, Kisingani. Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) was broken down (in the words of one government official), accommodations were scarce, transportation was unreliable and taking 16mm camera equipment to film mountain gorillas into a country suspicious of all unfamiliar activities would be extremely difficult. Nevertheless, Frank went.
Shrouded in mist and hanging moss, the mountain forests of the Virunga volcanoes are home to the magnificent mountain gorillas. The chain of eight volcanoes runs along the western branch of the Great Rift Valley, forming part of the border between Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda. These spectacular mountains and the nearby Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda are the last refuge of the mountain gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei), the world's most endangered primate. Only about 620 of these fabled creatures remain.