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1 pound of petite kai-lan,discard the yellowish leaves and cut about 1/2 inch stalk at the bottom
2 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp soy sauce
1/2 cup oil
5-6 shallots,peeled and sliced
1.Heat aluminum skillet with oil at high heat.Add in sliced shallot into the hot oil,keep stirring the shallot.Fry shallot until golden brown.Remove from heat.
2:Cut the bottom stalk 1/2 inch .Remove any yellowish leaves.Boil 1 liter water in a medium pot,add two drops of oil.When the water rolling boil,add in clean kai-lan in,boil for 5 minutes,discard the water.Place kai-lan on a plate.
3:Remove the fried shallot to a bowl.Heat the skillet at medium heat,add in oyster sauce and soy sauce.Stir for 1 minute,pour the oyster sauce mixture on the kai-lan,then scoop the fried shallot on it too.
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Australia to ask US to extradite alleged child molester
David Kramer fled Melbourne in the mid-1990s amid accusations that he had sexually abused boys at Yeshivah College
SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) – Australian police plan to ask US authorities to extradite a former teacher at a Melbourne Jewish school over a child sex abuse scandal allegedly covered up by the school 20 years ago.
David Kramer fled Melbourne in the mid-1990s amid accusations that he had sexually abused boys at Yeshivah College, which houses the headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch in Melbourne, between 1989 and 1993.
Kramer, 50, went first to Israel and then to the United States, where he was jailed in 2008 after pleading guilty to molesting a 12-year-old boy at a synagogue in Missouri. He was sentenced to seven years in prison but could soon be eligible for parole.
Detective Senior Constable Lisa Metcher told the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday that authorities plan to travel to the US later this month to request his extradition, The Age newspaper reported. But a police spokesperson, Sgt. Jo Stafford, told The Age that Kramer was still under investigation and "no charges have been served at this time."
It is believed that Yeshivah College asked Kramer, then a Jewish studies teacher, to leave after teachers were made aware of the allegations of molestation, which were never reported to authorities at the time.


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A Sly Fox, MySpace and Yahoo
MySpace and Yahoo should merge.
That was the single thought that finally dropped into my slow-as-molasses brain this past week, after finally discerning the meaning of a very interesting comment that Rupert Murdoch (pictured below) made in an interview a month ago.
As I often do, I brought some reading on my recent trip to Dublin and London that I have been meaning to catch up on, most especially a recent interview the News Corp. head did with Time magazine's Eric Pooley.
While a lot of people, including myself, focused on his many and varied thoughts on the possible and seemingly endless acquisition of Dow Jones (owner of this site), one comment stuck in my head for days after I read it: floating the idea of trading a 25% stake of Yahoo for MySpace. (A Yahoo exec had actually pointed me to this quote weeks ago, but I ignored him.)
As the article noted:
MySpace's much smaller archrival, Facebook, is surging: what started as a narrower college site is broadening and accelerating … But as MySpace showed signs of reaching saturation, Murdoch began very preliminary, exploratory talks about trading the site for 25% or more of Yahoo. 'Terry Semel was enthusiastic about it,' he says of the then Yahoo CEO. 'We were looking to see if it was a good idea. I wasn't sure.' Now Semel is gone, and Murdoch needs to see what Yahoo will become under its new boss, co-founder Jerry Yang.
In one fell swoop, Murdoch had confirmed the talks, but made it seem as if it was Yahoo's execs who were desperate to do a deal (and you know Semel and Yang would never talk about how they felt about it), while also giving MySpace an instant valuation of $8 billion at today's nearly $32 billion Yahoo valuation.
Given recent rumors abounding now of the much smaller Facebook declaring itself worth upward of that, including some of a big offer for the social network from Microsoft, it is no small leap to imagine the sly Murdoch calculating that he should be thinking right about now about getting while the getting is good and the hype is at an all-time high.
To merge his massively popular social network with Yahoo's still-powerful-despite-struggles ad and search empire would create a powerful media and technology giant that would have a lot of key elements for the next generation of Web interaction.
For Yahoo, which is in need of a dramatic move, this would deliver a smack to Google (which still has reportedly not completely closed its $900 million ad deal with MySpace), solve its inability to enter the social-networking space and boost its distribution network dramatically.
For MySpace, Murdoch gets to unload a service that is increasingly going to need a major dose of technology expertise and own a big chunk of what could be a drastically undervalued property.
There are, of course, the endless rumors of such talks that still swirl. But with all the focus on Dow Jones and Murdoch (which is about to reach its culmination in a few hours, actually), wouldn't it be interesting if an even bigger–a least in terms of billions–deal was brewing elsewhere?
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The same MIT researchers who are helping the US military create robots that can autonomously generate 3D maps of their immediate location have developed similar technology humans can wear to navigate new and potentially dangerous environments.
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have built a wearable system that senses the environment of its wearer and builds a digital map of the area as the person moves through it. The ultimate goal for the technology's development -- funded by the Air Force and the Office of Naval Research -- is to help emergency responders find their way through an unfamiliar area after a disaster safely, and possibly locate survivors, according to MIT.
The prototype of the sensor platform is comprised of several small devices affixed to an iPad-sized sheet of hard plastic. The wearer bears the plastic on the chest like a backward backpack.
Researchers have tested the system on a graduate student who wandered through MIT hallways while the system's sensors used a wireless connection to send data to a laptop in a conference room away from the scene. As the student walked, the system created a map of his progress on the laptop, allowing people in the room to track his progress. The technology is based on a navigation system CSAIL engineers have been working on to allow robots to autonomously move through new and changing environments.
That system uses a low-cost camera -- such as the one in Microsoft's Kinect motion sensing input device -- to create images of the environment. It also uses algorithms based on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping to allow the robots to constantly update maps and keep track of their own location in it as they learn new information. In fact, the Kinect principle is becoming a driver of creating artificial intelligence to help robots more effectively and autonomously interact with their environments. Engineers even started a crowdsourcing project that allows people to use their Kinect camera to easily create 3D scans of anything and everything around them, hoping to make it easier to program environment-sensing AI in robots.
To modify the camera-based robotic sensing device they created, MIT researchers made a number of modifications to develop a wearable device so humans, too, could map their environment on the fly. For example, one of the system's sensors is a laser rangefinder that sweeps a laser beam in an arc and measures the time it takes for light pulses to return to calculate the distance of walls. However, a human -- particularly one moving through the rubble found after a disaster -- jostles the sensor more than a robot, causing a less-than-accurate reading.
The robot also has sensors in its wheels that a person wouldn't have to provide distance information, and someone responding to a disaster might have to traverse several levels of a building, requiring a map-generating sensor to recognize altitude changes.
To adapt the robot system to a wearable one, researchers added a series of accelerometers and gyroscopes and a camera, and also experimented with the use of a barometer, as air-pressure changes help to indicate change in floor level, researchers said.
One key commonality between the systems, however, is the camera, which is integral to both. The camera snaps photos of its environment every few meters, and software takes about 200 visual features from each image that are associated with particular map locations.
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Someone pointed this out in my Twitter feed in the late stages of the Vikings' blowout loss to Green Bay on Sunday night: At least quarterback Christian Ponder still was attempting to compete until the end of the no-contest, which is more than could be said for many of his teammates.
That's remindful of Daunte Culpepper in the infamous 41-donut loss in the NFC title game in January 2001. Culpepper still was trying in the fourth quarter, while everyone around him had long ago given in -- starting with Randy Moss from the opening snap.
The difference is, Daunte was a much more accurate thrower and much more decisive in his actions than Ponder. He had a few years as an elite NFL quarterback because of those qualities, as well as his mighty legs.
Ponder made his quarterback destiny obvious to all once again in the Metrodome. Ponder not only won't be elite; he won't be average.
His destiny is to become a journeyman, moving from team to team as a backup until he's 33, 34, and there's no longer such a job. His destiny is to go from the 12th overall choice and advertised franchise quarterback to Sage Rosenfels.
Ponder was 0-3 to start this season (his third), sat for the next three games, and returned for this 44-31 loss to the Packers. As was the case in the first three losses, the defense was the No. 1 cause of the Vikings' failure on Saturday, by a slight margin over Ponder.
The defense was so horrendous, in fact, that amateur lip readers were able to discern from a closeup that Jared Allen said, "I've never played on a defense this bad,'' as he stood on the sidelines in the fourth quarter and watched his defensive mates.
Then again, the collapse of that defense started with Aaron Rodgers buzzing two of the quickest, past-a-defender's-earhole shots in history for touchdowns -- one for a short TD to Jordy Nelson and another that became a long touchdown to Nelson.
Rodgers was fantastic. It made no difference that two of his three best wide receivers and his best tight end were unavailable. Rodgers has become what Tom Brady was for so long in New England: a quarterback who can make succulent chicken salad out of a receiving corps consisting of chicken feathers.
With Ponder, we no longer have to strain for the proper comparison. Forget that Rosenfels reference. Ponder absolutely is the second coming of Tarvaris Jackson.
As with Tarvaris, he's OK if the first place he looks there's an open receiver, and Christian's just peachy in garbage time against soft-playing defenses. But he's inept when facing the serious complications required to play the position at the major league level.
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Ponder's legs are fine. His arm strength is marginal. And his instincts are non-existent.
More than being unable to duplicate the Rodgers' throw that zinged past Josh Robinson's helmet as he oft-burned cornerback was turning to look for a football that was about to smack into Nelson's hands ... our guy Christian couldn't even have envisioned throwing that early to make such a connection possible.
Tarvaris was the Vikings' starter when healthy in his second season (12 starts in 2007), he was benched and then returned for a time in his third season, and then he became yesterday's news. He played for Seattle in 2011, only out of the Seahawks' desperation ... not with the idea that he actually could be their answer as a winning quarterback.
Jackson watched in Buffalo last season, and now he's back in Seattle, standing on the sideline as a caddy for Russell Wilson. He'll probably get a few more years of paychecks as a veteran backup, whether it's in Seattle or elsewhere.
If Ponder (26 next February) is curious amid the Vikings' quarterback chaos as to where his NFL career is headed, all he has to do is look where Tarvaris is as 30-year-old, bcause they are the same player.


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Markey, Lynch spar over health care, abortion in debate
GOP, Dem. US Senate hopefuls face off in debate
Democratic congressmen Stephen Lynch and Edward Markey sparred over health care, abortion and other issues during their first televised debate of the campaign for the state's open U.S. Senate seat.
Markey called his vote in favor of the affordable care act as the proudest of his long career in the House and told Lynch he was "wrong" to vote against it.
Lynch said he voted against President Obama's health care plan because it had flaws, including new taxes.
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On abortion, Lynch said he was "pro-life" but wouldn't support overturning Roe v. Wade. And he tried to turn the tables on his opponent by pointing out that Markey once backed a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion. But Markey said he has favored abortion rights for the last 30 years.
The 30-minute Democratic debate on WCVB-TV followed one among Republican candidates.


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Every year, over 3000 industry experts gather for CSCMP's annual conference to share best practices and learn new trends that are impacting the industry. Participants come from a diverse group industry practitioners, executives, and universities in a forum that is focused on education and networking. With so many changes going on, this is an extremely exciting time to be involved in logistics! There are some hot topics that we see on the agenda, many of which are areas where Descartes is working with customers and partners to provide solutions.
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In 2005, A.G. Lafley Chairman, President & CEO of Procter & Gamble coined two "Moments of Truth". First moment of truth: When a customer is first confronted with the product. It occurs within the first 3-7 seconds of a consumer encountering the product and it is during this time that marketers have the capability of turning a browser into a buyer. Second moment of truth: When a customer purchases a product and experiences its quality as per the promise of the brand. With the growth of ecommerce and home delivery, there is a new moment of truth: Delivery: How the customer experience around shipping and delivery shapes the consumer's view of the brand. In this post we will cover how consumer expectations are ever increasing, what retailers are doing to address evolving expectations and how this impacts your transportation strategy.
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There has been a lot of buzz around the capacity crunch and how we got to this point. Simply put, higher freight demand, driver shortages and ELD mandates have severely limited capacity on the road. The increased volume can be tied to economic growth, specifically ecommerce, which has impacted distribution patterns to meet changing consumer demands.
Trade policy is on the move. Tariff discourse is evolving into action, non-tariff measures are spiking, and the number of trade agreements has risen to record levels. In this environment of change, it can be challenging to pinpoint trends and assess how trade policy shifts might impact business and products at the Harmonized System (HS) level.
Carriers are continuing to require digital data instead of paper in the air cargo supply chain. One recent highlight is Lufthansa's introduction of a per paper air waybill fee for applicable tradelanes. Starting at €1 and increasing to €12 beginning Oct 1st 2018, the airline is looking to leverage digital information to enable better communication and improve data quality. The eAWB is a fundamental step to Lufthansa Cargo that currently handles approximately 1.5 million air waybills per year with half of this number currently eAWB-enabled.
Technology continues to gain traction throughout the commercial trucking industry, as companies realize the efficiency it brings to operations. At the same time, regulatory agencies recognize that technology provides accurate data that can inform or change transportation safety regulations.
In fact, data gathered from electronic logging devices (ELD) mandated in the U.S. prompted a new focus on hours-of-service (HOS) regulations that may be adversely impacting certain sectors of the economy. As a result, U.S. regulators are taking another look at HOS rules.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban announced Saturday that the group will observe a one-month cease-fire as part of efforts to negotiate a peace deal with the government, throwing new life into a foundering peace process.
Spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said in a statement emailed to reporters that the top leadership of the militant group has instructed all of its units to comply with the cease-fire.
"Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan has initiated talks with the government with sincerity and for good purpose," Shahid said, referring to the group by its formal name.
The leader of the government's negotiating team, Irfan Sadiqui, praised the cease-fire announcement while speaking on Pakistan's Geo Television, saying the government will review any written document from the Taliban about it.
"Today, we are seeing a big breakthrough," Sadiqui said.
In recent weeks, Pakistani jets and helicopters have been striking militant hideouts in the northwest, after previous efforts at negotiations broke down when a militant faction announced it had killed 23 Pakistani troops.
The Pakistani Taliban has been trying to overthrow the government and establish its own hard-line form of Islam across Pakistan for years. Tens of thousands of people have died in militant attacks.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has long promoted negotiations over military operations as a way to end the ongoing crisis. His efforts gained speed this year when both sides announced negotiating teams held initial meetings. But negotiations fell apart after the deaths of the 23 Pakistani troops, and Sharif has been under pressure to retaliate for any Taliban violence.
Critics of the peace process say militants have used previous negotiations to simply regroup. They also question whether there is room to negotiate with militants who don't recognize the Pakistani constitution. The militants in the past have also called for the removal of all military forces in the tribal areas as well as an end to American drone strikes.
As the military has been hammering militant hideouts, many in Pakistan have been watching closely to see whether the government would order a large-scale ground operation in the North Waziristan tribal region that is considered the militants' stronghold. Such an operation could spark a backlash of attacks in other parts of the country.
But a temporary cease-fire could be difficult to ensure. Some analysts point out that the Pakistani Taliban is not a unified organization, and some of the factions are not believed to support peace talks.
Violence earlier Saturday showed how difficult it could be to enforce a cease-fire, let alone forge a peace agreement.
Two bombs exploded minutes apart in northwest Pakistan, striking tribal police assigned to guard polio workers and killing 11, police said.
Police official Nawabzada Khan said the first of the two bombs struck an escort vehicle in the Lashora village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It wounded six officers, but caused no deaths, he said.
Minutes later, another roadside bomb struck a convoy of tribal police officers dispatched there to transport victims of the first attack, killing 11 officers and wounding six, Khan said. A government administrator, Nasir Khan, confirmed the death toll and said they had launched a massive hunt to arrest the attackers.
No one claimed responsibility for the two separate bombings, but anti-polio teams and their guards have been frequently targeted in Pakistan by Islamic militants. They say the campaigns are a tool for spying and claim the vaccine makes boys sterile.
Pakistan is one of the few remaining countries where polio persists. In most cases the disease is found in the northwest, where militants make it difficult to reach children for vaccination.
Also Saturday, a bomb targeting security forces in the southwestern province of Baluchistan killed three soldiers and wounded six, the paramilitary Frontier Corps said.
In a statement, it said the soldiers were traveling through the border village of Washuk when a bomb hit their vehicle.
Washuk lies 400 kilometers (240 miles) south of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, where separatists have been fighting a bloody insurgency against the Pakistani government for decades.
In another part of Baluchistan, security forces freed eleven foreigners, including eight Iranian nationals, who had been abducted and held in the town of Turbat, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) from the Iranian border, said Abdullah Khoso, the assistant commissioner of the town. He said officials were trying to determine whether five Iranian border guards abducted earlier were among the freed men. He did not give any information about the captors.
The issue of the abducted border guards has heightened tensions between Pakistan and Iran. An Iranian minister on Feb. 17 said his country might send in troops to recover the guards, prompting a sharp rebuke from Pakistan.
Associated Press writer Abdul Sattar in Quetta, Pakistan, contributed to this report.


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OTTAWA – NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is muscling in on the same electoral turf that Justin Trudeau has staked out for the Liberals: middle class families.
He embarked Friday on a campaign to persuade people that the NDP is the only party that understands the challenges faced by average folks and that is devoted to making life more affordable for them.
"We're going to protect consumers. We're going to stand up for families," Mulcair told New Democrat MPs gathered to plot strategy for the Jan. 27 resumption of Parliament.
"And we're going to stand up for all Canadians."
Mulcair announced he'll start a nationwide tour next week to meet Canadians at home and in their communities and discuss ways to tackle "staggering bills and skyrocketing household debt."
That will be followed in the spring by a national consultation with small and medium-sized business owners, aimed at finding ways to help them grow and create "good, middle-class jobs right here in Canada."
By contrast, Mulcair accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government of telling Canadians: "You're on your own, get used to it."
"In Mr. Harper's Canada, a well-connected few get ahead while everyone else gets left behind."
And, notwithstanding Trudeau's declared priority of improving the lot of middle class families, Mulcair said the Liberal record in government shows they're no better.
Over the last 35 years, he said income has grown for the top 20 per cent of income earners while it's shrunk for the remaining 80 per cent. And 94 per cent of the growth in income inequality occurred while the Liberals were in power, he added.
The only time Liberal governments took action to remedy the problem was when they were forced to do so by the NDP, Mulcair said. He reminded his MPs that late NDP leader Jack Layton forced Paul Martin's teetering Liberal minority government to cancel $4.6 billion in planned corporate tax cuts and invest instead in affordable housing, public transit and student debt.
"Those were our priorities. That's where we put the money," Mulcair said.
"We know who we are. We know who the Liberals are. Don't ever forget it."
Under a fixed-date election law introduced by the Harper government, the next election is scheduled for October 2015. However, both the NDP and Liberals suspect Harper may ignore the law, as he's done before, to go to the polls earlier.
Mulcair made it clear the NDP isn't waiting for the writ to be issued, declaring that the campaign has already begun and that his party has its slogan set to go.
"From students to seniors, from First Nations to recent arrivals, New Democrats are taking a simple message from coast to coast to coast in the next election: 'the NDP is on your side'."
Mulcair won plaudits during the spring and fall sittings of Parliament for his relentless, prosecutorial grilling of Harper on the Senate expenses scandal. But Trudeau, who spent most of his time stumping the country, seemed to be the chief beneficiary of voter disenchantment with the government.
Mulcair said he won't let up on the Senate scandal but has evidently decided he needs to spend more time on the road as well.
His consumer protection tour is aimed at demonstrating the NDP understands what Mulcair called "the changing face of struggling families in Canada" — where both parents have "low-wage, very precarious and almost always part time jobs … without any real opportunity to get ahead."
These families can't afford increased hydro bills or getting "nickled and dimed" by automated bank machines or paying "usurious" interest rates on payday loans or getting dinged $2 just to get a paper version of a bill, Mulcair said, promising to offer "concrete solutions."
While the government promised a consumer-first agenda in last fall's throne speech, Mulcair said it hasn't delivered.


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Would you take your clothes off and dance in public for a cause? Well more than 600 brave people did just that today, outside Adidas and Nike highstreet stores in 29 cities in 10 countries--to challenge the sportswear leaders to eliminate hazardous chemical releases from their supply chain and products.
At exactly 11:00am Central European Time in 29 cities around the globe, teams of dancers, including Greenpeace activists, supporters and Nike and Adidas fans who signed up online, simultaneously performed a choreographed striptease, taking off their clothes to reveal the message Detox.
We'll add photos to this blog post as they come in. I must say now though that there will be some nudity. If that's not your thing but you'd like to help, please go here to sign the petition.
It's not every day you see lots of people dressed in sportswear outside a shop suddenly start dancing and then strip down to their underwear, or their birthday suit! For Nike and Adidas the message should be unmistakable though: When you strip back all the marketing hype, the naked truth is revealed - Adidas and Nike are playing on the same team as toxic polluters.
This action is part of our Detox campaign calling on Adidas and Nike to eliminate all releases of hazardous chemicals from across their entire supply chain and products. A year-long Greenpeace investigation into toxic water pollution in China found links between a number of major clothing brands, including Adidas and Nike, and suppliers in China who were found to be discharging persistent and bioaccumulative hormone disruptors into Chinese rivers.
The findings from the research provide a snapshot of the kind of toxic chemicals that are being released by the textile industry into waterways all over the world, and are indicative of a much wider problem that is having serious and far-reaching consequences for people and wildlife.
As industry frontrunners, major sportswear brands have a responsibility to show leadership and clean up their acts. Adidas and Nike talk a good game, but they must show some real champion pedigree on the field and lead the textile industry towards a world free from toxic water pollution. The ball is now in their court.
Today's striptease may make it into the Guinness Book of Records as the largest striptease ever. It included people in Austria (Vienna), China (Beijing), the Czech Republic (Prague), France (Paris), all over Germany (Regensburg, Kassel, Niederrhein, Berlin, Frankfurt/Main, Köln, Chiemgau, Bremerhaven, Leipzig, Deggendorf, Freiburg, Hamburg, Zollernalbkreis, Kiel, Lüneburg, Krefeld, Aachen, Esslingen, Oldenburg, Hannover, Essen and Lübeck), the Netherlands (Amsterdam), the Philippines (Manila), Spain (Madrid), Switzerland (Basel) and Thailand (Bangkok).
(Top photo - outside Adidas store in Beijing, China. Middle photo - outside Nike store in Basel, Switzerland. Bottom photo - outside Nike store in Amsterdam, Netherlands. More on our Flickr page.)
Eoin Dubsky is a Community Communications Specialist at Greenpeace International, a father of two, a peace activist and a technology tinkerer.
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Whaa! Just one genital and it's a dick! :-(
Well good project anyway, and hope it results in positive change.
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be naked and pose for the cameras is shameful and against the Greenpeace core values influenced by the Religion Society of Friends- Quakers and othe...
be naked and pose for the cameras is shameful and against the Greenpeace core values influenced by the Religion Society of Friends- Quakers and other free minded admires of human dignity.
Who came up with performance is a proven enemy of Greenpeace.
Your friend in truth
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Detox Flashmob in Leipzig - Greenpeace groups Dresden, Halle, Magdeburg and Leipzig were there! FUNNY!
please support: http://vwdarkside.com/de/jedi/marcus-decker-7039
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Dragan O should read a little about the history of the Quakers, and he will discover that nudity as part of protest has a long Quaker history.
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@Dragan O, the actions today outside Nike and Adidas stores were inteded to bear witness to the toxic water pollution problems of those companies, not...
@Dragan O, the actions today outside Nike and Adidas stores were inteded to bear witness to the toxic water pollution problems of those companies, not to offend or titillate.
Greenpeace's core values, by the way, are published here http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/about/our-core-values/
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I am sorry becouse Greenpeace Romania he dosent make somefing for detox!
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Another one! Put the Romanian Greenpeace Blog on the list from the right, isn`t beautifull to ignore us! http://www.greenpeace.org/romania/
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these chicks cause visual pollution
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(Unregistered) Mary95
Thereee you go people!! I wish I could do something here in Mexico but I'll just keep helping online
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Transparency is not free willy and boobs because of first principle of Greenpeace core values nonviolence Human dignity religion of our challenge ma...
Transparency is not free willy and boobs because of first principle of Greenpeace core values nonviolence Human dignity religion of our challenge mates from east side surely are insulted because nudity is shame and sin
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there are several threads which cover a lot of interesting technologies, you can use volkerize.com to search for them on this forum.
The first link you included is already covered here: http://www.teslamotors.com/en_EU/forum/forums/super-supercapacitor
The second link... well, to be honest... looks nice, I could imagine it in movie however I am not so sure about it for real life scenario...
You seem to be under the impression TM is using or in the market for cutting edge tech. Nothing could be wronger. It looks for best of breed proven tech and integrates it to best advantage. The whole is then greater than the sum of the parts; the parts are not the issue or crucial.
Next gen touch screen that you can actually feel?
Small electric accumulators lifetime significantly constrains the mass use elektromobiley in the world!
But out there!
Already have battery power for an indefinite period of use!
This superflywheel!
Such systems are already using Formula 1,
Detailed studies professor superflywheels execution Gulia.
Why in Tesla mobiles do not use superflywheels?
My guess is that they're mechanical, and if they fail the consequences could be disastrous.
If you visit a Tesla store, one thing that is not uncommon to see is people being amazed by the fact that there's "nothing" under the hood (or in the trunk) and then thinking the car is just some sort of mock up or something.
So to make people more comfortable and endulge their expectations, they should put a big one of these in the frunk of every Model S.
Or a hamster wheel...
Tesla should tr to incorporate a generator into their their car :
As the thingy spins for the wheels add a magnet and copper coils to produce a electric current to power and charge the battery pack.
In my mind a car that is almost self-sufficient and a self-charging vehicle would almost have unlimited range, and the faster it goes the more power it makes in itself.
Thank you just an idea
Perpetual motion AGAIN.
This has been discussed and debunked several times dude, it's not happening.
Got the links handy Volker? I can't dig them out on my iPhone.
Don't bother.
Enthusiast, stand on one end of a towel. Grab the other end and lift yourself off the ground. Report back when successful. 'Bye!
I wonder if Tesla considers using 3D printing to produce components of future models...
Some prognosticators are prognosticating that 3D printing will soon be the end of reliance on big foreign factories and suppliers. And since TM is gung-ho for vertical integration ...
Sure, road paving will be done by giant 3D printers on wheels, and they'll lay down the circuitry as part of the pavemen. Real soon now.
Actually not a bad idea, that one could work as high-tech road builder. Not quite same thing as creating small parts at home with 3D printer though. You need kind of factory on wheels for that.
I wonder when they start making pavement from carbon nanotubes...
(reacting to "real soon now", people overestimate short term development, and underestimate long term)
A special kind of paint is being developed. This paint has got the ability to turn sunlight into electricity (just like solar panels). This could be extremely helpfull for all Electric Vehicles. Because the car will be charging itself during daylight. I think this is a great idea. Don't you think so?
Please don't cross- and double-post. Almost everybody here reads every thread every day, usually several times.
I apologise for that.
There is a company called Endless Lip Technologies that has developed a new type of modular wheel assembly. The basic idea is that the assembly hardware is inside the pneumatic chamber, creating a whole slew of performance, cosmetic, and manufacturing advantages over what is available today.
I have met the team before and their patented technology has given them the ability to develop wheel assemblies that were previously unpractical to use and manufacture. They can actually make something similar to the Hankook Tiltread shown in an earlier post. Here's their website and Facebook page:
Opti-coat, It has already been applied to many Tesla's, it's a proven performer, and reduces the need for washing, so saving water. Tesla Service centers could source local competent detailers to apply it pre-delivery. There are many other products on the market that are available, but they could be best described as long life sealants(18-36 months), not coatings(Modesta, 22PLE, C Quartz, HD Nitro Seal....). Opti-coat has a lifetime warranty available. I have been using it since 2007, and I still see some of those vehicles on a regular basis(I am a detailer by profession), and they are still protected as they were the day I installed the Opti-coat. For more info www.opti-coat.net
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I have an idea in mind: what about equipping the tesla with a 230V AC Transformer with a max power of 3500W for example. Then u have a europe standart power outlet for every kind of 230V Machinery, Tools, or any other aplication on board. Would make for a good camping for example, when u have power for TV, Laptop, Musik for evenings party in holiday or whatever u like to run with it. U could certainly also make the Model S and upcoming cars compatible to the home electricity net to use the teslas batterie pack as Battery for ur home solar power plant or waterpower,windmill, whatever. So when the car is parked at home u just connect it to a plug in that connects car and house, in a way the 85kw batterie acts as source for ur 230V indoor AC net. Should not require much or am i wrong? all u need is a DC-AC converter and some kinda logicmodule that makes it work and customerfriendly to handle. maybe with options like "use batterie till its down to half capacity or something, i can quick imagine many options u could add"
in germany a company called sun invention (http://www.suninvention.com/) makes growing business in germany and europe these days. They produce solar panels that have a AC converter and a 30Ah LI Battery on board, and a logical contoler that toggles between direct delivery in ur flats or houses powergrid. When no power is "consumed" the batteries load up for night mode. such panels provide like 250W at 230V a single panel and the cells can be connected by another with simply plug in another. The first cell in line is then connected to a standart 230V wall adapter u normaly connect a TV to for example. over the 230V wall connector energie flow directly into comsumers powergrid and is used. No energy is delivered into the street line. No permits or concessions or authorisations needed. Such a system connected with a tesla`s battery as storage when car is parked at home would allow zero energy consumption from the electric companies network. can u follow my idea even tho my english is not perfect?
Imagine these 2 situations: u are on summer holiday and u have not much to drive around. Sun shines powerful for weeks but u have no use for the electricity all day that is coming from ur solar panels. By the other hand once u decide to wash dishes, clothes and running a pc at same moment the electric comsumtion comes to a peak and is higher then the output of ur solar panels. Instead of buying electricity from the company now imagine u could feed the peak moments with the car batterie. And the time when u not use much energy from ur roof solar panels or what ever, the "overflow" energy is saved in that batterys. If such a option would be included and i bet its technically quite simple to make it work like that, owning a Tesla car would been giving u one more really cool tool to have ur personal energy autonomy. As i believe that environmentally minded ppl are the first who are interested in the car anyway, this would make for another perfekt reason to get one.
Second idea is who hasnt ever had this problem...u are outdoors somewhere and nothing would be more practicable than have standart 230V Power for Tools, for Light at night, for Musik, for cooking, for refrigator. Camping ppl and owners of allotment gardens well knew that, and many buy gas powered electric generators just for that cases. How cool would it be if u have a huge mobile battery right in ur car, that easy has enough power for the garden party on weekend or for the camping week...would add another big bonus to Tesla Vehicles imho...
Yeah, your $5K worth of cells would save you $5 worth of electricity, if you park in the sun for a month. Nonsense.
I wonder how much would it cost if you go for cheapest, and not the best, IE. use thin film solar paint for roof. It would not generate much, but it wouldn't cost much either. Might be just enough to prevent charge loss when parked for prolonged time period, which could make it worth it.
What about magnetic suspension. Heard good things about it.
I have seen struts with generator heads on top that produce electricity as the car drives on irregular roads. Model S being a heavy car, it may be able to recover some nice amount of energy.
have a look:
It can't recover much, otherwise it would not be able to move. Energy lost to suspension is just small fraction of rolling resistance.
Energy saving smart cruise control : Besides tracking the car in front, use predictive algorithms to minimize regen braking, and avoid disk braking. Swithc automatically from regen to coasting mode and back ... Useful in hilly terrain as coasting is more efficient than regen.
In highway driving can the car drive lower? Can the front ned be more aerodynamic? Rliminate some of the grills?
The wheel space undeneath could be made more aerodynamic. Add plastic panels near wheel wells. Eliminate turbulence.
Those improvements should be cheap. Add highway miles!
Coasting downhill gets you tickets. Can be more efficient, but not practical.
It already does, not really and can't do that.
Easy way to extend range: make smaller car. Model S is heavy and large. Not a good combination for efficient driving. For efficiency you can't do much better than they have already done for real world car like Model S.
I hope they at some point invent clear coating for windows that changes infrared to visible spectrum. That could make nighttime driving quite a bit safer. Being able to see wildlife, cyclists and pedestrians way before your lights illuminate it could save lives.
A Self cleaning car would disrupt .
Good site . . . right topic for me . . . lets see how it goes?
I have been pondering how to get at least some juice back to the battery while the car is in FORWARD MOTION (i.e. 90% of the time) instead of while only during regenerative braking (i.e.approx. 10% of the time).
I'm Not Suggesting a Perpetual Motion Time Travel Machine Here . . . ok?
Just a way to capture enough energy from the Forward Motion of the motor driven wheels to send back a useful charge to the battery to slow down the constant depletion rate of the battery.
My current 2013 Elantra LTD has a 4 cyl. 1.8 148HP. The single alternator on my engine probably is costing me 2-3 HP at most.
With high quality bearings at each end who's to say how much drag could be saved and turned into HP ?
You could harness . . . belt drive / chain drive or even perhaps magnetically drive . . . 2 or even probably 3 alternators to each motor/wheel assembly and not suffer any noticeable loss in power. So two motors or four motors / two or three optimized alternators each . . . sounds promising to me?
I can remember holding a few alternators in my hands over the years and spinning the pulley by hand . . . not much to it.
Alternators have been around for many years and can be optimized in many ways if necessary. Nothing needs to be invented to take advantage of these and with todays onboard puter tech. they could be self-diagnosing . . . e.g. Wheel#1 / Unit#2 / #3 Diode Failure.
The equiv. HP of todays elec. motors is much greater than that . . . especially when multiple motors are used.
I suspect the elec. motor design that Tesla uses are made mostly for the long haul (perhaps 500K mi. or more lifetime) although the Model S is known to be as quick as a new Corvette.
If you want to see electric motors/cars made to high performance racing standards watch these . . . ENJOY.
Just Brutally powerful . . . 0 - 100mph in 5 seconds and now 219mph top speed (was 210mph). This Drayson car ( 2 vids below ) is suppose to be in the 24hrs of LeMans this June in France.
This one is awesome too and really has that powerful sound . . .
For Tesla to consider . . .
I wonder if there is any benefit to somehow adopt the use of this simple engine . . . not in place of their electric motors but to power an electrical charging system for the battery . . . both on-board and at home in the garage?
It is said to generate enough power to drive generators on boats?
Considering it runs off of any heat source that's pretty good?
Alternator is not free energy. A car motor is basically a huge alternator, when you regen it slows car down. It's the act of turning kinetic energy to electricity that is making that braking.
Same thing would happen with smaller alternators, just in smaller scale. You basically drive with brakes on. And since you can never get perfect conversion ratio you just end up losing energy.
What you basically suggest is this:
battery -> motor accelerating the car -> alternator braking the car -> battery.
That's far less efficient than
battery -> motor accelerating a bit less.
Timo my intent is to say . . .
A) Battery > motor accelerating the car & driving the alternator(s)
>some kind of charge being sent back to battery.
B) Regen can still be used separately if it is worth it in terms of energy captured / cost effective and not in the way of A)above.
* I mean to suggest that the alternators be used predominately in the forward motion of the car although my understanding is that alternators work in either direction.
Thanks for helping me to be more clear.
Oh and clearly I do not have a firm understanding of the regen system or it's limitations?
How much charge it sends back to the battery is probably proprietary info. and obviously not enough or the batt would not be in a state of constant depletion.
McGov your idea is perpetual motion unfortunately. If the wheels have to also spin your alternator, and it generates a tiny bit of electricity, then it'll slow the car down a tiny bit more than normal, so you'll need to use a tiny bit of extra power to get the normal performance. It cancels out.
Regen breaking is as timo said , same as ebay you're saying on a bigger scale.
There is debate about how much generating the wheels should do when your foot is off the accelerator. Tesla has a solution that is really liked by many people. (Many (most?) cars don't regen at all until you press the brake - which has another side effect of having the brake pedal activating 2 separate braking systems and not being as smooth.)
I think part of what you wrote was better ball bearings to reduce friction- that would always help (without needing an alternator), but easier said than done.
"Same as ebay you're saying" should say "same as what you're saying"
Your question about how much energy goes back to the batteries is interesting. EVs have a greater benefit in city driving because your main drain is all the stop-starting, so you get a lot back from regen braking. That's why hybrids are effective. But it's not 100% by a long shot.
I think one of teslas secrets is that the regen is limited by the motor size. Or in other words the faster electric acceration a tesla can achieve than other EVs and hybrids ALSO means tesla can regen larger amounts than others.
So to extend your question - given that a tesla regenerates by taking the foot off the accelerator, does the brake pedal increase regeneration to its maximum? Or just have the default regen plus braking?
@mcgov51, your A and B are not separate things. That's the point. Alternator, when it is creating power, brakes the car. If you use them you are driving brakes on and losing energy, not gaining any.
@grega, my understanding about Tesla cars is that brake pedal has no connection to regen. KISS principle.
@Timo, yes that's my understanding too. And I agree with KISS.
But if a Model S did maximum regen, how much more energy would it get back? If you drive effectively with one pedal of course it should make no difference… ?
I think that the display on the dash gives the hint. Regen can be counted on to get roughly 30-50% energy back. And it varies all the time, dependent upon speed, wind resistance, and terrain.
Timo: I love your description of what amounts to a 'Perpetual Stopping Machine'. ;-)
Bah, what is needed is a return to analogue controls. Turn a big dial to the right for more heat. No more searching menus, finding stupid buttons or screen inputs while driving with the sun glaring on a dirty germ-infested screen.
Analogue is unknown to many younger people, those who only know the dirge that is digital. They will ooh and agh over the elegant design and interface, so much less WalMart than screens and icons...
Analogue controls for most functions (not GPS, etc) and access to a cheap fast charge at electric stations everywhere. That is all that is needed.
I'm sure those who want analog controls will just save up for a Rolls-Royce or Bentley instead.
Tesla's regen is software limited. You can have 0-100% of torque if regen.
If it had front wheel drive and 100% (or even substantially less), you would
actually get very agressive ABS front braking with the motor.
And no, it isn't a trade secret or anything like that. They set the regen with eye on comfort and safety (not to turn the car around on slippery road).


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3 inch fresh tumeric(kunyit)
2:Use the same wok,add in 1/2 cup oil with the grounded chili mixture.Use spatula to stir the ingredients in the wok from time to time..
hehe I just posted a recipe on sambal belacan. I wish I have an outdoor place like yours. although I don't fry the paste (just need to toast the belacan), kitchen still reeks of belacan afterwards ... Think I'm going to buy a cheap toaster oven just for toasting belacan :P
Yes I also saw the recipe at Noobcook. So now I can have 2 recipes..hahaa...so happy ;)
I usually used belacan powder instead and this belacan powder also very aroma.
How I wish I have an outdoor cooking place too! The whole flat smells of belachan for hours after frying!
this is my favourite !!
Your pictures always make me so hungry which is why I nominated you for the the Beautiful Blogger award. The information and award are on my page.
Your sambal is super delicious. My friends tried it and they said there are the best!! Hope you make extra to sell it to me as I wanted to give it to my friend in NY :) :)
I saw your version,it's more healthy!! next time when I get more belacan I'm going to try your version.my mom always make your version when she cook us fried fish and Ju hu char! you going to buy toaster for toasting belacan? wow!! oh no,no !! I can imagine the wonderful smell reek all over the apt..
I bought 2 bottol of belacan powder home wt me from Melaka..I think the Belacan powder doesn't taste as good as the one in block..yes..I'm going to try noobcook recipe soon!
how about your balcony? maybe you can use portable stove or portable bbq pit cooking belacan on your balcony..hope it's help:)
me too ♥ it!
Thank yor for you to award me the beautiful award!! I really appreciated it ♥
Gert,thank you for your compliments:) this batch I purposely didn't add lemongrass and candlenut..I been eating this sambal tumis with fried mee and fried rice..this batch is more suitable for dipping..btw the red pepper is quite cheaper nowaday and I been thinking to make another batch wt lemongrass and candlenut for curry cooking..but for now I run out of belacan..let me get some belacan first and I will give you and your friend when I'm done cooking☺☺
Love this sambal tumis anytime anywhere, it's very addictive and yours is so salivating!


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What you won't hear in the Queen's speech
If positive social and political change worked top down, we wouldn't have to make this programme. Sadly, it doesn't. So at a time when the political class is out of ideas and the corporate class is out of excuses for its behaviour, the job of finding new perspectives and insights and ideas falls to the independent media. As a busy year draws to a close we look back at those people who have inspired and enlightened us in 2017. This is the first of two shows that are a whistle-stop tour around the thinkers, writers, doers and Renegade types we met over the last 12 months.


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Blue opal engagement rings
We and blue opal engagement rings
Even in Ancient Egypt was the tradition to exchange wedding rings on the day of registration of the marital status of the newlyweds. … The blue opal engagement rings carries symbolic meaning. So, the round form denotes eternity and the constancy of marriage ties, and also the infinite love of two hearts.
So, blue opal engagement rings.
The main attribute of the wedding is the blue opal engagement rings
The main attribute of young, including the wedding itself, are engagement rings. Each pair is responsible for choosing.
According to tradition, it is believed that the groom should buy the blue opal engagement rings, but they should choose them together. The most important parameters are: size and price.
No matter what kind of rings you choose, gold or silver, smooth or with stones, or blue opal engagement rings the main thing is that you are sincere and true to your second half.
blue opal engagement rings protect you
Such attributes of the wedding ceremony as blue opal engagement rings carry a certain energy and symbolism. Around this accessory there are a lot of signs and superstitions.
Our ancestors believed that it was the ring that protects spouses and their families from envious persons and hostile views.
But the most important is that the wedding rings are liked by both spouses.!
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A man was killed early Thursday morning in San Jose's 16th homicide of the year.
At 1:18 a.m., police received a report of an injured man lying in a parking lot in the 400 block of Blossom Hill Road in South San Jose.
When they arrived, the man was unconscious. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The cause of death appears to have been an assault.
No suspects have been identified, police said, and the identity of the victim is being withheld pending notification of his next of kin.
San Jose's 15th homicide was the death of a woman found Wednesday in a Monterey Road hotel room. There were also two fatal stabbings Wednesday in an unincorporated area of Santa Clara County in the Alum Rock neighborhood.
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All right, y'all, it's time for another recipes thread. I'm trying to do more cooking, and I'm looking for stuff to try. Bring it on.
Since money's tight for everyone these days, I'll ask specifically for recipes with inexpensive, easy-to-find ingredients. Of course, the definition of "inexpensive" is relative, so let's just say this is not a thread for, as Buffpuff put it in an old thread, "poncey, rarified ingredients like… fresh nasturtium flowers gathered by moonlight." If you can offer a quick estimate of how much the dish costs to make, more's the better.
Al and I are currently on a mission to use up everything that's been sitting in our freezer and pantry for ages, so last night, I made Ye Olde Cream of ______ Casserole. Or, as my Minnesotan husband called it, "Noodle Hot Dish."
Specifically, I used about 4 skinless, boneless chicken breast tenders (cut up), 1 can of cream of chicken soup, 1 cup water, half a bag of frozen veggies, some partially cooked pasta, some shredded cheese we had in the fridge, onion powder, and black pepper. (Mix up in casserole dish, cover and bake for about an hour at 375. Proportions are up to you. If you want to get fancy, wait and put the cheese on top toward the end, then bake 10 mins. uncovered.)
I only discovered about 2 years ago — when I had little besides tuna, frozen broccoli, pasta, and cream of mushroom soup in the house and didn't feel like leaving — that I actually like variations on this casserole. Even though it's a classic of my mom's generation, and I ate a lot of stuff with cream of ___ -based sauce growing up (pork chops, pot roast, green bean casserole), I don't recall her doing this kind of thing very often, if it all. School cafeterias were the only places I got creamy-noodley casseroles, which did not leave a great impression. So I was quite desperate and fully expecting to be disgusted by the final product that first time I attempted a tuna-noodle casserole, but I found it not half bad for something made up of ingredients that have been sitting around the house for months. That led me to variations involving chicken, different soups, different veggies, etc. — only about 40 years after everyone else figured out that this is the world's simplest way to use up odds and ends and/or make dinner when you haven't been to the store in 2 weeks.
Oh, and what I made last night cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $7.50 (probably $12-$15 if you had to buy a new box of pasta, whole bag of veggies, block of cheese, etc.), and made dinner and today's lunch for both of us. Probably could have gotten 6 servings out of it, but hey, we're fatasses.
What have you got, Shapelings? Something more interesting than that, I hope.


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Bernard Phillips
Looking for any info on my great grandfather Bernard John Phillips.
Born in Ballaghadarreen, County Mayo, Ireland, c1843. Father's name:
Patrick, Mother's name: Ellen Tansey.
Bernard immigrated to Australia c1853, married Mary Ellen Doolan in 1888 in Bairnsdale Victoria, where he died in 1918.
Ellen b. 1888
Charles Henry b. 1891
Marguerite/Margaret b. 1892
Nicholas b. 1893 d. 1898
Gerald Patrick Doolan b. 1900 (my grandfather)
If you can add any info I would be forever grateful, as I've hit a brick wall with finding any info on Bernard.
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Coming February 2011
It's the summer of 1949 and Steve "Snap" Malek has been assigned by his editors to cover the Chicago Railroad Fair. For three months this sprawling and lavish event will draw visitors to the showcase on the city's beautiful Lakefront. Malek, used to getting his headlines covering the gritty Police Headquarters, sees this as the first step in being put out to pasture. Deciding that a man's got to do what a man's got to do, he accepts the assignment, grumbling all the while.
However, violence has a way of finding the intrepid Snap Malek, even in this least likely of locales. Striking indiscriminately, a killer bearing a grudge against railroads in general, threatens to shut down the highly publicized and well-attended national exposition with a series of bizarre murders.
Before this reign of terror ends, famed filmmaker Walt Disney enters the scene with a theory about the killer, and Malek himself, bloodied and wounded, becomes a target of the madman's wrath.


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Essentials oils have been used throughout history medicinally and as fragrance, and interest has revived over the past several years with an increase in the popularity of aromatherapy. Natural essential oils stimulate our mind and body, promote circulation and support skin cell function, and contain fungicidal and anti-bacterial properties making them a valuable component in beauty and health products. In fact tea tree oil for example, is the strongest known antibiotic in the world.
What are Essential Oils?
Essential oils are concentrated oils extracted from fruit, flowers, leaves, and stems of plants. These fragrant oils help plants to attract insects and protect them against harmful organisms.
Each plant's oil carries a distinctive scent (or essence) with unique properties from the plant, flower, or fruit from which they are derived. Some, like lavender and rose, are used to soothe and calm. Other essential oils are more invigorating — basil and rosemary — and used to boost energy and bring about mental clarity.
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Everyone knows where Jack and Diane sucked on chili dogs, and if you've ever frequented a Tastee Freeze, or some kind of similar tiny establishment of non-fine dining, you were probably in a small town… just like John Cougar. Chuck Klosterman wrote:
Tastee Freezes are iconic structures in the rural Midwest, because they say something about your hometown; they irrefutably prove your community does not have enough of a population to sustain a Dairy Queen … or indoor seating.
When I would visit my Grandparents in Bernie, Missouri as a child, one of the highlights of the stay was when they would drive me to Malden (about 20 miles up the barren country roads) to get ice cream at the Dairy King, which was similar in scope and function as a typical Tastee Freeze. I still see other clones here and there around these parts, but they're called other names. I wonder what kind of individual aspires to own and operate one of these businesses, and what the profit margin is.


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About Rob Sheridan
This also speaks to an issue with the direction Facebook is going, which I saw a couple blogs highlight the other day: Facebook's vision of "frictionless" sharing (apps that indescriminately auto-share everything you do) takes away what makes sharing valuable: Selectivity. When I share something online, it's because it's something I found interesting and think that my friends or followers would also find interesting. That gives it value, because I'm actively selecting what I think is worth sharing and what isn't. I look at hundreds of things on the internet every day, but only find a handful that I think are worth passing around. If Facebook is telling my friends every single thing I watch on YouTube and Netflix, and every song I listen to on Spotify, etc, those aren't valuable shares for anybody. It's just spam. Taking the selectivity out of sharing feels like a step way backwards in an internet that is becoming very much about social curation and noise reduction. If one of my friends has heard a new song - or even a hundred songs - that they like so much they want to share with me - that's great. But every single song they happen to listen to? Who wants that? I know there are millions of narcisistic over-sharers out there who will lap these abilities up, but it just makes me want to stay the hell away from Facebook.
Yes, another problem with this case has been the knee-jerk reactions of people who don't understand how difficult good pixel art actually is. I've done a bit of it and it is a laborious, hand-crafted art. This image was not simply pixelated in Photoshop, as some people have tried to say, but made by hand very carefully. If this were a painting of the photograph I have a feeling there wouldn't be so many people defending Maisel - but a lot of it stems from a naivety about pixel art as a medium.
I'm a photographer, and I whole-heartedly agree with you here Mike. I commented about this back on the post about Mr. Brainwash and the Run DMC photo. It's interesting to me that most of these cases (see also the Obama/Fairey issue) seem to involve portraits of famous people where the creative contribution by the photographer has been pretty minimal. The interest and value of the photograph relies extremely heavily on its subject matter and the subject matter's cultural achievements - something the photographer had nothing to do with it. I find it incredibly egotistical that portrait photographers think they deserve such heavy control over what sometimes just amounts to a choice of how to frame a scene. That's not to say that Maisel's photograph isn't excellent - it is - but if it were the exact same photograph of a completely unknown jazz musician, would anyone care about it? Would it have any value? Would anyone want to recreate it in the first place? Of course not. Just as the pixel art recreation owes everything to the original photograph, the original photograph owes everything to Miles Davis. This is why I think celebrity portraiture (and most photography) is a transformative art in its own way, making it very hypocritical to cry lawsuit when someone transforms your transformation. And I am saying this as someone who's done a TON of this type of photography, as well as other types of photography that owe everything to the subject matter (scenery, monuments, events, etc). There is a lot of talent and skill and art involved in capturing a person or a scene - but at the end of the day you're transforming something that already exists, and you'd be wise to keep that in mind when someone transforms your transformation.
When the reaction to stuff like this becomes lawsuits and more lawsuits, you just start to put artistic expression into a smaller and smaller box of what's allowed and what isn't. I'm not arguing this from a legal perspective (although I think the fair use argument here is pretty strong), just from the perspective of someone who would rather keep art as open as possible, even if it means some people get away with some questionable appropriations here and there.
Regarding remix stems, that's not really a great example in this case because a song using a stems of someone else's music is using *actual* pieces of that person's work. That's a whole separate discussion. In this case it's an *interpretation* of the work, done in a different medium that changes the experience and the context. If Brainwash made a collage that included the actual photo (or part of it), that would be more akin to using a part of someone else's song in a new song, and this would be a different conversation.
Although, with regards to sampling music, the ability to sue someone for doing that is a relatively recent development - a lot of iconic music from the 80's wouldn't have been legally possible now because it was built using samples of other peoples' work.
All of this is a fine line, of course, and every artist will surely have a different emotional reaction to it. My personal feeling with regards to this case is that even if the photographer feels like Brainwash's art is too close to the source material, he should recognize that there are parallels to this type of thing everywhere in art, ESPECIALLY photography. Maybe he should be thrilled that he's built a successful career off of his photography, has made money off of photographs like this one that he took decades ago, and that his photo is iconic enough that another artist would be able to make a successful work based on it. He should also recognize that the money being made by Brainwash off of this piece of art is money that the photographer NEVER WOULD HAVE MADE. I don't think there's any argument that the photographer is losing money here, or that this is harming his business in any way. I guess his argument then, is, "I made this piece of art, why should someone else be able to take what I did, adapt it, and make money?" But in some way or another, that's what all art is.
One other question for those who think Brainwash should get sued for this: Should Andy Warhol get sued for appropriating the iconic design of Campbell's soup labels? Yes, what Warhol did was FAR more unique than what Brainwash is doing (and Brainwash appropriates the hell out of Warhol), but if you remove the quality or significance of the art from the equation, aren't they doing more or less the exact same thing?
"Why sell photographs?" You're missing the point entirely. The point here is that the photograph is one piece of art, and an artist's interpretation of that photograph is a separate piece of art which has built upon and transformed the original piece. The photographer's ability to sell his photograph has not been harmed by this artistic interpretation. If someone was selling photocopies of the original photo, THAT would be an issue.
I happen to AGREE with you that Brainwash's "art" is uninspired and unoriginal. But that's beside the point. What he's doing here is "covering" or "remixing" the original photo, in a way. You don't have to like it, but arguing that it's against the law sets a dangerous precedent for artists. What's next? If I paint a picture of a building, am I infringing upon the rights of the architect?
The funny thing is that celebrity photography is in its own way a form of appropriation art. The exact same photograph taken of three unknown people would likely have never been deemed artistically, culturally, or financially valuable. But this photograph is actually building off of the artistic achievements of its subject matter - it simply wouldn't be an interesting photo if the people in it weren't artists who had already made a name for themselves in popular culture through their own art. And much of their art relied on the art of others. And so on. Everything is a remix. In that sense, I find it really sad that the photographer would go after someone who had essentially done the same thing, just one step further down the line. And as a disclaimer: I don't even like Mr. Brainwash's art. I think it sucks. But that's not for me to decide. The market (in this case, the art world) has decided that it has value (even though they were hilariously tricked into it by Banksy). And Brainwash's piece, much like Friedman's photo, would have significantly less value if it weren't for Run DMC.