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???masarap ba?? kasi yung mga problemadong tao eh nag shashabu, baka masarap ang feelings....??
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???masarap ba?? kasi yung mga problemadong tao eh nag shashabu, baka masarap ang feelings....??
di ko pa na ta try and i dont want to try it. yung mga gumagamit nun mag [email protected], duwag at di kaya humarap sa problema. for sure masarap ang feeling maraming na aaddict eh.
hehehe...why do you wanna know, TS? ages ago, i've tried it but just for a month, although we did it everyday. the after effect is you can't keep your mouth shut. you always wanna talk, always wanna think, you'd be super hyper and you can't make yourself to sleep. now that i think about it, there's nothing really good about it. parang super strong na cobra lang
TS,i tried it once. wala akong ganang kumain. di ako makatulog. tapos parang lasang metal lahat ng kinakain ko.sinumpa ko yung araw na yun at di ko na inulit. di ko magets bakit may naaadik. ang mahal pa.
ipaghalo mo RedBull saka Extra Joss. You get the same effect. Please do that tonight and tell me about it in the morning. Goodluck!
Hyper at tamang ***** ako pero hirap ako tigasan
nasubukan ko na rin, way back 2004 pa nung nasa nagba barko pa ako. hyper lagi, laging overtime. wala kang mararamdaman na pagod.
Your heart beats fast, everything is clearer, it's like redbull to millionth power.
And then like redbull 'on crack' (pun intended), after it wears off you crash...you're super tired and sh!t like that.
Shabu is cocaine right?
^^ nope. shabu is metapethamine hydrochloride.
you don't snort it. it's best used with a pipe and an aluminum foil.
i think it's called a poor man's drugs.
It's just meth as 'crack' is sometimes a mixed cocaine 'rock'. You can take meth a variety of ways. You can smoke it, dilute it like heroin and inject it. The most disgusting is called skin popping. You inject it under your skin and the effects is like subcue administration of regular drugs, slow.
Sometimes they mix two drugs (an upper like meth and a downer like heroin) and they take it both at the same time called speedballing. Sometimes they trip bad on it, and they twitch uncontrollably like when you take a bad batch of ecstasy. It's funny.
guys., I in fact was a shabu user since i was 15 and it was year 1996 and until now I use it and I'm selling it wholesale or retail. alam nyo ba motivation ko dati why Im using it? it is because kailangan kong mglaba ng santambak na labahin kasi sobrang hate ko ang maglaba. And by using shabu I gain motivation to do it and even asks kung sino pa magpapalaba. They say na nakakasira ng ulo ito, yes it is. And we can avoid it from happening to us especially sa mga gumagamit pa: don't use shabu when drinking liqour. Sinasabi nila na hindi ka malalasing agad if you're high on shabu but sisirain nyan ang inyong utak, kasi considering na paglalabanin nyo ang upper and downer na parang uminom ka ng maraming super strong black coffee at sleeping pills.
Most of the friends at kabatakan na kasabayan ko noon ay halos praning na. Yung isa, nagsasalita na mag-isa, yung isa binuntis sariling kapatid, yung isa tamang hinala tuwing gabi na feeling lagi sila nanakawan. At lahat sila parang buto at balat na lang. I will tell you guys that until now hindi pa nmn masasabing payat ako at praning. I am working in a company right now and still using and selling it.
For those na gusto malaman sikreto para mapanatili ang youthful vibrance at hindi magmukhang naglalakad na kalansay here's my advise: 1) shabu will take away appetite.. so, kung hindi kayo makakain after taking it maybe you should consider eating before using it. 2) drink lots of water. 3) take multivitamins like Korgivit-E. 4) shabu as stimulant ay inaalis ang kakayahang makatulog, however in my case I can sleep. If possible, dont use it at night. Also, find a better and comfortable position para dalawin ng antok. at kung sa paghiga mo ay nagsisimula ka ng mag-sip ng kung anu-ano ay open your eyes, relax your mind. You can do it by practice. 5) Don't and don't drink liqours and use shabu or use shabu and marijuana is a no-no for you to do.. baka pagdating ng araw ay sira na rin ulo mo.
Im telling it from my own experience. until now I am using it almost twice a day and even my wife knows about me selling it. Kung makikita nyo ako kahit ngayon ay baka hindi kayo maniwala sa sinasabi ko kasi mukha pa **** akong normal person and act normal to public point of view.
For those who will want to use and sell it retail (tingi) well maybe I can help you with that.. Marami ako stocks hehehehe. I can sell it 12k per kasa or 4.8 grams / 1/4 or 1.2 grams at 3k. / .15 grams at 500 pesos.
Do you know why I am still bragging these things? because I know that kung gusto nila sirain buhay nila ay desisyon nila yan and I don't feel guilty na sasabihing naninira ako ng kinabukasan ng iba. It's their life and how their family raised them. Kasi ako, I was orphaned since birth without even knowing any relatives, not even the name of my father and mother. It's just a matter of self discipline and goal in life.
So, for those out there who wants advise,,, and of course, ay supply you can text me at 09178364644. I can deliver it to you when your in San Pedro or Binan, Laguna or Muntinlupa area.
So cheers!!!! and good luck "CHASING THE WHITE DRAGON"
Masubukan nga yan. Mukhang okay ayun sa salaysay eh.
Sa mga hindi pa nakaka try nito, wag niyo nang itry. Isipin niyo ang kinabukasan niyo. Kung sinasabi ni rkraken109 na ok lang siya, eh malamang siya ay .01% lang sa hindi pa nasisiraan o nasisira ang buhay dahil sa masamang droga.

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CEIE Presents Seminar on Public Transport Infrastructure
Posted: April 16, 2003 at 1:00 am, Last Updated: November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am
The Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering Department (CEIE) holds a seminar tomorrow featuring Robert Peskin, who will present the findings of an analysis of infrastructure condition data submitted by more than 100 transit agencies. The seminar will be held at 7 p.m. in the Johnson Center, Room D on the third floor.
The data was collected as part of the new Asset Condition Module (ACM) of the National Transit Database for all transit agencies that receive grants from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). Data from the ACM will be useful to the U.S. Department of Transportation, state departments of transportation, and the transit industry in estimating the need for future infrastructure funding.
Peskin is a senior manager at AECOM Consult Inc. and practices in the areas of transportation financing, planning, management, and operations. He has 26 years of experience serving transit agencies and local, state, and federal government agencies. He was deputy project manager for FTA's project to improve the National Transit Database, and he designed the ACM. He holds a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Maryland, and M.S. and Ph.D. civil engineering degrees from Northwestern University.


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Fun Counting Game
If you've got a few minutes to spare or just want to enjoy a fun counting game then give this easy classroom activity a try.
Have fun trying to count with a few interesting twists thrown in to make it a little trickier than normal. Answer quickly and put pressure on your classmates and friends to test their problem solving skills and confidence with numbers. Read on and find out how to give it a go.
Teachers should explain to the class that they will play a simple counting game where the aim is to count from 1 to 40, sounds easy right? Well there are a few twists which make it interesting.
All multiples of 5 should be replaced by a word such as 'fizz' (any word you want to use here is fine) and all multiples of 7 should be replaced by the word 'buzz' (again, any word you decide to use will be fine). A multiple of both 5 and 7 (i.e. 35) should be replaced by 'fizz-buzz' (or a combination of whatever two words you decided to use). Make the students think fast and see if your class can get all the way to 40 without making a mistake.
To make the game a little more difficult you can require that any number featuring a 5 or a 7 (i.e. 17) also require the words 'fizz' or 'buzz' as a replacement. Trying counting all the way to 100, changing the multiples to something different like 3 and 4 or reversing the order every time 'fizz' or 'buzz' is said.
The game can also be enjoyed with smaller groups of as little as 3 or 4 students.
Here's a rundown of how the game should go following the basic rules up to 40:
1, 2, 3, 4, fizz, 6, buzz, 8, 9, fizz, 11, 12, 13, buzz, fizz, 16, 17, 18, 19, fizz, buzz, 22, 23, 24, fizz, 26, 27, buzz, 29, fizz, 31, 32, 33, 34, fizz-buzz, 36, 37, 38, 39, fizz.
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This is the screen you get when you choose the option to download and transfer a book via USB.
After downloading the file, you use your USB cable to connect your computer and Kindle. Your Kindle will appear as a drive on your computer. Copy your downloaded file from your computer to your Kindle's documents folder.
Transferring a title from your computer to a Kindle reader using a USB cable is only necessary for older Kindles that lack WiFi or when WiFi is unavailable. Amazon will not transfer borrowed books using the 3G network that they use for purchased books.


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It might still turn out to be too complex, disruptive or dependent on government coercion. But so far, Obamacare is looking like a good deal for people who enroll.
With the first phase of President Obama's sweeping health care reforms set to go into effect October 1, insurance companies are beginning to formulate and publish the premiums they'll charge people who sign up for coverage through one of the statewide exchanges established by the law. In most states that have published those rates, the premiums are comparable to what group plans charge, and in some cases even a bit lower.
The nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation has assembled rate information for 17 states, including New York, California, Ohio and Virginia, plus the District of Columbia. For the most part, the Obamacare rates track premiums insurers tend to charge in small-group plans offered by medium-sized businesses. If such rates stick, it would be a mark of success for the controversial program, which was intended to provide reasonably priced insurance for people who can't get affordable coverage through an employer, family member or other source.
In New York City, for instance, the cheapest "silver" plan, providing a middle tier of benefits, would cost a 40-year-old person $359 per month. The cheapest cost for a similar plan would be $214 in Baltimore, $256 in Omaha and $281 in Seattle. That's without any federal aid.
Generous subsidies
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as Obamacare is officially known, offers generous subsidies for lower-income workers to help offset the cost of insurance and encourage them to enroll. For a family of four living in New York City (including two 40-year-old parents and two kids) with a total income of $60,000, the total cost of a silver plan would be around $1,112 per month. But a $702 tax credit will lower the family's out-of-pocket cost to $409 per month, which is the cap on per-family costs in most cities. Families with lower incomes qualify for bigger credits that lower their out-of-pocket costs even more.
Since these are real rates insurance companies expect to charge real consumers for coverage in 2014, they provide much better insights into how well Obamacare is likely to work than the fiery rhetoric that's surrounded the law since it passed in 2010. "It shows that insurers believe enrollment will be reasonable, and it won't just be sick people who enroll," says Gary Claxton, one of the Kaiser researchers who gathered and analyzed the insurance data. "It's really good news that these rates aren't coming in twice as high as what the average person pays for insurance now."
Cost estimates based on data from the Congressional Budget Office have suggested the average premium for a 40-year-old purchasing a silver plan would be about $320 per month, without subsidies. But Kaiser found that, in 15 of the 18 regions it examined, at least one insurance company offers a cheaper plan for the same tier of coverage. "While premiums will vary significantly across the country," Kaiser says, "they are generally lower than expected."
That doesn't mean premiums will remain low. Since Obamacare is basically a huge, unprecedented experiment, insurance companies could be overestimating the number of people who will enroll. If they end up with fewer new customers than expected, premiums would probably go up. The same thing would happen if patients buying coverage through exchanges turn out to be sicker than expected, which would raise costs that have to be borne by everybody in the system.
What could go wrong
Plenty of other things could go wrong. Americans could balk at the individual mandate, which requires them to buy coverage or pay a penalty; if too many people opt for the penalty, it could undermine the economics of Obamacare and intensify the political backlash to the law. Beyond that, federal subsidies could turn out to be unaffordable if Washington continues drowning in debt. Key cost-containment efforts could fail. Republicans, generally opposed to the law, could win the White House in 2016 and roll back the whole program.
Of course, Obamacare could turn out to be less disruptive and more effective than expected, too — which wouldn't be all that hard, given the economic catastrophe many opponents of the law have predicted will be its inevitable outcome. By that standard, if Obamacare does no harm and a little good, it will arguably qualify as a success. Even more so if costs go down and benefits improve over time.
Rick Newman's latest book is Rebounders: How Winners Pivot From Setback To Success. Follow him on Twitter: @rickjnewman.


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I love my iPad. I love my iPhone. I love watching my children on their iDevices. I love watching the Apple stock soar…
That said, the Asus Transformer Prime running Ice Cream Sandwich is exceptional:
- Google integration
- chrome browser
- solid built-in apps
- great general specs
- the keyboard dock
- battery life
- storage 32GB with SD card expansion slot
- and cost (499 for the 32GB)
The above list makes it better in many ways than the iPad, so why are we not hearing about this device more in education?
Jon Becker asked this a month or so ago when tweets a comparison of the iPad 2 vs. the Transformer Prime (can't find the article but the TP won hands down). I didn't really have answer but have since spent some time coming up with this really unscientific look at the answer:
Number One: iOS Comfort
Prior exposure to iOS (via iPhone, iPod Touch, or personal iPad) has a lot to with it. If one has exposure to an iDevice, the entry point into an iPad is seamless for the most part. Many people have forgotten that there was a learning curve to the iOS.
The reality, however, is that even though there is a learning curve to those first exposed to the iOS, it has multiple entry points. It is easy and intuitive.
I can't say that about the Android OS. There are fewer entry points and it reeks of techie.
Number Two: Apple Education and Apple Stability
The marketing of Apple within education simply can't be beat right now. Add to that the stability within the company as well as the media inundation of all things, there is a feeling that going with an iPad is a no brainer, a move that will face little scrutiny.
Number Three: iTunes App Store
With Google Play, this might fade away but the Android app market just felt awkward. It felt detached from any name. Not to mention, the hype is always surrounding the iTunes App store: how many downloads, what is new, app shares, etc. You simply don't "see" these app chats in education as much as with iTunes (see number one)
Number Four: A Jeep Thing
One can't overlook the fact that Apple has the Jeep thing going. iPads can do no wrong. iPads are the savior in education. iPads offer hope. They are flashy and all over the news. They are social media worthy and all over edu discussions.
In the end, Apples or Ice Cream Sandwiches? I doubt this will ever be a real question because of the above.


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Socrates, Sneezing and Daemons December 31, 2011Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient , trackback
Socrates is the bedrock on which the western philosophical tradition has been built. You can polish him like Plotinus. You can take your geological hammer and tap gently at his sides in the style of Aristotle (poor dolt). Or you can start smashing bottles of nitric acid on his stone-work as Nietzsche did. The fact is that Socrates and his tiresome amanuensis Plato remain the foundation of every philosophical argument.
It is then rather unnerving to learn what extraordinarily silly things Socrates believed in. Apart from all the self-indulgent claptrap about not escaping from Athens when he was sentenced to death, there is also his faith in sneezes.
I have it from one of the Megarian school, who has it from Terpsion, that Socrates' sign was a sneeze, his own and others': thus, when another sneezed at his right, whether behind or in front, he proceeded to act, but if at his left, he desisted; while of his own sneezes the one that occurred when he was on the point of acting confirmed him in what he had set out to do, whereas the one occurring after he had already begun checked and prevented his movement.
If you were an adversary of Socrates then all you had to do was have a friend with a cold go and sit to the philosopher's left before a debate began.
More interesting and no less unusual was Socrates' internal voice, a voice he claimed that he had heard since his youngest childhood 'a sort of voice that comes to me'.
Beachcombing discussed in this place recently the power of auditory hallucination and perhaps even the most stolidly materialist of us can hear a voice within, be that voice the echo of long-ago parental admonitions, conscience or, why not, consciousness.
So what, this materialist might then argue, Socrates sometimes listened to himself: nothing to see, move on… He was, after all, a philosopher! But this voice was allegedly a daemon (a spirit) and it was not just a question of random thoughts become Word. Take this remarkable fragment also from Plutarch.
But once when I was present, as I went to Euthyphron the soothsayer's, it happened, Simmias, for you remember it, that Socrates walked up to Symbolum and the house of Andocides, all the way asking questions and jocosely perplexing Euthyphron. When standing still upon a sudden and persuading us to do the like, he mused a pretty while, and then turning about walked through Trunk-makers' Street, calling back his friends that walked before him, affirming that it was his Daemon's will and admonition. Many turned back, amongst whom I, holding Euthyphron, was one; but some of the youths keeping on the straight way, on purpose (as it were) to confute Socrates's Daemon, took along with them Charillus the piper, who came in my company to Athens to see Cebes. Now as they were walking through Gravers' Row near the court-houses, a herd of dirty swine met them; and being too many for the street and running against one another, they overthrew some that could not get out of the way, and dirtied others; and Charillus came home with his legs and clothes very dirty; so that now and then in merriment they would think on Socrates's Daemon, wondering that it never forsook the man, and that Heaven took such particular care of him.
The key-stone of western philosophy then avoided being dirtied on the street because an interior voice told him to take another route: this is bizarre indeed! It certainly has nothing to do with 'parental echoes' or Quakers trying, in silence, to distinguish good from evil by looking within.
Interestingly Socrates' voice was supposed only to ever speak when it wanted Socrates not to do something. Not sure what to make of that.
Near contemporary sources (Plato) demonstrate that Socrates really had such a voice (or believed he did); unfortunately the passages above come from Plutarch and are of uncertain value as they are late.
Any other 'voices' in history: drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com Beachcombing remembers Joan of Arc.


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My new semester is just 5 days away. Usually, I feel more prepared for the start of the semester, but I'm not feeling it this time. It's not that I am unprepared. I just don't feel prepared enough. I've got all the little necessities done: syllabi – check; tentative schedules – check; course homepages – check; first week of lessons and activities – check. So, what's left to do? Part of my unprepared feelings is that I am taking a more relaxed approach this semester. I am trying to slow down in terms of what we learn in class, so I am planning less ahead. This is scary for me, because I usually need to be well planned if I want to successfully balance my work and home life (being a father of two isn't easy).
I am also very excited about this semester. I have come up with some new projects for my students that I think they will love. This is also the first semester where I will have one of my graduate classes completely design the syllabus for their course – I'm most excited about this. I am also excited about the presentations, skits, and videos students will be making this semester. It seems like I'm pretty well planned, doesn't it?
I guess I feel like I haven't planned enough. So, to alleviate these feelings, I have begun to do some different planning – goal planning. What am I trying to accomplish this year, both in and out of the classroom? Why am I doing all this preparing and planning? Here are my goals for 2014:
Teaching Goals
- Focus on listening and pronunciation more in my conversation classes.
- Focus more on emergent language.
- Find ways to give more individualized feedback, even in larger classes.
- Integrate music more into my teaching.
- Find a way to use Game of Thrones as a teaching activity (usually, I use zombies).
- Use less paper , or use it more strategically.
- Have students keep lexical journals.
Professional Goals
- Write up and publish my research into a journal article.
- Find a new research project.
- Speak at a conference.
- Blog more about the activities I do in class.
- Blog more in general.
- Study for the GRE every week.
- Take and ace the GRE this summer.
- Decide on a PhD program.
- Join the Peace Boat.
- Read one or two books on linguistics, applied or traditional.
Personal Goals
- Continue with Python and Android coding.
- Try to start again at the MMA gym.
- Relax more.
- Publish my children's book.
- Finish the Clan of the Cave Bear book series.
- Start the Game of Thrones book series.
- Travel to Okinawa and/or Bali.
- Get off my phone.
- Build more with legos.


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Sachin Tendulkar is in it to win it in the ISL
Prasad Potluri of PVP Ventures, who partnered Tendulkar in acquiring an ISL and an ITPL franchise, says the batting maestro's sporting vision is unmatchable
Sachin Tendulkar may have retired from international cricket but that does not mean he's not in touch with the global sporting scenario. In fact, his retirement from cricket has only made him focus that much more on the international sporting sphere.
Ask Prasad V Potluri, the man behind PVP Ventures that have recently partnered with Tendulkar to acquire the Kochi franchise of the Indian Super League (ISL).
"Sachin is an appellate authority in himself when it comes to sport. And I'm not just referring to cricket. I interacted with him during the Indian Badminton League (IBL) last year where we discussed our strategy to promote and nurture sports in India. We presented our vision in sport to him and the amazing sporstman that he is, he was immediately drawn to it.
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"That's how our partnership for the Kochi franchise came about. He has an immense and in-depth knowledge of not just cricket but most other international sports.
He understands all permutations and combinations — the dos and don'ts — he's very well equipped with all of that," Potluri, who also owns the IBL franchise Hyderabad Hotshots, told mid-day over the phone from Hyderabad yesterday.
However, Tendulkar had a condition. He was keen that whatever PVP were planning, it had to be long-term. "Sachin understands the ethos of sport in India. And that's the reason he wanted to come on board, but only if we had a long-term vision in place. Fortunately, that was exactly our vision too," added Potluri.
Tendulkar, who turns 41 today, has partnered PVP in their acquisition of the Rafael Nadal-led Mumbai franchise of the International Tennis Premier League (ITPL) too. In fact, PVP's strategy to gain a foothold in the sports business has been simple.
'Go for the best'
"In badminton, we have the biggest name in India (Saina), in ISL we have the biggest name in Indian cricket (Tendulkar) and now in the ITPL we have World No 1 Nadal. It's been our conscious strategy — to go for the best — because only if you bring along an icon can you build the sport and your team around him or her. It's the icon that inspires the sport and the fans after all.
Prasad Potluri
At the IBL auctions, Saina was the first name listed and we grabbed her. And the result is there for all too see. She led from the front — was the only player in the IBL who did not lose a single match and eventually won the title for us," explained Potluri.
The Indian fan is on the cusp of a revolutionary change as far as the franchise concept is concerned, felt Potluri. "Simply put, India is one of the youngest nations in the world with 50 per cent population below 30 — for such a young generation, there must be other forms of entertainment besides cinema and cricket. America was like this 60 years ago — sports was not a die hard passion for fans.
"In this context, we are in a nascent stage. For how many years have we had TV in India? About 20? TV has been in existence in USA for 60 years. If we look at the NFL (National Football League) — it's about 100 years old.
The NBA (National Basketball Association) is not new either. A franchise is successful only if there is a sense of belonging for it in that region. Chicago Bulls is a religion in Chicago because they excelled in that. That's our 10-year aspiration. And eventually the Indian fan will be as passionate about sport as an American or an English football enthusiast."


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Actually Debian has the python-wxgtk2.8 package which you can simply apt-get if you wish to have it installed as part of Python 2.5 which is the stable version for Lenny. I'm adding wxPython 2.8 to Python 2.6, which I installed from source.
I mostly followed what the official wxPython installation guide says. It was not a smooth installation for me, so this is my own installation note. The version is 188.8.131.52.
First, download the tarball for wxPython from the official repository. Here I assume the archive is downloaded to /usr/local/src/wx.
Some libraries need to be installed since wxWidgets will be built against them:
$ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libglu1-mesa-dev
You need to first build wxWidgets, and then build extension module for wxPython. Anyways, decompress and untar, and create a working directory for building wxWidgets:
$ bunzip2 -c wxPython-src-184.108.40.206.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
$ cd wxPython-src-184.108.40.206
$ mkdir bld
$ cd bld
In the bld directory, create a file named .configure with the following content:
../configure \
--prefix=/usr/local/lib/wx/2.8 \
--with-gtk \
--with-gnomeprint \
--with-opengl \
--with-libjpeg=builtin \
--with-libpng=builtin \
--with-libtiff=builtin \
--with-zlib=builtin \
--enable-optimize \
--enable-geometry \
--enable-graphics_ctx \
--enable-sound --with-sdl \
--enable-mediactrl \
--enable-display \
--enable-unicode \
Here I am assuming the newly build wxWidgets library will be installed under /usr/local/lib/wx/2.8. You may change the installation location, of course. For details on what these switches will do, refer to the official installation guide for wxPython.
Create a file named .make with the following content:
make $* && make -C contrib/src/gizmos $* && make -C contrib/src/stc $*
Give both the files an executable permision, and do the usual thing:
$ chmod +x .configure
$ chmod +x .make
$ ./.configure
$ ./.make
$ sudo ./.make install
If this process ends without errors, you are ready to install wxPython. Before you run setup.py, however, you need to patch a source file. Download this diff file to the top installation directory (i.e., wxPython-src-184.108.40.206) and run the patch:
$ cd ..
$ wget http://devide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/johannes/patches/wxpython28101_gdiwrap.diff
$ patch -p0 < wxpython28101_gdiwrap.diff
After the patch is applied correctly, move to wxPython directory:
$ cd wxPython
Now, in config.py, you need to find the line that starts with WX_CONFIG and set the variable to the path to wx-config script, /usr/local/lib/wx/2.8/bin/wx-config in our case:
WX_CONFIG = '/usr/local/lib/wx/2.8/bin/wx-config'
Then finally install the wxPython package:
$ python2.6 setup.py build_ext --inplace
$ sudo python2.6 setup.py install
Here I'm running setup.py as a Python 2.6 script since I want to install wx into the site-packages directory for Python 2.6.
$ python2.6
$ import wx
If this gives no ImportError, it is a success. If you receive an error, check the permission of wx.pth undersite-packages; the file must be world readable (i.e., 644).
To avoid ImportError upon importing wx in Python, you need to add the following line in ~/.bashrc (or ~/.bash_profile):
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/wx/2.8/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
That's it. Make sure "import wx" works under python2.6. If not, well…
I want to have wx loaded without specifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Using the –enable-rpath option is supposed to do this, but it apparently doesn't for me.


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Emily Zakin's "The Image of the People: Freud and Schmitt's Political Anti-Progressivism" appears in Telos 157 (Winter 2011). Read the full version online at the TELOS Online website, or purchase a print copy of the issue here.
The origin stories of Schmitt and Freud characterize "the people" as emerging and transmitted through processes of identification and embodied in an image. In both their views, the constitution of a body politic requires, logically and psychologically, a protective boundary that delimits inside and outside and a representation (however mythic or phantasmatic) of authority as the basis for preserving imaginary forms of identification and attachment that anchor bonds of association and provide the requisite boundaries for the unities of ego and nation to form. In this essay I develop the idea that the intensity of association that generates a people is not a metaphysical substance but a metaphysical image. I make use of the Freudian idea of a protective shield that enables an organism to withstand vulnerability and counter excitation with representation, in order to demonstrate that any image of the people is captive to tribal forms of affectivity. I conclude by discussing the danger of replacing the image of the people with the image of universal humanity, an appeal that Schmitt claims can only end in the transformation of cosmopolitanism into the terrifying violence of cosmopartisanship.


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UFO Debunkers
Am I a UFO debunker??
Is this an individual who purposely tries to debunk a UFO sighting by lying, or an individual who believes that the possibility of life visiting this planet is ridiculous? Could this be a person who is just trying to debunk a particular investigation based on lack of evidence or some contaminated evidence associated with the case? Or, could it be UFO investigators?
As a MUFON investigator I've been "pegged" a debunker too! I've been told that just my association with MUFON has labeled me a debunker and a "hide-r of truth". Sure, I'm a skeptic with every UFO or Paranormal investigation I start with. I've stated that numerous times even on national TV. Hell, you have to be. This business will eat you alive if you don't address every sighting with some suspicion. If you think every light in the sky sighting is a UFO, or alien related, then it's time to find another pastime hobby. When addressing any new and current investigations, I like to base my thoughts on common sense or what I like to call, "Intelligent Common Sense". Let me explain.
Common Sense: Consists of thoughts or actions in which people in common would agree with.
People in common? Common to what? How about to society at this point in time and at a particular location on this planet. So common sense can, and will vary throughout this planet.
Intelligent Common Sense: This is the variety of common sense used wisely. There is some form of a thought process when making a common sense decision or a common sense claim. Common sense tells us life exists outside this planet.
Intelligent Common sense makes the claim, "There's a real possibility that life outside this planet has visited us in the past, or could be visiting us currently". This statement is conclusively based on what we know of this planet's history, its science, and what we know about the planets outside our solar system. Of course this all changes with every new bit of information we learn about ourselves and the universe. And at this time, it looks pretty good for the aliens.
Ok, Intelligent Common Sense. I love using this term in UFO investigations. Why? Because this can be used in your favor against debunkers, skeptics and pesky reporters.
Case in Point: My sister Debbie and I were responsible for two Press Releases out of Roswell within the past two years. One on July 5, 2008 and one on April 30th of this year. Both times we used Intelligent Common sense on what we said, who we brought with us, and what information we gave out to the public. In both cases the debunkers were very limited to what I call the "Armchair Debunkers".
Armchair Debunkers: These are individuals who have nothing better to do than to make a negative comment about your investigation based solely on their opinion. This term, "Based on their opinion", is very important. They may or may not have performed research, but my experience has shown me that their motivation is purely based on their personal views of one's claims. Now it's not up to me or my sister to convince anyone of what we are claiming, it's our personal quest just to get the information out and let the viewers, conference attendees, or readers, make up their own minds.
This brings me back to "Debunkers". Most of the time it's very frustrating dealing with these people but (and here's the proverbial but), Debunkers will keep you honest and focused on your investigation. They are a necessary evil to UFO
investigators. They are? Absolutely! Any "so called" investigator or charlatan can make a claim about a UFO event. Then they say this, "Well the burden of proof of disclaiming what I'm presenting is on you." No. The burden of proof lies with the person making the claim based on what investigative research they've done up to that point. After that, the burden of proof lies with the individuals who are making the negative claims about the investigation. This separates the boys from the men, the women from the girls, the aliens from the ghosts, or uh… well it just separates them. Investigators as well as Debunkers fall within these walls. I say this, but you said that, what proof do you have I said this, what proof do you have I didn't? Oh the merry-go-round methods of UFO investigations. It never ends, grab a ticket and come along for the ride. It's always exciting and different.
A comment on one of my YouTube videos on the "Roswell Rock Circle" from a debunker suggested I just do this for fame. Most of us UFO investigators know this is a complete joke and a lazy excuse from a debunker. Why? Because, "There's no money in this!" It's not a career for gosh sakes, it's a hobby. A hobby which takes more out of pocket money than in pocket money. We do this because we want to, not because we have to. Fame, what a lame excuse used by this particular debunker. And they always say, "Well I know this guy, or I have a friend" that can debunk you, but nothing's ever conclusive. Just a bunch of unnecessary noise they feel they need to say. So who is looking for fame? The investigator or the debunker? Hmmmm? At the end of the day, it's about our passion, and yes, perhaps our belief. We do this for a cause and, yes, we certainly hope to bring about awareness. If you confuse that with a selfish pursuit of fame, then UFO investigators like myself will never convince you otherwise.
Good debunkers are ones which have done their own investigations or have done their own research on your claims or on the particular investigation you're working with. I listen to these guys (or gals) because they've spent personal
time and energy on the investigation. They could be absolutely correct about a particular part of your investigation, or they may have found evidence which contradicts what you have. Of course they can be absolutely wrong too and
completely "off base". Either way, as an investigator you can't possibly find all the information about the project you're on. You have to rely on the positive and negative information of your investigation to pursue it further. Roswell is a good example of this. The problem with these types of debunkers who are also investigators, is that they will pick apart one little aspect of an incident or investigation. They make the claim, "Well if "so and so" said this and I can prove it's wrong, then you can't believe anything "so and so" says. If that was true, then why even have a Democratic Government? We all know there are truths and untruths coming out of DC. We're betting our lives and our dreams that the truths outweigh the untruths by a lot. Pretty scary huh?
In every investigation I do, there are always some flaws. We're all human and the flaws are usually related to the human aspects associated with the evidence of the investigation. Criminal investigations see this all the time. People are sent to prison every day because the negatives outweigh the positives of the investigation. Debunkers feed on this. They'll find one or two "hiccups" then run on them. They say things like, "Even investigators can get caught up in the lies or misconceptions of the investigation". Well, the debunkers can too! A person becomes a debunker when they're bias towards a particular UFO event or person outweighs their ability to be objective and reasonable. They may not realize they're bias, and sometimes it takes an outside source to convince them, but they're biased nevertheless.
Then again, as a UFO investigator we can become debunkers too! We may be so convinced with the evidence or "lack of" evidence we have, that we think our investigation is bullet proof. A good investigator always "refreshes" the evidence they have and just doesn't assume any new evidence is valid. Sometimes it's hard to re-question a witness because they don't understand why you can't just believe them. But, at this time, I'm happy to say all my current investigations, although not bullet proof, have sufficient good evidence which outweighs the insufficient, bad evidence. This "teeter totter" action is what enables investigators to pursue their investigations further. And it's all because of debunking. Good, bad, right, wrong, or sometimes completely ridiculous, we all need a little debunking in every one of our investigations if we're ever going to learn the truth about it.
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I'm sure that many of you have already figured out that we have been experiencing some network issues tonight. We're sorry about the service interruption, and are working with our network providers to rectify the issue. At this time it appears that some routine maintenance has gone south in a big way in one of our locations. Unfortunately due to which location is having the problem we've had to put some services into read-only mode, and other services have experienced degraded performance. Bear with us, and we will have the issue resolved as soon as possible, and restore everything to working condition.
Need help? Check out our Support site, then
We Are Currently Experiencing Some Network Issues
Yes certainly! I noticed it and so did people on twitter and elsewhere. The pingdom people wrote on their blog that WordPress was down for just 20 minutes from 10 Nov 2008 to 10 March 2009. But of late the outages have become less uncommon!
Just an update on the issues. First - everything should now be back to normal. I have a bit of information on what happened, but am still waiting on a full investigation from our network provider to determine the exact cause of the problems.
At approximately 11:05 PM CST our monitoring systems notified us of a widespread network outage in our Dallas datacenter. This is our largest facility where WordPress.com is hosted. A few minutes later, we had confirmed that the entire datacenter was inaccessible because of a network outage. Although, WordPress.com is served in real-time from 3 datacenters, there is quite a bit of communication between locations to keep everything in sync. We immediately took steps to implement a "read-only" mode which allows us to serve blog pages from our other facilities while we further diagnose and work around the network issues. This was complete at about 11:20 PM.
At approximately 11:30 PM we began to see a partial recovery of the network and were hopeful that the rest would soon follow. Unfortunately, it took another 90 minutes for some critical pieces of the network to come back online. After working closely with our network provider to ensure the stability of the network, we re-enabled writes to the site and everything was back to normal around 1:15 AM CST.
We take uptime and stability seriously, striving for 100% uptime and are disappointed in the fact that 2 very similar outages in the same facility have caused downtime recently. Unfortunately, the pieces of the network which have failed are not in our direct control, but we will explore what options we have to change that or take other steps to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Again, I apologize for the downtime and inconvenience it has caused.
Happy blogging,
Actually, guys - that was a really fast recovery time - and just fyi, the Tweets came right in to announce your return. Thank you for posting the info for us and getting your adoring fans blogging so fast again!
Exhaustive explanation Barry! 100 per cent uptime will remain a chimera for any company but to strive for it is a noble aim. It is 99.99 per cent just the same.
Thanks Barry, for the informative update.
Phew! Local news was boring; so, went to check my 10PM sked post - 11PM CDT, 10PM CST - and the 6PM post was there. And unable to complete login. But, there was a message from the bridge.
Checked Om's sites and they were passing through the same problems - knew then it was a system-wide problem.
Went to bed.
Everything's fine this morning. Only discrepancy I can see is sitemeter must have kept on recording hit while WP.com internals didn't.
Usual diff between the two is less than 5%. This morning, the difference recorded for yesterday is more like 15-20%.
Thanks for doing a great job. Ain't nothing wrong with being as reliable as Google. :)
I still cannot access my dashboard or view my blog. I'm obviously logged in but that's as far as I can go. I've tried clicking on numerous links to work around the direct route. Nothing works. My browser just shows "loading" and never goes anywhere. My connection is fine, everything else is working but WP.
Is Barry or someone from WP support out there?
Hmm... This is still down here. I can log in, but I cannot edit anything --it just show blank. ISP etc is fine. Any idea when it will be fixed?
Correction: the only thing I cannot edit are the posts. Which is of course kind of what you want to do...
i've noticed something weird. I've had a very sudden increase in visits with most of the views being on one particular image. i'm at http://tonypritchard.wordpress.com/
This is still not working. Since the outage, I can no longer edit a single post. Help!!! I am at http://coudert.wordpress.com/, what is wrong?
Help me, please!
I can not edit or write new post since two days ago
What' s wrong and how to correct it?
My site is completely down and the timing of this could not have been worse since I just switched from blogger to here using my custom domain.
I can access my dashboard but I, and everybody else, just gets a cannot find server message when trying to access http://www.lakingsnews.com.
Very annoying.
Can someone help with this? We have a decent following and I don't want to lose readers.
The site was up for an hour and went down again.
So, is this the level of service I can expect from wordpress? I hope this is a fluke and I didn't make a mistake bringing the blog here.
lakingsnews - this had nothing to do with us. It knocked how many many sites, not just wordpress.com and was entirely out of our control. Barry and others worked through the night to get things back to normal.
Fact: The state of Dallas could disappear and we would get your blog working. One of the other states could disappear and we would STILL get your blog working. Find any webhost that uses 3 datacenters and that guarantees what we do.
You are of course free to move anywhere at any time.
Hi Mark,
I checked again and even though posts can be viewed, I still cannot edit any post or add new ones. Do you know when we can expect to have the site back to a fully operational state? Thanks!
@ coudert
I think we have same problem, although we shout here anytime, but we have no explanation and anwers clearly :( :( :( :( :(
Umm guys, please read the post above by Barry, and understand that WordPress, like all other entities on the web, cannot be expected to be totally glitch-free. The good thing is, the guys behind the wires are really up to it. So be patient if something like this happens. I know that's hard to do with WP: it's so perfect, you don't expect downtimes. But don't worry, we're blogging with the best.
@calexilla - I fixed your blog -- there was a problem un-related to these network issues which was causing it to load slowly.
@coudert - Your blog works fine for me. I am able to edit posts without a problem.
@akhmadsudrajat - Same thing. Does the problem happen when editing any posts or just a specific one?
@lakingsnews - Your site seems to be working fine. DNS changes sometimes take time to propagate (24-48 hours). It worked from every place I tried which was 3 points in the US and from Canada. If you are still having problems, please let me know.
Just want to point out that none of the related problems are related to the network outage this thread was originally about, but since support is closed for the week I will do my best to work through the existing issues people have reported in this thread. Please do not use this thread to report other general problems with your blog.
@coudert - I've been able to reproduce the problem on your blog. We are looking into it.
@akhmadsudrajat - seems to be the same problem as @coudert. Should be fixed shortly.
@coudert and @akhmadsudrajat
Please go to the My Blogs screen, uncheck the publicize stuff and then recheck it. This will send you through the authorization again and should resolve the problem.
There's another issue now.
Thank you guys for all this information and for keep us updated. ; )
it is 1:30am EST, having issue logging onto my blogs. getting 403 Forbidden error :O
@dokdokmetfans log in here: http://wordpress.com/
@ Barry and The Team
Thx for your help.
Now,. I can write or edit any post on my blog again.
Two thumbs for you
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Re: ??? about the name Boisseau
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carl boshers 3/06/03
I'm researching John Bosher of Clarendon Co SC c1790 and saw your interest in him and in the Boisseau name as well. In a Griffin will of SC c1748, Joyce Griffin mentions her widowed daughter Elizabeth Bocer. Some of her other children lived next to the Boisseaus in St. Stephen's Parish, and later moved across the Santee to Clarendon District. So I'm thinking that John Bosher of Clarendon is a grandson and that his original family name was Boisseau. But there is a Thomas Bosher of Georgetown that could be connected to John. Do you have any data on these folks?
You also mention a Holmes name. Joyce's grandaughter Ann Griffin married James Holmes. There are few records for the Griffin family, but I'm slowly sussing them out. Any help would be appreciated.


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White Collar S04E07: "Compromising Positions"
I am not a professor of law, nor am I a policeman, nor even a celebrated gentleman detective. Don't come to me with your legal questions, is what I'm saying, because I don't know everything about the law! I DO know that things that are against the law aren't legal. You can't just go and do something totally illegal and be like, "I didn't break the law just now," because you'd be wrong. You did. Go to jail. White Collar is ostensibly a show about the FBI attempting to stop high-class criminals from always getting away with everything all the time. Except, for a show about fighting crime it sure does feature our heroes doing A LOT of crime-breaking. We're talking nonstop breaking and entering, theft, document forgeries, you name it. The main loophole White Collar uses to excuse our heroes' behavior is that Neal isn't technically in the FBI, so as long as his methods yield an arrest, everything's cool. But "Compromising Positions" basically presented a funhouse mirror version of this show that, while insanely entertaining, raised some troubling questions about the FBI's ethics. Questions, by the way, that need no answers, because who really cares? Peter and Sara had a FAKE AFFAIR! And Elizabeth choreographed it! Yeah, this episode was awesome.
Mythology-wise one important thing happened in this episode: We met Sam! During one of his jaunty crosstown walks/fashion-shows, Neal suddenly found himself tailed by a mysterious SUV and then quickly jumped aboard at the first opportunity. Sitting behind the wheel was none other than the secret informant whom Ellen had assured Neal he could trust. I don't know about you guys, but I thought we'd get a gender switcheroo and Sam would end up being some hot lady that Neal would shirtless-hug a ton, but nope. It was Treat Williams. He'd received Neal's secret email a few days earlier and took the meeting as an opportunity to boss Neal around all kinds. Apparently he too wanted to find Ellen's killer but did not yet trust Neal to do the job, particularly due to Neal's FBI associations (the creeps responsible for the murder were likely on the inside). They argued about this for a while and then and parted ways. Undercover bro drama.
The episode's primary case involved the trial of a known low-life owner of a high rise. The man's guilt came down to Peter giving expert testimony in response to the expert questioning of the District Attorney. Unfortunately the District Attorney became so rattled by a woman in the courtroom that he borderline LOST THE CASE right then and there. As it turned out, she was a woman he'd had a one-night stand with a week prior and turned out to be the defendant's girlfriend. So when she showed up in the courtroom with her wry smiles and bodacious cleavage, the D.A. had no choice but to blow the whole thing. It happens! That's the legal system for you.
As the FBI came to discover, the entire one-night-stand and ensuing courtroom flirtation were all arranged by an "Executive Consultant" by the name of Ms. Shepherd. She was a Jill-of-all-Trades type woman, a Miss Fix-It, if you will, a Lady MacGyver, a Blackmailin' Madame, a Tricky Vixen, a Crafty Patty, a Ruiner of Lives and Destroyer of Dreams. Basically she was some lady who could accomplish anything she set out to do, usually through extortion, blackmail, and wry put-downs. She was kind of amazing, in other words, and not least because her high-powered roster of clients included our beloved Sara! That's right, Sara's company regularly paid this woman to go break the law a bunch in order to secure their valuables. But since this evil genius was the only thing standing between a conviction of the low-life landlord and his getting off Scot-free (are Scots free?), the team set out to dismantle her working relationship with the guy.
Fortunately, because Sara <3s Neal and Peter SO MUCH, she totally agreed to help ensnare Shephard in her own web of deceit. After Sara "hired" Ms. Shepherd to blackmail Neal into returning some sexy photos of Sara, Ms. Shepherd revealed that she was WAY smarter than anyone thought and instead blackmailed Neal with the knowledge that Mozzie had been snooping around in some illegal places. (Mozzie had actually been helping Neal track down Sam's home address. A rubber baby was involved. Long story.) So Neal called off the sting and Peter got super mad at him. This would be the first of a number of conversations in which Peter objected to someone doing illegal things (in this case Mozzie) only to then explicitly condone illegal things so long as he didn't know the particulars.
So that's when a particularly sexy Plan B kicked into gear. Because the gang knew that Ms. Shepherd would rather quit than have anybody tell her how to do her job (GET IT GURL) they conspired to get her to quit working for the landlord low-life by arranging for her to have to possibly betray Sara, her favorite client. Shephard chose not to, of course, which displeased her other boss, which caused Ms. Shepherd to quit in protest. The plan worked! But I didn't even tell you the best part... The thing she was supposed to blackmail Sara over? Pictures of Sara and PETER getting it on. Because LOL. For real, the scene in which Neal and Peter pitched this idea to Elizabeth and Sara had to have been one of my favorite White Collar scenes in a long time. Obviously the ladies were SKEPTICAL of this idea, but even Elizabeth came to see the logic. And it all lead to the most awkward and tense photo shoot of all time? Elizabeth swilled champagne while Neal took photos of Peter and Sara awkwardly rubbing on each other, but then Elizabeth jumped into the fray and directed them to be more believable. Oh man, so strange. So good.
So anyway, while all these shenanigans were going on, the original trial was just about to finish up and things were NOT looking good for the FBI. In a sort of hail mary move, Peter and Neal decided that Ms. Shepherd was probably still in possession of the smoking-gun bit of evidence needed to put her former boss behind bars. So Peter happily turned a blind eye while Mozzie used tons of illegal tricks (all magical, of course, seeing as he was the product of a paradox and an enigma that shared a special hug 45 years ago) to trap Ms. Shepherd into turning over the contraband. She did, it was lodged as evidence at the very last minute, and a thrilled-to-be-testifying Neal provided the last bit of expert testimony needed to put the criminal away once and for all. Victories all around! (P.S. Speaking of victories, the judge was the same actress who played Bibi from The Apple! A select few of you know what I'm talking about: Amazing, right?)
But it wouldn't be White Collar without Peter having misgivings about Neal, so right at the end Ms. Shepherd even explicitly warned Peter that Neal was up to no good (Sam-related stuff) and that when Neal got caught, Peter would get dragged down with him. Old news, lady! We've been through this before! Anyway, at the very end Neal DID track down Sam once again and Sam reluctantly agreed to help Neal find Ellen's murderers. Because what kind of monster would refuse Neal a second time? Cut to: Peter staking out the meeting and snapping photos and generally looking super butt-hurt that Neal tracked down Sam in secret. Oh, get over it, Peter. FIFTEEN laws were broken to track Sam down, and you're not into law-breaking right? RIGHT? Haha right.
Good episode. No complaints here.
... Do you hope Ms. Shepherd will be a recurring character?
... Were you disappointed that Sam wasn't a foxy lady?
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Meet the Vendors: Ever Bamboo
Ever Bamboo is the inspiration of Kabun Lee (K.B.), a local entrepreneur. He was introduced to the eco-friendly, bamboo charcoal air deodorizer and dehumidifier at a trade show he just happened to attend while travelling in China in 2006. He was attracted to the uniqueness of the product and the potential. He'd always been interested in business and grew up in a family that owned a small insurance brokerage business. He joined his family's business after graduating as a civil engineer and knew there was something more he wanted. The charcoal deodorizers showed up and he jumped in. Ever Bamboo came into being in 2008.
Ever Bamboo is a line of eco-friendly, 100% natural deodorizers and dehumidifiers made from bamboo charcoal. Bamboo charcoal absorbs odours, moisture and polluted air particles such as formaldehyde, ammonia and benzene. It's great for your fridge, bedroom closet, garbage bin, hockey bag, shoes, diaper pail, garage, pet area, car and other areas where odours and humidity tend to linger. It can also be used as an aquarium filter, closet dehumidifier, moth repellant and filter in your bath water to remove chloride.
Ever Bamboo is made from bamboo charcoal from the rapidly growing moso bamboo found in China. The bamboo can grow two feet or more in a single day, reaching a height of 60 feet in two to three months. Bamboo matures in five years. The factory that manufactures the Ever Bamboo products is located in a village next to these bamboo groves. The village is one of the major areas that specialize in bamboo products in the booming industry.
The products offer the eco-friendly benefits of being natural and unscented so you're not subjecting your home or equipment to chemical deodorizers. Customers have said the bamboo products are effective, simple, eco-friendly, clean and inexpensive. With proper care, the products can last an entire year or more by recharging them under direct sunlight. At the end of its lifespan the bamboo charcoal granules can be recycled into your garden or planter.
K.B. approached Community Natural Foods (CNF) in 2009 about carrying the Ever Bamboo line of products. He really wanted to work with CNF because it was considered the largest natural food retailer in Calgary and he knew Ever Bamboo would do well at the store.
The relationship grew and, today, Community carries a range of the deodorizers and dehumidifiers for the fridge, freezer, rooms, closets, sports, shoes and a spa package as well as a bin deodorizer and dehumidifier. Nicolle Kalivoda, Shoppe Category Assistant at the 10th Avenue store, said Ever Bamboo is a very popular product.
Ever Bamboo became even more popular on August 6, 2014 when Whoopi Goldberg featured it on The View as one of her 'Favourite Things.' The show resulted in huge on-line sales for the company and the good fortune continued when the show was re-run a month later and generated another huge round of sales.
Last summer the product was brought into 120 Sport Chek locations across Canada. The company's success has allowed K.B. and his wife to leave their part-time jobs to support the company. The company is going to the next level with their products moving into Australia at the largest sports store chain, Rebel Sports.
K.B. said his hope for Ever Bamboo is for it to become available to everyone, one individual and household at a time. His hope for the world is for everyone to see the miracles in their daily encounters, to persevere and know they can change and start over. He encourages us to love our neighbour as we would ourselves.
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An Incident At The Border
- Trafalgar Studio Two
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The world premiere by acclaimed young playwright Kieran Lynn transfers to the Trafalgar Studios after a sold out run at the Finborough Theatre. It was recently broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
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Monday to Saturday 7.45pm
Thursday and Saturday 3pm
(5mins) Head left on the main road Strand. Follow Trafalgar Square around onto Whitehall and the theatre's on your right.


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Business blog The Native Society asked Yoga 216 owner Nicole to tell them all about what it's like to run a yoga studio in NYC. Check out the full interview ASAP.
I don't really think of it as getting into the industry. Health and wellness have been a part of my life as far back as I can remember. I come from a very yoga centered beach town in San Diego and my parents were hippies back in the 60's. Growing up there wasn't a "health and wellness" industry. Spirituality, clean living and physical activity were just life. Starting Yoga 216 was less about getting into an industry then deciding to share what I have learned on my journey so far.
Tell us about Yoga 216. What inspired the idea and what is your vision for the company?
I have been practicing yoga for a long time. I received my first teacher training certificate back in 2008, about a year later a good friend of mine asked if I would help him open his restaurant. I said sure, as a bridge into my teaching carrier and out of the restaurant world I had been in for so long. 3 years and 3 restaurants later I was the director of operations for what is now Major Food (Torrisi, Parm etc.). During my time there my yoga practice was a very important part of helping me do my job well and making it to the mat was key. It was also however, over crowded, stressful getting space and frankly most studios I was going to really needed a kick in the hospitality pants.
I decided to leave the restaurant world and return to my original passion of yoga. My experience starting the restaurants gave me the guts to say YES when the opportunity to open the studio came about.
Part of what makes us really special is that we have no more than 6 students per class. It was really important to me to provide a new yoga studio experience to people. One that included attention from the teacher, space to move around, friendly staff, hospitality and a full host of sundries. Professional New Yorkers work so hard that we wanted them to feel taken care of from the moment they walked in the door, not like sardines stuffed in a yoga can 😉


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Sen. Tom Coburn doesn't look like a man on his way out of town.
The Oklahoma Republican just released a proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare, and he continues to filibuster spending bills as a part of his career mission to shrink government and rein in the national debt.
Coburn recently announced that he would resign from the Senate at year's end, two years before his second term expires. In a conversation with a Washington Examiner reporter, Coburn said his decision was consistent with the faith-based "calling" that led him to leave his career as an obstetrician for a life in politics. Now, at age 65, after six years in the House and nearly 10 in the Senate, he said it was time for him to apply his talents elsewhere.
"I want to spend my waning years doing something that's going to make a difference," the senator said. " And, maybe I'm going to make a difference in individuals' lives, smaller group number, but it's certainly going to be something that has more impact than what I'm doing now."
In a 35-minute interview, Coburn discussed his regrets and frustrations, his relationship with President Obama and the state of conservatism. Here are excerpts:
Examiner: Can you explain why you think what you're supposed to be doing no longer fits with being a U.S. senator?
Coburn: I see me internally: my reactions, my tolerance, my patience. And then you start saying: "Am I supposed to still be here?"
Examiner: Would you be leaving if you believed Congress and the administration were making real progress on fixing the debt?
Coburn: I'd put it a different way. The leadership that we have today in our country is not being honest with the American people about the severity and depth of our problems. And I've raised all the issues I can raise, I've written books about it — I've done all the stuff — and so there's got to be a different way to fix it.
Examiner: Are you disappointed that the president didn't decide to prioritize this issue in the way you felt was important?
Coburn: I think he's made three big mistakes. One is, he's surrounded himself with people that think just like he does, rather than get a real difference of opinion, [of] input, so that he could have a broader perspective. Two, I think his approach on health care went the exact wrong way. I don't blame him for wanting to fix it -- I just think he went the wrong way. And No. 3, I think not embracing Bowles-Simpson [deficit-reduction recommendation] was his chance to go down in history as a guy who actually fixed our country.
Examiner: The two of you struck up a friendship during his brief Senate tenure. Has your relationship changed?
Coburn: Oh, it's a little cooler because I've been a little harsher. But I still write him notes and talk to him occasionally.
Examiner: What's it like?
Coburn: It's cordial, friendly. I actually really like the guy — I mean, as a person. I don't like his policies, but I like him as a person.
Examiner: Did you hope Obama would be a different kind of Democrat?
Coburn: My hope was, I honestly thought, I was really proud, even though we lost the election, that we had Barack Obama as president. Because if you really did change the way politics operated, really did work with guys, really said, "I'm not going to pay attention to short-term political answers regardless of what my party was. I'm going to govern for the best interest of the country, not the best interest of the Democrat[ic] Party" — I really had hopes that he would do that. And he hasn't. And I understand how hard that is.
Examiner: You just said that the Senate is functioning more like the House. Democrats blame Republican obstruction.
Coburn: That's absolutely garbage. [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid has become a senator that wants the Senate to be very much like the House and be based on responding to populist demand even if, in the long run, it might hurt the country. And, he's run the Senate, especially in the last four years, for election cycles, rather than for the country. That's my assessment. That doesn't mean he's a bad man.
Examiner: What's the state of conservatism?
Coburn: We pay way too much attention to what outside groups think, and we ought to think about what we think and what we think is in the best interest of the country.
Examiner: Is it important for conservatives to understand that not everyone in America is inclined to agree with them and that they have to do a better job of explaining their positions?
Coburn: Sure, that's what we don't do a good job of ... We have to get better at our language. But the first thing we've got to do is talk about what we're for, not what we're against.
Examiner: Did conservatives learn something from the government shutdown?
Coburn: I think we got rid of some excess energy and created some judgment. I think in retrospect, it was very good for us to go through that. One, it markedly raised awareness on Obamacare. It markedly did; you've got to give [Texas Sen.] Ted Cruz credit. They raised the temperature, there's no question. No. 2 is, it taught judgment, and it's going to force more unity -- and that's what people want to see.


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Later today, I'll be interviewed by Doug Gfeller of OC Talk Radio about The Quotable Coach. You can listen in here at OC Talk Radio, 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific.
If you haven't heard about my project The Quotable Coach before, you may want to take a look at the website and join the mailing list. Make sure you listen live today, to hear all about it too.
If you're a coach yourself, you'll definitely want to listen in. I'll also be talking with Doug about my business practices: how I customize my coaching programs for a variety of client groups, and why I give away so much material (including the quotes, and my workbooks).
Here's the link again, so that you can listen in today at 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific:


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Author Notes: This chocolate-pumpkin pie was adapted from Martha Stewart's Triple Chocolate Pie. Not wanting it to be too decadent I cut back on the chocolate and bumped up the spice lever with extra cinnamon and ginger. My husband said this was the best pumpkin pie he's ever eaten, and I would have to agree. —MadisonMayberry
Serves 8
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar or white wine vinegar
- 16 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- 1/2 cup ice water
- 6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- 15 ounces (1 can) pumpkin puree
- 12 ounces (1 can) evaporated milk
- 3 large eggs
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon corn starch
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup milk chocolate chips, melted (optional)
- Preheat oven to 350°F. In the bowl of a food processor, combine the flour, sugar and salt. Add the butter and pulse with on-off turns until the mixture resembles a coarse meal. Combine the vinegar and ice water. Slowly add the ice water to the flour-butter mixture and pulse with on-ff turns until the mixture just comes together. Divide into two portions and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prepare the filling. In a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine the butter and chocolate chips. Melt, stirring frequently, until chocolate and butter are melted and smooth. Remove from heat.
- In a second bowl, combine the remaining ingredients except the milk chocolate chips. Stir until well combined and smooth. Add the chocolate-butter mixture to the pumpkin mixture, stirring until smooth and well combined.
- Remove one of the dough portions from the fridge. Roll out onto a lightly floured surface into a 1/4-inch thick circle. Transfer to a 9-inch pie pan. Crimp the edges with your fingers. Pour the filling mixture into the unbaked pie shell. Bake for 55 to 60 minutes, or until the edges are set and the center is still slightly jiggly. Cool for 30 minutes on wire rack. Refrigerate for at least 8 hours or overnight. Before serving, drizzle with the melted milk chocolate. Makes 8 servings
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