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Thank you for visiting the Gordon Veterinary Hospital Website at gordonvet.com.au ("the Website"). We know that You care about how information about You and Your pet is used and shared. This document sets out our Privacy Policy ("Policy"), and Your visit to the Website is subject to this Policy. Gordon Veterinary Hospital reserves the right to change and update this Policy at any time, with such changes effective immediately upon posting to the Website. If the Policy changes, a notice will be posted to the Website advising you of this. It is your responsibility to ensure that you are aware of recent changes to the Policy.
If you visit or shop at the Website, you accept this Policy and consent to any disclosures made in accordance with this Policy. Please take the time to read it carefully. Please also review our Conditions of Purchase and Terms of Use, both of which also govern Your visit and use of the Website.
Children may only use this Website with appropriate adult supervision from a parent, guardian or other adult. Gordon Veterinary Hospital does not knowingly collect information from children under 14 years.
What Personal Information Does Gordon Veterinary Hospital Collect About You and Why?
You will see from the comments below that Your personal information which is collected by Gordon Veterinary Hospital is necessary for its activities including the on-line shopping service provided at the Website and the provision of an interactive website whereby You may interact with and share information with others through Your Contribution and Your participation in any public forums etc. To make the Website a better place for You to visit, and to provide You with as many opportunities to benefit from the Website as possible, Gordon Veterinary Hospital needs to identify Your needs and interests. In order to do this, Gordon Veterinary Hospital may gather the following types of information about you:
A. Information About You From You
Gordon Veterinary Hospital receives and stores any information You enter on the Website or provide any other way. The main ways You are able to enter information on the Website includes the details provided on Your Account and the Order Form and the content of Your Contribution posted to the Website.
Both the Order Form and Your Account contain certain contact and financial information about You, including Your name, address and e-mail address, and credit or debit card numbers.
B. Automatic Information
Gordon Veterinary Hospital automatically receives and stores certain types of information about You whenever You visit the Website. This is mainly done through the use of cookies and Your IP address.
C. E-mail Communications
Depending on your computer's capabilities, Gordon Veterinary Hospital may receive a confirmation notice when you open an e-mail from Gordon Veterinary Hospital .
D. Information from other sources
At times, to ensure that our records are correct, Gordon Veterinary Hospital may receive updated contact, delivery and address information about You from our carriers or other sources.
Access to Your Personal Information
You do not have to give Gordon Veterinary Hospital any personal information, although this will make it difficult for You to shop at the Website. By visiting your user account page You are able to gain access to the type of information that Gordon Veterinary Hospital receives and stores about You. Alternatively, such information will be provided to You on Your request, except to the extent that such disclosure is not required by law.
If you have concerns about giving personal information, there are various devices available to prevent us from gaining access to information automatically collected when You access the Website. Please discuss these options with Your local software consultant or contact Provet IT at email@example.com or 1300 650 468.
Linked Sites
The Website contains links to other websites. Gordon Veterinary Hospital is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other Websites accessed by links from this Website.
Sharing Information
Gordon Veterinary Hospital values your visit to the Website and any shopping that You may do at the Website. For this reason Gordon Veterinary Hospital do not sell Your personal information, or that of Your pet, to others. Gordon Veterinary Hospital only shares the information that it gathers about You, or Your pet, to its associated companies or advertising partners unless otherwise advised.
Your contact information may be used by Gordon Veterinary Hospital for a variety of purposes including delivery of Your order, contacting You if necessary regarding a delivery or payment for an order or to send You information about Gordon Veterinary Hospital , including promotional information. Your contact information may also be shared with any of our advertising partners (whose names will be clearly identified on the Website) and they may send You information about themselves, including promotional information. Any email notification receipts received by Gordon Veterinary Hospital may also be used by Gordon Veterinary Hospital ; its associated companies or advertising partners for marketing or other promotional purposes.
Any financial information about You will be used for billing purposes, and may be used for credit enquiry purposes.
Cookies obtain certain information when Your web browser accesses the Website. The Website also uses cookies to save Your Password so that you do not have to re-enter it each time You shop at the Website. Your IP address may be used to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer the Website and to help identify You and Your shopping cart.
Gordon Veterinary Hospital may also share information about You, gathered from your contact information, for the purposes of gathering certain demographic information about visitors to the Website. This also assists us with our marketing and promotional activities.
Gordon Veterinary Hospital 's advertising partners are committed to the same obligations as we impose on ourselves in relation to the collection of Your personal information. Gordon Veterinary Hospital is not responsible for, nor does it make any warranties or representations, about the adequacy of the privacy practices of any of our advertising partners.
All information concerning you and your pets is stored in a secure database on a secure server, and can only be accessed by the Gordon Veterinary Hospital system administrator and nominated staff.
We utilise the industry standard security protocol SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to encrypt your private, ordering and credit card information for maximum security and integrity.
We do not store your credit card information anywhere on the website. Your credit card information is entered as part of the order form to enable payment verification. The details are then discarded and a secure verification number is stored with the order to enable the payment to be processed when goods have been shipped.
Public Forums
This Website may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to you ("Public Forums"). You should exercise caution when using these Public Forums, as any information that is disclosed in such areas becomes public information. You should therefore think carefully before disclosing Your personal information in Public Forums.
Updating Your Personal Information and Indicating Preferences
Any information You provide to Gordon Veterinary Hospital may be added to or updated by You. Gordon Veterinary Hospital tries to ensure, to the extent that it is able, that Your personal information (especially Your contact and financial information) is as accurate and up-to-date as possible. This helps to reduce the possibility of errors occurring with deliveries or billings, and to ensure that any information or other documents are sent to the correct email address.
You may also choose not to receive any e-mail, promotional or other information from Gordon Veterinary Hospital , its associated companies or its advertising partners. When opening Your Account please complete the appropriate sections advising Gordon Veterinary Hospital of Your wishes.
Sensitive Information
There is certain information which is deemed to be sensitive at law, including, for example, Your race, sexual preference, criminal record or membership of a political association or trade union. Gordon Veterinary Hospital does not knowingly collect any such sensitive information about You, and will not do so unless Your prior consent has been obtained.
Gordon Veterinary Hospital shall use its best endeavours to quickly and effectively resolve any dispute arising in relation to Your visit to gordonvet.com.au and Your use of the Website. In the event of a failure to resolve any such dispute, the dispute shall be governed by and dealt with under the laws of Queensland, Australia and You and Gordon Veterinary Hospital submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts and Tribunals of Queensland, Australia.
"Order Form" means the electronic order form, which You must use, pursuant to the Conditions of Purchase, to order products on the Website.
"Products" means those goods, items, products or stock that You purchase from Gordon Veterinary Hospital to supply to You.
"Your Account" means the account, which You must establish pursuant to the Conditions of Purchase to enable You to order any products via the Website
"Your Contribution" includes any comments, suggestions, ideas, questions, articles, links or photographs that You may post or submit to the Website in accordance with the Terms of Use.
Contacting Us
If you have any queries about this Policy or anything else at the Website, please contact PetPack at firstname.lastname@example.com and we will be only too happy to answer your query.


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Todd Edwards (born December 9, 1972) is an American house and garage producer and Grammy winner. He currently resides in Los Angeles. With remixes numbering in the hundreds, some of the artists Edwards has remixed include Wildchild, St. Germain, Benjamin Diamond, Justice, Klaxons and Dimitri From Paris. Edwards co-produced and performed vocals on the Daft Punk song "Face to Face" from the album Discovery. Edwards worked again with Daft Punk, co-writing, co-producing and contributing vocals to the song, "Fragments of Time" off of their 2013 album, Random Access Memories, for which he won a Grammy. Much like his solo albums, his remixes make use of a complex vocal sampling technique, which in some cases renders the original track almost unrecognizable.
Todd Edwards began his musical career around 1992. He employs vocal reconstruction techniques to his songs, creating a unique vocal collage set to a four-on-the-floor beat. Marc "MK" Kinchen, who is primarily responsible for pioneering this technique, is one of Edwards's influences.
Todd Edwards is an American film writer/producer, film director, and writer working in Los Angeles. He is also an actor and songwriter/singer who is currently in the band called Blick Van Glory. He was born September 17, 1971 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His first film was Chillicothe which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999, in which he wrote, directed, and acted.
Edwards later served as a co-creater, co-director, writer, actor, and song writer of the animated 2005 film Hoodwinked!, in conjunction with brother Cory Edwards and Tony Leech and released by The Weinstein Company. He then contributed to the writing of Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil released by Maurice Kanbar, the 2010 sequel to Hoodwinked!.
In 2010 he directed, co-wrote, acted and composed the feature film Jeffie Was Here
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When someone leaves your life, when death takes him away suddenly and irrevocably, he leaves behind a lot of nice things: those memories of your time together and of his particular way of being, maybe a photo or a favorite tchotchke.
But what he leaves behind first — most painfully and, with time, most poignantly — is his absence.
It's a realization built of the unremarkable bits and pieces of the everyday. And it comes quietly, surprising you each time it arrives. When you think to complain to your mother about something you know would annoy her even more than it does you. When you carefully put aside some of your sandwich makings so that the dog you've loved and spoiled all his life will have something to lick off the plate after you've finished your meal.
Those are the moments when you feel most deeply your connection to the one who's gone. It's when you understand most plainly that you'll never experience again those moments of communion apart from the ones you've committed to memory. It's when his absence feels the most disturbingly real.
Each of us experiences loss in his own way, and probably a little differently each time it comes. This morning (after a weekend of tears) I lay in bed and started to sob all over again. And I thought of one of the most beautiful, most heartbreaking depictions I've ever witnessed of that experience of another's absence.
In Fritz Lang's wonderful M (1931) — a movie remarkable for the complexity of its sentiments and the subtlety in its mix of sympathy and social commentary — there is a moment in which the director needs to convey the effect of a girl's disappearance on her mother.
There's no unnecessary wringing of the hands or wailing at heaven. There's no literal exposition of the facts or of what the woman's thoughts must be. Instead, we can read in the expression on Frau Beckmann's face both that slow process of realization and the heavy counterweight of her inability to accept what's happened.
To explain the fact of the little girl's murder and how it feels when someone steps quickly and finally out of your life, Lang shows us a world without Elsie Beckmann.
It's so simple, so lyrical. And it's so heartbreaking to see this elegant montage of all the places where Elsie isn't.
Time doesn't really heal all wounds: that would mean forgetting when memories are all we have left. Instead, there are some wounds we just learn to live with, even to cherish for the way they put us back in touch with those who aren't there anymore.


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What the hell am I on about now? Well, here's a for instance. The Hotel and Catering Industry Training Board once asked one of their staff to perform a study into recruitment and staffing. He duly conducted a load of surveys and discovered, perhaps interestingly, that a large number of graduates were working as hotel porters. This, of course, was mainly because they were going on to do post-graduate academic work and were earning a bit of easy money over Summer or during a gap year or while studying. But the thing is, that last sentence is the result of common sense, not statistical analysis; it is the result of criticising, not accepting, a perfectly true statistic that makes too little sense. The HCITB employee in question didn't do this; he simply stuck all his data through his stats rules and presented his conclusions to the board, recommending, among other things, a vigorous graduate recruitment program to meet the industry's needs for hotel porters over the coming years. For this, he was rightly fired. True story.
A lot more damage is done to the reputation of the discipline of statistics by this common failure to factor in the thought that what you're measuring is usually too messy to be measured in the way you'd like. See also the profoundly held belief among too many statisticians that the effects of intentional acts can be measured in the same way as the effects of blind chance.
Anyway, 6 out of 10 Britons would rather die than exercise, according to The Mail:
Six out of 10 Britons would not be motivated to do more exercise even if their lives depended on it, a poll has found.
Pick a hundred Britons at random. Place them in a narrow alleyway with high walls. Drive a truck with electrified razor-sharp spikes welded to its front down the alleyway towards them at 6 mph. Apparently, only forty of your subjects will run away.
I realise they have an agenda to push and that they have our best interests at heart, but that's no excuse for the British Heart Foundation to be publishing such utter bollocks. And, even allowing for the number-blindness of your typical journalist, was there really no-one on The Mail's staff who thought to question this? Nah, it's in a poll, so it must be true.


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On the shores of Lake Michigan, the tiny town of Ludington, Mich., is home port to the last coal-fired ferry in the U.S. The SS Badger has been making trips across the lake to Manitowoc, Wis., during the good-weather months since 1953. And as it runs, the 411-foot ferry discharges coal ash slurry directly into the lake.
An Environmental Protection Agency permit allows the Badger to dump four tons of ash into the lake daily. But now, the agency has put the permit under review — and that means the Badger could stop sailing.
Locals say the ship is a fundamental part of Ludington life — and brings $20 million into the local economy each year via jobs, motels, B&Bs, restaurants, gas stations, galleries and the bike shop.
People in this town of 8,000 had a lot to say about all this, including Chris Hinkle.
"I like the Badger. It's good for tourism and things like that. I don't feel that we should put any of my federal dollars into it, though," Hinkle says, referring to a one-time idea of using stimulus funds to help modernize the ferry. "It's got to support itself."
A Piece Of Living History
Down at the waterside, the SS Badger — that's SS for steamship — is at the dock all winter. Sixty years old, she's almost frozen in ice and time. The hull is black and the upper decks white with a black smokestack. The ship is longer, by far, than a football field.
From May into October, the Badger runs four hours each way to Manitowoc, Wis., and back daily, with two trips a day in deep summer. It can carry 600 passengers and 180 cars, buses, trucks — even those long white blades for wind farm turbines.
Kari Karr, who used to work for the Badger, is out in the snowy wind with me. We lean back to see the ship's pilot house towering five stories above us.
"It's so hard to picture, when you're standing here on a day like this ... what it's like to be up there, looking out," Karr says. "And then the ship pulls out and heads down the channel, and you're into the open water. I've loved doing it my whole life, and still do."
A meeting with some of the current employees while in Ludington was impossible because the company — LMC, or Lake Michigan Carferry — told them not to talk to reporters. LMC is concerned about the EPA's review of the Badger's permit — and the change that is likely to come.
The presence of the ferry is a real part of why people say they like this town. In season, people love to hear the Badger's steam whistle echoing out from the harbor. From her nearby antiques store, Sally Cole has been watching the ferry sail off and return for 27 seasons.
The car ferry is the icon of our community, and without it I think we'll be missing a large part of our identity.
"We can see it right from our front window," Cole says. "During the season, coming closer to April, [customers] look out that way and say, 'Oh, the car ferry! Oh, look, the smokestacks going — they're running, they're getting ready to sail!' It's a big deal around here."
Cole likes to brag on the ship's crew. One day, a Wisconsin customer called the store to say, "That cupboard we were in looking at the other day — could we buy that, and you could send it to us over on the Badger?"
The shop blanketed and covered the cupboard, Cole says, "and we took it over, and they strapped it to the side of the ship, and it took a trip all by itself over to the owners who were waiting on the Wisconsin side."
Each Year, 500 Tons Of Coal Ash
A few blocks away, Bill Fay, a retired mental health worker, collects maritime artifacts. Fay likes to take his grandkids on the Badger. His dad was a chief engineer on one of the big boats, but started out shoveling coal.
"When I grew up in the '60s, you couldn't look out on that lake and not see a boat out there, whether it'd be a lower laker or one of our car ferries or whatever," Fay says. "They were all dumping the coal ash at that time, all through the '40s and '50s. I don't remember a fish die-off, or I don't remember any ecological disaster that came of that.
"Now, we got one little boat dumping a little bit of ash," Fay adds. "I think it's ridiculous."
Fay may have said "a little bit of ash," but it adds up. Every sailing season, 500 tons of coal ash slurry go into Lake Michigan. Arsenic, lead and mercury are all part of that waste mix.
During halftime at a high school girls basketball game, Mark Willis, a high school science teacher, shares what he would tell a student about the ash going into Lake Michigan.
"Obviously that's got to be corrected. Because the lake is our first priority," he says. "That's what Ludington is centered around, is the lake ... We chose to live in this area because of how good the environment is. There's many other things that do damage as well. I guess I'd be hypocritical just to say it's just because of the Badger."
Willis' wife, Joanie, says she, her husband and their three children go down to the water several times a week "just to watch [the ferry] come in, watch it go out ... It's part of growing up in Ludington. It's part of being here."
'Ludington Will Manage To Survive'
As for the negotiations over the ship's permit, here's what they might bring: The Badger could be switched over to diesel or natural gas. Or a way could be found to keep the coal ash onboard, then take it to a landfill.
But if the day ever comes when the ferry is retired — left at the dock — what would that mean?
"Ludington will manage to survive," says Brandy Henderson, who runs the town's convention and visitor's bureau. "We obviously have great beaches, [the] top state park in Michigan, many other assets of why people are coming here. But certainly the car ferry is the icon of our community, and without it, I think we'll be missing a large part of our identity."
The EPA says it expects a draft ruling later in March, followed by a period of public review, before anything is final. So the SS Badger will indeed open this 2013 sailing season the first week in May.
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Did you know by Florida Statute requires "Any person who operates an automatic landscape irrigation system shall properly install, maintain, and operate technology that inhibits or interrupts operation of the system during periods of sufficient moisture." (Florida Statute 373.62). This technology that "inhibits or interrupts" your irrigation system is called a rain shutoff device or a rain sensor. Last Water Wednesday, Eva Pabon, the Horticulture Agent in Osceola County went through different types of rain sensors with us.
Rain sensors are available at any irrigation supplies stores. You can install it or ask an irrigation professional to install it. There are a number advantages of a rain sensor:
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I'm still reeling from the announcement of Postopolis! – but the good news keeps on coming.
To make a long story still rather long…
Back in January, Alan Rapp, the art, design, and photography editor for Chronicle Books, attended a BLDGBLOG event hosted by the Center for Land Use Interpretation here in Los Angeles.
Alan and I met, kept in touch, had a pizza, talked about David Cronenberg; and then, last month, we organized an event together in San Francisco.
Somewhere in there the idea of a BLDGBLOG book came up – which I soon turned into a formal proposal… and now it's official: Chronicle Books will be publishing a BLDGBLOG book in Spring 2009 – and my head is spinning!
BLDGBLOG: The Book! The BLDGBLOG Book!
I just can't even believe how many possibilities there are with this thing. It's a little crazy.
In a nutshell, though, it'll be divided up into three major sections – Architectural Conjecture, Urban Speculation, and Landscape Futures – covering everything I've already covered here and more…
From plate tectonics and J.G. Ballard to geomagnetic harddrives and undiscovered Manhattan bedrooms, via offshore oil derricks, airborne utopias, wind power, fossil cities, statue disease, inflatable cathedrals, diamond mines, science fiction and the city, pedestrianization schemes, the architecture of the near-death experience, Scottish archaeology, wreck-diving, green roofs, W.G. Sebald, flooded Londons of the climate-changed future, William Burroughs, Andrew Maynard, LOT-EK, Rupert Thomson, The Aeneid, shipbreaking yards, Die Hard, Pruned, Franz Kafka, Rem Koolhaas, tunnels and sewers and bunkers and tombs, micronations, underground desert topologies, Mars, Earth, lunar urbanism, sound mirrors, James Bond, the War on Terror, earthquakes, Angkor Wat, robot-buildings and the Taj Mahal, Archigram, the Atlas Mountains, refugee camps, Walter Murch, suburbia, the Maunsell Towers… and about nine hundred thousand other topics, provided I can fit them all in.
There will be interviews, essays, quotations, photos, original artwork – and hopefully even a graphic novel, strung throughout the book. And it will be well-designed and affordable! And it will put all existing architecture books to shame. Every single one of them. Except maybe a few…
And, importantly, even if there's someone out there who's read every single post on this site – I know I haven't – they'll still find loads of new material.
Further, since I'll more or less be writing this thing over the next six months, I'd love it – love it! – if BLDGBLOG readers wanted to make suggestions, or send me links, or leave comments, or tell me what to avoid…
In fact, half the joy of writing BLDGBLOG has always been the comments, so I hope I can even figure out a way to include the best of them in the book somehow, either chasing down anonymous readers for permission or… something, I don't know, but the whole point is to be open to everyone's input and ideas.
A BLDGBLOG book Flickr pool, perhaps…
Or a design contest…
A questionnaire… What's your favorite bus stop in the world and why?
Who knows – but this should be an absolute blast – and I'll make sure that the book is actually worth picking up. You won't just get a bunch of crap you've already read, reprinted word-for-word from the blog, served back to you for $30 (or $20, or $25…).
But, man, I don't even know how many blogs make the leap into book-form! So I'm also nervous. But excited. And a little delirious with possibilities. Hoping that I do it right.
So look out for BLDGBLOG: The Book, or The BLDGBLOG Book, or whatever it will eventually be be called, coming soon to a Borders near you. Spring 2009. Chronicle Books. In a deal that never would have happened had it not been for Alan Rapp.
And, of course, without so many hundreds – and hundreds – of people out there, who went out of their way to help BLDGBLOG find an audience – or who just did or wrote or built or made or said something cool, thus supplying me with material – I might never have started blogging at all.
So I don't want to jump into some kind of Academy Award acceptance speech here, but I really do have to say thanks to dozens and dozens and dozens of people, including, but in no way limited to – hold your breath: my wife, for editing almost literally every single post I've written on this thing and making everything, universally, on all levels, better; Javier Arbona, Bryan Finoki, John Jourden, and Paul Petrunia, in particular, of Archinect for the early break, as well as the entire Archinect crew for putting up with me there; Alex Trevi at Pruned; Marcus Trimble of gravestmor; Simon Sellars at Ballardian; Sarah Rich and Jill Fehrenbacher; Jonathan Bell of things magazine; David Maisel; Cory Doctorow, Jason Kottke, William Drenttel, Jim Coudal, Bruce Sterling, Steve Silberman, Robert Krulwich, Lawrence Weschler, Douglas Coupland, Warren Ellis; The Kircher Society; all the people I've interviewed; all the people who have participated in BLDGBLOG events; all the commenters out there, both regular and one-time only, including people who have disappeared (or who no longer leave comments – I miss you!); all the people who have sent me tips; Christopher Stack; Dan Polsby; friends of mine who were part of BLDGBLOG at the very, very beginning, before it even had a logo, including Jim Webb, Cathy Braasch Dean, Neena Verma, and Juliette Spertus; David Haskell of the Forum for Urban Design; William Fox; Ruairi Glynn, Abe Burmeister, Dan Hill, Régine Debatty, Chris Timmerman, Chad Smith, Dave Connell, John Hill, Jaime Morrison, Andrew Blum; Scott Webel; Matthew Coolidge, Sarah Simons, and Steve Rowell of the Center for Land Use Interpretation; Materials & Applications; Leah Beeferman; John Coulthart; Theo Paijmans; my del.icio.us network for linking to so many interesting things; Joerg Colberg; Siologen, Dsankt, and Michael Cook; Theresa Duncan; Curbed LA and SF; Jörg Koch; Steven Ceuppens; Yahoo!, Time Magazine, MSNBC, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Architectural Review, Mark Magazine, Artkrush, Planetizen; Thomas Y. Levin and Annette Fierro, for letting me sit-in on their classes, free, way back in 2004, leading directly to the birth of this blog; my family (including in-laws!); Blogger; and about ninety-nine million other people, things, places, friends, writers, editors, architects, and on and on and on.
BLDGBLOG would have folded up and disappeared long ago were it not for the encouragement of people who it would take me literally the next two days to thank completely.
So thanks – again – especially to Alan Rapp and to Chronicle Books.
Meanwhile, expect to hear more about all this as I set about actually writing it… And I'll hopefully see some of you in New York City next week for Postopolis!
(Note: I'll add more links and such in a little bit – including the names of people who I'll realize, with horror, that I forgot to mention).


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OPI: Made You Watch!
Oh, how marketing has changed since YouTube came into being in 2005. On the whole, online commercials are more entertaining and longer in length than the 30 and 60 second spots shown on television. This video for OPI fingernail polish titled "Instinct of Color" is like viewing a mini stage performance. Sensuous and mesmerizing, this video features a dance challenge between a beautiful thoroughbred named "Lady in Black" and four talented dancers – all to promote fingernail polish. Created by DAN Paris using music "Down the Road" by French DJ's C2C, the 2 ½ minute video ad doesn't display the actual OPI nail polish bottles until the end and mostly shows the best-selling colors in the OPI line on the hooves of the horse and the dancers' apparel. The commercial is without voiceover or marketing spiel. You watch it for pure enjoyment. This is the push-pull difference between TV and Internet. TV ads push their message in front of viewers by "barging" into hit TV shows. Online advertising videos have to pull viewers to their site by offering the promise of fun and amusement. They need to give viewers a reason to seek them out and tell their friends so their message will go viral.


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American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street
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"There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes."—a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951)
American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how they brought modernism to Main Street, democratized literature and ideas, spurred social mobility, and helped readers fashion new identities. Drawing on extensive original research, Paula Rabinowitz unearths the far-reaching political, social, and aesthetic impact of the pulps between the late 1930s and early 1960s.
Published in vast numbers of titles, available everywhere, and sometimes selling in the millions, pulps were throwaway objects accessible to anyone with a quarter. Conventionally associated with romance, crime, and science fiction, the pulps in fact came in every genre and subject. American Pulp tells how these books ingeniously repackaged highbrow fiction and nonfiction for a mass audience, drawing in readers of every kind with promises of entertainment, enlightenment, and titillation. Focusing on important episodes in pulp history, Rabinowitz looks at the wide-ranging effects of free paperbacks distributed to World War II servicemen and women; how pulps prompted important censorship and First Amendment cases; how some gay women read pulp lesbian novels as how-to-dress manuals; the unlikely appearance in pulp science fiction of early representations of the Holocaust; how writers and artists appropriated pulp as a literary and visual style; and much more. Examining their often-lurid packaging as well as their content, American Pulp is richly illustrated with reproductions of dozens of pulp paperback covers, many in color.
A fascinating cultural history, American Pulp will change the way we look at these ephemeral yet enduringly intriguing books.
Awards and Recognition
- Winner of the 2015 SHARP DeLong Book History Book Prize, The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing


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I ONCE heard say that Juno went to Candia to find Falsehood. But if any one were to ask me where fraud and hypocrisy might truly be found, I should know of no other place to name than the Court, where detraction always wears the mask of amusement; where, at the same time, people cut and sew up, wound and heal, break and glue together--of which I will give you one instance in the story that I am going to tell you.
There was once upon a time in the service of the King of Wide-River an excellent youth named Corvetto, who, for his good conduct, was beloved by his master; and for this very cause was disliked and hated by all the courtiers. These courtiers were filled with spite and malice, and bursting with envy at the kindness which the King showed to Corvetto; so that all day long, in every corner of the palace, they did nothing but tattle and whisper, murmur and grumble at the poor lad, saying, "What sorcery has this fellow practised on the King that he takes such a fancy to him? How comes he by this luck that not a day passes that he receives some new favours, whilst we are for ever going backward like a rope-maker, and getting from bad to worse, though we slave like dogs, toil like field-labourers, and run about like deer to hit the King's pleasure to a hair? Truly one must be born to good fortune in this world, and he who has not luck might as well be thrown into the sea. What is to be done? We can only look on and envy." These and other words fell from their mouths like poisoned arrows aimed at the ruin of Corvetto as at a target. Alas for him who is condemned to that den the Court, where flattery is sold by the kilderkin, malignity and ill-offices are measured out in bushels, deceit and treachery are weighed by the ton! But who can count all the attempts these courtiers made to bring him to grief, or the false tales that they told to the King to destroy his reputation! But Corvetto, who was enchanted, and perceived the traps, and discovered the tricks, was aware of all the intrigues and the ambuscades, the plots and conspiracies of his enemies. He kept his ears always on the alert and his eyes open in order not to take a false step, well knowing that the fortune of courtiers is as glass. But the higher the lad continued to rise the lower the others fell; till at last, being puzzled to know how to take him off his feet, as their slander was not believed, they thought of leading him to disaster by the path of flattery, which they attempted in the following manner.
Ten miles distant from Scotland, where the seat of this King was, there dwelt an ogre, the most inhuman and savage that had ever been in Ogreland, who, being persecuted by the King, had fortified himself in a lonesome wood on the top of a mountain, where no bird ever flew, and was so thick and tangled that one could never see the sun there. This ogre had a most beautiful horse, which looked as if it were formed with a pencil; and amongst other wonderful things, it could speak like any man. Now the courtiers, who knew how wicked the ogre was, how thick the wood, how high the mountain, and how difficult it was to get at the horse, went to the King, and telling him minutely the perfections of the animal, which was a thing worthy of a King, added that he ought to endeavour by all means to get it out of the ogre's claws, and that Corvetto was just the lad to do this, as he was expert and clever at escaping out of the fire. The King, who knew not that under the flowers of these words a serpent was concealed, instantly called Corvetto, and said to him, "If you love me, see that in some way or another you obtain for me the horse of my enemy the ogre, and you shall have no cause to regret having done me this service."
Corvetto knew well that this drum was sounded by those who wished him ill; nevertheless, to obey the King, he set out and took the road to the mountain. Then going very quietly to the ogre's stable, he saddled and mounted the horse, and fixing his feet firmly in the stirrup, took his way back. But as soon as the horse saw himself spurred out of the palace, he cried aloud, "Hollo! be on your guard! Corvetto is riding off with me." At this alarm the ogre instantly set out, with all the animals that served him, to cut Corvetto in pieces. From this side jumped an ape, from that was seen a large bear; here sprang forth a lion, there came running a wolf. But the youth, by the aid of bridle and spur, distanced the mountain, and galloping without stop to the city, arrived at the Court, where he presented the horse to the King.
Then the King embraced him more than a son, and pulling out his purse, filled his hands with crown-pieces. At this the rage of the courtiers knew no bounds; and whereas at first they were puffed up with a little pipe, they were now bursting with the blasts of a smith's bellows, seeing that the crowbars with which they thought to lay Corvetto's good fortune in ruins only served to smooth the road to his prosperity. Knowing, however, that walls are not levelled by the first attack of the battering-ram, they resolved to try their luck a second time, and said to the King, "We wish you joy of the beautiful horse! It will indeed be an ornament to the royal stable. But what a pity you have not the ogre's tapestry, which is a thing more beautiful than words can tell, and would spread your fame far and wide! There is no one, however, able to procure this treasure but Corvetto, who is just the lad to do such a kind of service."
Then the King, who danced to every tune, and ate only the peel of this bitter but sugared fruit, called Corvetto, and begged him to procure for him the ogre's tapestry. Off went Corvetto and in four seconds was on the top of the mountain where the ogre lived; then passing unseen into the chamber in which he slept, he hid himself under the bed, and waited as still as a mouse, until Night, to make the Stars laugh, puts a carnival-mask on the face of the Sky. And as soon as the ogre and his wife were gone to bed, Corvetto stripped the walls of the chamber very quietly, and wishing to steal the counterpane of the bed likewise, he began to pull it gently. Thereupon the ogre, suddenly starting up, told his wife not to pull so, for she was dragging all the clothes off him, and would give him his death of cold.
"Why you are uncovering me!" answered the ogress.
"Where is the counterpane?" replied the ogre; and stretching out his hand to the floor he touched Corvetto's face; whereupon he set up a loud cry,--"The imp! the imp! Hollo, here, lights! Run quickly!"--till the whole house was turned topsy-turvy with the noise. But Corvetto, after throwing the clothes out of the window, let himself drop down upon them. Then making up a good bundle, he set out on the road to the city, where the reception he met with from the King, and the vexation of the courtiers, who were bursting with spite, are not to be told. Nevertheless they laid a plan to fall upon Corvetto with the rear-guard of their roguery, and went again to the King, who was almost beside himself with delight at the tapestry--which was not only of silk embroidered with gold, but had besides more than a thousand devices and thoughts worked on it. And amongst the rest, if I remember right, there was a cock in the act of crowing at daybreak, and out of its mouth was seen coming a motto in Tuscan: IF I ONLY SEE YOU. And in another part a drooping heliotrope with a Tuscan motto: AT SUNSET--with so many other pretty things that it would require a better memory and more time than I have to relate them.
When the courtiers came to the King, who was thus transported with joy, they said to him, "As Corvetto has done so much to serve you, it would be no great matter for him, in order to give you a signal pleasure, to get the ogre's palace, which is fit for an emperor to live in; for it has so many rooms and chambers, inside and out, that it can hold an army. And you would never believe all the courtyards, porticoes, colonnades, balconies, and spiral chimneys which there are--built with such marvellous architecture that Art prides herself upon them, Nature is abashed, and Stupor is in delight."
The King, who had a fruitful brain which conceived quickly, called Corvetto again, and telling him the great longing that had seized him for the ogre's palace, begged him to add this service to all the others he had done him, promising to score it up with the chalk of gratitude at the tavern of memory. So Corvetto instantly set out heels over head; and arriving at the ogre's palace, he found that the ogress, whilst her husband was gone to invite the kinsfolk, was busying herself with preparing the feast. Then Corvetto entering, with a look of compassion, said, "Good-day, my good woman! Truly, you are a brave housewife! But why do you torment the very life out of you in this way? Only yesterday you were ill in bed, and now you are slaving thus, and have no pity on your own flesh."
"What would you have me do?" replied the ogress. "I have no one to help me."
"I am here," answered Corvetto, "ready to help you tooth and nail."
"Welcome, then!" said the ogress; "and as you proffer me so much kindness, just help me to split four logs of wood."
"With all my heart," answered Corvetto, "but if four logs are not enow, let me split five." And taking up a newly-ground axe, instead of striking the wood, he struck the ogress on the neck, and made her fall to the ground like a pear. Then running quickly to the gate, he dug a deep hole before the entrance, and covering it over with bushes and earth, he hid himself behind the gate.
As soon as Corvetto saw the ogre coming with his kinsfolk, he set up a loud cry in the courtyard, "Stop, stop! I've caught him!" and "Long live the King of Wide-River." When the ogre heard this challenge, he ran like mad at Corvetto, to make a hash of him. But rushing furiously towards the gate, down he tumbled with all his companions, head over heels to the bottom of the pit, where Corvetto speedily stoned them to death. Then he shut the door, and took the keys to the King, who, seeing the valour and cleverness of the lad, in spite of ill-fortune and the envy and annoyance of the courtiers, gave him his daughter to wife; so that the crosses of envy had proved rollers to launch Corvetto's bark of life on the sea of greatness; whilst his enemies remained confounded and bursting with rage, and went to bed without a candle; for--
"The punishment of ill deeds past,
Though long delay'd, yet comes at last."
SurLaLune Note
This tale has multiple ATU classifications:
ATU 328: The Boy Steals the Ogre's Treasure
ATU 1525: The Master Thief
ATU 531: The Clever Horse


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Many people save and plan all their lives with the full intention of relocating for retirement. While many have somewhere warm and tropical in mind, plenty of retirees are considering relocation to reduce expenses, live closer to children and grandchildren, or to have better access to quality healthcare during their golden years. Before you pull out the packing boxes, though, there are a few things you might want to consider before relocating for retirement.
Benefits of Relocation
There are many potential benefits to relocating for retirement, some of which are not at all insignificant. As you explore your options, make sure you explore a few of the potential benefits associated with relocating for retirees:
- Better access to family. If you move closer to family, it can greatly improve your ability to spend more time with your grown children and grandchildren, while reducing the costs of traveling to visit.
- The ability to choose a home that is built for aging. When people grow older, their needs for home features may change. Perhaps a larger home on multiple floors was perfectly suitable and desirable when you were raising a family, but years into retirement it might be more than you want to maintain and navigate.
- Easier to do in early retirement. Moving earlier rather than later in retirement allows you to absorb the financial and physical toll of moving much better than attempting to do so later in retirement.
Financial Impact
You may have dreamed of a retirement in which money was no object. The reality is that retirees are spending longer and longer days in retirement. That means, for many people, money most certainly is an object in your golden years. With this in mind, it is necessary to consider a few financial benefits for relocating once you quit working.
- Reduce maintenance needs. That is especially true if you opt for a newer, smaller home when relocating.
- Potentially lower cost of living. Moving from a major city to a suburban area can significantly lower your costs of living.
- Reduction in utilities. Smaller homes often cost less to keep warm and cool.
Of course, this is not a guarantee, and the savings are not universal. So, do a little research to see where a move can save you the most money. After all, the money you save on housing expenses, the more money you will have to spend on things that will make your later years more enjoyable.
Social Impact
One cost people often fail to consider when deciding to relocate is the social change it represents. You have spent a lifetime making friends, getting to know neighbors, and becoming part of a broader community. Moving will not only have you leaving your home behind but also the friends and neighbors that made it feel like home.
It can be a substantial loss for many people should be a serious consideration for anyone contemplating a move. That is especially the case for people who take a while to build new connections and make new friends. The decision to move is one that must be more than purely financial and should take the total costs into account.
Selecting a Location
Choosing the perfect location for retirement may not be as difficult as you believe. You will need to make a few comparisons of your own to determine things like cost of living and which states offer the most attractive benefits to retirees. Healthcare is usually a top consideration for retirees, so look into the presence of quality medical care when deciding on your retirement location.
Some states actively seek retirees offering huge perks to those who choose to live there during their golden years. Look at more than the cost of renting or buying homes. Dig deep and look for information for the state you are considering regarding the following:
- State income taxes
- Sales taxes
- Death taxes
- Property taxes
Also, don't forget to look at local prices for groceries and food, gasoline, and utilities as well as for activities that interest you. That will give you an idea of costs you can expect, financially, when moving.
Relocating for retirement is probably not a new concept. However, the science of choosing the perfect retirement location has gotten a little more complicated over the last couple of decades. Keep these things in mind to help make your relocation decision easier, more affordable, and more comfortable to make.


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John Cannon Named CFO of ConvaTec
Luxembourg (27 January 2014) – ConvaTec, a privately-held developer and marketer of innovative medical technologies, today announced that John Cannon has been named Chief Financial Officer of the company.
Mr. Cannon had been serving as ConvaTec's acting CFO since last July.
"John has done a truly outstanding job, and I am pleased to name him officially to the CFO role," said Ken Berger, CEO of ConvaTec.
About ConvaTec
ConvaTec is a global medical products and technologies company, with leading market positions in ostomy care, wound therapeutics, continence and critical care, and infusion devices. Our products provide a range of clinical and economic benefits, including infection prevention, protection of at-risk skin, improved patient outcomes and reduced total cost of care. ConvaTec has over 8,000 employees, with 11 manufacturing sites in eight countries, and we do business in more than 100 countries. We are owned by Nordic Capital and Avista Capital Partners.


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The Loaves and Fishes
"Grandpa?" "Yes, Aber." "Tell us 'bout
The time you got in trouble out
Behind Bethsaida hills, when you
Were just a kid. Okay?" "Me too,
Grandpa! Can I stay up and hear
It too?" "Well, Barnabas, I fear
It's sort of late for you, young man."
"But I can stay awake! I can!
I listened last year from my bed . . .
I mean . . . Last night when mama read
I stayed up. Please, Grandpa!" "Well, let
Me see. I'll tell you what. You get
Grandpa a pillow for his feet,
And snuggle here and be real sweet,
And I'll just try to keep it short.
We'll call this Grandpa's 'Short Report.'"
Some sixty years ago when I
Was nine, I thought I would defy
My father's word." "Defy? Grandpa,
What's that?" "Defy? Well, little Ba,
It's just plain disobey, that's all.
My father warned me not to fall
For lies." "What lies, Grandpa?" "O, lies
no fortune, God's no prize
God's got boredom in his eyes.
Come with us, we'll make you wise:
Stolen bread is sweet to eat,
Stolen fish is easy meat."
"D'you make that up, Grandpa?" "No sir!
Along the western shore there were
Some kids back then who got their kicks
From stealin' bread and playin' tricks
On fishermen. And every time
I went to market with my dime
For bread and fish, they'd chant their song,
And try to make me go along:
Stolen bread is sweet to eat,
Stolen fish is easy meat.
Then you take your father's cash,
Make yourself a little splash.
My father warned me not to play
With them, or steal or lie. He'd say,
A boy that's got to steal for fun
Has never seen what God has done.
A boy that needs to steal a cake
Has never seen what God can make.
And he was right. My eyes were blind,
Until one day I saw the kind
Of thing that God can do. I snatched
A baker's bag and then I matched
It with a fisher's sack." "You mean
You stole 'em, Grandpa?" "Stole 'em. 'Tween
These very fingers. Then I flew
Like crazy to the hills and through
Bethsaida vale. And there I found
A welcome sight: a crowd around
Ten thousand strong, a perfect place
To hide. No one would know my face,
Or what I'd done. That's what I thought,
At least.
then the Teacher caught
My eye." "You mean, Jesus, Grandpa?"
"Yes, Barnabas, the very Son
Of God. I thought at first I'd run.
He knew exactly what I'd done.
His eyes were like a trumpet blast
Of truth. He knew from first to last.
(The Lord can read a boy the way
A boy reads books.)" "But did you stay,
Grandpa, or did you run?" "I tried
To run, but couldn't. Something died
Inside. And even when I saw
Him point, I simply stood in awe,
That he could know.
servants came:
'Hello, young man, you got a name?'
'My name is John.' 'Well, John, the Lord
Would like to use the lunch you've stored
There in your sacks.' 'My lunch? O, these!
Yes, sure! Here take them all, O please!
I'll be just fine. Please take them all.'
'Let's see. Five loaves, two fish. You're small
For such a hefty lunch. I 'spose
You meant to share.' 'The Teacher knows,'
I said.
And so
the Lord took bread
That I had swiped, and prayed and fed
Five thousand men before my eyes.
And as the sun went down, the skies
Turned somber with the stormy clouds
And Jesus sent away the crowds,
And walked up in the hills alone
To pray. He knelt down by a stone."
"Grandpa, how do you know he knelt?"
"I followed him. Because I felt
That maybe he could make it right.
He heard me stumbling in the night
And called, 'John, come, I'm over here.
It's pretty late. Have you no fear
To roam the hills at night?' 'I do.
But I just had to talk to you.
How did you know that it was me?'
'I prayed that you would come.' 'Really?
You know I stole the bread?' 'I know.'
'And fish.' 'Yes.' 'Where else could I go?'
'What would you like to have tonight?'
'I thought perhaps you'd make it right.
Is there a chance for me to be
A righteous man some day, and free
From all my sins, and used by God
For good, perhaps like Aaron's rod?
I robbed an old man by the sea.
Can you do anything with me?'
'Did you not understand the sign?
Did not ten thousand people dine
Today? If I can take your bread,
And see ten thousand people fed;
If I can take a boy that's dead,
And lift him from his coffin bed;
If I can still a storm tonight,
Then, John, I can make all things right.
A boy that's got to steal a cake
Has never seen what God can make.
But now you've seen it with your eyes:
That God's a fortune, God's a prize.'"
"What happened then, Grandpa?" "It's late
Aber, I think we better wait..."
"GRANDPA! What happened?" "Jesus walked
Out on the sea and simply talked,
And all the wind and skies obeyed,
Just like the bread — and boys — he made.
Light candle one now, Abraham,
And don't wake up this little lamb.
Burn bright and quiet as you sleep
And let the lesson sink in deep."


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Colour SMS User
This chapter explains how to install and configure a Colour SMS user for SMS messaging using the graphical user interface of the Ozeki NG - SMS Gateway software.
Ozeki NG - SMS Gateway allows, among others (see the Users and Applications page), the installation and configuration of a Colour SMS user.
The Colour SMS protocol was developed by T-mobile Hungary for premium rate SMS services. It is an easy to use HTTP based SMS protocol. When a customer tries to access a premium rate SMS service by sending an SMS to a premium rate phone number, the SMSC transfers this message as an HTTP post request to the HTTP Server operated by the content provider. The content provider returns a response to the HTTP request in XML format. This response is sent as an SMS message back to the customer. The HTTP server operated by the service provider is Ozeki NG - SMS Gateway. This user implements this functionality (Figure 1).
Due to the nature of the HTTP protocol, it is always required to return a response to incoming messages in a short period of time. The Colour SMS protocol is often used with other connection methods, such as UCP to make delayed responses to incoming messages possible. Using a UCP connection, response messages can be sent at a later time, which is useful if you would like to set up periodic SMS notifications, such as weekly news service.
You can use the graphical user interface of Ozeki NG - SMS Gateway to install and configure any user.
To start installing and configuring a Colour SMS user, click the Add button in the top right-hand corner of the Users and Applications panel on the right of the Management Console. You can also add a user by clicking the Add user item in the Users and applications menu (Figure 2).
This will bring up an interface consisting of two panels.
- The panel on the left contains a list of users that have been installed. In the bar at the bottom of the page you can read how many users have been installed.
- The panel on the right contains a list of users that can be installed.
- Each user in the left-hand panel is listed with a unique name (and the user type stated in brackets).
- Each user in the right-hand panel is listed with the name of its type and a brief description of what it can be used for.
To add a Colour SMS user, click the Install link in the respective entry in the list (Figure 3).
When installing a user (type), you need to give it a unique username. Clicking the Install link will bring up the Colour SMS user installation panel. Here, you need to enter a unique username in the Username field.
Once you have installed a Colour SMS user, you can start to configure it. After you have provided a unique name for the Colour SMS user and clicked OK, the Configuration panel will open.
The first tab that will show up is the HTTP settings tab. In this panel you need to specify HTTP Client settings. This information is provided by the SMS service provider when you subscribe to the service (Figure 4).
In the Target URL template you can specify the URL of the HTTP server. This URL can contain certain keywords that will be replaced before the URL is called.
Below this template, you can specify the HTTP request method by selecting the GET or the POST radio button.
To configure logging related to the Colour SMS user, click the Logging tab in the Configuration panel. The tab has a Logging and a Log file settings section. Here, you can choose whether to make the program write log entries about sent and received messages in human readable format and/or log low level communication. Choosing the latter option will make the program produce logfiles containing binary codes representing the communication data. You should check at least the Log sent and received messages in human readable format checkbox, as logfiles can be useful in debugging communication problems (Figure 5).
In the Log file settings section of the tab, you can make specifications for the size and the number of available logfiles. Log rotation saves disk space, as it ensures that older (and probably no longer needed) logfiles will be automatically deleted from the log directory, which is specified in the Log directory text box. By default, the access path to the logfiles is: C:\Program Files\Ozeki\OzekiNG - SMS Gateway\Logs
In the Maximum log file size text box in the Logfile settings section, you can specify the maximum size of a logfile. Once this size is reached, a new logfile will be created. Specify the number of kilobytes for the size of a logfile by entering a positive whole number. By default, the maximum logfile size is 8000 kB.
In the Number of rotated files text box, specify the maximum number of rotated logfiles that are saved. Specify this number by entering a positive whole number. By default, the number of logfiles that are saved is 4 (see Figure 5 above).
If you are content with the default specifications, leave the text boxes unchanged.
To modify the configuration or to view server events related to a Colour SMS user, open the panel of the user's account. To do this, click the name of the user in the Users and Applications panel of the Management Console. In the panel of the user's account, click the link of the task you wish to perform (Figure 6).
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1 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 cup old fashioned oats
3/4 cup all purpose flour
3-4 bananas mashed
1/3 cup honey
1/4 sugar or splenda
1/4 cup peanut butter
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/3 cup buttermilk
sprinkle salt (see note)
2 eggs
1/4 canola oil or applesauce
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp cinnamon powder
12-20 coarsely chopped peanut butter cups (substitute chocolate chips)
powdered sugar or melted chocolate as a garnish
Note: You may not need to add salt if your peanut butter and peanut butter cups are salty enough.
Mash the bananas well. Add eggs, buttermilk, oil, vanilla, honey, sugar, peanut butter and cinnamon together. Mix well. These are your wet ingredients.
In a separate bowl measure the dry ingredients: flours, oats, baking soda together. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir gently with a spoon until batter is mixed.
Finally add the chopped peanut butter cups and mix in gently. Spray or oil a baking pan well. Pour batter into baking pan and put into a 350 degree oven and bake for 40-45 minutes or until done.
Copyright: All recipes, content, and images (unless otherwise stated) are the sole property of Curry and Comfort. Please do not use without prior written consent. Unauthorized reproduction is strictly prohibited.


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What is an Intro/Outro? |
Listening to a DMB show can be an interesting experience. Many times, you pick up things in a recording that you missed if you happened to be at the show yourself. Over the years, the band has had numerous variations of their songs, and have incorporated bits and pieces of other songs as intros and outros to their own tunes. Jake has once again done his homework, and we're proud to be able to present to you a comprehensive list of intros and outros played by the band, along with the song that they've been played during. |
Song Intros / Outros
Song | Intros / Outros | ||
Recently | Everyday People Dancing in the Streets Tennessee Take Me to the River Norwegian Wood On Broadway Sunshine on my Shoulders You've Made Me So Very Happy Eyes of the World Nature Benny Hill Theme Passion Rain Hard Days Night Star Spangled Banner Somewhere Over The Rainbow Drive My Car | ||
One Sweet World | People People Somewhere Over The Rainbow | ||
Christmas Song | All You Need Is Love Can't Buy Me Love I Want Your Love | ||
What Would You Say | Linus and Lucy Carol Of The Bells | ||
Tripping Billies | Nature | ||
Typical Situation | Da Do Ron Ron My Favorite Things Chim Chim Cheree | ||
Dancing Nancies | The Ants Came Marching Once in a Lifetime | ||
Satellite | For What It's Worth Pure Imagination | ||
Jimi Thing | Sexy Motherfucker Walk on the Wild Side Ob La Di For What it's Worth You Shook Me Give Up the Funk Angel Batman Theme Be Thankful For What You've Got Third Stone From The Sun Woody Woodpecker Theme You Can't Rollerskate In A Buffalo Herd Hollywood Swinging Chameleon Up for the Downstroke P-Funk Jungle Boogie My Favorite Things We Three Kings Rich Girl Roll It Up | ||
Warehouse | Ob La Di Louie Louie Passion Shortin' Bread Wild Thing Linus and Lucy Low Rider Harlem Shuffle Grazing in the Grass Rhythm of the Rain La Bamba Rhythm-A-Ning | ||
Minarets | Tomorrow Never Knows Slow and Low Kradoutja | ||
Pay For What You Get | Angel From Montgomery Norwegian Wood Should I Stay Or Should I Go This Old Man Message In A Bottle I've Just Seen A Face Yellow Submarine Freebird | ||
Lover Lay Down | Sunshine On My Shoulders Over The Rainbow | ||
Ants Marching | Pay For What You Get Dueling Banjos Sweet Home Alabama Also Sprach Zarathustra Addams Family Theme Joy To The World We Wish You a Merry Christmas | ||
Two Step | Ojala Que Llueva Cafe Almond Joy Theme Mercy Street American Baby Intro Aqualung Dueling Banjos The Good The Bad And The Ugly Theme | ||
Lie In Our Graves | Mary Had a Little Lamb Always On My Mind This Land is Your Land Rain Wonderful Tonight Beethoven's 9th | ||
Seek Up | Star Wars Theme | ||
Drive In Drive Out | Lucky Man | ||
Rhyme and Reason | Suicide is Painless | ||
#36 | Sanford and Son Theme You Can't Rollerskate In A Buffalo Herd | ||
Say Goodbye | Any Noise/Anti Noise Merrily We Roll Along A Hunting We Will Go | ||
Proudest Monkey | Shock The Monkey Over The Rainbow Sunshine On My Shoulders Feel So Good | ||
Rapunzel | On Broadway Hollywood Swinging | ||
Let You Down | Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay | ||
#41 | Everyday This Land is Your Land Sojourn Of Arjuna Suicide Is Painless | ||
Deed Is Done | Superstition Pinball Wizard | ||
Crash Into Me | Dixie Chicken Mr. Tambourine Man | ||
Too Much | Golden Years Fame | ||
Don't Drink the Water | This Land is Your Land The Bell Also Sprach Zarathustra | ||
The Dreaming Tree | Chocolate Rain | ||
The Stone | I Started a Joke Can't Help Falling In Love | ||
The Last Stop | Jesu, Joy of Mans Desiring The More That Were Together | ||
Bartender | If I Only Had a Brain Tomorrow Never Knows The Battle Hymn of the Republic When The Saints Go Marching In Lean On Me | ||
Grace Is Gone | Blackwater | ||
Busted Stuff | Sexy Motherfucker | ||
Everyday | On Broadway #36 You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd | ||
What You Are | Passion | ||
So Right | A Tisket A Tasket | ||
If I Had It All | Holding Back The Years | ||
All Along The Watchtower | Stairway to Heaven 7 Nation Army Schism Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Blister In The Sun | ||
Long Black Veil | Over The Rainbow | ||
The Maker | William Tell Overture The Call to the Post | ||
Anyone Seen the Bridge | Also Sprach Zarathustra Funk #49 | ||
Funny How Time Slips Away | Sittin on the Dock of the Bay | ||
Weight Of The World | This Land is Your Land | ||
Leave Me Praying | This Land is Your Land | ||
Loving Wings | When The Saints Go Marching In Carol Of The Bells Frosty The Snowman I Dream Of Jeannie | ||
Sugar Will | Batman Theme Shakedown Street | ||
Dreamgirl | Everyday People Christmastime Is Here Santa Claus is Coming to Town | ||
Old Dirt Hill | Everyday People Ob La Di | ||
Stand Up | Sanford And Son Theme | ||
Smooth Rider | Hava Nagila | ||
You Might Die Trying | Chameleon Over The Rainbow. | ||
Corn Bread | Green Acres Theme | ||
Hey Hey My My | Stairway to Heaven | ||
Lying In The Hands Of God | Theme from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly |


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-aka- Rocket Stoves
Superefficient, Ultra Low Emission Woodstoves You Can Build Yourself
Ianto Evans, Leslie Jackson
Summary: Superefficient, ultra low emmission wood fired heaters you can build for yourself in a weekend for less than a hundred dollars. |
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Ianto Evans and Leslie Jackson, Cob Cottage Company. 3rd Edition, 2014. 7x10, 120 pages. ISBN 0966373847. $10.00 download from RocketStoves.com
Here is a superefficient wood fired heater you can build for yourself in a weekend for less than a hundred dollars. This book explains in detail exactly how to build one, then how to use it in a range of applications.
We discuss materials: where to find them, what to pay and how to make use of found and recycled parts. The section on fire and fuels is thorough but simple; we tried to keep away from numbers wherever possible.
There are success stories, case studies, references and where to find further information, all heavily illustrated. Home heating can be expensive both in capital equipment and in running costs. If we heat by gas, oil or electricity we are supporting a big corporation and impoverishing ourselves.
By building an extra efficient heating system you will be one more big step off the treadmill and your move to self-sufficiency and true wealth. Good luck with your stove!
—From the Introduction by Ianto Evans
Publisher's Review
This little book is about a revolutionary concept in wood burning stoves that ensures almost completely clean combustion with high efficiency use of the heat produced. Rocket Stoves are still experimental in that probably fewer than a hundred were in regular use by early 2004, but some have performed well, daily, for more than a decade.
They save a lot of fuel, and completely rearrange our concepts of house heating, of wood burning, and of dependency on coal, oil, hydro or nuclear power for our comfort. Rocket Stoves can be built at home by relatively unskilled people. Rocket Stoves are the ultimate in efficiency, reducing wood to carbon dioxide and water vapor, with a little ash. Coupled with heat storage in a cob bench bed or floor they provide gentle heat for up to two days without an all night smoldering fire that poisons the neighbors and heats mainly the sky. They are quite safe for small children as there are no dangerously hot surfaces.
Rocket stoves work by burning wood in a completely new way then providing almost all their heat for cooking, toasting, baking, or heating water or people. They keep you snug. Previously unskilled people can build them of local and recycled materials at almost no cost. Rocket Stoves incorporate the heat storage of a $10,000 mass stove, the convenience of a woodfired cookstove, the efficiency of a pellet furnace and limitless flexibility in design, all without moving parts, fans or motors. Here, for the first time, is published the story of the Rocket Stove, with theories and detailed descriptions and illustrations of how we and some of our friends have built successful models.
The Authors
Ianto Evans
Ianto Evans is an applied ecologist, landscape architect, inventor, writer and teacher, with building experience on six continents. He teaches ecological building and has consulted to USAID, World Bank, US Peace Corps and several foreign governments on improved cook stoves, fuel supplies and kitchen technology. Ianto developed the Lorena stove in the 1970¹s in Guatemala‹the first really successful widespread self-help cook stove. He has thirty years experience with research promoting and building woodfired stoves. He was a founder of Aprovecho Institute, Cob Cottage Company and the North American School of Natural Building.
Leslie Jackson
Leslie Jackson is a natural builder, an educator and a musician. She is an independent publisher, helping writers by playing several roles (from collaborator to editor and from coordinator to layout designer) in order to see a book evolve from the dream to the shelf. Between book projects, she gives workshops in Rocket Stoves and natural building subjects and consults for the local natural building community. Leslie lives at the juncture between high and low tech in Oakland, Ca.
See also:
Richsoil.com put together a collection of photos, videos and other helpful information about the workings of this technology.
Keywords: Wood heat, natural building, Ianto Evans, plaster, adobe, earth, mass stove, barro, chiminea