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For many, the prospect of landscaping fills them with dread as they contemplate the inconveniences associated with taking care of plants and gardens and trees without spending a great deal of money to have someone else do it. There are people who enjoy endlessly working on their landscapes (and this is commendable), and there are those who wish to take as little trouble, and spend as little money, as possible about their homes yard. This is also acceptable.
Luckily, for those who want to have a beautifully adorned home, it is possible to do so with a low-maintenance landscape. By carefully choosing plants that need little care, it is possible to have a nice-looking property and save time and money in attention to its upkeep. The keys are good plant selection and the proper establishment of the plants in their places.
Plant Selection
The first thing to do is choose plants that require very little maintenance. For those who dislike raking leaves or pine needles, trees that frequently shed are not desirable. Plants like spruce and Alberta pine are moderate growers, and they do not drop leaves or needles as often as other trees. Avoid fruit-bearing plants that make a mess.
Crabapple trees with resistance to apple scab hold their fruit well (even against birds) and are not prone to summer defoliation. Flowers such as rhododendrons, pansies, tulips, and wildflowers do not need much care. Most bulb flowers (irises, tulips, crocuses, etc.) are fairly self-sufficient, as they store up nutrients in their bulbs.
Choose perennial flowers that bloom every year rather than annuals that last one season, die, and then require the purchase of more plants. Shrubs and low bushes (like mugo pine and juniper) are also hardy varieties that do not require much attention and make very little mess.
Plant Health
When you choose plants, search out quality plants. Find reputable nurseries and suppliers. This saves money in the long run, as you will not have to buy new plants when the first do not survive their plantings. Planting is a stressful time for any plant, and if is already weakened by disease, environmental issues, or pest problems, then it may not recover.
Choose plants that look vigorous and healthy, and check them closely before purchase for things like pest problems and disease. Some home improvement warehouses, like Home Depot and Lowe's, actually offer guarantees on their plants, as do many nurseries: these warranties last anywhere from 6 months to 1 year. Purchase from a store or nursery that offers these guarantees at no extra cost, and then if you encounter a problem down the road, your place of purchase will replace the ailing plant for free.
Zone Appropriateness
One of the best things that you can do to keep your landscaping costs down and your involvement in it minimal is to choose plants adapted to the growing conditions in your area. A visit (usually for free) to the local master gardener will allow you to find out which plants grow best in your area.
Keeping up your landscape is much easier when you are not fighting nature to ensure the survival of your plants. Choose native plants, or choose plants that are native to a climate similar to the one in which you live. Ornamental grasses, trees, and shrubs that grow well in your climate and with the conditions of the soil in your yard make excellent choices for low-maintenance landscaping.
Finally, it is imperative that you follow sound planting practices when you begin your landscaping. Any initial landscaping will take a certain amount of work, but once you complete the proper installation of plants on your property, you will find that, if you have chosen wisely, they need very little of your attention to properly thrive.
Best Planting Practices
When planting, it is best to make the hole shallow and wide. Do not plant your flowers, trees or shrubs in holes deeper than the planting container. If the soil is of a harder variety, you should dig the hole deeper than you want (the hole should be two or three times as wide as you need it in any case) and then fill in with a planting mix or loosened soil to the desired depth. This will make it easier for your new plants to take root. It is important to remember that you will need to ensure adequate water at first, until the root system is fully developed.


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Monday, November 30, 2009
What's In Store!
(Update : Wreath is Sold)
This might be our only ornament wreath for the store this year..last year we made 3, but we've been a little busy this year. These wreaths are made with vintage ornaments and there are usually between 80-100 of them , so you can imagine the time it takes it putting one together.
A classic old mahogany side chair in green velvet. It sits on it's original little wooden wheels,,very cool! We have a few Ms. Sophie pillows left. It says "The Queen Is Not Granting An Audience Today" She's my little Queenie. :)
Mahogany Game Table - The top flips open which doubles the size.
A rare find, indeed! From the 1950's, a Barbara Bates Beauty set that was never used!
And all encased in a beautiful fabric ribbed box too! This gem has been added to the website.
The Attic is filled with new arrivals, so stop by to see what's new!
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Saturday, November 28, 2009
Artisans Alley Coronado ... No Peeking!
Next Saturday, the Village Elementary school parking lot will be transformed into one amazing craft fair event! This is a yearly event in it's 37th year! It benefits Coronado High & Middle School Band and Choir. You can get a great start on your holiday gift buying.
This year, The Attic girls will have a space (#123) and we are so excited! We have all been working hard at making some unique items up for the show that are one of a kind and you will not see anywhere else! I don't know about you, but I enjoy receiving something unique & handmade as a gift.
I wish I could show you our goodies, but you will have to come to the show. I promise to take lots of pictures and share the days events with you after the show.
Artisans Alley : SATURDAY DEC. 5th
Gates Open at 9:00am - Buy Buy Buy until 3:00pm!
The Attic : SPACE 123 (We are at the very end of a row)
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Give Thanks
The Attic Girls would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving...We have so many things to be thankful for, and our customers are just one of them! Thank you for giving us a great year and a warm welcome back into the community. We will strive to make 2010 even a better year, and look forward to seeing you all very soon!
Thanksgiving Holiday Schedule
Thurs. 11/26 Closed
Friday 11/27 10-3pm
Sat 10-6 Sunday 10-5
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Ice Skating By The Sea
I am not making this up people! In just 5 more days, The Hotel Del Coronado will once again, have transformed the 10,000 sq foot Windsor Lawn into a picturesque ice rink for guests and visitors this holiday season. Holiday music will fill the air..and guests will be sipping hot chocolate. Imagine ice skating while overlooking the Pacific Ocean...and it very well may be in the 70's! Only in California. :)
~ November 25 - December 18 ~
daily: 2pm - 5pm & 6pm - 9pm
weekend & holiday matinee: 11am - 1pm
~ December 19 - January 3 ~
Daily: 2pm - 5pm & 6pm - 9pm
Daily matinee: 11am - 1pm
Three-hour sessions cost $20* for adults and $15* for kids (ages 10 years and under); two-hour matinee sessions cost $15* for adults and $10* for kids (ages 10 years and under). Skate rental is $5 per person.
A portion of the 2009 skating proceeds will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation® of San Diego.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
92118 Pillow ~ An Attic Exclusive
We have something NEW at The Attic this month!
92118 Coronado Zip Pillows. Each one is handmade by a local seamstress, just for us! We can take special orders up until December 7th for delivery by Dec 21st. For an added twist, we can have your family name printed in place of the zip with Est. date as well. Just leave a comment here if you would like to order one.
This pillow will be featured in the gift guide section in Coronado Magazine Holiday issue. (Due out by December 1st)
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
The Elves Did Their Magic*
We closed up shop last Tuesday for the the elves to work their magic.
(You may click on the image to enlarge them)
The entry table was transformed into a live forest filled with Gnomes, Elves and Forest Friends. I love the live nobles in pots..so much more than the faux trees. Now we just have to remember to water them!
We have the sweetest vintage cement deer and baby from the 1950's, a vintage hand carved gnome from Germany, lots of 1950's elves and a wonderful selection of new woodland animal ornaments to complete the collection. Owls, deer, squirrels, gnomes and my favorite..these pixies with mushroom hats.
Our sign was made by sweet Rita..we just love it!
When we brought in the fireplace mantle, we really didn't know what we were going to place inside since we didn't have any firewood at hand..but then it hit me! We stacked the burlap and linen pillows inside...love it.
The mantle is sold and will be going to a new home in Arizona!
This little guy is probably my favorite gnome. He is hand carved, German.
Our smaller window features an antique drop front desk with a selection of stocking stuffers inside. An antique typewriter holds a letter to Santa. It reminds him to stop at The Attic for the best selection of stuffers. :)
(The desk has been sold)
At night we bring in our vintage wood trellis and as I placed it over the table, I had to take a picture. It is so much prettier in person, and I wanted to leave those twinkling lights over the forest all night!
We always have vintage Christmas ornaments at The Attic and it continues to be one of our best sellers during the holidays. We collect them year round and if you are a collector yourself, then you know just how difficult it is to find the good ones. We love to hear customers walk by the displays and reminisce about their childhood memories of Christmas.
We filled this huge old clam with vintage pink & aqua ornaments, carefully packaged in pairs or singles. We chose our best ones to package so they are ready to gift for that vintage collector you know.
Stop in to see all of our Holiday displays..Open Daily 10-6pm & Sundays 10-5.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
All the way from Arizona...
A very nice gentleman from Arizona stopped by The Attic yesterday, who told us that we happen to be his wife's favorite shop! That made Jane's day and it was the perfect photo op. We hope she likes the goodies he's taking home! :)
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Don't Forget The Hostess...
The holidays are upon us and you know what that means.( Besides gaining an extra 5 pounds.) It's the season to Eat, Drink and be Merry... but don't forget the hostess! The Attic Girls have picked a few of our favorite things that are sure to please even the Hostess with the Mostest!
Hand made soaps in the shape of the Eiffel Tower, crowns and fleur de lis...Made in California and packaged like a gift! We also have them packaged as a set with our line of kitchen towels pictured below.
French Inspired Tea Towels in 4 styles
Vintage Spreaders for Butter or Cheese.
Stamped with Bon Appetite, Fromage, Coronado, Friends or Seaside.
We have so much more!
Candles in yummy scents such as Biscotti, Apples & Spice and Sugared Oranges. French Inspired Cheeseboards, Eiffel Tower Coasters, Crown Bottle Openers, Hostess Aprons and more!
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Gnome For The Holidays
Here's a peek at our Holiday Open House postcards that just arrived today! They will be in the mail within a week or you can stop by the shop to pick one up. Our holiday merchandise has been rolling in and we are busy tagging everything. The plan is to start our holiday decorating one day next week and I can hardly wait to get going!
The Attic girls are planning a little getaway to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Sunday. We hope to find lots of treasures for the store, so be sure to check in with us next week. :)
The Attic girls are planning a little getaway to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Sunday. We hope to find lots of treasures for the store, so be sure to check in with us next week. :)
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
We Have A Winner :)
The winner of the type key initial necklace is Sue from Cottage Way Of Life.
She was the 9th blogger to leave a comment and her number was chosen by the Random Generator. Congrats Sue! I will be in touch to get your mailing info! Thanks to everyone who played along. I think we might do this once a month..it was fun!
She was the 9th blogger to leave a comment and her number was chosen by the Random Generator. Congrats Sue! I will be in touch to get your mailing info! Thanks to everyone who played along. I think we might do this once a month..it was fun!
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Celebrate Earth Day in Chicago!
Chicago's Largest Community-based Earth Day event features a food-focused look at the "Recipe for a Healthy Planet". Fresh, cold, hot, but always healthy – food is the focus of the third annual North Lake Shore Earth Day celebration on Saturday April, 17th, Chicago's largest multi-community Earth Day event.
North Side organizations and activists from Andersonville, Edgewater, Lincoln Square, Ravenswood, Rogers Park and Uptown, with support from Loyola University Chicago, will gather to inform and advocate for a "Recipe for a Healthy Planet", encouraging Chicagoans to champion a quality food future.
This free, all-day, family event begins at 9 a.m and ends at 4:30 p.m., indoors, at Loyola's Lakeshore campus, inside the Quinlan Life Sciences Building at 1050 W. Sheridan Road. Workshops, panels, art projects, cooking demonstrations, environmental group tabling and films about food will provide participants with the knowledge and techniques to create a healthier food system and greener living practices in their shared communities.
Join in the various workshops, presentations and panels and hear about neighborhood food policy, making stock from vegetable scraps, making your own baby food, and learning the basics of edible landscaping. The exciting film program includes the film "Fresh", an inspirational documentary that highlights farmers and communities that have created an alternative to the industrialized food system; and "A Quiet Revolution", narrated by Meryl Streep, showing case studies on how even one person's action can cause environmental solutions. At your leisure, you can also converse and get informed from the participants of the 50-table strong Green Fair.
Children will have fun as they learn about seed planting, nature's creatures, eating organic, yoga, collaging and composting and a full day of additional activities at State Representative Harry Osterman's Kid's Corner. Mike Nowak, Master Gardener, Humorist and WCPT Radio personality is the morning's keynote speaker, highlighting the local initiatives Chicagoans can foster to encourage more healthy food in their own communities.
Elected officials participating in this event are Chicago Aldermen Patrick O'Connor (40th), Helen Shiller (46th), Eugene Schulter (47th), Mary Ann Smith (48th) and Joe Moore (49th), Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin, Congressman Mike Quigley, Illinois State Senator Heather Steans; and State Representatives Greg Harris and Harry Osterman.
A light breakfast and coffee will be provided. Lunch will be sold on site by local vendors. The event is easily accessible by public transportation via the CTA Red Line and the #147 bus. Drivers may park for free at the campus main parking garage. Walking and biking are encouraged, and all cyclists are invited to join in our community bike ride.
In addition to the Saturday main event, a special musical evening will be held the night of Friday, April 16th, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the newly renovated Stella Maris Chapel of Loyola University. The local musicians showcased will be recording for the Earth Day event on Saturday. Northside community leaders will also be honored with certificates of appreciation and resource kits to help them green their blocks and neighborhoods.
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The owner of the Check-A-Mate agency, Jerry Palace, has been nabbing cheating spouses for two decades, since he quit the police force. He agreed that affairs have been on the upswing in the past several months.
"Usually, business goes up or down with the economy," Mr. Palace said, "but now I think things are getting bad and it's making people do things they wouldn't normally do. … The majority go to hotels, since going to your own apartment would be indiscreet to say the least.
"They usually go to four-star hotels like the Four Seasons and the Palace," he said, "the obvious ones, because they are trying to impress their girlfriends."
Usually it's pretty easy to catch people around this time," says Jerry Palace, a detective at Check a Mate in New York. Palace spoke from a cell phone while he was on the trail of a wayward husband (a police officer).
For some couples, the suspicion starts right after Christmas, when a credit-card statement arrives, or receipts turn up showing some unfamiliar purchases–a necklace, say, or a copy of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass." By the time Valentine's Day rolls around, the suspicion may be strong enough to warrant professional action.
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Since 2003, St. Maarten has had some limited timeshare consumer regulation in place. However, within recent years it has become clear that this legislation is in need of an update in order to meet the necessary protection, safety, and security standards that consumers expect with their timeshare experience.
Currently, ARDA and ARDA ROC are partnering with the St. Maarten Timeshare Association on an initiative to bring in new, updated legislation. On September 6, 2016, the parliament central committee supported a draft ordinance to establish a timeshare authority and regulate the timeshare industry. The new legislation offers access to a practical resolution of timeshare issues through the Timeshare Authority, bankruptcy protection for all types of timeshare, as well as checks and balances for the operation of timeshare properties.
Through the establishment of an updated timeshare legislation, as well as an appropriately functioning authority in the region, St. Maarten will be equipped to create memorable experience for owners, while protecting their vacation interests.
The new timeshare legislation also sets the foundation for the industry to confidently operate in the market and continue to build upon the already tremendous vacation experience. As the timeshare industry grows in the region, another level of economic impact can flow into the surrounding communities.
ARDA and ARDA-ROC advocate for legislation that provides crucial support for the local economy, government, developers, as well as protect the consumer and preserve the vacation experience.
ARDA and ARDA-ROC will continue to work with the St. Maarten Timeshare Association to ensure that the new legislation is the most appropriate legislation for the region.
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Dr. Tariq Makhdoom is a Water Resources Engineer currently working with Atkins. Dr. Makhdoom's expertise includes the areas of hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, flood control and floodplain management, irrigation and drainage and remote sensing. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada). Dr. Makhdoom has extensive experience with Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Risk Management Program in Letters of Map Changes (LOMC) and levee accreditation reviews. He also has over 30 years of international experience in the public and private sector. Dr. Makhdoom is currently serving as President of the Virginia Floodplain Management Association.


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Over the last two years, Botox has emerged as one of the possible remedies for treating premature ejaculation (PE). This has been the result of a much-publicized study carried out researchers at the University of Tulane in 2014. This study found Botox to be effective for delaying ejaculation in rats. (Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24774776)
In the study, male rats had Botox injected into their bulbospongiosus muscle. This muscle is located in the penis and controls erection, ejaculation and orgasm. The human penis contains an analogous muscle. When the rats were injected with Botox, the amount of time they took to ejaculate jumped from 6.5 minutes to 8.5 and 10 minutes (depending on the amount of Botox).
This caused some people to conclude that Botox has could have similar effects on humans. After all, the human penis has the bulbospongiosus muscle – just like the rat penis. Also, Botox is already used to safely treat sexual dysfunctions like vaginismus. So, why not use it to help men who want to last longer in bed? For answer check the homepage!
No Human Trials Yet
Well, the most compelling reason is that Botox hasn't yet been successfully tested on humans for treating premature ejaculation. Simply because it works on rats doesn't mean that it will work on humans. Also, simply because Botox helps with wrinkles, migraines and vaginismus doesn't mean that it can help with premature ejaculation.
The simple fact that human trials haven't been carried out means that there could be harmful effects which are yet unknown. So, at this stage, using Botox for treating premature ejaculation is a huge gamble. A smarter approach would wait for the results from human trials.
Human trials are currently being carried out by ClinicalTrials.gov – a branch of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The trials – which commenced in 2013 – are investigating the effectiveness and safety of Botox for treating premature ejaculation. Preliminary results are expected to be released in October 2016.
Until then, it would be unwise to use Botox for treating premature ejaculation. The good news is that ClinicalTrials.gov is actually still recruiting volunteers. So those who desire to try out Botox in a safe environment can sign up for the clinical trials. Whoever desires to sign up should visit this page (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01917006)
Risk of Lowering Libido?
In rats, Botox was found to reduce the frequency of mounting. On average, the rats which weren't receiving botox mounted 11.5 times. Those on Botox mounted 7 – 8 times on average within the same time period. This basically means that the rats on Botox were mounting 30 to 40% less than their normal counterparts.
Does this mean that Botox reduced their sexual drive? Possibly. The researchers didn't give conclusive explanations. However, the consensus was that Botox was likely reducing the sexual desires of the rats.
What does this mean for humans? Well, it means that – if Botox has a similar effect as on rats – then it could end up lowering libido. Lowering someone's libido by 30 to 40% would be disastrous. Despite the fact that this is merely speculative, it just points to the possible side-effects of Botox. Those who use it to last longer in bed might ironically find themselves losing sexual desire. This would be a travesty.
Excruciating Pain
When used for treating premature ejaculation, Botox is supposed to be injected into the bulbospongiosus muscle. In humans, this muscle starts between the rectum and penis, and runs to the underside of the penis. To administer the Botox, an injection would have to be made to the underside of the penis.
Now, anyone who has ever received an injection anywhere around the groin knows that it can be extremely painful. However, the pain is nothing compared to that which occurs during erection. People who have experienced injury to their bulbospongiosus usually feel excruciating pain during erection.
This means that in the immediate aftermath of the Botox injection, a person would have to steer clear of sexually arousing situations. This means that immediately after taking the Botox injection, a person would be forced to abstain.
Risk of Infections
Actually, pain maybe the least worry for those receiving Botox injections (after all, pain killers do exist). An even greater worry is the risk of infections. There are two kinds of infections which an injection to the lower side of the penis can expose someone to.
The first is from bacteria which is typically found around the pelvic area. This bacteria can easily make their way into the little cut which is left by the injection. This can cause it to become infected, inflamed and quite uncomfortable.
An even worse kind of infection can arise from having unprotected intercourse. Any cut on the penis typically multiplies the risk of acquiring sexually transmitted infections. As such, if the person has intercourse with someone with such an infection, they can significantly increase their risks.
Even those who use protective measures like condoms aren't entirely safe. The friction which arises from vigorous sexual activity can cause further bruising of the injected area. This is because the heat generated from wearing a condom can intensify during sexual intercourse. In the end, this can lead to a larger bruise, which is even more susceptible to infection.
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The Bottom Line
The bottom line is that Botox may seem like the perfect solution for someone seeking to last longer in bed. After all, it has been tested on rats and been found to work perfectly. Also, Botox is currently used safely for treating a number of conditions such as vaginismus, migraines, bladder dysfunction and cervical dystonia.
However, there haven't been any successful human trials on the use of Botox for treating premature ejaculation. As such, those who use it will be exposing themselves to excruciating pain, infections and possible loss of libido. That is before even considering the yet unknown side-effects. Essentially, such people are taking unnecessary risks.
Therefore, a smarter approach is to wait until human trials have produced concrete results. Thankfully, the trials are currently being carried out by ClinicalTrials.gov. The trials are still recruiting volunteers in 5 US states (New York, Louisiana, Florida, Connecticut and California) and in London, UK.


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danielmak wrote:Second, another option might be to create a partnership with someone in the UK where you trade shipping. For example, let's say there are records you can get in the US at a better price than those same records would cost in the UK. Your shipping partner pays for the records and has them sent to you. You buy your UK records and have them sent to your partner. Then you send your partner's records to her/him and s/he sends to you. Of course, this type of thing would only be useful in situations where the shipping costs are way higher to the US (and for your partner, costs are ridiculous to the UK). Because you now have to build in the domestic shipping costs with the total shipping costs. But if the record shop/distributor is charging insane costs and your partner can get decent prices, this might make sense. Moreover, if you are both buying the same records, you might get discounts on the records themselves by purchasing multiple copies of the same release. Again, this might be way off but I figured I'd throw it out there since I've done something like this with football DVDs and trading partners I have who live in areas where postal services are really poor.
Yeah I think something like this only really makes sense if you're buying wholesale.
I'm going to do the math and outline my proposal and then yours:
Reggae buyers club/coop
We get a commitment from 10 people in the USA to buy the latest and greatest 12" UK record.
Let's say that 12" cost 12 GBP at Dub vendor which I'd say is about average. Rather than buying retail we negotiate with the distributor who sells it at %50 retail which I believe is the standard markup. So we pay 6 GBP each + shipping. Assuming the package weighs a little over 2kg that would be 24 GBP tracked with insurance. Total cost 84 GBP or about 112 USD or 11.20 per unit. Media mail person is 2.75 + USD. Total cost per 12" =14 USD
To order a 12 GBP 12" from Juno shipping is 3.60 GBP. = 15.60 GBP or a the present exchange rate 20.75 USD
To order a 12 GBP 12 from Dub Vendor shipping is 10.50 GBP = 22.50 GBP or 30 USD
Assuming you're competing against Juno's pricing where the difference between ordering from them and via distributor/label owner is 6.75 USD and you give the organizer of the buy half of that (3.50 say) for their trouble and material cost the buyers club could deliver the 12 for say 17.25 and the organizer gets $30
This price difference is a little better when you run the numbers for ordering 20 records or say 2 releases.
Then it's 20 X 6 = 120 gbp for the records, 33 GBP for the shipping, so 153 GBP or 204 USD or 10.25 USD per unit + 2.75/2 for the media mail = 11.75 USD.
Shipping for two 12"s from Juno is 5.60 GBP or 14.80 GBP per unit or 19.75 USD so the differential is 8 USD
If we assume the 50/50 split the records cost the end buyer is 15.75 USD and the organizer pockets 80 USD
Where things get make a ton of sense is if you want something that Juno doesn't carry. Ordering 2 12's from Dub vendor is £13.50 in shipping so at 12 GBP per record your total unit cost is 18.75 GBP or 25 USD. Now your differential is 13.25 USD.
The pen pal reciprocal idea:
USA gent orders a 12" from Dub Vendor for 12 GBP and it costs 2.80 GBP shipping or £14.80. Shipping from UK to US is 8 GBP for a total of 22.8 GBP or 30.50 USD
UK gal purchases a 12 " from Dusty groove for 13 USD and 4 USD local shipping and then 22.5 USD (post office rate) for USA to UK shipping so 39.5 USD
It cost the USA gent essentially the same to do it through the intermediary. The cost to ship a 12" to the UK directly from Dusty groove is 9.16 USD or 19.16 USD. I don't know how Dusty groove does that rate (same as Juno?) but in either case I don't see how the pen pal idea works...


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Seeking SugarDaddy 37 - 60
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About myself? This part is easy. I love to cook (and do so often). I love to dance (slow) but I have not found the right dance partner. Would you know one? I have family and friends over often for cook-outs and a dip in the pool. I like to go out and eat (McDonald's or a nice restaurant). I love the beach and being on the water. I guess the most important thing in my life would be my family first and maybe later on you!!! I spend my free time --looking for you!!!
What I'm Looking For
What am I looking for? What we all are looking for, someone that will pick us up when we are down, someone that will tell us all the things we need to hear and someone that will be true and always there when we need them. If that someone is out there and you read this please let me know.
I want to kiss so hard..I forget to breathe
I want to love without boundaries or limits and for a time..to simply merge
I want love as cool as neon but also candle wax hot
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Once a physicist: Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Reynolds is a science-fiction writer based in the Netherlands. He has written seven novels and many more short stories. His second book, Chasm City, was named best novel of 2001 by the British Science Fiction Association.
Why did you originally choose to study physics?
I had always been interested in science, but the thing that pushed me into considering a career in it was seeing Carl Sagan's TV series Cosmos in the early 1980s. At this time I was also an avid reader of science fiction, and I had begun to read some of Isaac Asimov's and Arthur C Clarke's non-fiction books about science. Together with a deep fascination with the night sky that I had retained from an early age, this prompted me to do a degree in physics and astronomy at Newcastle University in the UK.
How much did you enjoy the subject?
Most of the time I found it enjoyably challenging, rather than enjoyable in the fun sense — I am not a naturally mathematically minded person, so acquiring the necessary numerical skills was always a bit of an uphill struggle for me. Nevertheless, I went on to do a PhD at St Andrews University on optical spectroscopy of massive X-ray binary stars, which contain a normal star like the Sun, only heavier, and a compact object like a black hole or neutron star. Basically I was using Doppler measurements to determine the masses of the component stars.
What did you do next?
After finishing my thesis, in 1991 I moved to the Netherlands and went to work for the European Space Agency (ESA). Among other things, I worked on the development of a new kind of photoncounting optical camera that could measure the energies and arrival times of individual photons. We used this instrument to make ground-breaking observations of cataclysmic variables (binary stars containing a white dwarf). Apart from a two-year stint as a postdoc at Utrecht University, I stayed at ESA until 2004, when I gave up science to become a full-time writer.
How did you get into writing fiction?
I had been writing short stories almost since I could read. In my early teens I started a novel, and when I was about 16 I became determined to establish myself as a published writer. But I was really only thinking in terms of it being a hobby. I noticed that many of the writers I enjoyed — Clarke, Gregory Benford, Joe Haldeman — were either practising scientists, or had studied physics and astronomy at some point. That galvanized me to take my studies even more seriously.
When did your writing career really take off?
It was ticking over nicely until my first novel Revelation Space was published in 2000. From that point on, there was a lot more interest — it's the old thing of going from trying to sell stories to sceptical markets, to having those markets coming to you and inviting you to contribute. It was also about this time that I started breaking into the US magazine market, which was a big step in reaching new readers.
What made you decide to give up physics to become a full-time writer?
I was struggling to balance the two jobs — one had to go. I'd had a great time working for ESA, but I was also finding that I didn't have enough time in the day to do all the writing I wanted. I was turning down interesting writing projects even though I used to dream about just being asked. I knew I was going to miss the intellectual challenges and social stimulation of working within a scientific team, which I have, but I still don't regret my decision.
How does your physics training help with your writing?
Less than people imagine. I think the most important attribute for a science-fiction writer is to be fascinated by science — in all its manifestations. It's not necessary to be able to understand all the details, but just to be inspired and stimulated. Most of the ideas that have fed into my writing have come from reading popular articles on subjects far away from my own very limited specialization, such as neuroscience or biology.
What advice do you have for physics students thinking of a career in science-fiction writing?
Write short fiction, and keep working at it until you break into the science-fiction magazine market. Many of the big names made an initial splash in the magazine market, and it's often how they caught the eye of editors and publishers. I published my first stories when I was working towards my PhD and the contacts I established from those early days eventually led to my getting a contract to write novels. Also, make the most of your scientific literacy. Editors like to see "hard science-fiction" stories — fiction where the science plays a strong role in the narrative, even if it's wildly speculative. They never see enough of this type of story, and so are more than willing to forgive minor deficiencies in characterization, plotting, style and so on, provided the ideas are fascinating. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't work hard at those things as well — no one gets a get-out-of-jail-free card!
This article originally appeared in the December 2007 issue of Physics World
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Feb. 27 - Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney accepts the German Media Prize for his humanitarian and political work. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)
(ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION) Hollywood actor and political activist George Clooney was honoured with the German Media Award in the southern German town of Baden-Baden on Tuesday (February 26). Oscar winning Clooney has always made a point of the fact that just acting in and directing or producing movies was not enough for him. For years, Clooney has been championing the cause of people in the Sudanese crisis region of Darfur where he has been visiting refugee camps and also made documentaries. Clooney is currently residing in the German capital Berlin working on his new film 'The Monuments Men'.


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There is nothing like the joy of camping out at night with those close to you. Camping isn't just a favorite pastime for a reason. However, while camping can be fun, you need to plan for many things when taking a trip. This article has some helpful advice that will prepare you for a great camping adventure.
Allow everyone in the trip to have a say about the location. Talk about where you wish to see. There are a lot of choices in the United States that it may make it hard to pick only one. You can select a family vote on to make it easier.
When purchasing a brand new tent, always set it up at home once before taking it camping. This will allow you to get the experience needed for erecting your tent and make sure there aren't missing pieces. This will also eliminate the frustration associated with setting up a tent.
Take a first aid class, especially if children are camping with you.Be sure to research as well.
A bandana or handkerchief should be brought along with you. These can be used in a pinch if you need a potholder, like drying your hands or holding a hot pot.
You can easily start campfires using dryer lint to kindle your campfire.Collect the lint in your clothes dryer to bring with you. Keep a simple plastic bag right next to the dryer and put the lint in there. This allows you to just get your kindling ready when it is time to go.
Emergency kits are one of the most important things to bring on a good thing to have prepared for any camping trip. Take precautions for wildlife too, and take precautions for them.
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Duct tape can be used to solve many different situations. It works quickly in a pinch for tent holes, tent holes, shoes with worn soles, sealing mosquito nets, sealing up your mosquito netting and many, and so much more.
Kids love to camp, but they need structured activities. They may not be used to thing like fishing or campfires.Teach them about these things ahead of time to ensure a great trip.
Talk to your children and friends about the dangers and risks of camping before heading out on your journey. It is simple to show them which plants they know what to avoid in the wild.
If you pet is accompanying you on your camping trip, don't forget his leash. Many folks are fearful of dogs. You must always respect other campers. Also, dogs can cause damage if you let them run free, dogs can get into trouble and cause damage to the site if not supervised.
As you can see, there are many things you can do ensure you have a great camping experience. Use these great tips so that you have a safe, enjoyable camping trip with your family.


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Mike Golch is today's musicmeister, and he says he wants to hear some Sixties rock. Glad to oblige, Mike.
The Dave Clark Five, "Can't You See That She's Mine?" The DC5 were often seen as competition for The Beatles, but their sound was different: where The Beatles were an example of the Merseybeat sound, the DC5 were famous for the Tottenham sound. This was their fourth single in the US and it reached #4 in 1964.
The Beau Brummels, "Laugh Laugh" This was released in 1964 and rose to #15 on the Hot 100. The Beau Brummels were from San Francisco, and their producer was none other than Sylvester Stewart, later to find his own success as Sly Stone, frontman for Sly & The Family Stone.
Status Quo, "Pictures of Matchstick Men" Status Quo was a British band who released this in 1968. It reached #12 on the Hot 100 that year, and it was super-easy to play.
Amboy Dukes, "Journey To The Center Of The Mind" That's Ted Nugent on guitar… but you knew that. Their one big single, it reached #16 in 1968.
The Electric Prunes, "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night" Recorded in late 1966 and released the following year as their second single, it reached #11 on the Hot 100 in 1967. I remember someone here thinking "The Electric Prunes" was a band I just made up.
That's Monday's Music Moves Me for May 15, 2017.
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The global addiction of central banking stimulus – Contagion spreads to Spain as 10-year edges to 7 percent. Life in a perpetual quantitative easing world.
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Financial markets around the world are now desperately dependent on central bank stimulus. The US recovery is largely dependent on the Federal Reserve funneling loans into the system via the quantitative easing process and other archaic forms of money development. It is interesting how the Greek stock market rallied this week merely on the notion that pro-bailout parties will be elected and thus allows even more debt to be injected into the system. Yet this does not solve the core problem that too much debt is swimming in the system. Central banks do not create any real tangible product in the economy. They have the incredible power to inject resources into banks and thus create "money" in the real economy. Yet this only happens if banks lend this out to consumers instead of using the funds to speculate in complicated global money making schemes. The whipsaw behavior of the market highlights the massive addiction to central banking stimulus we are in.
The Euro crisis reaches a critical stage
With record high unemployment in Spain and downgrades hitting, the Spanish 10-year bond crossed a troubling threshold this week hitting 7 percent:
This is a critical stage here especially with Greek elections approaching this weekend. But the problem is with any addiction, at some point you have to keep taking more and more of the drug simply to get the same impact:
"(SF Gate) The "markets are telling us that they're unconvinced by the bank bailout and that the next step is that the government will have to concede, capitulate, and go for a sovereign loan," James Stewart, head of macro research at AX Markets in London, said in an interview with Mark Barton on Bloomberg Television's "Countdown." "That seems to me quite likely, and even now I think it's moving on from Spain to Italy."
Spain's 10-year yield climbed 16 basis points, or 0.16 percentage point, to 6.92 percent at 5 p.m. London time after rising to 6.998 percent, the highest since the euro was introduced in 1999. The 5.85 percent bond due in January 2022 fell 1.07, or 10.70 euros per 1,000-euro face amount, to 92.64. The yield has jumped 70 basis points this week."
The contagion is spreading across Europe. The politics are complicated but desire for more and more bailouts are running short:
"(Reuters) But German Chancellor Angela Merkel rebuffed pressure from EU partners and the United States for Europe's most powerful economy to underwrite debt or guarantee bank deposits in the single currency area."
This run on the banks is nothing new and it is apparent that those within the system have been pulling out deposits from Spanish banks for some time. Apparently seeing your fellow neighbors with a 25 percent unemployment rate and youth at over 50 percent might make a few question the sustainability of the economy:
Yet here in the US the Federal Reserve has been acting as a ward for the banking system by bailing out the biggest banks at the expense of the public. If we look at the balance sheet at the Federal Reserve we realize the economy really hasn't improved:
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The above is astonishing. If the economy were truly in good shape, the banks would take back these "assets" and liquidate them back into the market. Instead, they sit in the balance sheet of the Fed with little audit oversight and banks receive trillions of dollars of injections and buffers. This has been going on since 2008 and what we get is national banks are using this money to speculate internationally even though they are using the full faith and credit of the United States. And you wonder why we still have a record 46,000,000 Americans on food stamps and most Americans saw their net worth evaporate by 40 percent between 2007 and 2010? The addiction to central banking stimulus serves one party primarily and that is the global banking system. The fact that the markets are "rooting" for the pro-bailout party in tiny Greece opposed to what system will best aid their working class should give you a perspective of what kind of system we are now in.
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JD said:
It won't have a happy ending!
Hopefully the US can minimize the danger to our markets but I'm not convincedJune 15th, 2012 at 5:30 am
Ray said:
This website needs a Facebook like button. I enjoy this website.June 15th, 2012 at 9:40 am
therooster said:
We're all looking to the wrong entity for a solution. Our debt problem won't be solved by more of the same and the elite are relegated to a specific role. The marketplace must take responsibility for monetizing assets (such as PM's), add to liquidity by way of circulation and do so debt-free. This will actually allow debt to be purged and removed as Gresham's Law reverses. Gresham's Law is predicated on FIXED bullion values (people held on) , not floating values. The USD's ultimate purpose is not that of a currency, it may surprise you. Its ultimate design is to act as a real-time measure to real-time gold-as-money in a new paradigm where real-time and real-time reflection is key. This was never possible before the 1990's. The floating dollar's currency role has been a stop-gap "band-aid" on route to its role as a measure in support of gold and acts to bridge the debt-money paradigm and the real-time gold-as-money paradigm.June 19th, 2012 at 9:40 am


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Older readers may remember the made-for-TV movie The Day After. The 1983 production described the aftermath of a nuclear strike on Lawrence, Kansas, which was notable for being completely commercial-free after the detonations.
Of course, these weren't the only movies made about nuclear holocausts – On The Beach, By Dawn's Early Light, Fail Safe, and Doctor Strangelove, among others, kept Americans constantly aware of the horrors of nuclear war (not to mention still-vivid images of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
Novelists got into the act as well: in addition to Clancy, Robin Moore (who wrote The Green Berets and The French Connection) penned a story about some home-grown terrorists detonating a nuke during the State of the Union Address, in his book The Trinity Implosion. A number of senior NATO officers collaborated on two volumes, The Third World War, and The Third World War: The Untold Story while noted writers Whitley Streiber and James Kunetka created Warday.
While this may be a fascinating history lesson, I can hear you asking, "What does this have to do with the real world?"
A few days ago, I ran across an interesting article in The Washington Quarterly, entitled "The Day After: Action Following a Nuclear Blast in a U.S. City." Unlike the works mentioned above, this piece is non-fiction. William J. Perry and Ashton B. Carter (Clinton's Secretary and Assistant Secretary of Defense, respectively) and Michael M. May (former director of Lawrence Livermore National Lab) approach the topic from a disaster-preparedness point of view: "What will the United States actually do on the day after prevention fails?" [Remember, to crisis-management types, a disaster is always a "when" proposition, not "if"].
In a similar vein to the Chatham House report we looked at back in March, Carter, May and Perry examine the decisions and actions required after a nuclear attack. Pointing out that such an attack would be "the most catastrophic single event in the nation's history and the worst possible failure of public policy," the authors set a likely scenario – the detonation of a 10KT device in a major city – discuss the "grisly effects," and posit some possible reactions.
In doing so, however, they emphasize a major flaw in our nation's preparedness posture: the fiction that state and local governments will be able to manage such a crisis by themselves. In fact, after a nuclear detonation, state and local government – if they survive at all – would be almost immediately overwhelmed, requiring prompt Federal intervention, without awaiting the formality of a request from the governor(s) of the affected state(s).
The Department of Homeland Security has mandated that all state and local governmental units prepare "all-hazards disaster mitigation plans" complying with the National Response Plan and the National Incident Management System; there is not, however, a functional equivalent plan (yet) on the national level.
One might think, given the distinct possibility of a nuclear attack on a U.S. city, that the federal government would have already developed a realistic response plan specific to this scenario that marshals the resources of all the agencies. Remarkably, such a plan does not yet exist, although one is being drafted.
Of course, given the marginal grades earned by DHS in various GAO audits, any plan developed is liable to be fraught with errors, omissions, and ambiguities (see, for instance, my November 30, 2006, post here). And given the current administration's efforts to completely politicize all aspects of the Federal government, one probably should not anticipate any great improvement.
One aspect of any eventual response that is not discussed, however, is the need for hundreds or thousands of trained responders. Many of these responders, of course, come from the National Guard and Reserve units – most of which are stretched to the breaking point, courtesy of the Iraq folly undertaken by the Cheney/bush administration.
Carter, May and Perry point out that "the probability of nuclear terrorism, although it cannot be quantified, is not zero and is surely increasing as the number of sources of fissile material multiplies." While a terrorist group could conceivably obtain either a full device or fissile material from a middle-Eastern government, it is unlikely that such a group would store the device on a battlefield. More plausibly, as the authors note, a group like al-Qaeda could purchase a device (or material) from a rogue nation like North Korea. Either way, a terrorist group's first priority would be to get the weapon into the United States.
It is imperative, therefore, that we bring our troops home as rapidly as possible and make them available for response here in the U.S. They must be trained and equipped for the tasks expected of them – something about which the Department of Defense has been singularly lax; we can and simply must have "the military you would like to have."
The Department of Homeland Security must be completely revamped, with proven professionals, not political cronies, in positions of authority. Funding must be provided, without being diverted to no-bid (and often, no-show) contracts for chosen corporations.
And last, but not least, we, as Americans, must begin accepting the need to prepare ourselves: we must obtain the training and supplies needed to survive on our own pending a government response, we must develop and practice emergency plans at home and at work, and most importantly, we must hold our elected officials responsible for serving us, not special interests.
[Cross-posted to Out of Iraq and Watching Those We Chose]


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The Arcadia Spectacular lands in Bristol with a Plump!
Many of you will be aware of this incredible feat of human engineering, the light show and pyrotechnics extravaganza, the sheer presence of the Alien craft itself, and the great music that has accompanied its shows throughout its development. Indeed our Plump Djs were asked to board the craft back in 2013, to perform sets at Glastonbury and their beloved Boomtown festival that same year. This season the Arcadia spectacular lands in Bristol, and we are lucky enough to be tagging along for the ride of our lives. The show is set to engulf the entire city with its undeniable gravity, in what many heads are tipping to be 'the most important show in dance music, and the electronic arts ever to be held in Bristol' Following this mega event, we can announce that the most mega of after parties is being held at the legendary Motion venue. Here our boys have managed to land themselves one of the best slots in town. The Plumps are confirmed to be playing an exclusive set on Friday 4/9/15, featuring much new music from their forthcoming album, with a twist. As they have recently re-mastered their classics from the vinyl era, you will be taken on a journey back in time to a place where their sound was born. Its fitting that their dear friends, and local heros from Blow Pop are hosting the event. A team that have been working together for over 15 years now, have promised a party of epic proportions. This performance will be recorded for prosperity via Evermix TM, and available shortly via Penguin UK. More details to follow. Tickets and mo info: http://www.arcadiabristol.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ArcadiaSpectacular/photos/a.1029521423727123.1073741843.249572235055383/1029521527060446/


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If you can answer these questions, you don't need this presentation: If everything is an object, why does "2.toString()" throw an error? What is the value of function(a,b,c){ return a+b+c; }.length? What is the scoping level for JS variables? How can you implement private members in a JS object? How can you implement inheritance in JS? Is it possible to enforce a specific context on a JS function?
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Wednesday, August 10, 2016
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- John Knight said...
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- tskware said...
I have nothing against Bridge. He seems like a good CDN QB. But the way the rules are set right now there is little incentive to have any CDN QBs on your roster, unless they are better than any import QBs available (which seems unlikely). Or unless they suspect the league will create an incentive next season. Is he that good of a QB or are they desperatley looking for a backup QB with experience?
- August 10, 2016
Why not ???????
- August 10, 2016
It remain a very sad comment that the "Canadian" Football League does not give some incentive for team rosters to employ a Canadian QB as part of heir roster.
- August 10, 2016
Great decision! This guy has as much in-game CFL experience as Mitchell Gale and has tons of physical tools. He's been learning CFL systems for a good whilte. And those are things we need in our backup QBs considering our increasingly fragile 30-something starter.
Bridge was only expendable for Montreal because they had so many qualified backups (Glenn, Cato, Crompton, Bridge, now Vernon Adams). Jones was smart not to trade for Rakeem Cato but instead to wait for one of them to shake loose.
The fact that Bridge is a Canadian is a nice bonus. It's about time we had more Canadian QBs in the league.
- August 10, 2016
- Heptiro said...
Want to see why they picked him up? Look at any 3rd down plays where he was the QB. No stopped once. That's why. We need a strong backup now and BB could be it. Who cares if he is National or International?(I still hate those terms) Why not Canadian and American? Not Canadian or American? How about International?
In any event as I said before if he is good he stays if not he goes.
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Sad news. A lovely guy who lived a great life in a proper way.
Pink reel seats on your rods?!
"I like netting your fish...DROP OFF YOU SIMMO...."
Shocking news, liked him when doing co commentary on radio good footballer too. RIP ray.
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Thanks 4thebird and everyone else!I am going to email that friend with the information and find out what she thinks. Even though all of us assembled on that evening know much about animals (and particularly birds), we were wondering about the mysterious for at last half an hour. I didn't know anything about albatrosses and that wiki article link was quite a mouthful. So many species, categories, etc. From what little I can tell and on her descriptions, it looks like one of the "great albatrosses." Possibly one of the "Wandering Albatross" subtypes. The bird they found was apparently all white, but none of the descriptions I've skimmed thus far have a truly all white albatross unless it is a male, or under a certain age.Do any of you have any idea how and why this probable albatross would have shown up in the extremely urban environment of NYC in the late 1980s? My own guesses were these:#1. Some exotic animal collector had brought the albatross to the tristate area illegally and it had gotten loose (or less likely, the bird was being legally transported and somehow got loose, but was not reported to any of the local animal welfare agencies).#2. Least likely and requires a convoluted mess of events: this albatross may have been in some sort of zoo or aviary from the southeastern U.S. and during one of the major eastern seaboard tropiocal storms, hurricanes, etc., was injured, disoriented, or other and somehow made it up the east coast.We tried to ask her a lot of specifics about when and how (year, month, seasons, etc.), but her memory was scarce on many of the surrounding issues other than the bird itself.Curiosity almost satisfied,Johnny
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Original fibro beach shack located 400m from an unmanned beach. Terrific ocean views. This is one of the first houses in the area and as such offers old fashioned beach shack accommodation. Accommodation consists of longe/dining room with solid fuel heater, kitchen, bathroom with shower and 2 double bedrooms. Outside there is a front deck with magnificent ocean views and a rear deck with views to the bush.Please note: The toilet is located outside, and there are only very limited cooking facilities
Separation Creek is located mid-way between Lorne and Apollo Bay on Victoria's Great Ocean Road. Renowned for its natural beauty and abundant wild life including Rosellas, King Parrots, Kookaburra's, Koala's and Cockatoos. Swim or sunbake on the beach, go fishing or surfing or just simply wander through the bush or relax and soak up the views.


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27th April – 4th November 2018
The mystical Orient – the countries and cultures along the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea – was already considered the centre of the world and the focal point of cultural and scientific knowledge thousands of years before the founding of the Roman Empire. The vivid paraphrase "Ex oriente lux" – light comes from the East – gave the Orient its name. Similarly, light came to Europe, the so-called "Land of Barbarians", in the form of knowledge and wisdom, culture and lifestyle from the 6th century BC onwards.
Sciences such as astronomy, astrology, mathematics, philosophy and medicine as well as the four world religions – Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism – originate in this legendary region, today referred to as the Near and Middle East. The world's oldest library and university were also situated there.
Europe was always full of admiration for this foreign world that grew increasingly captivating and intriguing over the course of the millennia. Mythical treasures, exquisite artefacts, strange goods, arts and aptitudes captured the interest of the Occident. Exquisite herbs and seasonings, medicinal plants, beguiling fragrances, fairytale-like jewellery and gemstones, ornate fabrics and carpets and countless other things became coveted objects of desire, the possession of which was deemed a sign of open-mindedness and sophistication.
Just like the consumption of oriental coffee and tea has become indispensable, the Orient has had a lasting effect on occidental living spaces for thousands of years and left its indelible traces.
With a display area of nearly 1,000 square metres, this year's exhibition at Halbturn Palace offers a unique insight into this formidable culture. Over 600 exhibition objects tell the story of a stunning world that appeals to all the senses and has the power to enchant. Installations true to the original, such as a densely outfitted bazaar as well as the reproduction of a harem, allow you to experience everything up close and demonstrate that the former lure and magic of the Orient are alive to this day.
Mystical Orient
(Annual) Exhibition at Halbturn Palace
27 April to 4 November 2018
Tuesdays to Sundays as well as holidays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Schloss Halbturn and its baroque park are just 45 minutes from Vienna and Eisenstadt. The site's culinary and cultural offering make it a great place to take a day trip, any time of year! You can also recover here after a shopping trip to the designer outlet in Parndorf, which is only 15 minutes from Halbturn.
Combine your time at the exhibition with a trip to the "Antikes und Wein" wine store, or enjoy the excellent cuisine of the Knappenstöckl restaurant. Please contact us for your individual program at kulturverein [at] schlosshalbturn [dot] com.
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27th April – 4th November 2018
Tuesday to Sunday and public holidays 10am to 6pm
Groups by appointment daily
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Good morning, dear readers,
King David writes:
"Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace."
How many of us can attest to this verse? Raise your hands now. :)
I want to tell you a true story. One that I am not proud of. Over a month ago, I was very ill, and it was just past the anniversary of Joshua's death. I was sick at heart and plain sick. I coughed and coughed until I could no longer sleep lying down. It was right before the time I moved to a recliner and sat up to sleep at night, when it happened.
Weary worn one morning, I went out to water the goats. I had a pressure in my chest and I had to think about breathing. As I placed the clean pail of water in its spot, my new neighbors were walking toward the boundry wire fence that was between us. I'm certain they did not know I was within hearing distance.
The wife said, "Those goats stink . . .," and she said a cuss word.
I thought I misunderstood her words. Did she just say goats? The new neighbors that backed their RV right up against the goat pen when they had other hook ups to choose from? No, I thought.
Then, the husband said, "What?" She repeated her words, and ended with, ". . . don't they?" Hoping her husband would agree, I imagine.
Well, let's just say I lost it. Let's also say that Satan knows exactly when to tempt us to sin. I was not the perfect person and I was not having upright thoughts, so I had no peace. I blurted out to my new neighbor, "What did you just say?"
The wife blew up and yelled words at me. I shook my head in disbelief, and I said, "It makes no sense whatsoever that you parked your RV right up against the goat pen."
She said more words and I raised my voice, and scolded, "You are not a nice lady," and I walked away.
Why, pray tell, did I not keep my blooming mouth shut? I was caught off guard that's what. My defenses were down. I had no tolerance for anything. I'd just went through the ninth anniversary of my son's death.
Now, dear readers, I am NOT making excuses. I am showing you what happened when Satan caught me off guard. We must as often as possible keep our guards up against his fiery darts. The results of those darts tortured me for three weeks.
I had no peace about the situation with my neighbor, and I wanted to apologize to her. No matter that she began the conflict. God doesn't care who starts the fight. As followers of Christ, we must as the scripture teaches turn the other cheek. I did not. I boldly spoke words I should have kept to myself.
When I told my son Jason what I had done, and that I was seeking an opportunity to appologize, he said, "Mom, that's good, because you may be the only Bible she'll ever read."
Gulp . . . The knot I nursed inside my gut melted.
Did God bring the perfect timing for me to say "I'm sorry"? Yes, indeed, and now the wife and I speak over the fence and I am grateful.
Father God, thank You for allowing me to right a wrong. My words spoken in anger are taken away and forgiven by You and my new neighbor. In Jesus' holy name. Amen.
Until next time . . . guard your hearts in prayer from the Tempters darts.


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What do you think it's like just now to be a GI somewhere at the end of the earth, say in mountainous Nuristan in eastern
Is it like being a grunt in
Or is it more like being a member of the Chosin Frozen advancing in a different direction, that is, retreating down the
Maybe it's like being a trooper a couple of years ago in
Over the weekend, still another outpost was attacked in the distant reaches of
You don't hear that kind of talk from the Oval Office these days. Its occupant has fallen silent on the subject of
The word is that the president is now undecided about how decided to be about this war. But the Taliban are decided. That much is clear with every casualty report.
"It is important that we take our time to do all we can to get this right," says
Privately? But it's no secret where this secretary of defense has come down in this ongoing debate/discussion/general milling about. He's somewhere in the hazy middle between the equal but opposite counsels being offered the president. Wars may come and go
On one side of this not very private discussion at the highest levels is the commander in the field Gen.
All wait to see what course the president will choose, or will let others choose for him. In the meantime he dithers and Americans fight and die. Right now he seems less a commander-in-chief than a mediator. Or maybe just a community organizer. Of a bickering community. That's another bad sign. For divided we fall.
Then a new president, a military man, took office and dropped a not so subtle hint that he was ready to use nuclear weapons to end the conflict. A truce followed within the year. Maybe it helped that Ike had chosen as his secretary of state a cool, clear-eyed and unwavering anti-Communist of long standing and considerable diplomatic experience: John Foster Dulles, the John Bolton of his time. A mirror image of Communist China's longtime foreign minister, Chou Enlai, who finally met his match in Mr. Dulles. If there had been an Onion at the time, its headline might have read: Communist Meets Calvinist.
Whatever the reason, the war stopped. There is still no formal peace in Korea, and American troops still stand guard on the DMZ, but Eisenhower's truce has lasted half a century. Not bad for a president his critics depicted as just an old duffer.
Urged on by the likes of
Now the nation waits to see what
There is one clear, unending source of counsel this president needs to pay close attention to. He needs to meet with his vice president and take careful notes. Yes, that would be
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As a young criminal defence lawyer, I was taught that I must approach every case with the assumption that all police officers lie all of the time. I was taught that to analyze their anticipated evidence from any other starting point would be gross negligence. As a white, middle-class man from small-town Ontario, I was shocked and incredulous about the idea of using this assumption even merely as an intellectual exercise. Over the years, however, employing this analytical discipline in more than 1,000 cases has invariably produced evidence of its soundness in instances where there was room for a police officer to fabricate.
Many times the lies were merely exaggerations. Often it was a question of omitting truths as opposed to distorting them. Far too often, however, analysis of this type has exposed instances of blatant fabrication on critical points of evidence.
In these last instances, I am not referring to fabrications borne out of the existence of contradictory evidence from another human being whose credibility was also in issue. I am referring to lies in the face of completely independent evidence: audio and videotapes, computer records, the laws of physics, and notes made by the officers themselves.
As a result of my own experience, 25 years later, I teach new defence lawyers the same thing I was taught.
In his response to the Star series, "Police Who Lie," the head of the Toronto police union, Mike McCormack, argues the more than 100 written judgments collected by investigative reporters David Bruser and Jesse McLean where judges found police fabrication do not support what he argues is the position of the series, that police perjury is "wrecking our justice system."
I believe that it does. Moreover, both I and Mike McCormack know full well that "100 or so" written judgments represent only the tip of an iceberg of police fabrication. McCormack knows that the majority of trial judgments are given orally (and therefore not reported so that they are discoverable by the media or public at large). He knows as well that many judges reflect on police fabrication in their judgments but acquit on other grounds rather than make a finding that should be devastating to an officer's career. He knows as well that the Crown attorneys he blames for "questionable litigation decisions" will not even prosecute cases where there is independent evidence police officers would be perjuring themselves.
Why do so many police officers lie? There are several obvious answers. Most obvious is the fact they are human beings. They do it because they believe they are doing the right thing, that the end justifies the means. They do it because they didn't understand how to do the job correctly and honestly in the first place. They do it because, like any group made up of human beings, some are lazy and look for shortcuts, some are too proud to admit they are wrong and some are simply dishonest.
Unfortunately, I fear some also do it because they learn from the example of other officers that it is OK. And because they learn from the fact that their bosses won't acknowledge it is happening and from the fact none of their colleagues ever get charged for doing it that they can get away with it.
I fear some do it as well because they are under pressure to fill a role that shouldn't be necessary in a free and democratic society and for which the police were never intended: social control. We all share responsibility for substituting arrest quotas and new jails for fair and decent social policy.
McCormack writes of the police that, "We're the front-line troops." It's a telling remark. Aside from the obvious paramilitary overtones and the indication of a police belief that they are somehow at war with certain Canadians, it also explains lying: all's fair in a war.
But the police aren't soldiers at war. They are, instead, an integral part of the civilian justice system. As the Supreme Court of Canada noted in its 2009 decision in Harrison — a case involving police fabrication the Star series did not refer to — Canadians have a right to "expect police to adhere to higher standards." They have a right to expect them all to tell the truth, all of time.
Reid Rusonik is a Toronto criminal defence lawyer and managing partner of Rusonik, O'Connor, Robbins, Ross, Gorham & Angelini, LLP.


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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Wordless Wednesday: Wood for Brick Oven Pizza
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Do you have a brick oven? I would love one! I like the smell too :-)ReplyDelete
That should make a lot of pizzas!ReplyDelete
I hope you enjoyed your pizza lol :-)ReplyDelete
Fantastic! Happy WW!ReplyDelete
Mmmm, I love brick oven pizza! I bet yours was super tasty!ReplyDelete
Great shot. Now I'm thinking of pizza!ReplyDelete
I played too. Mine are here and here.
I love pizza, but I don't think I ate one from a brick oven before.ReplyDelete
You cannot beat a pizza from a wood fired oven, yummo!ReplyDelete
Save some of that wood for winter days... if we get cold enough ones. That will be a great pizza.ReplyDelete
Nothing like a fire in the fireplace on a cold winter morning.ReplyDelete
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oh I bet you make great pizza!!ReplyDelete
There's a lot of nom-noms in that pic:@)ReplyDelete
i've not tasted pizza from the brick oven. i'd love to try one.ReplyDelete
Yum! I look forward to see the pizza :)ReplyDelete
Hope you are enjoying your week Carol!
hmmmmm, pizza! With broccoli and bacon.ReplyDelete
Mushrooms and spinach!ReplyDelete
Or plain.
Or sausage..or
Totally making this mañana! BBQ Chicken!ReplyDelete
Ooohhhh...a good wood fire smells sooo good!!ReplyDelete
Think of the stories that go along with each growth ring of the wood!ReplyDelete
Oh brick ovens...food tastes so much better!ReplyDelete
Fantastic perspective again.ReplyDelete
Pizza! Did you make lots?ReplyDelete
Wow I imagine that it takes quite a bit of wood to heat the oven hot enough to bake a pizza. It would be a good way to keep warm in winter, but summer eye yi yi. Well cutting splitting and hauling all the wood for the oven hopefully burns enough calories to be able to indulge in yummy brick baked pizazzReplyDelete
It looks like irregular tiles in that image.ReplyDelete
But now I am also thinking of wood-fired pizza :)
I bet that PIZZA is deeeeLISH! xx Send me some!ReplyDelete
I'm sure it's really good cooked in there!!!ReplyDelete
Just looking at your picture I can taste the delicious flavor! I'm jealous that you have a wood oven for pizza, one of my dreams!ReplyDelete
That is my favorite Wordless Wednesday post because you have evoked so many senses (the smell of the fire, the taste of the crust, the sight of the pizza being taken from the oven, the textures of melted cheese and chunky sauce) with this one picture.ReplyDelete
Thanks for all the nice comments!ReplyDelete
Beautiful photograph! I wish all homes came with a brick oven.... I wouldn't stop making pizzas if that was the case...heheReplyDelete
That is so cool, do you own one? Best pizzas ever :DReplyDelete
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That's a lot of wood...how good is the pizza they make?ReplyDeleteReplies
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Never thought of making a wood fire based pizza instead of a brick oven. It looks and sounds tasty. I stumbled upon your blog from the Wordless Wednesday Link party and I love the layout!ReplyDelete
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It must be too hot to be near the over. I live near a pizza shop but I didn't see firewoods. They must have a different type of oven. :)ReplyDelete
What a fun photo... Yes feed the ovenReplyDelete
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