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Chasing the night across the sky
Posted on April 22, 2013
As the red sun set on the waves of the Mediterranean to end another day in Lebanon I knew that it was time to go. I packed the ragged remains of my clothing, my camping gear, and an array of gifts into my backpack, and set forth for Beirut airport. My ticket was booked, destination: home.
Visiting Syrian Refugees in the Bekaa Valley
Posted on March 21, 2013
It was shortly after leaving the calm surroundings of a Bekaa Valley winery that we stumbled upon on one of the countless Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon. Suddenly, our afternoon of wine tasting seemed ridiculous. We were greeted with smiles, waves and motioned to come and say hello by the camp dwellers. All of them had come from war-torn Syria to the safety of Lebanon, to wait until the war over the border ended. Many of the people had been in the camp for more than six months. Families lived in hastily erected homes, made from wooden frames nailed together, with plastic sheeting slung over the top of them. The camp was becoming more and more permanent, some of the homes now had doors, corrugated iron roofs and, thankfully, heating. It was a saddening sight.
Getting to know the Levant
Posted on March 18, 2013
Withdrawing from the culture I grew up with this past year has been an eye-opening experience for me. I was born and raised in England, and since 2008 had been living in Canada. Both countries are very wealthy with a high standard of living. Creature comforts are what we expect. We don't appreciate them. Now, living in Lebanon, and Armenia before that has really made me appreciate the ease of life I was born into, and how easy life will be for me when I return home.
Why I should be Lebanon's Minister of Transport (sorry, Ghazi Aridi)
Posted on February 25, 2013
Beirut's traffic system clearly wasn't designed for traffic. At busy parts of the day one might as well walk to the other side of the city. It would surely be quicker. I would also say it would be healthier, If it wasn't for fumes generated by the unrelenting stream of cars that populates the place. It is quite ridiculous.
The conflict in Syria, spilling over the borders
Posted on February 4, 2013
The way it's raining tonight is fitting for the current situation. I'm at a bus station in Beirut, trying to find a shared taxi home, and instead find myself staring up at the bullet holes riddling the windows of a Syrian coach. We're only 100 kilometres from the border of Lebanon's war-torn neighbour, and the affects of the conflict could not be any clearer.
First impressions of Lebanon
Posted on January 29, 2013
I've been in Beirut for just over 24 hours now, and tonight I find myself camping on a rooftop with a group of startled pigeons. The government imposed 'quiet time' at around 11pm of automatically switching off the power generators that almost every family has in Lebanon's capital hit a few minutes ago. Power cuts occur every day, so generators are essential here. I'm left with the faint sound of the highway, the odd car on the streets below, and sporadic voices in the distance speaking a language I don't understand. Being up on the rooftop is calm.
Attempting to escape the former Soviet Union
Posted on January 25, 2013
The well-trodden path of the 259 bus to the edge of the city marked the start of my final departure from the Armenian capital of Yerevan. My stay in this city nestled in the mountains of the south Caucasus had stretched to six months. I had no plans to hang around for that long, but life decided to weave that path. I'd enjoyed my time, but now was my moment to leave. In a few days we'd cross the Anatolian plateau and arrive in the metropolis of Istanbul. I'd be back where I'd started half a year earlier.
Time to move on again
Posted on January 14, 2013
I feel that recently I've neglected this blog, so today I decided an update on my present happenings and future plans was necessary. I've been based in Armenia for six months now, and during that time I've managed to get myself all over the place in this region. It's been nice to always have Yerevan to come back to, but now it appears the time has come to move on to pastures new. Next week I'll be packing my backpack and for the umpteenth time catch the 259 bus to the edge of the city to set off hitchhiking again. This time I will not return. My destination: Istanbul.
Snowboarding in Tsaghkadzor – Armenia's premiere ski resort
Posted on January 10, 2013
Since the weather in Armenia made a turn for the oh-shit-it's-cold a couple of months ago I've been getting rather frustrated. Normally, my autumn season in Canada consists of talking about snowboarding, buying new snowboarding gear, and endlessly watching snowboarding movies, whilst waiting for the mountains to open. This year, not so.
Photos from a multinational hitchhiking adventure
Posted on January 7, 2013
A couple of weeks ago I returned to Yerevan from Turkey's capital, Ankara. It had been a visit on humanitarian grounds, and hitchhiking there and back was done out of unavoidable necessity, rather than for the hell of it. Money was an issue – buses in Turkey were far more expensive than those on my previous visit to Iran – especially as everything in the country was comparatively expensive when comparing to Armenia.
What I did this year
Posted on December 30, 2012
In 2012 I quit my job, left Vancouver on a bicycle, arrived in San Francisco two months later, hitchhiked the length of the Baja peninsula and back, visited England briefly, hitched across Turkey a couple of times, checked out the diverse and beautiful country that is Iran, lived in two sketchy apartments in the former Soviet Union, co-shot a documentary film, visited Hawaii, got to know my brother better, survived one apocalypse, took countless river/ocean/lake showers, had one hallucinogenic inflatable boat ride, slept in gas stations, barns, sheds, by the roadside, on beaches, in forests, in the desert, and on endless peoples floors, had one run-in with a wild pig, and one with a bear, drank too much Armenian Coffee, chased far too many animals around, Couchsurfed a lot, travelled over 18,000 kilometres overland and took a few photos of the whole thing.
A tribute to a lost friend
Posted on December 26, 2012
Today, I had planned to write a '2012 in review' post, looking back over the past year of my care-free adventuring. However, this evening I realised there was only one subject I should shed some light on. An hour ago I received the tragic news that a friend I made a couple of months ago had sadly passed on. Compared to this, my own year of frolics pale into comparison. Another young life has ended too soon, and I feel it is necessary to share my experience of fellow adventurous soul Haruhisa Watanabe, also known as Hari-san, who is sadly no longer here.
Hitchhiking Yerevan to Ankara – 'til the cows come home
Posted on December 12, 2012
The first thing I remember was being frantically shaken out of my slumber. "Ben! Wake up! Something is moving outside the tent!". I stirred and looked up. I could see a silhouette. As I lay in the damp field in my tent, a hundred or so yards from the highway, I could just make out the faintest hint of pre-dawn light through the partially transparent tent fabric. Every minute or so I could hear the faint rumble of traffic on the distant road. Right now, the sanctuary of the tarmac seemed so far away. I kept still, listening for noises outside the tent. We were somewhere in southern Georgia, an hour or so from the Turkish border, and our wild-camping spot had been discovered.
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Iran to Yerevan by hitchhiking. An eventful adventure
Posted on December 10, 2012
It's snowing outside and the windshield is misted up, but the driver still insists on driving at roughly 1,000mph through the unlit, badly maintained single lane mountain road. Welcome back to Armenia.
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Whispers of Masouleh
Posted on December 7, 2012
I first heard about Masouleh from an Iranian girl I got talking to on a plane between London and Istanbul. In the months that followed, I kept hearing snippets about the beauty of this mountain village in northern Iran. Finally, almost half a year later, I made it. It didn't disappoint.
Leaving Tehran once again
Posted on December 3, 2012
As I sat on the kerb in the hazy Tehran sun I thought back on my time in Iran's capital. We'd been back in the city from our excursion around other parts of Iran for a couple of days. I felt sad to leave again. This time we wouldn't return. At least during this visit.
Kashan's amazing bazaar, and fax machine repair stores
Posted on November 29, 2012
I never thought I'd spend an evening imprisoned in a fax machine repair shop in an Iranian backstreet but now it's happened. At least there was baklava. Oranges. And fax machines.
Diary of a morning on the road in Iran
Posted on November 26, 2012
You wake. On the floor of a dark basement. Covering every square inch of the ground are rugs. Rugs everywhere. You hear the faint sound of snoring from across the room. Someone stirs. The light is dim. You check the time. 9:21am. It's time to get up.
The sites of historic Esfahan
Posted on November 23, 2012
Esfahan, located 340 kilometres south of Tehran, was James and my next stop following our stay in Yazd. On the bus to the city we got talking to a German traveller, Onno. He was fun, had a great sense of humour, and was down for hanging out in Esfahan. Our gang became a three.
Yazd: Gorgeous, Ancient, Magical
Posted on November 21, 2012
Yazd. I'm still not sure what to say about this city. It's simply magical. I absolutely love it. The narrow alleyways, the architecture, the ruined buildings fused into the new. It's an unforgettable place.
Wandering the alleys of Yazd
Posted on November 19, 2012
Coming from the modern urban hub of insanity that was Tehran, to the ancient desert city that is Yazd was quite the contrast. If only I didn't feel sick for most of our time there. The place was amazing, inspiring, a joy to take in.
Thoughts from a sleeper train hangover in Iran
Posted on November 16, 2012
It's strange. I often have more writing inspiration when I feel terrible. It must be a 'fighting against adversity' thing. Last night was a time of excess. It was James' birthday, so Shahriar, my buddy who is hosting us in Tehran, had people over. Today, we're travelling to Yazd by sleeper train, and I feel sick as a dog.
The Tehran Bazaar, Spontaneous Rug Purchases, Dominos
Posted on November 7, 2012
Suddenly, I realized we'd been in Iran less than twenty four hours, and already James was buying himself a Persian rug. If ever there was a stereotypical reason to come to Iran then this was it. At least it was a nice rug.
The long road to Iran
Posted on November 5, 2012
As the bus winds its way through the mountains, shafts of light from the hot sun make their way through the cabin of the coach. The switchbacks are relentless. Up and down we go. The road surface – it's mixed. Sometimes smooth as silk. Others, we bump our way over the passes.
This weeks Armenian hitchhike: A photoessay
Posted on October 28, 2012
Today, I thought I'd do something a little different – A photoessay on this weeks Armenian hitchhiking adventure. Some background for you: I'm currently living in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. I'm working a couple of jobs to make ends meet, and on my days off, I go hitchhiking with my friends. It's fun, I meet interesting people, and – very importantly – it's cheap.
Getting drunk in a graveyard: Another hitchhiking adventure
Posted on October 18, 2012
After the fourth consecutive vodka shot at 1pm on a Tuesday I decided I should probably try to eat as much as humanly possible. It was clear that this was a case of 'get the foreigner drunk'. It was working. I needed to soak up the alcohol. Another successful hitchhiking adventure around Armenia was unfolding.
It's raining rocks and copper pipe: The joys of Armenian Time, Health & Safety
Posted on October 12, 2012
As I ran for cover from the raining chunks of concrete, I came to the conclusion that perhaps Armenian Health & Safety isn't quite as important as it is back home. Successfully evading death once again, I found refuge under the canopy of the garage opposite my Soviet apartment block and waited. One of my neighbours, an old guy of about 60, exited the building, before rapidly retreating back inside to avoid a good old fashioned braining. The guys reconnecting my apartments' gas supply were clearly cowboys.
Guest Post: Freeloading on the buses
Posted on October 9, 2012
Earlier this year, my mother, Elizabeth, reached the ripe old age of "you're too old to drive – here's a free bus pass," (60). To thank the British government for their kindness, she decided that there was only one thing for it – a freeloading bus mission all the way to the Big Smoke – London. Here, she tells her story, cappuccinos and all.


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The Next Web Conference held annually in Amsterdam (although branching out later in the year) is one of the biggest European gathering of entrepreneurial minds and start-ups in the tech scene. This year was no different and there were appearances from many famous & soon-to-be famous techpreneurs, some really interesting new startups and even an appearance from Willem-Alexander, the new King of The Netherlands.
It kicked off with a bang and The Next Web Conference co-founder @Boris explained how there is never a set theme for the conference but rather themes tend to emerge from the featured presenters. Whilst there is still no official word on what the themes of the conference were, several became apparent to me throughout the keynotes and I will touch on these throughout…
Seven Key Themes from The Next Web Conference 2013
Quantified Self Movement & Wearable Devices
There is a lot of talk about how wearable computing will allow for frictionless data collection to build up a knowledge base around personal data. This has already been seen on a smaller scale with devices such as the Nike Fuel Band and the little known Memoto however with devices such as Google Glass and the rumoured Apple iWatch hitting the consumer market over the next year there is set to be an explosion in the popularity of wearable computer devices and as many as 100 million wearable devices sold annually by 2016. It is predicted that soon data chips and sensors will be so cheap that the cost of including them in a product becomes effectively zero, meaning you may find them in many more consumer goods than you might expect as they become like the LED clocks put into pretty much every electrical device and all white goods in the 80s and 90s.
Human/Machine Partnerships for Decision Making
Whilst artificial intelligence isn't quite at the stage that it can be fully trusted to offer the informed judgement of a human, it can still rapidly collect lots of information and present it in a useful way so that users can interact and make the final call. In some cases these devices are expected to learn from our input in a similar fashion to the way that you can select default computer applications and settings. This should allow for much more efficient use of the deluge of data that is being collected by so many devices.
The Loyalty Revolution & Data Driven Marketing
As businesses start to collect more data about their users and integrate their various data sources there will be much more known about he consumer automatically. If you frequent visit a coffee shop in London and then you fly to New York and get a coffee in the same brand of coffee shop, they will be able to know that you are a regular customer and potentially even learn about your preferences and cater to them. This can be especially powerful in big-ticket service offerings however it will soon easily be utilised by everyone down to the new brand with just two stores.
The Power of Social Media
An important shift to understand about consumers is that your highest spending customers are no longer necessarily the most important for long-term business success. Often times your most vocal customers can have a bigger impact on your bottom line so if you can ensure that you go the extra mile in your service and then amplify their output. This trend may lead to social media CRMs that link customer data with publicly available social information so you can effectively track mentions of a brand. As an example some wineries already offer users on Instagram a more visual tour than those who are simply there for the wine tasting.
The Evolution of Social Publishing
Within the world of online publishing brands like The Huffington Post are starting to realise that the social element is just as important as the premium content. For that reason comments appear front and centre to get full attention and encourage interaction even as users engage with the content. This emphasises the need for live updating pages that don't refresh for every interaction especially where content such as video is being presented.
Exploiting the Media Game
Ryan Holiday spoke of how easy it is to abuse the media desire for information by using sites such as HARO to get mentions in the press. In many cases it could even prove to be more beneficial than a traditional press release by acting as a Trojan horse for product advertising. To take advantage of the system you should create a story that generate fear, anger or excitement and most importantly that actually features your product as part of the story to ensure its inclusion. The media are hungry and don't have time for fact checking in many cases. However on the other side of the equation it is important to consider whether we actually want things like this to be possible and whether we should be doing more to present and protect transparent journalism that isn't simply based on pageviews and ad impressions.
DiSSS: A Framework for Accelerated Learning
This is Tim Ferriss's model for accelerated learning and becoming world-class in almost anything you want to achieve. It's important to note that he classes being world class as being within the top 5% of people in a field. This means of any 100 people trying something you would perform within the top 5, however you would still potentially suck if going up against a real professional in a field sitting within the top 1%. When applied to business this model and its weakness suggests if you are going to hit a market where you are still learning it's important to adopt a blue ocean strategy or hit a niche market if you want to gain prominence and become a leader within your market.
Deconstruct – Take out all obstacles for first five sessions of starting anything new to give yourself the biggest chance of developing a habit.
Selection – Keep in mind the pareto principle ak.a. the 80/20 rule and attempt to focus on the 20% of things that will give you the biggest/fastest results. You can even completely remove certain elements to simplify the process.
Sequencing – If you don't have to learn skills in a certain sequence then try to play around with the order, just because you are taught in a certain sequence doesn't make it the right one. / Remove elements
Stakes – If you really want to succeed with something then you need to fully commit with accountability in place. Hold money with a friend or use services like Stickk to encourage long-term commitment.
A final note…
Many of the themes discussed at The Next Web Conference 2013 seem to tie into the idea of a Converged Web where data on the web is structured and integrates seamlessly with various devices, analytics platforms and personalised portals. Another way to think of this can be seen in this tweet…
This! – "@werner "no longer you will put content on devices, instead devices will act as window to your content on the cloud" #tnw2013
— Daniel McClure(@danielmcclure) April 25, 2013
A Photographic Journey Through The Next Web Conference 2013
Visual Notes from The Next Web Conference 2013
A nice touch throughout the conference were these visual notes projected onto the main screen of the stage after every keynote summarising the discussions. I got a few photos however this slideshow from the creator is a little more comprehensive.

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CNN has apologized to the Connecticut hardcore/metal masters HATEBREED after publishing an article which erroneously listed them as one of "white power" bands whose names "defiantly express feelings of hate or violence." After it was revealed that the white supremacist responsible for the massacre earlier this week at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin was a white supremacist skinhead who played in two white power music bands, END APATHY and DEFINITE HAT, Lonnie Nasatir the director of the Anti-Defamation League's Upper Midwest Region wrote an opinion piece urging members of the media to "shine the light of day on the hateful lyrics and subculture, so that more people will speak out and reject their disturbing and sometimes violent message." In the article, he named less than a dozen of "about 100 to 150 white power bands" that exist in the United States, and included HATEBREED in the list. Usurprisingly, this caused many of HATEBREED's fans to send angry tweets to CNN pointing out the error, with the bandmembers themselves posting the following message on Twitter earlier today: "Again @CNN loses all respect. First they ignore the #FREERANDYBLYTHE story now they slander us. We demand a retraction & an apology. #hacks" CNN eventually caught wind of its mistake and removed HATEBREED's name from the list. In addition, the following message was posted at the bottom of Nasatir's article: "A previous version of this commentary incorrectly included the band HATEBREED in a list of white power bands. HATEBREED is a self-described 'hardcore metal' band. CNN regrets the error." (via Blabbermouth)
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Jesus frees a demon-possessed man
26 Jesus and his disciples sailed to the Gerasenes' land, which is across the lake from Galilee. 27 As soon as Jesus got out of the boat, a certain man met him. The man was from the city and was possessed by demons. For a long time, he had lived among the tombs, naked and homeless. 28 When he saw Jesus, he shrieked and fell down before him. Then he shouted, " What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don't torture me! " 29 He said this because Jesus had already commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had taken possession of him, so he would be bound with leg irons and chains and placed under guard. But he would break his restraints, and the demon would force him into the wilderness.
30 Jesus asked him, " What is your name? "
" Legion, " he replied, because many demons had entered him. 31 They pleaded with him not to order them to go back into the abyss.t32 A large herd of pigs was feeding on the hillside. The demons begged Jesus to let them go into the pigs. Jesus gave them permission, 33 and the demons left the man and entered the pigs. The herd rushed down the cliff into the lake and drowned.
34 When those who tended the pigs saw what happened, they ran away and told the story in the city and in the countryside. 35 People came to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone. He was sitting at Jesus' feet, fully dressed and completely sane. They were filled with awe. 36 Those people who had actually seen what had happened told them how the demon-possessed man had been delivered. 37 Then everyone gathered from the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave their area because they were overcome with fear. So he got into the boat and returned across the lake. 38 The man from whom the demons had gone begged to come along with Jesus as one of his disciples. Jesus sent him away, saying, 39 " Return home and tell the story of what God has done for you. " So he went throughout the city proclaiming what Jesus had done for him.
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P G Wodehouse's many tales continue to be read and enjoyed some 37 years after his death at the age of 94 on St Valentine's Day – sadly only weeks after he was knighted. Now, this audiobook collection of his finest works on CD and MP3 gives you a new way to enjoy these tales of the English upper classes. In A Few Quick Ones, Wodehouse offers us a tantalising taste into the lives of some of his favourite characters as he brings them together for a party. Characters such as the wonderfully named Oofy Prosser, Bingo Little, Jeeves and Wooster and the Drones are all invited to the shindig that is a must-buy for any avid Wodehouse fan.
The 10 stories in this collection include 'The Fat of the Land', 'Scratch Man', 'The Right Approach', 'Jeeves Makes an Omelette', 'The Word in Season', 'Big Business', 'Leave it to Algy', 'Joy Bells for Walter', 'A Tithe for Charity and 'Offy, Freddie and the Beef Trust'. Wodehouse's characters are well known for their cheeriness and jollity that is evident throughout many of his tales, and each one boasts a bonhomie personality that draws you in, thanks to Wodehouse's unique writing style.
Wodehouse's most popular characters are Jeeves and Wooster, who also appear in this unique collection of stories on audiobook. Numerous Wodehouse stories have been transformed into CD audiobooks that bring Wodehouse's works to life with the humour and charm that he was famed for, so why not kick off your collection with this rather jolly little cluster of japes, high jinxs and general English twitery?


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Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. Topless Pizza Lunch.
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance
A professional; is someone who can do his best work when he doesn\'t feel like it.
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill scoured by a whiff of arrogance
Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
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The Prometheus Paris Metro Stop
We've posted before about Ridley Scott's upcoming film Prometheus, but the latest stunt really pulls out all the stops and transforms an abandoned Paris Metro stop into an ad for the film that lets riders imagine themselves on an alien world for a few short moments.
(Source: adverblog.com)
Ad-Supported Afterlife
The notion that people will be able to download their consciousnesses into computers has been the stuff of science-fiction for ages. Humorist Tom Scott (of Klouchebag.com fame recently developed the idea of an ad-supported hyperreality that he demos in the video above. A sardonic take on the possibilities afforded by technology.
(Source: adweek.com)
How to Diffuse a Klout Bomb
In the last month, there have been two memes which have taken aim squarely at Klout's self-importance and ultimate meaninglessness. The first, Kloutbombing, is in reference to the way that your friends (or enemies) can list your online social presence as being influential for topics that are irrelevant or irreverent (e.g. farts, diapers, etc).
The second development is a bit more bitter:
Klouchebag is a service which pokes fun at the delusional and annoying behavior of Twitter users and others who attempt to create a high Klout score by ranking the "klouchiness" of Twitter styles. Funny.
(Source: whattheklout.com)
Amazing Underwater Content
In GoPro's latest spot for its HD cameras, two divers take the viewer into an amazing underwater world. Truly a captivating spot.
(Source: stellar.io)
Pepsi's New Branded Content Strategy
In this new spot for Pepsi Max, NBA rookie of the year Kyrie Irving poses as an elderly man while he takes on some "regular guys" at a pickup game in New Jersey, with predictable results.
(Source: reddit.com)
Hilarious and Depressing Anti-Copywriting
If you've ever seen an ad in a magazine or on a billboard and thought "that copy is terrible and suggests its own bitter response" then you're going to like The Depressed Copywriter, which features all manner of depressing/sarcastic takes on advertising that's reminiscent of Adbuster's "Culture Jam" series of the early 2000s.
(Source: adweek.com)
Uniqlo's Alarm App?
For its latest campaign, Japanese clothing retailer Uniqlo has partnered with Grammy nominee Cornelius (aka Keigo Oyamada) as well as Yoko Kanno to create a beautiful sounding and looking alarm clock application that wakes users with gentle song. Check out this beautiful video as well. It's available for free from the App Store and Android Marketplace.
(Source: mediabistro.com)
Gorgeous Branding Reel - MiTV
Argentinian TV station MiTV shows off this gorgeous new branding reel to get the look and feel "just so."
(Source: stellar.io)
"We're Better Together"
This great spot from Wing Young for El Circulo really puts the viewer on edge thanks to taking on the tried-trope of good guys splitting up in horror movies.(Thanks, Koumiko!)
"The Employees First Effect"
In this "tribute to the makers of our world," IT company HCL Technologies provides an epic voiceover narration and accolade to the "employees" out there, which, according to HCL Technologies, is just about everyone. So way to go.
(Source: swiss-miss.com)


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Indian is a land of diversity with unique experiences, things to do and places to visit. Rendezvous with the wild in jungles of India; conquering the thrilling rapids of Zanskar in Ladakh is a unique adventure in itself; or experiences like camel safari in deserted lands of Rajasthan, snorkeling in the crystal clear waters of Andaman and Nicobar Islands- if you are beginning to get excited already, let us open a plethora of unique activities you can experience on your tour in India.
You can be a corporate team or an international traveller searching for offbeat Indian tours or experiences. We, at Thrillophilia, can help you plan your trip. Our adventure trips are more than just conquering the rugged terrains, lush green forests and the scenic splendors. It is a cultural experience too, where you get to know the local nomads of Ladakh, participate in a tribal wedding in Bheemeshwari or Rajasthan and so much more. Time to get thrilled with Thrillophilia and have a lifetime experience.


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China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock Corporation Ltd. (CSR) announced Tuesday that it has secured a 1.36-billion-yuan order (216.2 million U.S. dollars) from Hong Kong, for the provision of high-speed trains.
The CSR will supply high-speed trains to Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway (MTR) for the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link which is expected to enter service in 2015, said a CSR statement.
The awarding of this contract marks the first time the Chinese mainland will deliver its high-speed trains to Hong Kong.
Based on CSR's CRH380A model, the trains will be customized according to MTR requirements, the CSR said.
Each train will have eight compartments and can run at a maximum of 380 kilometers per hour.
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Entries By Forrest
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this is where it all happens. its the focal point of the evening, the headliner, the crowd bringer. Traumatic, or otherwise this could always be viewed as a learning experience.
Strange though, after all this is said, we look to black holes. The Event horizon, where everything is swirling the drain, yet we never see anything get devoured by these celestial waste disposals. The "Event" never happens to be viewed..
Posted By Forrest On 08.19.2012 @ 11:27 pm
An idea to grasp with your minds hand, and interpret through inspection under a fragile lens we call self.
Posted By Forrest On 08.13.2012 @ 10:52 am
I dont need it, But I want it. No one does much without thinking about obtaining it, and nothing would get done in this world without it.
Posted By Forrest On 08.11.2012 @ 8:47 pm
Props are used on sets for plays, they are used to hold things in place, and as an extra hand.
Posted By Forrest On 07.27.2012 @ 8:50 pm
to molest. To bother, Really Annoying. Extremely persistent. Being in a rush. ummmm wha else hassle could mean being in a bad mood so youre really irritated
Posted By forrest On 05.31.2012 @ 7:59 pm
The electronic eyes intermingling with my mind kept me up all night. That night has been the rest of my life. And the suburbs would never let us go.
Posted By Forrest On 06.03.2011 @ 11:40 pm
In my childhood, foreign meant something unknown, different. Now, I think of of foreign as something of intrigue, new, opportunity.
Posted By Forrest On 04.22.2011 @ 8:12 am
In my childhood, foreign meant something weird unknown. Now it means something beautifully intrigueing.
Posted By Forrest On 04.22.2011 @ 7:56 am
I am perfectly fine. I have perfectly executed my own ostracism. I am perfectly capable of correcting things, but I find the isolation peaceful. I am perfect, you are perfect, we are all perfect.
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Blossom, Bubbles, Buttercup. THE POWERPUFF GIRLS! I remember this show. The villains too! Like Mojo Jojo and Him, I never got why they called him HIM him and he looked like a woman.
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Orange pieces of rough rock like substance. Coral reefs are being destroyed killing fish habitat
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i feel like i am disconnected from everyone i work with. no body understands what's it's like to be separated from the one thing you love the most in this world. my daughter is my life. i would give anything for her even if it's illegal. i love that girl more than everything else all wrapped into one.
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Hand over the cash you pig before i let my tommy gun settle things
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I cannot pick a favourite out of those two pokemon. Johto is my favourite region and the legendaries are astounding. It would kill me to pick between the majestic Lugia and the Awe-inspiring Ho-oh
I cannot pick a favourite out of those two pokemon. Johto is my favourite region and the legendaries are astounding. It would kill me to pick between the majestic Lugia and the Awe-inspiring Ho-oh
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Ghost types are the greatest... They're all spooky and stuff :3
Tough choice, but I have to go for Lugia. Makes me remember when I played Silver for the first time... good memories. SoulSilver could not capture the soul the original Silver had.
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"Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites." - Karen (Johto Elite 4)
I chose Ho-Oh.
I think Ho-Oh is better because of it's design, moves, and most definitely stats.
But Lugia is SUPER close.
I just love both but my favorite is Lugia, he is awesome and cool, just for the fact that he is psychic/flying. he can use water types atack! i love it
Definitely Ho-Oh. It looks cooler, has a similar move pool to Lugia, but it also has fewer weaknesses and an awesome Attack stat. Plus, I collect them and have way too many XD.
Use Wolveram as a referrer if you do join!!!!Credit goes to pkmnfn for the Ho-Oh bar
I've always preferred Lugia, it justs seems more beastly and powerful than Ho-oh
Ho-Oh, it just looks more fierce
So, I herd u liek mudkipz
See the rainbow, use the rainbow, win with the rainbow.
Ho-oh can destroy that strangely-typed sea serpent any day.
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Lugia....I like its design more...and moveset.
I like both but i like Lugia better.
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Both are great Pokemon, but if you ask me to choose one, I'd pick up Ho-oh.
It's an amazing Pokemon in my view, and his Sacred Ash is much more cool than Lugia's Aeroblast.
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Goals are important to have so I have challenged myself with a doozy. The self assigned goal is seek out and create the perfect grilled cheese sandwich using only bread, butter and cheese.
What does this have to do with a photographers blog? Nothing really. But if you want to challenge yourself just go to the store and pick up the 3 ingredients, head back home, set up a couple lights with bounce and some diffusion, tripod, camera, dial in settings, make sandwich, cook said sandwich, pick out appropriate plate, plate sandwich, photograph sandwich, style sandwich again, photograph it again, repeat. Once done, shove into yer face.
It's a fun process.
Here is an attempt I made in my kitchen. Still tweaking things a bit working with ratios and cooking times but soon the world will know my super secrets. I should start using descriptive words like World's Best Grilled Cheese Photographer for SEO purposes. I Googled it, there is no photographer at the top spot which means this a huge open market for this sort of grilled cheese sandwich photography.
All joking aside, does this look good enough to eat or should I immediately stop shooting food? Would you eat this?
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Denis Medri (of rockabilly/1950's Batman and steampunk Spiderman characters fame) is back at it, this time with the cast of Star Wars reimagined as characters from a 1980's high school movie. He did well. I especially liked Han, Chewie, C-3PO and R2. Oooh -- and Obi Won and Yoda. And Lando. I pretty much liked them all except the bad guys. Boo on you, baddies! Anybody wanna smoke some reefer behind the gymnasium?
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Thanks to Lydia R and joeychuckles, who if they could go back in time and tell their high school selves one thing it would be to not waste so much time dating Ashely R. for so long only for her to turn around and cheat on you! Haha, I'm sorry -- am I projecting?
These are two Buzz Lightyear and Woody action figures crafted by toymaker/modder Luis Eduardo Vargas Montoya, who has a pretty sweet name. My name is Luis Eduardo Vargas Montoya -- you killed my fish when I went on vacation and were supposed to feed them, prepare to take me to... / Continue →
This is Geekologie reader Doug's home-built Guitar2-D2 electric guitar. He said at first he wasn't gonna send it to me because he felt like that would be too narcissistic of him. Then I think he chugged a couple beers and warmed up a little. I've avoided spreading this link ... / Continue →
Remember Jed Henry's series of Nintendo game characters as traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints? Well he's back with even more, this time featuring some Pokemon, Kirby, Star Fox, Mario Kart, Donkey Kong, Street Fighter (not Nintendo, but WHATEV) and Castlevania action... / Continue →


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(This is one of my many brain dumps, intended to connect the dots between things in my own mind. Today's brain dump is on environmentalism, economics and ethics)
It might be already obvious: The problem with most environmentalist movements is that the basic premise on which they are built, conservation, does not play nice with the supreme catalyst at the core of modern capitalism: a concept known as creative destruction.
According to Joseph Schumpeter, creative destruction is all about the perpetual replacement of the "old" by the "new". The fuel that capitalism runs on is consumption, and the driver for consumption is innovation. When the old is torn down and destroyed, it makes the requisite room for the new and improved, and thus keeping the proverbial fire (of consumption) burning, and consequently the metaphorical wheel (of capitalism) rolling.
The colloquial American saying goes "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". Strange saying coming from the land that gave us modern capitalism as we know it. To survive and prosper, the Capitalist needs to fix it, break it, put it back together, improve it, recolor it, re-brand it, repackage it and sell it at a higher price (and offer the old one on special!)
From a purely environmentalist (and arguably, a somewhat socialist) viewpoint, creative destruction is synonymous with waste and wastefulness. It is a seldom disputed fact that innovation is necessary for progress, but the problem with innovation is that it is not benevolent, as it is primarily driven by the quest for capitalist gain. Such a quest for material wealth, in turn, has been historically proven to have an element of boundless greed and general disregard for ethics (and sometimes plain stupidity). Any keen environmentalist will tell you that although innovation is a good thing, you can often have too much of a good thing. Too much innovation, or rather, deceitful marketing tactics masquerading as innovation, is actually harmful as it drives unnecessary consumption, and too much consumption leads to too much waste (and large credit bubbles that take down the world's financial markets, as it happens) . All of this creative destruction leaves us with a bunch of "old" stuff that no one loves anymore. Unloved, old stuff get thrown away. Throwing stuff away gives us piles of trash that we have problems getting rid of later, and that often end up poisoning the Earth's soils, rivers and oceans.
The notion of conservation, on the other hand, is not based on "fixing it", but rather on reusing and recycling it. It is an ethical concept, as opposed to creative destruction being an economic idea bereft of abstract moral considerations and philosophical value judgments. Innovation is alright as long as it is "carbon neutral". Carbon neutrality pisses businesses off for the very understandable fact (from a business viewpoint) that is an expense. Expenses erode profits, and the Wheel of Capitalism doesn't roll as smoothly as desired.
Thus, it doesn't matter which lens you look through at the issue at hand (environmentalist or capitalist), the fact remains that capitalism and conservation are inherently incompatible, if not polar opposites!
Or are they?
The way I see it, it is not so much an incompatibility of concepts as much as it is a rift in expectations and assumptions that shape how individuals and organizations on the far ends of the environmental awareness spectrum act. Environmentalists expect businesses to have some ecological decency and happily bear the expense of being "carbon neutral" or "green and clean", oblivious to the fact that the business world does not come with a built-in element of environmental sensitivity, simply because being environmentally sensitive does not, by default, make you any money. Hell, it costs you money!. Organizations built for the purpose of commercial activity do not have a behavioral drive to tailor their commercially-purposed activities to be environmentally sound. Volumes have been written on how this sort of ecological awareness can be introduced to corporate cultures through various means, from arm-twisting legal frameworks to gung-ho citizen arrest style aggressive environmental activism by the likes of Greenpeace and others.
Ethics and capitalism are independent concepts. Product life cycles and biological life cycles share nothing but the word "cycle". Universities have only recently introduced ethics classes to business programs. Environmentally-sound business practices are not inherently incompatible with profitability, it's just that most businesses today just do not know how to make them efficiently compatible with their core activities. That is, I believe, due to mistaken impressions in the business world about what what being environmentally responsible as a business entails, but also – more importantly – due to the fact that clean technology is expensive because it is new technology. In the long run, clean technology would come into mainstream industrial technology, and businesses would change their traditional practices to be efficient and profitable while observing their environmental impact, and would no longer shun it on account of higher costs. Alas, as a wise economist once quipped: "In the long run, we're all dead". So let's take a look at what could be done in the short run.
The way I see it, environmentalists need to adopt a strategy based on the English proverb that goes "If you can't beat them, join them!". I know what you're thinking now. You probably read the last sentence in the previous paragraph about the futility of long-term activism, and the above quoted proverb and thought: "Hani, are you saying we do away with our quest for a cleaner world and join the greedy capitalist mob in an unwavering march towards ecological demise?! Traitor!"
Cease fire! No, I am not advocating any of that at all. I am not saying that us environmentally-enlightened folks should defect to the dark side and embrace the fruits of ethically-devoid capitalism now with total disregard for what's going to happen to our environment, which by then would be our legacy to future generations. All I am saying is: businesses are great with marketing. They know how to make a marginally new (or even old) idea look brand new and have you reaching for your credit card for something that you probably don't need, but merely want. Environmentalists need to learn how to make their ideas and causes as cool as commercial innovators make their products, and that's for something that all of us actually need: a cleaner world! Environmentalists need to watch entrepreneurs and pick up the skills necessary to market and sell environmental activism and awareness. In other words, environmentalists need to quit being environmentalists and start becoming environmental entrepreneurs.
Environmental activists need to start putting less emphasis on answering the question of "how we can make them care?" (them being environmentally-unaware individuals and organizations) and more on "how can we make environmental sensitivity cool or economically-encouraging?".
If we build it, they will come.


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text: Researchers have shown that high-throughput sequencing (HTS) detects the earliest known signs of potential cancer relapse faster and in nearly twice the number of leukemia patients as flow cytometry, the current gold standard for detecting minimal residual disease (MRD). Specifically, the emerging technology using HTS of lymphoid receptor genes was applied to the diagnosis of T-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma. The collaborative study, led by scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Hutchinson Center; Seattle, WA, USA), compared the effectiveness of the two methods to detect MRD, a major predictor of cancer relapse, in 43 patients diagnosed with acute T lymphoblastic leukemia, which is most common in children under age 7. The results showed that by sequencing patient T-cell receptor genes before and 29 days after chemotherapy, their presence in the blood could be measured precisely and provided a more accurate prediction of leukemia relapse. HTS detected MRD in 22 patients, whereas MRD was detected in only 12 patients by flow cytometry, currently the primary method for detecting MRD in the United States. These and additional results of this study, which represents the first use of HTS to detect MRD in a clinical trial setting, found HTS to be at least 20 times more sensitive than flow cytometry in detecting MRD. "Our research indicates that HTS offers many advantages over flow cytometry," said Harlan Robins, PhD, associate member of the Hutchinson center. "Since HTS can detect any preidentified clone and is performed in a centralized lab, it consistently generates reproducible and reliable results regardless of cancer type, using the same process for disease detection and tracking. Furthermore, HTS is highly automated, cost-effective, and objective, whereas flow cytometry is more time consuming, relies on the skill of the operator, and is therefore subject to human error," explained Robins. "The ability to predict disease relapse sooner with high-throughput sequencing would give hematologists the option to treat cancer recurrence earlier, offering a greater chance of survival. Longer term, this technology potentially also could be used to initially diagnose leukemia and lymphoma much earlier than we can today," added Dr. Robbins. Dr. Robins and colleagues had adapted traditional high-throughput technology to specifically sequence only variable regions of T- and B-cell receptor genes. The Hutchinson Center has patents pending on core technologies, licensed exclusively to Adaptive Biotechnologies (Seattle, WA, USA), that were employed in conjunction with HTS used for this study. The results of the study were reported in the May 16, 2012, issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine. Related Links: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Adaptive Biotechnologies University of Washington


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By Moira E. McLaughlin
The Washington Post
KidsPost likes summer just as much as you do: the beach, the family cookouts and the long days playing outside. (Oh, and then there's that whole no-school thing!) That's why this year, we decided to find the best outdoor toys. We looked far and wide, asking toy companies for their best new products, calling toy store owners to see what they think and then finally getting some experts — kids — to test the toys.
Here's what we came up with: water toys, new scooters and things that fly. They're all perfect for hanging out at the park with friends, chilling in your backyard with your brothers or running around at the beach with your cousins. Summertime, and these toys, are meant for outdoor fun with the people you love.
By Bridget Bernardo
Authors Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black reunited in Providence, R.I., on May 15, for events celebrating Children's Book Week and the 10th anniversary of The Field Guide, the first book in their series, "The Spiderwick Chronicles." The fantasy books are about three siblings who move into the Spiderwick Estate and discover a world filled with mystical creatures. Since collaborating on the series, which was made into a feature film in 2008, the authors have remained friends while releasing many of their own successful books.
DiTerlizzi, an author and illustrator, is writing the final volume of his action-packed "WondLa" trilogy. The Search for WondLa is the first book in the series. It tells the tale of 12-year-old Eva Nine, who is raised by robots in an underground world and has never seen a human being. Later, when her home is destroyed, Eva moves aboveground, finds a scrap of paper with "WondLa" written on it and searches for other humans, which carries into the second book, A Hero For WondLa. The third book, The Battle for WondLa, will be released in 2014.
If you're like me, you spend most nights of the year looking forward to coming home to a freshly
updated DVR — or, if you don't have cable, new episodes waiting for you on Hulu.
But those days are gone for now. We've entered summer's desert of TV, where your
once-dependable new episodes are now few and far between.
Don't worry. We'll get through it together. There's an oasis of entertainment if you just
look a little harder. Here are some of my recommendations...
Kinky Boots tour Columbus?
Just "say yeah" (as composer-lyricist Cyndi Lauper wrote as the exclamation point and title
to one of her best songs) – but you might have to wait a season or two to say that before it
actually gets here.
No question that
Kinky Boots should tour and will tour after winning the 2013 Tony for best musical last
week, along with five other Tonys, including best score and choreography.
The only question, for Columbus, is how soon.
In this episode of Sidebar,
The Columbus Dispatch's podcast on Columbus-focused events, movies, music, dining and
Dispatch staffers Susannah Elliott, Kevin Joy and Mary Nguyen discuss Broadway in
Columbus, brony conventions and their worst celebrity interviews.
Sidebar is also available on iTunes and Stitcher.
For more on upcoming theater performances in Columbus, see our Summer Fun Guide.
For more on TrotCon and to learn your brony name, check out Jackie Mantey's Pony Party story in this week's Columbus Alive.
After the Batman and Star Trek franchises were rebooted, it was only a matter of time before Superman got in on the action. Produced by Chrstopher Nolan, the man behind The Dark Knight series, and directed by Zack Snyder, The Man of Steel imagines Superman in the modern world, recast in a dark mold full of doubt about himself and his superpowers.
While The Dark Knight and Star Trek added layers to already deep stories, Man of Steel relies too heavily on special effects because of its weak plot development.
The cast includes Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner, Amy Adams and Henry Cavill. The story reintroduces General Zod (Michael Shannon), one of the standout villains from the original Superman II.
There is so much violence and computer-enhanced turmoil that it has a numbing effect on viewers, according to Dispatch critic Frank Gabrenya.
"The mayhem becomes grotesque after a while, so that one more shot of bodies flying through concrete walls and tractor-trailers jackknifing through the air triggers mere shrugs instead of astonishment," Gabrenya said in his review.
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2. | online dating | ||
A fairy tale, play dating that two partners (usualy teens) partake in to get themselves ready for real life relationships. The false concept of "internet love" is embraced all to easily and leads to more heart ache *winkwink* and troubles for the more desperate person involved. Cyber sex soon follows as the relationship gets "stepped up" to the "next level"*winkwink*. Maybe he can get some pictures or phone sex out of it if he's lucky, but he's not, she won't even tell him her last name. He ends up jerking off to text whom he hopes is written by a member of the female species(But he never knows) Not sweating it to bad because she did show him that one blurry picture. The relationship usualy ends as soon as it began and neither really cares, but they pretend they do. She might even fake like she's crying. He might say he's going to kill himself because she broke his heart. The truth is one of them found a hotter or more intresting person to online date or just got sick of the others daily sniveling. The cycle continues, rinse and repeat. No feelings shared just words that people forgot faces manipulated behind the scenes.
Online Dating.
Matt- Hi xGinax- hey Matt- How was your day? xGinax- Matt I have something to tell you and your not going to like it, but I can't hold it inside any longer. Matt- Okay umm what is it? xGinax- I can't do this anymore we just don't fit as a couple. Matt- Are you fucking joking! But you said you loved me! xGinax- I still love you! It's not you it's me. Matt- Don't do this to me, I need you in my life! xxxGina- Im so sorry please don't hate me ): Matt- But what about when you said you would meet me in real life and we would lose our virginity together. xGinax- Im sorry... Matt- Im going to go kill myself now! You'll never see me again! |
1. | Online Dating | ||
While almost universally panned, Online Dating can actually be a wonderful thing. People need to realize that not everyone online is fake, and that there are some genuine people out there. I know a couple that have been dating online for almost seven months, now. To the people that say internet love doesn't exist, they're WRONG. Love is love, no matter how far apart you two may live. End of discussion. Dumbass: How's the Online Dating going?
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Online Dating is where you call text or email the person which is your online gf/bf and send pictuers and talk on the phone and meet each-other in real life. Britt:did you hear Jenn and Hesch is online dating?
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A place where only desperate and/or ugly people go to meet. you may find yourself thinking "I can't belive i'm actually resorting to this" I am desperate so im going to do online dating to meetup with someone as a last resort only to find out they arent what im looking for or we wont last long together.
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A more than pathetic excuse for the release of sexual tension; often, these relationships occur between awkwardly prepubescent 16 year olds and 47 year old guys. Yes, we know about Gerold. Wow, Tye is totally online dating this chick he doesn't even know, nor will he ever. What a douchefag.
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a place 4 young kids 2 mess about and play with peoples emotions and thn find out their computer has been traced by a paedophile so mah ! your computer now mah blah foot!


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