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James Randi is undoubtedly the most famous skeptic in the world. From his debunking of Uri Geller to the JREF forums / website, he's been on my radar since I was a kid. He's rarely in the UK, so when I heard he was visiting I eagerly snapped up tickets for his only public talk, at the NSS's Conway Hall last Saturday. He was flanked by five big names in skepticism, and the sell-out evening didn't disappoint.
Richard Wiseman handled compere duties with aplomb, mixing magic and jokes, and seemed totally comfortable in front of an audience. Chris French then introduced the evening and gave some background on Randi, after which Simon Singh talked about his own fairly recent discovery of the skeptical movement. Unfortunately I have a problem with Simon Singh, as I was explaining to Abi on Saturday morning.
Some years back he wrote an article criticising a scientifically-dubious Katie Melua lyric. I cannot support him on this, as one day Katie will be mine and I clearly don't want to jeopardise our relationship. Simon actually brought this up – the article, not the inevitable marriage – during his talk, and it turns out that Katie had phoned him a couple of days later and arranged a recording of a scientifically-accurate version of the song. Excellent – I can now like Simon Singh, and clearly Katie is even cooler than I thought. Sigh.
Ben Goldacre was as cool as you'd hope, if unfortunately beset by technical problems. His entertaining talk was also a neat demonstration of how sharp and knowledgeable the audience were – he mentioned the historical practice of alternative medicine practitioners creating fake qualifications, adding it was something that continued to this day. A murmur showed we knew exactly who he meant, and he was able to continue without mentioning her name, which pleased everyone 🙂
Then came the full-of-energy Susan Blackmore, who I'd most recently heard reducing a catholic commentator to incoherent ranting on the Jeremy Vine show, and she didn't disappoint in person. She gave a presentation on her work on parapsychology, and her journey from believer to skeptic. She gave this up in the 90's, but seemed to indicate she might be getting back into it, which would be a nice development.
After a break it was time for the main event: Randi himself. He's weirdly familiar – I've seen / heard him countless times in the past few years, and seeing him in person is oddly surreal. He spoke for an hour on general skepticism, and showed a few clips of his most impressive moments on the Johnny Carson show: psychic surgery, and taking out Peter Popoff. I hope it's not too patronising to say that for for a 79-year-old he was remarkably spritely! Very much on top of things, completely comprehensible and as acerbic as ever. I hope I'm in such shape at that age. He was, as ever, a touch negative regarding the whole fight against woo – other speakers had the same sentiment, but didn't seem so bothered – but that's forgiveable, given how long he's been around!
This was first event of its type to be held in London, and seemed to go well enough that more will be arranged. Hopefully next time the speakers will be able to get into some decent skeptical meat. I enjoyed the evening, but it was designed to be fairly light and introductory, with even Randi giving a pretty unfocussed speech, and I'd love to listen to a proper dissection of a topic. Definitely worth going, though, and I got to see some of my intellectual idols up close.


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With the rise of medical Marijuana shops popping up all over Canada, it is becoming way more mainstream to find people indulging in what we all know as special brownies but these days you can pretty much find any type of food infused with Marijuana. Edibles can be a great choice when consumed responsibly, they are prefect for people who suffer from pain, nausea, or lack of appetite. Cannabis is actually a fat soluble, making it a prefect replacement for butter or oils while cooking.
The therapeutic effects to eating edibles are known and well-documented by many people across the world suffering from several illnesses. So what's the benefits of eating it instead of smoking it?
Sure, smoking it is the fasted way to deliver the THC and Cannabiniods into you're body and mind. But there are many benefits to eating edibles, such as:
- Your high will last longer, about 3-7 hours. Longer lasting effects don't require continuous dosing throughout the day/night.
- The high can be more intense.
- No harsh feeling on the throat, or damage to the lunges from the smoke.
- It causes more body-centred effects which are distributed more evenly throughout the body.
- Works more effectively for long lasting pain relief, muscle spasms, and other similar conditions. Although it takes longer to kick in, therefore isn't the most efficient way for immediate medical relief.
- You may get more of a "body High" because your body will feel more relaxed and may feel heavier.
Some things to keep in mind when consuming edibles is that you know exactly how much to eat so that you don't over do it or under dose. Start off eating only a small dose, wait at least an hour for it's effects to set in and if can't feel the effects, decide if you want to eat more and how much more you want to eat. Take your time and learn what dose is right for you.
Eating edibles on a full stomach will change the effectiveness of the high and the high won't hit you as hard. If you are new to eating edibles try eating a meal, than about a 10mg dose. Not vice versa. If you feel like you have eaten to much, eating a meal can actually push more of the edible into your system rather than dilute what's already there. Which is the opposite from what alcohol does.
Fall is well under way, and pumpkin spice is back in season! Let's pumpkin spice up those regular special brownies with a few of our favourite mouth watering recipes!
Making Quick & Easy Pot Butter
- Two saucepans
- Strainer
- 1/8 oz. weed (The weed doesn't have to be ground. You will later be straining the weed, anyways.)
- 1 stick of butter (1/2 cup)
- Melt the butter on low heat in the saucepan.
- Once the butter has melted, add the weed.
- Let the butter simmer for about 45 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes. – This is the step when the THC is extracted from the weed and absorbed by the butter.
- Strain the pot butter into the second saucepan.
- Refrigerate pot butter until semi-solid.
Spice up those Brownies
- 4 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate
- 3/4 cup pot butter
- 2 cups white sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin purée
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin spice
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Microwave chocolate and pot butter in large bowl on high for 2 minutes or until butter is melted.
- Stir until chocolate is melted. Stir in sugar. Mix in eggs, vanilla and purée . Stir in flour, pumpkin spice and nuts.
- Spread in greased 13 x 9 inch pan.
- Bake for 35 minutes
Pumpkin Spiced Pot Muffins
(This is a Small Batch Edibles Recipe.)
Makes 2 Muffins, you can double, triple, quadruple the recipe!
- 1 tablespoon of melted oil or butter (*Total, including 1-2 doses of weed butter)
- 1 Egg
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin puree
- splash of vanilla
- 1 1/2 tablespoons turbinado sugar
- 3 tablespoons whole wheat flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon pumpkin spice
- pinch of salt

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- Increase their fortitude save to a good progression from a poor progression.
- Hexblades have medium armour proficiency and proficiency with light shields and bucklers.
- Incur no arcane spell failure for using no/light/medium armour, light shields, or bucklers.
- Hexblade's curse is usable 1 + Cha mod times per day at 1st level, increasing by 1 every 4 levels after 1st (2 + Cha mod at 5th level, 3 + Cha mod at 9th level, etc.).
- Using Hexblade's curse is a swift action.
- You do not expend one of your curse uses per day if the target saves against it.
- Upon reaching 12th level, and at every even hexblade level after that, a hexblade can choose to learn a new spell in place of one he already knows. In effect, the hexblade "loses" the old spell in exchange for the new one. The new spell's level must be the same as that of the spell being exchanged, and it must be at least two levels lower than the highest-level hexblade spell the hexblade can cast.
- Arcane Resistance: Change the bonus to profane. The bonus has a cap equal to your hexblade level.
- Detect Magic: At 4th level a hexblade adds Detect Magic to their list of spells known. As a bonus spell, it cannot be traded for another 1st level spell. It disappears from their list of spells known at 11th level when hexblades can use it at will.
- Fundamental Detect Magic (Sp): A 5th level hexblade gains Detect Magic 1/day as a spell-like ability. This becomes 3/day at 8th level and at will at 11th level.
- Fundamental (First 1st-Level) (Sp): A 9th level hexblade gains a first-level spell of her choice 1/day as a spell-like ability. This becomes 3/day at 12th level and at will at 15th level.
- Forced Omens (Ex): At 6th level, a foreboding sense of doom travels with the hexblade, as candle lights flicker, fresh food turns green, or the air becomes stale. A hexblade adds prestidigitation to their list of spells known. See the spell description on pg. 264 of the Player's Handbook. If a hexblade already knows this spell, the character may choose a different 1st level spell. As a bonus spell, prestidigitation cannot be traded for another 1st level spell. At 8th level, a hexblade may cast prestidigitation as if augmented by the Silent Spell feat without using up a higher-level spell slot. At 11th level, a hexblade may cast prestidigitation as a spell-like ability, lacking both somatic and verbal components, but is still limited to their spell slots per day. At 14th level, a hexblade may cast prestidigitation a number of additional times per day equal to 3 + their Charisma modifier. At 18th level, a hexblade can cast prestidigitation at will. The prestidigitation spell disappears from their list of spells known at this level.
- Quicken Spell (Su): At 6th level a hexblade can cast one hexblade spell per day as a swift action, as long as its original casting time is a standard action or faster. She gains an additional use of this power at levels 8, 11, 14, and 18.
- Fundamental (Second 1st-Level) (Sp): A 13th level hexblade gains a first-level spell of her choice 1/day as a spell-like ability. This becomes 3/day at 16th level and at will at 19th level.
- Bonus Spell: At 11th, 14th, 17th, and 20th level, the hexblade gains an additional spell known. This can be any spell she could normally select, but must be two levels lower than the highest level she could normally learn.
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I have already been asked a few times to blog our new home and the changes we have made. I love reading this kind of post and am really proud of what we managed to achieve in just over a week. We have bought a three story townhouse and excluding the bathrooms which are still waiting for flooring decisions to be made, we have painted it from top to bottom and it is pretty much done. It's very much been a labour of love, I started buying things ready back when our offer was accepted in February and had pretty much decided how it would look before we moved in.
This is the room that made me fall in love with this house. It is exactly what I was looking for - a large kitchen diner with white units ready for me to throw in loads of pastel colours. I will eventually change the flooring but haven't decided what I want yet - these decisions are hard! The kitchen was already painted lilac and I had planned on repainting it mint, bought the new paint ready then changed my mind and have kept it lilac. It may still end up mint but for the moment I am enjoying it as is.
The kitchen before and after:
We haven't made many changes to the structure of the room apart from replace a hideous light above the table that looked like a UFO. Unfortunately I forgot to take a photo of it so cannot share the horror with you all! I have filled the white kitchen with pastel colours, added a big table that can be extended to seat 8 and have turned it into the kitchen of my dreams. It honestly looks better than I thought it ever could, I am so proud of it! I've tried to link to everything below...
Dishbunny Drying Rack
I haven't actually baked in this kitchen yet, I am a bit scared in case the oven isn't as good as the old one in the flat! It's not a fan oven but thankfully is still a double oven. I can't wait to get my first cake under my belt and have the girls round for a little tea party.
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The U.S. Senate voted to confirm President Donald Trump's choice for CIA Director Gina Haspel Thursday after months of rigorous debate from lawmakers.
Senators voted to confirm Haspel 54-44 on the Senate floor.
The vote came after a group of senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee voted against Trump's pick to lead the CIA Wednesday.
The committee voted 10-5 Wednesday in favor of Haspel.
However, Haspel had enough votes to clear the intelligence committee for Thursday's vote after Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia voted in favor of Haspel.
Haspel faced scrutiny throughout her confirmation process due to the fact that she had been previously appointed to oversee "enhanced interrogation methods" for the agency during former President George W. Bush's administration.
Haspel has over 30 years of history with the CIA. She joined the agency in 1985.
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Haspel ran a Thailand-based "black site" prison in 2002, which oversaw "the waterboarding and other harsh techniques" used to interrogate Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, suspected al-Qaida terrorists.
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view from the pews was an interesting one. In the ceiling of the little
chapel at Downs Crematorium in Brighton was a circular plaque that
contained the inscription "pax", as in peace. But there, in his coffin
beneath the plaque, lay Fergus Cashin, the notorious Fleet Street
maverick who had spent so much of his life savouring bar-room brawls
and legal battles.
He was hooked on the adrenalin rush that comes with conflict. Ferg was no pax man.
died earlier this month at the age of 81 and since then, Daily Mail
veterans Keith Waterhouse and John Edwards have been reminiscing about
his heavy-drinking antics during his 30- year career on the nationals,
during which he was a sub, showbusiness columnist, theatre and film
critic and worked for the Daily Express, the Daily Sketch and The Sun.
Waterhouse called him "the original legend in his own lunchtime".
had given up liquid lunches but not the liquid dinners when I worked
with him a decade after he had thrown his final punch in The Street.
first day in journalism was at the Woking News and Mail in the summer
of 1986 and at 11-ish the swing door was kicked open, and in walked
With his white hair, craggy face and broken nose, he reminded me of the actor Richard Harris (a former Cashin drinking partner).
Fergus was the paper's chief sub and occupied a desk that faced a window.
was the only member of the 12- strong staff who had his back to the
newsroom, which suited him fine because during daylight hours he was
too grouchy for office chit-chat.
Initially, he refused to
acknowledge my presence, but that changed when he came to sub one of my
stories. As he turned the folios, I could hear him sighing and cursing.
It was as if he was examining a hefty tax bill. Then he held the pages
above his head and screamed at the window in front of him: "Who wrote
this crap?" It was a yell that halted the clickety-clack of the
newsroom typewriters.
When he had calmed down, he taught me lesson number one: "Before handing in your copy, read it, re-read it and read it again."
That evening, he invited me for a jar at the office local, The Red House.
After that, journalism became fun.
Fergus became my local newspaper mentor – I called him The Master.
our table in the pub, he would recount his Fleet Street anecdotes,
seeing off the risk of a dry throat by downing pints of London Pride
and then doubles of Bushmills. He liked to talk about his old mate
Richard Burton and I remember him silencing the pub by announcing
loudly: "Liz Taylor quite fancied me but she showed me her tits once
and they were covered in pimples."
Regulars would hover around
the table but they had to accept that sooner or later he would scowl
and tell them: "Fer koff, why don't you?"
The Red House sessions were also valuable classes in journalism, however.
had a passion for the industry and together, through the pages of the
News and Mail, we set about waking up the sleepy-eyed inhabitants of
this dormitory town in Surrey. Ideas seemed great over drinks but by
the following morning, in the cold light of day, they seemed even
Page one was handled by the Establishment-loving editor,
Tony L'Estrange, while Ferg laid out and subbed page three, and that is
where I wanted my stories to appear. I would sneak my copy over to
Fergus. When the paper came out, the splash would be a boring story
along the lines of "Council says no to supermarket proposal", but turn
the page and there would be cracking yarns: the Italian Mafia boss who
had moved into the borough; schoolteachers who were upto no good;
legally contentious stories about dodgy councillors.
Ferg tried to find ways of weaving a famous sexy woman into the story just so he could use an attractive picture.
above the story he'd do one of his massive "shock-horror" headlines. No
one was more shocked and horrified than L'Estrange, who didn't see page
three until it was on the stone and too late to change.
regulars in the pub became good sources. Ferg believed everyone has a
story: "You just have to catch them at the right time." Drinkers would
be grilled for information as they stepped into the pub. They would be
questioned again on their way out because, Ferg reasoned, "they've been
here so long, they must have heard something". Often, they had. There
were a couple of his death-related ideas I didn't follow up.
One was his theory that "the old biddies"
who work in charity shops pinch the mink coats that are handed in.
"Think about it, love," he'd say. "When did you last see a mink coat in Oxfam?"
also wanted me to infiltrate a local crematorium and find out what
happens to the gold fillings after the bodies have been cremated. He
used to say: "Gold fillings don't turn to ash. All that gold is being
pinched by the guys in charge of the fires, melted down and sold on to
In the little chapel in Brighton, Ferg's send-off was a day of pax, not conflict.
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Progressives in Virginia slammed a new film about Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe because the investigative documentary threatens to define McAuliffe as a heartless plutocrat who lacks empathy and has repeatedly betrayed Virginia and the working class.
Non-profit Citizens United produced the movie, "Fast Terry," which can be viewed here. It details the duplicity surrounding two of McAuliffe's most questionable ventures–Greentech and Franklin Pellets.
Blue Virginia, an influential progressive site in the state, immediately dismissed the film hours after its release in a review titled, "Fast Terry" – The Most Boring, Idiotic 'Movie' You've Ever Seen?"
The site railed on Republicans for being "the party of money, greed, and crony capitalism" and accusing McAuliffe of raising money, making money, and being a businessman.
"You win some, you lose some," the review said, dismissing McAuliffe's business record.
Except, as the film documents, McAuliffe did most of the winning while workers in states like Virginia and Mississippi did all of the losing. McAuliffe, as progressives so often like to say, socialized the risk and reaped all the profits.
McAuliffe has claimed his business experience will allow him to be a "jobs creator" in Virginia, but the movie dissects McAuliffe's record. What makes the movie powerful are the testimonials of the workers McAuliffe's businesses ultimately impacted and laid off. Nearly all of those who decided to be interviewed for the movie are working-class blacks and whites. If McAuliffe has any chance of winning in the fall, he will need massive turnout from black voters in Virginia on par with their turnout for Obama during his two presidential wins in 2008 and 2012 and keep turnout low among working class white voters who may not have been inclined to vote for him anyway.
The movie threatens to turn working class blacks off from McAuliffe's candidacy while spurring working class whites to vote against him–that will potentially be a lethal combination in the fall.
And Democrats seem to to know it.
In the Virginia-Pilot, a McAuliffe adviser criticized the film even before he saw it. "When the creator of this film made one in support of Newt Gingrich, the candidate was forced to publicly condemn the film for its blatant lies," the adviser said.
Aware that McAuliffe is the Democrat's version of Mitt Romney who was less successful in the private sector, the McAuliffe adviser conveniently forgot to leave out that the film's director, Jason Meath, made a film in support of Gingrich that blistered Romney for giving workers the shaft in the name of deal-making and profits.
Mainstream sources in the Commonwealth, though, were convinced the film can permanently define McAuliffe in a way the Obama campaign defined Romney as a heartless plutocrat who was out of touch with the concerns of everyday working-class Americans.
NBC 12 Richmond, which prides itself on being a neutral arbiter, called it "damning."
Former employees at McAuliffe's plant in Mississippi described how their "hopes were dashed" and the operation was a "bit of a shocker" for not producing a car until at least seven months in.
Another employee said McAuliffe's operation was simply a "big show to get money" while another described months where they just swept the floor or painted instead of doing work building cars and were told to "act like we were busy" by supervisors.
One employee said he never "saw an American investor," while another described how employees routinely put on a "dog and pony show" for Chinese investors to make it seem like they were building cars. Another employee said McAuliffe told him he could "sell ice to the Eskimos."
In 2009, Virginia's Democrats from the party's conservative and more progressive wings rejected the bill of goods McAuliffe was trying to sell when they nominated state Senator Creigh Deeds. Their attacks on the factual documentary reinforces that Virginia's Democrats fear that Virginians will reject McAuliffe–and his tall tales, false claims, exaggerations, wheeling and dealing, and shenanigans–like they did four years ago.


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It's the fire engine that saved New York City. In an era before modern firefighting gear, New York's Bravest needed the best equipment possible. And when it came to fire engines, it meant using Ahrens-Fox™ rigs.
From 1915 until 1972, New York's firefighters went to meet the flames in Ahrens-Fox fire engines. In these six decades, the New York Fire Department purchased 50 Ahrens-Fox rigs to protect the Big Apple. Ahrens-Fox pumpers, ladders — even an airport crash rig — were used to keep New York City safe from harm.
In veneration of the Ahrens-Fox's historic legacy and the brave firefighters who used them, we've recreated the 1938 Ahrens-Fox VC Fire Engine in die-cast model form. Rendered at a 1:43 scale, this reproduction is an exact replica, down to the finest detail.
Represented in its famous regal red, this model features a removable ladder and hoses, as well as functional steering. This is a replica of the best quality, painstakingly detailed and hand assembled to meet the high expectations of the serious collector.
Whether sitting on a mantel or resting on your desk, the 1938 Ahrens-Fox VC Fire Engine is sure to invoke all the prestige and honor for those who give their all to keep us safe.
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My niece (Tony's sister's little girl) has a birthday this week, and I wanted to get her a little apron for her birthday. I started looking on Etsy and then it occured to me...I have a sewing machine for this reason. I need to use it. I tried to talk myself out if it thinking it was going to take me a long time to do it, but I decided to just go for it.
I took Cole to the fabric store, bought a pattern, and all the necessary materials. I did it in little chunks, washed the fabric one day, layed out the pattern and cut it out another time, until we got to a weekend where I was able to have some time to sit down and acutally do the sewing. Surprisingly it only took me about 2 hours to do all the ironing and sewing...and I'm pretty slow at both! I think reading the directions on the pattern was the most difficult part. That sewing lingo!
I think I did a pretty good job for my first project...I'll have to ask my SIL what she thinks when they get it because she does some sewing too. I'm not great at sewing perfectly straight, but it wasn't so bad that I needed to re-do it or anything. I got better as I went, I think. I enjoyed the work and the satisfaction on finishing the project too. It does take a lot of focus, especially since I don't have much experience.
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Book Cover Art for My Upcoming Horror Short StoryI wanted to have the full outline of my book cover illustration for "Circa Sixty Years Dead" done knowing that I wasn't going to get it painted by today. But an uncle of mine asked if I could help him clean out my grandfather's house that he's been renovating and, being family, I didn't want to turn him down. I mostly cleaned out the house's dungeon and took several things to Good Will which both put me back in the illustration a bit. The dungeon? Yeah, right! you say. Actually, it's the nickname we give to the cellar, although sometimes I'll call it the catacombs even though nobody's buried down there (at least nobody we know of).
As you'll see below, a little under half of the outline to the book cover illustration is done, but it won't take me long to finish it and then start painting (with coloured pencil) by the end of the week. It's very light, so if you want you can look at the concept sketch to it. So I can't say the whole thing will be completed by next weekend, but I'll show you a photo of the progress that I will have made.
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Kim Stanley Robinson to Appear at Sacramento Author FestivalAs I said last time, Kim Stanley Robinson will be speaking in Sacramento at the Central Library in downtown tomorrow at noon and I'll be attending. If you're in the area, and you're interested in hearing him speak about his new book, Green Earth (The Science in the Capital), you have to register ahead of time which you may still be able to do at the library's website . If not, you can probably catch him at the Local Authors' Festival there at the library which starts at 1. There will be authors from the Sacramento area of various genres, both fiction and non-fiction. You don't have to register for the festival itself and it's free like the talk before it. So check it out, and say hi if you see me there. If I don't see you there then . . .
Until next time . . .
Here's a set of music videos by a far out sci fi band from the 70s that I was listening to while working on my book cover art. They're called the Rockets. They sound a lot like today's electronica (though that term covers a very diverse area of music) and so can be said to be a band before their time, even though you'll hear a lot of funkedelic elements in their music. You might want to check them out.


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If you travel a lot you need to see this video ASAP. I can't believe this…
Have you ever known someone who is scared to sleep in hotel beds? It seems like they may have a valid argument for that after the Inside Edition did some hotel investigating.
There has been an ongoing question about whether or not hotels are sanitary, or unsanitary. They conducted an investigation of nine different hotel chains to see if their bed prepping was up to par.
First, they had an individual check into a hotel one night. Next, they had the individual use a stencil to "invisibly" mark the bed in the hotel room.
Washable blacklight reactive spray paint was sprayed onto the bed and then they staged the bed to look like it had been slept in. This is the universal sign for a housekeeper to completely change the sheets on the hotel bed.
Did you ever think they may not really change the sheets? Apparently, if the sheets don't look too dirty they like to just remake the bed using the same sheets.
The next day, a new individual was sent in to check in under a different name. They made sure to check into the same exact room as the person who was their the night before to mark the sheets.
When the new guest arrived to the same hotel room they took out a blacklight to check the sheets. The truth was absolutely disgusting.
Although they had no idea that the guest was checking the sheets, the housekeepers didn't change the bedding. They only remade the beds to look as though they hadn't been slept in the night before.
The same investigation was performed at many different hotels and repeatedly the managers tried to avoid the situation, and the housekeepers denied the fact that it was the same set of sheets.
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New strategies to guide how West Lancashire Borough Council provides leisure services and plays a role providing playing pitches over the next 10 years have been adopted by the authority.
The strategies cover the period 2015-2025 and encompass the Council's built sports facilities, arts and ranger services, a community centre, play provision and playing pitches. The strategies, adopted by the Council at its meeting on Wednesday 24 February 2016, set out a proposed strategic direction for Leisure and Cultural Services going forward.
Councillor Yvonne Gagen, portfolio holder for Leisure, said: "I am very pleased we have adopted these strategies as they will help the authority enormously in its work to provide leisure facilities in the coming years.
"Leisure services in the borough are very important to local people and we are very grateful to everyone who took part in the public consultation we held on these strategies. We have considered the views expressed in the consultation very carefully when forming the final strategies and we are also very grateful for the complimentary remarks made by people about our services during the consultation."
The strategies outline key aims and actions including establishing a project team to undertake the procurement of a new partnership arrangement from 1 April 2020, when the current arrangement with West Lancashire Community Leisure Trust comes to an end. This would include options for securing significant capital investment for the Council's built sports provision, subject to the finances available, as follows:
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The new strategies will be available on the Council website in the near future.
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Second-year Seminole and one of two Colorado high school products on the roster, along with classmate Megan Mooney…competed in both cross country and outdoors as a freshman at FSU…a two-time Colorado 5A state cross country qualifier at Fort Collins, which won the 2014 state title.
Cross Country: Saw action in three meets as a first-year Nole…ran 19:42.93 in debut at Mountain Dew Invitational, which was third among Noles…followed up with 19:51.2 at FSU Invitational…placed sixth among FSU runners at Crimson Classic (23:58.3) in her 6k debut. Indoors: did not compete. Outdoors: saw action in two meets, highlighted by her 5000m track PB (19:47.47) at the Seminole Twilight.
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I'm a guest blogger today on Rainmakers and Stormchasers. Me! A guest blogger. Who knew?!?! (Well, I did . . . )
A few years ago an intrepid young lady, Jenny, came to one of our trainings at WorldVenture. At that point she was headed to Kenya to work on a degree at a seminary there and wanted to go under WorldVenture's auspices. God eventually took her in another direction. (He does that from time to time.) Over the last few years we've stayed in contact.
Jenny spent the last two weeks in Africa helping train African pastors. As I compose this she's winging her way home. While she was in Africa she asked a few friends to write her blog posts. The theme of the last two weeks has been newness.
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A hotel in the guise of a gallery
Will lying beside a painting worth $1 million give you a sleepless night? Well, you can find out at Gallery Hotel. All works displayed are genuine and they are ubiquitous, launching a visual assault with their impossible-to-miss presence. Whether this "art attack" is exhilarating or numbing is up to you, the guest, to tell. Exhibitions are planned for the hotel to keep it constantly on the radar, and to ensure it stays tuned with the art world from where it derives its cachet.
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THE TITAN PARENTS CLUB is an organization of parents who sponsor a variety of activities during the year for the benefit of the students and the school. All parents are encouraged to help support the Trinity Community by volunteering some of their time, their talents, and ideas towards these events. FUND RAISING, FRIEND RAISING AND FUN RAISING!
2017-2018 Titan Parents Club
Co-Chairpersons: Lisa Hartel, Ginny Ritter
Advisory Board:
Tom Donnelly, John Baumann, Lorraine Gallant, Chris Tomitz, Rea Elenio,
Terry Quinn, Cathy Quinn, Ann Donnelly, Kathleen Seaman, Christine Rogers,Tim Rogers, Elizabeth Klein, Ken Klein, Peter Karliss, Stacy Karlis and Nereida England Santiago
Moderator: Principal Kathleen Moran
School Liaison: Helen Russo
Homecoming Coordinator: John Baumann
Craft Fair Coordinators: Tom Donnelly, Lisa Hartel, Kathleen Seaman
Craft Fair Vendor Coordinator: Ann Donnelly
Secretary / Meeting Notes: Lorraine Gallant, Aux - Mary Graham
Theatre/Basketball Concession: Chris Tomitz, Lorraine Gallant
Open Meetings for all parents are held each month.
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ESCP Europe offers a broad range of general and specialised programmes in various subjects with a cross-cultural approach to management.
ESCP Europe's Executive Education combines top-notch knowledge with a hands-on approach across our 6 campuses and beyond.
Corporate Relations provide companies with a unique gateway into the School and its highly dynamic and very culturally diverse student body.
ESCP Europe's strong network of 49,000 alumni in over 150 countries worldwide represents more than 200 nationalities.
ESCP Europe > ESCP Europe > Partners worldwide > Associate Campuses
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Today I am sharing another free audio meditation that has deep meaning for me. Others will be released over the next two weeks in the run up to early November where I will be making a big announcement, additional information to follow.
This gentle and beautiful meditation is 8 minutes long and best listened to with headphones in a quiet, relaxed setting. It illuminates how to be gracefully in the moment by noticing that the act of 'doing by not doing' teaches us experientially about 'letting be' and 'active presence' as we let go of ego and conflict to produce a more alive body that embraces a higher purpose. Learn how to free up energies and enjoy letting the words wash over you like gentle waves lapping at your feet. You can stream or download the audio below:
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Adam Savage Explores MIT's Center for Bits & Atoms and a Boston Maker Space in Tested.Com Videos Filmed on Tour Sponsored by Chevron, The Fab Foundation(July 11, 2017)
BOSTON, MA (PRWEB) July 11, 2017
Viewers get a look inside two innovation spaces in Boston along with renowned digital designer and maker, Adam Savage, with the debut of two video series on his website Tested.com. The Fab Foundation and Chevron sponsored the events.
The visits are part of a national tour that celebrates the impact of digital fabrication and making in education and youth development, business and entrepreneurship, and invention. They feature cutting edge tools for invention and interactive demonstrations from participants at labs, reflecting diversity in people and place.
Partners seek to expand awareness of the power of new tools, such as 3D printing, laser cutting, CAD design and robotics. "My time exploring in Boston was amazing," Savage said.
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Bits & Atoms (CBA), Savage talked with director Prof. Neil Gershenfeld about the future of digital fabrication and innovation. Gershenfeld, who's been called the intellectual father of the maker movement, took Savage on a tour of CBA's unique facility for making and measuring things on length scales ranging from molecules to buildings, and showed him stages in their research roadmap leading from machines that make machines up to Star Trek-style replicators.
"At MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, my friend Neil Gershenfeld showed me the future of making, which includes some astounding machines that I had no idea even existed. Truly our robotic overlords can be found at MIT," Savage said.
This visit provided an opportunity for Savage to see not just the origin but also the future of the global network of now over 1000 community fab labs initiated by CBA.
The tour also included the nonprofit Makerspace, Artisans Asylum, in Somerville, MA. That 40,000 sq. ft. community fabrication center has tools and equipment local residents can use to make items, from robots to jewelry. Its classes and speaker series are open to the public, feature local artisans and are underwritten with support through donations, volunteers and partners.
"At Artisan's Asylum I not only saw some amazing art (a piece of which I bought), I poured molten metal for the first time," Savage added.
Savage is an internationally renowned television producer, special effects designer/fabricator, host, maker and public speaker whose model work has appeared in major films, such as Star Wars: Episode II-Attack of the Clones and The Matrix Reloaded.
The former cohost of Discovery Channel television series MythBusters and producer of Tested.com has partnered with Chevron and the Fab Foundation for the national tour of fab labs and maker spaces.
"Boston's collection of amazing colleges & universities, and unique place in American history makes it a key player in the nation's innovation conversation. Home to our Fab Lab network, it was essential for Adam's tour to stop here," said The Fab Foundation's Chief Implementation Officer, Sonya Pryor-Jones.
The Boston visits occurred on May 16, 2017. Other tour stops include The Bay Area, Pittsburgh, Austin, Boston, Detroit and New Orleans.
A Fab Lab is a carefully curated digital fabrication laboratory comprised of off-the-shelf, industrial-grade design, fabrication and electronics tools, wrapped in open source software and supported by programs written by researchers at MIT's Center for Bits & Atoms. This platform for learning and innovation is a place to play, create, learn, mentor and invent-while joining and engaging with a global community of learners, educators, technologists, researchers, makers and innovators. There are 1100 labs in more than 100 countries.
The Fab Foundation was formed in 2009 to facilitate and support the growth of the international fab lab network as well as the development of regional capacity-building organizations.
It is a U.S. nonprofit 501(c) 3 organization that emerged from MIT's Center for Bits & Atoms Fab Lab Program. The Foundation's mission is to provide access to the tools, knowledge and financial means to educate, innovate and invent using technology and digital fabrication to allow anyone to make (almost) anything, and thereby creating opportunities to improve lives and livelihoods around the world.
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Queen Liliuokalani #6 (Hardcover)
Royal Prisoner (The Treasure Chest #6)
Grosset & Dunlap, 9780448457390, 176pp.
Publication Date: June 27, 2013
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In Book 6 of The Treasure Chest, Felix and Maisie take a trip to New York City to visit their father and meet his new girlfriend. While there, Maisie reveals to Felix that she has a jeweled crown she took from The Treasure Chest. The twins travel to Hawaii in the late 1800s, where they spend time with the royal family and continue to master the magic of time-travel. There, they meet a young girl named Lydia who will one day grow up to be Queen Liliuokalani, the last queen of Hawaii.
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Ann Hood is the author of many books, including How I Saved My Father's Life (and Ruined Everything Else), The Knitting Circle, Comfort, and The Red Thread. She also knits, wanders around museums, has cool glasses, loves the color pink (although she never wears it), and spends a lot of her time wishing she could time travel and meet famous people. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island with her family. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, O, The Oprah Magazine, and elsewhere.
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Join us for a Prayer Breakfast in Pittsburgh
Equality PA is gathering faith leaders to talk about how people of faith and faith leaders can support nondiscrimination and we hope that you can join us and invite your clergy person!
Here are the details:
Monday, February 16 from 8:00 am – 10:00 am
St. Paul's United Methodist Church 1965 Ferguson Rd, Allison Park, PA
Please RSVP here: bit.ly/DiscriminationPrayerBreakfast
The focus of our breakfast will be to raise awareness that discrimination is still a legal reality in Pennsylvania. We implore faith communities to have a voice on this as discrimination of any kind is very much a moral and spiritual issue.
Breakfast will include coffee, tea, juice, eggs, bacon, rolls, and fruit. (Kosher meals upon request.) Breakfast and fellowship starts at 8:00am and the program will begin at 8:30am. Clergy and lay people invited free of charge!
Our speakers will include:
- Rev. Dr. Steven Tuell, James A. Kelso Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
- Ammon Ripple, MDiv, Faith Organizer, Equality Pennsylvania
- Rev. Shanea D. Leonard, Moderator, Pittsburgh Faith Consortium Pastor, JUDAH Fellowship Christian Church
- Rev. Patrice Fowler-Searcy, Director of Mission Ministries East Liberty Presbyterian Church
- Rabbi Aaron Bisno, Senior Rabbi Rodef Shalom Congregation
- Rep. Dan Frankel, Co-Chair, LGBT Equality Caucus Pennsylvania House of Representatives
As we continue our work to show that #DiscriminationExists, we hope you will join us to be sure that voices of faith are heard on this issue.
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We have put together a truly comprehensive range of prints and weaves in a fabulous array of colours and textures. Discover beautifully designed fabrics for every room, carefully sourced from many different fabric companies. Our collections include contemporary, traditional and vintage designs, which are divided into exciting colour stories, all of which cannot fail to inspire a beautiful interior.
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Vidchecker v6 Auto QC and Correction Software Now Supports HEVC/H.265
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(Las Vegas, Nevada--March 31, 2014) Vidcheck, a specialist supplier of intelligent video and audio correction tools software tools, has announced that the company's flagship Vidchecker product suite has been updated to Version 6 (v6) with major feature enhancements to include fully automated QC and correction for full file, video and audio checks, including HEVC/H.265 format video.
Vidchecker is the leading suite of software tools for automated quality control of file-based media, offering greater ease of use, much faster processing speeds and auto-correction in one package. With fully scalable solutions from the low-volume, low-cost Vidchecker-post through Vidchecker Grid solutions - suitable for the largest enterprises - plus the new Vidchecker-cloud for large organisations that want a dynamically scalable pay-per-use solution.
Vidchecker v6 not only provides comprehensive file, video and audio quality control, it automates correction of the most common video and audio errors. This saves the error-prone, time-consuming and expensive process with other systems that only perform do QC, send error files back for re-edit and repeat the process. This is often done multiple times because not all errors are corrected properly in the first, or even second edit.
As well as operating with watch folder automation, Vidchecker is already directly integrated with many third party systems, such as for transcode with Telestream Vantage, Digital Rapids Transcode Manager, Root6 ContentAgent; file delivery with Aspera, FileCatalyst; and media asset management systems such as Sony MediaBackbone. As a result, customers can optimize their workflow, knowing that Vidchecker auto QC will interoperate seamlessly with their existing systems.
About Vidcheck
Vidcheck is a specialist supplier of software tools for broadcasters for checking and intelligent correction of video and audio in file-based media. Vidcheck personnel have unrivalled experience in the QC of file-based video, having been closely involved in this market from the start.
Vidchecker is an award-winning software-only automated quality control package, providing a comprehensive check of the overall file, video and audio parameters in file-based media.
Currently in use with most major broadcasters and with content distributors, archive organisations and post production companies, Vidchecker focuses on checking the parameters and settings that people typically get wrong in preparation and exchange of file-based media between post production, distribution and broadcast.
Using the latest software technology, it automatically takes advantage of multi-core and multi-thread processors to process multiple files simultaneously and quickly.
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You can now return films to our drop-box at Nga Taonga Sound & Vision or the Roxy Cinema.
aka: mother!USA 2017, 121 minutesDir. Darren AronofskyRating: [R18] Violence, horror, cruelty, offensive language & content that may disturb.Genres: Horror, Drama
Feat. Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Brian Gleeson, Kristen Wiig
"Something truly magnificent, the kind of visceral trash-arthouse experience that comes along very rarely."~Jessica Kiang, The Playlist
Aroview: A polarising yet brilliant psychological horror bursting with allegorical detail, from visionary auteur/provocateur Darren Aronofsky.
A couple's peaceful existence in an remote country home is disrupted with the arrival of uninvited guests, a turn of events which slowly spirals into apocalyptic torment for Mother, the central character played with excruciating sensitivity by Jennifer Lawrence. Interpretations of the narrative range from biblical to environmental, and the fun is to figure it out for yourself.
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3 stars (Good Enough) Someone's been watching too much Lars von Trier! Exhausting and risibly pretentious, with a crap ending, but so admirably wild (and uncommercial) it demands to be seen and debated. Pfeiffer takes the acting prize. ~fairbrother
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Guest Book (a selection of comments from our visitors book)
Carol and Bryan Haswell
Thank you for an enjoyable and relaxing stay, very good food and very good company. It's been such a pleasure staying in your lovely home.
Lisa, Richard, Georgia and Oliver Davies
Thank you for a delightful stay in your beautiful house and grounds. We really enjoyed our 3 days in your company and the kids had a ball. We will certainly miss the peace and tranquillity and so much space.
Shane Fernadez
I couldn't have asked for nicer people than Dale and Debbie. We have been treated with real homelike hospitality. I cannot thank you enough for helping us out. I would suggest this to anyone.
Perry, Sarah, Lily and Eden Roberts
Dear Dale and Debbie we have really enjoyed our stay and discovering such an unspoilt and historical part of France. Thank you for looking after us with such care and thoughtfulness.
Mike, Kelli, Brandon and Erin Solomon
Thank you for a wonderful stay, good conversation, great food, lovely home and gardens. We are spoiled by the personalised B and B you have. We don't think we will find another. Thanks for letting the kids feel at home and a part of your animals.
Anne and Rick Millman
A special thanks for all your help (via e-mail) prior to our visit. Our holiday has gone with such smoothness. Your hospitality went way beyond the call of duty. Thank you.
Dave and Jackie Stubbs
These last few days exceeded all our expectations. Your charming home, Debbies wonderful gardens and delicious food, most of all your company. It couldn't have been better. Our thanks.
The Maas family
We have travelled with the boys. I never would have believed that we would find a place on our travels that felt like home. Thank you for your hospitality Debbie and great suggestions with our itinerary Dale.
Steve, Trista, Ethan Hatcher
What can we say but "wow". Your hospitality made us feel right at home. You have a beautiful home and the atmosphere was very relaxing. Thank you for the stay but mostly thank you for making us feel like family. We will always remember our stay.
Simon, Andrea, Kate and Anna Morrison
Sometimes you are lucky enough to stumble upon a place that is so idyllic and perfect in its surrounds you remember it for always. La Heroullerie is one such place.
Simon, Christine, Raymond, William and Frederick Chang
Thank you so much for your hospitality, excellent food and service. Especially we thank you for your info and guidance on our tour in this area. We will never forget this place and your family.
Peter and Phyllis Bell
Reading the previous comments it has all been said. Dale, marvellous to meet another history nut and for the yarns. Debbie thanks for the hospitality and warmth. We had a great time (who would have thought it from a couple of pomms).
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Email MeRobert J. Bruno
Mr. Bruno, a senior litigation attorney, joined the firm in 1973 shortly after it was founded. Mr. Bruno has served as firm president, a member of the firm's management committee and is currently a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Bruno's practice emphasizes complex civil litigation, primarily in the areas of insurance defense, insurance coverage, insurance bad faith, employment law, directors and officers liability, construction litigation, personal injury, professional liability defense and products liability.
Mr. Bruno is one of the select group of Arizona lawyers elected to the American Board of Trial Advocates and has served on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Association of Defense Counsel. He is certified by the State Bar of Arizona as a Specialist in Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation. He has received Martindale-Hubbell's highest A-V Preeminent rating. Mr. Bruno is recognized in the 2007 - 2017 editions of Southwest Super Lawyers, in the 2011 through 2017 editions of Best Lawyers in America and is listed in Best's Recommended Insurance Attorneys for 2010 through 2017. Mr. Bruno is also a member of the Claims & Litigation Management Alliance (CLM) whose mission is to further the practice of Litigation Management through ethics, cooperation, and education.
Mr. Bruno chairs a team of Sanders & Parks attorneys representing insurance companies in bad faith matters with a particular focus upon insurers that have been subjected to Arizona Damron and Morris agreements. Mr. Bruno has written extensively on the Damron/Morris issue including Damron Revisited - Reasonableness the True Judgment Limit, published in the Arizona Attorney; and Arizona Damron Agreements - An Unusually Dangerous Danger Zone for Liability Insurers which appeared in the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) Journal.
Mr. Bruno's experience in the Damron/Morris area has contributed to the success of the Sanders & Parks Damron/Morris Group in protecting insurers from excessive Damron and Morris judgments including, in 2013, obtaining an excellent result for an insurer that was subject to a $30,000,000.00 stipulated Damron judgment.
Mr. Bruno's diverse practice has included the representation of a steel company in the defense of a product liability claim involving an allegedly defective product that threatened the integrity of the $4 billion Central Arizona Project Canal; representation of the Arizona Board of Regents in a federal district court trial involving allegations of gender discrimination in the tenure program at the University of Arizona; and the successful representation of a manufacturer of an item of semiconductor processing equipment that exploded and contaminated a fabrication facility.
Mr. Bruno also successfully defended a major distributor of electronic parts in a classic U.C.C. 2-207 "battle of the forms" resulting in the seminal Arizona appellate decision on commercial indemnity claims, Schweber Elec. v. National Semiconductor Corp., 174 Ariz. 406, 410, 850 P.2d 119, 123 (App.1992).
Mr. Bruno has testified as an expert witness in a London arbitration concerning a $50 million coverage dispute arising out of a directors and officers policy.
Mr. Bruno is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of Arizona, the United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Bruno has authored articles published in various journals including Arizona Damron Agreements.
Year Joined Firm
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Areas of Practice
- Business and Commercial Litigation
- Directors and Officers Litigation
- Employment and Labor Law
- Insurance Defense and Coverage
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Litigation and Appeals
- Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation
- Product Liability Litigation
- Professional Liability Litigation
Bar Admissions
- Arizona, 1973
- U.S. District Court District of Arizona
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1982
- Albany Law School of Union University, Albany, New York
- Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Honors and Awards
- A-V Rating, Martindale-Hubbell
- Southwest Super Lawyer
- American Board of Trial Advocates
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Arizona Association of Defense Counsel, Past Member, Board of Directors
- Maricopa County Bar Association, Member
- Defense Research Institute, Member
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It's Hot in Texas
It was hot—really, really hot—in
the summer of 2008 in Central Texas. Austin had been getting hotter
and hotter each summer, and in 2008 we didn't know what the next
several years had in store for us. We didn't know that in 2009 we
would almost break the 69-day record of 100-degree days that had
stood since 1925. Historians question that record because surrounding
towns didn't record anything close to the temperatures registered
in Austin, but it didn't matter when, in 2011, we shattered that
suspect record with 90 days over 100 degrees.
This particular day, in late July in
2008, I walked out to the mailbox in sweltering, insufferable heat.
The moment I set foot outside, the heat bombarded me. Sweat
immediately started trickling down my face. The cicadas chirped to
each other, signaling the dead of summer. It smelled of burnt grass
and dust. The concrete singed my bare feet. I grabbed the mail and
tiptoed back to the house.
"Man, it's hot out there," I
said, tossing the mail on the dining room table next to my wife,
She thumbed through it and came to the
Austin Energy envelope. She opened it. Her eyes widened. "Holy
crap," she said, handing me the bill.
$517.69 for electricity alone, I
scanned the rest of the bill, seeing $700+ at the bottom of the
paper. I grabbed my chest, wondering if my heart could take it.
"That's a lot of money," I said. "That's a whole lot
of money."
Almost a year earlier, the recession of
2007 had hit. It hadn't affected me yet as a business consultant,
but I could see it looming on the horizon and knew 2009 was going to
be bleak. I started to panic and felt blindsided. Then I was mad.
How in the hell did it get that
high, I wondered. "The kids better stop leaving the lights on
and quit leaving the door open," I declared.
Indifferent to my plight, my wife said,
"Good luck with that," and then proceeded to thumb through the
Lucky magazine from the pile of mail I'd carried in.
Was it really just our four kids
leaving a few lights on and leaving the door open? At that moment, I
decided I would figure out how and why the bill was so high. At $700
a month, I knew that by next summer, with the recession in full
swing, we'd have to sit in bathtubs full of ice cubes and wait it
Now, our house is larger than most—a
product of the end-of-the-millennium euphoria known as the high tech
boom. With a decent windfall on my balance sheets, we had set off to
find a bigger house than our 940-square-foot bungalow in 2000 while
my wife was pregnant with our first child. We found a house in the
north central part of the city, right at the start of what is called
the Texas Hill Country. We found it when it was framed, and we
finished out the house with our own choices for trim, wall color,
texture, kitchen counters—all the things we thought were important.
They had pre-installed some hideous General Aluminum windows with
divided light that I wasn't happy about, but for the most part we
got what we thought we wanted.
What I didn't know was that lurking
behind every corner was a shoddy job hidden by sheetrock, the attic,
or the yard. As a novice home buyer, I had no inkling of how
important a window installation was, for example, or a correctly
installed HVAC system or air vents or the myriad other things that I
completely overlooked. I just expected that since it was a newer
house, it was as efficient as it could be.
The conclusion I had drawn was that my
house HAD to be efficient, so I needed to produce electricity. SOLAR!
was my first thought. Solar was the answer to my prayers. I could
blanket my roof with solar panels and squash that bill down to
nothing. I went to the Austin Energy website and clicked on
Residential Rebates, navigated to the solar section, and opened it
up, ready to fill it out and get my rebate. I read through the
details and came to a list in the middle of the page.
Wait a second, I thought.
There's a checklist. What is this checklist? This isn't going
to be as easy as I thought.
The checklist had things like caulking
windows, replacing lights, solar film, radiant barrier, attic fans, a
solar heat gain coefficient for windows, and several other bullet
What in the world are these things?
I wondered. And why can't I just get my solar rebate?
I kept reading.
Apparently, there were all kinds of
things that contributed to my inefficient house that I had no idea
about. Now what? I want to do something IMMEDIATELY that will kill
my bill.
I turned to the Internet with a renewed
sense of purpose. Over a few days, I found several helpful websites
that enumerated common culprits for energy loss in a home. Strangely
enough, one of them was from another person in Austin who had done a
lot of the research already. According to several sources, lighting
was the third biggest energy user in most homes.
I approached my wife with this newfound
information. I was excited I'd found one cause I could affect
immediately. "Katie, did you know lights are one of the biggest
energy hogs in a home?"
She looked up, puzzled, from the same
Lucky magazine she had received in the mail a few days
earlier. "Are you still thinking about that?" she asked, pursing
her lips.
"Of course I'm still thinking about
it," I said. "That's a lot of money!"
"So changing the lights will help
that much?" she asked.
"It'll help some," I defended.
"All right." She raised her
eyebrows and then went back to reading the magazine.
Apparently, she wasn't as
enthusiastic as I was, but I took that as an "OK, dear, go get it
done" and proceeded to count all the lights in the house:
thirty-five 60-watt can lights, forty-eight 40-watt lights, and a
handful of 40-watt candle lights. By my calculations, at $0.11 per
KWh, swapping a 60-watt incandescent light bulb with an 18-watt CFL
equivalent could save $1.68 per month if they were on half the day.
With all the lights in my house, I
could shave a few hundred dollars off my electric bill every year.
Plus the kids were starting to get scared when it was dark and would
leave the incandescent lights on all night in the bathrooms, costing
not only electricity money but forcing me to perpetually change light
By then, I had simmered down and come
to accept the sky-high summer bill. Over the next several months, I
monitored my bill, but I didn't do much about it until March of
2009 when the bill started creeping up again. It renewed my interest
and I revisited my notes, which pointed to lights as the easiest step
to tackle first.
I charged off to Lowes, ready to
replace every one of my light bulbs. When I got there, I quickly
realized that the cost of almost 100 bulbs was way too much to
swallow at one time. Fortunately the city was offering rebates that
made the bulbs just a little more expensive than the incandescent
bulbs. So, I bought a third of the ones I needed. I figured that I
could replace the bulbs in the places where the lights stayed on most
of the day and get the biggest benefit most quickly.
I bought the lights and brought them
home. Our living room was one of the biggest drains, with lights on
about 12 hours a day. I got the pole out with the suction cup and one
by one replaced the four can lights. I excitedly called my wife out
to see this new technology that was going to save us money.
She flicked the switch and the lights
barely lit, then slowly brightened over a minute before they were
fully on. "My God," she said. "That's awful. Do you have to
replace all of them with these things?"
Deflated, I offered the consolation
prize, "Well, these alone will save us a few hundred dollars a
"Oh! Wow! A few hundred a year? Why
didn't you say so! We could almost feed our whole family for a few
days!" she said, shrugging her shoulders. "And I guess if I turn
these on in the morning, they might be fully lit by evening when I
need it most, right?"
I folded my arms.
She burst out laughing. "Right?"
I didn't think it was funny. I ducked
my head and shuffled off to replace the other bulbs. Sarcasm aside,
about a month later I figured out I could buy 'instant on' bulbs
and started getting those instead.
After I replaced the bulbs, I wanted to
figure out how much money they really were saving me in a year. So I
again turned to the Austin Energy website to see how much energy I
had been using. On the website, they had a downloadable spreadsheet
that detailed the month-to-month energy usage in KWh, average daily
usage, and cost. This spreadsheet formed the nucleus of my tracking
from that day forward. I reformatted the spreadsheet and marked when
I had begun replacing the lights.
The first month, it seemed to have
saved me $7.45! 2201 KWh in April of 2008 versus 2124 KWh in April of
2009. I was ecstatic. I thought about sharing the news with my wife,
but then reconsidered and kept the news to myself. I was invigorated,
though, and wanted to start figuring out other ways to save more.


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By Notice dated October 1, 1999, and published in the
The firm plans to bulk manufacture methamphetamine to produce products for distribution to its customers.
DEA has considered the factors in Title 21, United States Code, Section 823(a) and determined that the registration of Chattem Chemicals, Inc. to manufacture methamphetamine is consistent with the public interest at this time. DEA has investigated the firm on a regular basis to ensure that the company's continued registration is consistent with the public interest. These investigations have included inspection and testing of the company's physical security systems, verification of the company's compliance with state and local laws, and a review of the company's background and history. Therefore, pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 823 and 28 CFR § 0.100 and 0.104, the Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Diversion Control, hereby orders that the application submitted by the above firm for registration as a bulk manufacturer of the basic class of controlled substance listed above is granted.


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You need to be more than a specialist in a number of technical Information Technology topics.
Accordingly, I offer a Point Of View about life, business and culture as well as help with your Problems, Point Points, and Predicaments.
I Consult and help with Operations. I both help you find a solution to a problem and if needed I may help you execute that solution. This is sometimes called being a Virtual Assistant.
When I help solve a problem with advice, I can go a step further and coach you on setting up a timeline with specific time-limited steps to move to solving that problem. In some cases, you may need to hire someone to execute those steps.
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Since no one is omnicompetent, I don't claim I can solve ANY problem.
- I can solve a number of small office/home office computer issues.
- I am also interested in (and even may have some competence in) topics like
- e-business
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Sift the gluten free flour and other dry ingredients together and add to the sugar and margarine mixture. Add the extracts too incorporating them well. Gather the dough into a ball wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for two hours.
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Whirlpool 30" Glass Range Hood – WVW75UC0DS
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Dimensions: Width: 30'' Height: 28.87'' Depth: 20''
Product OverviewBreathe easier and keep noise levels to a minimum with the Whirlpool 30-inch glass range hood. Perimetric Venting technology allows this hood to pull in more smoke and grease from the cooktop to boost air quality, while an exclusive noise reduction technology system ensures the fan operates quietly on all three speeds. With LEDs along the hood's glass edge, the built-in lights turn on and off automatically to provide illumination when you need it.
Key Features:
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Glass Edge LED Lighting
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About Me
Welcome to my Notebook blogging page. The page you are now viewing is one of those "About Me" profiles. When finished or to bypass the remainder of this page, use the "Return to Main Page" selection at the top of the left side column.
About Me.
Retired near the end of 1998 and a Palm Springs resident since 2002. Employment background included banking, auditing, accounting, and Information Systems. I'm a committed bachelor and share my residence with "Contessa Le Rouge", a little red toy poodle doggy. Current activities/interests include bicycling, hiking, RV Camping, my Apple iPad, Windows-based personal computers, Contract Bridge, gardening, local/regional blogging, and community service. I enjoy walking a little over 5 miles each morning with Tessa, my little doggy, as part of a daily exercise routine. Personal computing continues to be a serious hobby, communications and writing tool. (Note: "Princess Camo", my now-departed little apricot-colored toy poodle companion passed away in May, 2015, a month shy of her 17th birthday. I will always miss her for I, and so many others, really loved her. There's a memorial plaque in her memory in the Palm Springs Animal Shelter building. On January 28, 2016, I acquired an 8 week old pedigree Red Toy Poodle puppy. Registered her with the AKC under the name Contessa Le Rouge but call her Tessa).
Religious Views — Flat earth society!
I have a rather dim view of organized religion, consider the subject deeply personal and one folks should avoid sharing in public. In general, it's a subject I prefer to avoid! Nevertheless, here's my favorite quote on the subject from deceased Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking: "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark".
Political Blogging Personal Disclosure Note
My voter registration is not associated with a political party for my interests more closely approximate those of an impartial moderate. As I age my views tend to refocus on how social and political issues affect the daily lives of people everywhere. It's among the reasons I advocate Full Human Rights for all. That broad definition is how I describe concerns about the dominance of any group over another. In the political arena I don't see it as healthy for local, state and national governments to be completely dominated by one element or political party. It's for that reason I tend to question the principles behind those who exercise dominance. During election seasons I hope to view all that transpires with an open mind. I'll be monitoring Democratic, GOP and other group's political activities, events and forums in order to benefit from hearing (and seeing) their perspectives. It's part of a personal philosophy I'm trying to observe that dictates I should not spend the years left to me viewing the world with a closed mind.
With respect to Palm Springs local elections, I view them as filled with opportunities to learn more about candidates, their campaign platforms and what their election to office may do to foster or change the manner in which the city is governed. As for my role I hope to ask questions, and point out obvious instances where information, candor, facts and transparency are being excluded from community conversations and in the media.
My posts on Facebook seek to inform and arouse interest in others by providing information not previously widely known, asking questions not previously considered, and promoting issues of general benefit to all segments of the community. These posts are usually received in the spirit in which they were offered, and for that I'm most appreciative.
Occasionally some seek to challenge my credibility rather than respond directly to a question, opinion or other view I've published. I seek to be fair, transparent, and only present something as fact when access to supporting documentation is available. But trying to do something and always walking that line is not always successful. Where I fail to be fair, transparent or believed factually in error, it's only right for others to question and it's my obligation to investigate whether I've erred and, if, so make corrections and offer an apology.
– Bond Shands
Favorite Quotations.
"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark." – by Theoretical Physicist Stephen Hawking from The Guardian 15 May 2011 interview.
"Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice like, Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin."
"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party…and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt until recently… and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties." – by American Writer Gore Vidal, 1925-2012
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Asteria Belek Club
Read more about this Hotel
The Asteria Belek Club is located on the shores of the blue Mediterranean at Belek's long and wide sandy beach. The property is landscaped with care by specially chosen trees like pine, palm, date-palm and many others and adorned with many flowers, shrubs and greenery and has been awarded with the Blue-Flag given to clean beaches and seas by the Foundation of Environmental Protection.
Distance from Airport
Antalya airport is roughly 33 km from the complex.
All rooms have complete bathroom with shower, hair dryer, air conditioning, mini-bar, satellite TV, safe deposit box, direct dial telephone, music channel via TV, info channel, tile floor, balcony or terrace or French balcony.
Food & Drink
The AI programme consists of breakfast (07:00-10:00), late Continental breakfast (10:00-11:00), lunch (12:30-14:00) and dinner (19:00-21:30), all buffet style with local & international cuisine, served in the main restaurant. Also at the disposal of the AI guests once per stay from 19:30-21:30 and with prior reservation is one of the three A la Carte restaurants; Side (Turkish, according to weather conditions), Arycanda (Italian, according to weather conditions), Chinese. Snacks such as Turkish pancakes are available between 13:00 & 16:00, as well as afternoon snacks at Side restaurant / pool bar from 12:30-16:00 and late night snacks from 23:00-24:00 at the pool bar. Tea & coffee time with cookies is from 17:00-18:00 at the pool bar-terrace (Arycanda). Customers can have ice cream at lunch & dinner. Locally & some international produced alcoholic & non-alcoholic drinks by the glass are served 24hrs at Aspendos, Side, Odessa and Kybele according to each outlets opening hours. In-room mini bars are refilled daily with soft drinks.
The A la Carte restaurants are open six days a week. The above mentioned timetables and places of activities are subject to change according to weather conditions.
Sports & Entertainment
All Inclusive Sports & Entertainment
Sport facilities at the hotel include fitness centre, gymnastics, aerobics (all from 10:00-21:00), steps, jogging, Turkish bath & sauna (10:00-19:00), tennis, table tennis, boccia, squash, darts, mini football, animation activities (archery, beach volleyball, pool volley), mini club for kids aged 4-11yrs old (10:00-17:00), junior club (12-16yrs old), trampoline, surf (with license), water bicycle, non motorized water sports, cinema club (after the show), swimming pools, sun umbrellas, sun chairs, mattresses and towels at the beach & pool, water slides and day & night animation (10:00-23:00).
Chargeable Extras
Bottled drinks, cans, fresh fruit juices, packed ice cream at the bars, tennis lessons, floodlit tennis & squash, motorised water sports, catamaran, climbing tower, salto trampoline, billiards, internet, games machine, massage, motors, telephone, fax, photocopy, laundry & dry cleaning, doctor, pushchair, shopping centre and all other activities which are not listed in the AI concept are available at a charge.
Facilities & Services
Facilities and services include private beach, sauna, Turkish bath, fitness centre, animation activities, club cinema, sun chairs, mattresses, sun umbrellas as well as extra beach towels, shade shelters at the pool and at the beach, leather shop, jewellers, gift shop, photo, boutique shops, mini market, hairdresser and car hire. At a charge there is a beauty centre, massage, telephone, fax, photocopy, laundry and ironing service, baby buggy and medical service. Pets are not allowed. Other facilities include two discotheques, open air and indoor.
Kadriye centre is located 6km away, Antalya centre 40km
Entry Requirements
You may obtain a multiple entry visitors visa valid for 90 days at the port of entry on payment of ten pounds sterling, cash (Scottish currency is not accepted).
- 24 Hour Reception
- Aerobics
- Air Conditioning
- Air Conditioning in public areas
- Archery
- Badminton
- Bar
- Basketball
- Beach Volleyball
- Beauty Salon
- Breakfast
- By the Beach
- Currency Exchange
- Darts
- Doctors / Medical Centre
- Entertainment
- Family Hotel
- Football
- Gym
- Hairdresser
- High Chairs
- Internet Access
- Kids Club
- Kids Playground
- Kids Pool
- Landscaped Gardens
- Laundry Service
- Mini Market
- Minibar
- Pool Bar
- Pool/Billiard Table
- Reception
- Restaurant
- Safety Deposit Box
- Satellite TV
- Sauna
- Scuba Diving
- Shops
- Spa
- Squash
- Sunbathing Terrace
- Sunbeds
- Swimming Pool
- Table Tennis
- Tennis Court(s)
- Water Sports
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By Tim Kowols
The city of Sturgeon Bay is taking a step towards addressing its housing shortage Wednesday when its plan commission discusses new amendments on its accessory dwelling zoning ordinance. Currently, the city does not permit the commonly known "granny flats" or "mother-in-law suites" without going through the planned unit development (PUD) zoning code. The new changes will allow property owners to apply for conditional use permits for accessory dwellings while still being subject to public hearings. City Planner Ryan Kernosky says the community has been mostly supportive of the proposed changes.
Kernosky says the goal is to address long-term rental needs and for the accessory dwelling to not match or exceed the size of the current building on the site. Other agenda items for the city plan commission meeting beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday include presentations and public hearings for conditional use requests by Whitetails Unlimited and Doneff Land Company and a conceptual PUD for the Door County Maritime Museum's tower project.


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Increasing Transparency in the Built EnvironmentRegister for event
Ends On - March 30, 2017 - 9:30am
Denver , CO 80202
Hear from a panel of regional experts to learn how the construction and real estate industry is working to address transparency in the built environment, specifically with energy efficiency. The breakfast event, hosted by USGBC Colorado and the Denver Chapter of IFMA, is scheduled for March 30 at Xcel Energy in Denver.
- Panelists: Sara Cesario, CBRE / Lisa Stanley, USGBC / Creighton Ward, Centennial Realty Advisors
Recently, the city of Denver passed a benchmarking ordinance that will require all buildings more than 50,000 square feet to report their ENERGY STAR score by June 1. All buildings over 25,000 square feet will be required to report that number in 2018.
Speakers will discuss available tools and resources to help facility managers and building owners when undergoing energy benchmarking. CBRE's representative, Hilary Barnett, will share how the new city ordinance has affected their business and what steps they're taking to benchmark all their buildings in Denver.
Panel moderator Bob Macauley of Xcel Energy also sat on the Energize Denver Task Force, a group that sends recommendations to the city council about energy benchmarking and disclosure.
- 7:30-8 a.m. — Breakfast & Networking
- 8-9 a.m. — Panel Discussion
- 9-9:30 a.m. — Audience Q&A
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Session Fee: $275.00
The session fee includes the following:
Getting to know you questionnaire.
Based on your answers, will put together an album of potential location/s and props for the shoot.
A pre-session consultation at your home. Yes, things like location, time, and clothing for the shoot can be discussed via phone or email, but nothing beats personal one on one time for building a rapport that potentially means the difference to between a good session and a truly memorable one resulting in treasured keepsake images.
Pre-session location shoot. After you decide the where of the session, I will scout and photograph the areas you decided upon, checking for lighting and additional backdrops. Then I'll develop a personal story involving what you expressed about yourself and the locations of your shoot.
Two to three hour session at the locations of your choice. I view this time together as a play-date, where I get the privilege of observing and photographing you responding to the personal story prompts I give you for each location and interacting with a beloved pet and/or surroundings.
Post processing of the best images from your session.
Your images will be done within two weeks of your session. Your images will be done within two weeks of your session. I will contact you and send you the link to your gallery. Afterwards, you can choose either a free digital copy of your choice or a free printed 8x10. Package deals for digital copies available.
A retainer of $50.00 is due when booking your session. The remainder of your session fee is due at the time of your shoot. If you need to reschedule, I will gladly do so without any additional fees. However, there's no refund of the retainer for cancellations.
*Please note I retain copyright of all images taken, as well as reserve the right to use all work in portfolios, competitions, exhibitions and promotion of Take to Heart Images. Prices subject to change without notice.