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Mazatlán Summer News - What Do Yew Get Up To?
MazReal staff are on vacation in a cabin in Alert Nunavat somewhere in the far north in Canada, chewing seal fat and drinking snow.
Summer in Mazatlán is seriously hot, like fetid baboon breath apparently. There is no joy in the sunshine and there is very little expat outdoor activity. The occasional pink pale face can be seen behind the glass in Allegro coffee shop or Molika bistro gulping down the chilled air like a fish in a bowl. Passing off half the day in front of a cup of coffee or a pulpo carpaccio until they pluck up the courage to venture out into that fug of heat and moisture and sweatily return to their abode keeping to the shadowed side of the street or the sunny side if you are a mad dog or Englishman.
For a NOB* these equate to 100 and 135 degrees F. And sensación termica roughly translates as perceived temp.
(*NOB is an acronym for a person from North of the Border as used by a popular columnist from an expat newsletter popular in Mazatlán.)
In expat communities around the world gossip and rumours are naturally present but unfortunately some people take immense delight in casually spreading potentially slanderous and vicious rumours without foundation. So we decided to open the doors on these hardy summer expats to get to the truth of what they get up to during this period of jungle-fever heat and storm so as to quash these sometimes bizarre and outrageous stories floating around expatty-land.
Rosina Revelle aka Lil' Oral Annie, NOB, who is an established writer, columnist, opinion shaper and social commentator. She is considered an authority on popular culture and editor of the online newsletter The Blood and Guts of Mazatlán gets down and dirty interrogating elite members of the professional expat business and artistic community on the subject of, in her no nonsense words:
"How do they get through the day to day fug of rumouring and boredom living in a hot foreign country where no one speaks English and you have to pay fucking taxes if you work?"
|Spunky Rosina Revelle demanding an answer to her leading question or else!
Some of Lil' Annie's freelance work includes stories written for popular soccer and film blogs including this tasty personal excerpt from the popular Uzbekistan film blog Filimy Chittichatti.uz :
Please Azizziz keep your Goddamn clothes on….
At a time when lesser actors with better bods are willing to go all the way on camera, it seems like a pretty dumb move to pitch Azziziz against this sizzling bunch of washboard stomachs and bulging fruit bowls. Remember, Ranveer Zulfizar in '.... Rama Dama Dingdong Leela' also did it for Sayyid Umarkhan, making fans wonder whether Nurmukhammed includes a 'nanga-panga-wanger' clause in the contract for male porno stars. And ahem... Ranbir was an 'unexposed' 25-year-old at the time. Azizziz alas, at a ripe 99, is well past his sell-by date in the bully beefcake steak stakes. No matter what Muqaddas Jumanova, his partner in prime cuts, has to say, this is one stunt that hasn't hit the G-spot of female fans. The naked truth. Nothing butt! And here it comes: Azizziz Schakchnosa Bekzod - keep your friggin' clothes on. We will love you, anyway! etc etc.
….And here another confessional gem on how she lost the World Cup for the Ugandan Asian soccer Fanzine Footie Footie Fan Fan.
"Shameful confession: I lost the World Cup.
Yes, me Rosina Revelle! I could have stopped that goal. I could have scored one myself. I should have bitten someone's shoulder. Or broken my opponent's vertebra. Or stomped his head into the hallowed turf. Or pulled out my AK and shot the fucker in the head. That's the very least one can do when so much is at stake.
Me? All I did is cheer and get slaughtered on 6 bottles of New Zealand Chardonnay (any excuse...but it's important to express loyalty by picking the appropriate continent for your wine)and a bottle of Stoli. By the time, the tenth round of sausages and sauerkraut got passed around, I knew no amount of crying or farting for Argentina would help.
Over on my side, a few ladies were discussing Shakira's boobs and Gisele's arse. We all agreed our boobs and arses lie all the time. We are much, MUCH slimmer! I recalled the words of Dilip D Mucherooni who said, "We have to stop thinking too much. Wise words Dil!
Even though, Mohan Joshi Josh Balasubramanian Chakrapati, that lunch pack hero was not playing in the World Cup Final, I was instructed by the drunken men to serve prawns (no explanation required if you are a Gujarat!). It must have been the prawns! Had we flown in Argentinian Asado and Churasco for the crucial match, Messi wouldn't have messed up. And I would have won. Thank God my husband no longer has to shout 'Achtung Baby' for the next four more years.."
Fanoola What Do You Get Up To?
Fanoola Gaye Local Hackster, clothes horse and NOB Expert Hurricane Chaser and regular 5th ave. Mazatlán fashion contributor to Expat Blogs.
|Fandangoola with her driver and whipping' boy nonchalantly sporting the latest aerodynamic highly visible 'Hurricane Hi Viz Gear'. Here she is about to drive into the eye of Hurricane Narnia where she will report on the storm's progress.
Fanoola breathlessly continues:
"I have nothing to hide. I know there are rumours flying around about me and Big Bettie and they are all true save for that vicious one that suggests Bettie is a sumo wrestler and Mata Hari spy from North Korea when in fact she is a sumo wrestler and walrus from the Aleutian Islands.
Annnnny way dhaaaarlings, what I get up to in this naughty heat is I chase hurricanes. Yes you guessed. From inside my house on Chest Fridge Hill hahahah. Boneface my driver goes in there and phones back the info.
We barely lived through hurricane Rick that totally destroyed Mazatlán in 2012 and deposited Boneface in Guatemala. Thirst and hunger nearly overcame us that memorable night as a result of our maid who we keep outside during storms to act as a wind gauge and lightning conductor getting sucked up into the eye of the maelstrom Rick. Without her and her knowledge of the inside of our hacienda we didn't know where the fridge was so consequently myself and my live-in lover, Big Bettie, survived through the wee hours of that dark night by eating each other and drinking our sweat.
Luckily the sun did come up an hour later and our services were restored pronto. Unfortunately our poor dear maid was never seen again but we did hear a rumour of a flayed young woman found dead atop a mango tree in Walamo.
Now the naughty hurricane season is upon us again and that can mean hurricanes and utter destruction so I have some helpful tips to get through that hour or two of styngian (I think she means stygian-Ed)darkness punctuated by those bolts of blinding lightning as the storm rages overhead:
1/ Sell your current houses and servants and buy something high on a hill near Tierra Del Fuego southern Chile.
2/ Supply it with lots of stuff so when the services are cut off you can survive for the half an hour before they are returned. We suggest paté de foie gras, Iranian Beluga caviar, crates of champagne and a rent boy from Uzbekistan.
3/ Make sure you are not near any rivers, estuaries or the sea.
4/ Build your house from a block of solid cement.
5/ Take your servant with you to ease the pressure on having to get out of bed to get a snack and don't forget to securely tie the maids down outside to stop them being sucked into the tempest.
So all you naughty people out there in Maz Expat-land, when hurricane Narnia can be seen approaching on the horizon, my advice it to exit through those doors at the back of your bedroom cupboard and enter the beautiful world of no hurricanes, endless coddling maids, cool weather and gamboling Caribou - the place where I spend those happy hours inside my head away from this infernal fucking heat."
She chirped dropping another tab of acid and screeching scarily at the top of her voice the Canajian national anthem -
"Ooooooooohhhh Canaja!
Our Home and Beeeeeeautiful Land of Moose and Shhhhhaaaale Oylll,
And something something patriots and wonderful something-or-other exploits
of men in beaver skin hats and lumberjackery something something".
Great advice there from the fragrent Fandango Gaye.
Expats don't all come from north of the border or are NOBs as NOB blog writers like to perceive them to be. We know that out there in expatland are some non NOBs. There is an Italian, a Pole, a French person, someone from that far-away land of OzStralia, a white queen from Narnia-land, and a hobbit from the The Great Forest of Mirkwood in Middle Earth and a two or three English people.
The Hobbit and The White Queen are sometimes seen to be hanging out on Goat Hill where he lives in cave and it is said that she lives behind his cave cupboard door in Noo Noo-land.
The Europeans however, are generally thought to be stuck-up and stick to themselves and are described by the Australians and NOBs as:
'Those unsociable Euro bastards. Who the hell do they think they are not allowing themselves to be seen on the malecón, drinking coffee at the Lonely Spleen or having breakfast at Allegro or setting up an organic something or other, a religious sect, a lending library or online newsletter or Uzbek wine tasting and pouring club, a road-kill cooking group, book burning club, Ayn Rand reading group or tourist aide guerrilla recruiting army. All they do all day is plot to kill us all. Pitch forks and death by fire is all that's good for them. Kill them all, exterminate all the brutes.'
Gilbert and George What Do You Get Up To?
George and Gilbert Huntingdon-Smythe-Piddle-Pissington-Ponce* - UK citizens (Pomland, Mud Island, Rain-Swept Hellhole etc etc)
* A made-up name as we know not what these dangerous hermits call themselves. All English people, we are unreliably informed, are called Piss this or Piddle that.
Spokesperson for the North Of The Border Expat Vigilante Group (BIGNOB) - Meesta X - continues:
"We haven't a clue what this dirty limey couple get up to but rumour has it they embrace dark secrets and have a witches coven and human body parts for rent factory behind those dark doors that only open on garbage day or beer delivery day. Is it garbage or is it human offal in those bulging black garbage sacks? Is it beer or is it bat's blood?
These books were found in the Mazatlán Expat-Library and after extensive water-boarding by our group, the nice old lady who looks after the lending library broke down under interrogation and confessed spluttering that two people with strange non-American accents came by and left them hidden amongst a pile of John Grisham best sellers.
"Needless to say we had a book burning night and danced around the flames" sayeth Z.
|Our spy took this picture of some English expat midnight backyard shenanigans as a baby is fried over a candle and eaten
Intrigued and troubled by this generally true rumour MazReal decided to get serious and sent out ace foot-in-the door and phone hacker, Piers Morganstone to get some inside info on the shady couple from that muddy-island of YOO.K.
With the truism 'An Englishman's home is his castle' ringing in his empty head, that nasty hack Piers Whatsisname in broad daylight tried to smash the couple's door down in broad daylight with a sledge hammer, and according to neighbour, Mexican senior citizen Don Ameche the neighbour,
"A speakeasy Judas suddenly opened, a pair of fingers shot out and scooped that nasty man's eyes expertly from his sockets. The judas slammed shut neatly taking off his fingers which fell to the dusty street whereupon a stray dog took off with the thumb and pinkie" said The Don roaring with laughter.
Piers now allegedly blinded is counting the cost (not on his fingers hahaha) of his intrusion with these dangerous psychosociopaths in a hospital in 'anything goes' Panama City and last we heard he was suing George and Mildred to get his eyes and fingers back. They allegedly told him they had already sold one eye to a blind man in colonia Urias and as we know the dog had run off with the fingers.
"I demand my parts back. Second hand Latino bodyparts aren't good enough for me." he shouted shaking his fingerless fist.
We have been inundated with phone calls and iPhone pics of confirmed sightings of the notorious cannibals from Pomlandia.
"If you see these people on the streets, don't hesitate, kill them."
|English expat watching a hedge grow?
|English expat incognito with kidnapped orphans for tonight's dinner?
|English expat babe down on the beach pretending to be a local?
|UK citizen in their illegal gambling den?
|Out and About Euro expat?
|An. English expat off to the opera?
"In our biased opinion, a ducking stool and public flogging is the only solution to get these hermits to see sense and participate in expat goings-ons."
MazReal urges all expats to steer well clear of this publicity shunning couple and a warning has gone out never to invite them to dinner or accept an invitation from them as you will never be sure if the chopped liver or veal escalopes on your plate are from an animal or from a rented cadaver. If you hear an English accent immediately call the leader, me, Z of the BIGNOB - The North Of The Border Expat Vigilante Group
"We NOBs love those simple cuddly people from somewhere underneath the globe - the OzzyStroulians. Fuck knows how they got here but they bring joy and laughter to any social occasion.
They are world renown for their out-goingness, love of life, tickling alligators, going for long naked walkabouts in the bush, eating Eucalyptus leaves and lizards and perpetuating the myth that Crocodile Dundee was a real person who infatuated the whole of New York City through the act of disabling a mugger by knocking him out with a can of sweetcorn thrown from a hundred metres away in a teeming subway station.
Ozers are very gregarious and are to be seen at all openings or first nights. They can be picked out jovially slapping people on the back, punching them in the face and shouting in their ears. And once they even unexpectedly popped up in a house shouting
when an unsuspecting NOB opened his water bill whereupon he immediatly keeled over from a heart attack."
when an unsuspecting NOB opened his water bill whereupon he immediatly keeled over from a heart attack."
Moxie What Do You Get Up To?
Australian national treasure and 'character' Moxie 'Crimefighter' Jones or Bluey the Brain-Dead Boozer to his mates recounts his day in super-heated paradise.
|A drunken 'Bluey' warning our photographer to stay away or he'll turn him into a pretzel
Wot do yew git up to to Brain Dead?
"Its friggin' bonzer to be asked what I get up tew mate. Will lits stairt.
I'm from a small shithole in the outer flyblown dirtback called Squatter's Crotch near Malonga Gilgachuckunder not a sheeps fart from Brizzie. Fuck knows how I got to this hotter than a sheep shearer's armpit country. A place my missus called paradise every bleeding second. Anyway
bunch of bastards ere's how I got to be in this mozzie-ridden 'ellhole you .
I effing woke up one morning, grundies full of pee, in the cargo hold of a jumbuck rust bucket sheep (that's a sheep not sheep you bastards)after a buck's night in Brizvegas. And the last thing I remember was playing hide the sausage with a hottie as I must have been lit up like a Manly ferry. Oi reckons me mates, or her pissed orf hubbie, threw me in the sheep's hold for a bastard laugh. Not telling a porky I was mad as a cut snake, happy as a bastard on father's day and cranky as hell when I found out I was on the other side of the Pacific with my bellybutton stuck to my backbone and not a bastard boozer in sight.
Holyfuckindooly I said to myself when I heard those lamebrain stevedores (who were prodding me with sticks like I was lower than a snake's belly) speaking some fucking weird foreign language. Thinking they wuz jafas I ordered them to fetch me a tinnie becuz man was I parched with this feckin' brown bottle flu?
I tell ye I was gobsmacked to be here in Mexico.
This is Mexico isn't it?
Anyway feeling like a reffo and a fucking drongo i had a good chunder and a Dingo's breakfast and stonkered. Lookin' like a shag on a rock I eventually found my way to Centro where I am now lying in this gutter.
Anyway after selling other people's furniture and things for beer money I managed to snag myself a hottie with big norks and now she's my missus and ball and chain hehehe. Only jokin' mate. She'll kill me if you tell her that. Mad as a meat axe and nuggety she is. She's also from the Lucky Country. Where else mate?
What do I do all day? Well let me tells ya? I walk up and down the bastard malecón all day saying "g'day mate I'm from Oz you bastard" to all the sheilas and sinking a few schooners in every rubbity dub along the way. When I get to the Shrimp bucket I have another snort and walk back down again. I do it all day till I've had a skinfull and am parking the tiger and as useful as a one legged man in an arse kicking competition…… hehehe. Well, let's see, it's beer o'clock in Oz and cocktail o'clock 'ere in Maz. Time for another……OI BARMAN get yer self over here pronto."
|Bluey taking action after finding one bar on his daily pub-crawl route is shut. Locals looking on in wonder at this idiot gringo.
(A second later Bluey fell flat on his face in his own tiger park comotose. He is now in the cargo hold of a shrimp boat heading to Hawaii - Ed}
Heddy What Do You Get Up To?
NOB Kiss 'n Tell Gossip Columnist Heddy Hopper
Here she sits like a mummified corpse in her smoke fugged morning room scaring us half to death with that equally famous dead glazed expression which means a heady brew of rumour, gossip, scandal and horse tranquilizer is circulating like a bubbling witches brew inside her fuddled brain ready to be vomited out onto the pages of a local rag that we at MazReal are too terrified to mention by name.
"After spending most of the night with my lawyers making love and counter-suing ungrateful personages whose lives I have made a living hell, I wake up at 6 when it is time for my dose of ketamine and Xylazine which is about the time when my much loved 3 metre long pet python Reggie slides out from under the bed which he treats as his snake hole and demands a back scratch, skin peel and a cat for breakfast. Lucky it takes him a few months to digest an animal so feeding is no real problem until the time comes when I know he is peckish and I find myself waking up halfway down his gullet. Then I have to order our maid to go out and steal a cat or dog or homeless tramp to feed the cute serpent.
|Expat cat owners fearing HH's poison pen unless they bring their moggies along when it's feeding time for Reggie the Python
Once his needs are taken care of I stroll to the malecón at about 7.12 am or 7.15 fm or maybe 14 o'clock am otherwise not in fact till 8.27:01 o'clock Venusian time in the am.
Strolling that wonderful seaside boulevard breathing in the champagne quality of the dried prawn sea air cheerfully watching the hundreds of dog-owners taking pleasure scooping up steaming dog shit into little plastic bags and hanging the warm moist parcels from their wrist is such a joy to behold as it reminds me of my chosen career digging up the dirt of what's going down in Mazatlán.
Along the way I meet all my NOB friends for a wine pour, a hug and a catch-up of the last day's scandal. A chai-triple tequila latte and a gourmet fried fish head bagel along with a catch-up, a book read and a hug with all my other friends at The Looney Bleeny, then it's off to Allegro for breakfast of quadruple margaritas where I meet all my other other friends for a knife sharpening class and a catch-up of what happened since we met at the Looney Spleen catching up, spilling the beans, shooting clays and gossiping. Later moving on to Molika Bistro for a pulp carpaccio, a wine tasting, a parachute jump and a catch-up with those friends I didn't catch up with at Allegros and those I caught up with last night at Pepitos-on-The Strand scandal bar and grill.
|Heddy and her friends and Uzbek eunuchs siestering and catching up in her Zebra skin leather penthouse on Fridge Hill.
After a much needed siesta, a bottle of green Chatreuse, a bowl of gourmet tripe and Indonesian Fusilier Fish Batang and a Skype conference virtual hug-a-thon and catch-up with all my friends from Zona Dorada and those from Playa Sur and Cerro de Viglía, its off to Plazuala Machado for a stroll and then we of the Italian neo-realist film discussion group get together and discuss Roberto Rossellini and the reasons for his shifts between time frames and points of view. It's here on the Plazuela where I meet all my planetary and non-planetery friends and catch-up on the gossip from that afternoon when I was siestering and catching up on Skype.
After that catch up and a hug we all debate on which political system is relevant for today's expat way of living. Then unanimously deciding the self-centred Ayn Randian system is the best for us we then debate on where to eat and meet and catch up. Sooo after a light gourmet snack of Tartar Yak steak from the steppes, a wine pour, a book club assignment, a gourmet chilli bake-off, a play rehearsal, a soup kitchen delivery to some piss-poor part of town and a catch up we all catch up on the roof of Jonathans for a gossip, a hug and a rumourama. Luckily Jonathans has all the amenities that us NOBs are accustomed to, like gold plated toilets and a high vantage point to get away from all the riffraff on the street.
By the time I get home exhausted I have just enough energy to host a gourmet cook-a-rama and a catch up with all my friends around the Black Eye, Spiral and Nebula Galaxies, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Tongo.
Phooey my poor calendar - it only has 365 days and I need at least 727.
Just time for one more blast of horse tranquilliser.
Lety What Do You Get Up To?
Maid - Lety Sanchez
|Gringa Maid Lety enjoying a drink that she she is allowed for lunch.
"I work for gringas. I have worked for gringas many years and is where I learned my English because they cannot speak Castillano and many have lived here for tens of years.
I wake myself at 3 in the morning and clean the dust out my house, wash all our clothes under the outside tap, feed the dog, wake my children up, get my lazy man out of bed with a slap hahaha, make breakfast for the niños and get them off to school. They have to walk 4 kilometres to get to the bus top. My lovely man Tonio, takes his lunch that I have prepared and leaves for the chilli fields near Walamo 50 kilometres away where he picks chillies in the season. It is now 5 am and I have to get to the gringas house in Centro by 7. I walk 4 kilometres to the bus stop and two hours later I walk in the door just in time to make coffee for the gringa who is just waking up and shouting for me to hurry up - pronto pronto!
I then get on my hands and knees and wash the floor of this very big house, iron all the clothes, feed the dogs and clean up their poopoo, make breakfast for the dueños and their 12 guests from USA in time for 10 o'clock. I clean the swimming pool, lick the windows clean, climb on the roof to fix the leak and when there is a tormenta I am told to stand on the roof holding the gringos golf club up in the air.
The gringa is now shouting at me in Spanglish to go get some tortillas for lunch and then prepare for her a salsa 'teepeeco Mexicanio'. It is afternoon now and señora X allows me 3 minutes for a coke, some mud and two tortillas filled with grass.
She has gringa friends coming to play a game called bridge or something so I have to prepare snacks and chilled drinks and stand by the door so they can hang their hats and umbrellas on me. The gringas laugh and say things like rubber, doubly dummy, void, suite and sometimes get angry. When they are drunk and asleep I am polishing the art works, the silver and cleaning the toilets and then I have to take the dogs for a walk still carrying their hats and umbrellas.
It is now 6 pm and I am washing the dishes and cleaning and cleaning and cleaning. Señora X pays me the minimum daily wage of MXN $80.23 pesos which is Ok because the national average is MXN $65.58. My sister works for a gringa in Phoenix Arizona doing the same thing but she gets paid US$7.25 an hour. I am only thinking that the only way to survive is sit on the top of a train and cross the border to the USA. Maybe next year.
Then she lets me crawl to my bus and I get home at 8 pm in time to feed the niños and wait for my husband to get back from the fields. I have time to take a shower, say hello to Tonio and then get to bed by midnight. Sometimes she might take me home in her car if she has nothing better to do. She is very generous sometimes even letting me go home on one Sunday afternoon every 6 months.
At Christmas she makes me give her a MXN $100.00 gift."
|Lety's husband going to find work when the chilli harvest is over.
De Dee What Do You Get Up To?
'Artist' - Delia 'Dee Dee" Schickengruber
Mazatlán is full of artists. Poodle artist Delia originally from somewhere NOB specialises in 'Tile By Numbers' poodles. Let's see what this wonderfully talented lady gets up on her day in super-heated purgatory.
"I am known as the Thomas Kinkade of poodle art because my poodles look like they have been 'painted with light' like that exquisite and talented poodle-haired artist who patented the phrase But if you look closer you will see my poodles are made of little square painted with light tiles.
And here above is an example of my wonderful tiling by numbers art that really enraptures (surely you mean captures - Ed)the essence of a poodle with a number 14 colour thingammy scarf. This piece is called Precious as it is a portrait of my life partner and poodle called Precious.
Precious is number colour 64, whatever the name of that colour is with bits of the colour number 67. To get that natural poodle colour I tie her down for four minutes underwater in a bath of clothes die number 64 as it is my favourite poodle colour. The background is also my favourite dark colour and it is number 73 with a bit of 82 in there.
I am on the Art Walk with all the other wonderful artists and shop owners and knick knack shops and doodlers that are part of this wonderful winter thing called Art Walk Mazatlán. Art Walk is a platform that allows all the lovely artists to show off their best creative art sell goods from their shops.
|Poodle-lookalike and artist - the wonderful Dee Dee
My day in this paradise is simple. Me and Precious walk the malecón in the morning which allows Precious to get a good sniff of all the other dog owners backsides and crotches. She is a tall dog and able to get her nose right up there much to the surprise and sometimes delight of the doggy owners. Pit bull owners are a bit less enraptured with a wet dogs nose up their arse so we steer well clear of them.
I like to scoop up her warm doingses and carry them around with me sometimes showing them off to other dog owners who delight in comparing sizes and weights and textures with a little squeeze. Precious always wins in the large steaming dump stakes hahahah. I have been trying to organise an annual dog shit competition just like a vegetable competition where the biggest and best wins but Cultura have been difficult to get hold of since I suggested it to them last month. I did assure them that there are many dog owners who would just stampede to enter their pampered pooches poops.
We then go have coffee at the Lonely Spleen Coffee joint to meet and hug friends and artists. You cannot swing a cat in Centro without it hitting an artist. Then it's on to Allegro but they do not allow life partner pooches inside so I tie Precious up a tree outside so other naughty dogs don't try to shag my thoroughbred bitch. I leave Precious up that tree outside Allegros as my next stop Molikas doesn't have its own tree outside.(something I am campaigning for) They both know me by name because I often harangue them about their 'no dog' policy and for not having a dog pissing tree outside. After a carpaccio at Molikas it's time that Precious and me go home just in time for cocktail o'clock hour in Australia and sit under the palapa on the roof deck and drink á deux till it's time to take me and Precious to bed.
Musician and professional dope smoker J.J.'Geetar Jo' Pickens
|20 year old JJ taking a toke
"Mazatlán where the fuck is that? I shoulda bin at a Grateful Dead gig in Victoria BC 15 years ago. Thank God you woke me. Jesus let's go outside man it stinks in here have you farted or is it that dead horse over there?"
"This is my pad. Whadja think?" he said stepping back and vaguely pointing to a green algae encrusted trailer home sitting on bricks with grass half way up the sides and a tree branch growing into the window and out the door.
"I had something that pulled this trailer once but fuck knows where it is now. I reckon my man Chuy took it in payment for something." he said squatting on his dirt encrusted haunches and spliffing up a carrot sized joint and lighting the end until it sizzled and spat sparks.
"That's better. Takes the edge off man. What wrere saying? Oh yeh what is my typical day in Mazatlán you ask? Let's see."
What was that?
"I wake up at 6 and walk my pet rat Derek down the malecón, then I meet my friends at the Loony Floons Cafe and it's onto to Allegros for a 12 egg and 4 cheese scrambled eggs with green tea. That takes care of the munchies then it's on to Molikas for a tuna carpaccio. I return here for a drug infused siesta and head back to Plazuela Machado for a stroll for lots of hugs, a wine pour and a chitchat catch-up with best friends...........
Raul what do you get up to…?.Lil' Oral Annie made her way to NOMA where the super rich NOBs hangout to meet the notorious dentist and dedicated woman's man Raul 'Big Tuna' Sacamuelas
Dentist Raul Sacamuelas
"What do I get up every day in perfect ten paradise. Lemme tell you baby. They don't call me Big Tuna for nothing as I spend my day chatting up toothsome babes in the prone position in my EEEZZEE Boy dental and gum massage chair. Strapping them firmly down, I fondle around inside their gasping gaping mouths with long thin things. That's what I do you naughty girl. Come here you lively dish.
Man, business is good and root canals are where it's at. So good in fact that I work from my 100 metre long yacht parked in the specially extended - you geddit - hahaha marina where I entertain and perform root canals, no double ententré intended hehhehhehhehehehehehe.
Woman only clients from North Of The Border stay here on my huuuuuge humungeous boat for their Root Canal and Sex Vacations. Open-mouthed expats is where the action is and here on my 500 metre shaggin' wagon is where I do it. Roots canals and tonsil massage, that where the spondulics lie hahahahahahahehehehehehehe.
Here you see me now, above, performing a rooty tooty frooty canal on a chiquita banana from somewhere up north. This publicity picture is taken in the surgery cum exploratory room on my eeeeenormous boat The Gin and Jug Palace, by one of four stunning topless hotties who hang around the surgery handing me things that I stick in expat's mouths.
I sometimes yank out teeth but normally give that job to Sergio our chef so I can spend more time shaggin' by the pool".
Here is Sergio, The Chef with his assistant the pot wash boy and chimney sweep, ripping out a tooth thus allowing Raul more time to paw a cootie patootie by the pool.
"I use the latest equipment from Tajikistan that allow me to be very 'hands on' , geddit -when a bad kitty is in the chair.
Hold me back there missie, you're a hot one. Wanna open your mouth for me and show me your teeth tackle….?"
Rosina floored the creepy twat with big slap and jumped ship onto dry land pronto.
Thanks Rosina Revelle great job. We adore you.
MazReal advice on how to pass the summer in Mazatlán…….
Adios until the winter.
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For me, September rings in the beautiful hazy Indian Summer days, in France. The climate is ideal, not too hot, but lovely blue skies, sunny days and a breeze. It seems as if Nature changes all of a sudden and the long days become shorter. The sun is slowly moving to the South West and is a beautiful sight as we watch it go under every evening behind the Mountains, from our back garden. We have installed a special rocking chair for two and enjoy a cup of coffee together in the outdoors. Lots of swallows are flying in and out of the vineyards, and make such a wonderful noise together. The season has also started for the grapes to be harvested, and soon the leaves will change color and offer us a magnificent landscape of yellow, red and orange leaves. It is also my birthday this month.
So to show pictures that relate to the above I will begin with the sunset in our back garden.
The grapes looks like this now and will be ready to harvest this month
And, if we get to share about the theme October, I will show you how beautiful the vineyards look in that month!
Have a lovely week - I will be in Spain for three days, having a little break with DH. Looking forward to it.

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the government's central bank, has reduced the amount of annual remittances from $200,000 to $75,000, which will have a significant impact on Indians looking to invest in foreign countries.
Many foreign governments allow investors permanent residency if they are able to pass a certain cash threshold.
For instance, in the United States, if a foreign investor can contribute $500,000 to a business in the country they would be granted a Green Card. Green Cards being the documentary proof of permanent residency in the United States.
Remittances are sums of money paid to remote locations and the RBI has set regulations on the amount that can be sent out of the country to control the stability of the country.
Other countries that offer permanent residency through investments include:
- The Bahamas, where a property purchase worth over $500,000 will also result in a grant of permanent residency
- Australia, where investors must contribute at least five million Australian dollars to become eligible for an investor class visa. (five million Australian dollars is equivalent to 4,506,000 USD as of August 21, 2013)
- Any property purchase in the United Arab Emirates will result in the grant of permanent residency.
A property purchase of $500,000 in the United States will not result in the grant of a Green Card. The investment must be made in a business within the country.
Immigrant investors will also need to apply for a visa the same as any other of immigrant to the United States.
The trend that has begun, and this is perhaps the goal of the RBI, is that investors are starting to look inward at the luxury property market in India instead of abroad.
However, it is not necessarily the property that generates the greatest draw to foreign investment for well-off Indians. Indeed, many investors are using the investor visas as a tool to bring their families into other countries for education or even for immigration purposes.
Regardless of the intent, the result is that it is much more difficult to remit large amounts of cash to foreign programs without the assistance of others.


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Looking at the Trade codes, I see a lot of Poor, Non-Industrial and Non-Agricultural worlds. My initial concept for the Julnar Reach, with its Poor, Non-Industrial worlds, was that the 10th Century mining boom – mentioned previously in connection with Tulvan in Gamelea Subsector - had paid out and that the Reach Systems had then experienced a decades-long economic depression. I still like this idea and it gells with the results I rolled up for this section of the Gazolan Subsector, so I will lock in the main world names and UWPs for the Coreward end of the Julnar Reach and declare them complete.
I did play around with the idea that, as Gazolan Subsector has been a battle field subsector on a number of occasions, the economy, infrastructure and facilities of the systems within the subsector had taken repeated hits and were still recovering. The 4th Outrim War of 1080 – 85 was the last major war that might have impacted Gazolan Subsector. While the main theatre of conflict was further Rimward in Gamelea and Miazan Subsectors, Outrim Coalition naval units most certainly pushed over the border through Daltharmai Subsector, and along the Daltharmai Main, into Gazolan Subsector.
I have decided that the Azakarii Cluster (previously Constellation E) and the Miigaurshish (the Wedding Cup) contain the Industrial worlds of the subsector – these were the systems that fell initially to the Imperial advance in the mid 6th Century, prior to the extended period of conflict that was to ultimately destroy Sector Duke Kolin I's dynasty. It was here that the Outrim incursions of the 4th Outrim War were halted. Given that Thiroor, the Subsector Capital, is at 2213, right on the rim of the Wedding Cup, and that House Hendrian of Thiroor's power base was firmly fixed amongst the Miigaurshish systems, it is likely that this region of space is well settled and well developed. Just over a decade after the end of the 4th Outrim War, Subsector Duke Akansair of Thiroor became Akansair I, Sector Duke of the RimWorlds.


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The wealthy East Bay city of Piedmont, totally surrounded by the not-so-wealthy city of Oakland, passed an ordinance last week to deploy cameras on every road leading into town to snap pictures of license plates.
The license plate readers will feed the images into a database and check them for matches with plates of known bad characters, thus joining an increasing number of communities that are photographing cars and filing information gleaned from the activities of people who aren't suspected or accused of a crime.
License plate readers, or LPRs, are used extensively across the country by law enforcement to stock databases with information that pinpoints the movements of its residents. But most of those scanners are within the city, often attached to police cars that click away at anything that moves.
Los Angeles-area law enforcement, at last count, had 180 million license plate images in its database. Vigilant Video, and its National Vehicle Location Service, has more than half a billion license-plate records on file, according to a story published by California Watch. Around 1,200 new law-enforcement users a month reportedly sign up to access the system, which is offered free by Vigilant, even to those agencies that neither buy their scanner nor contribute to the database.
Piedmont is one of the few towns that is setting up cameras to shoot pictures of everyone entering and leaving town. The city council approved spending $678,613 on 39 cameras, to be deployed at 15 locations in the city, with an emphasis on entry points. The system is expected to be up and running by the fall.
The city of 11,000 took inspiration for its plan from nearby Tiburon, which passed a similar ordinance in 2010 after a well-dressed woman was accused of driving around town in a Mercedes collecting other people's mail, including checks and financial statements, from their mailboxes. She turned out to be from San Rafael.
Civil libertarians and privacy advocates see the growth of LPRs as an overexuberant and relatively ineffective reaction to fears about crime. Their use has become part of a national debate over security/privacy issues that got a shot of adrenalin last week when news broke that the federal government was hoovering up data from the telecoms about everyone's phone calls and rummaging through personal information stored on the computers of all the major internet companies, like Google and Facebook.
Oakland and Piedmont have always had a strained relationship. Although Piedmont residents have resisted integration with Oakland for more than a century—Oakland absorbed a lot of surrounding municipalities and unincorporated areas after the 1906 earthquake—they share some services, like libraries. And Oakland offers Piedmont residents some of the cultural and shopping resources a small town, even a wealthy one, can't manage on its own.
While Oakland has made regular overtures to Piedmont that they forge closer ties, the entreaties have fallen on deaf ears. In November, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on efforts by an Oakland high school student to create "an uninterrupted swath of Oakland's famed oak-tree street signs from 105th Avenue clear to the pinnacles of Piedmont."
Piedmont wanted no part of it. "If I proposed that, I'd be tarred and feathered. I'd be ousted from town," Mayor John Chiang told the newspaper.
Still, Oakland residents are free to come on by in the fall and indulge in some neighborly hospitality by having their pictures taken without charge—unless their license plate triggers a computer match.
–Ken Broder
To Learn More:
Wealthy California Town Approves License Plate Readers along Municipal Border (by Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica)
City Council Approves License Plate Reader System Purchase (by Dixie Jordan, Piedmont Patch)
Report: License Plate Cameras Could Exceed $1 Million (by Charles Burress, Piedmont Patch)
Oakland, Piedmont Borders at Issue (by Carolyn Jones, San Francisco Chronicle)
Cameras for the Police (by Richard C. Paddock, New York Times)
Tiburon Police Arrest Woman in Mail-Theft Spree (by Gary Klien, Marin Independent Journal)
L.A. Law Enforcement Sued over License Plate Scanners that Profile Drivers in a Database (by Ken Broder, AllGov California)


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Fast-Forwarding Your Ad Message Immediately
When it comes to commercial, it is not always the longer the better!
If most people are skipping commercials that does not interest them right away,
we better fast-foward our message.
Viewers with digital video recorders are 25% more likely to fast-forward past ads that don't interest them immediately, and 25% of viewers are likely not to watch an entire ad that fails to draw them in right away, no matter how great the commercial is overall, according to the study.
I am interested in testing on how many commercials out there can catch their target groups' attention immediately and how many of them fail to do so.
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News Briefing: Nonprofit Groups Spin Off Green Ventures
By Kate Golden on November 4, 2009No Comment
- Nonprofit groups launch for-profit ventures that teach skills for green jobs. [New York Times]
- The NAACP attempts to reach beyond its core black community. [Washington Post]
- The California attorney general has raised nearly $10 million for two charter schools, an arts academy, and a military institude, all of which he founded as mayor of Oakland. [Los Angeles Times]


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Constructing the Perfect Social Media Contest
Competitions are a great way of not only increasing your social stats, but also a great way of rewarding current followers. Social competitions are proven to be effective in drawing more attention to your website, but once the competition closes it is keeping the followers and getting them to re-engage with the page that is often difficult. This task is not impossible; it just takes a bit of planning. Here are some great tips on putting together the best social media competition:
Before you start
Planning is a necessity when putting together a social media contest. You need to think about why you want to run it, ie; what do you want to gain from the competition? Gaining more followers is an obvious target, but also one that only offers a false perspective as many of those followers lose interest once the contest has ended. Therefore, a far more achievable goal would be to produce a higher return on investment ie; money or to gain research on the types of followers your page attracts for example. The point is, you need to formulate a clear plan with an achievable target that will ultimately benefit your company or website.
Putting together the contest
Picking the correct prize is essential in ensuring that your contest will be a success; the best prizes often relate to the competition, but this isn't a necessity. Whatever the value of the prize, the most important thing is that the prize is desirable. The contest itself needs to be accessible for an audience, with clear instructions and very easy to participate in. You also need to think about what social media sites you will utilise. Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr are the obvious sites, but apps such as Instagram are increasing in popularity so you must tap into the current market; doing some research beforehand is the best way to find the current social media trends. The competition itself can vary in difficulty and participation; some opt for creative contests, others are very straightforward and simple. Some contests require their entrants to make a video submission for example, whereas others simply require the participant to re-tweet a statement on Twitter. Whatever the competition, make it work for you and your website.
Promoting the contest
Promoting the contest ultimately helps to promote your site, and hosting the contest via social media means that promoting is has never been easier. Re-tweeting on Twitter, for example, is very easy and acts as instant promotion; so getting participants to follow the page and then re-tweet to enter the competition is an easy and effective way for promotion. With something like a video or photo entry, the winner could be selected by a poll of votes; thus the entrants themselves promote the competition to their own friends and followers in order to get more votes. The friends and followers then have to join the page to vote (on Facebook for example), thus the competition reaches many more people and promotes the website at the same time. It is essential that a requirement of the competition is that the entrant must be a follower of the page.
Once the contest has ended
Tasks such as ensuring that the winner has been informed and that they receive the prize are key. A great idea is to get them to tweet once the prize has been delivered. This can be re-tweeted by your own page, allowing the other followers hope for future competitions, and it also makes the whole process seem more 'real'. Enticing followers who didn't win this time with future completions is also vital. Teasers such as "stay tuned for a new contest next week" are a great way of keeping interest.
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Besicorp-Empire Development Company, LLC (January 2004)
January 21, 2004
ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUPPLEMENTAL PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, and
and ISSUES CONFERENCE
Applicant: Besicorp-Empire Development Company, LLC, 1151 Flatbush Road, Kingston, NY 12401.
Application Number: DEC # 4-3814-00052/00001 - Part 201 Air State Facility PSC Case # 00-F-2057
Project Description: The Empire State Newsprint Project will consist of a recycled newsprint manufacturing plant (RNMP) and a nominal 505 MW combined cycle cogeneration plant.
The recycled newsprint manufacturing plant will be located on the northern portion of the site where the existing BASF manufacturing plant is located. A majority of the existing buildings at the BASF manufacturing plant will be demolished to accommodate construction of the recycling facility. The recycled newsprint manufacturing plant will consist of a deinking plant, stock preparation and paper mill, and finishing and shipping. The recycled newsprint manufacturing plant will process approximately 430,000 metric tons/year of waste newspapers and magazines to produce 330,000 metric tons/year of 100 percent-recycled newsprint.
The cogeneration plant will supply steam and electricity (approximately 55 MW) to the recycled newsprint manufacturing plant. The remainder of the electricity generated will be offered on the merchant market. The cogeneration plant is configured with two GE Frame 7FA combustion turbines with dry low-nitrogen oxide (NOx) combusters, heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs), a steam turbine and an auxiliary boiler. With all of these components of the facility included, the maximum electrical output will be 670 MW. The cogeneration plant will use natural gas as the primary fuel and low sulfur (0.05%) distillate as the secondary fuel in the combustion turbines and duct burners within the HRSGs. The auxiliary boiler will also fire natural gas and low-sulfur distillate fuel. Distillate fuel use will be limited up to the equivalent of 1,080 hours per year at 100 percent load.
This project was the subject of a public notice issued May 31, 2002. At the time of the first notice, the source specific Emission Reduction Credits had not been identified by the applicant. The applicant has now obtained the necessary ERCs and submitted the required Use of ERC Forms, consistent with 6 NYCRR 231-2.4 and 231-2.10.
Emission Reduction Credits
The Department hereby provides notice that the Applicant is intending to use Emission Reduction Credits (ERCs) to offset potential emissions from the RNMP and cogeneration facility. The total amount of ERCs needed are 188 tons per year of VOCs and 258 tons per year of NOx. The ERCs to be used have been supplied from the following sources:
|Amount Acquired (TPY)
|Universal Packaging, Saratoga County, NY
|TOTAL VOC ERCs REQUIRED = 188 TPY
|Rochester Gas & Electric, Beebee Station, Monroe County, NY
|TOTAL NOx ERCs REQUIRED = 258 TPY
All ERCs were acquired from sources within New York State and are currently on the "Emission Reduction Credit Registry." All ERCs comply with the "equal or higher" than non-attainment class area and "contribution test" requirement of subpart 231-2 and Air Guide 26, Appendix D. The New York State ERCs registry will be amended to reflect the committed ERCs.
Written Comments: All written comments about the Applicant's intended use of Emission Reduction Credits (ERCs) to offset potential emissions from the RNMP and cogeneration facility must be filed with the NYSDEC Office of Hearings and Mediation Services, 625 Broadway, First Floor, Albany, New York 12233-1550, attn: Associate Examiner/ALJ P. Nicholas Garlick . Written comments must be postmarked no later than February 23, 2004.
Public comments on the ERCs do not constitute evidence but may be used by the Associate Examiner as a basis to inquire further of the parties and potential parties at the supplemental issues conference, as set forth in the Department's Permit Hearing Regulations (6 NYCRR part 624). Specific comments must be supported by full documentation and references should be limited to readily available information.
Issues Conference
A supplemental pre-adjudicatory Issues Conference will be held on February 25, 2004 at 1:30 P.M., at the NYSDEC Headquarters, 625 Broadway, Albany, New York 12233, first floor conference room. Participation at the NYSDEC Issues Conference is limited to the NYSDEC Staff, the Applicant and those persons who already have received party status or who are requesting party status in the NYSDEC permit hearing. Party status in this proceeding is not automatically conferred upon the parties to the PSL Article X proceeding, other than NYSDEC Staff and the Applicant. The purpose of the supplemental Issues Conference is to determine party status for any person who has properly filed a petition regarding the ERCs component of the project, as indicated below, and to define, narrow and, if possible, resolve proposed adjudicable issues concerning the ERCs component of the project that have been raised by the Issues Conference participants. Any persons requesting party status pursuant to this supplemental notice, must appear or be represented at the Issues Conference so that all proposed issues may be fully discussed. In the event no petitions for party status are filed, the issues conference may be canceled.
Filing for Party Status and Proposed Issues: To participate at the supplemental NYSDEC Issues Conference concerning the ERCs component of the project, parties must file a written petition requesting party status, including the facts intended for presentation, pursuant to 6 NYCRR 624.4(b) and 624.5(c). In addition, any petition must fully identify the proposed party and the name(s) of the person(s) who will act as the party's representative(s), the party's environmental interests, the statutory considerations relevant to the ERC component of the project, whether the request is for full party status or amicus status, and the precise grounds for opposing or supporting the ERC component of the project. Mere opposition to the project is not a sufficient basis to be granted party status. The NYSDEC Permit Hearing Regulations, 6 NYCRR part 624, may be accessed via the NYSDEC/OHMS web page at http://www.dec.state.ny.us/ (click on "Hearings and Mediations" under "About DEC" and then click on "Guide to Permit Hearings") .
One copy of any petition requesting either full party status or amicus status must be filed with the ALJ/Examiners identified below and served upon the following other individuals:
- J. Michael Harrison , Administrative Law Judge/PSL Art. X Presiding Examiner, NYSDPS, Office of Hearings and Alternative Dispute Resolution, 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12223-1350;
- P. Nicholas Garlick, Administrative Law Judge/PSL Art. X Associate Examiner, NYSDEC, Office of Hearings and Mediation Services, 625 Broadway, Albany, NY 12233-1550;
- Mark Sanza, Esq., Associate Attorney, Office of General Counsel, NYSDEC 625 Broadway, Albany, New York 12233-1500;
- Paul Agresta, Esq., NYSDPS, 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12223-1350; and
- Kevin Bernstein, Esq., Bond, Schoeneck & King, LLP, One Lincoln Center, Syracuse, New York, 13202-1355
Electronic filing of petitions is acceptable, but must be followed by a paper copy via first class U.S. mail, postmarked by Febraury 20, 2004. Filings by E-mail must be transmitted both in Microsoft Word 97 , Wordperfect 8.0 or compatible wordprocessing platform (extension ".doc") and Rich Text Format (extension ".rtf").
Document Availability:
The NYSDEC application materials, including a draft preconstruction (air) permit, fact sheet, ERCs forms and supporting documentation are available for review at the following locations between 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM, Monday through Friday:
- NYSDEC Office of Hearings and Mediation Services, 625 Broadway, First Floor, Albany, NY 12233-1550;
- NYSDEC Division of Environmental Permits, Department of Environmental Conservation, 625 Broadway, Road, Albany, New York 12233-1750. Contact: Christopher Hogan, Project Manager, at (518) 402-9151.
NYS ECL and Implementing Regulations: In addition to the specific statutes and regulations cited above, the above-reference air preconstruction permit is being processed by NYSDEC Staff pursuant to ECL article 3, title 3 (General Functions), ECL article 19 (Air Pollution Control), 6 NYCRR subpart 231-2 (Requirements for Emission Sources Subject to sections 172 and 173 of the Clean Air Act, 42 USC §§7502 and 7503 on or after November 15, 1992), 6 NYCRR part 621 (Uniform Procedures), and part 624 (Permit Hearing Procedures).
James T. McClymonds
Chief Administrative Law Judge
Albany, New York
January 21, 2004


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Let's know here in deep how to deactivate or turn off iMessage to deregister your phone number from the Apple iPhone. Sometimes iPhone users or non Apple phone users (Android, Windows) have noted problem respect to message sending and receiving , it may happen due to no turn off iMessage phone number whenever users have transferred his/her SIM from Apple iPhone to other OS phone. If those users are want that avoid this kind of problem permanently like, can't send or receive message on a non apple phone then follow given step how to turn off iMessage and link that number with the other mobile OS. Read beneath given note carefully and if have you know idea about how to deactivate iMessage before switching your SIM card to other company phone. Then follow our bellow given steps and fixed it.
Note: Keep, remembers turn of iMessage and unregisters your Phone number before you're going for transfer your iPhone SIM to non apple phone. Otherwise you're not able to send or receive message.
Steps for deactivate/ Turn off iMessage to deregister phone number from Apple iPhone
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If Already transferred your SIM from iPhone to Non Apple Phone, then put it back in your iPhone
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- First Logging into, support profile and then either changing your Password or removing your cell phone number
- Enter Text STOP to 48369
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Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Germany Wednesday returned to Zimbabwe, on "permanent loan," an artefact stolen from the country some 100 years ago during European colonisation of Africa.
The stone carving of a bird, Zimbabwe's national symbol, was handed over to President Robert Mugabe by the German Ambassador Peter Schmit at an elaborate ceremony.
The plinth was stolen from the "Great Zimbabwe" ruins, from which the country derived its name around 1890.
It was taken to Germany, then moved to Russia, and back to Germany in the 1990s.
Mugabe said the return of the artefact symbolised his government's determination to assert national control over the country's resources and heritage, especially land.
His government has controversially driven off thousands of white farmers from their farms, seized from blacks during colonial rule, to resettle landless peasants.
"The Great Zimbabwe birds are our nation's most prized cultural treasures, a symbol of our nation whose meaning defies time and place.
Like our land reform programme, today's ceremony allows us to proudly assert ownership over our national resources and treasures," Mugabe stressed.
He added: "the return of the pedestal of this nation is, therefore, cause for joyous celebration because it fits into our ongoing programme of national identity and restoration.


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18th August 2017
Airbus Defence and Space has worked with 3D Systems to achieve a major breakthrough in direct metal printing (DMP) within the aerospace industry. Together the companies have developed the first 3D printed radio frequency (RF) filter tested and validated for use in commercial telecommunications satellites. The project built upon research funded by the European Space Agency (A0/1-6776/11/NL/GLC: Modelling and Design of Optimised Waveguide Components Utilising 3D Manufacturing Techniques).
Telecommunications satellites exemplify the aerospace industry's relentless emphasis on reducing weight — sending a vehicle into a geo-stationary orbit can cost as much as $20,000 per kilogram. Continuing design innovation and reduced production time are also major priorities, as most satellites are designed for a lifetime of 10–15 years.
These priorities make telecommunications satellites the ideal candidate for direct metal printing. The 3D Systems ProX® DMP 320 used in the Airbus RF filter project enables manufacturers to consolidate parts, improve functionality with shapes and surfaces not possible to manufacture via traditional means, reduce production time and lower costs for customized designs, and decrease weight while maintaining or improving material strength.
3D Systems' facility in Leuven, Belgium, has been using the 3D Systems ProX DMP 320 since the machine was in its beta stages. Successful projects include topological optimization, weight reduction and parts consolidation for spaceflight-validated parts such as brackets and strut end fittings for telecommunications satellites. The Airbus Defence and Space project was 3D Systems Leuven's first foray into RF filters.
The Airbus Defence and Space RF filter project demonstrates the ability of 3D printing to enable new design innovation for aerospace parts that haven't changed appreciably in decades.
RF filters are traditionally designed based on libraries of standardized elements, such as rectangular cavities and waveguide cross-sections with perpendicular bends. Shapes and connections are dictated by typical manufacturing processes such as milling and spark eroding. As a result, cavities for RF filters typically need to be machined from two halves bolted together. This increases weight, adds an assembly step to production time, and requires extra
quality assessment.
Designing the parts for 3D printing enabled Airbus Defence and Space to explore complex geometries at no additional manufacturing cost.
CST MWS, a standard 3D electromagnetic simulation software tool, was used to design the 3D printed RF filters, with little time spent on optimization. The increased manufacturing flexibility enabled by 3D printing led to a design using a depressed super-ellipsoidal cavity. The unique shaping helped to channel RF currents and deliver the required tradeoffs between Q factor—a measure of a waveguide's efficiency based on energy lost—and rejection of
out-of-band signals.
"The disruptive innovation lies in the fact that pure functionality, not manufacturability, now determines how the hardware will be designed," says Koen Huybrechts, project engineer for 3D Systems in Leuven. "This project is a classic example of 'form follows function'."
"The main benefits of a monolithic design enabled by 3D printing are mass, cost and time," says Paul Booth, the RF engineer for Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage, United Kingdom. "The mass is reduced because there is no longer the requirement to have fasteners. With direct metal printing there is also the no-cost bonus to have the outer profile more closely follow the inner profile, so only the really necessary metal needs to be used. The cost/time benefit comes from the reduction in assembly and post-processing."


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Happy Friday!!
Today's post is a YouTube video share from a recent trip to Buffalo. Being from Toronto, we're only a short drive, 2 hours, from Buffalo. I love going there and many times a year hubs and I just in the truck and go for a "drive". I love it!
Toronto's a great and large city and you can find anything you need, well, almost. When it comes to scrapbook and craft supplies, I always hit a wall. I just find that if I want something current and brand spankin' new for a good price, I've gotta cross the border. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like things are over-priced here. I know that there are incurred expenses getting schtuff here but I really don't like paying double for something I know I can get cheaper. That's just me!
Don't get me wrong... sometimes I find incredible steals but sometimes it just gives me and hubby a reason to take a (very) mini va-cay! LOL!
Anyway, you'll find the video here until I can link it to my blog. Thanks for stopping by!


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"When did we ever let one bad game ruin a franchise?!"
Even though he's joking, JacksFilms makes an excellent point. For decades, the Tony Hawk Pro Skater franchise was a hugely successful franchise! I myself remember purchasing at least both undergrounds and the Gameboy Advance port of the original! So why now after one bad game has the series seemed to come to a definitive end?
Well in truth I don't think this was the first bad game as Tony Hawk: Ride was a pretty colossal failure. Even so Sonic The Hedgehog has continued to make awful game after awful game and still has about a game a year.
If you want the truth I think it's mostly apathy on Tony Hawk's part. The game was a low-budget mess, and I think about as much time went into development as anyone behind the scenes cared to give to it. If you want the humor watch the video below.


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Ok so,
Where to begin?
I wanted to write this blogpost since a couple of weeks now, because I feel like I must not be the only one with this issue:
I don't understand most of them...
So, for those of you who are new on my blog I'll give a quick recap:
I am a natural ashy blond, got sick of my bleh color and decided a couple of years ago I wanted to dye it, so I did and I went to a salon to get my hair dyed.
I asked for a Mary kate Olsen colour which is something like this:
(the one on the middle)
Let's say a Venetian blond. I got weird purple/brown. Yuk. That was the start of my mess, because it had purple/red pigments in it, up til a year or so ago I always had to deal with this weird red shine in my hair - this has been confirmed by professionals: red is the hardest to get rid off.
So scroll forward in time: After a couple tries, I discovered this awesome girl at Tony & Guy who did both my friend and me, and we looked - well the hair :D - reaaaally awesome, exactly what we wanted. The celeb style blond a la Jeniffer Aniston/ Jeniffer Lopez / Sarah Jessica Parker.
Love it.
Then I moved, so I was obliged to go to a different hairdresser, so I went with Aveda in New York. Good lord... That was some story: I had to pay +200 dollars (the plus stands for the extra 20 ish percent tip, if not more) for a hair color that was just completely messed up.
I asked for this:
(I cant find the exact picture, but it basically came down to this:)
So again, a warm toned blond with some venetian blond in it and some highlights but very soft.
She was very nice, but I felt like we didn't see the same color.
I came from a mix of 6 and 7 (which means dark to medium blond) and she told me the only way we could achieve this look is by placing highlights.
I remember she colored my hair even darker than it was before (even though I wanted to go lighter) and I told her I didn't want stripy highlights, I wanted a kind of ombre "avant la lettre". I explained her I like it when the highlights don't mark of from the roots, but they gradually blend in by getting lighter when reaching the ends of my hair.
I guess that part wasn't really clear, because when I left the salon and asked my lovely roommate, she said: your hair looks like a cheap x@xx hair (no offence) and it looks greasy (you know when the highlights are just so damn obvi that it looks like your hair hasn't been washed for eva?)
Well, I called her, because I am believe it or not, quite shy, so I got my courage together and asked to see her the next day.
I pushed to get everything redone from start to finish, and after a quick chat, she was ok with that. She did say the only way to fix her mistake was to completely bleach my hair..
Oh lord.
This part I hate the most: having to damage your hair because they did a shitty job.
Anyway, long story short, it wasn't completely like I wanted it, but it was very very beautifully done. I loved it. She ended up doing a great job.
So fast forward to now: after all these nightmare stories of hairdressers, I decided I'd color my hair myself, which really worked out well, until a couple of weeks ago, where I decided I am fed up with the ombre hair style and I wanted to go lighter all over my hair.
I decided to go to a hair salon of Filippo Beretta and I asked for a woman from which I had seen a lot of very nice hair styles on facebook.
She was kind of nice and did an ok job, however... when I asked her about going lighter (I was around a light 7 to 8) and to get this look:
Ok ok, I think I always like the same look - so should be easy right?
But no.
She said: "Impossible" without going into it, and again, you guessed it: the "only if we place some highlights will you get there eventually" preach. (a hairdresser from Aveda - not New York, once refused to color my hair unless we dye it dark grey and then I'd have to pay again to get highlights in the dark grey.. ammm... after 20 min of back and forth discussing why the hell I would pay money to go grey, I just decided to leave the salon - he called me and my friend some names too, he was super rude)
So I went for it, and she actually just put a 6-7 on my hair and toned down the ends. Ok, I was kind of happy, but the color was no where near this picture.
Ok, so, let's go back after a couple of weeks, right?
now THIS is where the hair fiasco begins:
She dyed my hair in a 4!!!!!! a 4!!!! When I asked to go lighter/...... Like, wait what? Then she put in some highlights WITH THE BLUE POWDER (I have that one at home and that is for very good healthy hair MAYBE, not for my damaged thin hair!!) So I flipped when I saw the white strands all eaten up by the bleach, asked her about that, and she reassured me. Ok.. She then started washing my hair like a crazy person (I got about 4 to 5 washes) because she panicked that the color was waaaay too dark,(the base color she put on right before placing the highlights) and she also took a break to vomit in the toilet, which was just one step away Iew. (she was not pregnant) She came back, I smelled the vomit air, and she continued to wash my hair.
All in all a terrifying and horrible experience for over 130 euros. And for what? To have black roots, with green highlights - I was afraid of the redness and brassiness, so she cancelled out the golden tones too hard which made it go green.
And she demanded me to pay. I had a discussion about it, but she wouldn't let go, I called the manager of Filippo Beretta, but didn't change anything. I had lost my money and got super damaged black hair with green strands for in return.
Guys, never go to Filipo Beretta, please.
So, then I decided to go to Tony and Guy again, what could possibly go wrong, right?
He put in loads of highlights to get rid of that black hair, but I just need to wait.
Because of the difference in color, I didn't like the stripey look and was a little bit sad again. He however, already did a way better job at it.
The secret is, you just had to put a color over the highlighted hair (which he said he didn't want to do to not get super expensive), so everything blends in perfectly.
This is what I have done today at home and I absolutely LOVE my hair.
I put a mix of 8.0 and 8.1 + 7G hazelnut with a 10 developer and left it for about 5 to 10 min. I made sure NOT to touch my roots, because experience has shown me that they might turn orange haha, I added water and started to massage the product into the highlights. For the remaining 2 minutes, I combed the product down, so my highlights would get a similar warm toned color.
fixed the hair, couldn't be happier, but lost a lot of money.
I hope I helped you guys out with this, and if you would have some questions, please leave them down below so I can go into detail.
Thanks for reading you guys
Lots of love,


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Meet the Drivers: Jimmy Pelizzari
by Chris Leone // Website // Twitter
Images via Ben Newburn (1); Blind Deer Rallysport (2)
Jimmy Pelizzari // Traverse City, Michigan // #887 Open Light
The Open Light class has quickly become one of the most exciting to follow in the Rally America National Championship, and a closely matched field is the key to it. With all of the drivers pedaling lightly modified vehicles to their absolute limit, driver skill, rather than the fastest or most powerful car, can make all the difference in determining who makes it to the podium and who goes home happy to finish.
Blind Deer Rallysport's Jimmy Pelizzari has proven himself to be not only one of the top drivers in the Open Light class, but in the series as a whole, as he enters the second half of the season sixth in the driver's championship and fourth in class. The Michigan native and Autoweek writer took a few minutes away from his day job to let us know what got him into the sport and what makes him tick at an event:
What made you want to start rallying?
I grew up hearing stories about my cousin and family friend rallying or co-driving in Press on Regardless. Stories about glowing brakes in the woods really captured my imagination. Even when I got to do a bit of driving on the track, rally was always the form of motorsport that I always really wanted to do.
When was your first event and how did you do?
Sno*Drift 2014. We finished the rally and were ninth in class. My friends and I (mostly my skilled friends, I have no skills) worked all month to get the car up to spec. Even then... it needed some work.
When was your first really memorable result—win or podium—and how did you get there?
We were third regionally for Sno*Drift in 2016. We put a huge amount of work into the old 323 GTX to give it a little power to make it more driveable and really began to trust the notes.
Who is your usual co-driver, and when did you two start rallying together?
Kate Stevens, my girlfriend. We started 2014 at LSPR because i couldn't find a co-driver and she had talked me into signing up. She had never even seen a rally or really knew what a rally was but she learned really quickly.
What's your favorite event on the Rally America schedule?
LSPR. No other rally beats the landscape, roads, challenge, and overall atmosphere.
Do you have any pre-event routines?
Not really. I just relax.
Which other drivers in your class do you respect the most?
Nathan Usher and Jon Kramer. Really, anyone in the Open Light class. Teams are hauling ass with low horsepower, low torque, and relatively low-cost, stockish rally cars. They're sticking it to much higher horsepower cars.
Stay tuned tomorrow to meet Jimmy's co-driver, Kate Stevens!


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Jeff, thanks for the clearer titles, and breaking up issue 6 into manageable pieces. Do you want to update [1] yourself to reflect these changes (as an ed, you should have RW access), or would you prefer me to do it? Obviously, I have a slight preference for the former, but would be willing to do the latter... Jean-Jacques. Jeffrey Schlimmer wrote: > The following is a list of WSDL issues for non-SOAP HTTP binding culled > from [1]. For the sake of clarity, I revised the issue titles and broke > out Issue 6 into separate parts. To get things going, I'm going to start > up a thread for one or two of these. > > 6a. Define encoding of complex types in a request URL > > 6d. Define encoding for URL-sensitive characters in a request URL > > 41. Define encoding of attributes in a request URL > > 6b. Define encoding for characters outside ASCII in a request URL > > 6e. Define behavior if an http:urlReplacement search pattern does not > have a corresponding named part in the message > > 53. Allow operations within a binding to use different HTTP methods > > 54. Allow binding to any HTTP method > > 55. Define binding to HTTP headers > > 56. Define means to specify an authentication requirement > > FYI, the following issues are listed in [1] as related to the non-SOAP > HTTP binding, but they do not seem to be specific to that binding. > > 6c. Allow a part to reference a global element declaration (GED) versus > type > > 52. Allow operation addresses to be absolute > > --Jeff > > [1] > http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/issues/wsd-issues.xmlReceived on Monday, 29 April 2002 04:19:57 UTC
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Citing opportunities in many San Francisco neighborhoods for small- and medium-scale wind energy, Mayor Gavin Newsom, D-San Francisco, signed an executive directive to encourage development of wind generation in the city.
Under this directive, the Department of Building Inspection and the city's planning department will expedite permitting and minimize costs for the installation of residential, commercial and municipal wind generation turbines in the city. Also, all city departments will advance wind power generation by incorporating wind turbines into the design of existing and new city facilities whenever and wherever possible, according to the mayor's office.
SOURCE: Office of Mayor Newsom


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With farmer's market season coming soon, Tote and Market Bags come in handy for when you buy your bounty. However, these bags aren't just limited to the farmer's market… they can also be great for toting items when spending the day by the water, such as the lake, pool, or beach. These Tote and Market Bags are colorful and big enough to carry your things.
1. Chevron Market Bag by Cre8tion Crochet
2. Market Tote Bag by Rescued Paw Designs
3. Summer Tote by Same DiNamics Crochet for Cre8tion Crochet
4. Coastal Beach Bag by Jessie At Home
5. Fun in the Sun Summer Beach Bag by ELK Studio Handcrafted Crochet Designs
6. Paliki Pocket Tote by Moogly
7. Arianna Tote Bag by The Country Willow
8. Summer Net Market/Beach Bag by MNE Crafts
9. Northwest Beaches Tote Bag by Beatrice Ryan Designs
This round up was compiled by Cre8tion Crochet Contributor Dianne Hunt.
Dianne is the owner of Same DiNamics Crochet. The name Same DiNamics is very special to her. It came about at a time where she needed something in her life. She started blogging by doing book reviews, which she still does. Dianne re-discovered crocheting about 3 years ago, she added 'Crochet' to her blog name for easy recognition. She has not let the hook down ever since. Her goal in crocheting is to learn as much as she can and do amazing things. She is following the journey that has been set before her. You can find Dianne on Ravelry, her blog or facebook.


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Samsung Galaxy Note Pro for Verizon. pic.twitter.com/BqZkmFY1aV
— @evleaks (@evleaks) February 4, 2014
Less than 24 hours after Samsung announced that Verizon will be launching a 4G LTE-enabled version of its new Galaxy Note Pro tablet, a pair of images that show the slate's front and rear have leaked online. Shared by @evleaks, the renders show a black version of the 12.2-inch Note Pro that looks pretty similar to the Wi-Fi-only model, save for some ginormous "Verizon 4G LTE" branding beneath the slate's rear camera.
Verizon has shown us on a couple of different occasions that, when it comes to product branding, it subscribes to the "Go big or go home" mentality. That's why it's no surprise to see a big ol' Verizon logo slapped onto the backside of the Note Pro, especially considering that the backside of the 12.2-inch tablet provides a large surface on which the big red carrier can tattoo its logo. The good news is that Verizon seems to have gotten away completely from the Home button branding found on the Note II, so at least there's that.
The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro is slated to hit Verizon's shelves sometime in the first quarter for an undisclosed price. Are any of you interested in this LTE-enabled coffee table tablet?
Via @evleaks


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2nd - 5th September 2009, Eden Project, Cornwall
Where to start? The 2009 Sense of Place: sustainable placemaking was our fourth Sense of Place event, this year run in partnership with Eden Project and Carnegie Trust UK. Every year we try to work out how to capture the essence of what happened there. We've tried full transcriptions of each talk, quick summaries of each speaker's talk, and prose descriptions of the event, but none really gets to the heart of the thing. We've pondered on why this is, and we reckon the answer is that a good proportion of the important stuff goes on between the presentations: over the tea and sandwiches, on the bus, the couch, round the fire, on the beach and in the pub.
Many people in the UK still live in environments that are disengaging, intimidating, and woefully inadequate. Sense of Place is about how we can do these things better. It's about making connections: connections between people and their environment; between people who didn't realise they should be working together; and between ideas that have never existed in the same room before.
You should have been there. That's what it boils down to. In a world increasingly at home in the non-place of cyberspace, Sense of Place goes the other way. We choose to make the event something most people have to journey to because we feel that the journey, the gradual change in the landscape, and the gradual letting go of baggage from the office, is an important part of the experience. We choose places with poor Blackberry™ reception, but good blackberries in the hedge. We choose to have the event in places that contribute positively to the conversation, not in stifling beige convention centres designed to cater for just what everyone expects. The event is about how we can make places better, and to talk about this we need to be in a better place. It's about how places shape how we think and how we live. It's about how our connection to place enables us to be a useful part of a community. It's about being here now not about cherry picking some bons mots from copies of the Powerpoints when you find this report online.
Sense of Place is less a conference than it is part of an ongoing conversation. As Tony Kendle remarked at the "summing up", there is no summing up, because the conversation doesn't end here. Every event welcomes a new group of people into the conversation which swells and continues long after the last person leaves the camp fire. Those of us who have attended every one are in a position to distil something from the common stories that crop up time after time. So this year for reportage we're trying something new.
Place is about landscape, place is about people and place is about stories. If you were at Sense of Place, then you'll have experienced the landscape of Cornwall and you'll have experienced the people at the event: the Sense of Place family of which, if you were there, you are now a part. Every person had a story, everyone had something to share. The key lessons of Sense of Place are entwined somewhere in this web of stories and ideas.
Tony Kendle from Eden Project gave the keynote address about the importance of rebuilding connections between people and place and about how the ideas for projects that make a positive difference to people come more often from the kitchen table than from the boardroom.
John Fox and Sue Gill talked about the nature of celebration through their work with Welfare State International and more recently with the publication of the Dead Good Guides.
Susan Humphries and June Durrant from Coombes School talked about school as the heart of a community and about how they have developed outdoor places that can be used to support curriculum teaching.
John Zeisel, president of Hearthstone Alzheimer Care, talked about how activities and places that are meaningful can help people with Alzheimers live a better life by connecting on an emotional and sensory level.
Kate Braithwaite from Carnegie Trust UK talked about the positive outlooks for rural communities, the importance of pursuing asset-based approaches in community development, and Fiery Spirits, the online community of practice for rural activists and professionals.
Saffron Woodcraft outlined the Young Foundation's research into neighbourliness and belonging in communities in England.
David Kamp, landscape architect and founding principal of Dirtworks PC, presented his designs for healthcare facility grounds that supported a return to intimacy with our environment
Jen Bartlett from Brisbane (and now with the Sensory Trust) talked about her work in engaging communities with a city responding to change
Angie Hart from Brighton University talked about building successful community collaborations with universities (the CUPP) and covered some of the work the university is doing on resilience
Sveva Gallman, from the Gallman Memorial Foundation, presented slides from her Four Generations project linking generations through narrative in Kenya and now in Romania.
Breakout sessions included:
- 'On the couch' with Kate Braithwaite discussing rural assets
- Sue Gill ran a workshop on undiscovered stories in communities
- John Fox ran a workshop 'reading the sky'
- Will Coleman ran a storytelling workshop to help articulate community stories
Eco Town
A Sense of Place explored the wide range of skills and specialisms that we will need to successfully create new places and settlements.
Videos from Sense of Place 2009
You can now watch videos capturing the essence of Sense of Place: sustainable placemaking in widescreen high-definition glory.


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"I will fight this with all that I am," the reality star says in a statement to PEOPLE
Michael Skupin is speaking out for the first time since last week's arrest – and the reality star vigorously maintains his innocence.
Skupin, a two-time Survivor contestant, faces 11 criminal charges, including possession of child pornography and racketeering. He was arrested last Friday.
In an exclusive statement to PEOPLE, Skupin, 54, says he was "wrongfully accused" and vows to fight against the charges. He also tells PEOPLE that this is the only statement he will issue while the legal case is pending.
Below is his statement in its entirety.
I'm not even sure what to say. I'm more shocked by this than anyone.
Sadly, our media doesn't subscribe to 'innocent until proven.' I truly am prayerfully optimistic in our justice system and will fight this with all that I am. Thank you to those who continue to believe in me. I am the guy that you think that I am.
There are scores of people that have been wrongfully accused at some point in their life – including our Savior. I'm leaning on Him in faith to walk beside me through this darkness and staying strong for all of those people.
Thank you for all of your messages of love and support. You have no idea what they have meant to me and my family.
My whole life has been kids: my kids, my family and anyone who ever needed help in any way. I've traveled the globe working with millions of kids both one-on-one, at schools, camps and assemblies. I've coached over 60 seasons of youth sports. I have never, ever hurt a child in any way – not as alleged and not ever.
I'm trusting in justice, trusting in our God and continuing to love everyone as God has instructed us. I have faith that despite this difficult time, there are brighter days ahead.
"Whatsoever you do, to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me."
Skupin, who is the father of seven children, appeared on Survivor: The Australian Outback, where he became the first person to be medically evacuated from the reality show after he fell into a fire and severely burned his hands. He competed in Survivor: Philippines, tying for second place.
His next court appearance is later this month.