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The perspective of European countries on human rights and autocratic regimes in the Middle East needs to take a more humanitarian form so as to end the ongoing civil wars.
As soon as the graphic pictures depicting the tiny body of Aylan Kurdi, a cute 3-year-old boy from Kobani, lying on the shores of Bodrum in Turkey was publicized by global media outlets, there emerged partly sincere and partly superficial outbursts of protests against Europe's indifference to the humanitarian catastrophe unveiling on its doorsteps. Although it was a rather poorly kept secret that since the destabilization of the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring, authoritarian reversals and especially the break-up of the Syrian war, a massive refugee crisis has been brewing around the Mediterranean, and conservative European politicians have preferred to turn a blind eye to the facts on the ground.
Revitalization of the extreme right across the European political seen since the global economic crisis was a reflection that "the old continent" was losing its self-confidence as the harbinger of universal values such as fundamental human rights and liberties. Instead, there was a powerful trend to reignite the defensive conception of "fortress Europe" by limiting the extension prospects of the European Union, while conducting external diplomatic and economic relations on the basis of pure interest calculations rather than idealistic agendas such as the promotion of democracy.
Therefore, it was not surprising to see European leaders forming cozy relationships with old and new authoritarian regimes in the Middle East reminiscent of their ways during the Cold War, i.e., German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosting Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in Berlin to ensure billion-dollar energy investments in Egypt and her vice-chancellor trying to open up the Iranian banking sector to German investments against her French and British rivals. In the meantime, the rhetoric and processes initiated to empower democratic rule in the Middle East were totally forgotten, and popular movements in the Arab world were left alone. But when the Arab Spring turned into a winter via authoritarian reversals and internal wars, European leaders coalesced with the Americans to follow the developments from a safe distance up until the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) emerged as a commonly accepted new foe for the Western world.
The escalating war in Syria triggered a massive humanitarian tragedy with the mass exodus of millions of refugees to surrounding countries led by Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, while both the oil-rich Gulf countries and Europe avoided undertaking any meaningful responsibility for humanitarian assistance and the efforts aimed at ensuring peace in Syria. Merkel's rude attitude towards a Palestinian girl staying in Germany as a refugee - or migrant to use the preferred terminology to avoid formal responsibility - that left her in tears was indicative of the "firm" stance and lack of compassion expected to be shown to Middle Eastern refugees in Europe. Hence, some countries such as Slovakia implemented openly faith-based discrimination by expressing that they would accept only Christian refugees, while transit countries such as Hungary were busy constructing wire fences and walls to stop the influx of refugees to Western Europe.
As we stand, Europe's double standards on human rights violations and autocratic regimes in the Middle East and its inaction to put an end to protracted civil wars seem to have carried the humanitarian problem to mainland borders via an unprecedented refugee influx. It is not an ordinary development for Europeans to witness the corpses of 71 refugees in a cargo track in Austria, or watch trains full of refugees arriving to its eastern borders. It is not only the Syrians; Afghans, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis and Africans are trying to escape civil war and humanitarian catastrophes for the hope of a better life in Europe. But for a start, European leaders need to prepare a legal basis and a sharing arrangement for the admission of refugees by the members of the European Union according to commonly agreed criteria, rather than trying to keep them away with a cold face.
Experience showed that the traditional "faceless Europe" tactics do not work this time as these people are desperate enough to try desperate measures. European leaders should also take the war in Syria more seriously in view of its increasing humanitarian reflections on Europe and make efforts to initiate a speedy resolution as they did regarding the Iranian nuclear issue. Otherwise, conjectural expressions of sorrow in the wake of dramatic news in mass-media will not be enough to prevent the escalation of Europe's own refugee crisis.
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Wine Director William Sherer of Aureole at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino - Biography
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Master Sommelier (CMS) William Sherer is the Wine Director of Aureole, Charlie Palmer's Las Vegas restaurant at Mandalay Bay resort. He likens his career path to that of the executive chef who starts off with little more than a passion for food and the tireless energy of youth. Sherer got hooked on wine in the mid-80s, and set out to work in the San Francisco Bay area, learning about wine at a number of establishments, including a fine-dining restaurant, a combination restaurant and wine shop, a Champagne jazz bar, and a specialized retail wine store. In 1995, he opened Monterey, California's Montrio, which took Esquire's "Best New Restaurant" award that year. Sherer later returned to San Francisco to transform the wine program at a local favorite, Moose's Restaurant. Shortly thereafter, Sherer became the 37th individual in the United States to pass the Master Sommelier Examination. In 1999, Sherer followed his wine passion to a position as Wine Director for Michael Mina's Aqua Restaurant in Las Vegas. While there he assisted with the development of many of Mina's new restaurant concepts.
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Holiday from hell as three generations of family fall ill at cost of £21,000
Dominic, 36, Emily, 42, Amelia,12, and Matlida, seven in Jamaica at start of their holiday
A family had a holiday from hell when the father, daughter and granddad were all separately hospitalised – racking up a £21,000 medical bill. Dominic Pitter, 36, and wife Emily, 42, splashed out £9,000 on a dream trip to a five-star holiday to Jamaica's west coast.
But on the second day Mr Pitter suffered a perforated bowel after eating lunch and was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery - raking up a £16,000 bill.
And while he was recovering his daughter Amelia, 12, was hospitalised with acute gastroenteritis and dehydration and put on a drip.
Mr Pitter's dad Len, 66, flew 4,800 miles to Jamaica to be by his son's bedside - but suffered a heart attack when snorkelling.
He was admitted to the same hospital his son had been discharged from three days earlier, racked up nearly £4,600 in medical bills and had to extend his stay by a month before he was well enough to fly.
In total the holiday ended up costing over £30,000 and the family had to shell out for the medical bills themselves before being refunded by insurers.
Maths teacher Mrs Pitter, from Derby, said: "What we hoped would be a well earned holiday of a lifetime in paradise, ended up being a being any families worst nightmare with three family members receiving emergency medical treatment.
"Unless it happened to us, I think I'd still struggle to believe it was true.
"The experience has made us realise how lucky we are to have the NHS."
The family arrived at the Beaches Resort in Negril on the evening of July 22 for what was supposed to be a two week holiday.
The Pitter family forked out £9,000 on a dream holiday to Jamaica's west coast
Mental health nurse Dominic was admitted to Hospiten Montego Bay - 50 miles away from the all-inclusive resort - the next day.
He underwent life-saving surgery and had 25cm of his bowel removed - after experiencing "excruciating" stomach pain following lunch.
But the family had to pay around £16,000 for a doctor's appointment, medication and the operation upfront on three credit cards.
The payment from their insurance was delayed because Dominic needed to give consent due to data protection laws - but was not in a fit state.
Mrs Pitter had to leave him and return to the girls - but claims staff at the hospital refused to give updates of Dominic's condition over the phone.
Mrs Pitter said: "We were excited to be arriving at such a nice hotel.
"The children had never been to Jamaica but Dominic's father was born there so we wanted show the children where he came from.
"Dominic is very athletic and we chose the resort because it included water sports like diving, water skiing and sailing.
"But after we ate lunch he was in such pain that I had to call the nurse.
"She contacted a doctor who administered morphine and steroids via drip.
"We later discovered Dominic had suffered a perforated bowel; it could have happened at any time but decided to occur while we were on holiday.
The operation has left Dom with oedema which is excess fluid leaving the leg very swollen
"We then had to pay around £16,000 in costs upfront so he could be taken to hospital and have life saving surgery.
"I was unable to actually travel to hospital with him as it was the middle of the night and I had the girls. He had to go alone.
"I assumed they had our medical records as I signed consent as his next of kin.
"We only found out about a week after he was admitted that the insurance hadn't got them, as due to data protection it needed to be Dominic giving consent.
"Release of medical details was further delayed when Dominic ticked a wrong box on the form – he was ill in hospital.
"We didn't know if we would get any money back at that time.
"The worst part was not knowing if my husband was alive or not. When I rang the hospital they told me 'We can't discuss anything on the phone'.
"I was powerless but had to carry on as normal for the girls."
Days later oldest daughter Amelia, 12, was put on a drip in the hotel for a night after being diagnosed with acute gastroenteritis and dehydration - costing a further £920 upfront.
And then youngest Matilda, seven, started being sick and complaining about an upset stomach at the same time.
Mr Pitter's concerned father, Len, 66, and mother Helena, 69, flew over from the UK to help the family, and the father-of-two was released from the hospital after 12 days.
The senior Pitters were given a day pass to the hotel to be with the family and he was snorkelling with Emily and the girls when he started gasping in the water.
Mrs Pitter added: "We went snorkelling with Len and he started gasping in the water; I asked him 'Are you okay?' but he said 'No'."
He managed to get out and stumbled into the hotel, and was admitted to the same hospital his son had been discharged from three days earlier.
Amelia on a drip after falling ill on holiday
Dom's dad Len Pitter, 66, snorkelling minutes before heart attack
Tests revealed he had suffered a heart attack, and he was kept under examination for a week.
Mr Pitter senior was then admitted to a different hospital in Kingston to have an angioplasty – a procedure which involves widening arteries or veins following a heart attack.
It reduces chest pain and improve patient's chance of survival. He paid for part of the treatment upfront beforeIt meant he and Helena had to stay in the country until Sunday (Sep 2) while the others flew back.
Mr Pitter junior is now recovering at home. The operation has left him suffering with oedema - excess fluid – and his waist size has increased from a 32 to a 44.
Mrs Pitter said: "I will be eternally grateful to the staff at Beaches Negril who were truly unbelievable, and not only did everything they could to support me during such a difficult time, but also made sure our girls were able to enjoy some of their holiday. I just hope we can return one day to thank them in person.
"I hope that our story will help others avoid a similar situation. Make sure you have credit cards with sufficient funds available in case of emergency and give consent to the insurance company to gain access to your medical records before you travel in case you find yourself in a situation where you can't."


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Miniature Chair collection
Here are a few miniature chairs that I collect. I keep them at the cottage on my fireplace mantal.
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- Year Built1994
- Taxes$3,880 CAD
- Living Area2,760 sq.ft.
- Lot Frontage53 ft
- Lot Depth135 ft
- Lot Size Area7,191 sq.ft.
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Singapore Night – Pollen Street Social
Around this time last month an email dropped into my inbox that actually made me want to read it. I get plenty of
spammarketing emails from restaurants and this one, rather than tell me about a special lunch deal that I can't go to (I work from home in Herne Hill) or a new facebook page that I don't care about (I'm not on facebook) this one was letting me know about dinner being served at Pollen Street Social in associated with the Singaporean Tourism Board and being served by not only 'home chef' Jason Atherton but also Sat Baines and Claude Bosi – three chefs holding 5 Michelin stars between them.
I've not been to Singapore but love asian cooking and therefore this was very much to my interests. Doing a bit of background reading I found out that this has come about as part of a chef exchange – the three guys went over there to see what the cooking is all about and this dinner is their way of showing what they learnt. And a day after eating their creations I would say that they learnt very well. We were treated to 7 courses – 2 each from Sat and Claude and 3 from Jason – I guess he pulled rank with it being at his place.
Things started off amazingly with a big old scallop topped with some powdered shrimp sitting on a base of black bean and chilli. The black bean tasted like something straight out of the local take-away (a good thing, I love black bean sauce) but the perfectly cooked scallop set it aside from your standard Sunday night fair with the added crunch of the shrimp putting it even higher up the taste ranks; a hard act to follow but the two little fried chicken mouthfuls next stopped my yearnings for another one. A delicious morsel of chicken leg meat sat upon asian radish paired with an even better chicken thigh mousse nested on a zesty puree of lemon grass. Described as lobster with black pepper the final appetiser came with a surprise of fried ravioli filled with lobster, asian basil, spring onion and pepper and unlike the surprises I got last week at work (don't ask) this was a great little addition. The lobster itself was also pretty damn good, a generous chunk of sweet meat served with slithers of spring onion, asian basil and a light in texture but strong in peppered taste sauce. I always double take when I hear pepper being refereed to as a spice but dishes like this remind me that it's probably one of my all time favourites.
When sent the menu the week before I tricked myself by skim reading and missing an all important comma (something I've done now more times than I can remember). Foie gras, , cockles I misread as foie gras cockles; and I had no idea how this would be presented. What we got was, I thought, a little bit weird. Foie gras was cooked in a water bath and smoked and was perfectly rich and moist and served with a couple of delicious chutneys that added a real tang. Not sure what the addition of the cockle was meant for though, we were instructed to eat it last and it was just a cockle – I couldn't taste anything Asian inspired about it. A nice big cockle but I've never been a fan of them and still aren't.
Through-out my time eating at various of Jasons' restaurants there have been plenty of amazing ox-cheek dishes and true to form we had a winning dish of ox-cheek rendang. The rich and sticky curry oozed off the meat, that was cooked to perfection and feel to delicious pieces at the touch of my knife.
Puddings were next and started off with a rather British sounding dish of rhubarb, beetroot sorbet and meringue being given the Asian touch with a bit of ginger infusion, mandarin and asian basil (an ingredient that seemed to make it's way into every dish). The added sweetness to these great English earthy ingredients was beautifully fresh to eat. Similar to at his restaurant Sat served up a sweet curry for our final course – taking many ingredients found in a malay curry (lime, cinnamon, anise and coconut) and producing a sweet, smooth dollop of spiced cream over bitter sweet herbs and fresh crisp coconut shards. Fantastic stuff.
This was a great Sunday night out, as mentioned before I've not been to Singapore so can't say how authentic the tastes on offer were but they were all great tasting and showed the style of the chefs who made them, I could imagine them being on the normal a la carte in their respective restaurants so showed a great understanding of what the ingredients could do. An equal bonus was the discovery that beers served at the bar now are served in tankards. And drinking beers in tankards is very very good.Tweet


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Tesla, Daimler Only Automakers On MIT's 'Smartest Companies' List
Tesla employees can be proud that their company is the highest-ranking automaker on the 2017 version of MIT's annual list of the top 50 smartest companies in the world, but there should be some worry mixed in there as well. That's because Tesla, which was ranked at #31 this year, is used to loftier heights. In 2016, Tesla was fourth and the year before, Tesla came out on top, after being named #2 in 2014. So, something to celebrate?
MIT says it the "superstar firms" on the list have both some sort of innovative technology and an effective business model. These are the companies, big and small, that are, "creating new opportunities by combining important technologies and business savvy." On Tesla specifically, MIT writes, in part that:
There are certainly concerns that Tesla is overextending itself, between its giant factory buildouts and its acquisition of SolarCity. Autopilot accidents and car maintenance issues add to the negatives. Still, the company continues to make bold bets. Among businesses focused on sustainability, Tesla remains the best example of a brand success, advancing the technology and economic viability of electric vehicles, energy storage, and solar.
Tesla isn't the only car company on the 2017 list. Daimler came in at Number 46. MIT was impressed with the German automaker's upcoming electric truck idea:
Daimler AG is delivering electric vehicles to a broader class of customers with this year's introduction of the Urban eTruck, the first all-electric heavy-duty truck. With a limited range of around 124 miles, it is intended primarily for city deliveries, offering a way to reduce noise and emissions in one important piece of the trax`nsportation puzzle.
Last year, the only other automaker on the list was Toyota, which came in at 17. It's not all downward trending new for Tesla CEO Elon Musk. His other company, SpaceX, rose to Number 2 this year.
Source: MIT via AppleWorld Today
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4 Comments on "Tesla, Daimler Only Automakers On MIT's 'Smartest Companies' List"
Daimler? What do they do? They make some nice cars but their tech is typically outsourced, largely from Bosch and Continental.
Musk needs to re-focus, once the M3 is proven and meeting its targets.
1. Drop the Mars nonsense. I downloaded his 15 page .pdf on 'how to do it' & am appalled by his sci-fi drivel. Mars will NEVER be a human habitat & certainly won't be any sort of 'refuge'.
2. Forget Hyperloop. Interesting idea but no future. Who wants to do space travel in a tube with no windows?
3. IF ONLY he would put his force behind LFTR technology we might see unlimited cheap 24/7 clean energy AND water production 10 years sooner.
Another thing- Hyperloop will likely be made obsolete by electric air travel between population centres, in small numbers at first. The technology is proven, as are several 'air-batteries' already [aluminium/air, zinc/air] at the commercialisation stage.
Why is he not interested in public transport? If it were cheap and on-call cars would become less attractive; less to spend on infrastructure, too.
Tesla needs to stop with the semi truck stuff, if they spread themselves too thin they can be caught short.


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- creliaborisAsked on November 29, 2017 at 09:56 PM
I'd like to use the field option in creating a guiding text box that is placed along the form. I see it gives me the full name as an option to us, but I'd like to just have "Mr. XYZ" (even though I'm collecting the full name, with prefix/middle/suffix, in the first question of the form). Is there a way (similar to how you can prepopulate a URL with a field alias that is assigned just to last name for example), to do the same in filling text box field inserts?
- JotForm SupportNik_CAnswered on November 30, 2017 at 04:30 AM
I wasn't completely sure what would you like to do, but you could represent Name field with text fields, like:
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- creliaborisAnswered on November 30, 2017 at 08:01 AM
Yes, of course. I knew that I could construct it out of individual pieces. If it wasn't clear, when you have a 'text' type of field (where you have formattable text that can be inserted as an instructional sort of section), there is a dropdown called 'field'. I would think that fields like "Name" (which have multiple pieces to them, should be represented in the individual components (first, last, etc), rather than as just one block. That was the idea. Of course creating a series of short boxes that represent the individual components will get me there as well...it's just that "Name" as a field gives a nice quick way of compactly organizing the components, and it would be nice to then have access to the individual pieces, when referencing the field. Thanks for your help.
- JotForm SupportBDAVIDAnswered on November 30, 2017 at 10:34 AM
Unfortunately, that's is not possible:
I have forwarded this as a feature request to our back end team. If this gets implemented in the future, you will be notified via this thread.
- creliaborisAnswered on November 30, 2017 at 01:08 PM
I'm not sure I'm understanding. the screenshot is meant to show what I'm asking for, or what's available? If the latter, that's exactly what I want. If it's just a mockup, then understood.
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This week on Facebook: This week I picked up on a series of articles and comments about the Paradise Papers published by the FCPA (The FCPA Blog publishes news and commentary about white-collar crime, enforcement, and compliance). The FCPA articles on the Paradise Papers highlight not just the issue of tax havens but those of ethics, morality and the law¹. Read more of this post
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This week on Facebook: Blissful ignorance, Tax Havens and the Paradise Papers —
To each his suff'rings: all are men,Condemn'd alike to groan,The tender for another's pain;Th' unfeeling for his own.Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise.
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This week on Facebook: Sometime in July I read that the fraud scandal carried out at Lloyds bank took the police six years to investigate at a cost £7 million (excluding the cost of the trial). The case was dealt with by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) which, regardless of its successes and failures, as part of the public sector, has an impact on a seemingly inexorable budget deficit. It was only casually reading about the Lloyds bank case that I decided to research some of the government's financial losses¹ for which no one, and especially not a politician or apparently any other public servant is ever held responsible. Certainly some investigative journalism usually results in a story reaching the public, it may even create a furore for a time, but the government know that any furore will eventually subsided and its cause forgotten. Yet if you are taxpayer, and even if you are not, any financial loss by the government has an impact on your well being. For a right or left leaning government, such financial losses become an excuse for increasing government debt and austerity measures. Read more of this post


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Inspired by The US Open
It's Sunday evening, and I'm sitting here watching the US Open, and seeing Martin Kaymer rip it up with a 5 shot lead.
Yesterday at The Manor wasn't my finest golf. Actually, if I'm being totally honest, it was probably the worst golf I've played in a long time. I won't give a detailed description of the round, as I don't think you'd want to read it anymore than I want to write it! I will run you through a few of the high points of the front 9 though!
As you'll know, before I went on my holiday / golf break I was playing some good golf. Over 9 holes I was regularly scoring between 4 and 6 over gross. The last round before I went away, I shot a 39 on the front in the medal, 3 over gross. Knowing that I'd not really played for 3 weeks (excluding a round in Kusadasi using horrible hired clubs!) I figured it would be sensible to go and play 9 holes on Friday, see if I could actually remember what to do.
Surprisingly, it went well. I mean, it was no US Open – esque affair, but I played pretty well. My swing felt good, my rhythm was good and I was striking it almost as well as I was before the holiday. After playing the somewhat trickier back 9, I finished with a 42, 6 over par gross. Pretty happy to be honest, and it certainly made me feel like my more solid game is here for good.
Then Saturday came, and the golfing gods gave me an almighty kick in the backside, and as they so often do when you get a little carried away, they knocked me down a peg or three. My game was awful. At the start, my ball striking was ok; it was just my distance control and club selection that was letting me down as I was over hitting all the second shots. Then, on the 3rd it started to go horribly wrong with a duffed tee shot. After that, I just never recovered. All the confidence I had, and had built up over the past few weeks just washed out of me within about 5 minutes. It wasn't just one part of my game either; it was right through the bag. Bad drives, poor irons, awful short game and even my putting was pretty poor. Just to make my day even worse, I had a terrible run of luck! After the 7th, I probably should have called it a day. Had a good tee shot, followed by a decent steady 5 iron, leaving me 115 yards to the pin. Took a pitching wedge, which I though would be spot on. Struck it really well, but it hit something and bounced off to the back. From where I was, it didn't look like it was too far off the green. However, when I got there, it had gone 30 yards past the green and was nestled under a tree, totally unplayable. Had to take a drop and carry on. I have no idea what it hit. On any other day, it would have been fine and would have stopped on the edge of the green, but it was just one of those days. I finished the hole with an 8. To make things worse, I then had a 9 on the next hole!
I finished the front 9 with a totally shocking 55.
The back was no better. To be honest, I'd given up by that point and wanted to do nothing more than call it a day, go home and lick my wounds. But my partner Russ was having a belter. I did hope at some point it would click back into place for me. It didn't!
So, what was different? How can I go from shooting a 43 one day to a 55 the next?
I have watched the US Open over the past few days, and if you have too you'll also have watched in total admiration of Martin Kaymer. He has been completely brilliant. Hugely consistent in every way, hence still having a 5 shot lead. How do these guys do it? They are professionals and are paid huge amounts of money, so they should be good right? Of course that is very true, but, I'm pretty sure not one single golfer playing in the US Open this week simply has a natural talent. You can bet that they have worked damn hard every day of their life to date to get to that level. Practice is something they will do day in day out, with military focus. Not even just on their golf, but their fitness, their mental game, even their diet.
So, with that in mind, why did I, Mr (distinctly) average golfer with my 17.8 handicap think I could play well and consistently having done no real practice for three weeks? Ok, what about Friday…? That was probably just a fluke, something to lull me into a false sense of security by the golfing gods! The reality is, I can't. If these guys like Martin Kaymer, Justin Rose, Ian Poulter and all the other golfers in the US Open field spend 8 hours a day practicing, surely I need to do 10% of that to improve at the level I need to?
I have had a big kick up the backside this weekend, but strangely, I don't feel too bad about it. I think I needed it. My score was bad, but with no practice I couldn't really expect anymore. That's the reality. What the US Open and more specifically Martin Kaymer have done is inspired me. If I want to get this single figure handicap, I need to structure my practice. I also need to do more of it. If that means I have to go to the range when the kids are in bed, then that's what I have to do. If I have to get up when it's dark before work, then I must do it. If I want to succeed with the challenge and prove all the people who said 'it can't be done', then I need to get serious.
So, this has been my wake up call. Tomorrow, Monday morning at 7am, I will be practicing. On Tuesday at 7am, I will be doing the same. On Wednesday…you get the idea.
I wonder if Martin Kaymer ever had to give himself a pep talk like this? I'm sure he didn't during this years US Open, as he has now finished, wining by an amazing 8 shots! Mr Kaymer, I salute you and your friends…and thanks for the inspiration. Any chance of a sleeve of golf balls too?!!


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"IT IS LIKE A DRUG. I think that's what it is. What is it about Belize bonefish? You know every fisherman asks themselves, 'If I could give up everything, for one fish, in one place, what would it be?' And the more I go, the more I'm sure it would be a big bonefish in Belize."
Written by: Big D Harper
Night has fallen on yet another day. Lying in this tent resting my head on a balled up pair of waders wrapped in a flannel shirt, I retrace the steps that have brought me back to this piece of water and others similar to it. Like many whom share this life long love affair with fishing, I feel complete when I'm on, in, or near the water. Though it often remains unspoken, I feel many can relate.
Calling various islands in the Caribbean home to many would be satisfying enough; however, time and time again I feel my soul begin to stir. It starts with a photo in a magazine, a segment in a commercial or movie, or even the images my own thoughts so vividly paint when reading a story. The urge slowly builds deep within until I undertake the first step down a road that I've become all too familiar with in my life. I'll begin to crave the unknown, the adventure of not knowing what lies around the next bend or over the next mountain. The call to explore new waters or return to old favorites strikes with the ferocity of a large mouth bass greedily destroying a well jigged popper across the still surface of some back-water cove. And after the hook is set, the only way to remove it is to pack up a bundle of gear, a few extra pairs of socks and underwear and head off in the direction of the call.
I've often joked that I caught my first fish around four years old. However, the hook was set in me rather than the fish. And so this first experience years ago drives me to my current place in life, next to a piece of water. Whether the water is new or old is irrelevant. If it's new waters, more than likely I'll be instilled with a homing beacon not unlike that of a salmon destined to return some day. And just as the salmon, I too will get the call to journey back. I, unlike the salmon, at least get to enjoy return trips a multitude of times. I don't fool myself though. I know that someday, not too far in the future in the grand scheme of time, it will be my last journey. The last conversation I'll have with an old friend as we part ways to never see one another again.
At the present, I find myself entranced by the sound of the stream a few yards from my place of slumber, signing softly as a lullaby from the gentle embrace of a mother as she rocks her child to sleep. Sounds of the night filling the air, a damp coolness surrounding my cheeks and nose forcing me further down into my sleeping bag. This small slice of heaven located along the South Boulder Creek runs parallel with a set of railroad tracks. Come dawn it'll serve as an alarm clock with the whistle of a locomotive coming down from the Moffat tunnel on its journey across the divide.
After a few days of exploring some old faithful holes filled with beautiful browns and a few rainbows, it will be off to some other waters. At times, it's been a curse rendering me useless and unable to concentrate or focus on more immediate needs. Or at least needs deemed more immediate by social standards. After all, a warm house and the car note occasionally enter my mind. Mostly it makes me think of buying an RV… then I can condense one into the other. But where would I store all that crap I inevitably acquire through these weeks and months spent roaming the globe? Often my travels call for vehicles with wings or props rather than wheels. So I scratch the RV idea.
A few stops at local fly shops or homes of friends usually round out my adventures as I once again tame the urge. At times I've had people share the adventures with me and other times I prefer to be alone. A time to reflect on where I've been and where to go next.
Back in my home waters, I enjoy the rest and day-to-day routine of casting into familiar flats chasing some wary bonefish, tarpon or permit for the umpteenth time. I'm excited to see them to connect once more. However, I'm certain they prefer that I'd catch the fever of longing for distant waters once again, and sooner rather than later.
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When I first began to take trips to Tropical destinations with crystal clear flats waters and no cover around for miles. I spent much time not catching fish but watching, learning and practicing what the guys who were catching fish were doing. Even after I had my "Double Haul" down pat and could cast a line 90 feet or further I still had troubles spooking the fish with improper presentation and false casting too much, resulting in me whipping the fly over head of a tailing group of Bonefish, or Permit. And sure as now fish likes to be chased by a fly, they certainly don't like to be chased by one in the air over their heads. With one quick dart, the only thing left was a small cloudy patch in the water where they churned up the silty sandy bottom in their hasty retreat.
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Giant UFO Spotted By Multiple Witnesses
Is Proof Aliens Exist
If UFO's are just a case of mistaken identity and aliens don't exist, than WTF is this? Check out the footage that was filmed by multiple witnesses on April 28, 2015 in the Philippines.
In the beginning of the video the UFO appears to just be a plane flying in the sky, but at a closer glance there seem to be too many lights, and they are much brighter than the norm. According to the Mirror, Several witnesses reported mysterious lights over Pampanga. Jericho Benavente said: "I called my wife after seeing four orange lights come out of the clouds. I went to video it but it suddenly disappeared within the clouds. "I believe what I saw and I'm sure this wasn't a plane." The footage was filmed on the night of April 28 but it has since gone viral after being examined by conspiracy theorists.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... you know what I say? Must be from outer space. Check out the video below and make your own assumptions.
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The Rise Of M&A in IT sector
Indian Information Technology (IT) industry has witnessed significant developments and innovations and has resulted in expanding India's footprint on the world map. As per a NASSCOM estimate, the IT industry may touch $225 billion by 2020 and $350 billion by 2025. Over the years, the IT companies have prioritized on enhancing efficiency, enabling transformation and agility and partnering for digital initiatives. As per the currently available statistics, IT industry is worth $146 billion, including exports of $98 billion, in 2014/15 - clocking year-on-year growth at the rate of 13%. In 2015/16 this industry is expected to grow between 12 and 14 per cent.
But amongst the successful acquisitions there were some that were not so successful. For instance the acquisition of Infocrossing Inc by Wipro in 2007 as it did not help in consolidating its prevailing leadership in infrastructure management services. Similarly IGate Corp's acquisition of Patni Computer Systems Limited also has not been successful. However, barring these few transactions which have failed, most of the transactions have been successful in terms of the objective of the acquisition.
Based on the reports publicly available, it can be noted that IT companies have recently increasingly engaged in investment and acquisition activities. Companies in the IT industry and that are reliant on e-commerce, significantly contributed to investments and acquisitions with about $4 billion being raised from over 100 deals in the year 2014. This is further expected to increase particularly in the light of the expected policy changes proposed by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion to permit foreign direct investment in the e commerce sector.
The IT sector thrives on innovation and is highly competitive. The sectors survival depends on constant technological development. These IT companies engage in development of new technology by themselves or grow inorganically by acquiring entities with novel ideas, new products, similar business, presence in new markets etc.
Likewise, acquisitions by Indian IT companies have been mostly in order to unlock access to new markets or to adapt to market needs or get hold of newer units/divisions, so that they are one step ahead of their competitors. The table below provides a snapshot of the acquisitions made by top IT Companies and the profile of the acquired companies.
Image: M&A activities of IT companies in India
To simply encapsulate, various reasons can be attributed to the increase in the acquisition by Indian IT companies. Recent development of mobile technology, cloud computing and data analytics have made tech-giants invest in start-ups or companies dealing with such technologies to enhance their capabilities.
The trend of forming joint ventures and acquisition of companies by tech giants Google, Apple and Facebook has created a market trend to invest in new companies, which are different or similar to the core business of tech companies. This trend has helped these tech giants to incorporate innovative technologies in their existing business portfolio and therefore, one could say companies are following the market leader in order to maintain place in the market.
Also, investing in start-up companies provides impetus to the startup company which in turn helps market placement or induction of the new technologies / products into the market. Since the profitability of these start-ups is not visible immediately, it becomes easy for bigger companies to buy or invest in these startups and to introduce innovative technology to their existing market share.
Another main reason is Intellectual Property (IPRs). IPRs are one of the key assets of these IT companies and acquiring such IPRs are made easier through M&As. Bigger companies would prefer this route as it may be economical rather than paying hefty royalties to these companies.
Further cyber crime has caused IT companies to strengthen their technologies by collaborating or merging or acquiring such technology / companies / startups to divert cost and time to develop technologies through research and development.
The global IT sector is on the rise and the conditions prevailing at the moment has allowed companies to enter into various arrangements with confidence than before. Due to the technological prowess and the revenue generated by it, these IT companies have come to afford M&As, takeovers and risky investments which is a reason why there has been a rise in number of M&As.
Here is hoping that the recent initiatives of the union government for instance Make in India, Digital India, Skilling India etc. provide the right impetus to make the IT sector in India even bigger.
(The article has also been co-authored by Yogesh Nayak and Zil Shah, both senior associates, Rajani Associates.)
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Squeezing More Power From Solar Energy
However, remembering the chant of consistent success as delivered by leadership guru John Maxwell, "yesterday's victories are over, focus on today's battles", I am forging on in this same vein to see if I can mine any more nuggets from the higher solar panel efficiency golden goose.
In reading through the articles and associated links from Cool Energy Inc., I was impressed by the fact that they widen the needs summary list in their approach to developing solar energy. (Translation: they pointed out that if you are making the effort to provide for a home, why stop only at heat, when you can also provide electricity too with the same device.) I found it a very motivating eye opener and decided to take a closer look at the panel construction of a solar collector for ideas where I could make additional improvements. Here's what I came up with.
Harness the Parabola in the Solar Panel
To start with, we'll need to do the obvious and that is make sure the maximum solar exposure is hitting the copper pipes. Instead of laying the copper pipes onto a flat metal backboard which has been spray painted flat black, we'll alter the shape of the backboard to form parabolic trays. Then we'll line the trays with a reflective coating to form a sort of mirror which focuses on the copper pipe in the center. If the pipes are roughly 4 inches apart, then the parabolic shape will collect the sun's rays over that width and focus them onto a 1/2 inch wide pipe, increasing the temperature of the fluid higher than would normally be collected with a flat backing board. Here is a sketch demonstrating this idea.
By increasing the temperature of the fluid, we end up collecting more energy overall giving us more to work with when converting it to other usable forms like electricity or mechanical power. Cool Energy Inc. makes use of this principle by employing evacuated glass or lexan tubes to encase the copper pipe collectors. This is a much higher tech version of the same 'tray' idea, using half of the evacuated tube as a mirror to focus more rays onto the copper tube, but also insulating it by means of the vacuum.
Tesla's radiant energy collector
Now, part of Cool Energy's approach makes their system unique on the market because they are developing a solution to provide both heat AND electricity. They have developed the Stirling heat engine further to create a generator that can make use of excess solar heat collected with the panel, and turn it into electricity. I won't add to that solution itself since I believe they are doing a great job as it already stands.
Instead, I would like to turn back to my old favourite (yes, I like to using Canadian spelling... we like throwing extra letters in all over the place) inventor, Nicola Tesla, and see if we can employ some of his ideas to make this project produce even more.
Nicky boy, brilliant lad that he was, discovered back in the late 1800's that our Sun was bombarding our atmosphere constantly with some type of radiation. We know now that he was detecting gamma rays. Nicola's research led him to discover that when this radiation bombards a metal plate, like a collector, and if that plate were connected electrically to a strong electrical ground wire, that there would exist a voltage differential between the collector plate, and the ground wire.
Well hot dog... look at that parabolic tray thingy I described in the previous section. If it were made of some sort of metal, it could act like a collector plate for all those little gamma gizmos. All we'd have to do to make use of that, would be to provide it with a good strong opposite charge from something like a ground wire.
Do you doubt me? (Go ahead... make my day... OK, OK, quit laughing. I'm no Clint Eastwood.) Anyway, check out this guy's YouTube channel. Boxa888 is a pretty cool electrical inventor type guy who sets up lots of Tesla experiments and captures them on video. Here is a vlog (video log) account of some of his radiant energy experiments...
Now if you're collecting this energy anyway, why not beef it up a bit, amplifying it to something we might be able to make some use of? Here's another YouTube vid showing how to make a circuit that filters electricity out of thin air! What if we feed that circuit with our radiant energy collector plate? This video even provides the circuit plan and parts list to build your own!
Even more strange ideas
Now I don't want to get too weird so I think I'll leave the idea of using thermocouples to convert the heat inside the panel into even more electricity. We could go too far after all.
As always, let me know your thoughts. Click the rating boxes or leave a comment!
Friday, March 20, 2009
Master Solar Panel Efficiency
An example of the first method might be a teeter-totter. Whatever energy (or weight) you put into pushing down on the one side, is going to be roughly the amount of lifting power you receive on the other side... assuming of course that the middle is pivoting nearly friction free.
For the second example, we might think of a turbo charger on a car engine. Some of the exhaust from a moderately efficient power stroke in the engine, is recycled and fed back into the engine to be more completely burned.
So those may be simplistic examples but that sets us up for today's topic on how to master solar panel efficiency. Oh, and let me state that we are speaking today of solar panels for heating water, not solar photovoltaic panels for generating electricity. If you're going to make a solar panel, you're going to want to make one that gets you as much heat as possible, or it won't be very beneficial to spend all your free weekends huddled over tinker-fodder in your workshop instead of enjoying life.
My brainstorm solution today involves gathering heat, separating heat from cold, and capturing a little extra mechanical oomph to power the circulating pump, and recycle some of the cold fluid.
Solar heating panels can be set up in many different configurations, most of which are designed to allow them to work in sub zero temperatures. There are open systems, closed loop systems, drain back systems and many others. The basic difference between all of these is how they handle the potential problem of having water freeze in the collector's pipes overnight when the sun isn't shining. In a drain back system, water is used in the pipes during the day when the temperature in the collector panel is sufficiently warm, and then completely drained from the pipes into a reservoir for the evening. Closed loop systems use two separated loops, one of which contains ethylene glycol, an antifreeze, which circulates around the solar collector on one side and then through some sort of heat exchanger in a water tank on the other. The glycol carries the heat from the panel to your water tank and then heats your water inside the tank.
Regardless of which configuration you decide to use, I think my idea can help it. You see there is a somewhat obscure science that, for the life of me, I don't know why we've overlooked. It is the science of vortex phenomena. Rather than explain the full details of a device which employs this feature, I will simply provide you with a link to an excellent article about harnessing the vortex to separate hot from cold in a pipe of compressed air or fluid (whatever is in the pipe). The device is referred to as a HILSCH" VORTEX TUBE.
The first issue I want to deal with is the inefficiency of converting solar rays into heated water. There are many different tricks employed in construction of a well built homemade solar collector but I'm content to settle for moderately heated water coming out of it. You see, coming out of the solar panel, I would configure a Hilsch Vortex Tube to extract hotter and colder streams of water. Since we are removing cold water from the moderately heated water, we end up with a higher temperature stream of water that we can use more easily in the house. It's what to do with the cold water stream that gets us the opportunity to increase our efficiency.
Now I want to introduce, or rather, RE-introduce an engine that is really interesting but not used much. I'm talking about a Stirling engine, or heat engine. In Stirling engines, air is used as a quickly expanding and contracting gas, to move pistons. These engines make use of a heating container, and a cooling container. They usually work best when the difference between the two is greatest. Air enters the heating container and expands, pushing the piston out. At a slightly delayed interval, a displacer piston follows the original piston, and moves the heated air into the cooling chamber on the other side of the now returning original piston. The hot air is then cooled by the cooling chamber and contracts, pulling the original piston back again. Again, there are better explanations out there, so click here to see a good one.
So what would happen if we hooked up a vortex tube to the exiting pipe from the solar collector, send the heated water into the house to be used, took the colder water and use it to cool the cooling container on a Stirling engine, while using a parabolic solar mirror to heat the hot end, and then harness the mechanical energy to run a circulating pump for the whole system?
And there you have it. A solar collector that makes far better use of the available renewable energy source, the brilliant Sun!!
Let me know what you think, below and leave some comments!
Until next time,
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Do You Want The Most Unique Electric Generator?
Today's post is going to give you my idea for free... and as you read every word in this article, I want to help you begin to think about your own idea. Remember that inspiration you had years ago that you were discouraged with? Well as you absorb this information, you're going to see new ideas in your own mind. Write your ideas down.
Michael Faraday discovered many of the fundamental secrets of electricity and magnetism that we base so much science on today. If you... combine two separate inspirations, you will slowly begin to see more harmony with the pattern layed out for us by nature. Little by little you will begin to notice details you skipped over before that unlock the hidden potential of those ideas you had so long ago. I combined Faraday's discovery regarding homopolar generator effects, with another lesser known science great... Hero of Alexandria.
Hero studied things like air and steam pressure and invented both the first steam engine, as well as the device I use in my combo-idea, the Hero Fountain. Hero noticed that water is heavier than air, but under pressure, they can each exert the same force. So he harnessed a long column of water pushing down, to send air pressure (which has very little gravitational weight to overcome) up to a water chamber somewhere higher. The pressure then pushed the water out of the upper chamber into a reservoir that feeds the tall water column. It looks like perpetual motion at first but once you look more closely, you see that it will only last as long as you have water in the second chamber that receives the air pressure. When it runs out of water, that's it, and it has to be replenished.
I decided that it would look nice in a front garden, and since you could use if for landscape, you just have to have a waterwheel to go with it. And since you have a water wheel, you might as well put it to work, since it is spinning anyway. My idea uses the rotation of the water wheel to turn a second drum, around which are a bunch of Faraday's homopolar generators.
Faraday discovered that if you spin a magnet with a copper or alluminum disk glued to its face, that you could generate a voltage difference between the center of the disk, and its outside edge. From what I've read, it is not a large voltage, but it is a voltage none the less. The interesting characteristic of it though, is that the power required to spin the magnet is not very high, since the copper disk (or aluminum, but we'll just keep speaking about copper for simplicity sake) is not fighting it's rotation... it's glued to the magnet.
I have some theories on why this doesn't create back emf (force that fights you, by resisting the turning of the magnet) but I'll leave that for another post some day. So although one Faraday disk creates a small amount of electricity, if you put lots of them around a drum that will turn them all, then you'd be able to harness some more usable power amounts. For now, I'll simply post my picture of this setup and leave you to be inspired with more of your own improvements or even completely new ideas altogether.
With the right application of storage batteries and power inverters, you could conceivably power many items in your home right now, and isn't that what we're all about here anyway? Post comments to this. As always, subscribe so everyone can benefit.
Until next time,
Monday, March 16, 2009
Get Serious And Make Any Tool You Want
So we've now talked about having a blow torch powered by water, and hopefully you've watched the videos on the idea for creating your own hydrogen generator. You could now cut anything you wanted with the torch or maybe even weld anything you want. But what if you want to forge a new piece of hardware? Well today I'm going to pass on to you a really cool site that describes how to make your own blast furnace where you can melt iron and start your own hobby molding metal in your very own foundry.
The temperatures required can be quite high but that's ok when you're using Hydogen since it burns close to the 3000 degree mark. The videos I'm passing on don't use hydrogen and before you attempt any of this I need to warn you that I haven't either... but it sounds like something to try. As always, safety must be first and you have to allow for flash back in your burner tips , isolating the hydrogen from the rest of the back pipe that would feed your system. I recommend a bubbler fairly close to the forge so even if you get some flash back, that it won't have too much fuel to cause major damage.
Bulding a forge should be pretty straight forward given the methods used by these setups (from the videos) but I have an idea using vortex wind patterns. I think by adding 3 fins to the inside of the furnace, you should be able to set up some whirlwinds that would help cushion the heat layer and protect the inside of the refractory (the heat brick material on the inside of the furnace) from breaking down too quickly.
Yes, this is my first brainstorm idea on the blog. Send me your ideas too!
In one of the pictures, the owner showed his refractory material melted and eventually needing replacement. I wonder if with this design, it might extend the life somewhat.
Anyway, vortexes are very interesting phenomena and produce some pretty cool results when applied in the right circumstances.
Here are the links to the resources I promised for today. http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/index.html
Here's a working home made little blast furnace...
Here's a vid on making a flash arrestor for a homemade torch:
HHO Flashback Arrestor + Torch - HOW TO - For more funny videos, click here
Once you can melt metal, you're well on your way to making forms and pouring out your super duper exclusive highly ingenious do-ma-thing-a-ma-bob.
Enjoy, and get sharing in the comments section so everyone can benefit!
Friday, March 13, 2009
Hydrogen Lust and it's Fatally Deadly Secret
We're talking today about how to extract copious amounts of clean burning freely available Hydrogen gas from it's watery prison. Oh, sorry... translation: You can make a hydrogen generator to use to build other newer breakthrough inventions like a water fueled car or anything else powered by water fuel. I'll get to the very cool invention later in the blog but I first want to focus your attention on something so important that you could unwittingly poison not only yourself but your entire neighborhood simply by the curiosity of your inventive little minds. (Sorry... did that sound condescending?)
Of course Hydrogen is freed along with Oxygen by pushing electricity through water. But water doesn't like allowing that, without some extra persuasion. That persuasion happens by adding a little bit of chemical to the water to make it electrically conductive. One of the best chemicals to add is Potassium Hydroxide or KOH. This creates a caustic solution (fancy word that means the water will burn your skin if you dip your hand in it) which conducts electricity.
Once we can get Electricity to run through the water, we have the set up for separating the water into its two parts, Oxygen and Hydrogen. The oxygen gets pulled out of the water at one electrode and the hydrogen at the other. The safety lesson I want to share with you today happens at this very point. If you use Stainless steel as one of the electrodes, and you're using it in a caustic solution like KOH, then after you separate the hydrogen, your fluid that you're left with, will contain Hexavalent Chromium... the nasty nasty substance that causes all the problems in the movie "Erin Brochovich".
Hexavalent Chromium should NEVER be flushed or poured down the drain, or poured out onto the ground or into water sources. It causes serious nasties. Just watch the movie Erin Brochovich to see what I'm talking about.
However, once you DO have some hydrogen to burn, then you're able to start using it to better mankind and lower your heating bills. So how do you make a device that will get you this extra fuel? Well it wasn't easy. You can build your own homemade hydrogen generator using the information the following video:
Go here to see how to make HHO really easily and quickly.
Oh, and just to give you one last chance... watch this video on safety!
Next time we'll talk about one of the really cool ways to use this Brown's gas stuff! (Hydrogen and Oxygen mix or HHO gas.)
Over and out,
Need Your Own Water Fueled Blow Torch?
There is a man who has invented a blow torch that runs on Brown's gas. What is Brown's gas you say? Well I'm glad you ask! Let me tell you right now. Brown's gas is basically the mixture of hydrogen and oxygen which results when you break down water with electrolysis but you don't bother to capture the gases separately. It's kind of a neat mixture because the proportions are perfectly premixed for you to fire them up and return them straight back to their original bonded state... water that is.
The interesting characteristic about this invention is that although it burns at a temperature somewhere in the range of 1500 degrees Centigrade (that would be over 2700 degrees Fahrenheit!), the tip actually remains cools to touch. I haven't actually seen any information about why that happens, but my personal theory is that since the gas mixture is so perfect, it doesn't need to 'suck' oxygen from outside the nozzle to support combustion, and therefore the entire flame exists entirely outside the nozzle outlet, allowing the housing to remain cool. Other gases require feeder holes before the outlet that allow air in to mix with the fuel, and the flame starts burning inside the nozzle tip, heating it up.
I'm thinking there are a TON of things I'd love to do with the power of my own incredible torch like that. This guy runs his car on water too and gets over 100 mpg. Can you imagine your own water powered car going 100 miles on a single gallon of water subsidized gasoline? How much would that save you?
I still haven't heard from anyone yet on their own ideas, thoughts or inventions. Come on everyone, let's work together, share some ideas and get free energy out of the labs and into everyone's backyard!
Over the next couple days I'll post some ideas on how to make the gas in a very efficient way, and what you can use it for once you have that setup.
I'll talk to you tomorrow!
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Solar Energy From Beer Drinking?
Anyway, my curious little brain needed to grapple with this concept for a bit but I was just too tired. In my embibing musings, I decided that since the heat trade between my fingers and beer seemed so quick, perhaps this beer can may hold a secret to cheaper electric bills. I decided to see what I could find about using beer can material to create some sort of solar collector. Alas, my procrastination has saved me time once again and since I did nothing, no solar heating happened in my home. But, I did stumble across the same idea on the web recently and it turns out there are a couple of folks doing this very thing... one of them in a huge way.
They're called beer can solar heater furnaces and I found one guy who's made his shop time a lot more enjoyable in the winter thanks to his homemade creation. He has taken a solar powered fan and blows air through a manifold of drilled out beer cans, assembled together to form tubes, and he increases his shop temperature by 30 degrees or so. I love the fact that all he had to do was drink his way into having the raw materials to work with!
So check this guy out and maybe after you're done with your after work guzzling, see if you can fight the urge to look tough... try NOT crushing the can for a change and save them up instead to make your very own solar furnace and save yourself some coin on the old electric power bill!
Here's the link to the Beer Can Solar Furnace guy's video.
Keep inventing!
Which Electric Energy Form For Power?
Well when I decided to find different ways to generate electricity, I thought I should start by looking up this Tesla guy... I had never heard of him other than through my buddy. In fact for years, I had thought that the name was pronounced Tulsa (like the place in Oklahoma) but couldn't find the great genius under that handle. I began following links on this Nicola Tesla guy and WOW. For some reason we don't study about him in school, but he is basically the founder of our modern age.
Did you know Tesla owns over 1800 patents in the US? His biggest contributions, or inventions that made him famous (or why he at least SHOULD be famous,) include the following:
- Harnessed Niagara Falls for electrical power
- Induction motor (yes, the thing EVERYONE uses today)
- Radio (no Marconi didn't invent it, he stole the idea from Nicola, and in 1943 the courts said so too.)
- Remote Control (wireless)
- Tesla coil - probably one of his coolest inventions
- Tesla turbine - look ma... no propeller... let's use flat plates instead!
- A/C electricity
Yeah, and there's more... did you know that the Star Wars program touted by Ronald Regan in the 80's was based on Nicola's ideas? Way.
So getting back to my title for this, did you know that Tesla used to work for Thomas Edison? In fact they had some big fights... first over the fact that Edison bilked Tesla out of $20,000.00 saying it was just a joke, and then over whether A/C electricity was better than D/C electricity. Of course we know today who won that argument... Thomas Edison was going for D/C because he sold D/C dynamos, or generators. He didn't go down without a fight though, and even tried to scare people away from Tesla's A/C current by electrocuting stray dogs (and in one case, an Elephant) in front of people to show them the danger.
OK so the purpose of this blog is to share with you the resources I've found. Here's my first two resources. The first is a link to the account of Nicola Tesla wiring up the 1893 Colombian Exposition in Chicago with George Westinghouse, to demonstrate A/C power.
The second is just a really really cool video of a giant Tesla coil in action. Check it out.
I'll keep posting these, you keep reading them and together we'll get this free energy thing licked yet!
P.S. Did you know Tesla drove his nephew around the countryside in an electrically powered Pierce Arrow in the 30's... uh... with NO BATTERIES! Yeah... the guy was a genius.
Looking for Electric Energy Powered Freedom?
Bills are always nasty to pay but the one that hurt me the most was the electric bill after I built my first home. I had spent a lot of time brainstorming new insulation ideas and thought I had come up with a way to make the home much more energy efficient. But when my first bill came in at over $1270.00 I was just a tich annoyed and upset.
Anyway, I decided to start looking for new ways to generate electricity and found that there was a whole world of obscure ideas available on the topic. I thought if I could gather some of these ideas and put them together, I just might be able to take myself off the grid and power my home for free.
This blog is just a place for me to keep track of all the really cool resources I found in my journey and share them with you.
I hope you like it and make use of it yourself. My goal is to have this information geared for do it yourselfers, and hobbyists.
Enjoy, and good luck! Make sure you comment and share your own ideas and links!


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Do you want a fire pit in your home? Getting a professional to come and do it for you is convenient. You can relax while the job is done for you. However, why spend the cash when you can do it yourself? That's right, here are some DIY fire pit ideas you can follow to make a fire pit on your own:
12. Concrete Fire Pit Bowl
If you have ever seen a flame blazing inside a concrete fire pit bowl, you would know how exquisite it looks. Now, you can make one for your home. Simply follow these steps:
- Mark out an area 36 inches wide. Preferably, you should use a tarp on which to make the bowl.
- Pour sand and water onto the tarp and mix to make the sand solid. Mold the sand so that it takes the shape of an inverted bowl.
- Mix the concrete and water. Then, mold the mixture over the sand structure you have created. Let the concrete dry out, which would take around 2 days.
Your concrete fire pit bowl is ready!
11. The Conversation Area
Now that you know how to make a concrete fire pit bowl, why not create a conversation area around it. Place comfortable chairs or couches around the bowl and enjoy its warmth while having great conversations with your loved ones.
10. Washing Machine Drum Fire Pit
This has to be one of the most innovative DIY fire pit ideas.
- Extract the drum from an old, broken down washing machine.
- Use galvanized steel pipes to create a base for the drum to stand on. If possible, attach an old bike wheel rim to firm it.
- Light it up!
9. Steel Fire Pit
A steel fire pit is a perfect addition to your patio. You'll first need to make a square steel frame as the boundary. Once that's made, place a log the middle of it and then proceed as you would with a normal fire pit, i.e. adding stones, oil and so on.
8. Eco-Friendly Fire Pit
If you are a tree hugger, then you might not warm up to the idea of the traditional fire pit. Not to worry as here is how you can make an eco-friendly fire pit.
- Take an old container, preferably anti-flammable and made of steel.
- Fill it with discarded flammable materials like paper, glass or plastic, anything you can find around the home.
- Get eco-friendly fuel and start a fire!
7. Red Brick Fire Pit
This one follows the same process as that of the concrete pit. The only difference is that inside of the sand, you simply have to arrange the red bricks in a circular shape. Apply cement between the blocks so that they stay in place.