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As it rapidly descends the Aguacate Mountains in Costa Rica, the Rio Machuga tumbles around massive boulders under towering Guanacaste trees full of birds and buzzing insects. Teeming with the energy of life, these tropical jungles are home to hundreds of medicinal and edible plants and animals of every order. They are also home to two unique intentional communities, known as Tacotal and La Ecovilla, where people from all around the world have come to build their homes and live in closer relationship with the land. Both communities are founded on the principles of permaculture, with food bearing trees line the roads and pathways, water catchment ponds, and natural waste treatment through composting, both high and low tech.
In 2015, my family spent six months living in Tacotal, answering the call of our friend Matthew Human, who needed someone to water his fruit trees and maintain a presence at his recently constructed house there. Human happens to be one of our favorite musicians, and we had just been talking about spending time in Costa Rica, preferably at an intentional community, so it was an obvious move for us, if unexpected. Within a few weeks of learning about the opportunity, we were on a plane bound for San Jose, loaded down with as much baggage as the airlines would allow.
Though Tacotal and La Ecovilla share many ideals and principles, they are very different from each other in many ways, and during the time we spent living amongst them we came to appreciate the character and charm that each community had to offer. We also learned a great deal about community dynamics and challenges that arise when designing new systems.
Our time in Costa Rica was both wonderful and difficult, the best of times and the worst of times, you might say. The experiences and life lessons that living there afforded us were rich and deep, and the story of our time there will be covered at length in future articles. As an introduction to these tropical ecovillage adventures, I will first share this overview, a tale of two villages of new paradigm intent, both of which have become dear to my heart.
Driving to Tacotal, you pass the gates of Ecovilla, labeled with backlit lettering on a stone wall, next to an automatic gate. Past this point, official road maintenance ends, and only high clearance four by fours dare proceed. For nearly a mile you bounce and bump your way up the mountain, until you arrive at the gates of Tacotal, which consists of two cross sections of an enormous tree suspended from opposite posts. The sign for Tacotal is colorful and hand painted.
Tacotal sits on some seventy acres with over half a mile of river frontage. Most of the houses and structures are along the top of the property, as the lower areas closer to the river are not accessible by road. Immediately through the gate is the main community area, which consists of a kitchen, showers and a wash station, and several small living spaces which are available for guests or workers. Everything is open air, with cob walls, un-milled timber framing, and earthen floors. The water system is drawn from the land, by way of well, spring, and uphill creek water. It has been built entirely by the community members, as have all of the houses and structures.
The houses of Tacotal are truly works of art, and great representation of the spirit of Tacotal itself. They each have their own character, and it was quite a joy getting to visit and examine the craftsmanship of each. They demonstrate excellent use of cob, curves, natural timber, building around boulders to give the impression that the house is but an extension of the Earth. Even the more conventionally built homes looked like they belonged perfectly in the deep jungle setting, their dark timber framing attractively contrasting the green of the jungles beyond.
When we walked down to La Ecovilla, it was like stepping into a totally different world. The community area of Ecovilla is like a resort. Overlooking a large saltwater pool is a large open air structure they call the rancho, with a palm thatch roof, a modern kitchen, bathrooms, and a large open floor for gatherings, dances, or meetings. Right next to this building is another large deck with a palm roof, known as the yoga platform. Fruit trees surround these buildings, and are present on every lot.
The lots are smaller than in Tacotal, giving Ecovilla more of a neighborhood feel. The roads are wide and finished, and the houses modern and connected to the grid. There are some very nice houses, including a few that would qualify as natural building, with cob, whole timbers, and curves, though most had the look of glass, concrete and steel. There were quite a few houses, and quite a few more being built. Ecovilla was always teeming with activity, with numerous work crews coming and going every day to work on all the new houses going in. There were some twenty houses already built, during our time there, and another twenty or so more in the process of being built.
Fruit trees are everywhere in Ecovilla, but unlike at Tacotal, the layout is very orderly, with irrigation lines watering the trees that line the roads, clearly delineated lots, and a landscaping and maintenance staff going around cutting the grass, pulling weeds, and keeping things clean. Ecovilla also has a very nice vegetable garden, laid out in a mandala-like circular pattern and decked with beautiful fruits, veggies, and flowers.
Although we were not officially a part of the Ecovilla community, we made many friends there and we became fairly plugged in to the scene when we enrolled our girls in the Ecovilla school. Unlike Tacotal, which had been founded by a group of friends and consisted mostly of people who had known each other for some time, Ecovilla was populated mostly by people who had never met until they bought lots and became neighbors. We bore witness to the challenges and joys that come with this kind of melting pot scenario, and we enjoyed getting to know quite a few really dynamic characters who lived there. The expat residents of Ecovilla represented over fifteen different countries. Some were retirees, some were independently wealthy. Many had incredible stories, and many were doing what I would call important new paradigm work.
We also made good friends up at Tacotal, but unlike Ecovilla, Tacotal did not have large consistent population. Although there were some twenty or thirty people invested there, only a few lived there full time. The time we spent with folks at Tacotal was priceless though. We were fortunate enough to be there when they hosted an Ayahuasca ceremony and sweat lodge, which was a very good bonding experience with our new neighbors. Two Costa Rican families were the primary occupants of the land, along with two American guys who lived in their jungle dwellings more or less half of the year. Some other members came to visit their land during the dry season, and we enjoyed getting to know them all.
I plan to write in far greater detail about Tacotal and Ecovilla, discussing things like business structures, accounting and decision making, land use, common areas, dues, and obligations; all crucial elements of life at an intentional community. In short, though, Ecovilla was more conventional in its business structures, functioning more like a neighborhood association than a community of co-ownership. Tacotal had a wide variety of requirements for development of one's own lot, (based largely on the design principles of permaculture) but it was, in general, less bureaucratic of a community, by a wide margin. Tacotal was very laid back, with an Earthy, rasta-hippie vibe. For instance, both communities had more than one private swimming hole on the Machuga River, but only at Tacotal could we swim naked without fear of rebuke.
Ecovilla had immaculate, top of the line infrastructure and crews to keep everything working, but they also had high monthly dues, and considerably more drama between residents over matters of policy. At Tacotal, much of the infrastructure wanted maintenance and upkeep, (even demolition in some cases), but the whole scene was totally tranquillo, and the folks seemed to get along and work together with natural ease.
A whole bunch of festivals take place in Costa Rica during the first few months of the calendar year, and a collaboration of Tacotal people brewed hundreds of gallons of ginger beer up at the community kitchen, using ginger harvested from the land of Tacotal caretaker and de facto member, Eduardo, who came and went all throughout our time there. This ginger beer enterprise, which they have been doing for a few years now, is highly profitable, but their arrangements are informal, held together by their friendship and mutual advantage, in the most agoristic fashion.
At Ecovilla they held several large events, such as a yoga teacher training, a community building exercise, and other workshops which were largely prohibitive for us, owing to the cost. Our finances were poorly set forth in our hasty departure, and we found that in spite of our work trade housing, life in Costa Rica was not inexpensive, and our affiliation with the generally affluent community of Ecovilla set standards that were hard to uphold.
The school was a prime example. We put all three girls into the Ecovilla school, which was just commencing its second year. It was a great school and the girls loved it, but after two months of paying their tuition, it rapidly became clear that we couldn't keep them enrolled for much longer. It was a huge financial relief when we pulled them out, as well as a relief from the twice daily journey down and back up the hill on the horribly rough Tacotal Road, though it was sad that they couldn't continue benefitting from the relaxed, bilingual environment, and the awesome teachers, whom we all loved.
But we were sure glad to be done with such frequent trips up and down the hill, even after we bought a car. We learned rather quickly learned that life without a car from such a remote home base was exceedingly difficult, so we got an Isuzu Trooper. I had stayed in Costa Rica for over a month four years earlier, getting by just fine without a car, but this was a totally different situation. Just hiking up and down that hill between Ecovilla and Tacotal once or twice a day was exhausting enough, but trying to transport laundry or groceries as well was more than could be asked of any overly privileged first worlders like ourselves.
A car was a must, and though the cost of it severely depleted our already insufficient budget, we couldn't have done without it.
Having a car allowed us to do some traveling, though we certainly wished we could do more. We did go on several really awesome road trips, which will be described in due time. More importantly, the car allowed us to transport groceries easily up the hill and right to our own front yard. And we went through lots of groceries. We were very fortunate to have access to organic food from different farmers markets, with groups of people from Ecovilla organizing orders and deliveries.
Our diet in Costa Rica was very simple, to the point that it drove us all mad, a little. Talk about checking a privilege. We had access to organic, farm fresh food that was grown within 100 miles, delivered right to our neighboring community, and still we felt inclined to complain when the fare became repetitive. We cooked three meals a day from scratch, having no refrigerator and few processed or packaged foods. Beans and rice. Beans and rice. Cabbage and beets. Beet and carrot salads. Cabbage and carrot salads. Our most exciting meals were quesadillas, with tortillas and cheese that came from the Feria Verde, a San Jose organic farmers market. Usually it was beans and rice, with sautéed vegetables and a salad.
It was still really good eating, but as spoiled as we Americans are, it set off all kinds of alarms in our minds about how we really want to live somewhere where we have access to all the wonderful foods we have grown accustomed to while living in Southern Oregon.
As much as our environment suggested a relaxed tropical retreat, we stayed very busy operating Finca Verde, Human's space at Tacotal. He had cleared areas on both sides of his house and planted a variety of fruit trees, though there was much undergrowth rapidly establishing itself when we arrived. Tacotal, we learned, is translates as young, regrowth forest. In order to establish gardens and a food forest around Human's house, we had to keep the jungle plants hacked back and get water to the trees through the dry season. This was serious work, requiring boots, gloves, a sharp machete, and a sun hat. Still, we took great delight in caring for that land, and gradually we set to re-clearing the space in front of the house so we could put gardens there.
We thought we would grow most of our own food, with such constant warm weather, but we found growing gardens in the tropics to be very difficult. Our chief rival was the leaf cutter ant, zampopos. These are the ants that clear highways through the jungle over which they transport massive amounts of plant matter back to their immense underground tunnels, where theyferment their harvest to grow a fungus which is their staple food. Columns of these big red ants will descend on any new bed at night and strip every little seedling or start of every green leaf.
So in spite of our best efforts, we could extract but little of our food from the land. Even though a tropical climate eliminates many demands inherent to land with hard winters, there are many challenges to tropical homesteading. We became well acquainted with the reality of off-grid, remote tropical living, which is toilsome and lacking in many comforts and conveniences. For anyone wanting to get back to the land and live more naturally, such experiences are of great value. It's not as easy as it sounds, and if we want to really transition to more ecologically sound cultural models, we have to set realistic goals about the transitional process and develop appropriate educational systems that will prepare people for a different way of life, closer to nature and with greater ties to community and place.
Living this way afforded us a very good look at our own shadows. In spite of our commitment to this cause, our entitlements cried out to us from their perceived state of lack, like an aching muscle. Feed me processed food and sweets! Give me push button convenience and easy access shopping! Convenience is a dangerous thing to cultivate in our lives because it reprograms our instinctual priorities, in a way that leaves us very vulnerable, both physically and emotionally, to any adverse circumstances.
On top of the difficulty of life (relatively speaking, anyhow) in Costa Rica, our finances ran dry far sooner than I had expected. We far underestimated the cost of living, and definitely didn't stick to the budget I laid forth. (Why I even make budgets is beyond me, as I face mutiny from my crew of blonde buccaneers if I ever try to actually stick to budget plans drawn up with sensible Scottish frugality.) We did a fair bit of traveling around Costa Rica, and we bought things to make life in the jungle more comfortable. We ate ice cream and bought lots of fruit, which actually got pretty expensive, especially when taking care to buy organic.
At one point we were down to about sixty dollars, not even enough for a usual week's groceries, with no real sense of where our next money would come from. . Upon learning that Jerry, my good friend and employer for four years in Oregon, had been hospitalized and diagnosed with lymphoma, I knew for certain we had to leave. We put our car on the market, planning to fly back to the States as soon as we found a buyer.
Feeling bad for having to depart before our arranged time, Laura and I spent our final weeks at Tacotal laying out a series of garden beds in the front garden, and planting a bunch of flowers in the central bed. We knew that the jungle would take all our work back in a short time as rainy season continued, but we trusted that another caretaker would find his or her way to that magical spot in the hills of the Agucate.
We are eternally grateful to all our friends in Costa Rica who helped us feel at home during our stay in that beautiful land, and to Human for opening his home to us. There is much more to tell of this tale, so stay tuned for all the drama and adventure in far greater detail. And if you've ever had the inclination to just drop all your supposed obligations (not including children) and head out to an ecovillage or community abroad, let me just say that it can be done. If we, a family of five with three daughters aged two to nine, could pull this off, so can you. It might not be easy, but it will be worth it.
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In 2013, my big plan is to blog. Over the past few years I have spent a lot of time reading blogs and thought, 'hmm that looks fun'. What I have enjoyed most about discovering blogs is the glimpse it gives into peoples lives all around the world and the open and honest conversation that it starts. And that, is what i hope to offer readers through my blog; stories about my daily life, posts about topics that matter to me and hopefully some laughter and fun along the way!
There it is, my somewhat short but equally nerve wracking first post. If you would like to know more about me head to the 'About Me' section or check out my profile.

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A shimmering glass tower has been revealed as the new look for Dunedin's proposed five-star Filleul St hotel.
Images of the revised design, by award-winning Christchurch-based architect Thom Craig, of Thom Craig Architects Ltd, were released to the Otago Daily Times yesterday.
Craig was brought in to redesign the project in November last year after earlier concept plans for the building were criticised after being made public.
Craig's firm has since carried out a substantial redesign, although it is understood the project's key details - including its height, room numbers and cost - remain largely unchanged.
The ODT has previously reported the building would be up to 18 storeys, including 15 above ground, and have space for 200 bedrooms, apartments, office space, restaurants and a bar, at a cost of up to $75 million.
The developer, Tekapo-based Anthony Tosswill, was not in a position to comment yesterday, but, in an email last week, confirmed an application for resource consent would be filed within weeks.
He hoped the new design would be well-received, as "an immense amount of research and effort has gone into it".
Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull, contacted yesterday, said he was pleased progress was being made and was "pretty impressed" by the new look.
"Aesthetically, it [is] a step up."
The changes would also ensure more rooms enjoyed a five-star view of the city, as well as making the building more accessible for residents, he said.
"I think what the developer appreciates is the need for the Dunedin community to feel like the hotel is accessible; that it will have uses for the local community as well as for visitors," Cull said.
The hotel, if confirmed, would be built opposite the Dunedin Town Hall, and the site's zoning and 10m height limit meant a resource consent would be required.
That could open the door to a potentially protracted public hearing, but Cull said the developer appeared to be listening to earlier public feedback.
The revised design acknowledged its heritage surroundings, without trying to "mimic" them, which would be "false", he said. The Dunedin City Council signed a memorandum of understanding with Tosswill's company, NZ Horizon Hospitality Group Pty Ltd, last October.
The deal gave Tosswill the exclusive first right to buy and build on the council-owned Filleul St car park, once the results of geotechnical investigations at the site were known.
The company was originally given three months to make a decision, but an extension had since been granted, push-ing the deadline to March, it was confirmed yesterday.
Council city property manager Kevin Taylor said the results of the geotechnical work were in, and had been given to Tosswill.
The findings included the need for "reasonably deep" piles, of about 10m, in the Filleul St corner of the site, he said.
"That's now with [Tosswill's] design engineers to evaluate what it means for what they're proposing to do," he said.
Tosswill said more project details would be released when the resource consent application was filed with the council "on or before" February 5.


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Update your DKIM keys (07.11.2012)
If you have 512 bits DKIM keys or lower, you should change it, because of new changes.
To fix it its' quite easy, companies simply need to generate new DKIM keys at the stronger length and place it in their DNS records and at the same time they have to revoke their old key.
To determine if your emails are failing DKIM due to a weak key, or if you need to upgrade from a 768 -bit key, do the following:
How to check it?
Send a test email to Gmail. Check the headers for the following line: Authentication-Results:mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of email@example.com designates xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx as permitted sender) smtp.mail= email@example.com; dkim=pass header.i=xxxxxx.xxx
If it says dkim=pass, you are good, but if it says dkim=fail, you should upgrade your key immediately.
Why did this happen?
A mathematician Zach Harris (35) recently cracked Gmail's DKIM key and wrote to the founders of Google Sergey Brin and Larry page by impersonating them. After this he discovered the weak points at yahoo.com, paypal.com, ebay.com, twitter.com, amazon.com, apple.com and other numerous major internet domains.
Because of the act of Harris, Gmail and other major players in email industry started to create new DKIM keys stronger than 512-bits. The first act after finding out this security risk, they started failing anything signed with 512-bit key or less.
According to Return Path, this can affect your emails in the following ways: businesses that have a published list-unsubscribe header and also a 512-bit key or less DKIM key may mean your subscribers may not have the option to opt-out and this might mean more complaints. Nobody's emails will be blocked for failing DKIM, but there is a risk if you have published DMARC policy.


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the catastrophic mistakes of the last decade, it
is now aggressively seeking the opportunity to
repeat them.
CC: Who do you envision is your audience
Trudeau: It's never been entirely clear to me
who my audience is—I meet readers of all
sorts of ages and backgrounds—but I've
always assumed it was largely my generational
cohort. The strip is a kind of diary of the
baby‑boom experience, and I suspect it still
resonates best with my peers.
CC: How does one keep a strip current in a
real-time, Twitter age of breaking news and
instant consumption?
Trudeau: I don't try. The strip rolls out more
than a week after I write it, so I'm at a 100‑news‑
cycle remove from Ashton Kutcher's latest
insight. As has been true throughout my career,
I'm only current in the most general sense.
Doonesbury's topicality is mostly an illusion,
heightened by appearing in the only section of
the paper that's still mostly non‑topical.
CC: Have you thought about how the strip will
end? Would you allow someone else to continue it?
Trudeau: No. It's not a traditional gag strip,
so you can't just plug in another artist. As
with many of the newer strips, the voice in
Doonesbury is informed by a personal sensi‑
bility, hard to replicate in any recognizable
form. As to how it will all end, I have no idea.
It will depend on what's going on in the strip
at the time, and I rarely plan more than a week
or two out.
CC: How would you describe your current relationship to your characters?
Trudeau: Thankfully, I have none. I never
think about the characters when I'm not
actively imagining their stories. Most writers
don't. Remember, we routinely do unspeakable
things to our creations, put them in jeopardy,
cause their lives to fall apart, break their
hearts—things you don't do to people you love.
It's hard enough navigating real relationships
without worrying about your imaginary pals.
CC: The Washington Post once called you "the
most famous unknown person." How do you
assess that characterization?
Trudeau: I suppose they meant I was well
known as an artist but unknown as a person‑
ality. If that's still true, then my plan worked.
At the end of the day, reputation is all that
really matters. I'm fine with being unrecog‑
nized in restaurants. C
Richard Deitsch has written for numerous
magazines and is currently working on his
first novel.
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Unlike those of many comic strips,
the characters in Trudeau's world
of Doonesbury have aged, evolved,
had children, served in battle and
been wounded, and some characters have even passed away.
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tellitlikeitis says on October 7, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Good Morning Everyone!
Shouts, insults fly at Rep. Israel's health care town hall
Rep. Steve Israel gamely tried to explain the proposed health care reform Monday night, but was often shouted down during his town hall-style meeting at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood.
Israel (D-Huntington) at one point pleaded with those in the crowd yelling at him to "stop calling me a liar and listen." Judging by the ever-increasing decibel level, he did not win over many converts.
Shouts of — "Stop printing money," "We don't care what you think," and "You're a moron" — permeated the 90-minute session, which drew far more than the 450 people who filled Van Nostrand Theatre. Scores more were not allowed inside after a Suffolk fire marshal closed the doors.
People opposing the proposed health care reform outnumbered those in favor, though both sides strove to outshout each other during the question-and-answer period.
A typical scene came after Anneliese Lanza of Huntington asked, "Why can't we just fix the part of health care that is broken when what is needed is tort reform?" The anti-reform portion of the crowd broke into a raucous standing ovation chanting "tort reform."
"You're saying tort reform now, but if something happens to you, you'll be the first one to want to take the case to a judge and jury," Israel said. "I don't believe a member of the United States Congress should decide when you can go to court."
Israel, who supports the public option, which would allow people to purchase insurance through a government program, said he does not expect to support every aspect of the final reform bill.
"I'm not going to draw any lines in the sand," he said. "I'm not going to vote against 60 percent of what I want because I can't get 40 percent of what I want. There is no perfection."
Israel explained how the proposed legislation will affect Medicare — it will eliminate overpayments to doctors in the Medicare Advantage program; that undocumented immigrants won't be covered; that the federal government would administer the public option just as it does Medicare and Medicaid; and that "the days of insurance companies dropping your coverage because you get sick will be over."
After several people began shouting concerns about rationed health care, Israel said he hears daily from constituents who have been dropped by their health insurance companies after becoming ill.
"If you can't get medical care because your insurance company doesn't want to pay for it, you've been rationed out of health care," Israel said.
Catherine Mullahy, 65, from Huntington, asked if public funds would be used to pay for abortions under the public option. Israel, who favors abortion rights, said they would not be but people could choose an insurance plan that would cover the procedure.
"I would prefer that he be against abortion," she said. "But I understand."
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Hi there,
I met gorgeous Estelle through our beautiful friend Jo Miller.
We had a weekend together at the Hokitika Wild Food Festival in 2006.
She was such a gorgeous person - and I just wanted to share these photos with you all - and send you big hugs...
I am devastated by the loss of Estelle as I'm sure many many others are... She was such a shining bright light.
I kept up to date with Estelle's happenings through Jo and was soo excited for her when I heard about her finding a wonderful man.
I hope that you get some comfort from knowing that people all over the world and NZ are thinking of you all at this tragic time...and are sending lots of love and hugs.
take care
lots of love
Amy Scott


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Important Seatbelt Safety Facts
In a study released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the risk of injury or death to an individual jumped by nearly 50% if the passenger was not wearing a seat-belt. In addition, the study found that the U.S. spends nearly $ 18 billion a year in medical, insurance, and overhead costs due to injuries caused by collisions involving passengers and drivers without seatbelts. Automotive safety systems have continuously improved since the invention…Read More


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Occupancy Characteristics
Variables relating to the occupancy data within the home can be located in the section of Rural Indiana Stats. Below you will be able to see the breakdown on how the variables are formatted, either within the map or in tables.
Map variables
Tenure and tenure Hispanic or Latino.
Table variables
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Finnish axe history
|Image 1. Ancient Finnish axes by U.T. Sirelius.
Forges and ironworks in Finland
|Image 2. Billnäs ironworks. Photo Marcus Lepola
|Image 3. Finnish style axes manufactured by the Kellokoski-Mariefors ironworks. Models 9 and 10 are the Karelian type.
Finnish axes in an ethnological perspective.
|Image 5.Three axes from the 18th century made by local blacksmiths in the Pargas local history museum. All three are of the Bila-axe type, but only one axe has a long collar extending from the eye. Photo Marcus Lepola
|Image 6. Karelian man in a woodsman´s outfit with the distinctive "kukkeli" hood and a Karelian type axe with partial collar of the shaft. Louis Sparre 1892. Source "Kalevalaseura - The Kalevala Society of Finland".
|Image 7. Axe-rack with axe and a sauna-branch above the doorway in an old Finnish cottage at Pargas local history museum. Photo Marcus Lepola.
|Image 8. Six 19th century axes in the Pargas local history museum. The three broad "Bilas" are of unknown Finnish manufacture. One is marked with a B-stamp and another with a W-stamp. The third one is unmarked. A Billnäs nr 7 is the second one from the top. The broad Russian style axe at the bottom is unusual as it is of Swedish manufacture, From Lunds bruk in Örebro. The standing axe is of unknown manufacture, probably an early Kellokoski. Photo Marcus Lepola.
Logging and axes
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A lumberjack in Ilomantsi, Finland. Photo by Pentti Väänänen. The Finnish Forest Museum at Lusto.
|Image 11. The iconic Billnäs nr 12 model was one of the most popular all-around axes in Finland. The axe in the photo is the smaller 12:3 version of the Kemi type.
Old style axes in a modern context.
|Image 12.Ray Mears is giving his opinion on a good American style axe of Swedish making.
The head flew off at about each 4th of 5th chop, some 7-10 meters on averege . Surprisingly we survived without any permanent damage, just a few bruises and blisters and we got rid of a lot of extra energy. The fact that the handle on the axe was long probably saved our feet from being chopped off as all the blows that glanced of the wood and the chopping platform landed in the ground, a good 20 cm from our toes. I can only imagine Ray Mears reaction to this. You could refer to my grandfather's teaching methods as; "learning by doing" or "you can only learn by you own mistakes".
|Image 13. The Roselli axe is a modern take on old forms of small Finnish carpentry axes.
|Image 14. The Wetterling "Bushman axe" has some features that resemble the Finnish axes, but the collar is too short to classify as such. Photo credits: the Wetterling company.
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Ever since I started posting details about our budget and how our family lives on $550 a month, I've been getting tons of questions from people about the little things in their budgets that add up to BIG expenses. It feels like most of the time, my answer is: "I don't buy that."
There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of things that fall into this category. Walk through any Walmart and you'll see thousands of products that companies want to make you think you need, but people got along for centuries without it and you can get along just fine without it too!
Here are just 3 big categories where we don't spend money, and we get big savings out of it!
1. Accessories
I do like to look cute, like any woman, but I refuse to spend money on it. Of course, I buy myself clothes and shoes when necessary, but I keep it very simple and minimal. And I don't spend money on accessories. This includes things like:
- belts
- purses
- jewelry
- scarves
- makeup
- nails
- haircuts
This is not to say that I don't own any of these things. I do have 2 scarves, 2 purses, 1 belt, and a small collection of jewelry. (I don't wear makeup of any sort at all.) But I don't spend money on them, because I either got these items as cast-offs from friends who didn't want them any more, or I got them as birthday/Christmas gifts from friends & family.
2. Hobbies
I remember a friend telling me once that her husband spent thousands of dollars each year on his various hobbies. I was shocked! Hobbies can be very expensive! Things like hunting, boating, off-roading, photography, dance or exercise classes, video games, and many more examples — add up to HUGE bills.
My husband and I are very blessed that the things we enjoy doing are free.
I read over 100 books each year, I enjoy watching TV (online for free), hiking, learning new languages (6 and counting!), blogging, doing taxes, playing trivia games, and hanging out with my friends.
Byron loves sports — both watching and playing. He plays soccer, frisbee, softball, and pretty much any other sport available in pickup games with local friends. He watches sports games online (also for free). And he enjoys playing sports video games on his iPad, which were free apps he only had to download.
None of those things cost us a penny.
3. Drinks
Our family drinks water. Lots and lots of water. The kids do also drink milk, and occasionally juice. (We only have juice now because it's free from WIC. We went about 3 years without it at all.) My husband and I don't drink milk or juice at all, only water.
I can't even calculate how much money we save by not buying drinks. Beverages are expensive!
Things like beer, wine, liquor, coffee, energy drinks, smoothies, soda… it all adds up, very fast!
Now, by saying all of this — I'm not saying you're a bad person or you're doing something wrong if you do buy these things. I'm just trying to explain that these habits that we have acquired over the years have contributed substantially to our extremely low living expenses! Maybe it's a place you didn't realize you were spending and you might need to cut it out to save some money. Or maybe it's a priority for you and you want to budget to make sure that stays a part of your life. Either way, being aware of your spending across the board is key!


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It's 3 minutes into the Super Bowl. This is my completely random prediction.
Green Bay 24-17.
I don't know anything at all about football at all, but I am a degenerate gambler, so I will bet you one big mac that my prediction is 100% completely accurate. I like to make bold, outrageous predictions and stick to them with fanatical certainty. This is the most I will write about football ever in my life.


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The UC Medical Center's Central Clinic celebrates 80 years of service and will present its Ambassador for Mental Health Award to Mary Ellen and Tom Cody at a noon luncheon on Friday, October 3. The event will take place in the downtown Cincinnati Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel, Hall of Mirrors.
Both Mary Ellen and Tom Cody have been active members of the Greater Cincinnati Community since their arrival in 1982, when Mr. Cody joined Federated Department Stores, Inc. He is currently a vice chairman of Federated. Previously, Mr. Cody was with Pan American World Airways, Inc. where he served as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary. Mrs. Cody, an active volunteer in the community, currently serves in the following capacity: president, Friends of CCM; board member, Dress for Success; Dominican Community Services; 4C and is a volunteer with Every Child Succeeds. She is a past board member of Catholic Social Services and Friends of Women's Studies, College of Mount St. Joseph.
Mr. Cody currently serves on the Boards of Trustees of Xavier University, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, The Cincinnati Children's Hospital Life Center and the National Conference for Community and Justice. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Mr. Cody was a co-chair of Cincinnati C.A.N. and is a past chair of the United Way and the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Board of Trustees.
Central Clinic celebrates with pride 80 years of providing quality behavioral health services to Hamilton County. Central Clinic was founded by the Community Chest in 1923, initially to diagnose and treat emotionally disturbed children. In 1933, the Clinic formed an ongoing partnership with the University of Cincinnati, as a training arm for psychiatry residents and medical students, while continuing to serve the mental health needs of Hamilton County with over 8,000 visits per year for area citizens. This includes over 2,000 evaluations per year for the Hamilton County Courts, and treatment services for female offenders with co-occurring disorders of mental illness and substance abuse, children with emotional and behavioral problems, and mentally disabled adults, as well as treatment for depression, panic disorders and marital problems.
The Central Clinic also has an active prevention and education social service program, which works with preschool centers and neighborhood schools to address factors that impede a child's chance of success. The Clinic also operates Mental Health Access Point (MHAP), which provides managed care, clinical services and utilization review for the Hamilton County Community Mental Health Board-funded services.
The October 3 luncheon is expected to draw over 300 friends and dignitaries who will join together to celebrate Central Clinic's 80 years of success and to recognize Mary Ellen and Tom Cody for their years of hard work, commitment and dedication to improving the quality of life for persons in the community. For more information about this event or the Central Clinic, call Mary Carol Melton, assistant director, (513) 558-5940
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The Northern Territory government says it will boot out disruptive and anti-social public housing tenants under a "red card" demerit system.
All new tenants will also be subject to a six month-month probation.
Chief Minister Adam Giles says the government has reduced the number of complaints needed to be made against public housing tenants before they are evicted, with excessive noise, offensive language, property damage and violent behaviour all targeted.
Tenants who accrue six demerit points will be kicked out and will have to find other housing.
The crackdown follows a 22 per cent increase in complaints and 15 per cent rise in incidents in public housing.
"People need to take responsibility for their housing situation," Mr Giles told ABC local radio .
"When there are people who have complete disregard for their neighbours, for the community and the neighbourhood in general and are not willing to change and take that responsibility, we'll take action."
* All new tenants subject to a six-month trial before being granted ongoing tenancy
* Housing Department can extend a probationary agreement or terminate tenancy
* Six demerit points will trigger eviction: one point for excessive noise or offensive language, two points for property damage, three points for violence or vandalism
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It used to be the case that you could head out into territories nobody had been before, and experience the beauty and harshness of nature as if nobody had gone before you.
It wasn't that nobody else had beaten you to a location; it was that they hadn't dominated it, and bent it to the service of humanity. Seeing a world unshaped by humanity is impossible for many people because of where they live. What we call wilderness now is often just a 'wild area' or 'park' and unless you live in a very limited set of locations, it could be wild but it isn't unshaped.
A popular saying is that we know more about the surface of the moon than we do the seabed. Strangely this is true, as we have been so busy reaching out, we ignored 70% of the planet…except for when it could offer us something.
For divers, that 70% is our last great wilderness. Sure humans have left their impression, largely in negative ways, but they haven't humanised, sanitized and idiot proofed it. There are not only still places underwater that nobody has explored, there are many of them.
There are species and vistas that nobody has seen, and more importantly, nobody has shaped. There are still mysteries to solve. Whole cities have been swallowed by the oceans, and they wait for whoever stumbles across them.
Currently people are mystified about an object in the Baltic Sea. 210 feet down they discovered something 70 feet long, that looked like the Millennium Falcon. It was assumed this must just be a weird rock formation until samples showed unnatural metals that must have been manufactured. What it is, currently is a mystery. Whether it ends up being an ancient monument that sank beneath the waves, something natural we've never seen before, or even a forgotten WW2 experiment, it's very existence highlights just how little we know about what is down there.
And for many this is why diving is a fabulous lifestyle. Not because they want to discover these things personally, but because they want to adjust their mental trim, equalise their minds, and they need that natural environment. To say, "Yay for humanity and civilization…but let's just leave it over there for a while so we can recharge in a natural environment in peace."
Your experience could be completely different, and maybe it is different for everyone, but that's my take on it.
Why not check out the home page while you're here, and see what We Dive Too is all about?
Colin is an inventor, author, guitar player, amateur scientist and steampunk enthusiast. During his years as a ships navigator his luck was so consistently bad that he was briefly known as 'Jonah', presumed cursed, and subsequently barred from setting foot on any boat docked in Ireland. Due to his misadventures he spent more time underwater than most divers will achieve in a lifetime. Not deliberately, but he was still down there!


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After her very successful hit "Dahan-dahan", Maja Salvador is back with her newest single "Halikana".
Halikana is more danceable and playful, just like the actual music video where Maja flirts with our very own Brazilian hunk Ivo Cavalcanti in a 1920's theme setting.
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Booktrope Publishing Announces the Release of Romantic Suspense Novel
I Am Atlas.
Powerful, wealthy, wildly handsome Atlas has it all: successful company, stunning penthouse, and all the women and fun he could want. But when he meets the brilliant, graceful and mesmerizing Gwen, he is thunderstruck and wants to go to great lengths to have her, even if it means breaking his own rules and baring his secret soul.
When his livelihood is threatened by a competing rival, he must prepare for a corporate battle. But, with Gwen at his side he knows he will not lose.
But, what if she isn't who he thought she was? What if nothing is as it seems?
Will Atlas lose everything?
What is he willing to do for the woman he loves? heart again in the process. They say that time heals all wounds. Kenna has a chance to find out if that is really true.
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Not quite sure where to start with this book. I've been chomping at the bit to get reading I Am Atlas so I was excited to see it on my kindle.
Now first and foremost, this wasn't what I was expecting, and that's not a bad thing. I don't know why I had pre-expectations of what I was going to be reading I really don't. But what I read was a lot different.
I was expecting an alpha male but Atlas isn't, he's got a good business head on him and doing extremely well but often came across indecisive about things. Again this is not a bad thing, it was just a trait I wasn't expecting.
What is the glue to this book is you know there's something going on in the background but you just don't know what. And when I found out I was like, oooh that was different! I wasn't expecting that.
It got a itty bitty bit heavy on the sex there at one point, I was like seriously hasn't his todger dropped off yet! 😉 Boy they both have some staying power is all I'll say, wink wink.
I actually think this is a book to re-read once you've read it to see how your perception fares the second time around. For a read I wasn't expecting I did enjoy I Am Atlas ☺
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Intersport Racing's Rick Sutherland ready to race at his home track of Sears Point. LOS GATOS, Calif.- Intersport Racing driver Rick Sutherland does not have far to go for this weekend's American Le Mans Series Grand Prix of Sonoma at Sears Point ...
Intersport Racing's Rick Sutherland ready to race at his home track of Sears Point.
LOS GATOS, Calif.- Intersport Racing driver Rick Sutherland does not have far to go for this weekend's American Le Mans Series Grand Prix of Sonoma at Sears Point Raceway. The Los Gatos, Calif., resident is looking forward to driving his home track during the second round of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS).
Sutherland drives the #37 Intersport Racing/Banana Joe's Lola EX257/AER MG along with co-driver Jon Field, in the LMP 675 class. This is Sutherland's 4th year with Intersport. Earlier this season, Sutherland co-drove the Intersport Racing Lola/Judd that led the 24 Hours of Daytona for 9 hours before a gearbox failure.
"It's great to be at my home track," enthused Sutherland. "I've got more laps at Sears Point than most tracks, and I won a championship there in' 87. I've had a lot of really good races there. I'll get to see lots of people I've known and raced with over the years."
Sutherland's co-driver Field is currently first in class for the drivers championship after winning the LMP 675 class at the 12 Hours of Sebring. The team is also leading the class in IMSA Cup points, which is an award for the highest-finishing privateer team in each of the four classes.
Sutherland hopes his extensive knowledge of Sears Point will help Field extend his lead in the drivers championship. "It's a tough course. The Esses in turn ten are very difficult. Turn 2 is a blind corner," said Sutherland of the 2.53-mile track.
One of the top privateer teams, Intersport has been a staple of American Le Mans competition since the series' inception in 1999. The team earned 5th in points in the competitive LMP 900 class last season. The red, white and blue Banana Joe's car is popular among the fans, as well.
Sutherland is the CEO of Click Away and the President of Sutherland Racing. He has been racing for over twenty years and has competed in both open-wheel series and sports cars. Sutherland's first championship came in 1987, when he won the Pacific Coast Formula Atlantic Championship. He moved to sports car prototype competition in 1994, when he began racing in IMSA's World Sports Car series.
The Grand Prix of Sonoma Presented by Foster's gets the green flag on Sunday, May 19 at 1:00 PDT at Sears Point Raceway. The race will be two hours and 45 minutes in length and will be broadcast live on the SPEED Channel.
More information about Sutherland's racing career can be found on his website at www.SutherlandRacing.com. Intersport Racing's home on the Internet is www.IntersportRacing.com.
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Cadets spend their first few days learning Army basics under the tutelage of drill sergeants. You'll also take your first Army physical fitness test, which includes sit-ups, push-ups and a two-mile run. Shortly after the course begins, cadets are introduced to working in small teams in activities designed to accomplish set goals.
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The capstone ROTC training event, Advanced Camp is a 29-day course held annually at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The purpose of the course is to train cadets to Army standards, to develop your leadership skills and to evaluate your officer potential. Most cadets attend Advanced Camp between their junior and senior years after contracting to join the Army.
Successful completion of Advanced Camp is required to become an Army officer through ROTC.
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Pancake is an International breakfast that comes from American cuisine and is usually sweet in taste and combined with various other flavours like seasonal fruits, honey etc. In India the pan cakes are often known as Cheela/Chilla. The thin ones made with lentils are close to crepes and the thick ones made using various lentils or legumes are close cosines of pan cakes. Green Peas Pancake is one such healthy breakfast recipe that is made with green peas and combined with Indian flavours. The pancake here is savoury and eggless. With an addition of just a few drops of oil, green peas pan cake is perfect for all those who love to keep a check on their weight. Green peas pan cake is nutritious and a perfect recipe to make kids intake some healthy stuff like green peas. Serve Green Pea Pancake with Tomato Onion Chutney, Tomato Garlic Chutney or any other chutney of your choice for your breakfast or as a tea time snack.
Green Pea Savory Pan Cake is a popular aromatic and delicious dish. You can try making this amazing Green Pea Savory Pan Cake in your kitchen. This recipe requires 900 minutes for preparation and 10 minutes to cook. The Green Pea Savory Pan Cake by Shaheen Ali has detailed steps with pictures so you can easily learn how to cook Green Pea Savory Pan Cake at home without any difficulty. Green Pea Savory Pan Cake is enjoyed by everyone and can be served on special occasions. The flavours of the Green Pea Savory Pan Cake would satiate your taste buds. You must try making Green Pea Savory Pan Cake this weekend. Share your Green Pea Savory Pan Cake cooking experience on the BetterButter platform. You can also use the "What's cooking" feature on the app to get in touch with other home chefs like Shaheen Ali for inputs. In case you have any queries for Green Pea Savory Pan Cake you can comment on the recipe page to connect with the Shaheen Ali. You can also rate the Green Pea Savory Pan Cake and give feedback.
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- 1 tablespoon fresh cream, optional
- 1 teaspoon ginger, grated
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Designing your test is the process of adding and organizing the test's elements: headings, text, and questions. After setting up your test, click its name in the Tests view of your course. Each test has three views: Design, Preview, and History. You will rightly surmise that test design occurs in the Design view...
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If previous terms or other sections of this course have tests, you can import those tests into the test you're designing. You can also import tests from other courses you have taught in the past. You can then edit that test—adding new elements, reorganizing and editing existing elements, etc.—or leave it as-is.
- Click Import Test.
- Choose the term/course/section with the test you'd like to import.
- Choose the test.
- Click Save.
The test elements will populate your empty test. If you've already added elements to your test, the imported test will overwrite those!
Test elements
As mentioned, there are three test elements: headings, text, and questions. When you first create a test, it is empty of all three.
- Get started by clicking to add one of the three elements.
- Afterwards, you'll then hover over an element to see the links to add more elements.
- If you need to move elements around, click .
Headings & Text
Headings separate your test into different sections. For example: Essay Questions, Extra Credit, Hamlet, King Lear, etc. Text blocks help you provide explanation or context for your questions. For example, you might use one to sketch out a scenario to which the next few questions refer.
Adding these elements is excruciatingly difficult:
- Click Add Heading or Add Text.
- Enter the text.
- Click Save
Questions & Answers
Questions are a combination of the question and its answers/options. When you create a question, it is then available...
- For use in the same course in future terms
- In other sections of that same course
- If enabled (by an Academic Admin), the questions can be shared with other courses
You have a lot of options when adding questions to a test. In any case, you start by clicking Add Question.
Choose how you would like to add the question. You have four options:
- Create a new question
- Create a new question based on an existing question
- Import an existing question
- Add a group of questions from a category
Create a new question
1. Select the question type
You have seven question types:
- Multiple Choice: Your students choose one answer from several. Simply type the answers in the fields. Use the radio button to designate the correct (100%) answer, and use the drop-downs to mark partial credit (e.g. 50%) for incorrect answers.
- Short Answer: Your students enter free-form text answers. Leave the answer field blank if you wish to manually grade all answers to this question. You may also type certain common answers (correct or incorrect) and assign full, partial, or no credit so Populi can automatically grade them for you.
- Check Use case-sensitive grading to require students to correctly capitalize (or not) their answers.
- Automatic grading on short answers only works with exact matches. You'll have to manually grade non-matching answers in To Be Graded.
- Put in Order: Your students put a jumbled list in the correct order; full and partial credit are both automatically graded. Type the options in the correct order; Populi automatically jumbles the options.
- Multiple Answer: Your students check off all correct answers; these are automatically graded. Type the options and then check all that are correct.
- Essay: Your students submit essay-length answers in a large text area. Essay questions can only be manually graded. You can also select a rubric and whether to automatically check for plagiarism (if enabled).
- True/False: Your students check whether a statement is true or false. These are automatically-graded.
- Matching: Your students match terms to one another. Simply enter matching terms next to each other in their respective columns. You can also enter additional "dummy" terms in the right column. Both columns will be randomized.
2. Type your question
You can use text formatting in Questions and Answers.
You can also include a media file in the question.
- Copy the EMBED code from any media file (audio or video)
- Paste it into the text of the question or text block.
- In Design mode, it will appear as a long
{EMBED}code. The Preview tab will show what your students will see: a media player
3. Add a file (optional)
Click to choose a file or drag and drop one onto the file upload area.
4. Enter answers
See above for details about what options you'll have for each question type. For automatically-graded questions, make sure you designate which options get full credit and which get partial credit (75%, 50%, 25%...)
5. Choose whether to randomize
Check to randomize the answer display for multiple choice and multiple answer questions. This presents the answer options in a different order to each student.
6. Enable partial credit scoring
Check to enable partial credit scoring for multiple answer, put in order, and matching questions (partial credit is particularly useful for matching questions with a lot of terms).
7. Categories
Categories are like tags for questions. Use them to distinguish questions from one another (i.e. "Easy" vs. "Hard"; "Iliad" vs. "Odyssey"; "Algebraic Geometry" vs. "Algebraic Combinatorics"; and so on). Type a new category name or select from the categories that come up as you type. You can add as many categories as you wish.
8. Points & extra credit
Enter the number of points and check if the question is extra credit. Unless the question is extra credit, you can't enter more points than are left from the test's total points.
Create a new question based on an existing question
- Type a word or phrase and select from the suggested results.
- Click Continue to modify the selected question.
- Change any of the question's details to suit your needs. The only item you cannot change is question type.
- Click Save.
Import an existing question
- Type a word or phrase and select from the suggested results.
- Enter the number of points.
- Click Save.
Add a group of questions from a category
- Begin typing a category name and select from the suggested results.
- Enter the total number of points and questions. The points will be evenly divided among the questions you import.
Test questions view
After you create a question, you can find it in the course question bank. You can find that in the main Tests view under Questions. The view shows you all of the questions associated with the course.
- Questions includes those you've created for tests in this course, questions attached to this course from past terms, questions created from existing questions, and questions shared with other courses in the catalog.
- Click a category to see only the questions in that category. Remember that questions can have multiple categories.
- Click add to create a new question (see above). These questions will be available for use on your tests whenever you use an add-question option that relies on an existing question.
- Hover over a question to edit it. This will not affect any versions of this question already attached to existing tests.


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The Baldwin County Sheriff's Office (BCSO) is investigating the rape of a 13-year-old girl in Summerdale, and on Monday, they arrested 50-year-old Fabian Atanacio Sanchez in relation to the crime. According to online jail records, Sanchez is currently held in the Baldwin County Jail on a $25,000 bond after being booked on Wednesday morning.
According to BCSO, at 9:30 p.m. on Monday deputies responded to a report that a 13-year-old that had been raped by a Hispanic male. The victim told her mother the offense had just occurred and reported the Hispanic male walked inside of a nearby residence.
The victim described the suspect to the deputies and showed them the location he retreated to. Deputies found Sanchez at a nearby residence and took him into custody. Deputies also located evidence which matched the victim's description.
The victim told deputies she was sexually assaulted inside of a shed near her residence. The BCSO Crime Scene Unit responded to the location and processed the scene. The victim was transported to USA Women's & Children's hospital, where a follow-up interview was conducted by investigators.
Sanchez was interviewed at the Robertsdale Sheriff's Office with the assistance of a Spanish language interpreter sent from the Foley Police Department. Sanchez admitted to speaking with the victim and being with her during the time frame of the offense, but denied sexual involvement with the victim.
Sanchez was arrested for first-degree rape and transported to the Baldwin County Sheriff's Corrections Center.


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Outdoor fitness and yoga you don't want to miss this August
If you haven't yet downloaded your copy of our Healthy Summer Guide to New York, time is seriously running out. So do it, really.
In the meantime, here are some August outdoor fitness highlights to make planning summer's final hurrah easy.
From outdoor yoga with a Manhattan skyline backdrop to Brooklyn Bridge-framed beach volleyball, these events will help you remember the sunny season's end with a sweaty smile.
Thursday, August 9 @ 7 a.m.
This marks the last installment of Union Square Park's Summer in the Square. Join the morning running club at 7 a.m. with a trainer from CLAY, hop into an 8 a.m. Brooklyn Bridge Boot Camp class, or take CLAY's Power Hour class at 9 a.m., which includes cardio, strength training, and plyometrics. Free, www.unionsquarenyc.org
Sunday, August 12 @ 10 a.m.
Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City may seriously be the city's best outdoor yoga venue. Flow through your vinyasa with teachers from The Yoga Room while gazing at the Empire State Building and passing kayakers, and breathing in the cool breeze off the river. Free, www.the-yoga-room.com
Tuesday, August 14 @ 6:30 p.m.
Lole and Fitist's summer series on Pier 25 has featured some of the city's best yoga and fitness instructors. This week, Aerospace founders Michael Olajide, Jr. and Leila Fazel will teach a boxing-barre combo, which is perfect if you're feeling inspired by the debut of women's boxing at the Olympics. Free, Click here for info on Facebook
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Does Microsoft
"I will be respectful," Ballmer said, tacitly disrespecting Chrome in a speech to Mr. Softy's technology partners. "Who knows what this thing is? To me, the Chrome OS thing is highly interesting."
Ballmer isn't the only skeptic. The majority of comments we received to a poll asking Fools whether Chrome OS could be a contender frowned on Google's plan.
"Google is a search company," wrote Foolish reader kpinvest, one of our better CAPS investors. "They have as much of a chance of success as if they go after the smartphone market. Android vs. iPhone? Sorry Google, just another very bad idea."
But Ballmer's definitely leading the chorus. His faint praise of "interesting" seems like Microspeak for "a minor annoyance that doesn't terribly concern us."
I don't believe you, Ballmer. And not just because these sorts of backhanded compliments have left you egg-faced in years past. Remember what you said about Apple's
There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get. [Emphasis added.]
Hoo-boy. That went well, eh?
Playing devil's advocate
To be fair, there are good reasons to be skeptical of Chrome. We have yet to see anything of the OS but a press release. Chrome faces entrenched competition not just from Microsoft and Apple, but also from Ubuntu and Red Hat
But credibility is only part of Ballmer's problem. The other, bigger issue is what Microsoft is doing. Yesterday, the House of Gates unveiled pricing for Azure, a cloud-computing platform that will allow users to rent software, storage space, and processing power in a manner similar to what Amazon.com
Ballmer is interested in Chrome, all right. Once released, Chrome could be to the cloud what Gmail has been to email. That's why his marketing team is plugging pricing for Azure -- its own cloud computing experiment -- just days after Google's cloudy OS captured headlines. Coincidence? Puh-leeze..
A nervous laugh doesn't befit you, Ballmer.
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Meaning of INSTALLATION in English
n. 1 investiture, instatement, initiation, establishment, inauguration, induction, institution, placement, introduction, solemnization, swearing-in, consecration, Ecclesiastical ordination; crowning, coronation Will you attend the installation of the new vice-chancellor? 2 fitting, placement, connection, positioning The plumber will supervise the installation of the new heating system 3 base, post, station, depot, camp, establishment Military installations all over the country are being picketed
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|Candy Corn Girl Rubber Stamp (NEW RELEASE)
Good Morning!!!
If you know anything about me and my stamping (past to present) you will know that I have always LOVED masking my stamps and making fun scenes or different themes with them. I love paper piecing and playing with them. It is SO much fun!!!
Our Guest Designer from August, Vanessa, seems to love to do it too... and has made me slow down and look at things a whole different way. This stamp for instance. I NEVER really thought to mask her. Then Vanessa stepped up to the plate with these ROCKIN cards: Football theme , 3 different themed cards
I added a flower brad to her hair to hide the spider, I added flower soft over the candy corn (so I really did not truly mask this time, but close enough :D) and voila!!! My DT and friends sent me a box of goodies this past week as a celebration for FBD turning 1 year old. I created this card with several of the goodies in the box. I had a fun pink plastic stencil that I took to my light box and embossed in layers then inked the paper, the fun fabric button, the white button, the sweet ribbon ... just looking at this card makes ME smile. Thank you again ladies!!!
We have had our shop and rubber for a year now! can you believe it? I can't!!! There will be parties and things to follow... be watching and waiting for NOVEMBER. That is our PARTY month!! :) .. and if you have been a customer this past year. . you will not want to miss it..... and that is all I Can tell you for now :D
**REMINDERS and such**
FOOTBALL challenge going on NOW!!!
Month long Prize challenge use something NEW
BREAST CANCER AWARENESS BLOG HOP THURSDAY September 22!!!!
There are SO Many prizes and sponsors! in fact Yolanda told us this morning it was a whopping
70+ sponsors and $3,000 worth of giveaway
And FBD is one of them :)
Hope you all have a wonderful day today!
Thanks for stopping by!