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Erin Blogs on No Impact Week
So far this week:
- Sunday: Consumption
- Monday: Trash
- Tuesday: Transportation
- Wednesday: Food
- Thursday: Energy
- Friday: Water
- Saturday: Giving Back
- Sunday: Eco-Sabbath
Erin Collins
Dubbo, Australia
A couple of years ago, I was living outside of Delhi, India, in a community of formerly destitute people. My life with them made me realize the effect that Western lifestyles often have on the rest of the world, and especially on those living in poverty.
Now that I'm back in Australia—in a town of about 40,000 people on the edge of the outback—I want to learn how to better live lightly on the earth, without destruction. I've had both times where I was depressed about it and didn't try as hard, and times when I've been quite hardcore, but I'd like to find a balance between idealism and inertia.
I'm doing this challenge because I know I need a bit of a shake up again, I know I'm becoming more and more unconscious of my 'impact' the longer I live at home in Australia, and I'm looking forward to spending a week examining myself (in a playful way) along with everyone else who is taking up the challenge!
Live a fuller and happier life by buying less stuff.
I'm really looking forward to this week. And I'm also wondering if I'll need a holiday afterward because it already feels kind of intense.
Just one day has left me reeling a bit because when you start to carry your rubbish around; and then go into the cheap shop to by "essential items" (see list below); and then come home to notice how you tend to reach for the hot tap by default and how much water is going down the loo ... So much is automatic and it's a challenge to actually think about it!
Just the anticipation of the challenge over the last week has been good for me—it's agitated me and got me thinking. Good stuff.
Sunday was really great: After a cultural festival, a dig in the community garden, and a bag of my collected rubbish, I was cycling home (unfortunately uphill) and my neighbor passed me in her car. She stopped for a chat because we haven't actually seen each other for the past week. Better than just passing in our cars and waving!
Never say Never
After an intense time working with the poor in India, I embarked on a bit of a journey with some friends, trying to make sense of the world and its inequalities and our part to play in it. I was pretty active and passionate about things, and at the time I made a lot of "never again" statements.
Now, back in Oz, I feel like I'm doing all those things: I'm living alone, working full-time, driving my car to work most days (all of 5 minutes), buying things wrapped in plastic, getting more and more possessions as time goes on.
I've tried to be a bit 'conscious' about my consumption, but if I look hard at myself, I'm slowly getting lazy and comfortable again. That's not to say that being crazy hardcore about these things is right either—I actually think that the "never" statements can be harmful because when you inevitably go back on them (and I think there's some universal law that says you will), you feel like a failure.
And there are the shades of gray: I live alone because I feel somewhere inside that I need to for a while—for my mental health. And working full-time again has turned out to present new challenges and room for growth that I didn't expect.
The system certainly isn't perfect, and so many things frustrate me. But hey, maybe I have more chance to grow by being in a challenging situation than the ideal life of living off the land in self-sustainable communal bliss.
Final thoughts on me vs. consumption
- Thankfully I'm not much of a shopper and I usually go to the shops with a mission…but that's not to say that I don't usually come home with much more than I planned—and somehow I still manage to gather a lot of stuff.
- My neighbor mentioned that she's going to have a garage sale at the end of the month—so I've got a purging task this week. I'll pull out a big box and start throwing things I don't need into it.
- I've just joined up with freecycle. Not much happening in Dubbo but I love the idea.
- I've set myself the challenge not to enter a supermarket this week. Thankfully I have enough toilet paper to last me.
- My list of things I will buy this week is as follows: My weekly newspaper (it's only once a week, it's small, and I like my weekly chat with the newsagents); bicycle lights from a local bike shop & high viz vest (legal and safe); a compost bucket; a few packs of seeds (it's time to start planting in the Southern Hemisphere). I should get by with food after a big farmers market shop on Saturday a quick look in my pantry will assure you that I won't starve.
More stories from No Impact Sunday: Consumption
Discover how wasting less improves your life.
I like how this challenge is making me horrified about "normal" things. I was horrified as I peeled a sticker off an apple, horrified by the pile of uncollected paper next to the printer at work, horrified by my hand reaching for a paper towel to dry off ...
Spookily—to extend the horror theme—a recycling program started at work today. For me it was also a significant day because after weeks of thinking about it, I finally took my food scraps to work to give to a colleague who has chooks. This has a rather exciting spin-off for me: It means that there is no excuse for using plastic bags to collect my rubbish (excuse being that they neatly contain oozy foodstuff). I got so good awhile back at using my reusable shopping bags that I actually purposely didn't use them so I could get plastic bags because I had run out.
So a lesson learned: There are a lot of hungry chickens out there who want my scraps. A decision was made today from all of this (along with the first colleague with the chooks) that we would start a scrap bin in the kitchen at work and see how it goes. A little bit of horror goes a long way!
This week has happened at "that time of the month" but thankfully I started using reusable alternatives to disposable pads and tampons years ago. I remember the pivotal point of decision with that was when I was in India and had the (extremely horrifying) realization that whatever I put in the rubbish bin there would invariably be opened and touched and sorted by a poor rag-picker. I couldn't wish that on anyone. I'm also glad that I didn't have to carry anything like that around with me as part of the challenge!
A few "highlights" from my rubbish collection:
- Plastic plate and Yabbie heads—from the cultural festival yesterday. I wanted to eat and it all looked so good and there was only throwaway plastic to put it on. And Yabbie heads…well what the heck do you do with them? (Yabbies are Australian crayfish).
- Tag from the reflective vest I bought (see day one for excuse)—can be recycled.
- One of those stretchy plastic stringy orange bags that Oranges come in—this was being used as a "reusable bag" to collect my rubbish in until I realized that yabbie heads would not be contained (and juice would escape through holes) and therefore had to wrap yabbie heads and plate in a plastic bag.
- A tissue that I blew my nose with (should use a hanky).
- Food scraps—(now making chooks happy).
- Cotton bud used to clean my ears (I guess I should let the wax come out naturally).
- Tissue used to wipe blood after bike stack (I probably should have just left it).
Things I'm thankful for:
- Colleagues who graciously listen to me rave on and on about whatever is happening in my life at the time (which now happens to be No Impact Week).
- The lady who slowed down so as not to run me over when I stacked my bike today.
- Spring
- My 'patch' in the community garden—and the sunset I enjoyed down there this eveninghe perfectly peaceful end to an horrific day!
More stories from No Impact Monday: Trash
Burn calories, not fossil fuels.
I own a car. And frankly, there is a list of excuses for having one here. I've got good friends who live out of town and riding my bicycle 30 km just ain't gonna happen. My parents live 250 km down the road and to coordinate with the bus or train times I need to take a 4-day weekend. And up until recently I hadn't really thought there was a good enough alternative for getting home after dark.
For getting around town there are good options. The bus isn't really a good one unless you don't want to go out on Sundays and don't want to stay in town past 5.30 p.m. Walking is good—I already try to walk to work (sometimes) because 20 minutes walking is a great way to frame the working day.
But Dubbo is rather sprawling and the best way to get around in general, I think, is by bicycle. Because the very good bike that I bought a few months ago hasn't seen much of the road, I decided prior to No Impact Week that I would leave my car at home for the whole week (at least until Saturday) and cycle everywhere: to work (2 km), the community garden (5 km), one evening meeting and whatever else comes up. Simple, right?
A quick "up to speed" on the harsh reality of cycling in Dubbo.
1: Magpies. If you've never been swooped everyday for weeks in spring by a deranged magpie trying to protect its young, you don't know how traumatizing this can be. Happily the cable ties projecting from my helmet like antennas seem to have worked at deterring them so far.
2. Snakes. This is no word of a lie—my friend Bron was cycling today and nearly ran over a big brown snake. Luckily it was slithering fast. Not sure how you can avoid snakes except for keeping an eye out for them!
3. Potential for knee grazes and ankle bleeds (probably more to do with me than Dubbo): Yes, this happened yesterday close to home. I was signaling whilst slowing down whilst looking behind etc etc and went all wobbly and fell off in the middle of the road. Ouch!
4. Cat heads. Not the furry kind—rather, the freaky, can-stab-through-your-thong-(flip-flop)-through-to your-foot variety. Described as "thumbtack-like," I have shredded tubes on these before.
Well you would think that with all these reasons why cycling in Dubbo is probably more hazardous than wrestling crocodiles, I would give up. But after three days of cycling at least 10 km per day and only actually experiencing number three above, I think I'm hooked. I feel good, I love the feeling of physical exhaustion when I hop into bed, I love riding under the stars in the fresh air at night, and I love being less in my car. And there are pluses about Dubbo: It is relatively flat and the wide roads mean nice big shoulders, even if there are not many bike paths.
So it's easy enough to reduce my car dependency for myself, but what about for work? Our team of Occupational Therapists travel far and wide to provide a service to a big chunk of western New South Wales. On a big trip this means traveling a minimum of 400 km one way. More regularly for me it means once or twice a fortnight travelling to a town 120 km away. I'm wondering what my profession would look like in a post-cheap-oil future? Hmmmm.
Lunchtime discussions today at work included thoughts on energy use, a toilet cistern that doubles as a handbasin, and whether I would need to put out a bucket and wait for it to rain in order to drink truly local water. I ate my local parsnips and salad with delight (my shop at the farmers markets on Saturday has already meant a lot of local, healthy food). And when I washed my hands I pulled out my little square of old pillowslip that I had in my pocket rather than use the paper towel!
Aside from all the fun that this challenge is proving to be, I have to admit I'm feeling really exhausted. Partly the increased physical activity, but it's also the mental/emotional stuff—thinking about everything I do (and facing a lot of my habits) and blogging about it means sitting down each evening trying to write something coherent and staying up later than usual. But I think it helps with being mindful.
And now, I'm going to steal a line from my fellow blogger, Ta'Kaiya: "No Impact Week can lead to No Impact Month or Year or a complete change altogether."
I'm beginning to hope so!
More stories from No Impact Tuesday: Transportation
Healthy eating can also lessen your footprint.
I read Vicki Robin's article 7 Ways to Cook Up a Sustainable Diet on the weekend and thought it was great—nice and concise and sensible. It planted a few things in my brain for the week: I started sprouting again (for some reason I didn't do it over winter), and I have made a commitment to myself to consider what is in my cupboard as "local" for the next weeks and try not to buy any food except fresh fruit and veggies. I have also tried to 'savor' my food more, and eat slowly. Last night I experienced even more 'savor' as I was sharing with new friends.
I'm not so good with the local food thing, aside from vegetables. Looking at labels, a lot of things are "made in Australia from local and imported ingredients." Even if things are made in Australia it could be thousands of kms away. If I think about things I don't want to give up—they'd be my oats and nuts and tahini (all from the supermarket). But I didn't eat them today.
My local food adventure began on Saturday with a trip to the local farmers markets. Knowing what was ahead, I made a point of asking most of them where their produce was from. I was pleasantly surprised by the variety of great local food. Most of my veggies came from Neurea (66km) and some from Cowra (211km). Even more local were the Narromine Oranges, the mushrooms, olives, avocados, and seedlings. Probably the thing from the farthest away was the sourdough bread from the Blue Mountains (about 300km)…I couldn't resist and I needed some kind of "staple."
So yesterday it wasn't so hard to eat local. I made a nice salad for lunch and munched on oranges and apples throughout the day. In the afternoon I did crave a packet of chips (which I don't even want very often), but my colleague Michelle listened to me complain about this and talked me through it. I drank water instead.
Dinner was special. I came home from work (by bicycle of course), to greet two lovely couchsurfers who came to stay the night, Andrew and Nici. After offering them a cup of tea I realized that none of my tea/herbal options could be considered local. It's moments like those when you get close to just bending the rule a little bit….but anyway I searched around and decided to squeeze some very local lemon (given away at a meeting I went to the other night) into my water.
I was all excited because another purchase I had made at the market was "saltbush lamb chops"—a local lamb that claims to be more sustainable because the lambs eat a lot of saltbush.
What's so good about Old Man Saltbush? This is a native plant supplying lambs with a rich source of minerals and nutrients not readily available from other plants. It is a deep-rooted perennial that assists with sustainable land management as it helps to prevent salinity.
- It is hardy to the outback country and requires very little water to grow, so needs no irrigation or watering.
- Lambs grazed on Old Man Saltbush require no drenching which means they are much healthier animals.
- Old Man Saltbush is environmentally sustainable as it allows a diverse array of native wildlife to co-exist with the lambs.
I very rarely cook meat (my friend Amy can testify to that: She has supervised my two attempts at cooking meat in seven months) and I know that part of the challenge for this week was to reduce meat consumption. But I was happy to go the other way if I could find something more sustainable. It was a great idea, but it was thwarted when I pulled the meat out of the fridge and smelled it… maybe it was a sign!
Andrew and Nici happily went along with my local rules and we feasted on steamed vegetables (potato, broccoli, beetroot, parsnip, onion, sweet potato) and bread with avocado and olives! It was really delightful to share a meal together as we got to know each other, to savor the food slowly and also enjoy the solitude around us.
Our conversation led us to talk about some of the craziness going on in this world. Wondering about the future, I was reminded of something I felt I've learned over the last years after talking and thinking over and over again about these topics: It's our inner sustainability that matters in this crazy world, and it's the only place that we can start from where all of us have the choice to change, regardless of the circumstances around us. For me, something deep says that that should be a priority. I think that trying to be more aware and present through this challenge helps that, or at least reminds me of that.
I must say that doing this day alone would not have been anywhere near as fun.
Replace kilowatts with ingenuity.
I experimented years ago for a short time with not turning on artificial lights at all—only using candles when it got dark. I also tried not to have other forms of artificial light (like TV or a computer screen) on either. What prompted me to do that was thinking about how our bodies must be so out of whack when we try to prolong the day artificially (I guess you kind of need to if you live somewhere with extremely short winter days), and our bodies probably don't get all the cues they need to get ready for sleep. Like that it's getting dark.
As I write this, it's 6.40pm. I'm sitting in my dark unit, and the sun has just gone down. There are a few candles lit on the table and otherwise it is just the computer screen (a necessary evil if I'm to write this blog post!).
I came home absolutely exhausted today after staying up late last night and getting up early to write the last post, and thought I'd get an early night. How convenient—the darkness is adding to my sleepiness.
Probably the biggest energy-suckers in my unit are the hot water tank, the fridge, the heater or air-con if I use it, and the washing machine.
Winter is pretty much over, so I thought, why not switch off the hot water? It's a huge tank. I have never run out. I probably don't even use a quarter of what's in there (not sure, really!). But certainly during summer I should be able to get by with cold showers, and will probably even want cold showers (it gets hot in Dubbo). And I usually wash my laundry with cold. And I could always boil the kettle for the washing up.
Well my friendly couchsurfer confirmed that if I flick the switch that says "hot water" it will turn off (for some reason I'm nervous about touching these things without a second opinion) so I will do it….soon….maybe after my next hot shower! I can certainly turn it off anytime I go away, at least.
About the fridge: I'm not sure I'm ready to give that up. But I must say, it disturbed me last night, as I sat at the table with Andrew and Nici—we had a moment of silence before dinner and my ears were filled with a kind of screeching noise that I think was coming from the fridge. It's that constant electrical noise that you don't usually notice. It might be radio waves, etc., as well, I don't know. But it's a shame when you can't have total silence because of these darn appliances!
Right now we're in that beautiful mid-season where I don't need heat or cooling. But I hope this summer I will be able to minimize the cooling… this may be aided by the cold showers.
The washing machine gets used a couple of times a week (lights and darks). I don't have a dryer, so I always hang out my washing on my clothesline—or if it's too cold or raining then it's hung inside and it dries nicely, especially if I'm heating.
On the plus side, I don't have a TV, and I think that has a lot of pluses. TV can be such a time-suck. And an energy suck. I'm just not exposed to all those commercial messages that contribute to the consumption-urge: I totally missed Fathers day this year. and I think it's because of lack of TV and junk mail…and because I didn't go shopping except to the supermarket.
I do still watch the odd thing on the Internet, but I choose it, rather than plonking down and flicking channels and just watching for the sake of it.
Woops! My computer is telling me it's running out of batteries''—and I'm getting very sleepy sitting here in the dark. Goodnight.
More stories from No Impact Thursday: Energy
Soak up the benefits of using less water.
In Australia, being conscious of water use is drilled into you at a young age. To think that some adults actually leave the tap running while they brush their teeth shocks me. There's a lot of education around on how to save water, and during summer we are often under water restrictions (at level 1 you can still use a sprinkler, by level 6 you must use recycled water to water your garden).
During restrictions we also have rules where you only water every other day, depending on your house number. So, it's something we're aware of. You don't want to be caught washing your car with a hose during water restrictions!
Having said all of that, the country as a whole (we'll get to me personally in a minute) doesn't seem to give a stuff when it comes to preserving our precious (finite) water resources like the Great Artesian Basin (GAB), an underground aquifer that is a source of water through springs to much of inland Australia, and a valuable support for wildlife. The Olympic Dam mine in South Australia (mining uranium, copper, gold, and silver) uses 35 million litres of GAB water each day. It's not just Olympic Dam that's doing this—coal seam gas mining also poses a significant threat to this resource. (Don't get me started on coal seam gas mining—they want to cover the amazing Pilliga Forest with extraction sites…it just shouldn't happen).
The water is effectively being "mined," as it is not a neverending supply. As it is mined, the pressure decreases and natural springs dry up. It worries me to read that there is no consensus as to whether the recharge rates of the GAB are equal to the total of discharge rates (via natural discharge and pumping/exploitation). So why the heck are we exploiting this precious resource without knowing if it is just going to dry up one day?
Whatever happened to the precautionary principle?
Australia is pretty much gaga about mining at the moment. It's the lifeblood of our economy, and the government is rolling in revenue from it. But at what future expense, I ask? Do the powers that be just not care about future generations in such a dry land?
I'd say I'm "fairly" aware of water use. It doesn't help, though, that until now I haven't had to pay for water in my rental unit. And money can be a big incentive. But I do have a two-liter milk bottle in my toilet cistern to reduce my flush; I tend to take quick showers; I sometimes reuse laundry water for a second load or to water the lawn; and because I live alone it's easy to do the "mellow yellow" thing and not flush unless I have to.
But in watching myself use water the last days, I realize that most water I only use once, so I have decided to try my hardest to get at least two uses out of all the water I use (except drinking). That means using a tub to wash my dishes (using less dishes would be good too!), having a bucket in the shower, not letting laundry water go down the drain, using steaming and sprouting water to water my plants. Not sure about hand washing, or mouth rinsing water…but I'm sure I'll work it out.
More stories from No Impact Friday: Water
Discover the benefits of service.
I kind of dropped off the No Impact perch yesterday by driving 300 km in order to wade for three hours in the Macquarie Marshes. I suppose you could say it was "balanced" by helping me become physically aware of an extremely important part of our local ecology, and participating in a small fundraiser for people who are passionate about the health of our river systems!
In a way it fits neatly in with this challenge: These people were trying to connect people's lifestyles (in particular water use) with the "bigger picture"—the environment that we live in and which ultimately sustains us.
This week has been a lot about developing awareness for me. But it's probably not going to last if I don't go some step further than just thinking about "lifestyle choices." Because, let's face it—if it's just about little me, or us, trying to 'make a difference' in the face of such huge scary problems on a scale that looms high above us…well, isn't it just all pointless to make sacrifices?
I don't believe it's pointless. Not because I believe that we will actually end up having world peace and no poverty and that my future grandchildren's grandchildren will live on a pristine planet (I can't honestly say I believe that). But because I believe that I have a soul, and that there is some 'connectedness' somewhere hidden within, there is something in me that is probably screaming when I do waste, when I do consume more than my fair share, when I do create problems for the earth by my "little" choices.
I guess it's good to hear this little voice again, to feel my conscience and know that to follow it, whatever that means, will ultimately mean peace, connectedness, and less fragmentation. If we dig deep enough, Something in us just knows.
When I contemplate today's theme—Giving Back—I think of fellow blogger Rebecca's comment that she wants to find ways to "reduce my family's negative impact on our planet while increasing our positive impact."
I think that the name of this challenge is perhaps misleading, making you think of taking up neutral space on the planet…What about making a real, positive, subtle, surprising, soulful and personal Impact?
More stories from No Impact Saturday: Giving Back
Take a break from everything. Ohm Shanti.
There are so many benefits to living a lower-impact and simpler lifestyle. Reading the other bloggers, I can see a common theme of re-discovering neighborhoods, good conversation, peace, healthy eating, and exercise. I guess that it's all stuff that also enriches our souls as well as the more "inner conscience" stuff I talked about before.
As I write this, I'm sick at home, not sure if it's the cumulative "impact" of No Impact Week (I expended a lot of personal energy this week!), but it shows me how easy it would be now to just do things that are easy and comfortable, to keep old habits alive because I just "can't be bothered."
But thankfully this experience has been rather powerful and inspiring, and I hope that I will continue this reflective way of living, making small changes along the way.
I'm already pretty astounded by the number of changes I have already made that I think will stick at least to some degree. Who would have thought what just a one week commitment could achieve?
A big thank you to YES! for inviting me to blog about this experience. The sharing of it has certainly made it a far more intense but also personally rewarding experience. And a big shout out to all the fellow bloggers and participants in this No Impact Week. We Did It!


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Berlusconi, a billionaire and a laughingstock, to step down as Italian premier
ROME -- Silvio Berlusconi survived sex scandals and corruption trials. Tawdry accounts of sexy "bunga bunga" parties turned him into an international laughing stock. Prosecutors pursued him over a mind-boggling array of suspected improprieties.
Every time he seemed finished, the perma-tanned premier managed to miraculously bounce back.
But he just couldn't beat the markets.
Berlusconi, 75, announced Tuesday he would resign after parliament passes economic reforms demanded by the European Union. He acted in the face of a relentless investor attack on government bonds and crumbling support in parliament, almost certainly ending a political career in which he achieved the feat of becoming his nation's longest-serving premier.
The media baron dominated Italian politics for nearly two decades. He was premier three times over the past 17 years -- a charismatic if polarizing figure who sold Italians a dream of prosperity with his own personal story of transformation from cruise-ship crooner to Italy's richest man. He also owns AC Milan, one of Italy's famous soccer clubs.
But in his last years in power, he became almost a grotesque caricature of the charming billionaire who cast a spell over his nation.
The hair transplants and plastic surgery became all too obvious. His reputation as a seducer gave way to allegations of trysts with prostitutes and underage girls. He embarrassed Italy with jaw-dropping gaffes at international summits.
Accusations grew that he was in politics not for Italy's sake but to boost his business interests and change laws to shield himself from prosecution.
As pressure for his resignation grew, he remained defiant, labeling opponents "communists" to be kept at bay and prosecutors as "terrorists" defying the will of the people who elected him.
Even as his allies were defecting, he anointed himself Italy's savior at the close of the Group of 20 summit in Cannes, France, last week.
"I feel a duty to continue these things," he said. "This is a great duty and sacrifice for me. Here, at the Cannes summit, I looked around and I don't see anyone in Italy who is up to representing our country. I asked myself, you could represent Italy if I weren't there?"
But he had only so many political lives. The magnetic smile, the confident wisecracking, the perennial optimism were no longer reassuring.
When Italy became the new focus of the eurozone debt crisis, the financial markets delivered their verdict: Berlusconi himself was the problem. He lacked the political clout to quickly pass the needed measures to boost growth and cut debt. To use a metaphor from his beloved sport of soccer, it was game over.
But ousting Berlusconi wasn't easy.
"He's not the retiring type. ... It's very much a personal trait, he really thinks he's the best in the world," said James Walston, a professor of political science at Rome's American University.
The ultimate fear that clinched political change was that Italy would not be able to pay for its enormous (euro) 1.9 trillion ($2.6 trillion) debt. That is too expensive for Europe to handle, and could trigger a default that would break up the 17-nation eurozone and drag down the global economy.
Berlusconi had used television and his own wealth to build a political career. He boasted of his riches and kept a lavish lifestyle that included partying with young women.
"I'm no saint," he said defiantly after his wife of almost 20 years announced she was seeking a divorce in 2009.
But the scandals picked up steam. First a self-described call girl said she went to bed with Berlusconi on the night that Barack Obama was elected U.S. president.
Then came embarrassing criminal charges that he had sex with an underage Moroccan girl nicknamed Ruby Rubacuori ("Rudy the Heart-Stealer") and used his office to cover it up. The trial is in progress.
While he repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, Berlusconi was becoming increasingly reclusive in public as he sought to defend himself in three trials and several other criminal investigations.
The trials -- the sex case, tax fraud and corruption -- will continue but once out of office he will lose the ability to delay hearings as he has been doing, citing conflicts with official business.
Berlusconi had the power to inspire both fierce loyalty and equally fierce opposition. To his admirers, the conservative leader was a capable statesman who sought to make Italy rich and powerful. To his critics, he was a populist whose immense media and political power made him a threat to democracy.
That was perhaps never more apparent than when Berlusconi was attacked by an unstable man during a political rally in Milan in 2009.
The attacker threw a souvenir statuette of Milan's cathedral at the premier's face, leaving him with a fractured nose, two broken teeth and lip cuts. Images of Berlusconi's bloody, shocked face drew sympathy and solidarity even among critics, but his attacker also generated a storm of praise on Facebook and YouTube.
Berlusconi often boasted of his success with women. He entertained friends and world leaders alike at his villas on the Emerald Coast of Sardinia. Scores of young women frequently attended: On one occasion, Italian newspapers reported, the girls were all dressed as "little Santas."
Berlusconi was famously nicknamed "Papi" (or "Daddy") by a Neapolitan girl whose 18th birthday party he attended in 2009, an appearance that initiated a spate of sex scandals and left his wife so furious that she filed for divorce soon afterward.
Berlusconi reveled in straying from political etiquette.
He once famously sported a bandanna when receiving British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Sardinia. (The reason, it turned out later, was to conceal a recent hair transplant.)
He posed for an international summit's family photo making an Italian gesture -- which can be offensive or superstitious depending on the circumstances -- in which the index and pinkie fingers are pointed like horns. He made German Chancellor Angela Merkel wait while he chatted on his mobile phone during a NATO summit.
And he caused an international outcry in 2003 when he compared a German EU parliament lawmaker to a Nazi camp guard.
Berlusconi became rich after breaking the state monopoly on television in the late 1970s. Twenty-five years later his Mediaset network was a cash cow thanks to game shows, scantily clad girls and imported U.S. sitcoms in deals that were the source of some of his criminal prosecutions. Together with the state network that he effectively controlled as premier, he held 90 percent of Italy's TV market.
When the "Clean Hands" corruption scandals broke in the 1990s, wiping out the entire political establishment, he founded his own party in 1994 and named it after a soccer cheer: Forza Italia. He was elected premier three months later by Italians seeking a break from the past.
That government was short-lived after his Northern League ally pulled out later that year. But he was re-elected two more times: in 2001, when his government served out an entire 5-year term, and again in 2008.
Summing up his appeal, he said: "Most Italians in their hearts would like to be like me and see themselves in me and in how I behave."
But that appeal, according to all opinion polls, began to wane when the economy failed to grow, unemployment began creeping up, and job prospects for young people disappeared.
At the same time, he was devoting much of his political capital to protect his own interests, including a bill to shorten the statute of limitations and another that would have provided him with immunity from trials. It was overturned by the Constitutional Court.
Even as the debt crisis worsened, he pushed legislation to limit publication of wiretaps before trial, citing himself and other prominent people as victims, and tried to include a measure in an austerity package that would have allowed his family investment company to dodge a heavy fine.
Berlusconi's departure leaves major questions about the future of his party. It has been weakened by prominent defections and he himself had repeatedly said he would not seek re-election. His hand-picked successor, his former justice minister Angelino Alfano, lacks Berlusconi's dynamism.


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Ag secretary encourages enrollment in Farmland Wetlands Program
WASHINGTON, DC, July 27, 2009 -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that producers can begin signing up for the Farmable Wetlands Program on Aug. 3, 2009, at their local Farm Service Agency county office...
• Program is an important component of conservation reserve program in 2008 Farm Bill; Enrollment begins August 3
WASHINGTON, DC, July 27, 2009 -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that producers can begin signing up for the Farmable Wetlands Program on Aug. 3, 2009, at their local Farm Service Agency county office. The Farmable Wetlands Program is an important component of the Conservation Reserve Program authorized in the 2008 Farm Bill. Authorized incentives include a payment of $100 per acre, an incentive payment of 40 percent of the cost to establish the practice and a 120 percent rental rate.
"The Farmable Wetlands Program is a helpful tool for producers to help protect clean water, control soil erosion and enhance wildlife habitats to preserve these resources for future generations," said Vilsack.
Farmland Wetlands Program (FWP) is a voluntary program to restore up to one million acres of U.S. farmable wetlands and associated buffers by improving the land's hydrology and vegetation. Eligible producers can enroll eligible land in FWP through the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). FWP is limited to no more than one million acres and no more than 100,000 acres in any one state. Through FWP, the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) establishes 10-15 year contracts with agricultural producers. There are 188,000 acres currently enrolled in the program.
In accordance with the 2008 Farm Bill, FWP was modified to extend the current authority through Sept. 30, 2012. Land eligibility was expanded to include:
• Land for a constructed wetland developed to receive flow for a row crop agriculture drainage system for the purpose of providing nitrogen removal and other wetland functions;
• Land that was devoted to commercial pond-raised aquaculture in any year during 2002 - 2007; and
• Land that, after Jan. 1, 1990, and before Dec. 31, 2002, was cropped during at least three of 10 crop years, and was subject to the natural overflow of a prairie wetland.
FWP enrollment limitations include 40 acres for wetlands or constructed wetlands, 20 acres for intermittently flooded prairie wetlands, and 40 acres per tract for eligible wetlands and buffers. FWP participants must agree to restore the hydrology of the wetlands to establish vegetative cover which may include emerging vegetation in water, bottomland hardwoods, cypress and other appropriate tree species; and to the general prohibition of using of the enrolled land for commercial purposes.
FSA administers FWP on behalf of USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation, in conjunction with the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service. In addition to the FWP, FSA will also implement 2008 Farm Bill CRP provisions related to adjusted gross income and tree-thinning practices.
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I got caught dealin, at the age of one-five
And it was business as usual if one of mine had to die
Cause fuck that yo, I gotta make sure my dough multiply
[Verse 1: Pusha-T]
Crimes I commit heinous, y'all niggas is brainless
You tied up at gun point, flinch, make you famous
Blow make me live aimless, my gun stainless
Aim for your temple, hope you die painless
Illest shit we wore those, marked money we tore those
My whole team channelin coke through urban portholes
You livin like mere mortals, your block's foreclosed
We forty deep on in the street, and fuckin your hoes
Seen your man club bathroom soft stuff heron
Come out, loud talkin and shit, claimin he Don
Hope he know when he step outside, baby it's on
Watch my guns illuminate the sky like Vietnam
My confidence shared by all conglomerates
Everyone in my circle is dominant
We live prominent, your world we bombin it
Stuck in the pen? Walk the shit in
Kamikaze it
[Verse 2: Pharrell]
Eight-fifty navy blue, kill like a Laker do
Twenty inch chrome shit, who must I say to you
Watch what your lady do
We stoned the fuck out
Not just your car nigga, chrome ya truck out
Calico plastic, twin to match it
Ice white like some Star Wars space gun
Though, that ain't how they come my friend make 'em
Sleek wit 'em like in L.A. nigga, love is Daytons
They talk shit you nigga where it hits the procedure
I got rats that miss the sight of food, quick to swiss cheese ya
Actually they want the cheeba I'm the owner and leader
Yo my clip's my bitch, I own her and beat her
Huh, shit, dick missile tomahawk
One thing I love is sex discussions and armor talk
Who got all the CEOs disputin?
And my Clipse niggas fussin and shootin?
Yo, it's that same nigga
It was.. make money money take money money what?
Make money money take money money what?
Make money money take money money what?
Make money money take money money money
[Verse 3: Malice]
You ain't never seen it like this
Ices this priceless, pullin heist-es
One wrong move, they lifeless
Thug shit, bullets and clips and pwice this
Where I come from niggas shoot guns and dices
What the price is, scratch that we don't ask that
We blast that gat in yo mouth, where the cash at?
That's how I roll, drugs get sold but never hold shit
Malice face two-five to life, but never told shit
It's like that, love for my clique, go ahead and light that
When shorty lick with no handjob and never bite that
Day in the life, ain't nothin nice how I hit 'em up
Hands high get 'em up, cash tried lit 'em up
Regret that? Countin my stack I had to wet that
Hog tied, telephone cords, speak to the lord
And while the cops untyin' you, my whole team eyein' you
Cause even if you talk in your sleep my heat fryin' you
[Hook] - repeat 3X


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Australia v Italy, Rugby World Cup, September 11
Zanni and Ghiraldini return for Italy
ESPNscrum Staff
September 9, 2011
Zanni in action against Japan in a World Cup warm-up game © Getty Images
Italy head coach Nick Mallett has named his side for the opening Pool C clash against Australia on Sunday.
Mallett makes two changes from the side that lost 23-12 to Scotland in their final warm-up match with Paul Derbyshire dropping to the bench and Alessandro Zanni winning a place in the back-row alongside captain Sergio Parisse and openside flanker Robert Barbieri. Leonardo Ghiraldini is selected ahead of Fabio Ongaro at hooker, linking up with Martin Castrogiovanni and Andrea Lo Cicero in the front row.
Luciano Orquera continues at fly-half alongside scrum-half Fabio Semenzato in an unchanged backs line-up while Luke McLean comes on to the bench as cover for the back three and centres.
Italy: Andrea Masi: Tommaso Benvenuti, Gonzalo Canale, Gonzalo Garcia, Mirco Bergamasco; Luciano Orquera, Fabio Semenzato; Andrea Lo Cicero, Leonardo Ghiraldini, Martin Castrogiovanni; Carlo del Fava, Cornelius van Zyl; Alessandro Zanni, Robert Barbieri, Sergio Parisse (c)
Replacements: Tommaso D'Apice, Lorenzo Cittadini, Marco Bortolami, Paul Derbyshire, Edoardo Gori, Riccardo Bocchino, Luke McLean
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Relocation to London – Speak British English Like a Local (Random!)
Okay, time to bring on home this lengthy series about British English versus American English to aid your international relocation to London. I've been emphasizing every day since last week that there is quite a bit of terminology that differs between the two English languages, and while this hasn't been an exhaustive list by any means, it's hopefully been a comprehensive enough one to get you started on your way to fluency. 🙂 Yesterday, I listed words related to transportation, and, similarly, every day has been devoted to a specific category. Today, however, we're left with a smorgasbord of randomness…basically, a miscellany of odds-n-ends from my glossary that didn't logically fit in anywhere else. Well, there might be no rhyme or reason to 'em, but they have a home here.


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Top Items:
Christine Monaghan / Apple:
Apple Adds New iPhone & iPod touch Models — Apple® today added new models of the iPhone™ and iPod® touch which have double the memory, doubling the amount of music, photos and videos that customers can carry with them wherever they go. The revolutionary iPhone now comes …
Discussion: Apple Watch, Engadget, TechBlog, The Technology Chronicles, Bits, Web Worker Daily, DVICE, CyberNet, Mobility Site, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, last100, greg hughes, Tech Trader Daily, Gadgetell, Orbitcast, MacUser, Apple 2.0, Podcasting News, Apple Gazette, Technology Live, Digital Daily, Seeking Alpha, ParisLemon, jkOnTheRun, Insanely Great Mac, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband and Slashdot
Thomas Ricker / Engadget: Official: 16GB iPhone available and 32GB iPod touch — both $499
Dwight / TechBlog: 32-GB iPod Touch is a milestone
Ellen Lee / The Technology Chronicles: More room on your iPhone — Apple said Tuesday it is doubling …
Mike Gunderloy / Web Worker Daily: Apple Doubles iPhone RAM Again
Geoff Duncan / Digital Trends: Apple Doubles iPhone, iPod touch Memory
Petemortensen / Cult of Mac: Apple Doubles Storage for iPhone, iPod touch
Steve O'Hear / last100: iPhone, iPod Touch get supersized
Robert Nelson / Gadgetell: Apple adds 16GB iPhone, 32GB Touch, both at $499
Dan Moren / MacUser: Apple inflates capacities on iPhone, iPod touch
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0: New iPhone and iPod touch, same price structure
James Lewin / Podcasting News: Apple Adds 16GB iPhone & 32GB iPod touch
Michelle Kessler / Technology Live: 16 GB iPhone is here! — Apple released new versions of the iPhone …
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Oh, One More Thing: It's Not 3G
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun: Apple iPhone gets 16 GB, iPod Touch hits 32 GB
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband: Bulletin: 16GB iPhone debuts today
Kdawson / Slashdot: Apple Updates iPhone and iPod Touch
Paul Miller / Engadget:
16GB iPhone just around the corner? (updated)
16GB iPhone just around the corner? (updated)
Discussion: Slyck, Pocket-lint.co.uk, 9 to 5 Mac, CNET News.com, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, The Boy Genius Report, The Mobile Technology Weblog, Gearlog, Apple 2.0, Gizmodo, Forever Geek, Hardware 2.0, TechWag, Byte of the Apple, Gadget Lab, Infinite Loop, Tuzworld.com, Electronista, SMS Text News, textually.org, MacRumors, Newlaunches.com, TechCrunch UK and O'Grady's PowerPage
Thomas Mennecke / Slyck: Apple Doubles Capacity of iPhone and iPod Touch
Amy-Mae Elliott / Pocket-lint.co.uk: 16GB iPhone to go on sale in UK today
Chauncey Dupree / 9 to 5 Mac: How much does 8gb of RAM cost in an iPod/iPhone?
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com: Apple doubles iPhone, iPod Touch capacity
Zach Epstein / The Boy Genius Report: 16GB iPhone and 32GB iPod Touch Released
Brian Heater / Gearlog: Apple Double iPhone and iPod Touch Capacities
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0: Reports: New iPhone, MacBook Pro imminent
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo: iPhone 16GB and iPod Touch 32GB Available
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0: 16GB iPhone now available ... oh, and a 32GB iPod touch
Arik Hesseldahl / Byte of the Apple: The Rundown: New iPhone, iPod Touch
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab: 16GB iPhone Coming Any Minute Now
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop: iPhone goes to 16GB while iPod touch hits 32GB
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK: UPDATE: 16GB iPhone confirmed to launch today in UK
Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage: Apple Store Down: 16 Gigabyte iPhone Rumor Comes Alive
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Increases iPhone Memory, Margins (AAPL)
Apple Increases iPhone Memory, Margins (AAPL)
Discussion: Good Morning Silicon Valley
Nick Miller / Sydney Morning Herald:
Torvalds pans Apple with 'utter crap' putdown — Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux operating system. — Apple's much-touted new operating system, OS X Leopard, is in some ways worse than Windows Vista, says the founder of the Linux open source project, Linus Torvalds.
Discussion: Engadget, Portfolio.com, MacUser, MacDailyNews and Macsimum News
Donald Melanson / Engadget: Linus Torvalds calls Apple's file system "utter crap"
Kevin Maney / Portfolio.com: Torvalds Risks 'Fatwa' From Apple Cult
Dan Moren / MacUser: Linux founder Torvalds dishes on OS X, Windows
Nick Miller / Sydney Morning Herald:
Q and A with Linus Torvalds — Q. How's the conference been for you? — A It's very relaxed. I think the students involved are learning things but for me it's the social side. It's more meeting people, going out for dinner with people. All the real work (on Linux) is done over email.
Discussion: Digital Daily and The Mac Observer
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: QUOTED
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Fourth undersea cable cut near UAE, suspicions rise — For the fourth time in a week, an undersea communications cable has apparently been cut (or "failed due to a power outage," as some sources suggest), and while no official reports of subversion have surfaced just yet, things are beginning to get suspicious.
Discussion: CNET News.com, International Herald Tribune, Switched and Digg
Charles Cooper / CNET News.com: Who cut the cables? — Three undersea fiber-optic cables …
Heather Timmons / International Herald Tribune: Ruptures call safety of Internet cables into question
Brittany Bohnet / Official Google Blog:
Be part of the Super Tuesday action — They don't call it Super Tuesday for nothing! Today marks an exciting day in the race to the U.S. Presidency: voters in 24 states will choose their party candidates. This will be the largest number of primaries taking place at one time in the history of the U.S. electoral system.
Brittany Bohnet / Google LatLong: Super day for a super map
Jason Lee Miller / WebProNews: Google, Twitter Team Up For Primary Map
Clint Boulton / eWeek: Google, Twitter Team For Election Tuesday
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com: Google teams up with Twitter to make Super Tuesday geomap
MG Siegler / VentureBeat: Follow Super Tuesday results live with Google
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb: Keeping Tabs on Super Tuesday
MG Siegler / ParisLemon: Google and Twitter Team Up - Will Twitter Stay Up?
Will Radcliffe / TechBlog: Election 2.0: Google and Twitter mash up Super Tuesday
Gina Trapani / Lifehacker: Track Super Tuesday Results with Google and Twitter
Mike Pegg / Google Maps Mania: The Google Super Tuesday Map Mashup
Charlie Anzman / SEO and Tech Daily: Update: Google joins Twitter for Super Tuesday
Jeremiah Owyang / Forrester's Marketing Blog: Analysis of our Superbowl Ad rating experiment using Twitter
Duncan Riley / Seeking Alpha: Google Teams Up With Twitter to Track Super Tuesday
Joel Housman / Tuzworld.com: Super-Duper Tuesday Coverage
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Google Teams With Twitter For Super Tuesday Tracking
Google Teams With Twitter For Super Tuesday Tracking
Discussion: Valleywag
Google, Yahoo Going After Outlook — Google and Yahoo are rolling out Web software on steroids to compete with Outlook, another clue why Microsoft is shelling out $45 billion and going into debt for Yahoo. — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Business software units of Yahoo and Google …
Discussion: InfoWorld, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Feld Thoughts and Between the Lines
Matt Hines / InfoWorld: Google updates pricing for Postini apps
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch: Yahoo's Zimbra Releases v5.0 with BlackBerry Support, New Ajax Features
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat: Zimbra releases more versatile IM and other features that put Outlook to shame
Brad Feld / Feld Thoughts: Zimbra 2010
Google simplifies the business of email security and message discovery
Google simplifies the business of email security and message discovery
Scott Petry / Official Google Blog: A Super Tuesday for business
Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped: Google Adds Postini Security Products
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle: Google Releases Postini-Powered Security Hosted Services
EBay to ban negative seller views — Online auction site eBay has said it plans to overhaul its feedback system and will ban sellers from leaving negative comments about buyers. — EBay said problems were occurring, and slowing down trade, when buyers left negative comments about sellers who then retaliated with their own views.
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com, Mashable! and Digg
Jonathan Schlaffer / TECH.BLORGE.com: eBay blocks sellers from leaving negative feedback
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: eBay: The Land of Shiny Happy People?
Doug Caverly / WebProNews:
Dealipedia Launches — Business information for all — Generally speaking, a press release can give you all the information you'll want about a given business deal. But press releases sometimes ignore important things like money, and include a bunch of extra garbage about how wonderful all the involved companies are.
Discussion: GigaOM, LucaFiligheddu.com and Doc Searls Weblog
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Founder of MP3.com starts business-info wiki
Founder of MP3.com starts business-info wiki
Discussion: Mashable!
Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable!: Dealipedia: Killer Resource or Yet Another Niche Wiki?
Zach Epstein / The Boy Genius Report:
HTC Magnum Video Surfaces; WTF?!? — What you can't tell from the video above is that the guy holding the Magnum is actually 11-inches tall... We're honestly not sure exactly what to make of this, but we have to assume that in reality it's is some sort of crazy internal prototype built to test some new hardware.
Discussion: IntoMobile, GottaBeMobile, Ubergizmo and Electronista
Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile: HTC Magnum: 11 inch Windows Mobile 6.1 dagger of power
Warner Crocker / GottaBeMobile: The HTC Magnum. So This is Mobile?
David Meyer / CNET News.com:
ICANN turns on next-gen IP addresses — The great migration from Internet Protocol version 4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version.
Discussion: Ars Technica, Download Squad, DSLreports, The Tech Report and BBC
Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica: ICANN flips switch on IPv6 DNS root servers
Todd Ritter / Download Squad: IPv6 coming to a root server near you
Cyril Kowaliski / The Tech Report: ICANN begins migration to the IPv6 protocol
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
A Bad Month For SEO's Reputation — We seem to be going through another wave "SEOs are scumbags" incidents, and I find myself with little energy to push back against them with yet another defense of the industry. It's not that SEO doesn't deserve better treatment.
Discussion: Search Engine Watch, Cre8pc and Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft reorg could come next week — Microsoft is expected to announce organizational changes in the coming days, shaking up some of the leadership in its Windows and Windows Live groups, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. — The changes have been in the works for some time …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and All about Microsoft
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: Vista marketing chief to bid Microsoft adieu
Opera unleashes innovative technology in latest mobile Web browser — Opera Mobile 9.5 — Faster speed, new interface and Opera Widgets bring users closer to a full desktop experience — Exclusive preview at Mobile World Congress 2008 (February 11-14, Barcelona)
Discussion: IntoMobile, the::unwired, last100, Symbian-Guru.com, Sunny Talks Tech, CyberNet, jkOnTheRun, Download Squad, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Phone Scoop, Gizmodo and Mashable!
Arne Hess / the::unwired: RELEASE: Opera Software unleashes its latest mobile Web browser - Opera Mobile 9.5
Steve O'Hear / last100: Opera Mobile 9.5 announced: we can do the grown up web too
Dotsisx / Symbian-Guru.com: Opera Gets Updates
Saptarshi Purkayastha / Sunny Talks Tech: Opera Mobile 9.5 - Desktop Internet for Mobiles
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun: Opera 9.5- I can't wait! — Kevin just had to tell us …
Brad Linder / Download Squad: Opera Mobile 9.5 coming soon - Video
Matthew Miller / The Mobile Gadgeteer: Opera Mobile 9.5 to be shown at Mobile World Congress 08
Eric M. Zeman / Phone Scoop: Opera Updates Mobile Browser to 9.5
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!: Opera Mobile 9.5 Announced
Jeremy Kirk / IDG News Service:
Dell Suit Reveals Lucrative Domain-Name Trade — A civil suit filed by Dell sheds light on typosquatting, creating ad-filled Web pages with URLs that are similar to brand-name sites. — Recommend this story? — A civil suit filed in Florida by Dell and its Alienware subsidiary …
Discussion: E-mail, tech policy and more, CircleID and TechSpot News
Sarah Lacy / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hey, LinkedIn: Call Your IPO Bankers — Facebook is smart to put off an IPO until 2009: Mark Zuckerberg needs to stay CEO and he's too young to be a public CEO. Also, the lesson Google taught us was that it's smart to wait until you are so dominant that you, not Wall Street, can call the shots.


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aaronrg necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 69 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
Bloom! Seattle
We are http://BloomSeattle.com - a not for profit event focused on amazing speakers working in sustainability.
Basically we host an event where awesome speakers get together to give great talks about innovating things they are doing in the field of energy, green and sustainability.
We target urban, hip 20-30 somethings focused on all things sustainability and green. We're not your typical tree huggers though. We are entreprenurs and people who make things happen in the field working in business, non-profits and individual efforts from hacking transport vehicles to cutting edge research.
Here's the concept. Take the iconic image of Seattle's Space Needle and make it 'Bloom'! That is, we'd like to see the basic idea of the Space Needle presented and have some imagery that suggests it blooming or bursting into joy. So you could use the Space Needle with flower images coming out of the top, plants, funky lines or whatever... You should be able to look at it and say 'That's a Space Needle that is blooming'.
Do a Google Image Search for 'Space Needle' to get a good idea of what the Space Needle looks like.
Any logo that does not incorporate the Space Needle with some concept for Blooming will not be considered.
It's optional whether you'd like to include the name Bloom! Seattle or not. If you use the name, there must be an exclamation point after Bloom. So Bloom! Seattle NOT Bloom Seattle.
Please no fireworks and no lightening to make the Bloom effect. Also no actual pictures of the Space Needle (should be illustration).
Thanks and have fun with it!!!!
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Chita Region
Updated: 30.10.2003
Province, far eastern Russia. Area 166,600 sq miles (431,500 square km). Population 1,295,000 (1996).
The region is centred on Chita city and includes the Aga-Buryat autonomous district. Its terrain is marked with a complex series of mountain ranges, plateaus, valleys, and broad basins. Most of the region is in coniferous forest, chiefly of Dahurian larch; in southern depressions there is forest-steppe and steppe vegetation. The climate is dry and severely continental.
Apart from the Buryat peoples there are a few Evenk, but the bulk of the population consists of Russians who settled the area in the mid-17th century.
In 1654 Nerchinsk was founded as a major trading centre with China. After the 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk, which halted the Russian advance down the Amur River, the Chita region remained a frontier area and a place of exile and penal labour for criminals and political prisoners in the silver mines east of Nerchinsk.
There was little free settlement until the coming of the Trans-Siberian Railway in the 1890s. The railway remains the main axis of communication.
Today mining and primary-ore processing dominate the economy and include gold, tin, tungsten, molybdenum, lead, zinc, fluorspar, lithium, tantalum, and some lignite (brown coal). Timber working is widespread. Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky is a metallurgical centre of regional significance. Agriculture, despite much new ploughing in the 1950s, is poorly developed, and livestock raising, especially of sheep, is dominant. Fox and squirrel furs are produced on fur farms.


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William M. Dowd reports and comments on the world of wine. (From Dowd's Guides)
VT winery tops cold climate competition
New York, Michigan and Washington State usually are looked to for such things, but wineries in Vermont are beginning to get some recognition.
Shelburne Vineyard won "best of show" honors for its 2010 Marquette Reserve Red in the International Cold Climate Wine Competition just concluded in Minnesota. That comes right on the heels of the same winery's Duet Ice Wine being named "best of class" in the Indiana International Wine Competition.
Shelburne Vineyard is located at 6308 Shelburne Road (Route 7) about seven miles south of Burlington. The tasting room is open every day year-round. Phone: (802) 985-8222.
This year's Minnesota competition included more than 325 wines from commercial wineries in 12 states and Canada. Awards were based on blind tastings by 21 judges. You can get the full list of results online.
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Chrissy (Age 26)
Ila, GA
About CHRISSY :
"I have been told that I am beautiful…but that is for the beholder to decide. I have med/dark brown hair/ green eyes…volumptuous figure…great smile. My body is average not perfect but appealing. My breasts are on the large side. I am drug and disease free and VERY clean!!"
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About VI :
"I consider myself very attractive (not a barbie type). I love to spoil my partner in bed. Yes, I am married, but this is something just for me. I am looking for a man that would like to meet up on a regular base for sex. Must be in the possession of a big hard cock as that is something im really missing at the omment"
Tonita (Age 20)
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Under the Köppen Climate Classification climate classification, "dry-summer subtropical" climates are often referred to as "Mediterranean". This climate zone has an an average temperature above 10°C (50°F) in their warmest months, and an average in the coldest between 18 to -3°C (64 to 27°F). Summers tend to be dry with less than one-third that of the wettest winter month, and with less than 30mm (1.18 in) of precipitation in a summer month. SMany of the regions with Mediterranean climates have relatively mild winters and very warm summers.
The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Csb". (Mediterran Climate).
The average temperature for the year in Nacimiento is 59.0°F (15°C). The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of 73.0°F (22.8°C). The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of 45.0°F (7.2°C).
The highest recorded temperature in Nacimiento is 115.0°F (46.1°C), which was recorded in June. The lowest recorded temperature in Nacimiento is 15.0°F (-9.4°C), which was recorded in January.
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Nacimiento is 11.1" (281.9 mm). The month with the most precipitation on average is December with 2.1" (53.3 mm) of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is June with an average of 0.0" (0 mm). In terms of liquid precipitation, there are an average of 28.7 days of rain, with the most rain occurring in December with 4.8 days of rain, and the least rain occurring in June with 0.3 days of rain.


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Sonos recently moved into the home theater space so that you can get surround sound in your living room.
The Sonos home theater consists of a pair of the Play:1 speakers ($399), Sub ($699) and Playbar ($699).
You should also probably get the Bridge ($49) if you want to be able to wirelessly control each component.
Getting started out of the box is pretty simple.
First, you need to plug in the Sonos Bridge adapter to your router, which allows you to stream music wirelessly from your speakers. Then you need to install the app on your Mac, PC, or Android or iOS device.
Once you install it, simply tell the app you want to add a speaker, press the volume-up and play buttons when prompted, and then you're good to go. Do that for each Sonos component.
The user interface leaves a bit to be desired from an aesthetic standpoint. But it still gets the job done.
The left pane shows all of your connected speakers, the middle pane shows what's playing and what's in your song queue, and the right pane shows your available audio sources.
These audio sources include Pandora, iTunes, Spotify, Hype Machine, Rdio, Rhapsody and several others. The best part about the app is that it lets you create playlists featuring songs from any of those sources.
One caveat with the software is that sometimes we had to reconnect the Sonos components, but that didn't happen too often.
The Sonos home theater produces sound like you've never heard before. In fact, it may literally almost blow out your ear drums, depending on the size of your home.
The centerpiece of the home theater system is the Playbar, a beautiful, understated piece of equipment.
The Playbar, which plugs into the back of your TV, is a three-channel active sound bar with nine amplified speakers. At 3.35 x 35.43 x 5.51 inches, it easily fits beneath your TV to serve as a considerable upgrade over your TV's built-in speakers.
The Playbar has two important features, Night Sound and Speech Enhancement. Night Sound is great for when you want to watch TV late at night without disturbing your neighbors. Speech Enhancement is a solid option if you want to reduce the bass and improve the quality of speech.
To get full surround sound in your living room, just place a pair of the Sonos Play:1 speakers nearby, and then pop open the app to detect additional components.
If you want to get really crazy, just add the Sub component. The Sub has two force-canceling speakers and two class-D amplifiers. And trust us, Sonos is not kidding when it says the bass will shake your soul.
The full Sonos home theater is an amazing product, but one that is more geared toward a homeowner with a lot of space, or someone who likes to have people over to watch big events like the Super Bowl or the Olympics.
Depending on your living situation, it might make more sense to spread out the components throughout your home or apartment.
In my three-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, I found that I don't need all of the components in one room. That's why I eventually moved the Sonos Play:1 speakers to a room closer to the kitchen, and kept the Playbar and Sub up front.


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2014-15: Overall record: 22-16...NFC record: 10-12...ranked 39th at the NCAA Northeast Regional Championship (3/8)...finished 11th at The Big One Invitational (11/1). [INDIVIDUAL RESULTS]
2013-14: Overall record: 31-43...NFC record: 15-17...finished 30th at the NCAA Northeast Regional (3/9)...captured sixth place in the "C" pool with a total of 6-6 at the New England Championship (2/22)...ranked 31st at The Big One Invitational (11/2)...swept Wellesley and picked up wins over UMass and New Hampshire at the NFC season opener (11/16)...went 7-11 at the Brandeis Invitational (12/8) by posting 2-1 outings versus Johns Hopkins and St. John's while defeating foes from Yale, Cornell, and Columbia...amassed a record of 10-8 at the NFC season finale (1/25) after blanking Vassar, Dartmouth, and Smith in addition to producing a victory against Boston College...turned in a 6-9 performance at the Eric Sollee Invitational (2/2) courtesy of wins over Stevens, Hunter, NYU, and Haverford to go along with a 2-1 total versus NJIT...defeated opponents from Duke and Air Force at the Duke Invitational (2/9)...went 2-1 against Brandeis and added a victory over Boston College at the Beanpot (2/12).
2012-13: Overall record: 8-1...NFC record: 5-1...finished 20th at The Big One Invitational (11/3)...defeated her opponent from New Hampshire in her NFC debut (11/17)...swept Smith and picked up a win in her only bout versus Dartmouth at the final NFC competition of the season (1/26)...blanked Yeshiva at the Eric Sollee Invitational (2/3).
2011-12: Did not participate in a competition.
Off the Fencing Strip at MIT: Majoring in physics with a concentration in music...completed an internship with the MITRE Corporation...conducted a UROP at the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science...NASIC Francis A. Arcier Scholarship...plays the French horn in the MIT Symphony Orchestra...MIT DanceTroupe...MIT Gamelan Galak Tika.
High School: A 2011 graduate of Stone Bridge High School...National Honor Society...Tri-M Music Honor Society secretary...National Latin Honor Society.


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Once again, Santa has the chance to get his sleigh tricked out (customized), and he wants you to come up with cool ideas for him.
Would it have flames on it? Would it have a big engine? Would it have fancy wheels? Maybe it would just be glittery. You decide.
Visit www.recordonline.com/sleigh to print out a copy of the outline of Santa's sleigh, e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com, call me at 346-3164 so I can mail you a copy that you can use, or you can draw your own. Copies of the predrawn sleigh also can be picked up in the lobby of the Times Herald-Record on 40 Mulberry St. in Middletown. Get your parents to help you.
1. Paper must be white and no bigger than 8�-by-11 inches.
2. You can use any medium (crayons, paint, glitter, etc.)
3. You can enter as many times as you like.
4. Your full name, age, address and phone number must be included on the back of each entry. Please print clearly.
5. There will be two age groups. A winner in each group (ages 5-8 and 9-12) will receive the Grand Prize ribbon. Runners-up will have their drawing published in the paper.
The contest ends Dec. 20. Winners will be announced in the Dec. 24 edition of My Ride. All entries will be posted on www.recordonline.com/myride.
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Customize Santa's sleigh and win a prize
Once again, Santa has the chance to get his sleigh tricked out (customized), and he wants you to come up with cool ideas for him.


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Carlton McCoy of Aspen's Little Nell on the James Beard Awards
OK, so The Little Nell in Aspen didn't win the title of Outstanding Wine Program during Monday night's James Beard Foundation awards in New York City. That didn't stop Carlton McCoy, the Nell's wine director and a master sommelier, from enjoying the evening.
"The energy in the room was just incredible — it was exciting and really cool," McCoy said in a phone interview Tuesday afternoon, following a lunch that he conceded, laughing, "went on a bit longer than I expected." Woo-hoo.
McCoy and The Little Nell rubbed corks with some elite company in their category. Nominees included A16 in San Francisco, Bar Boulud in Manhattan, FIG in Charleston, S.C., and The Barn at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tenn. The latter, located in the Great Smoky Mountains, won.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Last-minute starter Matt Lampson looked around Crew Stadium as his Columbus teammates battled the Portland Timbers on Sunday afternoon and it was like deja-vu for him.
"It felt like an Ohio State-Akron game," the former Buckeye goalkeeper said of the in-state rival.
No wonder. On the Timbers' sideline was first-year coach Caleb Porter on his first trip to Ohio since leaving the University of Akron and taking over the Timbers.
OPTA CHALKBOARD: Lampson gets shutout in first start of 2013
Porter had two ex-Zips in the Timbers starting lineup and another came off the bench while the Crew started former Akron players Chad Barson and Wil Trapp and Ben Speas was an unused substitute.
Meanwhile, Konrad Warzycha, another Ohio State product, got his first MLS start for the Crew.
Score one for the Buckeyes.
In fact, the 1-0 result in favor of the Crew was due in large measure to the huge save Lampson made on one-time Zips forward Darlington Nagbe in the 87th minute (WATCH THE PLAY HERE).
Nagbe had settled the ball 25 yards off goal and ripped a shot from the left side that was headed for the upper right 90 before Lampson, who found out an hour before the match he was starting for the injured Andy Gruenebaum (shoulder), got his mitts on the ball.
It was his only save of the match as the Timbers (7-2-9) played down a man for 79 minutes after Pa-Modou Kah took a red card.
"That was a huge save," Crew defender Chad Marshall said. "It's tough when you've not seen much action in the game. To be able to keep focused and make that save late in the game, that's a credit to him."
Lampson, in his fourth career appearance and second start, got his first MLS shutout by stoning Nagbe, a player he had faced several times in college.
"It's the biggest save I've had so far in my career because it helped us get three points," Lampson said.
The win ended a three-match losing streak for the Crew (6-8-5), who got a fifth-minute goal by Bernardo Añor and made it stand.


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I was really disappointed in The Historian, Willow. It started out so good, and then it dragged, just like you said. I won't tell you the ending, though.
Thats just cruel and tortureous I thought of abandoning it several times but once I start something I have to finish it, no matter what...even if it puts me to sleep on a regular basis.


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Paul Krugman Scolds Jon Stewart for Platinum Coin Coverage
(NEW YORK) -- In a "This Week" web exclusive, New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman sounded off on Comedy Central host Jon Stewart's dismissive take on minting a platinum trillion dollar coin as a debt ceiling quick fix.
"It is a funny thing. But you want to be funny from a point of view of understanding what the issues are. There's a reason we've gotten to this place," Krugman said of Stewart's "Daily Show" coverage of the platinum coin issue, which Krugman criticized as "intellectual laziness" in a recent blog post. "Obviously neither he nor his staff did even five minutes of looking at the financial blogs. Lots of people think it's a bad idea. Lots of people think it's a good idea. But it's not just, 'Oh, those idiots.'
"Part of the point about Stewart…is that he's funny, but that the show is actually better informed than most of our public discussion. The idea is that the show is like an especially good episode of the roundtable on 'This Week', but in the form of jokes. But when he just turns it into dumb, "I don't know nothing, but those people look dumb to me," he's ruining his brand."
Krugman, who appeared on the "This Week" roundtable Sunday, discussed Stewart's platinum coin coverage while answering viewer questions from Facebook for an "All Politics is Social" web segment.
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Fuel Additives Market worth $8,100 Million by 2019
20 Jun, 2014, 16:30 BST
DALLAS, June 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
According to a new market research report, "Fuel Additives Market by Application (Diesel, Gasoline & Aviation), Types (Deposit control, Antioxidant, Corrosion inhibitor, Lubricity & Cetane improvers, others) - Global Trends & Forecast to 2019" published by MarketsandMarkets, The Fuel Additive Market size in terms of value is expected to grow to $8,100 Million by 2019, at a significant CAGR from 2014 to 2019.
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The growing trend of improving fuel efficiency and stringent environmental regulations, amid accelerating fuel consumption along with escalating fuel prices has significantly contributed to the growth of fuel additives. A majority of fuel additives are consumed in diesel fuel applications. The diesel fuel additive market has been driven by the increasing Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel (ULSD) and bio-based diesel demand which requires significant amount of dosing.
The fuel additive market is currently led by North America, but will continue to grow at a rapid pace in Asia-Pacific. By 2019, Asia-Pacific is expected to move ahead of North America in terms of consumption of fuel additives. One of the key factors contributing to this growth is the increased use of fuel additives in the emerging Asia-Pacific economies, due to increasing fuel demand from the developing economies such as China, Japan, and India. The North American market for fuel additives will also continue to grow at a healthy rate due to stricter enforcement of environmental regulations. The South American market is expected to grow at high rate, partly due to low base effect, and also due to the growing economies of Brazil and Argentina. The Middle East and African region is likely to register sound growth due to the abundance of oil producing nations in the region.
The Fuel Additive Market is highly competitive with the presence of many major companies and some smaller companies with regional footprint. The industry is highly fragmented in terms of the segments to which the products are offered. Due to the presence of a large number of small players, the companies are constantly fighting to capture more and more market share. Innospec Inc. (U.S.), BASF SE (Germany), and The Lubrizol Corporation (U.S.), are the most active companies in the fuel additives market. The top five companies together comprise nearly 40% of the market share.
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The report also covers the fuel additive market and its trends on the basis of applications which are gasoline, diesel, and aviation. The market for diesel fuel additives is the highest among all the applications and is likely to continue to grow. Although gasoline demand has been more or less stagnant and the requirement of fuel additives is less, the fuel additives market is driven by the use of unleaded gasoline which requires relatively higher dosing.
The commonly used additives are deposit control additives such as detergents, carrier fluids, antifoam, dehazers, cetane improvers, antioxidants, dyes & markers, lubricity improvers, cold flow improvers, stability improvers, corrosion inhibitors, octane improvers, and anti-icing. The deposit control additives capture the maximum market share followed by cetane improvers, lubricity improvers, antioxidants, and cold flow improvers. The market for stability improvers is anticipated to increase due to its extensive requirement in bio-based diesel.
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Motorola's two latest Androidphones, the XPRT (left) and Titanium (right), both have BlackBerry-style keyboards, and will be stocked by Sprint this June 5th (for the XPRT) and later this year for the Titanium. In case you need a refresher, the XPRT runs Froyo, and has a 3.1-inch HVGA screen with 1GHz processor, and will cost $130.
The Titanium on the other hand will run Eclair, and has a 3.1-inch screen just like its bigger brother, though we don't know if it'll be any cheaper, as pricing hasn't been revealed yet. [Sprint]


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Episode #9 – Pastor Rod Hembree and Pastor Jim Cantelon
About Us
Bible Discovery is a broadcast studio and new-media network for international ministries. From social issues and apologetics to history and science, our ambition is to provide a multimedia platform to educate, edify and encourage the believer to think. As an international ministry and media resource centre we are called to embolden the exploration of truth through the production and publication of definitive resources in television, radio, digital and print material.
Quick Study is our daily flagship television, radio and online program designed to guide you through the entire Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, in one year. Hosted by the Hembree family, join Rod, Janice, Ryan and Corie in this thirty-minute daily devotional show that will change the way you see and read the Bible.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Lightweight Men's Crew traveled to Philadelphia this past weekend for races against the University of Delaware and the University of Pennsylvania. The Engineers have been building speed all season, so they hoped to close the gap in these races and record competitive times for the league. The conditions on the Schuylkill River were extremely fast, with a strong tail current and a moderate tail wind both pushing crews toward the finish line.
MIT raced Delaware in the morning while Penn traveled to Annapolis to face Navy. In the morning races all crews handled themselves well. The 1V raced a strong race, finishing 12 seconds behind Delaware, its closest margin of the season. In the 1F race, a true barn-burner, crews rowed side-by-side for 2000m, with Delaware barely picking off the Engineers by a two-second margin. Finally, in the 2F race, MIT prevailed, winning by a solid five seconds.
In the afternoon, the 2F continued to work its way through opponents, finishing eight seconds ahead of a strong Penn crew. In the 2V race, a newly assembled MIT squad put up an excellent fight against its Penn counterparts, but ultimately succumbed to a strong sprint, finishing 11 seconds off of the leader. Despite facing an extremely strong freshman crew that had bested Navy that morning, the MIT 1F rowed an extremely competitive race. Though not as close as the morning's duel, the crossed the line six seconds behind the Penn boat. Finally, in the 1V race, the Cardinal and Gray had its closest race of the season. While the Penn boat moved slowly ahead throughout most of the race, MIT never surrendered, holding the margin to eight seconds.
MIT will return to Cambridge where it will prepare for EARC Sprints to be held in two weeks.
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Money Matters Radio: Minyanville CEO Todd Harrison on the Most Hated Rally in History
By Money Matters Radio May 17, 2013 2:33 pm
Plus, Peter Dedel and Chris Cordani look at the US market's reaction to bad news from abroad.
Minyanville CEO Todd Harrison reveals why the current rally is actually the most hated rally in history. Also, Gary Goldberg Financial Services's Peter Dedel and Executive Producer Chris Cordani look at our market's resistance to bad news from outside of its borders after being heavily impacted by similar events only months ago.
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Iraqi Military Makes Gains North of Baghdad in Conflict With ISIS
U.S. Moves Aircraft Carrier Into Persian Gulf
Iraqi troops beat back Islamist insurgents in several areas north of Baghdad on Saturday, as the U.S. moved an aircraft carrier into the Persian Gulf.
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EGI18-4T8 FG (Fiberglass) Linear Fluorescent Enclosed & Gasketed Fixture 8-ft., 4-Lamp, T8 (32-watt)
The EG18-4T8 FG is designed for applications that include general lamination, rough service commercial, industrial, and retail environments. This fixture is ideal for any nonhazardous location application that requires a wet location or dust proof fixture. The EGI18-4T8 FG is a "made-for-purpose" enclosed and gasketed fixture (not a strip installed into a housing) constructed of Glass Reinforced Polyester (housing) and Acrylic (diffuser) material.
- Diffuser is clear acrylic material
- Housing is fiberglass material.
- Silicone gasket between housing and diffuser.
- Celcon hinged clips hold diffuser to housing
- Internal metal ballast/gear tray and reflector is white powder coated after fabrication.
- Rotary lock lamp holders for positive lamp contact.
- IP65 Rated.
- Quick disconnect is included for ease of installation.
- Engineered for use with T8, 32W lamps (not included)
Fixture Dimensions
- Length: 98-inches
- Width: 6.75-inches
- Depth: 5.87-in
- Weight: 16-lbs