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This is merely symptomatic of a much deeper decline ... Nokia has abysmal hardware quality assurance. My last 4 nokia candybar phones each had varying degrees of hardware failing just weeks after purchase. Keyboards. Power buttons. Speakers. My latest x3-o2 can no longer sense a headset attachment. The timber co needs to go back and chop wood 2c the trees again.


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Science fiction, as William Burroughs once remarked, is our "literature of ideas." While Burroughs almost certainly meant transformative ideas, to the serious public this has too often been the genre for ideas of a different kind: escapist, overly sentimental, what have you. I can only argue against these criticisms so much, and I can certainly understand why my alma mater decided to offer writing workshops in a genre known as speculative rather than science fiction: it's a semantic twist which has gone some ways towards separating works of philosophical and aeshetic challenge from giddy adventure stories, but hasn't totally obliterated public preconceptions that the two tendencies are one and the same. There are plenty of "go-to" authors that can be recommended if you want to illustrate the "speculative" / "sci-fi" split to a curious friend, among them Philip K. Dick, Samuel Delany, Ursula K. Leguin and J.G. Ballard, but more and more I find myself reaching for the work of Stanislav Lem (1921-2006) for themes that are relevant to the anxieties of the here and now.
In order to stave off accusations of being a simple contrarian, though, I have to mention that Lem is perhaps the most widely read science fiction author from a non-Anglophone country. Before his translator Michael Kandel began to act as his main emissary to the West, Lem's available English-language work was limited to books that were already being translated from languages other than the author's native Polish, making readers justifiably skeptical as to how much original insight was getting eroded away with successive translations. Even now, I'd contend that Lem's greatest Stateside fame is probably within film circles, since he did of course write the book that would inspire Tarkovsky's masterful 1972 work Solaris (and a Steven Soderbergh remake that I'm still not straining at the leash to see.) While this obscurity partially owes itself to the trans-cultural misunderstandings mentioned above, it can also be attributed to Lem's own indifference to mass acceptance, if not an outright allergy to it. Indeed, a favorite motto of the author's was the Latin sobriquet mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur ("the world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived"), a statement worthy of Schopenhauer and one which showed the author's awareness of his limitations when it came to the matter of changing and / or saving the world.
Lem's skeptical and pessimistic bent is unusual among "sci-fi" authors even today, and this necessitates a little bit of qualification about his own role within the cultural world: Lem was as much a philosopher as he was a novelist (a fact that was first made clear with the publication of the non-fiction "technology assessment" book Summa Technologiae in 1964, and now available in English on its fiftieth anniversary.) His nurturing of a symbiotic relationship between these two activities guaranteed his uniqueness in a world where serious thinkers are "supposed" to critique fictional works rather than to create them outright, and where serious novelists are expected to limited their cultural critiques to allegorical or "what if" scenarios. Lem's turn-of-the-century "Challenging New World" column for the heady journal Dialogue and Universalism, later collected in a Polish title called Okamgnienie ["Blink of an Eye"], is an excellent introduction to his proficiency as a universal thinker: here his discourses on life extension, artificial intelligence, neurobiology and cosmology stand up against some of the most thoughtful essays of their time, and manage to say more in less space (and with less resort to cute buzzwords or neologisms) than the bulk of his contemporaries in Continental philosophy. Though even a decent synopsis is beyond the scope of a short column like this one, there is a simple recurring theme in these writings: humans believe that they know more than they really do, and make the fatal mistake of projecting this incomplete knowledge of consciousness onto their built automatons and extraterrestrial explorations, ensuring nothing more than an infiltration of ignorance into new territories. In short, the technological approach to problem solving is inherently flawed, or at the very least has never figured a way to solve major crises without symmetrically introducing new ones.
More unique than the "Challenging New World" columns, though, is the volume A Perfect Vacuum: an unabashed personal favorite that uses reviews of non-existent books that allow Lem to make deep ontological inquiries without having to drop the mantle of "speculative fiction writer." This book-length exercise, rightfully compared to Borges' similarly-minded works, is a fascinating experiment in creative process: it reveals how thoughts flow when those thoughts are projected onto someone else, and how this form of distancing frees one up to more conclusively weigh the good and bad of any appealing new brainstorm. A Perfect Vacuum is also a fine introduction to Lem's barbed sense of humor: it is an occasionally hilarious poke at what I would call "novelty anxiety"; committing creative acts for the sole apparent purpose of doing something that hasn't yet been done. To this end Lem "reviews", among other things, a novel in which the reader is personally addressed and mercilessly harangued on every page, a novel in which every action mentioned is in the negative (e.g. "the train did not arrive…he did not come"), a postmodernist make-your-own-novel kit and much more. In the process he shows a keen awareness of society's tendency towards over-specialization of intellectual roles, and finds a new way to merge the roles of philosopher and fiction writer without alienating the readership of either.
It is also interesting to note how, of all the best-selling authors of cutting-edge science or speculative fiction, Lem is the most convincing as an actual scientific thinker. We could contrast him with someone like, say, William Gibson, who is often celebrated as a prophet for his envisioning the extent to which networked communications would affect and define the 21st century. It it is easy to forget sometimes that Gibson has far more in the way of counterculture credentials than experience with actual scientific research (and at any rate Lem's premonition of "ariadonology" was as accurate a prediction of 21st century "search engines" as was Gibson's idea of cyberspace.) It also doesn't take too much digging to realize exactly why Lem, despite his having the bona fides to write science fiction with a passably 'scientific' content, was not always on the greatest terms with the other representatives of that literary community. The Science Fiction Writers of America revoked Lem's honorary membership in 1976 upon discovering that he had written a none-too-flattering article about the genre in a German newspaper. Later on, he would memorably claim that science fiction "comes from the whorehouse, but…wants to break into the palace where the most sublime thoughts of human history are stored,"[i] a scathing quote that only really scrapes the iceberg of his disdain for sci-fi's mass-produced nature.
Lem's training in the sciences notably began in the post-WWII period of Soviet occupation. As a junior research assistant with the Konservatorium Naukoznawcze ['Circle for the Science of Science'], he was a first-hand witness to the dubious genetic theories of Lysenkoism and, seeing these ludicrous ideas as worthy of his scorn, had plenty of opportunities to run afoul of state censors. Lem's first-hand experience with Lysenkoism, I'd imagine, incubated in him a distaste for scientific thinking hijacked for ideological ends. Though there is certainly more to the story than just this, I do feel that Lem's writing provided some of the most devastating critiques of techno-scientific progress put to paper in the late 20th century (honorable mention to Ballard as always), and he makes his 'futurology' the heir to the thought of both Schopenhauer and Karl Popper: in other words, Lem's stories and essays suggest that tragedy regularly accompanies perfectability, and that even meliorist solutions regularly come before questions are formulated (e.g. the famous example of the cosmic microwave background being discovered during the process of scraping pigeon droppings off an antenna at Bell Laboratories.) Lem's slogan "overtake and surpass nature / biological evolution" appears throughout his work, not immediately as a condemnation of such an aim, but as a thought experiment that forces readers to ask themselves why such an aim is really desirable at all.
Lem's departure from triumphal anthropocentrism was one feature of his writing that truly allowed his imaginative juices to flow, particularly where "astrobiology" and the imagining of new life forms was concerned. His disappointment at the lack of imaginative diversity in the sci-fi of his age - i.e. its ability to proceed like "speciation…a new animal species generating a diverging, fanlike radiation of other new species"[ii] - neatly aligned with his skepticism over whether man could ever develop a laboratory-born sentient life that was self-perpetuating (and, again, he begged the question why this would even be necessary.) Some of his most memorable creations - including the oceanic, planetary consciousness of Solaris - deviated from the stock sci-fi template of "humanoid" extraterrestrial intelligences. It is striking how, even today, that book's titular entity differs so greatly in all respects - in sheer physical scale, in communicative behavior, etc. - from the types of beings that still populate fantastic fiction. Incidentally, it is within that same book that the protagonist Kelvin makes the realization that, even in the age of space exploration, "we are only seeking man. We have no need for other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us - but we can't accept it for what it is."[iii]
Kelvin's memorable lines here also apply to one of Lem's most prescient views of modern terrestrial life, i.e. the satire on neuropharmacology (and the utilitarian philosophy that precedes it) included in The Futurological Congress (1974.) Lem's view of what he calls a "psychemized" New Society of 2039 here vastly expands on Huxley's critique of the drug Soma in Brave New World: he creates an entire inventory of pacification drugs like "benignimizers," but also drugs which can implant false memories of lived experience ("authentium"), and "psycholocalizer" drugs which then up the ante and dissolve the boundaries of 'virtual' and 'real' experience by making users unable to discern between chemically altered and actually experienced realities. This pharmacopeia is brought into being by planners who found its mass deceit to be the only way of really dealing with a global population of 69 billion people: with "Mascon" drugs that fool users into perceiving miraculous reverses to the bleak ecological situation, real and enduring planetary solutions never have to be attempted. The seemingly intractable situation posed by this book makes us question - going back to Lem's motto from above - what to do with a world that "wants to be deceived" in such a way. Finding a solution to this problem of willful ignorance - if one exists - would mean the creation of a finally workable utopia, and the eradication of countless problems branching off from this one tenacious root. And while Lem never explicitly promises that, he does seem to propose throughout his work that a greater acceptance of chaotic or chance operations - in effect accepting reality's uncertainty as the true "ideal" - is a significant step towards a world less cruel and insane.
Philip K. Dick, an author who Lem once proclaimed as an exception to the "hopeless case" of science fiction, claimed that he chose that literary field as a calling partially because it abrogated the need for "happy endings" (a fact which Dick attributed to its being one of the only "fiction fields" not "dominated by women.")[iv] This relief at not having to concoct a happy ending can be too easily misinterpreted as an enthusiasm for dystopia, but I feel the truth lies elsewhere: namely, that writing this kind of work provides one of the few socially acceptable outlets, at present, for being an honest diagnostician of the human condition. Dick's concurrent realization - that sci-fi writers worked with the realization of having no financial reward - was at odds with Lem's own low estimation of sci-fi culture as a pandering one. Yet that culture was just far enough removed from mainstream appeal to allow singular figures like Lem to infiltrate it and use it as a staging ground for a hybrid expressive form that defied easy categorization. This "diamond in the rough" aspect of the Lem story gives me hope that a modern culture drunk on technologial solutions can still produce its philosopher-fantasist-satirist hybrids - those rare birds who can both fascinate us with visions of a new world, and then just as easily make us question whether the new world is what we really want. Lem warned that we have begun to draft up the blueprint for the "posthuman" when he have hardly even found a working definition of what being "human" means, and for this reason alone his work is worth revisiting now.


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Some might be wondering what Sir Graham Henry could possibly have to offer a room full of Educational leaders, and I do believe there were some in the room who could not get past his 'All Blacks Coach' identity. However for me, beyond the fact that I happen to enjoy watching the All Blacks and think that leadership is leadership and there are lessons to be learned regardless of the context, Sir Graham connected with me because he is a graduate of the University of Otago School of Physical Education (me too), he started his career as a Physical Education teacher (me too) and went on to become a Secondary School Principal (not me… yet?).
Sir Graham set the scene by comparing the school environment to the AB's environment; that a school Principal might be seen as the coach, that their SLT/middle leadership team were akin to the ABs leadership group, that teachers equate to the team/players, and that our students, or confident, connected, actively involved life-long learners, are the result we want to see.
Sir Graham talked about the importance of having a clear purpose; 'what are we here for?' This needs to be set by the leadership team, and everyone needs to be on the same page. For the AB's this was 'GOAT' – Greatest of All Time. Initially this was confined to being the greatest rugby team of all time, but soon they aspired to being the greatest sporting team of all time. Aspiration for a school is hugely important. But how often is time given to school leaders and school communities to really consider their aspiration, agree on it, plan for it, and then live the aspiration; constantly messaging to the school community that this is what we aspire to and celebrate the achievements made.
The set of behaviours to achieve the aspiration comes down to culture, and these are the behaviours that the ABs live by:
- Humility – "Better never stops", always striving for self-improvement
- Respect – for the past, for the guy standing next to you, for what you can contribute to the legacy
- Solution focused mentality – no excuses, no blaming -> find a solution.
- Process driven and player driven.
- Integration – team of players who integrate new players into the team. (Do we do this well enough in schools? Or do we only do this for our BT's? How do we mentor new teachers to a school? How do we integrate new staff into the culture of the school, not just the administration?)
- Talk about the elephant in the room – what is holding us back? In 2004 this was a question presented to the ABs – the reply was that they love being an All Black and feel privileged to wear the black jersey, BUT they didn't like the culture and expectations around drinking and court sessions. How might teachers respond to this question? 'I love being a teacher and working with young people but…' I don't feel valued? I don't have any opportunities to be innovative, to lead, to take risks? I'm exhausted? How do we effect change in a school with a negative culture that impacts on staff and students? How might school leaders recognise when the culture has turned negative?
- Disagree and commit – in a leadership group there is not always going to be unanimous agreement, but those in the minority need to respect the group decision and commit to it.
"Culture eats strategy for breakfast", says Sir Graham. But that is not to say that strategy is not important. And one of the most important strategies is to connect with each other – within the ABs and then across the Super Rugby Teams. Connections across the Super Rugby franchises, despite the fact they compete against each other, was important to ensure the best outcomes for the ABs. This made me think about 'Educational Outcomes for ALL New Zealanders' being the equivalent of ABs success and therefore the importance of connecting across schools in communities and NZ to ensure every student in that community had access to the best possible educational opportunities. This is happening in some Communities of Learning (CoL's) and clusters of schools throughout NZ. But there is also still a high level of competitiveness amongst schools, and lack of collaboration still across primary and secondary, that is a barrier to true connection.
Across the schools I am working in I have seen a huge variance in 'within school' connectedness. In some schools teachers have little to no idea what is happening beyond their hub, syndicate or department, and recently I have seen this lead to massive tension when one syndicate was seen to be trying something new, and others felt it had not been communicated to them and that it potentially had a big impact on them and their (future) learners. In another school I see the other end of the spectrum, where they start their staff meetings in a new hub each time, and they walk through each learning space in that hub and each teacher talks about something they and their learners are doing/trying, what's working and what's not. Every teacher in that school is connected to the learning that is taking place across the school, and that has to have a massive positive impact on the culture of the school and the outcomes for the school community.
Further strategies:
- Individual self improvement "Better never stops" – keep it simple; keep doing, stop doing, start doing. If not doing that, how do you get better?
- Exercise everyday -> feel good! It was so refreshing and encouraging to hear Sir Graham advocate for physical activity and state that 'the connection between mental wellbeing and physical activity is massive'. He also made the link between physical activity, wellbeing, and resilience, and is a huge advocate for Physical Education.
- Identify the critical few 'rocks' that will have the biggest impact – Don't get distracted by the sideshows.
- Mentors (a problem shared is a problem halved) – Sir Graham Henry's mentor was Sir John Graham, for whom leadership is about developing others, growing future leaders, and giving people opportunities to excel.
- Mental skills to handle the unexpected.
The All Blacks have several layers of leadership, and they have found that the more leadership (leaders), the greater the ownership and the better they played. This is a real challenge to education to consider how this might play out in schools – in what ways might we spread the leadership capacity to ensure that our schools are absolutely humming? Success in one area lifts success in other areas and lifts people's self-esteem – give people (students and staff) an opportunity to be good at something; whether it be music, art, culture, sport etc.
To finish the session there was a challenge to Principals to be the role model for their school – be the best you can be.
My favourite take away from this session – "Better never stops"


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I know this is a bit overdue, but I wanted to make sure I had decided all my goals for 2018 before posting this!
So here are my goals for 2018:
1. Dedicate more time to my blog – On the 22 January it was my 1 year Blogaversary, and in 1 year since creating my blog I hadn't dedicated that much time to writing blog posts. So this year I am going to try and post more!
2. Be more active on social media – I love the blogging community for this reason, they are all so supportive and interactive on social media, so I want to try and interact more with peoples posts.
3. Spend more time with old friends and make new ones – I want to dedicate more time to meeting friends and hopefully develop new friendships along the way.
4. Be more organised – Which also involves buying more stationery – Win Win!
5. Read more – Whether that's books, magazines, or blog posts, I really want to start reading more often.
6. Be more independent – I want to start doing things on my own rather than relying on others to always come with me.
7. Save more money – I really need to start keeping track of my spending, otherwise I will never afford somewhere to live.
8. Go to the gym more – I have signed up to a new gym, which is cheaper and closer than my old one, but it's really busy after work, so I've been trying to go before work, but I need to motivate my self to get up at 5:30am!
9. Cook healthier foods – It's been 6 months since I gave up dairy, and since then I haven't been very motivated to learn to cook different foods, but I have bought this AMAZING vegan cookbook which has given me so much inspiration.
10. Be a better version of me – I would like to make new friends this year, so I am determined to step outside my comfort zone and try new things, which will hopefully help me to become a better person.
Thanks for reading my blog!
What are your goals for 2018?


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December 20 - The Pan American Weightlifting Federation has awarded hosting rights for the 2014 Junior Pan American Weightlifting Championships to the United States.
The Championships are due to take place at the Silver Legacy Resort in Reno, Nevada from March 31 to April 6 and will feature some of the best under-20 athletes in the world.
USA Weightlifting will be the host federation for the event and its chief executive, Michael Massik has welcomed the awarding of hosting rights.
"We are delighted the Pan American Weightlifting Federation has given the United States the opportunity to host this prestigious competition," said Massik.
"We look forward to welcoming our Pan American friends for a great competition in a great city."
USA Weightlifting has also announced that it will hold an Open Championship to run alongside the Junior Pan American Weightlifting Championships and revealed that it will stage a Junior International Camp at the Olympic Training Centre in Colorado Springs, in the lead-up to the events.
The Federation will also host the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships in Houston, Texas.
"We would like to thank the USA Weightlifting Federation for the development of our sport by hosting the Junior Pan American Championships and the World Championships in 2015," said Pan American Weightlifting Federation President Willin Ozuna.
"I want to encourage all to continue working to raise the voice that our sport is [the] only one in [the] Americas."
American athletes between 15 and 20-years-old can begin the process of qualification for the Junior Pan American Weightlifting Championships at the 2013 American Open in Dallas from December 5 to 8 and the 2014 National Junior Championships in Aurora, Colorado from January 31 to February 2.
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I know I've said it already, but I'm getting married next week!!!!!!! Have I ever told you how we met? I shared the short version on our wedding website, michaelandkenlie.com, but I thought I'd share it here too since this site is permanent.
The end of 2015 was a time of change and growth for Michael and me individually. In early December I told God that I was tired of hearing myself whine to Him about wanting to be in a healthy relationship with a Godly man. I said to God, "You know my heart, and You gave me these desires. I'm surrendering them to you right now. This is not my biggest prayer anymore. I want to fulfill your purpose, and so be enough for me. Satisfy me."
The next day Michael walked into my church for the first time. I didn't meet him that weekend, but over the next few months I would greet him on Sunday mornings when he walked in.
In February we both joined a Bible study group, and a few weeks in I jokingly admitted that pizza had been my Valentine that year. Later during the same group he mentioned that pizza was his Valentine that year as well. After the group I went to talk/flirt with him because he's handsome and because he understood my pizza story, and a friend interrupted us for a moment.
She came to me and said she needed prayer I said, "Okay, let's pray now. Michael, do you want to pray with us?" He said, "okay," and now we pray together and get to watch GOD do amazing things all the time.
I'm so thankful for the lady who wanted to pray with me that night. I'm thankful that the cute guy from church asked me to have coffee (even though he doesn't even drink coffee,) and now I'm thankful that I get to be his wife.
We've served together, led small groups together and spend time with our friends and family watching movies or playing board games. He loves to eat the foods I cook, which is a great way to get me to continue cooking for him. He's disciplined in areas that I'm not, and I've helped him loosen up in areas in which he's too rigid. We complement each other. We're good for each other.
I can't wait to pray with him, laugh with him, go to sleep with him everyday and enjoy our friends and family with him for a long, long time.
He's sensitive, loving, respectful and godly, and I love him, and I'm so thankful for God's perfect timing. I'm thankful that He worked in us and prepared us for each other, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to spend my life with a man who works hard, fights for resolution instead of fighting to win and whose loyalty to God and to me is already evident in our lives.
Seriously, friends…This is such an exciting time for us, and while I'm gushing about how thankful I am I have to say that I'm thankful for those of you who have listened to me and encouraged me throughout our time here.
Thank you for being here. I'm really looking forward to the next chapter…


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I haven't been on this site for awhile. I actually have been having a pretty tough time lately.
Let me paint a picture for you.
I'm upstairs on my laptop lying in bed and feeling sorry for myself. Downstairs there's a party. I hear people laughing, and I hear music. But what I hear most of all is the pounding, negative voice in my head.
I've been exhibiting old behaviors from the days when I binged, and ate my feelings, from the days that I weighed over 200 pounds, and couldn't figure out how to lose it.
I was laying in bed feeling sorry for myself and remembered that I used to have this blog to write out my feelings, so I got on and started reading over my last couple posts. I'm ashamed to say that I started crying like a baby.
I want to know where that person has gone, and how I somehow lost contact with her.
I have an amazing supportive boyfriend, an apartment, a job, a car, two legs to walk, and my family and friends. I have NO reason to be as stressed, or anxious, or paranoid as I am.
About 2 weeks ago I started to go back to my old ways and tonight my friends is the night that I ate SO much junk that my stomach is throbbing and pushing against my ribcage causing some discomfort. This was how it used to be, and I thought that I'd moved on from this point.
I read over my last post and I get SO frustrated because I finally thought I'd beaten this disorder.
I want to go downstairs and join in on the party again, but I can't seem to get my legs to move. I want to take back the last hour and instead of reaching for the burger and chips get a glass of water. I knew when I started getting help that this fight would never truly be over, and yet it doesn't seem fair.
How is it that some people can not worry? How is it that everyone can overeat a night and realize they shouldn't have eaten so much and eat normal the next day?
Yet here I am. I overate this morning, felt sorry for myself, and decided to just eat a small dinner...which turned into a burger with cheese, potato chips, a couple cookies, and some fudge sticks. I know that this isn't really an upbeat post but I just want help...and I feel like this was always a place I could get it...by venting, and by writing how I felt.
I know that I'll be better again, and I know that I'll relapse again, but I just hope that I can get through this hard place and move towards that girl in my last posts. The one that I loved.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
I haven't been on this site for awhile. I actually have been having a pretty tough time lately.
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Be strong, Ginnie! Love, Diane
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Investigator hands information over to OSHA
Christopher Maher, Alice Echo-News Journal
The Jim Wells County Sheriff's Department has concluded its investigation into a fatal accident that occurred at the Tractor Supply Company store in Alice, and has forwarded that information to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), officials said Tuesday.
Sgt. Odel Mendoza, the lead investigator on the case for the sheriff's department, said Tuesday he had forwarded all of the photographs, witness statements and other evidence collected from the accident and turned it over to OSHA, which is expected to complete the investigation.
The only evidence not yet forwarded to OSHA, Mendoza said, included an autopsy report and toxicology report pending from the Corpus Christi Medical Examiner's office.
On April 25, the day after the accident, Chris Gomez, the father of Miguel Gomez, the 19-year-old man killed in the accident, filed a temporary restraining order in the 79th District Court against Tractor Supply Company to allow attorneys representing Gomez to examine the accident site.
That order was granted by District Judge Richard Terrell, but expired following a hearing in district court Monday.
Gomez was pronounced dead April 24, less than an hour after he was pinned underneath a forklift at the store, located on Highway 44 just east of Alice.
Witnesses at the scene told investigators Gomez lost control of the vehicle and the forklift fell onto its side, pinning him.
Store employees were able to use another machine to free Gomez from beneath the vehicle, officials said, but Gomez was non-responsive.
He was transported by ambulance to CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Alice, and was pronounced dead a short time later.


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The show's third season finale is a stunner in several ways
(Spoiler alert: Don't read this if you haven't seen the episode, which has only aired on the East Coast as of this writing.)
People will talk about this for years.
"Homeland" ended its third season with a very brave, very strange hour of television, one that broke almost every rule a TV show can break.
First: It killed off one of its two leads. It's not so rare for shows to kill off a major character, but it's shocking for a hit series to kill one of two main characters whose relationship has fueled the show for three seasons.
Especially when the show has been renewed for a fourth.
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I supposed it would be possible — possible — for Brody to have somehow faked his public hanging, and that that was the real reason he didn't get a black star on the wall at Langley. But if the show made such a bold move, only to pull back, it would have a very hard time regaining credibility.
And a Showtime representative confirmed to TheWrap Sunday that yep — he's definitely dead.
Adding to the madness: Damian Lewis won an Emmy for playing this guy. He could have remained a contender for years to come.
But the writers apparently decided they had pushed the character as far as they could, and made an impressive decision not to milk the Brody-Carrie storyline past the point of believability.
Also read: 'Homeland' Season 3 Finale Leaks Online
Weirder than Brody's death was the way the show handled it. We got all the standard foreshadowing: He talked about being born in the desert (reflection!) and committed to raising Carrie and his baby together (bright future!). The touchstones were so familiar it felt almost like the show was faking us out.
But then it double crossed us — by playing it straight. Brody died with surprisingly little fuss. And then the episode got very, very weird, by going on without him, for twenty more minutes.
Maybe it was the show's way of saying there could be a "Homeland" without Brody. The show already gave it a dry run when it later him stay MIA for the first two episodes of the season, which happened to be quite good.
But the show also stripped away several other potential sources of tension: Carrie decided to give up her baby. And Saul vowed not to return to the CIA.
It seemed like "Homeland" wanted to make some promises about what it won't be next season: a show about a single mom balancing the duties of motherhood and leading the CIA's Istanbul office.
But what will it be? The only thing we know for sure is that, judging from Sunday's episode, it's willing to go absolutely anywhere.


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Friendly exes Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton put on a relaxed display as they run errands in London
They split after at the end of 2014 after 13 years together and two children.
But Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton look to have remained on good terms, judging by the latest pictures of the famous duo.
Putting on a friendly display, the 50-year-old English actress and the 58-year-old American film director looked relaxed as they ran errands together in North London on Saturday.
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Remaining friends: Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton look to have remained on good terms, judging by the latest pictures of the famous duo
Sporting her trademark layered look, the Harry Potter star wrapped up in the autumnal chill, opting for a large denim coat with oversized pockets and red piping.
Wearing her curly hair piled high with her glasses perched on top of her head, Helena put on a casual display as she walked alongside her ex partner.
Tim added a touch of Hollywood glamour in sunglasses, holding a paper as he chatted easily with Helena.
Pals: Putting on a friendly display, the 50-year-old English actress and the 58-year-old American film director looked relaxed as they ran errands together in North London on Saturday
Helena has been single since since splitting from Tim, the father of her two children, nearly two years ago.
Helena and Tim got together in 2001 after he cast her in Planet Of The Apes.
They went on to make six further films together, including Big Fish, Corpse Bride, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street, Alice In Wonderland and Dark Shadows.
The pair famously didn't marry during their relationship and unconventionally lived in two adjoining houses in London.
Over the course of their relationship they had son Billy Raymond Burton,13, and daughter Nell Burton, 8, named after all the 'Helens' in her family.
Helena previously admitted she struggled during her pregnancies, revealing that she and Burton had been trying for a baby for two years and considered IVF before conceiving naturally.
Speaking to Harper's Bazaar magazine earlier this year following their split she admitted wanted to put 'handle with care' tape across her forehead because she felt so fragile and described the process as going through 'massive grief'.
She explained: 'Just saying: 'I'm not myself at the moment, so be careful.'
'Everyone always says you have to be strong and have a stiff upper lip, but it's okay to be fragile.'
But the Oscar-nominated actress revealed she hasn't ruled out another collaboration with her ex, as she revealed: 'It might be easier to work together without being together any more. He always only cast me with great embarrassment.'
Happier times: Helena split from Tim Burton in December 2014 after dating for 13 years. The pair famously lived in two adjoining houses in London and had two children together
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The term "age spots" is not entirely accurate. Also called liver spots, they can develop as early as childhood, according to the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery. No matter what age you are, the spots may affect your overall self-esteem and quality of life. Microdermabrasion is just one of the treatment options that you may discuss with your dermatologist.
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Microdermabrasion works by gently peeling away the top layer of skin with fine crystals. Microdermabrasion is often referred to as a power peel, because of noticeable changes in texture and appearance following each treatment. The in-office procedure may not erase age spots completely, but it can reduce the appearance of them.
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The goal of microdermabrasion is to slough away dead skin cells to minimize the appearance of superficial skin problems. Dermatologists often choose a type of treatment that uses crystals made of magnesium, sodium bicarbonate or sodium chloride. They can also use corundum, which uses aluminum oxide crystals, or sandpaper instead of the traditional crystal peels. Microdermabrasion treatments last about 20 to 30 minutes per session, and several sessions may be required.
Microdermabrasion is a seemingly simple procedure, but it still requires prep work to ensure desirable results. Discontinue using harsh ingredients -- such as Retin-A, glycolic acid or salicylic acid -- on your skin at least a week before the procedure. Avoid sun exposure two weeks before your appointment . UV rays enhance the appearance and number of age spots and can also make your skin more sensitive to irritation during microdermabrasion.
The Cleveland Clinic says you may get the desired results after six to 12 sessions, with each treatment scheduled one to two weeks apart to prevent dryness and irritation. Compared with other types of cosmetic procedures, microdermabrasion has a relatively quick recovery rate. Immediately after the procedure, you'll likely experience pink or red skin. The treatment area may also feel like a sunburn in some patients. However, because microdermabrasion is not an invasive procedure, you don't need to take time off work to recover.
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People often spit the word 'blogger', to denote their distaste and distrust. The bloggers of our imagination are often dilettantes, second hand journalists, or fake news peddlers.
They're giving bloggers a bad name.
But still, even with the ones you can trust, beware.
When you're out for a bike ride with your mates do you ever have the feeling you're being watched? Is someone taking rather too much delight in every mangled puncture repair or poor wardrobe choice? Do they carry a notebook in their jersey pocket and furtively jot things down?
This is research.
They are a blogger.
And you are the subject of their next published post.
Minor transgressions – a smear of chain grease on your calf, or turning up pre-ride with a dirty bike – you can usually get away with. They might get you a half-mention in a passing blog post but nothing more.
Serious errors – repeated failure to get your round of coffees in at the café, or the wearing of those red Katusha bib-shorts of which you're so fond – might lead to worse.
Within forty-eight hours your abject failure to be a cyclist could be splashed online for the entertainment of others.
Get it wrong repeatedly, and you might find yourself the subject of a whole category of blog posts. Such a sullying of your reputation is difficult to come back from.
There is a solution, of course.
If you're tired of being used as mere fodder for your friend to draw hits to his website, you must fight fire with fire.
Remember: the blogger's success rests on his words, but also his reputation.
He can only sling all this light-hearted mud in the direction of his fellow cyclists if he himself is as paragon of cycling virtue.
If he is eeking out comedy capital from your inability to fix a puncture in less than seven minutes, he'd damn well better be able to do it himself in three with a flourish, a flick of the wrist, and a witty anecdote or two.
Get yourself on social media, and tell the world the truth.
Regale the Twitter-sphere with tales of your friend the blogger and his phone calls home for collection mid-ride, his creaking bottom bracket, and that US Postal Service circa Lance Armstrong jersey that you KNOW he wears under his winter kit from time to time.
That'll shut him up.
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The idea of the hot mature woman is often a quite grizzly sort of fat woman - this is truly a VERY hot mature (in the best sense of the word...) woman.
This is what woman of an artistic persuasion consider hot. I know this for a fact.
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Girls that fight are always hot - so hot... for so many, many reasons.
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Pulina, Luca and Tacchella, Armando (2008) QuBIS: an (in)complete solver for quantified Boolean formulas. In: MICAI 2008: Advances in artificial intelligence: 7th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 27-31 October 2008, Atizapán de Zaragoza, Mexico. Berlin - Heidelberg, Springer. p. 34-43. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5317/2008). ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 978-3-540-88635-8. Conference or Workshop Item.
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In this paper we introduce QuBIS an (in)complete solver for quantified Boolean formulas (QBFs). The particularity of QuBIS is that it is not inherently incomplete, but it has the ability to surrender upon realizing that its deduction mechanism is becoming ineffective. Whenever this happens, QuBIS outputs a partial result which can be fed to a complete QBF solver for further processing. As our experiments show, not only QuBIS is competitive as an incomplete solver, but providing the output of QuBIS as an input to complete solvers can boost their performances on several instances.
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Forever Active provides exercise / activity sessions for the over 50 age group within Cambridgeshire. There are over 50 different sessions on offer, which cater for all ages and abilities. You're invited to come along and try one of the classes on offer and take steps to becoming a healthier and happier you!
Sessions range from chair based exercises, which are suitable for people with mobility problems, to activities for the active 50+. Please see the class information page for details and to book onto a class.
Anyone aged 50 or over is welcome to come to Forever Active classes. You can try out a new class for a few sessions at the non-member rate; we are sure you'll want to continue and become a member of the organisation. Further information about the benefits of membership and a form to download may be found on the memberships page.
Forever Active Forum Ltd, is governed by its Board of Directors/Trustees, all of whom are volunteers. The Board has quarterly meetings; a small management group meets in the intervening months, while marketing and publicity groups meet on an ad hoc basis. We are always pleased to hear from anyone with an hour or two to spare to help with distributing leaflets, brochures, etc: see under Volunteering.
The group has meetings twice a year, which all Forever Active participants are invited to attend. The Forum meetings are a great opportunity to give your feedback about the classes you attend, to hear the latest updates about new classes starting, events coming up and the development of the organisation.
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We've set out to discover how connected Brits feel they are with their homes. What few simple ingredients are a recipe for turning bricks and mortar into a homely sanctuary?
When creating a home, you might automatically reach for the paint colour charts, the perfect dining table or those lampshades that caught your eye. But would it surprise you to discover that us Brits aren't so materialistic after all?
Anglian Home Improvements have whittled down the list of top five qualities that sum up what makes a house a home. Can you guess what they are? Find out below…
5. Meals with family and friends
43 per cent of us enjoy gathering for a hearty meal. An added 48 per cent of respondents say that good cooking smells make a house warm and inviting. It's pretty clear food is a big factor for us in the UK… anyone for a fresh bread scented candle?
4. The sound of laughter
No, we're not talking a second instalment to the Sound of Music! In a wonderfully jolly result, 44 per cent say that laughter is key for making a house a home. We can definitely agree with that one!
3. Security and safety
Unsurprisingly, we all want to feel safe and secure wherever we live. 50 per cent of those surveyed said this was key to making their house feel homely.
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2. Love
This survey is making us feel all warm and fuzzy inside! Britons have come through and shown that love is the second most important ingredient for making your house a home. Over half (51 per cent) put this as an essential factor to make the difference between somewhere to live and somewhere to be proud of. They do say home is where the heart is!
1. Happiness
Cue the Pharrell Williams 'Happy' song! Seriously, we're loving this number one, which was ranked important by 57 per cent of those asked. Of course, it might not be a surprise to say that being happy in your house gives it the biggest homely vibe. We really couldn't think of a better poll result!
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Other factors that made the list included life's little luxuries, such as a well-stocked fridge, summer barbeques, a comfy sofa and freshly laundered sheets. Surprisingly, 13 per cent said a few arguments here and there made a home! Who knew that those pesky family squabbles could have a positive impact after all?
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Julia Kanouse was named CEO of the Illinois Technology Association, which advocates and provide programs for tech companies, in February 2017.
Kanouse joined the nonprofit ITA in 2015 and had been senior vice president of membership and marketing, working with previous CEO Fred Hoch, the group's co-founder. Before joining the ITA, she was vice president of strategic marketing at the National Restaurant Association and worked as a management consultant.
The ITA recently launched an initiative to boost the number of women tech leaders in Chicago and is launching a philanthropic arm focused on bringing STEM education to underserved communities.
"Together, we are charting a course that generates increasing opportunities for ventures from the startup phase through scaling worldwide. Our team isn't just ready for what's next. We're helping create what's next," she said in statement released with her appointment.
She has a B.S. in economics and finance from the University of Idaho.
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In this Tutorial we are going over the process to force the synchronization with Windows Azure Active Directory using the latest Directory Synchronization tool available.
Logged in the computer that has the Directory Synchronization Tool installed, open the Windows Explorer and navigate to the C:Program FilesWindows Azure Active Directory Sync. Then, double click on DirSyncConfigShell.
In order to synchronize new objects created in the environment right away to the Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD), we just need to run the following cmdlet below and the output will be similar to the show in the figure below.
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In some situations (filtering being enabled or to remove objects that are no longer synchronized with WAAD) a full synchronization may be required and running the following cmdlet we can accomplish this task.
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Strawberry Kale Salad with Tempeh Bacon
When Brandon and I lived in College Station for several years while he finished graduate school, we attended nearly every single football game played at Kyle Field. As a result, I have many fond memories of standing for a minimum of four hours while yelling my face off and getting relentlessly blasted by the hot Texas afternoon sun.
It might seem weird that I would agree to such activities, seeing how I didn't attend Texas A&M, but I'm telling you, there must be something in the water. The spirit of Aggieland takes you over and the next thing you know, you're out there screaming with all your might in hopes to pump the defense up for the next big stop. It's a spirit that can ne'er be told.
My time spent attending those football games taught me a few valuable lessons:
1. If you drink too many beers prior to the game, you will pass out and die from dehydration and heat stroke.
2. One student football ticket buys you enough standing room on the bleachers for a three-year-old…if you're lucky.
3. If you don't eat meat, dinner will be a bag of peanuts and a Sprite.
4. Texas sausage and/or barbeque companies often use baby pigs as a part of their logo.
The Aggies have a long line of sponsors that are displayed on the big screen as fans wait in anticipation for the game to start but I was always shocked to see a local sausage company's logo was a mama and her baby piglet cuddling.
Am I missing something here? What about that do people find appetizing?
My guess is that they probably avoid making the mental connection. Crispy salty bacon and cuddling pigs are two separate entities, both of which bring happiness…?
Unfortunately I can't seem to separate the two so tempeh bacon is what's on the menu for me. The taste is actually somewhat similar to real bacon but I will admit the texture is completely different. Not in a bad way, just in a different way.
But it's the perfect meat substitute for this salad. Juicy sweet strawberries with smoky flavor and creamy goat cheese pecan crumbles on a bed of tender kale. It's a crave-worthy combo.
You can find tempeh bacon in the meat substitute section and it's ridiculously easy to cook. I usually throw it on my cast iron grill pan on the stove for about 5 minutes on each side and shazaam! Delicious bacon flavah is at your fingertips.
If you've never had tempeh bacon then I hope you'll give it a try sometime. Trust me, you'll soon forget all about the real thing. ;)
2 heads kale, destemmed and washed
6 ounces tempeh bacon, cooked
2 cups sliced strawberries
1/2 red onion, sliced
4 ounces goat cheese (sub avocado or pecan parmesan* if vegan)
1 cup pecans, finely chopped
Balsamic Vinaigrette
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup white balsamic (could also use regular balsamic)
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- Place kale into a large bowl and then combine ingredients for dressing in a measuring cup. Pour the dressing into the bowl and massage it in with your hands until evenly coated. Add the strawberries and onion and toss together.
- If using goat cheese, place it into a bowl with the pecans and mash together with a fork until it turns into crumbles. Mix so that the crumbles are coated with the pecans.
- Distribute the kale onto separate plates and top with tempeh bacon and pecan goat cheese or pecan parmesan. Then serve and enjoy!.
*To make pecan parmesan: toast whole or halved pecans then place into a food processor along with 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast, 1 tablespoon olive oil and salt to taste. Pulse in processor until finely chopped.
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The Egan Warming Centers are seeking new volunteers to help staff emergency shelters during the winter months when the weather is forecast to dip below 30 degrees. Volunteers help save lives each year.
The Episcopal Church of the Resurrection at 3925 Hilyard Street is the Host Site for people experiencing homelessness in our neighborhood. If you have never attended a training or just need to refresh yourself on the basics, please consider attending an upcoming training so you can be of assistance in an emergency. Neighbors within walking distance to the church who can get to the site on foot if conditions are inclement are especially appreciated.
Upcoming Training Opportunities
Saturday, Oct. 24th, 11am – 1pm at First Christian Church
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Saturday, Oct. 31st, 11am – 1pm at Central Lutheran Church
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Eugene, Or 97403
No one can volunteer at a Warming Center without having attended a training at least once. Returning volunteer from past seasons do not have to attend these trainings. Individuals interested in volunteering at a Warming Center must complete a Volunteer Application by completing an Online Form. Warming Center volunteers must be at least 18 years of age.
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You may donate the following items (clearly label donations as "FOR EGAN" to ensure they are not confused with items intended for resale) at your nearest St Vincent DePaul donation site.
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You may drop off the following items at Food for Lane County: coffee, canned soups, bread, muffins and/or pastries, juice, milk, bottled water, cookies, crackers, fruit, chips, sugar, creamer, salt/pepper, assorted teas, pickles, mustard, mayonnaise, lettuce, cheese. Special Note: Please do not drop food off at any warming center site. Health regulations and possible disruption of the operation of the site require us to refuse any food items prepared outside of the site kitchen. Please donate all items through Food for Lane County where it is sorted and distributed each day the sites are open.


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The gospel is not "good news" unless we understand the bad news of our sin. This week we consider the biblical definition of sin and the six consequences of Adam's fall.
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When converts Richard and Leah Kenyon leave Wales and heed the call to Zion, they are unprepared for the toll exacted by the journey. To face the incredible odds mounted against them they call upon the Lord's tender mercies to see them through and strengthen their love for one another. Their story will remind you where to turn during your trials.
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In 1847 Wales Methodist Minister Richard Kenyon converts to Mormonism. Richard's newfound faith is put to the test when he faces the anger of his former congregation, his wife's indecisiveness, his brother's betrayal, and the murderous intentions of misinformed villagers.
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Her heart thudded in her chest as she turned and walked up the gangway. Richard paused and looked back to say something to the Saints, but she didn't stop to listen, making her way onto the ship. She stood on the deck of the steamer as the autumn breezes blew cool and damp off Cardiff Bay. Her heart knotted as she looked out over the pier, hoping against hope that her mother might come to say good-bye. I don't want to leave . . . I can't . . . this is home . . .
She pressed her lips together and choked back tears as her eyes scanned the fringes of her native village. Her gaze rose to the hills, still green, to the sky awash in clouds, then down to the surging bay. The smell of briny water filled her nostrils and the call of seabirds cried overhead. Leah closed her eyes, attempting to etch the pictures in her mind, and called upon her memory to remember Wales and never forget.
Richard slid his arm around Leah's shoulders. " 'Tis hard, I know," he said as if he could read her mind.
His touch gave her a sense of reassurance. She could feel his strength lending itself to her, lifting and carrying her beyond doubt. Richard kissed her temple and held her as the ropes were loosed from the moorings. She turned to him, her eyes burning into his. "Let me look at you, Richard.Let me look to you and our future. I cannot bear to watch us leave . . ."
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Each year, Season for Caring partners with local nonprofit agencies and invites them to nominated up to three families. Foundation Communities has been with Season for Caring for several years.
Foundation Communities is a local, homegrown nonprofit. It provides affordable homes and free on-site support services for thousands of families with kids, as well as veterans, seniors, and individuals with disabilities. It also provides help securing access to health care, tax preparation and education.
This year, Foundation Communities nominated Maricela Garcia and her son Raymond. Raymond is 9 years old and has Renpenning syndrome, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism. Many of his therapies have been cut because of a lack of funding. Garcia works part-time caring for seniors for $8.61 an hour and wants to become a certified nursing assistant so she can get a full-time, better-paying job. Read more about this family here .
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Building With Sustainable Ductile Based Designs
We at eco1solutions have designed a build system called kabook-i®. It is basically a bamboo framework with a unique locking system that can create a single wall or a cavity wall. Kabook-i is a ductile based design system, which, in layman's terms, means it will give and take in seismic conditions such as typhoons and earthquakes, thereby reducing damage and fatalities. Single wall structures can be covered with traditional weave materials. Cavity wall structures can be filled with locally available materials, making this a very cost effective, secure and ecological system.
The pictures of houses below are only concepts; almost any type of housing design is possible.I am currently looking for collaboration with an NGO or social entrepreneur to develop and test bed various prototypes.
The picture below is a layout I find very appealing. Simple yet functional rural design. The car port doubles as a workshop and the balcony encourages outdoor living. The overhanging eves protect the walls from the elements.
DO I HAVE MY OWN DESIGN? Here is my ecological concept house for a small footprint with a positive ecological impact and goes a long way towards being an off-the-grid system.
The sketch above is my design concept for a utility family house using a small footprint. Any design is possible such as the house below. Just Google 'house plans' for ideas. I found a great site for making your own floor plans HERE.
ANY TYPE OF URBAN DWELLING IS POSSIBLE USING THE Kabook-i® method.
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HOW DO I CONSTRUCT A Kabook-i® home?
Kabook-i® is a ductile construction method using bamboo (nature's re-bar) with a unique locking system to create a cavity wall 'scaffold'.
- The cavity wall is filled in with locally available material to create solid, ecologically friendly, economical, long lasting structures.
- Once the walls are filled they are finished off with a screed of lime plaster or mud.
- A typical kabook-i® unit would have a large roof to protect walls and harvest water.
- Main applications for kabook-i ® structures would be Eco-homes, clinics, schools, community centres, Eco holiday villages, in earthquake/disaster areas, refugee camps and villages for developing countries. With kabook-i® it is possible to build anything from a simple shelter to a grand palatial home.
The basic steps are: (also see photos below)
- Fabricate your framework in a workshop
- build your framework on site including roofing structure
- add floor
- insert door and window frameworks
- insert plumbing and wiring (if required)
- fill in skeletal framework with locally available materials
- add roofing tiles or corrugated sheeting
- add windows & doors
- screed walls with mud or plaster
- paint walls, doors, window frames
- move in
Featured below are several photos and line drawings that I did for the patent to give you a better idea about Kabook-i® and how it works
1 drill a hole in a 60mm upright bamboo pole
2 slide a 25mm pole into it – horizontal
3 drill a 3mm hole through both holes
4 lock both poles together with a 'mole' (a pin)
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text: Well, we're officially half-way through our 2013 growing season. I don't know if time is flying for anyone else out there, but it sure is for us. speaking of fall, we've been able to get a great start on our fall gardens. Our first plantings are coming along nicely, and we could have greens again in a few weeks. These few days of dry weather and sun have worked wonders as well. Peter has been preparing our fields with "the spader", which is an Italian tractor implement that digs deeply in the field, gently breaking up the soil, and leaving a fine seedbed behind it. It is very slow-moving and thus takes a loooooong time, but you save yourself many more steps and headaches by prepping your soil this way. Now, we've got about an acre of rich, brown soil ready to plant into. Crop update: the first melons are nearly ready. Eggplants are close behind. Spaghetti and Delicata winter squash are around the corner as well. Exciting Times!


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We designed and constructed a single-fiber-optic confocal microscope (SFCM) with a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) scanner and a miniature objective lens. Axial and lateral resolution values for the system were experimentally measured to be 9.55 µm and 0.83 µm respectively, in good agreement with theoretical predictions. Reflectance images were acquired at a rate of 8 frames per second, over a 140 µm×70 µm field-of-view. In anticipation of future applications in oral cancer detection, we imaged ex vivo and in vivo human oral tissue with the SFCM, demonstrating the ability of the system to resolve cellular detail.
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London is the embodiment of the aged iconic cities all around the planet bearing the spirit of massive art and culture of western advancement equally old and new. Since centuries, this city has been flooded by visitors in order to know more regarding the western society, traditions and customs, its background apart from the architectural buildings and beautiful places that are a must-see on a London visit. Accordingly, the most excellent view can be caught when you are in the London eye. This is the highest monument located on the shore of river Thames. From here, you can be able to have a glance of this outstanding city. Among the additional tourist attractions that are a must-see to every traveler are the Hyde Park, the Kensington Garden, Bayswater and Queensway.
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Beady Eye drummer Chris Sharrock says it's "ironic" the band have been lined up to replace Blur at Australia's Big Day Out festival later this month.
Speaking to Faster Louder, Sharrock said: "It was more like 'Oh wow. That's funny.' The irony of it. It's no big deal though, really. That was all a hundred years ago, wasn't it? We're just glad to be out and going somewhere. Especially Australia."
Gallagher's former band Oasis were embroiled in a lengthy feud with Blur throughout the 90s, put to bed last year when Liam's brother Noel performed with Blur's Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon at the Royal Albert Hall. The concert was part of the Noel-curated series of gigs for the Teenage Cancer Trust in March.
Big Day Out, meanwhile, marks Beady Eye's first ever visit to Australia, and will see them visit Carrara, Flemington, Sydney, Adelaide and Claremont on the tour. They'll also play at The Enmore in Sydney on January 27. Sharrock added the tour was unexpected until relatively recently: "We didn't think we were doing anything in January," he said. "This opportunity came in at the last minute. We've always wanted to play Big Day Out. I've never played it before."
Sharrock said Australian fans can expect much of the same setlist as the band's recent UK tour, which features songs from both their album – 'Different Gear, Still Speeding' and 'BE' – as well as a couple of Oasis songs and perhaps the cover of The Rolling Stones' 'Gimme Shelter' which they debuted in November. "I'd say it's 60 per cent new songs, 30 per cent old stuff and 10 per cent some really old stuff" Sharrock revealed. "And I think we'll be sticking a couple of Oasis covers in to keep the punters happy."
Blur pulled out of the headline slot in November, saying they were unhappy with the way the festival was being organised. The festival's co-promoter AJ Maddah vowed to refund ticket-holders who are not happy with the changed line-up, although admitted that organisers were "completely caught with our pants down" and that being forced to book new acts at such late notice would not "be cheap". At its peak in 2009, Big Day Out sold as many as 330,000 tickets. However, last year's 20th anniversary event was described by the festival's founder Ken West as "a total fiasco".


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AVON, MINN. – Lured by curiosity and the prospect of metal-on-metal aggression, more than 50 veterans crowded into the shop at Ken's Custom Iron outside of town on Friday to learn about the ancient craft of blacksmithing.
The opportunity had a distinctly military appeal. With the noise of hammer on anvil, the heat and the roaring flames of the forge, the whole thing had an intoxicating air of danger about it.
It was the second year the small custom metal fabrication company in central Minnesota opened its doors to veterans, its own modest effort to show appreciation amid the flag-draped spectacle of corporations, fast food restaurants and mattress sales thanking veterans for their service.
"What we've got into this is nothing to what the veterans have put in," said owner Ken Zitur, his hands blackened with coal. "We want to give something back to the veterans who have given so much to us.
"If you are a newbie or just have a thought you'd like to try, you can come here and pound on some hot iron before you invest in a hammer and a forge. Hopefully I've sparked their interest so they can learn blacksmithing and take it with them for the rest of their life."
The event last year was focused on veterans with disabilities. On Friday, it was open to anyone who served.
Zitur admitted there is no science behind his theory, but he believes blacksmithing can offer an outlet for those suffering from trauma, or anyone who might need a brief escape.
"There's got to be guys out there, veterans, and they deserve a shot, too," he said.
Jeremy Ketcher and Aaron Othoudt were battle buddies. In military jargon, they watched each other's "six," meaning they had each other's back.
It worked for them during a deployment in Iraq from 2003 to 2005 as members of the Minnesota National Guard. They figured it would work again Friday in Avon, pounding white-hot iron bars as civilians. After some quick instruction, their effort took on a competitive feel as each hammered at the iron bars pulled from the forge.
"We were both interested in pounding on metal. So we came here not knowing what to expect. So now we are here pounding on metal," said Othoudt, who said he arrived thinking he wanted to make an ax but quickly realized he might have to take a class to improve his skills. "This is more complicated than it looks."
The event allowed him to spend some time with his Army pal, but it also afforded him a chance to get away.
"Definitely while you are here, you are here," he said. "You are not focused on anything but here."
The whole Veterans Day experience was new to Jeb Taylor. After 20 years in the Army, he's only been a veteran for about three weeks and is still coming to grips with the term applying to him.
He came to Friday's event with Sean Riley, a fellow former member of the 82nd Airborne Division. In fact, Taylor was the recruiter when Riley signed on the dotted line. A fly fisherman and amateur knife builder, Taylor said he can appreciate the focus needed to become skilled at blacksmithing.
"I would say there might be something cathartic about creative endeavors, and this is certainly something you can touch and feel; and at the end of the day that's certainly fulfilling," Taylor said.
Riley, who had deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan in his 4 ½ years in the Army, described his service as "a unique and irreplaceable experience."
When Veterans Day arrives, he thinks of it as a time to reconnect. Like in a blacksmith shop in Avon, Minnesota.
"When it comes around I make more of a point for reaching out to some of the friends and guys I served with," he said. "It's a nice reminder to keep in touch and see how everybody's doing and lets the guys know you are thinking about them."
He added: "I've come to terms over the years with not being able to explain what it's like to somebody who hasn't served. I've never figured out how to put it in words that someone else can understand."