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Entyce Beverages combines the strengths of well known and much loved South African tea, coffee and creamer beverage brands with top quality short-life fruit juice brands.
Formerly the Beverage category of National Brands Limited, Entyce was formed as a result of the AVI Group restructure in 2006.
As one of South Africa's leading FMCG companies, we pride ourselves on our market-leading position in many beverage categories. By continuously focusing on internationally recognised standards throughout the supply chain, Entyce manufactures, markets, sells and distributes high quality and affordable brands to our many local and growing international customers.
Ace, Kloof and Mona: These are traditional, tried and trusted coffee mixtures of chicory and coffee. They are known as "the brands I grew up" and have become a very big part of the communities within which they are strong. They have a unique footprint as they display strength in different regions of South Africa.
Click here for the Ace product catalogue
Eleven O'Clock
11 o clock is the number 2 Rooibos brand after Freshpak
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Ellis Brown
People love the way Ellis Brown's deliciously rich and creamy taste enriches beverages and recipes and meals and more...
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FG and Trekker are the number 1 sellers within the mixed brewed segment. FG is the market leader with a market share of 28.1% and still growing.
Click here for the FG product catalogue
Five Roses
For over 100 years, Five Roses has been artfully blended from a unique recipe, providing our tea with a distinctive touch of quality, which is why we are South Africa's top-selling tea.
Click here for the Five Roses product catalogue
Freshpak offers a wide range of Rooibos, Herbal and Green teas. The brand is positioned within the sector of health and well-being. Research has been done on Rooibos and Green teas, and has confirmed that both contain high levels of antioxidants, which are well documented for their health benefits.
Click here for the Freshpak product catalogue
Frisco is a mild, rich and creamy coffee, it offers the warmth and comfort of home. Home. Regardless of what it may mean to you and where you are, it's certain that the very word conjures up thoughts of family, warmth and comfort.
Click here for the Frisco product catalogue
House Of Coffees
House of Coffees reminds you of the truth of coffee. The essence of its nature. The taste that seduces. House of Coffees brings you quality, the way coffee is meant to be experienced, so that you can remember what it is that seduced you in the first place. And only coffee of the purest quality can take you there.
Click here for the House Of Coffees product catalogue
AVI Beverages owns 98.4% of the affordable mixed brewed segment in South Africa
Click here for the Kenna product catalogue
Ace, Kloof and Mona: These are traditional, tried and trusted coffee mixtures of chicory and coffee. They are known as "the brands I grew up" and have become a very big part of the communities within which they are strong. They have a unique footprint as they display strength in different regions of South Africa.
Click here for the Kloof product catalogue
Over time, Koffiehuis has become synonymous with traditional South African warmth and hopitality. Introduced by T.W. Beckett in 1951, Koffiehuis presents consumers with a strongly brewed coffee at an affordable price. Over time, Koffiehuis has become synonymous with traditional South African warmth and hospitality.
Click here for the Koffiehuis product catalogue
Ace, Kloof and Mona: These are traditional, tried and trusted coffee mixtures of chicory and coffee. They are known as "the brands I grew up" and have become a very big part of the communities within which they are strong. They have a unique footprint as they display strength in different regions of South Africa.
Click here for the Mona product catalogue
Teaspoon Tips
Participates in Black tea segment within the "Economy" sub-segment
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FG and Trekker are the number 1 sellers within the mixed brewed segment. FG is the market leader with a market share of 28.1% and still growing. Trekker is a close second with 18.1% market share within the mixed brewed segment. They are available in 4 various pack sizes; 60g, 12g, 250g and 500g.
Click here for the Trekker product catalogue
Trinco is made from carefully chosen and blended teas from Malawi and Zimbabwe.
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Latest Activity
Amid one of the fastest growing tourism regions in South Africa, Ciro Beverage Solutions (Ciro) will open an additional training centre at its new showroom in Nelspruit to demonstrate its commitment to the burgeoning local coffee market.
Five Roses Tea were recently RAKnominated by Shoprite to do their part in the community and show what they can do as a Random Act of Kindness (RAKNomination).
This summer Freshpak Rooibos tea decided to crack the code to summer refreshment by creating a through the line PR & media campaign around the ice-tea concept that was exciting, impactful and innovative.
With summer's return comes a fresh new focus on wellness, as we prepare for a fit and healthy holiday season! In anticipation of warmer days and healthier ways, Freshpak, the market leader in Rooibos Tea, began unveiling their new packaging for their Wellness and Baby Teas in mid-October.
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text: Mephitis mephitis, Philosophiæ Doctor (floyd_mephit) wrote, 2004-07-29 01:20:00 Mephitis mephitis, Philosophiæ Doctor floyd_mephit 2004-07-29 01:20:00 Previous Share Flag Next Mood: irate Music: Paul Strathern - Nietzsche in 90 Minutes only 2 months late So it has come to my attention that Louisiana State University has bestowed upon President Bush (Jr.) a Doctorate of Philosophy in "Science". I never really payed much attention when I saw on TV about his visit at the commencement this past summer. I should've, since it was the graduation of my sister (B.A. in Graphic Design, Magna Cum Laude), but I payed it no mind since I wasn't able to attend (and thankfully so, from what I heard about the whole affair). But, as it was shown to me today in another thread in another place, it was so. What a slap in the face, to have the university I studied in used as a punchline -- a punchline not based on 'party school of the south' or 'benjamin wynne', but a punchline of merit. I had immediately thought of writing a letter to Dr. Kevin Carman, who is the interim Dean of the College of Basic Sciences (and one of my former professors), asking what Chancellor's mixer he had showed up late to have the degree conferred upon the President come with the word "science" on it. The tone of the letter would certainly have been tempered by the fact that I did not like Dr. Carmen at all when I was his student, finding his disinterest forteaching nauseating. But, I have always kept it among my long-term goals to return to LSU to obtain a position in the faculty one day. Whether this is reasonable or not, I really have no clue. I don't know if the position would pay what I'd be interested in or if the quality of their laboratories will have improved from what they were when I used them last. But, either way I would like to keep the option open and taking the dean to task would not aid me much in that endeavor. And anyway, the degree was honorary, as are all degrees conferred on visiting politicians. But it was the name of "science" that really annoyed me, and I feel devalued my own degree with the same word on it. I have always felt opposed to honorary degrees given out like party favors to sit on the many mantles of sitting politicians, celebrities, and dignitaries. What's the point, really, except to show that fame is equal in the eyes of public academia to effort and knowledge. I think all thinking men should sneer at that. Subscribe Post a new comment Error Anonymous comments are disabled in this journal We will log you in after post We will log you in after post We will log you in after post We will log you in after post We will log you in after post Anonymously switch LiveJournal Facebook Twitter OpenId Google MailRu VKontakte Anonymously default userpic Your IP address will be recorded Post a new comment Preview comment Help 1 comment Post a new comment 1 comment

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The components of the ISS present difficult design and engineering challenges. Wear debris created by slip rings can cause short circuits and can result in the formation of destructive plasmas and failure of the transfer path. The drag torque of slip ring transfer mechanisms can be undesirably high when large amounts of power are transferred because of the many brushes required. The vacuum environment also requires special lubrication consideration. This lubrication system must also be compatible with the atmosphere of the earth environment.
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Roll-Rings® have been integrated into three power and signal transfer mechanisms on the ISS under several NASA contracts; two Utility Transfer Assemblies (UTA) one in each SARJ, eight Bearing Motor Roll Ring Modules (BMRRM) in the BGAs for the solar arrays and six Power and Data Transfer Assembly (PDTA) for the thermal radiators. A total of sixteen Roll-Ring® devices serve the International Space Station.
Components of the three Roll-Ring® mechanisms went to space over intervals between November, 2000 and March, 2009 and have been operational starting January, 2001.
The primary unit is the Utility Transfer Assembly (UTA) used on the station Alpha axis, one for each SARJ, which provided twenty-four high current paths and thirty-six HF data and video circuits. The power transfer section was a flight quality version of the prototype design tested at the LeRC. The signal circuits were provided by four nine-circuit Roll Ring modules. Two UTA modules are required for the ISS. The first UTA was launched in Sep, 2006 and the second on June, 2007.
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The Beta Gimbal Roll Ring Sub Assembly consists of five high current / high voltage circuits and twelve data and video circuits. The data circuits were configured with two modules similar to those used in the UTA. Eight Beta joints have been launched to space for the ISS. The first two modules went to space Nov, 2000 and have been operational since Nov, 2001. The next two were launched in Sep, 2006, the next two in June, 2007 and the last two in March, 2009.
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President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday acknowledged his concerns about a split in the pan-blue camp over People First Party (PFP) Chairman James Soong's (宋楚瑜) participation in the presidential election, adding that negotiations with Soong and the PFP would continue.
In an interview on CTV's political TV show Report to the Voters, Ma, seeking re-election in January as the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) presidential candidate, discussed Soong's possible presidential bid with host Jaw Shao-kang (趙少康) and said the KMT was concerned about the possible impact of Soong running for the presidency because the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and its candidate, DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), could benefit from a split in the pan-blue camp.
"We are continuing our discussions with the PFP ... We should look at the big picture and avoid a spat between allies affecting the outcome of the election," Ma said.
Soong declared his intention to join the presidential election in May and started a petition last month. He has previously said he would not join the race unless he collected 1 million signatures for his presidential petition, but later said he would join the presidential election if the number of signatures surpassed the legal threshold of 257,695.
Soong's presidential bid has caused great concern in the KMT, especially because Ma has been polling neck-and-neck with the DPP's Tsai.
Soong has been ignoring the KMT's call for pan-blue unity and he said earlier this week that his petition had passed the legal threshold and he promised to make his candidacy official by sending the first batch of petitions to the Central Election Commission on Tuesday.
PFP spokesman Wu Kun-yu (吳崑玉) yesterday shrugged off Ma's concerns, saying Soong wanted to participate in the presidential election because he wanted to respond to the public's expectations.
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Two months since my last post. So my first New Year's resolution will be to post more regularly in 2007. At least for once I have a valid reason for not posting for the last two months. In November something momentous happened. It was finally delivered. After months of development, it arrived with all the expected features,…
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Don't block your UI thread
Even in the world of .NET, some things never change. You block your UI thread with a Sleep(10000) and wonder why it's not painting properly? Patient: "It hurts when I do this" Physiotherapist: "Well don't do it then" Do not block your UI thread in a non-UI friendly way.
New article on debugging .NET memory issues
The latest MSDN Magazine is now published and there is a great article about debugging .NET memory issues: "CLR Inside Out: Investigating Memory Issues". I've added this to my list of .NET debugging resources which I have now changed from a blog post to an article. Cheers Doug
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I found this article about Google's new "code search" tool rather amusing. In a manner that reminds me of the fabled warning that gets printed on some coffee cups, helpfully advising consumers that the coffee they have just bought might be hot ('hmm, great, that's what I thought I'd paid for'), this article helpfully advises…
Is there a timewarp between here and redmond?
The reason I wonder that is because our dev teams seem to be pumping stuff out the door so fast at the moment that I think they must have a special 27 hour working day unlike the 8 or 10 that the rest of us have. In no particular order we have… 1) Visual Studio…
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I've justed added a short article about load testing web applications: http://blogs.msdn.com/dougste/articles/loadtest.aspx Cheers Doug
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Now you would think that painting these guys should be straight forward. But no.....I have two pictures that make them look very different. So although the photo and the colour print are different, they both say that they wore olive green. So (see next picture) I collected all my greens/olives/mosses/ khakis...and tried to match the colour.....not an easy task..
In the end , once I settled on my colours I was quite happy with the results! Now it's a matter of putting them up against the bootnecks of the Royal Marine Commandos and the Scots Guards!
The Ca Cdo Anf's first action was the initial attack on Port Stanley in April 1982 and there they clashed with NP8901 the Royal Marine garrison of the Falklands - this action was credited to the Buzo Tactico- but it was in fact the Marine Commandos.
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Over the past few weeks, you've likely been through a lot. In order to diagnose your cancer, you probably had a core-needle biopsy—90% of women do. In a core-needle biopsy, a doctor uses a thin, hollow needle to remove tissue from a breast mass.
Your other option was a surgical (excisional) biopsy. This procedure involves removing a larger portion of the abnormal area. But excisional biopsies are reserved for the one in 10 cases where it would be hard to get an adequate tissue sample with a core-needle biopsy, or where a suspicious growth is close to the chest wall.
Having a biopsy isn't anyone's idea of fun, but the findings help determine the right course of treatment, so it's an important part of the process!
One of the goals over the next few weeks is to determine the "stage" of your cancer.
- Lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS). Even though this is classified as a Stage 0 breast cancer, it does not progress to a more serious cancer at the biopsy site. In this case, abnormal cells are found in the breast lobules—parts of the breast capable of producing milk. Doctors usually manage LCIS as a risk factor for invasive cancer; like a family history of breast cancer, it means a woman has an elevated risk for developing a true cancer in either breast.
- Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is considered Stage 0 breast cancer. It's a noninvasive condition in which abnormal cells are found only in the lining of the breast ducts. Untreated DCIS may turn into invasive cancer, but it's hard to predict whether or when this might happen.
- Stages I through IV. There are several subtypes within these stages, but the bottom line is that these are all true, invasive cancers. If your cancer isn't a DCIS, it will be given a number based on the size of the tumor, how many lymph nodes contain cancer cells, and whether the cancer has spread to your chest wall, breast skin, or other organs. For more details about what these numbers mean, see the chart below.
|Stages of breast cancer
|Cancer cells contained within the breast ducts only
|Early stage, tumor less than 2 centimeters (cm),
with no or microscopic involvement of lymph nodes
|Early stage, tumor greater than 2 cm in size, or with spread to underarm lymph nodes
|Tumor with more extensive lymph node involvement, or greater than 5 cm with any spread to underarm lymph nodes
|Metastatic (with spread to other parts of the body)
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Correction and well-being for ALL
Amatsu Physical Therapy is a therapy that helps to restore, natural balance and physical welling being, by using the body's natural movements.
It is a therapy that has been used in Japan for thousands of years.
Amatsu treatments are gentle and non-invasive and are suitable for people of any age, from the very young to the very old and for those with limited mobility.
The basic principles, are that therapists understand the natural balance of the human body and by certain gentle movements and enlightenment, harmony is restored.
Unlike more conventional massage therapists, that work on muscles, Amatsu practitioners, see the human form in a different light, more as a structure that is held together with bones, but operated by the ligaments, tendons, muscles and tissue, which creates a smooth and flowing motion in the human form.
This treatment is perfect, for those who suffer with debilitating and agonising pain. It relaxes the body, as well as the mind. Amatsu helps the body to mend the causes of imbalance and therefore restores, balance and function. However, as with any treatment, one session will make a difference, but a course of treatments is required to make a long-term difference.
To write about such a therapy, it is only natural to experience a session myself. Abergavenny based Stephan who also holds a clinic in Cardiff, has been practicing this form of therapy for just over 12 months.
Amatsu is a fully clothed therapy, however lose clothing is recommended. Explaining the whole experience, Stephan ran through everything that he was about to do, and the reason for it, as well as ensuring that I knew what I would expect during the massage.
It was a very relaxing 45 minute. Firstly, finding my pressure points, much like acupuncture, but using his fingers instead of needles. The tummy button is one of the main pressure points, and like a computer, when gently rubbed in conjunction with another pressure point, is like pressing the re set button on a computer, restoring the communication in the body.
The movements to realign the body are almost dance a like, and similar to Thai chi, smooth gentle, gliding, not as you would expect massage to be.
The feeling afterwards was incredible. Relaxing and serine. Stephan had asked questions not only about my physical well- being but also of my emotional and over-all health.
Stephan Grabner originally trained as a nurse and has worked as an International Business Development Manager for many years. After being successfully treated for hip and knee problems by an Amatsu therapist he trained as an Amatsu practitioner.
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There's A Turkey Alright, But It's Standing In Line
Sandwich Shop | Right | January 19, 2008
Customer: "Hello, can I please get a turkey burger?"
Me: "You mean a turkey sandwich?"
Customer: "No, I mean a turkey burger!"
Me: "Miss, we don't sell turkey burgers here."
(Another customer orders a soy patty.)
Customer: "Don't lie to me! That woman just got one!"
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The Unwinding
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A beautiful new pillow book, from the Kate Greenaway Award winning author Jackie Morris.
Virtual Cities
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A beautifully illustrated atlas exploring and mapping the spectacular imaginary cities of video games.
The Fully Charged Guide to Electric Vehicles & Clean Energy
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A comprehensive, entertaining, heavily illustrated look at electric vehicles and an array of adjacent technologies that will enable humans to lessen our impact on the planet.
Fact Hunt: Fascinating, Fun & Downright Bizarre Facts About Video Games
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A compendium of the strangest, most shocking, hilarious and captivating facts and anecdotes from all of Gaming!
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A book of art by Vic Reeves.
Bird Brain
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A comic about mental health ... starring pigeons.
Still Barred
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Stories inspired by the notorious barred list from the Half Moon in Herne Hill
Another Life
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How We Are Failing the World's Poor
Things I Learned from Mario's Butt
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A compendium and critique of the most beautiful, bulbous and downright dangerous video game butts.
West of West
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A photographic exploration of the edge of America at the end of Route 66 and Santa Monica Pier
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President Felipe Calderón announced three changes in his cabinet tonight, including the appointment of his fourth Secretary of Government.
Secretary of Government: Fernando Gómez Mont resigned, and will be replaced by José Francisco Blake Mora. Gómez Mont quit the PAN last February in protest of the decision to form electoral alliances with the PRD; his open insubordination to the President ensured his departure sooner or later. He is returning to private law practice. Blake Mora is currently Secretary of Government in Baja California. He is said to be a close friend of Calderón from the days when they were both members of the federal Chamber of Deputies (2000-2003). Blake Mora is largely unknown at the national level. He is being given credit for reducing crime in Baja California through coordinating federal, state, and local police and security initiatives. However, he is also being blamed for the poor PAN performance in the July 4 elections, when the party lost mayoral races in 13 of 16 towns. (One clear loser in the change is Labor Secretary Javier Lozano. He had publicly lobbied for the position in the past few days.)
Head of the Office of the President: Patricia Flores Elizondo, sometimes called Mexico's unofficial vice president, was ousted. Viewed as fiercely polemical and partisan, she has attracted her share of enemies, both within and without the Government. She recent(ly became vulnerable because of the disclosure that her four sisters and mother were on the government payroll. (Although there are rumors that she will be made an ambassador, the President made no announcement.) She is being replaced by Gerardo Ruiz Mateos, Secretary of Economy, who previously held the same job and has been one of Calderón's closest advisers during the campaign and over the first three years of his Government.
Secretary of Economy: Bruno Ferrari, the head of ProMéxico, the government's foreign investment promotion arm, takes over from Ruiz Mateos. Ferrari was previously a senior executive with Seminis Vegetable Seeds and Grupo Pulsar.


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Power producers must curb the tainted water they discharge into waterways under a proposal the Environmental Protection Agency issued Friday, the latest in a series of rules aimed at utilities that burn coal.
The EPA proposed four options for regulating the disposal of toxic waste from power plants, which are the top source of pollutants in streams, rivers and other waters. The final rules would have the most impact on coal-fired plants, which are the primary source of the pollutants, and would be phased in beginning in 2017.
The Sierra Club, which sued the EPA to issue these rules, urged the agency to adopt the strongest of the four proposals and said the announcement is an important step forward.


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It is not every day you see a raucous pop musical set on the streets of Edinburgh. But right now, there are two. Later this week, Stephen Greenhorn's Sunshine on Leith returns to Dundee Rep, offering a joyful soap opera of ageing, adultery and falling in love, set to the songs of the Proclaimers. But first we have Midsummer, with similar themes, by playwright David Greig and musician Gordon McIntyre, of indie band Ballboy.
Where the Greenhorn show is big, brash and primary-coloured, Midsummer is scuzzy, delivering comedy, pathos and romance with a lo-fi aesthetic. Cora Bissett and Matthew Pidgeon, playing bar room strangers whose one-night stand turns into a lost weekend, don't so much perform the songs as busk them on acoustic guitars. The simple soundtrack matches the rough-and-ready immediacy of Greig's tale, in which this Bonnie and Clyde redistribute £15,000 of stolen cash on the shortest night of the year.
In its storytelling style it recalls Greig's children's play Yellow Moon, and has a similar what-happens-next appeal. In theme, it is as if we have caught up with two twentysomething characters from Timeless, Greig's first contribution to the Edinburgh festival in 1997. In that play, they struggled to find a perfect moment in a fast-moving world; 10 years on, Bob and Helena still feel life is passing them by, but their sense of impotence is intensified by mid-life panic.
Greig, who also directs, drives the show forward with knockabout humour and a happy complicity with the audience. The lovable leads deserve their happy ending, and the evening offers the private pleasure of a rare indie B-side.


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It used to be that the sign of living well was a big house, one with lots of rooms, maybe a pool—the kind of house you might envy when you catch a glimpse of it on TV or in a magazine. But that's changing. Due to environmental and economic pressures, builders and buyers alike are beginning to think smaller and smaller and look to more sustainable technologies and materials for homes.
This movement, known as the "tiny house movement," is a direct response to the growing concern about environmental impact, carbon footprints, financial challenges and concerns about space and land conservation. There's also a sense of freedom that many tiny-house dwellers talk about. Many of these houses are modular, and that means they can be packed up, shipped out and then plopped down anywhere the residents desire (within zoning limitations, of course). They can even be placed on rooftops, which means they utilize the otherwise unused space on urban skylines. The houses are also very inexpensive, which means owners seldom have to be concerned with a mortgage. This gallery showcases five little houses with pretty big eco-conscious features. Simply click a photo to learn more. Oh, and did we mention how cute they are?


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Today is day 2 of the #RuckusMakersChallenge and an 8-day series on how Winos like us connect with the world over a glass of wine…
I'm a wannabe museum lover. Seriously – I really want to love them. Sometimes I do… and sometimes I pretend I do. When I walk into a museum, I generally have two simultaneous feelings: being "in awe" and being "not enough". I'm in awe of the people who have dumped their souls onto a canvas or into a sculpture. And I feel that "I'm not enough" for not having the creative/artist gene. And even worse – for not understanding what an artist's work even means. But I have to say that I love museums when I have a good guided tour, or a friend who knows something about what we're looking at – something that give me more context to the art.
All of that said, I'm starting to realize that art isn't always about me understanding the artist's meaning or intent behind the work, but whether or not their work affected me. Correct me if I'm wrong Artists, but if I felt moved or warmed or angered after looking at your work, you'd be happy that you made me change, right?!
While at the Ruckusmakers workshop last week (see this post if you missed it), we talked about our work as our art. That any craft requires work and you have to work every day to get better at it. Most of us show up to work every day, just like an artist shows up to her studio every day. But the mindset of the worker and the artist is slightly different. The worker shows up with the general intention to get paid. The artist's intent is to make someone change.
This made me think about winemakers. They're out in the fields every day nurturing vines, picking and pressing grapes, fermenting and aging the juice, and eventually bottling their
work art. And we Winos get to show up at our favorite kind of museum – the winery – to experience that art with all of our senses. We look, we smell, we taste, we savor this kind of art. And even better, that winery usually comes with a winemaker, who can elaborate on the intention behind his art. Sometimes we don't understand it. Sometimes we don't like it. But it always changes us. And I'm pretty sure most winemaking artists would be happy that we took the time to experience their bottled art.
Winos like us we think of wineries as museums. And we love bottled art.


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'I also have to mention the Sabres' defense was just stellar last night. It seemed like anytime there was a rebound the Sabres were on the puck to clear it.'
Archives for March 4, 2006
New York Legend Is Honored, in Buffalo
'"As much as we know what he has done off the ice for various charities, including Children's Hospital, he's done at least as many things that we don't know about," said Jeanneret, who repeated his trademark call of "La-la-la-la-la-Fontaine" as the banner with LaFontaine's name and number were raised above the ice. "He never asked for any publicity in any of his endeavors, but we all know that he is a treasure to the community."'
Sabres vs. Bruins
'Season Series: Sabres lead, 3-0.'
Sabres keep Leafs in slumber
'"Our game was back where we needed it." said Sabres coach Lindy Ruff. "We really skated well. They had trouble with our speed."'
LaFontaine emotions flow freely
'"Anytime you leave a place you love or things happen, it doesn't always work out right off the bat," LaFontaine said, "and then you have a chance to look back and reflect on how special it really was. I think [managing partner] Larry [Quinn] coming back and having the connection with [my friend] John Luther and realizing that, "You know what? This was a special time, and there are more important things than worrying about things like that.'"'
Bettman basks in limelight of new NHL
'"It's spectacular to see this building this filled, this alive, this energized," he said. "This is what I've always known hockey in Buffalo to be."'
Big honour for La-la-la-Fontaine
'Sabres broadcaster Rick Jeanneret, who emceed the pre-game ceremony that delayed the start until 8:26, gave LaFontaine one last "La-la-la-la-la-laFontaine" call as a send-off.'
Saturday's Toronto Coverage
Leafs prey for hungry Sabres (Toronto Star)
New nest for Eagle? (Toronto Star)
Leafs given a Sabre-rattling (Toronto Sun)
Sundin beginning to have doubts (Toronto Sun)
Big honour for La-la-la-Fontaine (Toronto Sun)
Domi 'scared' of Belak (Toronto Sun)
Buffalo does LaFontaine proud (Toronto Globe and Mail)
It's a bad sign for Leafs when their best players are their worst (Toronto Globe and Mail)
Playoffs passing Leafs by (National Post)
LaFontaine humbled as his No. 16 is retired (National Post)
Forget playoffs, time Leafs trade (Hamilton Spectator)
Awful Leafs fall to Sabres (CBC Sports)
Photo gallery (MapleLeafs.com)
Buffalo 6, Toronto 2
'"It feels great, but the team needed this win," said Roy, who tipped defenseman Brian Campbell's slap shot from the point past Mikael Tellqvist for his third goal of the game. "It was a big win for us."'
Buffalo 6, Toronto 2
'"The ceremony before the game, it seemed like the crowd was ready for the game, electrifying," Roy said. "We were trying to give them as much as we can. I thought we got better as the game went on..killed some big penalties there."'


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To Receive, Make Room For What You Want
Comedian Steve Harvey tells the story of an old car he had sitting on cinder blocks. He kept telling his mom that one day he was going to buy a new car. Every time she would reply "I know baby, but you still got that old car out there."
He finally asked her why she kept telling him he had his old car sitting outside. She asked him where he planned to put the new car if his old car was still sitting there.
She explained that he needed to make room for the things he wants. He had the old car hauled away and two weeks later he had his new car. Where in your life can you make room for what you want?
Speak It Into Existence
Another powerful way for manifesting what you want is to use positive words that express your wishes. If your goal is to move into a new home, you can use statements such as, "My dream home is now being brought into my life for the best will and good of all." By saying, "the best will and good of all" you are including the sellers and the people who will live in your home, and so on.
The words you speak are very powerful. They are either attracting what you want or pushing it away. Sometimes I hear single women say, "With my luck he won't be interested in me." "He probably has a girlfriend." They make these statements without knowing anything about the other person.
They start out by not giving the situation a chance. Each time you use such words, it is as if each is a brick that builds a wall that blocks your desires from coming into your life.
Superstar Alicia Keys shared that she often used phrases such as "Well, with my luck…", "We're never going to…" until one day her writing partner, Krucial, made her aware of how powerful her words are. "If you think that's how something is going to be, then that's how it's going to be," he explained.
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The holiday season is upon us and 2020 is on the horizon. From "Reconstruction" to "Chasing the Moon" to "Molly of Denali," the Education team is thankful for the experiences...
EOC Adopts Recommendations to Merge Accountability Systems
On January 17, the Education Oversight Committee (EOC) adopted recommendations for a single accountability system that meet both federal and state requirements for school accountability. The recommendations were required as part of Act 200 of 2014, enacted by the SC General Assembly and follow 18 months of engagement from stakeholders representing parents, community members, business leaders, and educators.
Transformation goals
The EOC recommended the adoption of two transformational goals for South Carolina:
By 2035, the on-time graduation rate of the state, each district, and each high school in South Carolina should be 90 percent. Children born in the current calendar year should graduate from high school in 2035.
Beginning with the graduating class of 2020, the state must increase annually by 5 percent the percentage of students who graduate ready to enter postsecondary education to pursue a degree or national industry credential without the need for remediation in mathematics or English.
Reduction in summative testing
The EOC recommended a reduction in summative (end-of-year) testing of students, advocating that students take the Palmetto Assessment of State Standards (PASS) Science in grades 4, 6, and 8. Social Studies would be tested in grades 5 and 7. Currently, students are tested in both Science and Social Studies in grades 4-8. The EOC further recommended that multiple-choice assessments in science and social studies be replaced in the future with performance tasks "that truly measure a student's content understanding and ability to apply his or her learning to solve real-world problems."
Public reporting
Although the EOC recommended that school districts not receive a summative rating, schools will receive a summative rating as well as a rating for each of four indicators under the proposal. The ratings for both the school summative rating as well as the component rating will use the nomenclature currently in state statute, Excellent, Good, Average, Below Average, and At-Risk and used since 1998. A sample of the recommended elementary school report card "landing page" can be found online at http://tinyurl.com/jsapqvc.
For the full recommendations, go to http://www.eoc.sc.gov
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Type a Name for the Form Letter, and press the Tab key. This Name is the name that displays on the dropdown list on the selected screen (see the next step).
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The Delivery Method dropdown allows you to choose if a document is to be sent via regular mail (Mail) or Email (an E-Thank You). NOTE: The Mail option displays a 'Print' icon next to the letter on the selected dropdown list, in this example the Letter field on the Donation screen, making it easy for other DonorPro users to recognize which letters are meant for standard mailing.
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If Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., forces a floor vote to "vacate the chair" — or oust Speaker John A. Boehner — House Democrats will have to decide: Will they vote to help Boehner keep his gavel to maintain some semblance of order in the chamber? Or abandon the Ohio Republican, sit back and watch the GOP implode?
Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer indicated Tuesday he wasn't interested in playing a game of hypotheticals, even on something that could have huge implications at a time when Boehner and other House Republican leaders are trying to prevent a hardline conservative contingent from spurring a government shutdown . "I understand that," Hoyer told reporters at a pen-and-pad briefing in response to pointed reminders from reporters that the Democrats would have a lot of power in determining Boehner's fate. "We'll see if there's a time to exercise that in an effective way."
In the meantime, the Maryland Democrat said, his caucus was content to let the Republicans deal with it themselves.
"It clearly is proof of the fact of what I've been saying for a long period of time, that the Republican Party is a deeply divided party ... but we're not going to react to it until something happens," Hoyer said. "I mean, it's pretty much a Republican fight. They're going to fight about it among their ranks and we'll see what happens."
Right before the House broke for the August recess, Meadows put the feelers out, quietly filing a resolution to strip Boehner of his speakership that took most of his colleagues by surprise. Now that Congress is back in session, Meadows could decide whether to reintroduce the resolution as "privileged," which under House rules would require lawmakers to take floor action on it, and inside a very narrow window of time.
In a phone interview with CQ Roll Call last week, Meadows suggested he would be watching Boehner carefully in the weeks ahead: "I think all of September is a huge pressure point, and can be a real time that people start looking at changes in leadership."
And while he stressed he wasn't counting votes or whipping the resolution to vacate the chair, Meadows did say he believed "a number of Democrats" would have to vote for Boehner for him to retain his position.
That means Meadows thinks there are now more anti-Boehner Republicans than the 25 who did not vote for the incumbent at the start of the 114th Congress.
Still, Hoyer wasn't willing to say anything to confirm or deny that speculation, though he didn't take a pass at an opportunity to slam GOP dysfunction more generally as the days tick down to a possible lapse in federal funding by the month's end.
"Everybody in America sees how deeply divided the Republican Party is, in Congress and in the presidential race," he said. "This is not a news flash to anyone."
Matt Fuller contributed to this report.
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There never was a Time Of Pure Journalism, and as the 21st century schemes along, it's clear there never will be.
In Canada, along with the Unelected Bureaucracy Party and the Robed Judicial Activist Front, is our collection of talking heads of the Unelected Media Party. A few journalists hidden in the mix – the rest are typists and hair for rent, expert at recycling the zeitgeist moment by moment. Journalling? Discerning? Warning & praising? Not so much, akshully.
Now, the collection of odd cats (including Binks) herded together by Ezra Levant and other survivors of the Sun TV wasteful experiment are no such thing as "objective". But nobody really is. But we are now an important, honest, largely unpaid alternative for anyone seeking real news & opinion in Justinistan, along with expat Mark Steyn and a handful of others.
The alarm clock is ringing: Obamaland is a warning for what comes next in Canada. The false North weak and enslaved has just become Trudeaupistan 2.0— the train-wreck will unfold slowly, expensively, and with all the usual suspects behind the scenes (The Strongs a.k.a. Canada's George Soros & family, the Liberal Establishment, former PM Bugsy Chretien, and Justin's collection of fails and ideologues) imposing every new bad idea out there on Canadians as if we were a collection of lab rats in a box, and not a nation with a proud history, some good qualities, and a bunch of adults formerly in control.
It will be horrible, like watching someone you love being tortured to death… or watching the last 15 years in Ontario governance.
Use this. Let's learn all the lessons, fight back, and hope for a better day on the other side of this four– or eight– year-long colonoscopy. It's not all bad news, after all.
How much more important than ever is the Rebel Media idea: a Drudge Report Collective, if you will, with some folks with real media chops and political awareness, shining a spotlight on our new Glorious Leader and his court, as all the other unelected Parties in our land cover, fudge, lie, ignore, and describe in loving detail how very fine the new emperor's new clothes are; how colourful, how finely sewn, how he wears them with class and– Oh!– that hair!
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Conservative people of all stripes are still the majority in Canada, as in the U.S., but progressives like the Obama electoral crew and others who helped Justin Trudeau before, during, and likely after the 2015 watershed election know all about how to marginalize majorities, dividing and conquering, distraction, denial, dragging things out, hating on their enemies, being lawless, and waging unapologetic warfare on society as it is.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) has given the Corolla, one of the world's best-selling cars, a major makeover and launched it in Japan on Tuesday in hopes that a sporty silhouette and new interactive functions will draw in younger buyers.
While ubiquitous among first-time drivers and university students in North America, Corolla's top market that accounts for about a third of its global sales, the model has become known as a car for the elderly at home where the average age of its owners is around 70 - an image Toyota wants to change.
"We're grateful that our older customers have remained loyal to the Corolla," said Yoshiki Konishi, chief engineer of the Corolla Sport, the newest model which next goes on sale in North America in the coming months and Europe in 2019.
"But we want the Corolla to resonate more with younger drivers ... we want to target people in their 20s and 30s."
To spruce up the image of its most iconic model, Toyota has led the Corolla's rollout with the hatchback Sport version rather than the traditional sedan.
For Japan, the Corolla Sport comes fitted with Toyota's data communication module which collects driving data to provide cloud-based, real-time navigation and technical support, while also monitoring vehicle health to give maintenance updates.
Corolla and a revamped domestic Crown sedan model, also launched on Tuesday, will be Toyota's first mass-market cars to offer such advanced technological functions that were previously available exclusively in models from its high-end Lexus brand. Other automakers offer similar functions.
"By adding connected capabilities to a model known for being popular among older drivers, Toyota is trying to attract younger people to the Corolla, and widen its customer base (at home), said Takeshi Miyao, managing director of consultancy Carnorama.
"By doing so, it is betting that the next car trend may not be based on vehicle segment or model, but perhaps on applications, or functions."
But attracting younger drivers is tough in general in fast-graying Japan, where the number of driving license holders aged under 30 dropped 22 percent in the past decade while for those aged 65 and above it jumped 64 percent, official data shows.
The Corolla Sport's revamped image and connected functions had limited appeal for Yuhei Fujita, a 27-year-old who works for a tech company in Tokyo and does not own a car.
"Most cars have decent navigation systems, and if I were to buy a car I'd be happy to be able to connect my smartphone to it," Fujita said.
"The Corolla has a strong image as being a family car, so I'm not sure why Toyota wants to market it toward younger people now."
Toyota declined to give demographic targets for the newest member of the Corolla family, which has sold 46 million units across more than 150 countries since its launch in 1966.
But Konishi acknowledged the reliability of the Corolla would likely continue to draw in mature drivers.
"I'm in my 50s, and I'm planning to buy one."
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The California dream weavers have invaded Charm City with their cameras, their stars, and their controversy. . . .
When private investigator Tess Monaghan literally runs into the crew of the fledgling TV series Mann of Steel while sculling, she expects sharp words and evil looks, not an assignment. But the company has been plagued by a series of disturbing incidents since its arrival on location in Baltimore: bad press, union threats, and small, costly on-set "accidents" that have wreaked havoc with its shooting schedule. As a result, Mann's creator, Flip Tumulty, the son of a Hollywood legend, is worried for the safety of his young female lead, Selene Waites, and asks Tess to serve as her bodyguard/babysitter. Tumulty's concern may be well founded. Not long ago a Baltimore man was discovered dead in his own home, surrounded by photos of the beautiful, difficult superstar-in-the-making.
In the past, Tess has had enough trouble guarding her own body. Keeping a spoiled movie princess under wraps may be more than she can handleeven with the help of Tess's icily unflappable friend Whitneysince Selene is not as naive as everyone seems to think, and far more devious than she initially appears to be. This is not Tess's world. And these are not her kind of people, with their vanities, their self-serving agendas and invented personas, and their remarkably skewed visions of realityfrom the series' aging, shallow, former pretty-boy leading man to its resentful, always-on-the-make cowriter to the officious young assistant who may be too hungry for her own good.
But the fish-out-of-water P.I. is abruptly pulled back in by an occurrence she's all too familiar withmurder. Suddenly the wall of secrets around Mann of Steel is in danger of toppling, leaving shattered dreams, careers, and lives scattered among the ruinsa catastrophe that threatens the people Tess cares about . . . and the city she loves.
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"Like lunch at Atwater's, Tess's latest leaves you fully satisfied but looking forward to next time." - Kirkus Reviews.
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