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Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. As usual, it's product review times again. Today I wanna share the second eye patch that I have used with you guys. It's the Petitfee–Black Pearl & Gold Hydrogel Eyepatch.
If you are unsure about the brand Petitfee, no worries, just click into their official website and have a look. Or you can read my review on Petitfee – Gold & EGF Eye & Spot Patch where I have explain a little about it.
The previous review about the Gold & EGF Eye & Spot Patch are mainly to reduce the dark eye circles. While for this Black Pearl & Gold Hydrogel Eyepatch are mainly to reduce the eye bag and wrinkles. Of course, all the problems mentioned (dark eye circles, wrinkles and eye bag) are girls headache.
Now, lets us start the review and see how well the Black Pearl & Gold Hydrogel Eyepatch can be!!!
Petitfee – Black Pearl & Gold Hydrogel Eyepatch
You might be wondering why they choose to use black pearl and gold? This is because pearl having high level of amino acid and minerals helps circumstation, while gold ingredients purifies skin and helps keep the bright tone. What make this product a winner is the highly densed essence of nutrients. It contains green tea, wormwood, citron, cucumber, grapefruit seed and other various of plants is condensed in this essence provide moisture and nutrition deep into the skin which helps improve the skin around the eyes area. Mist type out of natural gel ingredients can be used for body care after melt it with warm water.
This eye patch are same as the previous Gold & EGF Eye & Spot Patch which are in the form of Hydro Gel. But, what is hydro gel?
Main Ingredients: Gold, Pear Extract, Betaine, Rosa Centifolia Flower water, Chamaecyparis Obtusa Water
How to use: After wash your face, and apply basic skin care product. Take out this patch with spoon, paste well around your under eye area. Keep 30 min and take off patch from your skin and soft massage with your finger.
Tips on re-using: You can use again used patch for body care. Please melting with warm water before reuse.
Packaging: The eye patches are stored in a round container. The container is sealed for hygiene purpose before opening. It comes with a spatula for the purpose of picking up the exact eye patch without destroying the others. The eye patches are shinny black hydro gel pack.
This Black Pearl & Gold Hydrogel Eyepatch are recommended for people who want to reduce the wrinkles around eye area, concern with dark eye circle, want to have a moisture skin and increase skin vitality. Of course, we want all of it!
Again, I use this almost everyday especially for my night skin care routine. After toner, I'll apply this eye patch and then follow by the others. Same like the Gold & EGF Eye & Spot Patch, it's very cooling and soothing. I feel relaxed when putting this eye patch on.The eye patches is very hydrating and moisture with a lot of essence in it. Once opening, it's recommended to use within two months. It contains 60 patches, for everyday-use in a month you can finish it. It's recommended to use within two months because it contains high level of essence (you can feel it's dripping out). If it's store more than two months, you can feel the dryness of it.
However, this patches do give me a slight sting feeling like the Gold & EGF Eye & Spot Patch as well. Luckily, it's doesn't bring any irritation or sensitivity issues. I believe because the under eye area can be very tender and soft, so when the patches are cool it reacts that way.
For the scent, again it's same like the Gold & EGF Eye & Spot Patch. It has a very strong floral scent(which some of you may not like it) but it's not that strong until it can cause you to sneeze. It's a hydrogel eye patches, so it's a thick gel like texture. The shape for this is slightly bigger compare to the other one. So, it can cover a bigger area.
Will I repurchase? Yes, I will. Although the results is not so obvious but I find that it helps to relax my tired eyes. The price of it is very reasonable, so i think I'll take the pay for it.
Wanna try the Petitfee – Black Pearl & Gold Hydrogel Eyepatch, buy it at Hermo for RM29.00 or at Amazon for US$10.25.
Hope you enjoy reading my post.
Love, Jess
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Video compilation of the latest crop circle reports from United Kingdom.
- August 16; Nettle Hill near Ansty, Warwickshire
- August 22; Ackling Dyke, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset
- August 24; Ironwell Lane near Stroud Green, Essex
Video compilation of the latest crop circle reports from United Kingdom.
Say now you fellas gots to know plasma cutters for precise metal cutting applications are run from computer programs in some instances. Now maybe some o'l boys with nothin but time on their hands is programing images into software and runnin them into retro fit harvesters to make them fancy crop circles. O'l fred knew a fella that used to cut images of dancin gals into quarter inch steel then mount them gals to his Harley….
fred. i'm really surprised you don't believe crop circles are not man made. really.
Janet, freds got to look at it from all angles, never was one to put all my eggs in one basket.
I dont think so
As a major believer in UF0's. I so do not believe in the crop circle phenomenon. I believe that is a conspiracy designed solely to set us off in wrong directions then discredit us and make us look like loonies.
Whether or not these crop circles are formed by some non-human entity or not I cannot be 100% certain. But they have been telling a story! This latest one is the Seal of Saturn. Or, Saturns Seal! Demonic in nature, referring to Satan, as the majority of these crop circles are and have been to this point. But if you don't study signs of Demons (and there are many different ones) you'll never be able to 'see' what's truly going on. But be forwarned, if you delve into this realm you'd better have the Holy Spirit within and without to protect you! Selah
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aka "pure american water"
aka "p.a.w."
aka "sail away"
aka "little ponies"
the main goal of this one ended up being melodic material, and i basically wrote in this order:
1. main beat
2. chorus section chords
3. chorus section melody
4. other synth parts
5. guitar parts, which gave the verse section harmonic clarity
6. verse melody and all lyrics
not an unusual or particularly interesting writing order or scenario, but it was nice to get back into focusing on "melody over chords," and chords which are mostly inside but go "outside" just a bit.
the words speak of a dream to one day be able to sail into another magical world where freedom is free and all cares are cut off by the magical sunshine and we're all ponies.
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I have mixed feelings about dog shows. On the one hand, I enjoy seeing dogs do obedience and agility, and I like watching the handlers groom. I also enjoy watching conformation competition in some breeds. However, dog shows are frantic arrairs. People are always looking for a place to park, their (competition) rings, places to set up and groom, water, decent food, and the vendors. It's gotten very expensive to show dogs, and it's out rageously expensive to observe some of the shows.
I went to the International Kennel Club dog show a few years back. I might have even paid over $8 to get in, & possibly for parking more than that for parking. No joke. I wanted to get a few grooming items and watch judging of several breeds. Yeah, very expensive, for the opportunity to step in dog shit.
The nice thing about buying stuff at the dog show is you save shipping. I went into a pet supply booth that obviously carried Chris Christensen products, and asked for "Ice on Ice."
"We sold out," the vendor told me. I still remember how bummed out I was.
I have stated before that I am as micro an entrepreneur as you can get, but my understanding of the economics of microbusinesses got me an assistantship to grad school in the early late 1980's. The microbusinesses I got my experience with were dog groomers. I paid my way through undergraduate school (anthropology/environmental studies) by grooming dogs part time.
Were it not for the microentrepreneur Charlie Prager, the noted Bedlington Terrier breeder who developed and marketed the first portable dog grooming tables and low velocity stand dryers ("Groom Rite"), there would be no grooming industry. He made the needed equipment inexpensive enough so the service of dog grooming could be provided cheaply enough to middle class Americans.
You might be too young to remember a time when a week's pay would be enough for your housing, utilities, and maybe other expenses (there was no cable TV or cell phones, there was the Viet Nam was and the Civil Rights movement made us suddenly aware that the playing field wasn't level). Gas was under 30c—way under! The fact was, people had expendable income to have a pet get it's haircut and go to a salon. Amusing, no?
So now, I am one of those old time groomers, and I tried and use Chris Christensen Products. I became hooked. They are top of the line.
There is an article on Chris in the Dec.2011 Inc. magazine. http://www.inc.com/magazine/201112/meet-chris-christensen-the-paul-mitchell-of-poodles_pagen_2.html
The writer, Josh Dean, points out what a skill dog grooming is, comparing it to moving topiary . He points out how Chris listened to the fancy and created a market niche for his company. Chris and his wife are looking to expand the line at a lower cost to pet owners. They have a problem, however.
The middle class can no longer afford those high maintenance breeds. I see more Pit Bulls, Labrador Retrievers, Boxers, Puggles (no joke—designer mixes…& LabraDoodles) than dogs requiring haircuts.
Ethical hobby breeders do not breed for the market, and don't breed their dogs unless they can keep them indefinitely. They know that people don't have money to take care of a dog these days.
I wish Lisa (Chris's wife) all the best in attempting to triple the business in three years. I can no longer afford the gas to get to a dog show, let alone campaign a dog. And the Big Box store I work for doesn't appreciate quality or integrity. That's sort of funny, too: the big box stores are always advertising for groomers, but make it impossible to earn a living wage and keep their skills up. "Were the economy better…" CCS would flatten all the competition. Their products are that good.
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I had never made a meringue cookie before trying Up All Night Cookies. I found this recipe in one of our Antique Recipe Collections. It does not look as old as many of the other recipe but is titled "Mama's Stay Up All Night Cookies" so my thought is the recipe was passed down and it is much older then the actual written card.
I have heard stories of meringue cookies being hard to make and finicky. So imagine my surprise when I woke up the next day and the cookies were amazing! This is a really simple recipe that took me less then 15 minutes to whip up and it "bakes" in a oven preheated and turned off overnight.
I was pretty excited last week when Drop Hermit Cookies turned out to be insanely easy. These are even easier then those with only 4 ingredients.
In the bowl of my stand mixer I placed 2 eggs whites. Then using the whisk attachment I started beating them on medium high for a couple minutes. Next I slowly poured in 2/3 cup white sugar while still mixing. Continue mixing until whites hold stiff peaks.
It took about 8 minutes of whisking to get the egg whites and sugar to stiff peaks.
Next I removed bowl from mixer stand and poured in 1 teaspoon vanilla and 1 cup mini chocolate chips. Using a spatula I gently folded those two ingredients into egg whites.
I dropped spoonfuls of the cookies onto a silicone lined baking sheet and preheated my oven to 325 degrees. The recipe says it make 30 cookies but I only got 25 spoonfuls. Once oven is preheated to 325 degrees I placed the baking sheets in and turned off the oven completely. At this point it was 6pm.
At 7am the next morning I was flanked by a pair of maniacs. I wondered out loud how smart this was. If they didn't work out I would have disappointed kids – if they did work out I was feeding kids cookies for breakfast. To everyone's surprise they turned out perfect. Soft but crunchy on the outside pillows that melted in your mouth and were full of chocolate.
My first meringue cookies were successful and on a side note, kids love them with cereal.
- 2 eggs whites
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup mini chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees and ready two baking sheets with silicone mats.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer with whisk attachment begin whisking egg whites on medium high speed.
- Slowly pour in 2/3 cup sugar.
- Continue whisking eggs and sugar to stiff peaks.
- Once whites hold peaks remove bowl and gently fold in vanilla and chocolate with spatula.
- Drop by spoonful onto baking sheets.
- Transfer to oven and then turn oven off.
- The cookies will bake in oven overnight as it cools down.
- The next morning enjoy delicious cookies!


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The primary symptoms of osteoarthritis are pain in the knee, swelling and stiffening of the knee joint. In the early stages of osteoarthritis the pain may be mainly associated with activity. As the cartilage wears away and the bones of the joint rub against each other, pain can become more severe and constant, interfering with regular daily activities and disrupting sleep.
In the early stages of osteoarthritis, treatment may involve several techniques. Behavioral and lifestyle changes including losing weight and changing routines to avoid painful situations can be very effective in relieving pain. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as naproxen sodium may also provide relief from pain. Cox-2 inhibitors are also effective in providing knee arthritis pain relief. Physical therapy may improve muscle strength and joint mobility, reducing the symptoms of osteoarthritis in the knee. Joint fluid therapy may lubricate the knee and reduce the pain and swelling of the joint. Partial or total knee replacement surgery may be necessary as the disease progresses and daily functioning becomes more impaired.
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- 6 years ago
- Wedding: September 2015
I've noticed a few extra "bad waiting day" posts on waiting board, so I thought we could play a fun game where we brag about how awesome our SOs are. All you do is finish the statement "I love my SO when…" or "I love it when my SO…". You get the idea. I'll start.
I love it when my SO acts like a caveman. (Normally very quiet man, when he gets hyper, he is adorably cave-man like.)
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Hugo Schwyzer has been very unpopular lately.
A quick summary for those of us who don't follow giant Internet slapfights while giggling: it started with Feministe, where the fabulous Clarisse Thorn cross-posted her interview with Hugo Schwyzer from Role/Reboot. The Feministe commenters dislike him because of his history of abuse and consent violations and because he keeps talking about feminism while being a straight white male.
Then someone (I am unsure on the timeline on this, but both Tumblr and the Feministe comment section mentioned it) brought up that Hugo Schwyzer tried to kill his girlfriend.
Feministe's consensus was roughly "what the fuck? Why is a confessed attempted murderer allowed to comment about feminism?" Comments were closed on the thread! Clarisse Thorn wrote smart things about change and accountability! Maia wrote other smart things about change and accountability, completely disagreeing with Clarisse! Feministe issued an apology and that thread spawned a thousand comments that I don't have time to read, but I presume that if it turns out somewhere in there that Hugo secretly murders puppies someone will tell me!
Meanwhile! Hugo Schwyzer leaves the Good Men Project because Tom Matlack wrote some pieces critical of feminism and was apparently shitty at Amanda Marcotte on Twitter! I bring this up only to note that, through all of this drama, Hugo has managed to achieve a feat no one thought he could achieve before: MRAs and radfems, masculists and feminists, standing side by side, united in their hatred for Hugo Schwyzer. It's almost Fred-Phelpsian.
I don't have final conclusive thoughts about any of the issues the various Schwyzer-backlashes have wrought: a lot of it is me working through the various issues myself, so I fully expect to change my mind. (I mean, more than I already fully expect to change my mind. Because I'm not a Republican presidential candidate, my positions are allowed to evolve.)
One of the core issues, I think, that both Maia and Clarisse addressed, was "what is the role of abusers in gender egalitarianism?" A full assessment of Hugo Schwyzer must include that he has done some fascinating work: his "Of Never Feeling Hot: the missing narrative of desire in the lives of straight men" was foundational to my concept of the Myth Of Men Not Being Hot and Figleaf's Two Rules of Desire.
Similarly, one doesn't want to make an abusive history an automatic cause of exclusion from the feminist community. Recovering abusers have things to teach us about the process of ending abuse: the psychology of abusers, the causes of abuse, the best techniques for teaching abusers how to have healthy relationships. Worse, if ostracism is the consequence of admitting abuse, recovering abusers will be less likely to come forward, which will make it far more difficult to take precautions to make a safer space; survivors may even feel even more pressure not to say who abused them, because they don't want to lose their abusers from the movement.
On the other hand, I believe firmly in the feminist community as a safe space for survivors of rape and abuse; I've tried my hardest (although I have failed before and will fail again) to make NSWATM a space with zero tolerance for victim-blaming bullshit. Given what we know of the abuse-apology cycle and the recidivism rate of abusers, is it really the message we want to send to have a former abuser as a major spokesperson of the movement? Maia discusses in her article– and is quite right about– the horrific pressure on abuse survivors to make nice with their abusers for the sake of the movement, because the abuser is a community leader, because the abuser has "reformed" and their contributions are so invaluable and we can't live without them.
And are the abusers really irreplaceable? The nice thing about concepts is that they can be developed by multiple people: if Hugo Schwyzer hadn't written about men not feeling hot, someone else would have. Is that contribution so invaluable that we'll excuse his attempted murder?
It's also interesting, in the light of Schwyzer's abuse history, to look at a few of the tendencies people have criticized in his writing. The tendency to white-knight and pedestalize women. His pride in being RateMyProfessor.com's hottest professor (particularly troubling given that his history includes (consensual) sex with students). His apparent belief that all professors want sex with students (troubling in the light of the studies that show that rapists vastly overrate the number of rapists in the population). The focus, in many of his stories about his recovery, on how his actions affected himself, and not on how his actions affected his victims. How many of these are consequences of his abusive personality? Having been an abuser may have made his gender analysis far worse than it could have been.
The other major issue around Schwyzer, as far as I can see, is his position in the feminist movement. He was the Straight Middle-Class Cis White Man who was here to explain feminism to everyone. To be clear: there are a lot of straight middle-class abled cis white men who are awesome feminists and have great insight into how gender works (hi Noah!). It is short-sighted in the extreme to say that straight middle-class cis white men shouldn't talk about gender, just like it's short-sighted in the extreme to say queer poor disabled trans women of color shouldn't talk about gender.
In general, in our culture, we tend to view straight middle-class abled cis white men as knowing more than other people do. In particular, in gender issues, they tend to be viewed as more objective. Where a woman would be a man-hating feminazi, a man could be an outside observer who has seriously considered the issues. Tim Wise can say America is a racist society and still be considered a serious thinker; a person of color who says the same thing probably hates America and freedom and apple pie.
I'm not sure if there's a solution to this, except ending the kyriarchy. However, Schwyzer's fall does leave a vast gaping hole crying out for the Straight White Cis Abled Male Feminist Who Explains Things. I vote Noah in the position! While he is an atheist instead of a Christian, and hence less privileged than Schwyzer, he has many sterling qualifications. For instance, he is six feet tall! He's a snarky bastard! He has schnazzy hats! He has never tried to murder any of his girlfriends!
There are some others who may be suited for the position: Charlie Glickman; Robert Jensen; David Futrelle. We will have to figure out how to decide which candidate is the most superior! I say a cagefight to the death. Typewriters at dawn!


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How Did We Get Into This Mess?
January 3, 2013
I suppose I should be happy that America's leaders have averted the "fiscal cliff" originally slated to hit Jan. 1. At least that's what I'm told I should feel.
For some reason I don't feel much like celebrating when the last-minute deal struck by congress to supposedly help put the nation's financial house in order will in reality add about $4 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade—and will add $41 in taxes for every $1 cut in spending.
So how did we get into this mess?
Consider a few facts:
- The U.S. government is like a family with a $21,700 annual income spending $38,200 a year, with $16,500 of that put on credit cards—when the family already owes $142,710 on those credit cards!
- The U.S. government currently borrows 40 percent of all that it spends. That means it borrows and spends $10.4 billion each day, $433 million per hour, $7.2 million per minute, and $120,370 per second! (And this isn't all that it spends—merely what it borrows to spend.)
- For four consecutive years the federal government has amassed a trillion-dollar deficit. It took the United States 200 years to accumulate its first trillion dollars in debt. Now it takes about 10 months!
- We have already spent the money that will be paid in taxes by the next generation of Americans, and more—stealing wealth from them to maintain our standard of living through massive borrowing.
- Each American's share of federal government debt is about $45,000—and expected to grow to almost $75,000 by 2020, only seven years away.
- Shocking as these figures are, they in fact vastly underestimate the scope of the problem. When we factor in unfunded liabilities—the amount needed to fully fund government promises for Social Security, Medicare, military and government employee pensions and health care, the real debt load then jumps to five to ten times the $16 trillion current deficit! And that doesn't even include similar unfunded liabilities for the 50 individual states and hundreds of American towns and cities.
The fact is, America has already run off the fiscal cliff. The real question is, how long until we hit bottom?
But again, how did we get into this mess?
You need to understand the answer. You may be surprised to learn that it was foretold several thousand years ago in the pages of your Bible!
You need to understand what's prophesied to happen to America, and much of the rest of the Western world. More importantly, you need to understand why.
That's why we call The Good News "a Magazine of Understanding." We want to help you make sense of this world that's rapidly changing around us. And the keys to understanding that are found in the Bible.
We hope you'll carefully read the articles in this next issue, which is dedicated to the crucial question of "Where Does America Go From Here?" You need to know! Your issue should be arriving in your mailbox any day now (if it hasn't already). Or you can preview and download it here.
Either way, you need this crucial information!
Scott Ashley—Managing editor, The Good News
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looks like another great issue, thanks to those involved.
Comment by paul spenser | January 4, 2013 |
At some point , those who lend to fund this madness will no longer lend, or they will demand much higher interest rates than they are receiving now.
There is coming , somewhere down line, great financial dislocations and change. Whether it will be inflationary, or deflationary (or even both at the same time, depending on which economic sector) is debatable, but the current "Status Quo" cannot be maintained in any event.
Prepare physically, mentally and spiritually, for the winds of change are a sure reality.
Your Friend,
Bill Lussenheide
Comment by Bill Lussenheide | January 4, 2013 |
America the great, is no more. It once stood as a shining example of God's blessings. Now, due to disobedience, those blessings are being removed. The sinful people cried out for a "king", and they got one, obama. Does anyone think God would have allowed someone like him to be in charge, if the people were being righteous and obedient? I don't think so.
Comment by NT | January 5, 2013 |
Yet NT, the U.S. had Republican Presidents for five out of seven terms prior to Mr. Obama's election. (I cite this because many UCG ministers and members tend to be pro-Republican.) Was the U.S. population "righteous and obedient" in 1980? Or 2004?
Comment by Richard | January 5, 2013 |
It is not just Obama who has run this nation into the ground. He is only the last of a constant string of spendthrifts who've captained this sinking ship. It is we, the American people, who have done so by allowing the "Administration" (pick anyone), and, the "Congress" (pick anyone) to become and continue being, profligate with our taxes and future earnings. We have demanded services, benefits, rewards and support without counting the cost, nor providing for adequate revenue. We have spread our largesse around the world to those who have squandered it (as if our government hasn't), stolen it, and misdirected it in a vain attempt to buy acceptance, friendship and good faith. Our ship of state is sinking because we have opened the flood doors, blown off the hatches, cast off our ballast, and rejoiced in doing so. God does not award stupidity, nor overlook a people or nation that abandons His commandments, statutes and principles. Welcome to the newest 2nd world nation, well on its way to speedily arrive at the 3rd tier.
Comment by Larry Hardison | January 5, 2013 |


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There are certain areas where there are extraction problems that are more difficult to deal with than others because of their nature and or the position of extraction. Typical of those areas are bathrooms, toilets and wet rooms as well as cloakrooms and utility rooms. These are places with some of the worst smells, which require good extraction but where there is also a problem with moisture and steam.
The Problem with Water
Water in any form is a problem, but in the form of steam or moist air it will pass into all sorts of areas and will cause clothes, bedding and paper and card to get damp and either start rotting or begin to give some fairly obnoxious smells; a damp house is a disaster in that regard.
To cope with this there needs to be some excellent extraction in the source areas of any steam or moist air. These are predominantly the kitchen and bathroom in a home – and an extractor fan needs to be able to move the steam and moist air from the damp room to the outside of the building. This ensures moisture levels remain at a minimum inside the house and avoids any build up which could lead to moulding and a nasty smell.
Centrifugal Extractor Fans
The new centrifugal extractor fans have the latest technology and provide a very powerful tool to extract from applications such as bathrooms and wet rooms. A centrifugal fan is designed to move air over long distances and will give its maximum performance even against the resistance, which is caused by the ducting and the entry and exit grills of the system. It is this performance, which gives the units their major success.
The smaller extractor fans extract at a rate of around 110 cubic metres per hour or about 31 litres a second, which is equivalent to about 10 room changes per hour. As the fans are usually focussed into the area where the problem is generated they become even more efficient in the removal of steam in particular. The electrical power consumption is only around 17 watts so they are fairly efficient in power usage and the running costs are small particularly if they are fixed to an automatic start and stop system. The overall cost is of the fan is less than £30 for an "in line" timer controlled unit.
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One of the major advantages of these extractor fan units is that because they are powerful over a longer distance, the extractor fan can be situated well away from the bathroom or wet room and can be fitted into the simplest position for ease of installation and access in the case of any repairs or future replacement. The only requirement is that they are fitted in line with the ducting.
A centrifugal fan can shift an air volume of up to 90 metres cubed per hour; or in other words, up to 20 litres per second. This sort of performance is unrivalled with a regular extractor fan, and means the bathroom extractor fan is more than capable of keeping virtually any bathroom clear of hot air and steam.
An additional advantage is that despite being much more powerful than a regular extractor fan, a centrifugal fan is actually much quieter and therefore ideal for something like a bathroom, toilet or utility room. Despite the fan's strength, the mechanism in a centrifugal extractor is also vibration free too, meaning no disturbances.
Centrifugal extractor fans are typically built using high impact ABS thermoplastic. This is again an advantage over a normal extractor fan, because the plastic is very strong and durable, as well as being extremely easy to clean. Again this ends up being perfect for a bathroom where the cleanliness will be more than welcome.


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Why Did The Rate Hike Seem To Help The Price Of Silver?
This week's long-anticipated interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve was largely expected. What was unexpected, however, was just how the markets would react. If anything, the markets reacted as if there had been an interest rate decrease, which in turn seemed to help both the price of gold and the price of silver.
So what exactly is it that's fueling the price of silver right now, and does it have to do with the rate hike? Let's examine the reaction of silver's price more closely:
The Usual Reaction To Federal Reserve Rate Hikes
The idea behind the Federal Reserve rate hike is that it will generally slow the momentum of money moving through the system—just as lowering interest rates is meant to get money moving. With tighter policy for money, the US dollar is generally believed to increase in value, which in turn allows you to buy more silver with the dollars you have—driving the price of silver lower.
What we saw yesterday didn't look like that. As the Motley Fool points out, silver and gold both reacted as if there had been an interest rate decrease.
Silver moved 2.6% up, defying expectations and causing many in the market to start scratching their heads. So what exactly is going on here?
Post-Hike Moves Surprise Goldman
Although many experts foresaw the idea that the Fed hike was "baked in" to the current market conditions and prices, not many people expected to see such a sharp move upward. Goldman's Jan Hatzius responded to a Q & A by pointing out just how surprising this reaction was. In these answers, Hatzius pointed out that it wasn't exactly the arrow of the reaction, but the volume of that arrow, that raised eyebrows around Wall Street.
But we're left with an additional question: what does this mean for silver if there are going to be future rate hikes?
The Interest Rate Hike's Effects On The Price of Silver
Clearly, we're no longer in an environment where a simple interest rate hike can be seen as an easy predictor of silver's direction. Though if you would have asked us a few days ago what a hike meant for gold and silver we probably would have given you the conventional answer, the truth is that the environment seems to have changed.
If Wall Street is already factoring in three rate hikes this year, as the Motley Fool mentions, then it's possible that this reaction isn't all that surprising at all. Silver and gold investors may already believe that these hikes are baked into the market conditions. One simple rate hike at the beginning of the year isn't enough to turn anyone off of gold and silver, at least for the time being.
What remains to be seen is how the market reacts to additional hikes, which now appear all but inevitable to happen this year. If Wall Street is already counting on these hikes, we may see similar results. But at some point, large asset prices will have to be addressed—either through a correction or through policy. And that means silver continues to be a safe haven for those who don't trust the current market conditions.


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Like so many single women, Keeta the bulldog was just looking for love. Instead, she found a cat door.
Owner Nigel Page says the bulldog was in heat when he caught her wearing a bizarre new collar and canoodling with an unfamiliar suitor in their home.
"The other dog was smaller, a little terrier," Page told the BBC. "I opened the back door and the other dog legged it."
Keeta apparently spotted the canine Casanova in the garden and was trying to get outside to meet him when she got her head trapped in the door. She then ripped it from its frame and (for one beautiful, super awkward moment) the two puppy lovers were able to unite.
Eventually, firefighters were called to free the bulldog from her cat door of shame, but her less-than-perfect date night might still have one more consequence: Keeta's owners say they're waiting to see if she's pregnant.
"We don't know whether they've done anything or not," said Page. "She had that thing stuck on her head so she might not have been in a good mood."
Of course, spaying and neutering are far more reliable forms of birth control than ugly headgear. And, as Keeta's mishap demonstrates, they could even save you a call to the fire department.


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Rhodes sends two research teams (Microbiologists and Geomorphologists)
Seven researchers from Rhodes University are heading to Antarctica for the annual summer relief voyage on 30 November 2016. This is the largest contingent from any South African University on this year's expedition and includes two academic staff members and five students.
Dr Gwynneth Matcher of the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, will be leading an all-female team to Antarctica to research Antarctic Microbial Ecology. The all-female team is an anomaly on research expeditions to Antarctica. "It wasn't planned, but it is very exciting leading an all-female team," shares Dr Matcher.
Studying Antarctic Microbial Ecology under Matcher are PhD students Karin Staebe and Sunet van Aswegen. Staebe who will be returning for her second field stint in Antarctica explains the project her team will be working on, "this is the first research study looking at both meltwater pools, at soil and at air around the South African research station and at Troll, nobody has thought about looking at these areas and we are trying to see whether Antarctica should be broken up into more bio-geographical regions than we already have."
The second team from Rhodes University heading to Antarctica will be led by Prof Ian Meiklejohn, of the Geography Department, who will be making his sixth voyage to the continent.
Prof Meiklejohn's team of geomorphologists includes three MSc students: Jenna Knox, Tebogo Masebe and Nicola Wilmot. It will be all three students' first visit to the continent. They are researching Landscape Processes in Antarctic Ecosystems.
The SA Agulhas II will set sail on 30 November 2016 and will return on 8 February 2017. The research teams expect to reach Antarctica between 11 and 20 December, depending on the sea ice conditions. Dr Matcher will fly in on 18 December and meet her team at the Norwegian Troll Station, due to limited space on the ship.
Both groups are working in the vicinity of SANAE, the South African base situated in Western Dronning Maud Land on a nunatak (a land island in a sea of ice) called Vesleskarvet (72°S, 2°W), as well as near the Norwegian Troll Station (72°S, 2½°E).Source: Communications
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When the interiors of your apartment exude a discomfiting vibe, it may be time for change. That however comes in different forms and may even effect either good or bad results. This apartment is one of those stories which begin with frankly unpleasant areas. You may even commiserate with a few of these because you yourself have trouble deciding what to do with your place. For this particular story, the whisk of Happy Ideas at Home's wand turns this sad start to a Cinderella happily ever after of sorts ending. Go ahead and see if this magical makeover might work for your place as well!
This hallway was once dark and dreary because of the lack of lighting plus the poorly maintained walkway. Notice the television set left along the way as well! Now, with a bit of polishing on the floor and installment of lights, the area looks absolutely cleaner and brighter that taking a trip to the toilet in the middle of the night will not be as frightening as before, especially for the little ones.
Opening the door to the previous bathroom may play that horror tune by the background because looking from top to bottom it does look horrible. The ceiling may have already accumulated cobwebs. Dirty grout lines also appear visible and that seaweed green just doesn't seem to look in tiptop condition. With a creative and meticulous eye by professionals, the new bathroom exudes cleanliness and minimalism with the white theme and dark brown flooring. The lighted mirror on the other hand adds spunk to the setup. Here, the tiles have been abandoned making this version easier to maintain.
The previous halls appear so shabby because of a lack of paint maintenance, washing, vacuuming, and a whole lot of other cleaning necessary. A close look at the flooring also shows that the hallway leading to this room has a different flooring which makes it such a task to care for those two. Solving this problem, the new and definitely improved flooring uniformly uses wood vinyl. See how polished and neat that looks! The ceiling has also been repainted plus a lighter and brighter tone replaced the melancholic green from before.
Perhaps the most surprising change of them all is this devastatingly dysfunctional kitchen. It might have made you cringe. This gets a straight up rejection from any sanitary inspector assuming one was to inspect it. Nevertheless, with the help of the experts, it gets this quaint yet sleek renovation. The playful floor pattern serves as a great contrast to the seriousness of the cupboards and the counter. Yes, white and wood always look timelessly chic, but it doesn't hurt to mix it with this endearing pattern every now and then.
Here's an alternate view. May we also appreciate the replacement of the small tiles here to make way for lesser maintenance and ultimately shifts one's focus to the main point of this area which is cooking.
Another additional makeover to this project was the small balcony which from the apparent rusted railing and scuffed flooring, now has turned into this rustic yet industrial nook. The black railing this time is a better alternative that with proper maintenance can withstand tarnishing.


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OK, think fast: What is this thing?
- A space alien, recently discovered hidden at Area 51
- A new species of squid, washed ashore in Australia
- A parsnip
Answer: 3. Congratulations to this parsnip, which recently won the "Ugliest Vegetable" competition sponsored by Britain's National Trust. Said a representative of the Trust,
This competition was designed to show that we shouldn't judge a vegetable on its looks and we should challenge the image of the cosmetically perfect and well-formed vegetables found in many of our supermarkets.
The competition was part of the British Food Fortnight, which is an annual event that this year runs from Sept. 23 – Oct. 5 with the goal of "putting the '000' back into food!"
The rules for the competition are almost as entertaining as the resulting veg. For instance, the Trust offers the following "Top tips on growing Ugly Veg":
- Root-crops often become misshapen if grown on hard, compacted or stony ground. In the same way they develop fibrous 'forked' roots if grown in over manured or composted ground.
- Overcrowding a crop by sowing thickly and not thinning can help onions, for example to become misshapen.
- Irregular watering can help distort both fruits and root-crops.
- Subjecting plants to low temperatures such as frost or high daytime temperature ranges can cause twisted and distorted fruits, especially in those that love a more even temperature, such as tomatoes, aubergines, courgettes and gourds.
Makes you want to go out and start distorting some tomatoes, doesn't it?
Other winning veggies are pictured here. I'm particularly taken with Potato Man, the winner in the age 5-7 category:


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Once again, another trophy for European Brand of the Year, and now a trophy for short clip of the year for No Complies, Wallrides and Shuvits. Did you get charged for overweight baggage on your flight home?
No I'm going to get them shipped. Last time we won, we got the trophies right away and we put them on the floor, under the seat, and then it broke the top of the trophies. So I had to glue them together when I got home. So I decided this time it's better to leave them at the party and have them shipped.
You've won twice now; do you think you'll win European Brand of the Year again?
We didn't really do too much in my opinion in 2013. I mean we did Trocadero Days with Converse and had the No Complies clip, but I feel as if we kept it pretty low profile. So I was a bit surprised when we won; I didn't think it would happen. I was thinking Magenta would take it for their video and all their clips or Cliché for all they've done for Europe for all these years. Can we win again? I think it's possible, I mean this year we've got some really dangerous stuff coming out, so we'll see.
Why do you think people have responded to the brand so well?
Good question, um, I think we put in a lot of work on the graphics, ads and all the things we do. I think Polar has a quite original vibe to it that maybe people maybe haven't seen before. I mean, I'm not saying it's all original, but parts of it, like the graphics, we try and keep it really original.
I think Polar as a brand is really well rounded. We have all types of skaters in there, like Aaron from New York, a really East Coast-style skater, then a guy like Hjalte, a really tech and powerful skater, a weirdo like Kevin, and then we have Oski and David pretty much just killing every demo and contest – anywhere they go, people are blown away by their transition skills. I don't want to be a brand that represents only one type of skating; I want Polar to represent all types of skating from tranny, to creative street-skating, to tech skating, to big hammers because I love it all. And that's why I think everyone can find something they can connect to in Polar.
Do you think Polar has had a noticeable influence on Europe's skate scene? How about worldwide?
I mean, of course. Personally that's been my mission since I quit Cliché and started doing my own film projects and my projects with the skate scene of Malmö. My whole idea for this brand is that I want to inspire artists to inspire themselves – that's kind of like my rules to live by. I think that is the main point, we are not just a brand that wants to present: 'Oh here's these guys, here's these products, buy our shit because we're cool.' We want to show ways for people to be inspired though artwork, maybe photography, films, building your own skateparks and skate spots. We really want to show a way for skaters to be inspired; I think that's important as a brand. All these people are always talking about giving back to the scene and it's hard to do it, but we try our best to try and inspire people and hopefully their creativity shines through.
A good example is these Happy/Sad socks we've done. First it started with my shoes, then Polar made socks and it's good to see people wearing them all around the world on Instagram. We just want to inspire people and try to bring out good shit for skaters to be stoked on and try and keep the culture rich and alive.


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OLATHE, Kan. — A judge Thursday sentenced a man who pleaded guilty in December to kidnapping and raping a Johnson County deputy.
William Luth will serve 41 years in prison, according to a statement from the Johnson County District Attorney's Office.
Luth faced charges including aggravated kidnapping, two counts of rape and aggravated criminal sodomy.
Luth and Brady Newman-Caddell, who is also charged in the incident, were accused of following a woman to work at the Johnson County Jail and kidnapping her. She eventually escaped across the state line near I-470 and Woods Chapel Road, according to police. From there, she walked to the Jackson County Sheriff's Office and asked for help.
Officials believe Luth and Newman-Caddell may have had other victims. Independence police were looking into the possibility that the two were connected to a rape in February 2017.
Newman-Caddell's case was still pending as of February 15.


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ITC to take MasterChef brand national with 'super safe' spices launch
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Cigarettes to hospitality conglomerate, ITC is planning to launch 'super safe' spices in the last quarter of this fiscal year under the MasterChef brand, taking it national, a report by Business Standard said on Sunday.
"As such, laws require tests to be done to check around nine parameters in India. But, these would be tested for 450 parameters. We are working very closely with farmers on this project," the report quoted ITC's chief operating officer, Sanjiv Puri.
So far, the Masterchef brand was only available in a couple of states in India. The spices were launched last year in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
The company is now looking at a national launch to widen its portfolio, the report added.
ITC is eyeing a Rs 1 lakh-crore turnover in FMCG business by 2030 has already drawn up an overall investment plan of Rs 25,000 crore for creating national assets, under which 65 projects are already underway.
The company is also all set to enter the fruits, vegetables and seafood segment this year, and ITC MasterChef is likely to be the umbrella brand, the report said.
The report cited that this could be happen in the next six to twelve months' time. The first half of the next financial year would see some launches in this space, and ITC MasterChef could be the umbrella brand.
Puri also said that ITC would focus on the wellness aspect of packaged food as there is a growing demand for such options among health-conscious consumers.
Adding that the products would be both for export and domestic market Puri said, "We are looking at product categories across canned, frozen, dehydrated, puree etc. ITC MasterChef would surely have something that would span fruits, vegetables and seafood as well."
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Alto Pro Unveils Compact PA System
If you're a singer-songwriter, a member of an acoustic combo, or want to give a presentation in a modest venue, then you don't need a full-fledged, extensive PA system. Alto Pro offers an affordable, reliable system that's easy to use called the Alto Pro MixPack 10.
The MixPack 10 consists of two speakers with 10" woofers and a mixer. During transport, simply attach the mixer to the rear of one of the speakers, and store cables and other accessories in a compartment in the other. With four mono channels (XLR / jack) and two stereo channels (jack and RCA), the MixPack 10 can accommodate four microphones, for instance, and two stereo devices, like a keyboard and an audio player. Instead of microphones, you can also connect other devices with a line output, or a (bass) guitar with a DI box to the mono channels.
Monitor, EQ and reverb
The MixPack 10 has loads of handy features, including monitor outputs for connecting floor monitors, which are essential for hearing yourself on stage. Create a spacious sound using the built-in reverb, and add colour to it with the 2-band EQ on each channel, and contour EQ buttons for optimising either speech or music. All in all, this PA system is accessible and complete! Keep an eye on the product page for up-to-date information on availability and pricing.


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Watch 280 movies edited together to sing Vanilla Ice's 'Ice Ice Baby'
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As you try to fall asleep each night, one particular question might be dominating your thoughts: Why are there no YouTube videos that cut some of the most iconic films together so that they sing along to Vanilla Ice's 1990 classic "Ice Ice Baby"? Well, you don't have to worry anymore. Some clever soul with way too much time to spare spent three months finding and editing 280 films so that viewers can transport themselves back to a time when hip-hop singles were as simple as dancing in parachute pants and repeating the words "Ice, ice, baby."
I spotted a certain Terminator, a Saw flick, Aladdin, Clerks, Rango, the original Conan, School of Rock, Toy Story, Jabba the Hutt from Star Wars and what I think is Erin Brockovichbefore I gave up (there are a whole lot of clips there). Which of your favorite films did you catch? If you're in no mood to play guessing games, just turn on the closed captioning option — it'll quickly flash the titles up on the screen. Watch it below.
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Sure, it'll cost you some scratch ($5 to play all day), compared to free courses like Tidal Creek at West Ashley Park or the nine-hole course at James Island County Park, but the conditions at Trophy Lakes are unique, challenging, and picturesque — the stuff fairy tales are made of. You'll undoubtedly lose a few discs in the lake, but the staff scales the bottom about once a month to recover your embarrassing mulligans. They post all of the lost discs on their website, which is updated with each new batch.
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Well that's what my husband Craig has decided to call our garage today. Â We had our first Honey Harvest, so be warned, there are LOTS of photo's, hopefully you'll find them interesting. Â Beekeeping has become our other hobby.
For Christmas this year, we got the boys bee suits. Â I found a lady on ebay who was making overalls for kids to look like dads overalls in the shed. Â She was wonderful, swapped the colour for me, removed the pockets, added velcro and tight wrist and ankle bands. Â She thought of everything for us. Â Here they are ready to go get the frames from the hive.
There are a few ways to get the Bees off the frames, but today we decided to just brush them off with a very soft brush, Karl is helping by controlling the bees with smoke.
After we had all 9 frames from the hive, we headed to our garage where The Honey House had been set up. Â Craig, the ever handy man has made most of the tools. Â This is the Uncapping Station.
The honey extractor was borrowed, Craig has this next on his list of things to make.
This is the water tank used to create steam to heat up the knife, hand made by Craig.
This is the Steam Knife used to cut the cappings off the frames, also made by Craig. Â The red hose you can see in the above photo attaches to the tubes on the knife. Â The steam runs through the tubes and heats the blades.
Here's the entire set up.
Inside the sink Craig has made a filter that will allow the honey from the cappings to flow through into a bucket below the sink. Â Can't waste any!
And now the fun begins. Â Here Craig is cutting and melting the wax cappings off the frames. Â The honey is ready for harvest only when the bees have capped the cells. Â If the cells are still open, the water content in the honey is still too high.
It was very hard not to stick your fingers into this for a taste!
So the wax cappings drop into the sink, this is all the cappings from 9 frames. Â I'm going to have to take up candle making too I think.
Honey from the cappings runs down the sink and into a bucket (food grade). Â Here it is going through a sieve first (made by Craig), we were all a little excited now!
Sorry for the blurry photo here, but check out that golden colour!
After the frames have been uncapped, they are placed into the honey extractor.
Then the boys all took turns spinning the honey out, I won't show you all the photo's of that tho.
The spun frames are now called Stickies and go back into the hive for the bees to fix up the comb and start producing honey again.
Can you see the honey in the bottom of the extractor?
Oopsie, she didn't want to leave her frame.
After all the frames are spun, we (mostly Craig) lifted the extractor onto something higher so we could really get to the good part!
Are you ready for it?
Oh My
So from these 9 frames we harvested 23 kg of liquid gold.
We then went and collected another 15 frames from our other hives (poor little Flynn got stung for the 3rd time). Â Not sure what we've got from these frames, the buckets are still filling up 🙂
If you made it this far – Thank You for reading. Â I hope you've learnt a little from our fun day.


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*The Doctor has a +2 Convince Expertise in Debate, a +2 Craft Expertise in Music, a +2 Knowledge Expertise in Literature, and a +2 Survival Expertise in Fishing.
Boffin (Major)
Brave (Minor)
Charming (Minor)
Hypnosis (Minor)
Keen Senses (Major)
Lucky (Special) - In addition to the normal abilities granted by the Trait, the Doctor can, once per game, announce that he is rubbing his cat badge for luck; if he fails his next roll, he may roll again and accept the better of the two rolls)
Percussive Maintenance (Minor)
Resourceful Pockets (Minor)
Run for Your Life! (Minor)
Sense of Direction (Minor)
Technically Adept (Minor)
Time Traveller (Minor) - Tech Level 4
Voice of Authority (Minor)
Adversary (Major) - The Master, the Cybermen
Argumentative (Minor)
Distinctive (Minor) - There's no getting away from that coat!
Eccentric/Loud (Minor) - The Doctor has tremendous bad taste in clothes and calls attention to himself in every way, visually and vocally
Impulsive (Minor)
Insatiable Curiosity (Minor)
Random Regenerator (Major)
Bio-Rhythmic Control
Feel the Turn of the Universe
Psychic (Minor)
Time Lord
Time Lord (Experienced)
Colin made good use of his initial, post-regenerative imbalance, going so far into childishness and/or abrasiveness to cause real problems for himself and his companion. Over time, he paid off these Traits and concentrated instead on never listening to his companion's good advice, too much of an egotist to think it relevant (even when Colin himself thought it was sound).
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The special branch had chased us across the city for hours, through the haunted, betel-nut-stained streets of old Rangoon, past street-side tailors hunched over ancient sewing machines and open-air bookstalls selling worm-eaten copies of Orwell and Kipling. Unable to shake the latest batch of state security men following us by foot, we jumped into a wheezing taxi of mid-20th century vintage. The young driver's eyes widened at the foreigners who hurled themselves in the back and ordered the car to move fast. As we lurched into motion, he showed us where he stood by reaching into his shirt pocket and pulling out a laminated picture. It was, of course, of the Lady.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the 65-year-old Burmese Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was released from house arrest on Nov. 13, was not in the taxi with my two colleagues and me. But she is always carried in the hearts and her image in the pockets, lockets and secret hiding places of millions of Burmese. Among the most oppressed and impoverished people on the planet, they draw sustenance from this graceful woman who, armed only with the principle of nonviolent resistance, dares to stand up to the generals who have controlled Burma for nearly five decades. For 15 of the past 21 years, the military regime kept her locked up. But if the generals wished for Suu Kyi to fade into obscurity, they failed. Continued confinement turned her into the world's most famous political prisoner. Emerging from her most recent stint of seven years in detention, she is just as determined to fight for the civil liberties of Burma's 50 million people. "What we are calling for is revolutionary change through peaceful means," she told me when we recently met in Rangoon. "I'm not afraid to say it, and I'm not afraid to ask for all the help I can get."
The extent to which the junta has gone to try to foil the Lady, as Suu Kyi is fondly and universally known in Burma, is remarkable. For refusing to participate in a rigged election in November that the junta's proxy party won, Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), was stripped of its political rights. The NLD overwhelmingly won at the polls in 1990, which presumably would have made Suu Kyi the nation's Prime Minister. But the junta ignored the people's verdict then, and a new constitution contains clauses specifically designed to keep her from ever serving as Burma's leader.
Since 1962, Burma's battle-hardened generals have faced down communist insurgents, ethnic armies, even the Western governments that impose economic sanctions on the regime. But they still act as if there is no greater enemy than this slight woman with flowers in her hair. Their fear of Suu Kyi is not entirely misplaced. "We think our leader is the ideal woman, not just for Burma but for the whole world," says Aye Aye Nyein, a teacher and member of the NLD's youth wing. "We Burmese live in a prison. She teaches us how to fight for our freedom." And the public's desire for freedom, of course, is why security agents were hunting us, snapping pictures with telephoto lenses fit for Hollywood paparazzi. Earlier that day, a total of at least a dozen special-branch officers trailed us, calling in our movements on their cell phones.
It took the taxi driver only a couple of minutes to figure out we had a tail. Pointing back at a car practically on our bumper, he grinned and gunned the engine. For more than half an hour, our high-speed chase wound through the streets of Burma's moldering former capital, past the carcasses of Victorian-era government buildings abandoned when the junta mysteriously moved the seat of power to a remote redoubt five years ago. We circumnavigated the massive golden spire of Shwedagon pagoda, Burma's holiest site, and careened by the hulk of Insein prison, where Suu Kyi was once jailed and where some of the country's 2,200 political prisoners still languish.
Dusk was falling. Screeching through an open-air market, the taxi finally shook our pursuers. Gratefully, we bid our driver goodbye. He reached into his pocket again, offering me Suu Kyi's picture as a gift. I was touched, but it was his talisman to cherish. I could leave Burma. He needed the Lady to keep him safe.
An Unending Struggle
Her carriage is regal, her English accent impeccable. The blossoms she customarily wears in her hair never seem to wilt, even as everything else droops in Burma's sullen heat. In the NLD office, with its intermittent electricity and maps of mildew spread across concrete walls, Suu Kyi floats like some otherworldly presence, calm and cool as others are flushed and frenetic. Ever since she was released in mid-November, Suu Kyi's days have been divided and subdivided into one-hour or 15-minute increments, during which she has met a dizzying array of people: foreign diplomats, AIDS patients, NGO directors, local economists, U.N. officials and the families of political prisoners. She even chatted by phone in December with former First Lady Laura Bush, who had championed the Burmese cause.


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Tracking the Footprint of the Digital Consumer #ESOMAR #MRX
Live blogging from #ESOMAR Congress 2014 in Nice, France. Any errors or bad jokes are my own.
Tracking the Footprint of the Digital Consumer: A global benchmark for consumers' habits across web, mobile, GPS locations and social media by Heather Dougherty, Experian Marketing Services, USA, Maria Domoslawska, Research Now, USA, Mark Canada, nGame, USA
- We used to think that personalized advertising a la "Minority Report" were crazy but now it's possible
- Your device says a lot about who you are, Your social media profile is freely available data that says everything about who you are, it includes your mapping searches, your online shopping, your chatting and liking, and more
- People can be segmented into bargain seekers, travel seekers, sports enthusiasts, professionals, fashionistas, techies, foodies, luxury people, fitness people
- Now we can track behaviors on your PC, on your mobile phone, as well as use mobile diaries, GPS devices, apps, and of course surveys
- They mapped shopping trends over 2.5 years using surveys, web tracking for four different countries.
- The search terms were the main drivers to help define topics, scope, and time for the two studies.
- Shopping times peaked around Christmas the most in the UK, then the US and Canada, then Australia
- In the UK, luxury mattered travel mattered but as shorter and more frequent trips. Australia tended towards much longer trips. Canada traveled the least. USA folks made the most trips.
- Every hotel attracted a unique type of traveler – need to create unique messaging for each
- Similar travel apps were used in different countries but they ranked very differently. Communication was always a top concern whether it was a business or leisure trip. This is always a good time for a brand to interact with a consumer.
- 40% of people said they actually liked the crowds around holiday shopping
- on biggest retail days, only 4 out of 10 purchases were planned – massive opportunities for retailers to engage with consumers. The early opening hours drove traffic to the stores.
- Mobile was central to their shopping journey, but the black friday spice was completely different in 2013 compared to 2012, vastly higher shopper in 2013
- The best time for online communication was thursday in relation to black friday, and monday in relation to cyber monday
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- Seeking Inspiration in Silence: Conducting research without asking questions
- Brain tricks and insights without interviews #ESOMAR #MRX
- How old do you feel and should brands care? #ESOMAR #MRX
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Tasting Notes: The spectrum of rosé wine recommendations
Don't judge a wine by its color: Today's rosé offerings are as diverse in hue as they are in flavor, and pale is not necessarily better. Price won't tell you much information either; many of the best rosés I tasted were barely more expensive than the worst. Here, the good news and the bad news from a recent domestic rosé trial.
Harder to Find, But Worth the Hunt
Liquid Farm Rosé Vogelzang Vineyard Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara 2014 ($24)
Jeff and Nikki Nelson are Chardonnay specialists—they make several different bottlings from Sta. Rita Hills and Santa Maria Valley—but they made an exception for this Mourvèdre rosé. The Nelsons like to call it #pinkcrack, and it's hard to disagree when you sniff the wine's juicy peach and melon aromas, leading into a savory, briny profile laced with graphite. Light on the palate and long on the finish.
Head High Rosé Sonoma Coast 2014 ($24)
Vineyard investor Bill Price is a partner in Head High, which not only produces wine but also donates to environmental causes, with one dollar going to charity for every two bottles bought. From the Sonoma Coast—cool-climate Pinot heaven—this rosé is more flowers than fruit. Its lovely earthy, mushroom quality opens into tangerines and white flowers. It's pretty and silky, with delicate lavender and violet.
Ousterhout Rosé of Pinot Noir Woods Vineyard Russian River Valley 2014 ($29)
The passion project of a San Francisco plastic surgeon, Dr. Douglas Ousterhout, this winery makes a few different rosés, including two single-vineyard offerings from Sonoma. The Woods Vineyard rosé will please those who like ripe, juicy rosés — or even ripe, juicy Russian River Valley Pinot Noir, for that matter. Its ripeness is made interesting by a floral nose, a fleshy apple character and a touch of baking spice on the finish.
Widely Available and Delicious
Charles & Charles Rosé Columbia Valley 2014 ($12)
This rosé—a collaboration between Washington wine mogul Charles Smith and Charles Bieler, whose varied projects include the Provence chateau Bieler Père et Fils—is as bold and loud as its creators. A tea leaf aroma starts off softly, amping up into assertive, ripe berries and blood orange. Somehow suggestive of watermelon Jolly Ranchers, yet fresh and racy.
See also: If you like Charles & Charles, you might look for Charles Smith's K Vintners Rosé 2014 ($20), a meaty, bacon-fat-laced Syrah rosé from Walla Walla Valley. It's a pink wine for the #brosé crowd.
Bonny Doon Vin Gris de Cigare 2014 ($18)
The OG of California dry rosé. Randall Grahm's vin gris has gone through many identities in its 33 years of life—sometimes saignéed, sometimes direct-pressed; sometimes only red grapes, sometimes with white ones added. The 2014 vintage, a Southern France kitchen-sink blend of Grenache, Mourvèdre, Grenache Blanc, Roussane, Carignan, Cinsault, Marsanne and Counoise, is in a classic Provencal style. It's a clean, restrained, mineral-driven effort, with an attractive garrigue element.
See also: For something very different, try Bonny Doon's Vin Gris de Cigare Reserve ($35). Though produced only in 2012, it's still available. The ever-experimental Grahm let this rosé go through malolactic fermentation, then stored it in glass demijohns, stirring its lees, for a year and a half. The result is a rush of sweet-cream aromatics and a strong mineral brine, structured with firm tannins.
Ubiquitous and Unfortunate
White Girl Rosé 2014 ($17)
"Hey you guys, you look great. Have you lost weight? We made this delicious rosé for you because we love you and we love us and we all love rosé. This is so us. Love you, miss you, hate you, love you, mean it, Fat Jew + Babe Walker." So reads the epistle on the side label of WGR. The label is more appealing than the wine itself, which clocks in a little darker, and pinker, than the classic Provencal mangue hue. The Zinfandel/Sauvignon Blanc blend starts off vegetal, marked by a sweet-pepper quality; when it hits your tongue, you'll taste a huge, tangy citrus explosion. (Remember Warheads candy?) Macerated berries hide behind all the lemon-lime, which lingers on the tongue like an energetic guest who overstayed her welcome. You'll still be tasting it tomorrow.
Sofia Rosé Monterey County 2014 ($19)
You have probably seen Sofia rosé on wine shop shelves and marveled at its neon-fuschia sheen. Its distinct color is certainly its most impressive quality. In fact, this Pinot Noir-Syrah blend tastes more like a red wine than a rosé, with concentrated ripe blueberries and assertive tannins. A baked fruit-cobbler note prevails. For your money, you may as well opt for the Sofia Blanc de Blancs Mini, which comes in a 187 ml. can with a straw.


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What's this planning application for?
As you may know, Third Energy are planning to frack at their KM8 well at Kirby Misperton. The first planning application related to this is for some water monitoring boreholes at the site.
This application is due to be heard at the Planning Committee on THURSDAY 1st SEPTEMBER, so there's no time to lose!
The full text of the application reads: Installation of up to five (5) water monitoring boreholes comprising three shallow boreholes (approximately 10 metres in depth) within the KM8 Wellsite, one intermediate borehole (approximately 50 metres in depth) and one deep borehole (approximately 220 metres in depth) within the adjoining KM1 Wellsite.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT THE MAIN APPLICATION FOR FRACKING AT KIRBY MISPERTON. This is now 'live' and we will be posting guidelines on how to object, and points to object to, on our dedicated KM8 page.
So why should we object to water monitoring boreholes?
In the covering letter, Third Energy that: "The groundwater monitoring boreholes are required in support of a proposal to hydraulically fracture the KM8 well, which is subject to a separate planning application and environmental permit."
Given that these boreholes will only be necessary if Third Energy are given permission to frack the KM8 well, it is our view that any decision to approve this application would amount to pre-determination of any subsequent fracking application.
Or, to put it another way, if NYCC approved this application, it would be a clear signal that the Planning Committee had already made up its mind about whether to allow fracking at the KM8 well before examining all the evidence or ruling on the main KM8 application.
There would be no point in drilling monitoring boreholes if the company wasn't allowed to go on to frack – one doesn't make sense without the other, so we feel they should be considered at the same time.
It's worth noting that in Lancashire, the monitoring borehole applications for Little Plumpton and Roseacre were considered at the same time as the main fracking applications, not in advance. You can find more on this on Drill or Drop.
We therefore feel that this application for monitoring boreholes should be deferred, so that it can be considered at the same time as the fracking application, not in advance.
OK, I see your point. What other problems are there?
The KMA wellsite, which houses both the KM1 and KMA wells, has been in existence since the mid-1980s, and has been producing conventional gas at various times over the last 30 years. Given that this is an old wellsite, there may have already been some contamination and leakage of gas into the water surrounding the well over the last three decades.
The history of the site makes establishing of a baseline for groundwater quality at this site effectively meaningless, as the water tested could already have been subject to some contamination in the past due to the drilling activities on-site. (This is different to Little Plumpton and Roseacre, which would be brand new green-field sites.)
You can read the whole application on the NYCC Planning Portal.
So how do I object to this planning application?
Send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com and put this application number in the subject line: NY/2015/0116/FUL
Here is a suggested format for your email. It doesn't have to be very long, a few sentences would be fine, but your objection will be more effective if it is in your own words. Please be polite and use moderate language – abusive emails will not help our cause with the Planning Committee.
1 Say who you are (or which group your represent), where you live, etc.
2 Say that if the NYCC approves this application now, it would be a clear signal that they had already decided to allow fracking at Kirby Misperton without hearing all the evidence, which would be a clear case of pre-determination. If the NYCC decides to approve the main fracking application, this may be challenged in court at a later date.
You can also make the point that in Lancashire these were considered at the same time (see above).
3 You can also add comments on the fact that baseline monitoring data obtained from the site would not be reliable because there might already be contamination from conventional gas production (see above).
4 If you live near the well, you can also talk about your worries about how fracking will affect your day-to-day life. If you live elsewhere in North Yorkshire, you can talk about the effect that you think fracking will have on the area. If you live in another part of the UK, you may wish to talk about why you are opposed to fracking in general, and how fracking might affect your likelihood of visiting North Yorkshire.
5 Finally, ask the planning committee to defer the application so that it is considered at the same time, rather than in advance of, the main fracking application. (You could of course ask the NYCC to reject the application, but we feel that it is far more likely that the Committee will defer this, rather than reject it outright.)
This application is due to be heard at the Planning Committee on THURSDAY 1st SEPTEMBER, so there's no time to lose!
Here's a copy of the Frack Free Ryedale objection:
Frack Free Ryedale response to planning application NY.2015.0116.FUL
August 20, 2015 at 3:41 pm
NY/2015/0116/FULL The application for the monitoring of boreholes must be considered at the same time as any request for a Permit to Frack. If no Permit to Frack was issued then boreholes would not be needed. The two applications were considered together by the Plannjing Committee in Lancashire at Little Plumpton and Roseacre. There is so much obfuscation surrounding Hydraulic Fracturing in the search for and exploitation of shale gas, a fossil fuel, so that people living in the areas affected find it difficult to be fully informed. This government has not initiated any survey of the effects, it has instead wilfully ignored the potential contamination of acquifers from the chemicals necessary for gas extraction, the vast increase and constant movement of heavy plant, harmful fugitive gas and noise of burnoff, and the number of wells needed in a square mile to commercially exploit the site. There is NO SUBSTITUTE FOR WATER.
From Sue Cuthbert,
I absolutely agree with Barbara Redfern.This is the Government now trying to put pressure on NYCC
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