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Hey guys! This week is gonna be incredible! Is your week gong to be the same? In this blog post I wanted to talk about another common household item, that now a days, seems to be absolutely everywhere. It is the ever present plastic bottle.
In the video link at the bottom of this post, I show a lot of spectators how I can seemingly put the very object in their possession into a sealed plastic bottle within a couple seconds. For example one of their cell phones.
The most basic performance of this illusion is when the magician asks their audience members if any of them has an empty bottle they would care to part with. Then ask any other audience member if they could borrow an object that could fit in a bottle but not fit through the mouth of it. The magician takes the object from the second person and then walks over to the first person with the bottle. The bottle is taken and then given to the second person for inspection. When the bottle is handed back to the magician, the magician immediately transports the object into the bottle from the bottom or the side. At this point the magician holds up the bottle to prove the object is truly now, inside the bottle. The magician then hands the bottle over to the second person to keep (with their object inside) and the illusion is pretty much finished.
The inventor of this type of illusion is not actually known since the effect itself has been performed with common objects and sealed containers ever since 100 BC or even earlier. No definitive proof is available. From coins in a spectators pocket, to a large pocket watch that is most certainly far to big to fit through the mouth of a bottle. There are countless methods and endless applications for this very simple yet memorizing illusion.
Ever wonder where "the plastic bottle" originated? In 1856 Alexander Parkes invented the first man made plastic. In 1862 he presented it at the London International Exhibition as a material that had an abundance of uses for every sort of storage and material replacement application, namely glass. Through the century, many chemists developed more pliable and varied compositions of this man made material, spanning its versatility into every facet of our worldwide human productivity. Because of it's very serious impact on our environment due to it's non-biodegradable properties, recycling this material became a huge concern which started in the 1970's. But recycling certain types of plastic is not as easy as you may think. You can't just melt it down and reform a lot of it. Because the chemical composition will permanently change from its original state before it was formed (which is called virgin plastic). For example, about 40% of "plastic soda bottles" are actually washed and reused "as is". This is what the industry calls "down-cycling".
Oh, speaking of plastic soda bottles (as per in my magic performance video link below), it was the inventor Nathaniel C. Wyeth that came up with the chemical plastic composition in 1973, that could withstand the carbonated pressure that soda created. It is called polyethylene terephthalate… I don't even want to try and pronounce that one.
If you try, I bet you can find about 20 different types of plastic in just one room of your house. It's everywhere! Even coated on a lot of soft bound book covers as a plastic laminate.
Here is the video,
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Gurdas Maan is one name in Punjabi industry who is lesser called by his real name but often called with respected words like Baba Ji, Maan Saab etc. and that is not only because his evergreen songs but for his really down to earth and full of humanity behavior, on his 58th birthday he has proved it once again.
On the occasion of his birthday, Gurdas Maan wrote on his social medias that "Rather than wishing me on my birthday, let's salute the martyrs of Indian army who have died in Pathankot by fighting against the terrorists." That is something truly a great humanity by this living legend Gurdas Maan.
As Maan Sahib said, let's all salute to the Martyrs of Pathankot terror attack and also to this great man, Gurdas Maan on his birthday.

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There are lots of kinds of Hendes you can buy. Keep in mind, you receive that which you purchase using these. The professional series offers the highest quality of product most abundant in features. A Hendes can help you in case of any sort of accident. It keeps your torso aligned together with your mind. This stops most whiplash or any other neck problems throughout a crash. At extremely high speeds, getting a Hendes is essential accessory for your auto racing safety products.
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Nice to see someone (other than me) paying some attention to Markus Frind and what he has been able to accomplish with his dating site, Plenty of Fish. The New York Times has a story about him — which I found via a Twitter post from my friend Mark Evans — and it highlights the main things you need to know about Markus and Plenty of Fish:
1. The site looks like crap, and Markus doesn't care (and neither do users).
2. Markus works 10 hours a week and makes $10-million a year.
3. Plenty of Fish gets about 1.2 billion pageviews a month.
The Times' story mentions Craigslist, and I think the comparison is apt: like Craig, Markus has also focused on keeping the site free and on only doing those things that users want, not what others think he should do. And true to the old rule of thumb that Canada is one-tenth the size of the U.S., Craigslist has 25 people and has 12 billion pageviews a month, and Plenty of Fish has two people and does 1.2 billion.
A couple of little-known facts that aren't in the Times' story: Markus once helped to nab a suspected killer for the U.S. Marshal, and his research in mathematics was cited in a paper that won the Fields Medal, the math equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Markus also says there are some major announcements coming about Plenty of Fish.
Kevin Burton of Tailrank isn't buying it. If Markus is so successful, he says, why doesn't he just shut up and run the site and pocket those $10-million instead of bragging about it? Burton says Frind is either a liar or a fool. Any comment on that, Markus?


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The "landing" of the vast, UFO-like mothership being planned for Apple's new headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., may have to wait another year. Late design changes that were submitted from Apple in November will likely delay the completion of the city's environmental impact review until June 2013, according to a report from Venture Beat.
As a result, ground may not be broken on the 176-acre site until 2014, pushing the estimated completion date from 2015 to 2016. However, the updated plans for the Apple Campus 2 Project, recently released by the city of Cupertino, shed some more light on the many green characteristics that are still planned for the circular campus that is expected to house more than 13,000 employees.
Apple says it is committing to use 100 percent renewable energy for the entire campus, with several net-zero energy buildings being planned. Energy reduction features include on-site power generation from fuel cells, biogas and 8 mW of roof-mounted photovoltaic panels. Passive heating and cooling systems aid the natural ventilation of the structures.
In total, the campus will have about 20 percent more usable square footage than had existed on the site, previously owned by HP, but will also include nearly three times as much landscaped area by replacing most of the ground-level parking lots with underground garages, thus reducing the site's heat-island effect and improving drainage. Throughout the facility, Apple plans to provide 300 electric vehicle charging stations.
Green spaces on the campus will include native drought-tolerant vegetation, along with more than 6,000 new trees that will planted among the 1,000 trees that are already on site.
By co-locating many services, the design will improve efficiency and reduce the amount of intra-campus needed to get around. There will also be a 60,000-square-foot restaurant on site with a capacity of 2,100 employees, plus various outdoor dining locations for another 1,750 workers.
Future plans currently under consideration, Apple says, include negotiations with local water districts to supply the site with recycled water from the nearby city of Sunnyvale. The site is also planning on installing low-flow water fixtures that could reduce water usage to 30 percent below the typical commercial development of this size in Silicon Valley.
Although Apple has currently achieved a 78 percent waste diversion rate at its existing headquarters,, the company plans to expand its waste management program at Apple Campus 2 by either recycling or reusing construction and demolition waste as the structures are built.


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Mayor Gavin Newsom has consolidated two separate versions of his controversial sit/lie legislation into one: banning sitting or lying on public sidewalks anywhere in the city. Even in front of your own house.
We told you earlier he had directed the City Attorney's office to draft two separate pieces of legislation, one restricting the behavior citywide and one focusing just on major commercial corridors such as Castro Street, Haight Street and Broadway.
But today he submitted to the Board of Supervisors just the citywide version, saying it could always be amended to focus just on commercial corridors.
"I look forward to the debate at the board," Newsom told us.
The mayor added a provision requiring the police department to report on its enforcement of the law to the mayor and the board within a year of its implementation and every two years after that.
Other last-minute changes include eliminating language stating people who are stationary on a sidewalk must keep personal property and leashed dogs just two feet from their bodies.
The legislation also specifies the 7 a.m.-11 p.m. ban on sitting or lying on public sidewalks doesn't apply to plazas, public parks and public benches.
It also includes new language specifying the ban on sitting on sidewalks doesn't apply to someone "who is a child seated in a stroller." We would have loved to see the public demonstration against one.


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"This is a good shot of you."
As the casting director flipped over my head shot to scan my resume, I sort of smirked to myself as I shifted my weight and listened politely. After saying "thank you," of course.
That particular shot was 11 years old. I had just gotten new shots done, but I hadn't received the files yet, so I was using some older shots that most resemble my current look.
And I knew the actual head shot had nothing to do with anything.
I have come to the conclusion that when people say you need to "look the part," what they really mean is "be ready" and what they really mean by that is "be comfortable with being yourself." When I say yourself, I assume you know I mean your BEST self, but YOU none the less.
There have been times when I have perfected "looking the part," using 10485% of my classical acting background and training and costuming skills and come nowhere near getting the part.
There have been times when I was called in to audition just after arriving, with no time to look over lines, improvised when requested and gotten the part. (PS the only thing I remember about that particular day was that I had woken up and remained happy before and during my audition).
There have been times when my hair color was growing out, I hadn't gotten a chance to work out in over a week, and my head shot was hanging on by a thread. It's where I was. But I was comfortable and ready and I felt fantastic and I knew the sides inside and out. And I got the part.
I'm not recommending being a mess going into your audition. But I am recommending SHOWING UP in LIFE as your best self wherever that may be. Like, here's a thought.
If you are in a rut with monologues or auditions or just not "feeling it" lately, take a break. Go do something (else) fun! Go out dancing! Meet up some friends and don't talk about acting. Learn to crochet!
Last year I had to take some time to get some perspective, but when I really think about it, all it ever really is, is getting back to myself.
Cause it's not really about the role. It's about you playing the role. And life is really about you. YOU are the main character in your life. So, shouldn't you look the part of you?
Slow Clap…Right? Nailed it.


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Global Education Outreach Program
GEOP – POLIN Museum partners with universities and research institutions worldwide
The Global Education Outreach Program (GEOP), supported by the William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation and the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture, is intended to strengthen POLIN Museum as an international center for intellectual exchange and partnerships in the fields of Polish-Jewish studies and Jewish museum studies. GEOP supports research fellowships, scholars-in-residence, post-doctoral seminars, distinguished lectures, conferences, publications, and the development of digital resources.
Seven POLIN research fellowships for 2016/2017 have been awarded to outstanding scholars whose research projects deal with the history and culture of Polish Jews in the historic territory of Poland. Fellows will present their work-in-progress and receive feedback from their colleagues in a monthly seminar. They will also be encouraged to participate in the full program of lectures, workshops, and conferences at POLIN Museum and at the Jewish Historical Institute.
A unique opportunity to name a fellowship or internship
The Greenberg Family International Internships, the first named gift within GEOP, will support ten international internships over a five-year period. During the eight-week summer internships in POLIN Museum's Education, Research, Publication, and Exhibition departments will offer undergraduate and graduate students, from universities outside Poland, a unique experience. They will deepen their knowledge of the history of Polish Jews, develop professional skills in a world-class museum, and explore today's Poland. Recruitment for summer 2017 interns will begin in September 2016.
GEOP provides you a unique opportunity to become a partner in this worthy endeavor! Naming opportunities for international fellowships or internships start from 30,000 USD. Help us to create a new generation of scholars and museum professionals dedicated to the history of Polish Jews and their enduring legacy.
International recognition
It is my great pleasure, as POLIN attracts attention everywhere I go. Rooms are full and almost always someone who has seen the museum stands up to praise it. I wish I could accept all the invitations I get, but I get them every month…
— Dariusz Stola
Professor Dariusz Stola, Director of POLIN Museum, is raising the academic and international profile of the museum. He is frequently invited to speak and has made presentations in Paris, in London and Oxford, in Vienna, Berlin, Jena, Osnabruck, and Leipzig, in Oslo, San Sebastian, and Lviv, in Bologna, Ferrara, and Florence, in Beijing and Chengdu (China), in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and in the United States at Stanford University, Harvard University, Princeton University, and the University of Pennsylvania. In the coming weeks, he will be speaking in Boston, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Montreal.


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These are great little appetizers and party snacks. Salad in a bite-sized cup!
- 24 Wonton Wrappers
- 2 tbsp Butter
- 1 tsp Garlic Powder
- 1 head Romaine Lettuce
- Caesar Dressing
- 1/2 cup Parmesan
- Fresh-cracked Pepper
Here's what I did:
Heat the oven to 375 degrees. Melt the butter and stir in the garlic powder. Brush each thawed wonton wrapper with the garlic powder-butter mixture.
Using a mini-muffin tin, press the wonton wrappers into each cup to form a vessel for the salad. Bake the empty wonton wrappers for about 6-8 minutes, until golden. Let cool completely.
Finely chop one head of romaine lettuce. Add the parmesan to the lettuce and mix in caesar dressing to taste. Check out my light caesar dressing, here.
Add spoonfuls of the caesar salad into each wonton cup. Top with more cheese if desired and fresh-cracked pepper. Serve these bite-sized appetizers and watch them disappear.
A few notes, FYI:
Save any leftover wonton wrappers for your next appetizer creation. You can bake them into cups using olive oil instead of garlic-butter so they are ready for any number of dishes – ceviche, buffalo chicken dip and spinach & artichoke dip are a few of my favorites.


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Keep the costs down this Christmas and give your dinner table that personal touch by making your own crackers.
I love Christmas but every year I'm disappointed with the Christmas crackers. Whether it's the terrible jokes or the cheap toys, they always fail to live up to my idea of a decent cracker. Then there's the issue of the design. I usually find I'm limited to gold, silver or cartoony designs, unless I spend a lot of money to get ones that we really want. With that in mind, this year we're going to make our own Christmas crackers. Not only will it be a bit of fun, but we'll also be able to decide what goes in the crackers which, in my opinion, will make this Christmas a winner.
What you'll need
Toilet roll tube
Festive gift wrap
Cracker bangers
Fillings/bad jokes/hats
Lay the toilet roll on the gift wrap and measure out enough to wrap around the roll and have some spare on the ends to pull.
Feed the banger into the toilet roll and stick it down on each end using the sellotape.
Roll the gift paper around the toilet roll and stick in place.
Add a bad festive joke, a little chocolate treat or even a small gift into the tube.
Twist the ends of the paper and tie around them with a little ribbon.
Then repeat for as many guests who you'll have on Christmas Day.
For the fillings, we pick up a few mixed packs from the pound shop, meaning everyone will have something they like. Christmas candy, mini packs of raisins or something all work just fine.
If you want to add a cheesy festive joke you have the option to include whatever you want. I always try to think about who'll be the one opening the cracker and add a joke accordingly. Just make sure you add a gift tag with a name, so the right person opens it.
You may have lots of suitable jokes in mind but if you need some inspirational (and want to waste a bit of time chuckling) then there are many sites packed with jokes.


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I don't know if these pictures of Lucy Pinder and friends are new or old, but there is not much going on today so I figure we'll keep the Christmas spirit alive and enjoy all these massive boobies. So, here are Lucy Pinder, Rosie Jones, Holly Peers & Joey Fisher all topless for Nuts magazine's Christmas issue. Enjoy the view!
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I know it's only two pictures, but these new shots of the UK's reigning Queen of Boobs Lucy Pinder are so good, they're worth 20 from any busty American model. At least I think that's the going exchange rate. For some reason, I'm having a hard time concentrating right now. Enjoy the view!
Lucy Pinder Super Busty In Nuts
Nothing puts a big smile on my face and small lump in my pants like a Lucy Pinder busty photoshooot. Here are some amazing pictures of her from the latest issue of Nuts magazine. I know I post a lot of busty British models on this site, but make no mistake, when it comes to epic breasts; Lucy Pinder is still the UK's reigning Queen of Boobs. Enjoy the photos.
Lucy Pinder The Ultimate Collection
It has been a while since I've done a post on Lucy Pinder hot, so this is the best way for us to remind ourselves why we love this girl so much all these years. Namely, Nuts magazine released "The Ultimate Lucy Pinder Collection" and let me tell you it had me working overtime, if you know what I mean. Most of these are from old photoshoots, but they are so awesome that they are worth posting on the site once again. There is no denying that Lucy is still "UK's Glamour Queen of Boobs" and all the other pretenders have a long way to go before they steal her title. Enjoy the photos.
Lucy Pinder Busty For New Year Studio Photoshoot
As much as I love it when celebrities Tweet hot pictures of themselves, there's just no substitute for a good photoshoot. Here is Lucy Pinder nude posing for New Year Studio Photoshoot in some sexy lingerie looking busty and beautiful as always… She knows that it is a competitive world out there for busty British chicks, but this is exactly the kind of thing that helps Lucy stay at the top. Well, that and those awesome chesticles, of course. Enjoy.
Lucy Pinder And Friends Are My Best Xmas Gifts
Finally, I can thank Santa because I've now got the Christmas photoshoot I've been waiting for. Here are Lucy Pinder, Rosie Jones, Holly Peers and India Reynolds for Nuts magazine's Christmas issue. These photos are so hot, I'm pretty sure you'll be making a new batch of eggnog in no time, if you know what I mean…
Lucy Pinder See Through Dress
I've been a fan of Lucy Pinder since I started this website and I can only count on one hand the amount of times I've seen her at an event. Usually, it's in the pages of titty magazines. Here she is wearing some see through dress to The Hobbit premiere. It's a competitive world out there for busty British chicks, but this is exactly the kind of thing that helps Lucy stay at the top and of course, those big beautiful Lucy Pinder breasts on her. I love those things.
Lucy Pinder Drops Some Massive British Cleavage
I've posted a whole hell of a lot of Lucy Pinder pictures over the years and most of them included her naked or topless, but did you know that she can be almost equally interesting with clothes on. Of course only if she wears some tight low cut dress like this. Here is at "The Soviet Nuts Awards Party" and if anyone deserves award that night it's definitely Lucy Pinder nude because not many chicks can pull off an outfit with a dead animal laying over their shoulder. Interestingly!


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Top 5 Cybersecurity Breaches in January
Despite all of the security steps companies are taking, hackers are still finding their way in to an organization's crown jewel assets. Here are the top 5 breaches reported in January.
U.S. Cellular: This breach hasn't been verified but it has been reported that a hacker is selling a database of over 121 million U.S. citizens on the dark Web. This includes first name, last name, address, city, state and cell phone numbers. The hacker states that the database is as recent as January 2017.
Summit Reinsurance Services Inc. and BCS Financial Corporation: The Delaware Department of Insurance is investigating a security breach involving Summit Reinsurance Services Inc. (SummitRe) and BCS Financial Corporation, both subcontractors of Highmark BlueCross BlueShield of Delaware. The breach affects thousands of Delawareans with employer-paid plans. It impacts a total of sixteen current and former Highmark self-insured customers and approximately 19,000 of its members. The breach was uncovered due to multiple consumer complaints.
Cellebrite: Uh oh… a company hired to protect data was hacked. Cellebrite, a firm hired by government and military groups to rip data from mobile devices, was breached, leading to the theft of roughly 900GB of data. The data included details about Cellebrite customers, the firm's databases, technical information relating to the company's products, logs, and evidence from seized mobile devices.
Verity Health: An unauthorized breach was detected on the Verity Medical Foundation-San Jose Medical Group website, which has since been shut down. The personal information of more than 10,000 patients of Verity Health may have been compromised after the website was hacked. The information included patient names, dates of birth, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, medical record numbers and the last four digits of credit card numbers, dated between 2010 and 2014.
Sentara Healthcare: A breach at a third party vendor for Sentara Healthcare has compromised the records of over 5,000 patients. The incident involves 5,454 vascular and thoracic patients seen between 2012 and 2015 at Sentara hospitals in Virginia. Sentara patients were issued a letter informing them of the breach. The accessed information may have included patients' names, medical record numbers, birth dates, social security numbers, procedure information, demographic information and medications.
These breaches should be a red flag to all organizations. Whether it's an inside threat or an external one, you need a better approach to protecting your company's most valuable assets. Start by clicking here to learn how your cyber posture compares to other leading organizations.


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The land of Amesha has been changing for many years and the arrival of new faith has changed it for the better. Save for the house of Raven Home, wherein a strong tradition still holds true after all these generations.
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A different universe than you're used to. Alien races roam space, wars rage on planets, and Earth is quite in a predicament from time to time...
Monsters and cryptids alike are known to the public, the hunters are the solution to when they threaten mankind....a hunters dream.
This is a private roleplay for MattserMoose and VisualPenetration.
A surreal, bizarre dreamscape exists alongside everyday Earth. People are being drawn into it, where their imaginations truly come alive.
One starts to think that there's nothing special about anyone, when you're surrounded by people that are just like you on the outside.
The fate of a world lies in the hands of twelve young people who are just trying to figure life out. What happens next is a test of growth, luck and magic.
The authorities here are hopeless. You want justice? You've got to go out and get it yourself. Or, if that's not an option, come talk to us. Who are we? We are Say Anything. We are vigilantes for hire.
A group of newly graduated teens vacation to Manteo Beach. What happens there will only be known to them..
The Holy Grail War. Some believe it to be the source of hope. Others, the source of despair and suffering. But now, a new group of servants have been summoned...but with no masters and no Holy Grail around? And who is an ally and an enemy?
The world is not what it seems as recurring nightmares haunt your sleep of a hopeless battle against doomsday. Why does it feel less like a premonition and like it has already happened? Why do you know the names "Iris" and "Dominus"?
This world is falling apart, and to make things worse, there is someone going around killing everyone. Will you save this world before it falls apart?
You from the wrong side of the tracks, or worse?
Welcome to Wonderland an Asylum like none you have ever seen, it contains people you would not expects nor characters you could imagine.
With the fall of a tyrant from beyond the veil, people once again are masters of their own world. Unfortunately, that means now to deal with those terrors that the tyrant kept at bay.
A Supernatural Entity older than time and one Human in way over their head must put a stop to a Corporation's goal of World Domination. And maybe they kill a God or two. [1x1]
I mean, it's pretty much what it says in the title. A more lighthearted, comedic Roleplay
after a terrible phenomena caused cities across the planet of Kazar to disappear the World Government Coalition funded an organization to handle it, the Kazar Anomaly Research and Testing Association, also known as K.A.R.T.A.
Before you get to work at █████ (It seems we have been censored by the government. For now let's refer to it as the "Agency") you must attend a specialized school. (Roles all taken...But if you have a good one might add it for you)
Before you get to work at █████ (It seems we have been censored by the government. For now let's refer to it as the "Agency") you must attend a specialized school. (Roles all taken...But if you have a good one might add it for you)
Werewolf - Do you live in the pack house...has your mate told you who she is yet...if ever the rogues come...will you know who she is before then...or will her silence risk destroying everything...
A 1x1 roleplay between an angel and a demon.
A character driven roleplay centering around a group of humans with special abilities, on the run from a shady scientific organization seeking to recapture their prized lab rats. (M | 18+ only)
The veil between the realms of Fae and Man is thinning, and our world once again has need of its greatest king. Enter the reincarnation of King Arthur and his court as they battle dark Fae, Mordred, and their own destiny.
Academy for the reincarnations of Fairytale characters. All these years they've been going through the same motions, the same stories. What happens when they get sick of their destinies?
Young Actors, Actresses, singers and successful programmers and even just kids with large trust funds are welcome to this school! We'll see just how great they think it is when drama finds them, just like every other school. (One Role open!)
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text: gremich Posted February 2, 2019 I've recently received a Minstrel Anglo from Concertina Connection. I traded in my Rochelle and am very happy with the Minstrel. Wondering if anyone else has a Minstrel and their impressions of it. It's a great improvement and even though it cost considerably more it's money well spent! gremich Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Nokia N9 Is Now Shipping To Stores, Will You Buy One?
Finally the MeeGo device of Nokia, the N9 is now on its way heading to the nearest stores in your place, as it was announced on NokConv.
Nokia N9 features the most unique design and packed with heavy hardware and software kicks. To start with the design, it has curved multi-touchscreen covered with Gorilla Glass proofing for scratches protection. Its uni-body design is made of top poly-carbonate material that are available in three different colors of Cyan, Magenta and Black.
N9 is running on 1GHz cpu and with 512MB RAM, and with choices of 16GB or 64GB for storage. While the software that N9 runs with is the latest Intel and Nokia platform product, the MeeGo. And top on that, the new SWIPE UI is being used in order to simply and leverage your thirst for fluid and elegant interface experience.
The device is priced at (before taxes and subsidies):
General worldwide: 480 Euro for 16GB | 560 Euro for 64GB
Malaysia: RM 1799 | RM 2088
Australia: $829 AD | $979 AD
Philippines: est. at 24000 to 32000 PHP (subject to change)
India: est. at Rs. 28000 to 30000 (subject to change)
So, will you get the Nokia N9? Me, I'm still waiting for Nokia World 2011 news. If I will be invited, there's a chance I will buying the N9.


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Catamaran Optimist
Hannes & Christine
We left Europe 2008 with 'Pukuri', an open bridge catamaran. Sailed her all the way to French Polynesia, westernmost point: Bora Bora, back to Tahiti and then had the chance to upgrade our very basic lifestyle and bought a new cat in Portugal.
We left Portugal on 'Optimist' in February 2012, Canary Islands, crossing the Atlantic in April (31 days!!! no wind), St.Martin in May, Panama canal transit in June, crossing the Pacific in September (37 days), Tahiti in October.
Sold Pukuri and sailed to Fiji via Suwarrow atoll and Maupiti. Had to wait because of cyclone Evan and just made it to Savusavu/ Fiji at the end of 2012!
2013 we sailed against the wind to Wallis and Tonga and back to Fiji to spend another cyclone season in Savusavu.
Christine had to leave the boat in June 2014 because of unsolvable relationship issues.
Christine's e mail: cxtine500 at yahoo dot com
Hannes is still in Fiji.
Catamaran Optimist:
15m long, 8,3m wide, 6,4 tons
Alexander's Yachtdesign, Lexline 49, wood, glass, epoxy
Sleeps 10 (4 double, 2 single), 2 bathrooms/toilet, spacious cockpit
Flag: Austria
maarten permalinkDecember 14, 2017 7:06 pm
boy do i miss this boat, i worked for the previous owner bob vink,and fitted most of the comfort and electronics on it. good to see she still avloat,if there any questions on gear or other things pls contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com id be thrilled to help you out.
greets from maarten (nl)
Andreas Salzbrunn permalinkApril 10, 2016 8:58 pm
Grias di Hannes Wie ist es auf den Marschall-Inseln? Toll dass Du immer noch am Segeln bist. Weißt Du zufällig ob Pukuri den Hurrikan auf Fiji überlebt hat ?
liebe Grüße Andi


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So just a quick recap, last session i tasked myself with a few more buildings to do which i did ahead of session 9 which would be our next installment of group critique. Everyone showed there buildings and was given constructive feedback and some progress was shown even with people who had been struggling so this was a bonus. Myself i showed my buildings 1 by 1 the quicksilver, pound world and cheque center, they received very positive feedback everything was to scale in proportion and for the detail i had managed the poly count was on the low side giving me much more room to add extra details in the future.
The group critique is to show our professionalism to give others constructive feedback being harsh or actually praise them for good work. This had some issues the week before with some not following the trend disrupting critique, but after a word from myself during the last session to be quiet i think the point had got across. The group was very professional towards all people who presented and gave some useful ideas. For example on Abbie's building Kardomah her positioning of pillars and window frame was off as i rightly pointed out and others added to how could work out the right placement like putting a texture of the building front on onto a plane to get proportions perfect. Phil's building I pointed out the window over hangs were not extruded for enough out and had multiple indents to them rather than flat which he said was working progress to build upon.
As a result to this group critique it had already been planned in advance to get 2 buildings textured by next week, Paul backed us up with this demanding it be done as the project should be alot further on. Myself i did 3 textures of my buildings and i left 2 for the next session which me and Phil have planned to take a tutorial lesson on texturing 101.
A rather brief blog post but being a group critique and it going well for myself with no improvements suggested it was just straight onto texturing buildings.


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Happy Birthday America!!!
Hope you're enjoying some cake and ice cream to help celebrate the occasion!
This cake has you covered for both. Which is why I couldn't decide between the
fork or the spoon as the appropriate tool. Or just your tongue.
Cake pinwheels hidden inside the most delicious and creamy vanilla-y vanilla ice
cream. The best news is that it uses store bought ice cream instead of cake for
the white background. Step away from the oven and put down those oven mitts!
Well, not completely. The pinwheels had to be baked.
The bad news is two-fold. 1) I didn't anticipate that the vibrant red frosting would
leave a pink streak when cutting the frozen slices with a hot knife. The Swiss
meringue butter cream took an unusually large amount of both super red and
burgundy to get the color I was after. Which brings us to number 2) Color. What
WAS I thinking?!?! Actually . . . I was thinking a more trendy blue would be fun.
But I lost my nerve when it came to the flag exterior. It was wrong. Next time I
would do the inside blue the same as the outside. Shield your eyes from the
offensive blue pinwheel!
The shot above was taken after the cake went back to the freezer during the first
photography session. Working with ice cream is a little trickier than regular cake.
Kinda reminds me of Hans Solo being frozen but that's another cake all together,
now isn't it?
The frosting style was inspired by this burlap ribbon flag project.
I fell in love with the way the folds piled over each other. The original plan was to
use smooth stripes but the ridged side of the piping tip won out.
Wilton basket weave tip #47 did the trick and was just the right size for the planned
number of stripes. Did I say *planned??? One more stripe was "planned" but since
WHEN do things EVER go according to plan? I removed one stripe and soldiered on.
The stars are made from bright white candy melts but regular old white chocolate
would've matched the frosting much better. Okay. So the problems were at least
three-fold. You caught me. At least I always learn from my mistakes. Most of the time.
I make a LOT of mistakes. So I'm getting pretty darned smart. One would think.
Hope you're smart enough to cool off with some ice cream & enjoy the rest of your 4th!
miss smarty pants (aka Deborah)


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Grabbing the long serrated blade of the attacker's knife has shredded his hand but saved his life.
"If I didn't hold the knife, I think he would have cut my throat," Mahmood Ishaque says with a ponderous shake of his head as he recalls the attack that took place over a year and half ago and yet seems as frighteningly fresh as yesterday to him.
The No. 1 cause of death on the job for foreign-born workers is homicide, and most victims are clerks at gasoline stations and food stores and cab drivers like Mahmood Ishaque. They are immigrants doing dangerous work others won't.
A Tribune analysis shows that in 2005, when foreign-born workers made up 15 percent of the nation's workforce, 188 were murdered on the job, accounting for more than a third of the 564 workplace homicides, the highest ratio since the government began keeping track in 1992.
Much of this loss of life can be avoided with measures that are both well-known and not costly, experts say. But protecting cab drivers and store clerks hasn't been as big a priority as saving lives on the factory floor, they add.
"This is a terrible thing and it is fixable," says Rosemary Sokas, a workplace safety expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a former official at the research arm of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
A $500 plastic shield that separates taxi drivers from passengers can save countless drivers' lives, say experts like Sokas.
Between 1992 and 2005, the latest year for which statistics are available, 3,040 foreign-born workers were murdered on the job, according to government figures. Most of the victims were Mexicans, but the workplace homicide rates were the highest among immigrants from India, Cuba, Korea and Vietnam.
Two decades ago Ishaque, 39, emigrated from Pakistan and spent the first 10 years scratching by on low paying jobs. He greeted a driver's job as a chance to step up financially.
The night he was assaulted, Ishaque's fare had lured him from the North Side of Chicago to Niles.
To fight off his attacker, he drove his cab into a fence, and the robber jumped out but demanded money through the window of the car, he says. Ishaque handed him about $40 and managed to drive off. Police haven't made any arrests.
His cab had a plastic shield between the driver and passenger seats, a device the City of Chicago requires in company-owned cabs but not in 300 independently operated vehicles. But that night he left the shield open.
As dangerous as it is to drive a cab, working behind a grocery store counter is equally risky. Last year grocery stores in the U.S. recorded 76 murders, a number unmatched by any other industry, government figures show.
The risks were something Jihad Othman and his brothers had tried to put out of their mind, and had avoided discussing in front of their wives.
But after Jihad's brother Hatem was shot to death in February 2004 outside the West Side grocery where they worked, they could no longer ignore the danger.
Forty-year-old Hatem was married and had four children. After his death, his wife returned to Jordan with their children.
"I would go in there [the store], and my head would hurt," Jihad says hesitantly, adding that even now it pains him to recall the shooting. The family soon sold the store to another immigrant family.
He opens his wallet to show that his brother's photo is the first thing that he sees. "I think about him every day."
Hatem was the first of the family to arrive from Jordan a decade ago. In all, there were seven brothers, explains Jameelah, Jihad's wife, who took minimum-wage jobs in grocery stores, lived together in an attic and saved their money.
In time, the brothers bought three stores.
From the start, Hatem had been the upbeat older brother who had emerged the family leader after their father died years ago in Jordan.
The day of the holdup, according to Jihad, two men wearing masks and carrying guns entered the store and ordered him and another brother to the floor along with several customers, then grabbed handfuls of money from the cash registers.
Lying there, Jihad waited to die.
Hatem, who witnessed the robbery on a television screen at another store where he worked down the block, came running with a small handgun. As the robbers fled, he fired at them and they shot back, fatally wounding him. He died almost immediately.
Not far from where the robbery occurred, another brother, Nidal Othman, works alone in a small storefront.
Peering out from a small opening behind a counter amid a rush of customers, Nidal, 30, says his only protection is a camera that scans the store. He knows of no other safety precautions he can take.
What else is there? he asks
"Who knows what can happen?" he adds with a shrug of his shoulders. "You just have to leave it up to God. And you have to take care of your family."
Jihad, 35, who now runs a produce store on the West Side, wants to sell the family-owned store where Nidal works and find him a safer place.
"When you come to this country, it doesn't matter what work you do when you come," Jihad says philosophically during a slow afternoon. "You also don't understand what is dangerous."
Basic safety measures might have made a difference for one of Ishaque's friends.
Mohammad Rafiq Haroon, 60, was killed by a robber in April 2003. He had been driving a cab on Chicago's North Side without a plastic shield. His 21-year-old murderer fled with $100, according to prosecutors.
Word of such tragedies circulates quickly within the vast taxi world: deaths like that of Leis Desir, a Haitian immigrant killed in July while gassing up his cab in Philadelphia, Manh Nguyen, a Vietnamese immigrant murdered in a holdup in July in Honolulu, and Pairoj Chitprasart, a Thai immigrant robbed and set afire in Las Vegas in August 2004.
There was also 62-year-old Haroon Paryani, another Chicago cabbie, who died in February last year when an angry customer drove Paryani's taxi back and forth over him. His 38-year-old killer was found guilty and last month was given a 15-year prison term.
Dr. Linda Degutis, a professor of emergency medicine at Yale University, is a leader of the American Public Health Association, which, along with other safety groups, has urged the federal government to take steps to try to curtail such violence.
They want OSHA to issue a regulation laying out basic protections for these workers. If the federal government won't, then they say cities and states should step in. So, too, businesses should shoulder some of the burden, safety groups say.
"There are ways we can at least make a start,'' says Degutis. "Maybe we can't decrease everything, but maybe we can decrease the toll."
But getting the federal government and states to act and businesses to comply has not been easy.
Amid opposition from the retail industry, which complained about the potential paperwork and governmental intrusion, OSHA in the 1990s mulled a proposed regulation that applied to late-night workers at retail stores and cabs. Finally, the regulatory agency came up with a voluntary guideline in 1998 for late-night stores.
Charles Jeffers, OSHA's director from 1997 to 2000, recalled that he didn't think the agency would be able to police grocery stores and taxi stands to see if they adhered to the regulation. But he also felt the problem couldn't be ignored.
"When we first got into this, there was a great outcry from the industry that there was nothing we could do. I just don't think it is acceptable to say the employee shouldering the risk is enough," he says.
In two of the three states with regulations for retail stores, industry groups challenged the laws. They lost their challenges in Florida, and a court battle over a 2004 law in New Mexico is not yet resolved. Washington is the other state with a law meant to protect retail store workers.
"If it [the law]were necessary, every state would have it," says Ruben Baca, of the New Mexico Petroleum Marketers Association, which is fighting the 2004 law. "There are violent people out there, and what they need to do is put violent people away."
Three years after the federal guidelines took effect, the Department of Labor's inspector general said that OSHA did not know whether businesses were following them or even the figures on the level of violence in the workplaces.
Recent studies by OSHA's research arm show that many businesses, especially small ones, have not embraced even the simplest measures, and Rosemary Erickson, a safety expert who has examined the issue for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
Typically, Erickson said stores operated by corporate chains follow safety precautions.
"But if they are not corporate stores, then it's very low compliance with the basic measures," she says. As for mom and pop grocery stores, "there is virtually no compliance."
In the case of taxis, OSHA did not go as far as it did for retail stores. It has only listed tips for drivers' safety, items such as installing cameras and protective shields in cabs. Some cities, such as Chicago, have adopted as law at least part of the suggestions.
Since 1998, for example, Chicago's 13,000 drivers of company-owned cabs have been required to have shields.
Now Chicago officials are finalizing a regulation that would allow drivers to replace the bullet-resistant shields with cameras, a move that probably would be well-received by drivers who have complained about the shields.
"Drivers generally don't have the shield closed because the customers hate it," says Jack Nichols, a veteran manager at Flash Cab Co. But at classes for the drivers, which are mandatory, Nichols often skips talking about safety.
"They don't really want to get into that," he says. They say they have heard it before, and, he adds, they often wind up topping each other with tales of their dangerous encounters.
That is not to suggest that taxi drivers aren't afraid of what can happen to them, especially late at night.
"Cab drivers are seriously stressed, and they are very worried about getting killed," says Funmi Apantaku Onayemi, who recently oversaw a study of cab drivers' health at the University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Public Health. "Every day, almost every minute. Day and night. They are not sitting there thinking if I don't work at night I won't get killed."
When he returned to work a few weeks after his attack, Ishaque says he tried to do things differently to improve his safety.
For example, he drove days although he didn't earn as much as on nights.
He also would decline customers' requests to drive into alleys. And if he had any suspicions about a passenger, he would ask friends to keep their cell phones open. Whether he had doubts or not, he would close the shield to the back of the cab. He was afraid.
But he has become less cautious over time. Now he keeps the shield open and has returned to driving at night, sometimes as many as six or seven days a week, starting 12-hour shifts about 5 p.m.
After paying his cab's bills, he usually takes home about $500 a week. It is just enough, he says, to support him, his wife and their five children.
"I'm still frightened working at night and my wife, she is very scared. She says, `No, no, no. Don't drive at night.' But what can I do?" he softly asks one afternoon before he leaves for his shift and as his children begin arriving home from school.
"I am looking for another job," he says. "Every cab driver, they want to quit. But they cannot do it, because it is very hard to find another job."


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Writing on in Dark Days? by Mari Howard (aka Clare Weiner)
|A symbol of the light
I was a teen in the age of Aquarius. (The expression Age of Aquarius in popular culture usually refers to the heyday of the hippie and New Age movements in the 1960s and 1970s.Wikipedia. Remember the song, in 'Hair'? Maybe not.)
Talk was of how we have moved into the digital age.
But now we are also living in the post truth era.
Christmas is over, but actually, is still with us until Epiphany. Although, in terms of 'how was your Christmas?' ours was a lovely few days of family togetherness, and a suspension of considering the gloomy realities of 2016. At Christmas lunch political talk was banned on pain of having to eat another sprout for each politically driven remark – I (Mum to the instigators) took and ate two before succumbing with humour to the ban!
|Christmas Family togetherness
It's probably easier for us to accept the darkness of the times: our adult children, midway into careers, have a possibly worse prospect ahead in terms of employment, pensions, raising a family. Food Banks were unknown when we were in our mid 30s, and Crisis at Christmas (founded 1972) a relatively new idea Our younger son spent part of each of his Christmas holiday days helping out at his local crisis centre this year.
Over the holidays, with more time to read, I've been reading a novel which draws its central theme partly from the Aldermaston Marches, and the terrible events not only of Hiroshima but of nuclear testing which continued – without detailed public knowledge of its consequences for those involved – throughout what appeared to us post-World War II children as a safe and peaceful world, despite the 'cold war'.
|Dark, foggy, and bewildering?
And so, we face a new year, possibly as a new era. Including this astonishing concept of a post-truth era to follow a post-Christian cultural shift.
If you're still with me, how do Christians, and particularly Christian writers, hope to live in these times? It would be easy to make a clarion call here, and talk about showing God's love, or reviving Christian values or similar phrases. Or, to take our signal from the Queen, and say by doing many small acts of kindness.
I feel inclined to leave this blog post with a challenge to us all: how do we demonstrate God's love or indeed any of his character to a post-truth world? What are traditional Christian values? What do small acts of kindness add up to, and can they make a difference? Mary's song is very political. Political in the sense that not only individuals but communities and nations need to express, love like the Samaritan for his neighbour of another culture and religion; forgiveness not only as the father for his prodigal (wasteful) son but including that 'go and sin no more' and 'he who is without sin cast the first stone' kind of thing. It is about provision for the poor, and questions the power of the rich, it welcomes and celebrates a turning upside down of the existing order. (See Luke 1vv. 46-55)
|Crib ... but where is the baby?
Worshipping the baby in the manger at Christmas, in such carols as Away in a Manger or See amid the winter's snow, it's possible to ignore the life and message of the adult this baby Jesus will become. To distance him to a weak and defenceless ineffectual seasonal icon rather than the powerful and iconoclastic son of Mary who sings the Magnificat and who praises God for shaking up the complacency of Judaic society at the time, and by implication all human society.
Recently, in our (very small) church book group, we have studied a short book which encouraged churches to become like Jesus not just in our individual lives but as a community. To take literally the idea that, as Paul says, we are as a group the body of Christ. No one person has all the gifts, or can totally model the person of Jesus, but as a group we can make up the whole of the body. Caring for one another and for the world beyond the group.
|The Light shines in the darkness ...
In 2017, as Christian writers, we might aim to be both supportive within our writing community and inspirational to the world. Through our writing, whatever kind it is, and through prayer, acknowledging both that the world situation is dark, and that the light which we know and who knows us is not and will not be overcome. This is the light which both seeks out our wrongs and illuminates our paths.
Mari Howard is the pen name of Clare Weiner, who when not being political or learning to be Granny is hopefully writing the Mullins Family Saga book 3 and lives in Oxford with her husband and 2 cats. Her website tells you more.


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The question this week comes from Daniel:
"How can I better teach my players to move off the ball in order to dominate possession?"
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New product stabilizes fractures for surface and underground coal mining operations
STRATA WORLDWIDE is very pleased to announce a new exclusive supply agreement for the United States coal mining industry with Grace Construction Products, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Together the companies are bringing to market a new rock consolidation injection product, Organosol™ 550 DT, which has been developed specifically for use in surface and underground mining.
Organosol™ 550 DT is a non-expanding, two-component injection resin that offers mines an advanced alternative to traditional urea-silicate glues. It is designed to consolidate and stabilize fractured coal, rock and gravel in underground roadways, shafts, coal faces and longwalls. Organosol™ 550 DT is insensitive to water in the reaction and will not absorb, shrink, expand or foam when it comes into contact with water. It can be used to seal against water.
This new cooperation is a milestone for both companies, combining Grace's extensive expertise and technical experience in consolidation and water-stopping materials with Strata Worldwide's decades of mining experience.
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Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which posed a serious challenge to the work of Parliament, several measures were quickly adopted in order to ensure the continuation of the legislative and democratic life of the EU, while focusing on its response to the COVID-19 crisis. This Thematic Digest contains an overview of the principal debates held by Parliament's committees and delegations, and of the decisions made as a result of their work, following the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Conference of Presidents (CoP) of the European Parliament updated the institution's calendar of activities on 2 July, to take into account the continuing precautionary measures taken to contain the spread of COVID-19. The full calendar is available on Parliament's website.
The Fact Sheets on the EU provide an overview of European integration and of Parliament's contribution to that process. They present a brief overview of the EU's institutions and policies, and of Parliament's role in their development. Available in 24 languages, they cover five main areas: how the EU works; economy, science and quality of life; cohesion, growth and jobs; fundamental rights, security and justice; and the EU's external relations. The online version is updated regularly.
Studies, in-depth analyses and briefings produced by Parliament's policy departments and the Economic Governance Support Unit are available online in the dedicated section for Supporting Analyses. Apart from searching specific publications, a selection of papers and upcoming events can be found under "Highlights". A monthly overview of the work of policy departments is given in "Periodicals", with key studies on thematic issues.
In the July Issue of the Policy Departments' Monthly Highlights, LIBE Committee Chair Juan Fernando López Aguilar presents a publication that examines the impact of COVID-19 measures adopted by the Member States on democracy, rule of law and fundamental rights. This edition also features topics related to gender equality, the budget, artificial intelligence, agriculture, and Africa. Forthcoming publications and events are also announced.
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Thursday, 14 March, 2002, 11:19 GMT
School attacked over evolution teaching
Leading scientists are calling for school inspectors to re-examine a UK faith school over the way it is teaching evolution.
Professor Richard Dawkins and others claim fundamentalist Christian teachers at the top school are steering children towards a purely biblical explanation of how the world was created.
Professor Dawkins, the famous genetics author from Oxford University, says children at Emmanuel College in Gateshead are being taught "ludicrous falsehoods".
The row mirrors those in the United States, between religious groups, which want Creationism taught in schools, and scientists.
Christian school
In the Commons on Wednesday, Prime Minister Tony Blair defended Emmanuel College saying reports that it was promoting creationism were "somewhat exaggerated".
The school is a City Technology College, set up with private money, and it does not have to follow the national curriculum. It is also a non-denominational Christian school.
Professor Dawkins says the schools' inspectors, Ofsted, who gave Emmanuel College a glowing report, could not have understood the school's approach to science and should re-inspect.
"I can only think that the inspectors overlooked or were not shown what was going on in science teaching.
"I think the same could be said of Tony Blair in the House of Commons yesterday.
"He, no doubt, had seen the Ofsted report. He naturally has to take what the report says."
Professor Dawkins has written to Ofsted asking for the school to be re-inspected.
Other leading scientists who have made the same call include genetics expert Professor Steve Jones of University College, London (UCL), and Professor David Colquhoun, also of UCL.
Professor Dawkins said he had proof that Emmanuel College was telling its teachers to question any references in textbooks to the world being billions of years old, because creationism suggested the Universe was no more than a few thousand of years old.
He told Today: "These children are being taught ludicrous falsehoods.
"This is not a matter of one scientific position against another scientific position.
"There is no scientific position which states that the Earth is a few thousand years old. Any bishop would say the same."
The school's head teacher declined to comment, but Sir Peter Vardy, who donated �2m to help fund the school, said it was more than willing to have Ofsted return to see what it was doing.
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