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Hearts are so much fun. I like the Paris candle and the heart cutting board, but my favorite is that sweet moss heart with the burlap bow. Thanks for sharing these.
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Paris scented candle - what does Paris smell like? hehehe I'm just kidding :))
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Dear Dawn, You can have a party to celebrate love, and the possibility of love. You have something to look foward to. Live in Love, darling.
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You can always be counted on for a lovely selection of eye candy :) And expensive taste - ha - couldn't believe the price tag on the heart strings art! It is beautiful, though! I think my favorites are the Sugarboo sign (love that saying!), the footed bowl and the bunny fabric (including the very low commitment amount of emerald - or probably more kelly green, but close).
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i do love the heart strings art here. there are so many twists to the heart these days. here's one i actually designed with strips of my favorite color combo: https://www.etsy.com/listing/119935283/mod-stripe-heart-pillow-orange-and-pinks?ga_search_query=heart
i do love the heart strings art here. there are so many twists to the heart these days. here's one i actually designed with strips of my favorite color combo: https://www.etsy.com/listing/119935283/mod-stripe-heart-pillow-orange-and-pinks?ga_search_query=heart
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One of my favorite Valentine's which my Mom gave me a long time ago is a silver heart paper weight. Happy Valentine's Day!
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Laurie at Bird in Hand VTG
Beautiful selections, Darlene! Love that your featured items aren't all from big box stores but also handmade and vintage from sites like Etsy. Love that you featured a variety of price ranges too :)
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We've put together some great art pieces to make the heart beat faster this Valentine's Day. At Elisa Contemporary Art, we've called the exhibit, Smitten. http://www.elisacontemporaryart.com/Exhibit_Detail.cfm?ShowsID=56
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Dear Dawn,
Movies. Not a chick flick but a thriller, suspense movie like Argo or Gangster Squad or Zero Dark Thirty. Great movies, very distracting, edge of your seat fun, and if your interested, possibly single men! I stopped going to Chick Flicks after my divorce 13 years ago; now that I'm remarried, I still don't go. As far as I'm concerned Disney and the following romantic themed "entertainment" movies create Unrealistec Expectations.
Have Fun Girl! You deserve it!
Movies. Not a chick flick but a thriller, suspense movie like Argo or Gangster Squad or Zero Dark Thirty. Great movies, very distracting, edge of your seat fun, and if your interested, possibly single men! I stopped going to Chick Flicks after my divorce 13 years ago; now that I'm remarried, I still don't go. As far as I'm concerned Disney and the following romantic themed "entertainment" movies create Unrealistec Expectations.
Have Fun Girl! You deserve it!
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Today on Women of Wisdom, Best-Selling Author, Win Kelly Charles welcomes the Mentor to People who Thrive (not just survive), Freedom Coach and Inspired Business Mentor, Jessica Caver to the program today. Jessica supports women in creating high-level coaching businesses by blending traditional business tools with inspired action. She went from earning 1K and month to 10K in just 30 days and on to 6 figures on 6 months! www.JessicaCaver.com is her website where you will find out how to gain financial freedom and live like you are on vacation. You are invited to connect with our host, Win Charles @ www.wincharles.com and when YOU are ready to be a guest, email her email@example.com and put GUEST in the subject line, we will get right back to you. FOLLOW this program @ www.blogtalkradio.com/wcawomanwithcp
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Kindness Curator. Travel Inspirer. Animal Advocate
Jessica Blotter is founder & CEO of Kind Traveler, a journalist, and an animal welfare advocate. I'll be interviewing her for one hour. She'll be discussing her passions and how we can use travel for the good of all mankind.
Jessica Reedy live on MRTR
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#MyRealTalkRadio Interviews Singer/Songwriter: Jessica Reedy
Jessica Reedy first came to our attention on the national TV competition BET's Sunday Best. She attended the Season 2 Sunday Best audition in Washington DC on a whim to support a friend. She quickly found herself in the Top 20 onto the show's main stage performing for judges Mary Mary and Bebe Winans. Reedy made it all the way to finals eventually being named runner up. Throughout that process and the subsequent loss, self-doubt crept in. While Reedy never thought she had the talent to make it, God used the totality of the experience to bring her into her call as both an artist and minister of music.
The Crow and Moore Show "Puzzy in a hat"
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Jessica Haynes: Inventor of Socket Saver
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Our Guest: Jessica Haynes has been a business and relationship
consultant for 30 years and lives on the Monterey
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1983 when she was critically injured as a passenger in a
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She has been listed in the top most remarkable NDE experiences ever
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Jessica is the inventor of the Socket Saver.
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Hot Or Not?! Good Beard Or Weird Beard?
Thursday 9:12 PM, 03/05/2012
NOT! Penn Badgley's beard make him look so sloppy!
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HOT! Alexander Skarsgard featuring some very sexy stubble.
NOT! Jon Hamm looks like someone from the 19th century.
NOT! Brad Pitt once went for long beard. It didn't go well.
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We love a guy with a beard, but for some reason some of our favorite A-Listers are really slacking in the facial hair department. We've spotted ten men like Liam Hemsworth and Brad Pitt with beards. Some of them are hot and som of them are so not. Click on the pics and check them out!
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Zivin, Kara, H.M. Kim, J.F. McCarthy, K.L. Austin, K.J. Hoggatt, H. Walters, and M. Valenstein. 2007. "Suicide mortality-among individuals receiving treatment for depression in the veterans affairs health system: Associations with patient and treatment setting characteristics." American Journal of Public Health, 97(12): 2193-2198.
Objectives. We sought to report clinical and demographic factors associated with suicide among depressed veterans in an attempt to determine what characteristics identified depressed veterans at high risk for suicide. Methods. We used longitudinal, nationally representative data (1999-2004) to determine suicide rates among depressed veterans, estimating time until suicide using Cox proportional hazards regression models. Results. Of 807 694 veterans meeting study criteria, 1683 (0.21%) committed suicide during follow-up. Increased suicide risks were observed among male, younger, and non-Hispanic White patients. Veterans without service-connected disabilities, with inpatient psychiatric hospitalizations in the year prior to their qualifying depression diagnosis, with comorbid substance use, and living in the southern or western United States were also at higher risk. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with comorbid depression was associated with lower suicide rates, and younger depressed veterans with PTSD had a higher suicide rate than did older depressed veterans with PTSD. Conclusions. Unlike the general population, older and younger veterans are more prone to suicide than are middle-aged veterans. Future research should examine the relationship between depression, PTSD, health service use, and suicide risks among veterans.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz, who was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment Friday, struggled for years against a legal system that he felt had not caught up to the information age. Federal prosecutors had tried unsuccessfully to mount a case against him for publishing reams of court documents that normally cost a fee to download. He helped lead the campaign to defeat a law that would have made it easier to shut down websites accused of violating copyright protections.
In the end, Swartz's family said, that same system helped cause his death by branding as a felon a talented young activist who was more interested in spreading academic information than in the fraud federal prosecutors had charged him with.
The death by suicide of Swartz, 26, was "the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach," his family said in a statement Saturday.
Swartz was only the latest face of a decades-old movement in the computer science world to push more information into the public domain. His case highlights society's uncertain, evolving view of how to treat people who break into computer systems and share data not to enrich themselves, but to make it available to others.
"There's a battle going on right now, a battle to define everything that happens on the Internet in terms of traditional things that the law understands," Swartz said in a 2012 speech about his role in defeating the Internet copyright law known as SOPA. Under the law, he said, "new technology, instead of bringing us greater freedom, would have snuffed out fundamental rights we'd always taken for granted."
Swartz faced years in prison after federal prosecutors alleged that he illegally gained access to millions of academic articles through the academic database JSTOR. He allegedly hid a computer in a computer utility closet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and downloaded the articles before being caught by campus and local police in 2011.
"The government used the same laws intended to go after digital bank robbers to go after this 26-year-old genius," said Chris Soghoian, a technologist and policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union's speech, privacy and technology project.
Existing laws don't recognize the distinction between two types of computer crimes, Soghoian said: Malicious crimes committed for profit, such as the large-scale theft of bank data or corporate secrets; and cases where hackers break into systems to prove their skillfulness or spread information that they think should be available to the public.
Swartz was an early advocate of freer access to data. He helped create Creative Commons, a system used by Wikipedia and others to encourage information sharing by helping people to set limits about how their work can be shared. He also helped create the website Reddit and RSS, the technology behind blogs, podcasts and other web-based subscription services.
That work put Swartz at the forefront of a vocal, influential community in the computer science field that believes advocates like him should be protected from the full force of laws used to prosecute thieves and gangsters, said Kelly Caine, a professor at Clemson University who studies people's attitudes toward technology and privacy.
"He was doing this not to hurt anybody, not for personal gain, but because he believed that information should be free and open, and he felt it would help a lot of people," she said.
Plenty of people and companies hold an opposing view: That data theft is as harmful as theft of physical property and should always carry the same punishment, said Theodore Claypoole, an attorney who has been involved with Internet and data issues for 25 years and often represent big companies
"There are commercial reasons, and military and governmental reasons" why prosecutors feel they need tools to go after hackers, Claypoole said. He said Swartz's case raises the question of, "Where is the line? What is too much protection for moneyed interests and the holders of intellectual property?"
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Dubai Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert meets with US President George W. Bush today for what is likely to be their last meeting before both leaders leave offices.
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- Khalid Mesha'al, head of the Hamas political bureau, speaks at the opening of the two-day Arab and international forum for the Palestinians' right of return in Damascus, Syria.
No major announcements are expected, but they are likely to discuss Iran's nuclear programme, relations with Syria and the global economic crisis, according to US officials. But while the two men share unpopularity in their tenure, they leave behind them two different legacies.
"Their unpopularity is largely in part due to their unwise decision to pursue the 2006 Lebanon war. While Olmert has bravely been speaking out repudiating much of the political legacy of his career, Bush has not admitted to any mistakes," Nathan Brown, an associate and expert on Palestinian reform at the Washington DC-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told Gulf News.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday that any promise of peace agreements are false.
"So far we have not reached agreement on a single question - every issue remains up for discussion," Abbas told the PLO Central Council on Sunday.
Obama push
President-elect Obama might bring more credibility to the on-going peace initiatives, but it is very likely that he will be met with insurmountable challenges such as a divided Palestinian government, the rise of ultra-orthodox colonist violence and extremist Palestinian groups.
Despite the challenges, Obama recently telephoned President Abbas to pledge his commitment to pushing forward with the negotiations which many analysts view as a good sign that an Israeli-Palestinian peace process will be a top priority for the new US President.
There is lots of talk and speculation over what will happen if the hawkish Israeli Likud party under Benjamin Netanyahu takes control.
As for Hillary Clinton's role as Secretary of State, Brown is cautiously optimistic. "She will likely be a formidable Secretary of State but while she was Senator of New York she took some cheap shots at the Palestinians," he said.
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15,780 children will be diagnosed with cancer this year. Nearly every one of these children will be isolated from their friends and unable to attend school as a result of their treatment. Today, thanks to technology, this isolation can be overcome by giving the child a tablet computer and persuading schools to establish a connection with the hospitalized and homebound child. Hopecam is the only charity in the United States providing these services. It's no wonder that in 2014, Hopecam was asked to help six times the number of children as the year before. 2015 will be no different and Hopecam is well on its way to helping 700 children, if not more, before year's end.
It costs about $1,000 to connect each child. About 12 percent of the children live in homes unable to afford Internet, which Hopecam provides at a cost of $500 per year. 70 percent of the children attend schools eligible for Title 1 (low income) financing.
The Hopecam 5K Run/Walk is a USATF certified race — fast and flat for those wanting to set a personal best record. This is also the perfect race for families featuring an easy course for runners and walkers of all ages and fitness levels. For the first time this year, there will be corporate team competition with awards for fastest team and team that raises the most money. E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com for information. Register today at www.hopecam.org.
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Updated Website, Climate Change 101 Series Deliver Credible Information to Advance Climate Action
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March 3, 2011
Contact: Rebecca Matulka, 703-516-4146
Pew Center Updates Website and Climate Change 101 Series
WASHINGTON, DC – Public opinion continues to be divided on climate change and its causes, and as a result, public access to credible, digestible information about climate change is more critical than ever. To help advance a constructive dialogue that leads to climate action, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change refreshed its website and updated its landmark Climate Change 101 report series.
"Now more than ever, the public needs straight answers about climate change," said Eileen Claussen, President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. "The Pew Center is continuing its work to demystify the issue, and our updated website and report series present straightforward and useful climate change information."
With a fresh new design and easy-to-navigate organization, the Pew Center's website provides access to the center's first-rate analyses and publications of key climate issues. One new website feature is the publications library, which allows users to search for and order free copies of Pew Center reports. The website puts the Center's Climate Compass blog front and center, and presents timely ideas and insights from science and policy experts on topics critical to the climate debate.
The fast-reading Climate Change 101: Understanding and Responding to Global Climate Change includes nine brief reports and helps inform the climate dialogue by providing a reliable and understandable introduction to global climate change. The updated reports highlight the significance of the global negotiations, climate-related national security risks, local efforts to address climate change, the most recent predictions on global temperature changes, and more.
For more information about global climate change and the activities of the Pew Center, visit www.c2es.org.
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The Pew Center on Global Climate Change was established in May 1998 as a non-profit, non-partisan, and independent organization dedicated to providing credible information, straight answers, and innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change. The Pew Center is led by Eileen Claussen, the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.
Make an Impact: Working with Businesses to Save Energy, Save Money and Save the Planet
Make an Impact is featured in Environmental Leader's 2011 Insider Knowledge Report, which provides lessons learned from corporate environmental, sustainability, and energy decision-makers.
Below is one of the two articles on the program in Environmental Leader.
Make an Impact is a unique employee-focused energy efficiency program of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and three corporate partners. Founded by Alcoa in 2006, the partnership now includes Fortune 500 companies Bank of America and Entergy Corporation and reaches more than 350,000 employees worldwide. A clear program benefit is the opportunity for collaboration, innovation and best practice sharing.
Successful employee engagement in sustainability efforts differs for each corporation, but there are a few constants:
- Leadership from the top and a strong implementation team are critical.
- Employ multiple engagement strategies. Make an Impact includes a customized website, workshops with experts and local advocates, community volunteering, and a best-in-class carbon calculator that provides a personal analysis and recommendations to reduce your carbon footprint.
- Scale globally, implement locally. Use local experts and services to ground the program in the community; this also increases the opportunity for behavior changes.
- Successfully reinforces business relationships with community stakeholders.
- Back it up with data. Employees like to know their efforts are meaningful. Make an Impact provides corporate partners the ability to track engagement in a variety of ways.
- As part of its commitment to address climate change, Bank of America introduced MAI to associates in the US and UK in 2010. In its first six months, the program has attracted more than 2,400 visitors to the website and identified 5 million pounds of potential carbon savings by employees. In 2011, the company plans to introduce the program to employees in additional markets and double potential carbon savings and calculator usage.
- Entergy Corporation uses the program to engage both customers and employees and has customized the program so that it offers benefits to local non-profits and disadvantaged consumers. Entergy has also added an offsets component to its program - including a commitment to double pledges made through its website.
- Alcoa has a goal to reach 50 percent of its workforce with the program by 2012; to date it has introduced the program in 16 states and two countries and this year will launch a community/schools engagement module in five states, roll out in two additional countries and five additional states.
- Employee engagement is a key component to corporate sustainability efforts. One Alcoa employee attending a workshop in Washington was inspired to suggest improvements to plant operations that saved the company nearly $120,000 in auxiliary power costs. When employees make the efficiency connection, the results can be unexpected and significant. Visit http://makeanimpact.c2es.org and learn more.
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Solutions in Steps, Not Leaps: The Year in Review and a Look Ahead
By Eileen Claussen
December 20, 2010
2010 was a year of highs and lows.
On the high side were global temperatures; 2010 will mark the hottest year in recorded history. At the start of the year, there was also the short-lived high of thinking we might be on the precipice of meaningful action in the U.S. Congress to protect the climate. Finally, at year's end the climate talks in Cancún delivered (surprise!) tangible results in the form of agreement on key elements of a global climate framework.
But alas, the lows won out for most of 2010 as a trumped-up email controversy, continuing economic unease, and growing anti-government sentiment in the United States undermined the effort to forge lasting climate solutions at all levels.
Congress. Until quite recently, the Pew Center and many others were actively supporting cap and trade as the number-one climate policy solution. After the House passed a fairly comprehensive energy and climate bill in June 2009 that had a cap-and-trade system at its core, we actually thought that it might become the law of the land.
Before long, however, it became eminently clear that the Senate would not be able to pass a similar bill. The 2010 U.S. elections, which brought more doubters of climate change into the halls of Congress, only made it clearer that comprehensive climate action is off the table for now.
EPA. With Congress unable to pass comprehensive climate legislation in 2010, attention turned to what EPA might be able to do under existing authorities. And it turns out that EPA can do quite a lot by taking reasonable steps that have garnered critical support from the business and environmental communities. In late October, for example, the agency announced a sensible proposal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve fuel efficiency for medium and heavy-duty vehicles. This was followed by a November announcement that will go a long way to making sure that new industrial facilities use state-of-the-art technologies to boost efficiency and reduce emissions.
Of course, opponents of these and other EPA regulations will surely raise a ruckus, and there will be loud cries in Congress to delay the regulations and even cut funding for the EPA. But the possibility remains that the agency could conceivably begin to chip away at U.S. emissions in the months and years ahead.
State Actions. Looking beyond Washington, state capitals were the focus of creative thinking and leadership on the issue of clean energy in 2010. Massachusetts, for example, set a statewide energy efficiency standard in 2010 supported by $1.6 billion in incentives. Meanwhile, California voters upheld the state's greenhouse gas reduction law by defeating Proposition 23. This marked the first direct vote on addressing climate change in the United States, and it won in an overwhelming fashion.
But the overall story regarding climate action in the states was more mixed. While several regional climate initiatives continued to push forward, the November elections brought to the nation's statehouses a group of new leaders who adopted strong stands against climate action in their campaigns. We will stay tuned to see how their campaign rhetoric translates into governing.
International. The agreement reached by international negotiators in Cancún in December closed out 2010 on a positive note. The Cancún Agreements import the essential elements of the 2009 Copenhagen Accord into the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, including a stronger system of support for developing countries and a stronger transparency regime to better assess whether countries are keeping their promises. The Cancún Agreements also mark the first time that all of the world's major economies have made explicit mitigation pledges under the Convention.
Of course, the ultimate goal of the continuing international talks should be a legally-binding climate treaty, but in Cancún we saw countries agreeing on incremental steps that will deliver stronger action in the near term and lay the foundation for binding commitments down the road.
Looking Ahead. Looking ahead, I believe 2011 holds promise only if those of us who support climate action can learn from what happened in 2010. In recent years, domestic and international efforts largely centered on a "big bang" theory of trying to achieve everything at once. Instead, it's instructive now to take a cue from Cancún and accept that a step-by-step approach to building support for climate solutions offers our best shot at progress.
Calling on the new Congress to pass cap and trade or similarly comprehensive solutions will be a nonstarter, for example. But there may be an opportunity on Capitol Hill for less sweeping steps to reduce U.S. emissions.
Supporters would do well to spend the next several months laying the groundwork for incremental solutions by strengthening communications with the public. We need to do a better job of helping people understand both the risks and the opportunities presented by climate change. In the same way we buy fire insurance to protect against an event that has a statistically small chance of happening but would result in severe damage, acting now to cut emissions reduces our vulnerability to severe events that are likely to become more common in a warming world. And the success of the "No on Prop 23" campaign in California suggests that there remains a healthy appetite among the general public and in the business community (which provided substantial support for the effort) to back well-framed climate solutions.
After a year of highs and lows, we still must aim high in our efforts to address one of the greatest challenges of our time. But we should also heed the lessons of the past year and work for more modest victories now that can keep us on the path to longer-term solutions.
Taking Efficiency Out of the Box
A small company finding it hard to sell its residential energy usage monitoring devices starts a "parent-teenage contract" marketing campaign. The teenager gets the parents to buy the device, and then they both sign a contract stipulating that the teenager will keep half the money saved on reduced energy usage. As the savings start to roll in, the teenager becomes more motivated to improve the household's energy efficiency as do the parents, while the company points to this positive experience as it seeks additional customers for its monitoring device. This model has achieved success on a small scale, but could it be adopted on a wider level as it is driven by a business case, contains ingredients for cultural transformation and taps into incentives that appear to be driving action?
This was one of the many thought-provoking anecdotes shared at the ninth Green Innovation in Business Network (GIBN) Solutions Lab held in Boston where the 90 or so participants spent the day coming up with solutions to barriers faced by companies pursuing energy efficiency. The Pew Center on Global Climate Change was a co-sponsor of the event, along with the Environmental Defense Fund, Ashoka, Microsoft, Net Impact Boston, and many other partners. (For more information on GIBN Solutions Labs and the topics discussed at this specific event please click here.)
The GIBN Solution Labs are one-day workshops structured in an "unconference" format where participants are divided into small groups of about eight or less. Each group brainstorms solutions to a specific issue or barrier and reports back to the whole group at the end of the day. With the umbrella theme of overcoming barriers to energy efficiency, the Boston GIBN Solutions Lab focused on 14 specific topics, such as financing, making the business case and motivating the public on energy efficiency. Participants including companies, consultants, academics, and non-governmental organizations spent the morning exploring a variety of topics and then chose one in the afternoon to focus on in depth through a problem identification and solution design process.
Peter Senge, founding chair of Society for Organizational Learning and senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, kicked off the workshop with a thought-provoking speech that emphasized the need for a comprehensive vision for energy efficiency instead of piecemeal solutions. By the end of the workshop some pieces of the vision had emerged: establish energy efficiency as a social norm; create business models that support energy efficiency investments; and design methods to more effectively communicate the benefits of energy efficiency.
The day was filled with a constant buzz of conversations out of which emerged some "out of the box" ideas as well as best practices. The group tackling the issue of motivating the public on energy efficiency proposed a K-12 energy efficiency curriculum that would result in children passing along the learning to their parents. Interestingly, the group on improving energy efficiency of buildings also saw children as key players. It proposed student projects involving energy audits and efficiency implementation measures for school buildings. A "just do it," results-oriented approach was suggested to get senior management buy-in for energy efficiency projects: do the energy audit (which many utilities will provide free of charge) and then use the results of potential energy savings to convince senior management to implement the energy efficiency measures. Creative employee communication methods were also suggested such as distributing figures on how much paper and printer toner is being used by the office or putting up a sign next to the printer asking "Do you really need to print this?" There were also some "out of the box" topics: one group looked at the water-energy nexus and noted that understanding the relationships between water usage and energy could spur new technical innovations such as water-less laundry systems.
Discussions also emphasized known best practices, which were useful to participants just getting started on energy efficiency and sustainability issues. For example, developing a detailed work plan and timeframe when proposing an energy efficiency project to senior management was essential in getting their approval to move ahead. Additionally, continuous monitoring and progress reports are critical in maintaining momentum and receiving the okay to pursue more projects in the future. Recommendations for embedding energy efficiency within corporate supply chains included clearly communicating energy efficiency expectations to suppliers; helping them find the right resources to implement energy efficiency measures; and auditing suppliers to ensure implementation and maintenance.
The end-of-day presentations highlighted that while each group was tackling different topics related to energy efficiency they struggled with some common barriers. For example, financing and communicating energy efficiency were issues that almost all groups found necessary and yet difficult to overcome.
In terms of specific solutions, not everyone went home with sure-fire answers to how they were going to fund their energy efficiency projects or convince senior management to make energy efficiency a priority. However, most participants did leave with at least a few new ideas to try out and the understanding that in order to be an effective component of the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, energy efficiency required a comprehensive, system-based approach.
Aisha Husain is an Energy Efficiency Fellow
Start Your Energy Diet
Earth Day – it's the perfect day to start your energy diet. It's great to hug a tree, (in fact, that's how you measure the carbon it sequesters) but for most of us, it's even better to wrap our arms around that tangle of charger cords and pull the plug. Reducing your energy consumption is the very best way to honor Mother Earth – and save money – this year and every year.
Since I am perpetually on a diet, let me share some of the best strategies for getting started:
Business-NGO Group Calls on Obama for Greater Consumer Access to Energy Data
A group of nearly 50 companies and organizations, including the Center, sent President Obama a letter this month asking the Administration to lead the way to providing all consumers access to their energy information. The April 5 letter calls for giving consumers access to this information via devices such as computers and phones; making it easier for them to monitor and manage their energy use.
With timely and actionable information on energy consumption, households and businesses can avoid inefficiencies that drive up consumer costs and greenhouse gas emissions. Through its Make an Impact program, we also works to weave sustainability and energy efficiency into the fabric of its partners' corporate culture. The program provides accessible information to employees and their communities on ways to reduce energy use, lower their carbon footprint, and save money. These savings can be significant: If every U.S. household saved 15% on its energy use by 2020, GHG savings would be equivalent to taking 35 million cars off the road and would save consumers $46 billion on their energy bills each year.
From Shop Floor to Top Floor
From factory floors to corporate boardrooms, energy efficiency is top of mind for a growing number of businesses and their employees. Leading companies are pioneering new energy efficiency strategies that result in greater productivity, robust financial savings, and a lower carbon footprint. Today, we released a major study that examines key practices of a diverse collection of corporations at the vanguard of innovative energy efficiency solutions.
The report, From Shop Floor to Top Floor: Best Business Practices in Energy Efficiency, features insights from detailed research and analysis collected over nearly two years. The study represents the centerpiece of our Corporate Energy Efficiency Conference next week in Chicago.


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Hi guys Just started a 40 pint batch of the wilkos cerveza and used brewing sugar this time. Weirdly after 10 minutes of the yeast being added theres bubbling in the airlock o.o is this normal from what i remember its usually meant to happen 12 hours+ after its been added
the bubbles do not really indicate wether it is fermenting or not. It could be caused by a slight drop/rise in temperature, that is my bet.
It's definitely fermenting i can tell you that. It has that brown ring thingy now lol. For some reason whatever i brew mead, lager etc seems to complete real fast and have a high % lol


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Wretches & Jabberers (2011)
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Directed by Academy Award (R) winner Gerardine Wurzburg (Educating Peter), WRETCHES & JABBERERS follows two men with autism, Tracy Thresher and Larry Bissonnette, who embark on a global quest to change attitudes about disability and intelligence. Determined to put a new face on autism, the men travel to Sri Lanka, Japan and Finland, where at each stop they challenge public attitudes about autism and issue a hopeful message to reconsider competency. A poignant narrative of personal struggle that … More
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It's by engaging with all these extraordinary people that the film's beauty reveals itself.
Autistics must communicate and this film shows how. Or does it? Academy Award winner Gerardine Wurzburg ("Educating Peter") will take you by surprise with this upbeat and educational film about autistics who are breaking through.
Though the movie can be a bit meandering at times, Wurzberg deserves credit for keeping the focus on her subjects' humanity without being self-conscious about doing so.
"Wretches and Jabberers" is a moving and eye-opening testament to the desire of autistic people to be a part of the world, not apart from it -- or at least to be understood.
If it's possible to make a happy movie about people whose brain chemistry makes it difficult for them to communicate their needs and show their intelligence to others, this is it.
You want to tell the filmmakers to get on with it, and to more eloquently detail the rest of Tracy and Larry's story beyond their occupation.
Questionable treatment hurts otherwise important documentary on autism.
An eye-opening and most entertaining doc about a group of autistic people who challenge old misconceptions about the disability.
The film is maddeningly vague about how the two men made their initial breakthroughs, but it certainly is proof that even those who are written off as children can find a voice.
More info packet than a story, the film is carefully designed for unambiguous impact.
The ability to mix humor and emotion is the strong suit of this upbeat, music-saturated docu.
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Digital colage inspired by great painter Gustav Klimt
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I am a HUGE fan of Klimt and I think this a fantastic piece and title. Creative composition.
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White House Opposes DNS Blocking in SOPA
White House Opposes DNS Blocking in SOPA
Fahmida Y. Rashid
Posted 2012-01-16
A day after the primary house sponsor of the controversial online piracy bill said he was dropping DNS blocking from the legislation the White House said it would not support any legislation that tampered with the naming system.
Opponents of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act circulating in the House of Representatives got a boost after the White House said it would not support any legislation that would result in online censorship or posed cyber-security risks to the Internet's infrastructure. The Obama administration was concerned about proposed legislation that sought to "tamper" with the Internet by manipulating the Domain Name System, according to a letter released Jan. 14. DNS-filtering could pose a "real risk" to cyber-security and was not the way to fight online piracy, wrote White House cyber-security coordinator Howard Schmidt; Victoria Espinel, intellectual property enforcement coordinator; and Aneesh Chopra, federal CTO.
The White House has been silent in recent months as the debate over online piracy and censorship raged over SOPA and its counterpart in the Senate, Protect IP Act (PIPA). The recent statement was in response to two petitions asking the administration to weigh in on the SOPA debate. They were generated by the government's online petition tool "We the People."
"Our analysis of the DNS-filtering provisions in some proposed legislation suggests that they pose a real risk to cyber-security and yet leave contraband goods and services accessible online," Schmidt wrote. The White House letter was "welcome news," according to Markham Erickson, executive director of industry group netCoalition. "We appreciate the Administration's recognition that our ability to innovate, invest and grow the economy is dependent upon keeping the Internet open and free," Erickson said. News Corp's
Rupert Murdoch was incensed
with the White House statement. "So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery," Murdoch posted on Twitter. "Piracy leader is Google who streams movies free, sells advts around them. No wonder pouring millions into lobbying," he added.
The White House statement was released a day after
Rep. Lamar Smith
(R-Texas), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and the sponsor of the bill, announced he will remove the DNS-filtering provision from the draft. SOPA, if passed, would have allowed copyright-owners to obtain court orders to force ISPs to block the offending Website's DNS record to prevent users from accessing the site entirely. "After consultation with industry groups across the country, I feel we should remove Domain Name System-blocking from the Stop Online Piracy Act so that the Committee can further examine the issues surrounding this provision," Smith said in the statement. The bill's opponents had pointed out that mandatory DNS-blocking would require ISPs to remove Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) and other layers of security that verify that Websites are legitimate. The U.S. government has been a strong supporter for rolling out the DNSSEC to secure the naming system. "We must avoid legislation that drives users to dangerous, unreliable DNS servers and puts next-generation security policies, such as the deployment of DNSSEC, at risk," according to the White House letter. The White House was also opposed to "overly broad private rights of action that could encourage unjustified litigation" or that could "discourage startup businesses and innovative firms from growing," according to the statement. Any proposed legislation must "be effectively tailored, with strong due process and focused on criminal activity." "Across the globe, the openness of the Internet is increasingly central to innovation in business, government, and society and it must be protected," the White House said. With the DNS provision removed, SOPA now resembles OPEN Act, a more moderate approach to online piracy introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). Issa postponed a hearing set for Jan. 18 in which security experts were expected to testify about the effects of DNS-filtering, in light of Smith backing down and the decision by Majority Leader Eric Cantor not to allow the bill to appear before the full House without full consensus of the committee.
Sen. Patrick Leahy
(D-Vermont), who sponsored PIPA in the Senate, said Jan. 12 that more study was needed before implementing DNS-blocking. PIPA, unanimously approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee in May, was expected to come up for a floor vote sometime in the next two weeks. However, some Republicans are now asking for the vote to be delayed in light of the opposition.
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01113PODG P2(2+2) - Podgora
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BASIC INFORMATION: Type of property: apartments. Number of apartments and their capacity is 2xA(2+2), A(4+2). Check in: 14:00 Check out: 10:00
FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT: free parking within the property.
ADDITIONAL SERVICES: baby bed on request - free , free use of barbecue.
BEACHES CLOSE TO THE PROPERTY: pebble beach.
DISTANCES: The distance to the closest beach is 50 meter. The distance to the sea is 50 metar. The distance to the town center is 100 metar. Grocery store - 10 m. Closest restaurant - 100 m. Airport - 97 km.
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